The 16th Annual Canadian Reading Challenge !

 Are you a reader?  Do you read Canadian books and authors? Did you know there's an

Annual Canadian Reading Challenge !

Neither did I till now. But you can sign up anytime, so I just did. 

Go to Canadian Bookworm's website to learn all about the Challenge & sign up!

The main idea is to  "read and review 13 or more Canadian books in a one year span: Canada Day to Canada Day eve".

Usually I do short reviews on Amazon so that's likely where my reviews will be. As it happens I just reviewed a Canadian mystery by a British Columbia author set in Vancouver, British Columbia, The Hanging at the Hollow Tree by Sarah M Stephen, the second book in her 'Journal Through Time Mysteries'. Here is her website if you'd like to know more about her.

I certainly did like the book which ticked a # of my boxes - old Vancouver, an archivist, a deadly mystery - so yesterday I bought her first one which I'll review later. I have quite a few Canadian books sitting in my To-Be-Read piles (physical and digital).

Nowadays, I am keeping track of my book reading at The StoryGraph. I'm very happy there! 

I saw on the Sidekick newsletter that there is a new app - Bookworm.  Looks very cute. What do you like to keep track of your reading? paper & pen, a phone app, typewriter, Goodreads, LibraryThing, The StoryGraph, Bookworm... 

 

"Young lady in [hollow] tree", Stanley Park, 1897, Vancouver, BC, Canada. City of Vancouver Archives: AM1576-S6-12-F47-: 2011-010.1794 - colour transparency of original photograph. Slide 46. Public Domain.

\winter Wander in Vancouver's Vanier Park, Sat. Feb 4th, 2017

The City of Vancouver Archives is once again participating in Winter Wander in Vanier Park.

On February 4, bring your family down to Vanier Park for a day of music, science, history and art - plus, enjoy local food vendors, entertainment, and have the chance to win great prizes.

For only $5.00, admission to the Museum of Vancouver, H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, Vancouver Maritime Museum, Vancouver Academy of Music, and City of Vancouver Archives is included. 

Plus you can watch performances from the Young Shakespeareans from Bard on the Beach, Vancouver Academy of Music students, Gamelan Bike Bike, and listen to storytelling by Vancouver Public Library. 

New this year: play ball hockey in the Vancouver Archives parking lot, learn to fold origami and explore a giant wild migration map of Canada at MOV, the Museum of Vancouver.

Children 5 and under are free!

Purchase your ticket on the day of the event from the Museum of Vancouver, H.R. MacMillan Space Centre or the Vancouver Maritime Museum.

Movie Poster Restoration event - June 9, 2010 - Moberly Arts & Cultural Centre, Vancouver

The City of Vancouver Archives is inviting the public to see what they do – on a grand scale.


Archives conservators will be piecing together a huge - 81 inch by 81 inch - 1924 movie poster that was discovered in the Orpheum Theatre during renovations in the 1980s. The poster, Western Luck, offers a glimpse into popular culture in Vancouver in the 1920s. The Orpheum Theatre itself is one of my favourite Vancouver buildings - many happy hours were spent there - and now is a Canadian national heritage site.

Western Luck is a movie poster that is made from six separate sheets of paper, known as a ‘six sheet’, and relatively rare. Staff will join the sheets, flatten the poster and provide information to the public about the process.

When: Wednesday June 9, 2010 between 10:30 am and 2 pm.
Where: Moberly Arts and Cultural Centre, 7646 Prince Albert Street, Vancouver.

Student interns with the Archives have already put in about 100 hours of work to restore the poster. This poster was in very poor condition when received by the Archives in the early 1990s, but if stored properly, the restored poster can last 300 to 500 years or longer. Discussions are underway on long-term storage options.


Conservation started with surface cleaning, removal of the acidic paper backing and separation of the six poster sheets. Each sheet was then specially washed and lined onto Japanese backing paper. Washing removes the soluble acid from paper and increases its life expectancy.


For my 'film-crazy' friends, according to the OMDb, Open Movie Database, and a few other sources, Western Luck was a western (as I might have guessed), directed by George Andre Beranger. The writer was Robert N. Lee and the film starred Charles 'Buck' Jones, Beatrice Burnham, Pat Hartigan, Thomas G. Lingham, J. Farrell MacDonald, Edith Kennick, and Bruce Gordon.

This was written with information from the City of Vancouver Archives: http://vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/archives

The Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver, History & Heritage: http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/cultural/theatres/orpheum/index.htm

Moberly Arts & Cultural Centre blog: http://moberlyartsculturalcentre.blogspot.com/

Reminder - Talk on Mountaineer Phyllis Munday - September 10 Vancouver BC

Reminder:

Thursday, September 10, 2009 7 pm

A presentation on the famous local mountaineer Phyllis Munday by author and historian Kathryn Bridge at the Vancouver City Archives in Vanier Park.

Mount Munday in British Columbia is named after Phyllis Munday and her husband, Don, and Baby Munday Peak is named for their daughter Edith.

The public is encouraged to bring their Munday memorabilia to show the group.

Co-sponsored with the City of Vancouver Archives and the Women's History Network of British Columbia.

Free. Details: http://www.herstorycafe.ca