Digitized Holdings

Major Matthews' Early Vancouver
Written between 1931 and 1956, the seven-volume Early Vancouver series, documenting Vancouver’s early history, was available only in hard copy in the Archives’ Reading Room. We are pleased to now make it available online, as a new, fully searchable 2011 edition

McLennan, McFeely & Co. Ltd Catalogue 1908-14
This published catalogue features detailed illustrations of all goods on its 1400+ pages, including machinery, farm equipment, ship chandlery, house and kitchen furnishings, sporting goods, paint, lumbering and hardware. Some goods bear the McLennan, McFeely trademark (left).

VanDusen Botanical Garden Association Library Photographs
View over six thousand images collected by the VanDusen Botanical Garden Association and maintained by the library at the garden to be used as a botanical reference tool, to document the history of activities and events at the garden, and to document research conducted by staff and volunteers about topics related to activites at the gardens.

The Yip Sang Correspondence Project
This is a pilot project to determine the best way to make available Chinese-language documents which are held in a predominantly English-language archives. We are starting with undelivered letters from the early 1900s from the Yip family and Yip Sang Ltd. fonds. So far, a small number of letters have been digitized and translated.