Interested In Exchange Traded Funds?

Read my interview with Patricia Dunwoody CETFA’s General Manager, about the evolving market of exchange traded funds on the Smarten Up Institute website.

Happy 100th Birthday to the Vancouver Sun

Congratulations to the Vancouver Sun on 100 years of reporting.

As a historian, newspapers are a great resource for historical research. I refer to newspapers regularly in my work for a sense of the time period in which I am researching, vintage photos, society notes, and style of writing. I am always amused by the ads for by-gone products as they give you a great snapshot of society.

Check out their centenary edition.

Family lore gives clues to the past

My friend and colleague is interviewed in today's Maple Ridge Times about her upcoming course "Start searching your family history". The course started Jan. 22, and continues through to March 1, from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Maple Ridge Library.The cost is $100, and while registration has already closed for the current course, those interested in future classes can contact the Maple Ridge Museum at 604-463-5311.

You can also join the family history group who meets in the Greenside room at the Maple Ridge Library the first Wednesday of the month at 7 p.m.

You can also take Brenda's class "Killing Them Softly: End of Life Documents are the Place" at the Surrey Library on April 14, 11:00am– 12:30pm. Fee: $10:00.

or catch her at the Langley Library on Saturday, May 12, 2:00pm–3:00pm with "Find Your Family in the Library". Registration required. Fee: free.

Read more: http://www.mrtimes.com/Family+lore+gives+clues+past/6112909/story.html#ixzz1lkXq9EXj

Flip-Pal™ mobile scanner

I love my Flip-Pal™ mobile scanner. I was lucky enough to get one for Christmas and it is a great tool for a family historian.
It is portable and has this flip-and-scan technology: you remove the lid, flip the scanner over and
place it on the original and it can do big objects and then stitches them together.
I decided to try out the scan and stitch option on a Carl Ahrens picture.
I scanned it in 6 parts.

Then I put the SD card in my computer, fired up the software and used the stitch feature. I ended up with this:

Carl Ahrens

It is fast easy and impressive. I'm sold.

Launch of absolutelyliterate.com

I have finally selected my own domain name and moved my website over to www.absolutelyliterate.com

The Fish That Made Campbell River Famous

British Columbia History 44.4

The winter issue of British Columbia History coming to mailboxes soon includes a fish tale as well as stories about unique individuals who populate British Columbia’s history. Look for it in your mailbox or at Book Warehouse (10th or Broadway) or order a copy at bchistory.ca.

The Fish That Made Campbell River Famous
by Diana Pedersen
In 1896, news that Sir Richard Musgrave had captured a record 70-lb. salmon with a rod and line launched Campbell River to world fame as a sportfishing destination.

Pat is Pat and That is That: Rev. Thomas Patrick Freney
by R.J. (Ron) Welwood
Rev. Thomas Patrick Freney was not your ordinary, everyday man-of-the-cloth. In fact, he was cut from an entirely different and unorthodox fabric.



W.A. Ingram and the Club Cigar Store of Fernie, BC
By Ronald Greene
From cigar club to barber shop, bowling alley to athletic club, lunch counter to candy shop, Billy Ingram did it all in spite of fires and personal tragedy.

The Fort at Yorke Island: Getting to Know the Neighbours
By Catherine Marie Gilbert
The soldiers and sailors posted to Yorke Island fort during WWII were only temporary neighbours to the surrounding coastal communities but left a lasting impression.

A Useful and Practical Career
By Theresa Vogel
Sister Mary Matthew McBride, commercial instructor at St. Ann’s Academy, was responsible for creating a program that combined practical skills with poise and refinement.

Archives & Archivists
by Land Title and Survey Authority; edited by Sylvia Stopforth
The LTSA’s new state of-the-art, climate-controlled records vault enhances the preservation of BC’s historic hardcopy land title and survey records.

From the Book Review Editor’s Desk & Book Reviews
by K. Jane Watt

Index of Vol. 40 No. 1 to 40 No.4, 2007
Compiled by Melva J. Dwyer

Miscellany

Cabinets of Curiosities
Andrea Lister, editor and author, tells the tale of a 1911 Chilliwack Hospital Auxiliary member’s card that found its way home after 100 years.

Save Library and Archives Canada

For immediate release
Canadian Association of University Teachers launches campaign to Save Library and Archives Canada

(OTTAWA: November 2, 2011) - The Canadian Association of University Teachers today unveiled a national campaign to protect Library and Archives Canada (LAC).

The “Save Library and Archives Canada” is being launched by CAUT in response to funding cuts and internal managerial decisions that are threatening the quality and integrity of Canada’s only national public library and archives.


“Badly conceived restructuring, a narrowing of its mandate, and financial cutbacks are undermining LAC’s ability to acquire, preserve and make publicly available Canada’s full documentary heritage,” James L. Turk, executive director of the Canadian Association of University Teachers said at a news conference in Ottawa today.


These changes, Turk added, have already led to a reduction in the number of specialist archivists and librarians, reduced public access and services, and the loss of rare and important materials.


Liam McGahern, president of the Antiquarian Booksellers of Canada, said a growing number of Canadian materials are not being collected by LAC because of reduced funding and a change in its acquisitions policy.


“Canadians recently lost a unique and irreplaceable set of journals chronicling late 19th Century stories of settlers and First Nations people of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Labrador Coast. This is just one of many examples,” McGahern explained. “Rare military documents, sheet music, and literature that would otherwise have gone to Library and Archives Canada are quietly all slipping away.”


CAUT is calling on the federal government to amend the LAC Act to ensure its mandate includes developing a comprehensive, not selective, collection of Canadian material.
“Our nation’s artistic, historical, and cultural heritage is at stake,” said Turk. “Genealogists, historians, researchers, graduate students, Aboriginal communities, and the general public are all affected by what is happening at LAC.”


The Canadian Association of University Teachers is the national voice of 66,000 academic and general staff at 120 universities and colleges across the country.


More information on the campaign can be found at www.savelibraryarchives.ca.


Contact:
Angela Regnier, Communications Officer,
613-726-5186 (O);
613-601-6304 (cell);
regnier@caut.ca (email)