Recipients announced for 2013 B.C. digitization program

More of British Columbia’s unique and storied past will soon be accessible online thanks to the latest funding round from the B.C. History Digitization Program (BCHDP). The program, launched by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre in 2006, provides matching grants to support projects that make B.C. heritage freely accessible to the public via the Internet.

This year, more than $203,000 in matching funds was allocated for 24 projects throughout the province. In total, the BCHDP has awarded more than $1.2 million for 144 grants over the past seven years.

Newspapers across the province will be digitized as part of this latest round of projects, as well as British Columbia Sessional Papers and City of Vancouver council minutes from the 1970s. Other projects include items from the Nikkei National Museum’s Japanese Canadian Redress Digitization Project; mountaineering photos from an alpine photographs collection at Simon Fraser University Library; and negatives from the first 20 years of the Western Front, an artist-run centre in Vancouver.