A parade travelling west on Yates Street, crossing Blanshard Street; Carnegie library at centre
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Also showing Hotel Kaiserhof and Pandora Hotel. Spectators lined up on both sides of Yates Street.
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A parade travelling west on Yates Street, crossing Blanshard Street; Carnegie library at centre
Also showing Hotel Kaiserhof and Pandora Hotel. Spectators lined up on both sides of Yates Street.
Construction Of New Addition, Victoria Public Library, Yates And Blanshard
Part of Duncan Macphail fonds
Madge Wolfenden interview : [Gundry, 1991?]
Part of Provincial Archives of British Columbia audio interviews, 1974-1992
RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), [1991?] SUMMARY: In an interview with Fran Gundry, Madge Wolfenden discusses her career as a librarian and archivist at the Provincial Library and Provincial Archives of British Columbia. Madge Wolfenden Hamilton (1893-1992) worked at PABC from 1914 to 1954. She was Acting Provincial Archivist from 1942 to 1945, and Assistant Provincial Archivist when she retired in 1954. The interview begins with a discussion of her schooling in Victoria, B.C., her higher education, and her apprenticeship at the Victoria Public Library and the University of California, Berkeley.
Main Desk, Victoria Public Library.
The file contains correspondence with Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron, Strathcona and Mount Royal and includes a letter from 1900 about the Victoria Public Library's refusal to accept a catalogue of Greek coins and a letter and cable to Mayor of New Westminster re the Provincial Exhibition, 1908.
NFB film department at the Victoria Public Library
Part of Duncan Macphail fonds
[Old library closes -- new library opens]
Part of CHEK TV fonds
News item. Footage shows interior of the old central library on Yates Street. Librarian says new library will not have a separate reference and circulation collections. Shots of books and other library materials being packed for the move, plus furniture and fixtures. Another librarian explains how the move is being carried out. The new library opens Friday, May 2nd. Interior shots of new library with empty shelves. Not much exterior footage of either building.
Receiving Desk, Victoria Public Library. Mary Stewart, Acting Librarian In Foreground
The Bookhouse, Children's Garden Library, Victoria Public Library
The Bookhouse, Children's Garden Library, Victoria Public Library
The Carnegie Library, northeast corner of Yates and Blanshard Streets, Victoria
The Carnegie Library, northeast corner of Yates and Blanshard Streets, Victoria
The front desk at the NFB film department
Part of Duncan Macphail fonds
Cecil Hotel in background.
Broughton Street location.
Victoria Public Library; Yates Street facade
Part of Frank Peters Boucher fonds
Looking north along Blanshard.
Victoria Public Library, Carnegie Building; Corner Of Yates And Blanshard; Built 1904
Victoria Public Library, Interior. Reference Room