[Bcma-l] Bowen Island Photos Online

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Subject: 	Bowen Island Photos Online
Date: 	Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:39:53 -0700



We are pleased to make the following announcement.  We hope that you will
find the photographs useful and that they will give pleasure.



News release: Bowen Island Community Museum and Archives April 20, 2009
 
Want to stroll down memory lane? Want to see what things looked like way
back then?  Now you can. The Photographic Data Base, a picture chronicle of
Bowen Island history from 1872 to the present, is now on line. The entire
text database and over 3000 of the photographs are accessible at this time
for your pleasure and as a resource for learning about the ³Happy Isle² on
which many of you or your families may have once picnicked, vacationed or
even lived.
 
You can browse or search for specific pictures. Not all of our 7000 images
are posted as yet, so keep coming back; new ones will be posted at regular
intervals.  In the meantime, if there is the description of a picture you
are interested in, but whose image is not yet available, contact us.
 
This new addition to our services is due to a generous grant from the Irving
Barber Learning Centre at UBC allowing us to contribute our bit to the BC
History Digitization Program. The focus of the program is to promote
increased access to British Columbia¹s historical resources within the
Learning Centre¹s wider mandate to demonstrate the fundamental relationships
between the heritage of the past, the current and the future.
 
 Many wonderful photographs, too good to be ignored, have come to us with
not as much information as we would like. If you can identify people or
places and especially dates, even approximate ones please contact us.  There
may be inaccuracies and mistypes; these too we would be grateful to you for
pointing out.
 
Many of the photographs are available for purchase.  Contact us.
 
To view the Photos On Line go to the Bowen Historians website
www.bowenhistory,ca   and click on ³online photo database² or
http://bih.andornot.com
 
 
To Contact us:  Attention Archivist
Mail:             Box 97, Bowen Island, B.C. V0N 1G0
E-mail:            bihistorians@telus.net
Phone: 604-947-2655