City of Vancouver Archives

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Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Public records of the City of Vancouver and its boards and agencies including the Vancouver Park Board, Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver Police Department, and amalgamated municipalities of South Vancouver and West Vancouver. Private records documenting the history of the City and surrounding region.

Analog Holdings
5.7km textual records; 7.2M photographs; 83k maps and plans; 8.3k AV recordings; 100TB digital records
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RAD
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Contacts
Name Title Email Phone Role
Glenn Dingwall Digital Archivist glenn.dingwall@vancouver.ca 604.736.8561 Technical Archivist
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searcharchives.vancouver.ca
searcharchives.vancouver.ca
Production Access to Memory (AtoM) 2.9 v2.9.2
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Self hosted RAD 5,000.0 GB
546,000 records 234,000 digital objects
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