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We recently overlayed a 1960s photograph of a commercial building on Carey Road onto Google Street View and this is the result.

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Goward Exhibit Online

Saanich residents Elizabeth and Owen Goward were successful portrait, landscape and commercial artists from the late 1940s through to the 1980s and left a significant and lasting legacy to the Greater Victoria visual arts community.  In 2007 the Goward family generously donated a significant collection of family records, photographs, letters, sketchbooks, and paintings to Saanich Archives.  In addition to the works by Owen & Elizabeth, the collection includes works of art by the Beales (Owen’s mother’s family) dating back to the 1840s. Visit our exhibit page for more information.

Archives Orientation

New to archival research?  Join us for a tour of Saanich Archives on Wednesday mornings at 10am.
Tour & orientation takes approximately 30 minutes.  Drop in (no registration required).

Recent Acquisitions

Saanich Archives recently accepted a generous donation of records relating to the Irvine family, an important pioneer family in early Saanich.  The material includes family photograph albums, correspondence, personal papers, ephemera, artifacts, and books. Read our Spring 2012 newsletter for more details.

View all recent acquisitions.

Saanich Archives Newsletters

Our Spring 2012 newsletter is now available

Read past issues:  Spring 2012    Fall 2010    Spring 2010    Fall 2009    Spring 2009    Fall 2008

Cordova Bay Association Newsletters Online

The newsletters of the Cordova Bay Association, The Cordova and Spindrift, have been digitized and are now available online. While the originals are held by Saanich Archives, searchable PDFs of the collection from 1947 to the present are accessible through the Cordova Bay Association's website. Saanich Archives gratefully acknowledges the efforts of the Cordova Bay Association in providing this electronic resource.

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