May 30
I had a great day! The Victoria City Archives doesn't have detailed finding aids, so you have to ask the archivists to retrieve a lot of the collections, and go through them yourself to figure out what is in there, which is extremely enjoyable. I was there today going through personal records which contained photos of schoolchildren, and I finished off searching their city records relating to education on the online catalogue after they closed. I believe I have a complete list of education documents/photos from the city archives, so I will upload that list to dropbox tomorrow. First, though, I am going to UVic special collections to get a list of deserters from the 88th, so I can look them up in the police records for the 'justice' theme. I have also been going through the early yearbooks for University school, and writing captions to point future archive visitors to the most interesting parts. I will try and finish those tomorrow and put them on dropbox as well. I also contacted the photographer who took the really outstanding shots of the war memorials at Vic high and put them on flickr to ask for his permission to put them on the archive, so hopefully he gets back to me soon. Ben, I will email you his contact info.