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Hallmark Society
#18 Centennial Square
Victoria, BC V8W 1P7
Phone/fax: (250) 382-4755
office@hallmarksociety.ca
What's New with the Hallmark Society?
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If you wish to have your event published, please let us know.
Educational DVD now available
The educational DVD based on the 1907 Harbeck video is now complete. We donated a copy of the video along with a Teacher Resource Guide to each school in the three local school districts as well as all independent schools in the CRD. Copies of the DVD are available from the office for a donation (suggested donatiion - $10.00). The Teacher Resource Guide is online for those who are interested.
Ongoing issues
1. Janion Hotel and Morley's Soda
Works Click Here for details
2. Roger's Chocolates Click Here for details
3. Mount St. Angela Click Here for
details
Clipping photo project complete
Our
summer 2009 project is finally complete. Thanks to a grant frm the Irving K
Barber Learning Centre at the University of British Columbia, all the
photographs in our clipping files - almost 8,000 in total - have been
scanned with relevant information input to a database. The entire site
is now available for viewing. Guests who wish high resolution copies of the photographs can order them via email to office@hallmarksociety.ca
1082 Richmond Road
(Click here for complete history of the site complete with images)
This property, the original location of University School, is scheduled for re-development. The owner applied to Victoria City Council for a demolition permit to allow the project to proceed, but the application was turned down on June 25, 2009. This does not mean the end of the process but it is a small victory and will allow for further research and negotiations.
Update: September 11, 2009: The developer is taking the City to court over its refusal to allow the demolition.
Summer Students
We were fortunate to receive funding, including a grant from the Irving K Barber Learning Centre to allow us to hire two students in the summer of 2009. The projects they are working on include digitization of the photographs in our clipping files - a massive project, digitization of all our newsletters, and the continued cataloguing of the Islander supplements.
Harbeck video project
We received a grant of $1,000 from the Hbc Foundation and a grant from the BC150 - Heritage Legacy Fund to enable us to present the Harbeck 1907 video (Victoria portion) online with details of the buildings visible in 1907 and notations on those extant today. There is also information on what would have been on that location in 1858 (where applicable).
The project had to be completed by March 31 2009 to qualify for the
special funding and was officially launched on April 18, 2009, the
36th anniversary of the founding of the Hallmark Society. Our beautiful birthday cake was baked and decorated by The Dutch Bakery.
