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John Lutz
Building bridges: Why Rob runs
Rob Fleming kick-started his political career at UVic before becoming a city councilor at age 28. Then, as BC’s education minister, he navigated school during a pandemic.
Engagement map shows community impact
Our faculty, staff and students are actively impacting the communities in which we live, work and play. A new interactive map from OCUE tracks the global breadth of UVic's community impact and highlights the sheer scale of our community-engaged efforts.
Symposium is first for UVic's Canada 150
The presentation of the first-ever translations in the local Indigenous languages of the original Douglas Treaties of the colony of Vancouver Island is a pivotal element in a historic event taking place Feb. 24-26 in Victoria as part of UVic's Canada 150 celebrations.
Stó:lō Ethnohistory Field School
The only ethnohistory field school in Canada to offer a firsthand learning opportunity involving traditional knowledges of oral history and research of historical documents has been immersing graduate students every second spring since 1998 deep within the Stó:lō community in BC.
Mystery of the Franklin Expedition
Locating the sunken Erebus has sharpened some of the mystery surrounding the failed expedition—and reinforced Indigenous accounts of the tragedy
New WWI website
The Empress Hotel opened its doors in 1908, less than 10 years before the start of World War One (1914-1918). Can you imagine the scenes over teacups in the recently built hotel when news of war broke out? Did the Inner Harbour look much different then, when Victoria residents strolling along the water first heard news their country was going to war?
Daily life in Fort Victoria ca. 1850
What was daily life like in Fort Victoria in the mid 1800s? Now you can read first-hand accounts online and find out for yourself. To mark both the 150th anniversary of the City of Victoria’s incorporation and the 50th anniversary of the University of Victoria, two exciting online additions to Victoria’s history have been launched: the Fort Victoria Journals and the Historic Cartographic Collections.
Craigdarroch Research Awards 2012
Passion, enthusiasm, a commitment to making a difference in our lives—these are the qualities that are shared by all winners of the Craigdarroch Research Awards, and this year’s “class” is no exception. The 2012 Craigdarroch Research Awards, which honour achievement in research at UVic, were presented at a celebration event on May 1.
Berton Awad to web team
The UVic-based team who created the Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History website has won the 2008 Pierre Berton Award, presented by Canada’s National History Society for outstanding work in popularizing Canadian history. “It’s like the Pulitzer Prize in our field,” says Dr. John Lutz (history), one of the project’s three historian co-directors. Unsolved Mysteries invites students to “solve” mysteries plucked from Canada’s rich history while developing their research skills.
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