Discovering our past, informing our future!
"Of all national assets, archives are the most precious. They are the gift of one generation to another..."
-Arthur Doughty, Dominion Archivist, 1924
Welcome to the website of the Archives of the Diocese of New Westminster and Provincial Synod of BC & Yukon. Here you can find what the archives are all about, where to find us, and important links and downloads for individuals and parishes. If you need more information, Diocesan and Provincial Archivist, Melanie Wallace, would be pleased to help in any way she can!
Check this space for news, updates and closures:
2011:
August 29 until further notice -
ARCHIVES CLOSED for Truth and Reconciliation Commission Document Collections process. Please email the archives for assistance.
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VST Archives Pledge Honoured (from www.vancouver.anglican.ca)
Photo: Randy Murray
On
October 21st, 2010 Diocesan Business Administrator, Rob Dickson and
Executive Archdeacon for the Diocese, the Venerable Ronald Harrison
presented a cheque on behalf of the Anglican entities; the Diocese of New Westminster and the Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia and the Yukon in the amount of $300,000 to the Vancouver School of Theology.
This cheque is the payment of a grant pledged a number of years
ago to VST for the building of the Archives now completed and located in
the basement of the VST library. This facility houses the diocesan
archives, provincial synod archives, the United Church archives (the
United Church of Canada had previously paid their $300,000 grant) and
the VST archives.
