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Aerial photograph of Terminal Park Shopping Plaza in Nanaimo British Columbia around 1970. Shows buildings, cars, parking lot and roads.
THINGS CHANGE
Photograph shows 2 major grocery stores, Overwaitea and Safeway, at Terminal Park.
....and then there were none.
#nanaimoarchives #terminalparknanaimo
Photograph of Commercial Street, looking north from Terminal Avenue in Nanaimo British Columbia. Taken around 1943. Image from the Nanaimo Archives
Check out the Commercial Street Market tonight!
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Aerial photograph of the Departure Bay area in Nanaimo British Columbia around 1973.
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Photograph of the Departure Bay Beach with swimmers in Nanaimo, around 1965
#nanaimoarchives #departurebay
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Aerial photograph of the beach area at Westwood Lake in Nanaimo, taken around 1962.
It's swimming season again.....
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Photograph of the Wallace and Commercial Street intersection in Nanaimo around 1960. Shows cars and buildings.
As the old A&B Sound Building (left) undergoes a transformative renovation, it's fun to look back on what it used to look like!
#nanaimoarchives #nanaimohistory #downtownnanaimo
Check us out at www.nanaimoarchives.ca
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Congratulations image to Dr. Stephen Davies of Vancouver Island University for winning the British Columbia Historical Federation Award of Recognition for the Canadian Letters and Images Project.
Congrats Stephen! Check out the CLIP website:
www.canadianletters.ca
Group of workers posing in front of a BC Telephone service truck in 1947
Before it was Telus....
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View of interior of Dickinson farm milking barn in Harewood, Nanaimo
June 1st was World Milk Day. Who knew?
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Victoria Crescent, Nanaimo, BC. Portion of an 1885 fire insurance map showing the footprint of all the buildings on the street. Many of the buildings are also labelled.
Copy of a poster for Victoria Crescent's Sunk City Music Festival, 2025.
VICTORIA CRESCENT
Always a happenin' place.....…
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Photograph of part of the nanaimo harbour / waterfront around 1975
Fire insurance map of Front Street area in Nanaimo in 1957
So grateful for the beautiful waterfront walkway we enjoy today!
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Bird's eye view of the buildings at Maffeo Sutton Park in Nanaimo in 1954. Now Maffeo-Sutton Park. from the Nanaimo Archives.
So fundamentally different, it's hard to even imagine....
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Photograph of Beckley's Meat Market in Nanaimo BC showing deer carcasses hanging in front of store.
Wow! Talk about sourcing local!
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Bastion and Commercial Street intersection in Nanaimo, 1980 Nanaimo Archives
Remember Ken Thompson's Menswear and the Metropolitan Store? #nanaimoarchives
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Photograph of Dr. Imogene Lim receiving Charles III Coronation Medal from Nanaimo MP Lisa Marie Barron in January 2025
CONGRATULATIONS DR. LIM!
The Coronation Medal was awarded to outstanding British Columbians in 2024. Dr. Lim was recognized for her work in researching and promoting awareness of the historical experience of the Chinese in BC.
Fun party video!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E55T...
Check out this fun "testimonial" video from Christine's retirement festivities....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AZg...
Nanaimo Date Night, 1905 Happy Valentine's Day
Nanaimo Date Night, 1905!
Happy Valentine's Day
Thank you Nanaimo News Now and writer Ian Holmes for this lovely article.
nanaimonewsnow.com/2025/02/10/v...
Not surprising, but really terrible nonetheless
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...
I attended the ceremony as a guest of honoree Imogene Lim and it was absolutely lovely and very moving. Thanks all.
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Check out this interview with retiring archivist Christine Meutzner that aired on CHLY Radio in Nanaimo.
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TALLY HO! A look at the old building before its imminent demolition.
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Brand new to Bluesky!
We are a community archives dedicated to acquiring and providing free public access to the historical records of the Nanaimo (on Vancouver Island, British Columbia) area. Our plan is to start posting archival photographs soon. Happy to be here.
