Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Credits
- Project Team
- Sponsors
- Supporters
- Acknowledgements from the original print documents
The Project Team
The following people (in alphabetical order) have participated in the conversion of
the print project to an online XML database application, and the subsequent enhancement
and annotation of the texts:
- Petria Arienzale: Research, writing and editing
- Anthony Auchterlonie (Victoria Foundation project): Decolonization research, writing and editing
- Matt Betker: Research, writing and editing
- Theo Biggs: Research, writing, editing and map encoding
- Isabelle Carré-Hudson: Research, writing and editing
- Caitlin Croteau: Research assistant
- Brigitte Dreger-Smylie: Research, writing and editing
- Holly Edmonds: Research, writing and editing
- Jess Edwards: Research, writing and editing
- Merna Forster: Project management
- Kaitlin Fortier: Research, writing and editing
- Vincent Gornall: Research and writing
- Dr. James Hendrickson: Content expertise and research. Dr. Hendrickson is the original begetter of the project.
- Martin Holmes (UVic HCMC): Project management and programming (I'm the primary project contact, so write to me with questions!)
- Claire Horwood: Research and writing
- Lindsey Jacobson: Research, writing and editing
- Skye Lacroix (Victoria Foundation project): Decolonization research, writing and editing
- Dave Lang: Research, writing and editing
- Frank Leonard: Research and biographies
- Angelica Lopez: Research, writing and editing
- Wenjuan Lu: Research, writing and editing
- Dr. John Lutz (UVic History Dept): Academic director
- Gordon Lyall: Technical editor, research and markup, project management, writing and editing
- Lily Maase: Research, writing and editing
- Quinn MacDonald: Research, writing and editing
- Rosemary MacKenzie: Research assistant
- Ashley MacLellan: Research, writing and editing
- Shaun Macpherson: Research, writing and editing
- Alison Malis: Research, writing and editing
- Sean Manning: Research assistant
- Marion Massey: Document transcription
- Matthew McBride: Research, writing and editing
- Kiah McGeer: Research, writing and editing
- Rachel McRory: Research, writing and editing
- Kahlan Miron: Research, writing and editing
- Rijk Mollema: Research, writing and editing
- Sydney Moore (Victoria Foundation project): Decolonization research, writing and editing
- Katelyn Moores: Research, writing and editing
- Ryan Munroe: Research, writing and editing
- Julianna Nielsen: Research, writing and editing
- Chris Petter (UVic Library): Consulting, fundraising and research
- Spencer Pickles: Research, writing and editing
- Amorena Roberts: Image processing
- Loring Rochacewich: Research assistant
- Antoine Rose: Research assistant
- Lauren Ross: Research, writing and editing
- Lisa Schnitzler (Victoria Foundation project): Decolonization research, writing and editing
- Lindsey Schultz: Research, writing and editing
- Kim Shortreed: Technical editor, research and markup, writing and editing, documentation, project management
- Heather Stirling: Research, writing and editing
- Terrance Stone: Research assistant
- Patrick Szpak: Design, research and markup
- Kate VanGiesen: Research, writing and editing
- Riley Vlooswyk: Research, writing and editing
- Josh White: Research, writing and editing
- Leanna Wong: Research assistant
- Cameron Young: Research, writing and editing
Special thanks to Susan Doyle and the UVic English Department's Professional Writing
program, for their contributions through their Directed Reading students from English
492: Directed Reading: Advanced Topics In Professional Writing.
Sponsors
This project is supported by:
- University of Victoria Humanities and Computing Media Centre
- University of Victoria Libraries
- University of Victoria Law Faculty
- Victoria Foundation
- The Canadian Council of Archives
- Canadian Heritage
- Ike Barber B.C. History Digitization Project
- The National Archives (UK)
Supporters
Thanks are due to the following people who have supported and encouraged us in our
work:
- Jonathan Bengston and his predecessor Marnie Swanson (UVic University Librarians)
- Ken Cooley (UVic Library)
- Dr. Elizabeth Grove-White (Former Director of the Humanities Computing and Media Centre)
- Stewart Arneil and Greg Newton (UVic HCMC)
- The UVic Computing Services team, who keep our servers and web applications running
Acknowledgements from the original print documents
The following is a reproduction of the acknowledgements written by Dr. Hendrickson,
which appeared in the original print documents produced by his team in the 1990s.
A number of persons and agencies have helped to make this project a reality. The
University of Victoria provided computer time and other resources before
additional funds became available, and has continued to assist generously in
many ways. A number of students entered and checked data between 1981 and 1987,
supported by a variety of grants funded singly or jointly by the provincial
ministries of labour and education and by occasional matching grants from the
federal government. Among the students so employed were Allison Peden, June
Bouchard, Karin Barber, Joel Cotter, Jill McKinstry, Richard Barker, Kelly
Allen, Sage Moore, Bernice Montgomery, Wendy Wallace, Garth Low, and Lisa McDougall.
In 1985 a donor, who yet remains anonymous, offered to fund the transcription of
these despatches by a grant through the Vancouver Foundation of $25,000, on the
condition that matching funds be found from other sources. In due course such
funds, and more, were provided by the Law Foundation of British Columbia and
from provincial lottery funds administered through the British Columbia Heritage
Trust.
Three persons in particular contributed exceptional service in the production of
these documents, both in terms of their considerable energies and enthusiasms,
and also in their professional abilities, devotion, and expertise. Brenda Robson
served as editorial associate from January to December 1985 and was primarily
responsible for the entry of data during that period and the implementation of
policy decisions that evolved. Sandra Cass, who had worked part-time to that
point, then replaced Brenda, completing the data entry and checking the entire
manuscript against the microfilm copy. Following that, my wife Sonja provided
indispensable assistance during several summer stints in the Public Record
Office in Kew, proofing transcripts against the original records and otherwise
assisting in research now incorporated in this project.
From the inception of this project, I received sympathetic technical assistance from
Arthur Brett and Martin Milner of UVic Computing Services, and in lesser but nonetheless
important ways from Moira Glen, Mike Keating, and Laura Proctor, to say nothing of
the
faceless staff who do whatever it is they do to link the terminals and disks and printers
to spew out the finished product. The end product, in fact, could not have achieved
its
present form without the dedicated efforts of Kim McGowan, who provided essential
technical support in ways that routinely exceeded the call of duty.
A number of administrators assisted the project in other ways. beginning with Ian
MacPherson of the Department of History and Sam Scully, Dean of Humanities in the
Faculty of Arts and Science. Fred Bennett of the Office of Research Administration
proved a superb facilitator in directing traffic and easing the flow of paperwork
that
necessarily attaches to projects of this magnitude.
A special word of thanks must be accorded to Richard H. Vogel, Q.C., who first
encountered these records in his tenure as Deputy Attorney General, and who later,
as a
private citizen, took some initiatives that made it possible to bring this project
to fruition.
His unfailing support and encouragement has been most appreciated.
James E. Hendrickson
University of Victoria
University of Victoria