Press coverage and awards

This is a list of some of the articles and other press coverage of our project:
  • Lisa Abram, Truth and reconciliation leader to advance decolonization work at UVic, UVic News, 29 June 2020.
  • Digital libraries make community history accessible, Times Colonist, 20 November 2011.
  • John Lutz, Colonial Despatches and Teaching Canadian History, The History Education Network e-Bulletin, July 2010.
  • Dave Obee, Douglas letters open door on our history, Times Colonist, 4 July 2010.
  • Susan Henderson, Looking over Sir James Douglas’s shoulder, Ring, July 2010.
  • Vivian Moreau, Dusting off the treaties, Saanich News and Oak Bay News, 30 June 2010.
  • Steven Hume, New website is the future of historical research on B.C., Vancouver Sun, 24 June 2010.
  • On the Island interview with John Lutz, CBC Radio, 24 June 2010.
  • Cold Case Revived, Viewpoints: UVic in the News, Spring 2009, 58.
  • Governor’s Correspondence Coming On-Line, British Columbia History, Vol 42 No 1, (2009) 35.
  • The project received a 2009 Award of Merit from the Hallmark Society in May 2009.
  • Colonial Despatches chronicle BC 1846-1871, May 2009 edition of the BC Treaty Commission newsletter.
  • Julia Kent, B.C.’s history, now online, University Affairs, 12 January 2009.
  • Maria Lironi, UVic Uncovers Empire’s Correspondence, Ring, December 2008, A5.
  • Justine Hunter, 1858: How a Violent year Created a Province, Globe and Mail, 18 November 2008. A11.
  • Vivian Moreau, UVic website a window into B.C. history, Saanich News, 17 November 2008.
  • Stephen Hume, Head for Fort Langley for a lively old Victorian time, Vancouver Sun, 13 November 2008.
  • Murray Langdon, Interview with John Lutz, CFAX 1070 Radio, 3 November 2008.
  • Louise Dickson, UVic Prof Saves Historic Files…, Times Colonist, 2 November 2008.
  • Grant Kerr, What the Governors Saw: Digitizing the Magna Carta of BC History, Torch, Autumn 2008.
  • Helen Edwards, New Website Launched, Preserve, v 35 n 4 Winter 2008. Hallmark Society.
  • News Story about the Colonial Despatches (interviews with Martin Holmes, John Lutz), A Channel TV, 31 October 2008.
  • Computer copies of historic B.C. documents saved from digital scrap heap, Canadian Press, 31 October 2008.