Profile

This website shares my history explorations, focusing on photos, contemporary documents and digital resources.

My focus is on British Columbia from the late 1800s to the World War One era.

Between 1888 and 1914 my family arrived in British Columbia and settled in Vancouver, Victoria/Saanich and Clayoquot Sound. They left a legacy of photos, diaries and documents still in our family collection. As a kid, I always enjoyed making historically-inspired stories and plays, and investigating “history mysteries.” In recent years, I’ve been investigating my family history. Along the way, I discovered a lot of neat untold stories about other people and places. I share some of these discoveries here.  

My research has taken me on walks around historic neighbourhoods, to libraries and archives in British Columbia, and online, thanks to the wide range of now digitized historic resources. In my history explorations, I look at primary resource materials and I use my “history detective” skills to search for “clues”, analyze and piece together the “evidence”, build and share the story.