Celebrating Nanaimo's Great Women, Now and Then!
1. IODE Parade float ca. 1946
2..Winning women's curling team, ca. 1955
3.Odeon Cubs women`s softball team, 1947
4. Garden Party at "Eldovilla", Stewart Avenue, 1914.
5. Olive Green, Nanaimo Nurses Training School, ca , ca. 1920
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Aerial photograph of the Wallace and Albert Streets intersection in Nanaimo, BC, circa 1972
Another area that has undergone significant change.
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Free Event, Everyone Welcome. Archives Open House featuring homemade vintage goodies to celebrate this years BC Heritage Week theme "Stir the Pot". #nanaimoarchives #bcheritageweek
Image of a section of an 1881 Nanaimo map showing downtown and the waterfront.
Talk about change!
One of our most frequent information requests is about the evolution of Nanaimo's downtown waterfront. Well, a picture is worth a thousand words.....
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Aerial photograph of Swy-a-lana Lagoon and adjacent park in Nanaimo British Columbia around 1983
Any water on a hot day.....
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colour photograph of the dining room with the "star ceiling" at the Diner's Rendezvous Restaurant in Nanaimo British Columbia in 1966.
When this was THE place in town for a night out....
Happy weekend everyone!
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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.
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Photograph of the Departure Bay Beach with swimmers in Nanaimo, around 1965
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!
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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
