For the past decade, the Société historique francophone de la Colombie-Britannique (SHFCB) has been collecting and digitizing the newspapers and newsletters of the province’s Francophone community. Simple, you might think...
BC’s Francophone community began laying its organizational roots in Vancouver in 1886 and in Victoria in the 1930s, but it was the establishment in 1945 of the Fédération des Canadiens français de la C.-B that enabled organized groups and activities to take place in several cities throughout the province.
When the SHFCB was established in 2009, it inherited the archives of a previous Francophone historical society, also based in Vancouver,
