UVic Special Collections and Archives

Victoria College Fonds in Context


     The Archives serves research and teaching needs by preserving the institutional archives of the University of Victoria and its predecessors, Victoria College and the Provincial Normal School.  Additionally, the Archives acquires private material from individuals and organizations associated with the University and its predecessors.  In a wider context, the Archives acquires private archives of the environmental movement, the women's movement, labour, ethnicity, arts and culture in the southern Vancouver Island region.

     The Victoria College fonds provides valuable evidence of the development of higher education in British Columbia from 1903 to 1963.  The term "fonds" refers to all the original documents that were accumulated and used by an organization or individual in the course of its activities and functions, and then set aside for preservation and future use.

     During the Lansdowne campus years, the archival records of Victoria College were stored in the Record Room of the Ewing Building.  When the College moved to the Gordon Head campus in 1963, the records were deposited in the Registrar's Office of the University of Victoria.  In 1975, they were officially transferred to the custody of the newly established Archives in the McPherson Library.  The following series are included in the fonds:

     The Archives has a University Publications Collection that includes several important student publications.  They provide evidence of the development of students' academic and social life throughout the Victoria College years, and are listed by date of publication:

     The Archives also has several fonds and collections documenting the activities of student and faculty related to Victoria College:

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