Points to the Past

Lifelong Learning for every British Columbian

Points to the Past is a Gale Primary Source of searchable archive collections made available for free to British Columbians. Discover a world-class collection of primary sources, made up of nearly 200 million pages of digitized historical content – maps, photos, newspapers, manuscripts, pamphlets, portraits, and much more. Researchers are free to explore a vast range of resources, including Eighteenth Century and Nineteenth Century Collections Online, esteemed periodicals such as the Economist and the Financial Times, and digitized materials from the Smithsonian Institution.

Anyone in BC can enjoy free access to this collection.

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