Katy Hughes

Archivist

I first became interested in Archives when I was a history student at UVIC, using the BC Archives reference room for my own research. I started working here in 1991 as an auxiliary employee and eventually moved into a position as archivist.

I spent many years working in the reference room before switching to the acquisition of private records and the appraisal of government records. Since 2010 I have spent most of my time working on backlog processing, descriptive standards and archival systems.

Education

BA, history, University of Victoria

Areas of Interest

Archival systems including databases

Archival descriptive standards

Processing backlog government and private records in all media

Contact Katy Hughes

Email: khughes@royalbcmuseum.bc.ca

Latest Articles

Winkler the jailbird

March 12, 2015 4:23 pm

There is an interesting print of George Winkler among his photographs in accession 197908-016.  This particular photograph was taken by Miss M. [Mary] […]

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Winkler and the elephant

March 6, 2015 10:07 am

If you visit Cranbrook BC you might come across a statue of an elephant.  In 1926 an elephant called Charlie Ed escaped from […]

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Christmas cracker

December 24, 2014 8:57 am

Doing some last minute shopping on Christmas Eve?  If you were in Ocean Falls in 1963, you would probably visit the Hudson’s Bay […]

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