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We are delighted to share that at the Heritage BC Annual Awards ceremony on October 19th, 2012 Heritage Burnaby was presented with an Award of Honour for the 2011 Burnaby Oral History Project.

“These awards, presented annually, acknowledge important contributions and exceptional efforts to increase awareness of and support for heritage resources.  This honour was given to the City of Burnaby in recognition of the work that had been done at the City Archives to digitize the Burnaby Oral History Collection.  Approximately 40 interviews of long-time Burnaby residents were digitized and can now be heard online, thanks in large part to the new oral history databases developed by Andornot.  The new databases allow the interviews to be indexed, uploaded, searched and streamed online for the first time.  In addition, with the infrastructure now in place, new interviews are being collected with more and more Burnaby stories being captured and preserved for the benefit of all our citizens – current and future. 

The ongoing relationship we enjoy with Andornot continues to promote innovative and inspiring projects such as the oral history program, and we look forward to building on this success in the years to come.”  [Arilea Sill, City Archivist.]

More information on the oral history project can be found in our blog post or take a look at the web interface to the the database.

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