Hello
175 years ago,
BC's government recognized, honoured, and bought their way into Coast Salish territories.
After that, the colony warred and Gold-Rushed
its way on to the lands, ignoring its treaties.
It's a history that's not well-enough known.
That's the goal of AQ:
to share history to empower change and justice today.
What can the archive project do for you?
Travelling Exhibits
Travelling Exhibits
Travelling Exhibits
Specialized micro-collections are made up of docs and publications, the news-clipping albums, power point reels and more.
Hire exhibits on the subjects of: jurisdiction over children and families; roadblocks; the progress of Aboriginal Title in Canadian courts; international fora and reports; and the BC Treaty Process.
Check in to build your own custom packages to visit your classroom, conference, gathering, or workshop.
Online Archive
Travelling Exhibits
Travelling Exhibits
AQ is digitizing important documents which aren't found elsewhere.
Advertise with AQ
Travelling Exhibits
Research Assistance Service
Organizations and business can buy a 1/4 page or 1/8 page advertisement.
Contact us for the rates.
Research Assistance Service
Research Assistance Service
Research Assistance Service
Digitization of The West Wasn't Won archive project has made hundreds of original documents accessible for the first time. Thousands more are waiting in the wings for subscribers to the site and the research assistance service.
Students, educators, researchers, and others are welcome to contact the archive project, through Electromagnetic Print, with research questions. We can probably pull some answers from the archive!
The archive is populated by collections of veteran Indigenous politicians, non-native allies, media strongholds, and life-long researchers.
There you will find the memos and photos, the press releases and reports, the surveys, news clippings, and audits which make up the story of colonial British Columbia and an era of struggle that continues today.
The online offering is organized into categories around Aboriginal title, Land, jurisdiction over Children, the Non-Status era, Lawfare, and Roadblocks, among others.
Look inside AQ 2024
Research Assistance Service
Look inside AQ 2024
First Year In Print!
Take a look at highlights from the first two issues, and previews from Fall 2024, and this year's Special Issues.
This year, become a Founding Sponsor of Archive Quarterly
... a vehicle for The West Wasn't Won archive project
Collections
The West Wasn’t Won archive project comes out of decades of archival collection, many donated by life-long Indigenous political veterans. Archive Quarterly is the journal of this project, engaging public interest while publishing informative, curated, rare collections in every issue.
Housing and Digitization
The archive is currently housed by Electromagnetic Print, books that resonate, and EMP subsidizes the online archive space and digitization as well. The future vision is for a fully realized physical archive, open to the public. It's a project that will outlive us!
What's in the archive?
Imagine walking into a room where you can flip through news clippings from all the major roadblocks of the 20th century - and the grassroots Indigenous press releases, pictures, and interviews that go along with them but were never published.
Imagine a researcher with access to all the memos, the Inquiries, the working reports, and the ministerial letters in a cycle of state control of Indigenous children and families that has repeated itself at least five times since the 1980s.
The "BC Treaty Commission," the "New Relationship" and the "Transformative Change Agreement," where else can you go to read these events side by side?
There have been centuries of conflict over fisheries and forests; there has been lawfare and community resistance. Imagine an archive that can receive collections in all these areas, and more, to provide the most complete history possible.
It takes a community to raise the next generation.
AQ can help carry these carefully preserved teaching materials forward, and you can help AQ.
Thank you!
Your support by endorsement, donation, subscription, or promoting the journal - whatever you can do - will make the difference to this project's success.
We look forward to announcing a founding board and original governance structure this year. This group of contributors and advisors is made up of historians, former Chiefs, political veterans, academics, artists, media experts, lawyers, young social media savvy interns, families, students, film makers, roadblockers, analysts, social organizers, writers, publishers and specialized experts.
Yours in healing, restitution, restoration and reparation,
Kerry Coast
Founding Editor
Archive Quarterly
and
Publisher
Electromagnetic Print
Chief William Scow of Alert Bay's testimonial on the Potlatch Laws is featured in April.