{"id":2033,"date":"2024-02-26T10:51:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T18:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/?p=2033"},"modified":"2024-02-26T10:52:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T18:52:49","slug":"local-history-or-history-in-your-backyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/2024\/02\/26\/local-history-or-history-in-your-backyard\/","title":{"rendered":"Local History or History in Your Backyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a community, we are more purposefully looking at our history.\u00a0 Here in Burnaby, history did not begin with the first white settlers.\u00a0 Well before the late 1800s, when Europeans started settling here, from time immemorial, this land was home to others.\u00a0 What do you know about them?\u00a0 Looking for a place to start?\u00a0 Burnaby Village Museum has done some research for you:<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/2024\/02\/26\/local-history-or-history-in-your-backyard\/indig-history-bby\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2035\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2035\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/files\/2024\/02\/Indig-History-Bby.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/files\/2024\/02\/Indig-History-Bby.jpg 371w, https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/files\/2024\/02\/Indig-History-Bby-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/files\/2024\/02\/Indig-History-Bby-209x270.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a>Others have come and settled here as well.\u00a0 Burnaby is truly multicultural and the Burnaby Village Museum staff are working to bring their stories to us as well: <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/2024\/02\/26\/local-history-or-history-in-your-backyard\/books-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2036\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2036\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/files\/2024\/02\/books.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/files\/2024\/02\/books.jpg 619w, https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/files\/2024\/02\/books-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/files\/2024\/02\/books-360x218.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a>Of course, our community, Burnaby, as well as other municipalities in the Lower Mainland have diverse histories, some older and some more recent, some of which are very colourful!\u00a0 Check out the display in the library to find history from your backyard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a community, we are more purposefully looking at our history.\u00a0 Here in Burnaby, history did not begin with the first white settlers.\u00a0 Well before the late 1800s, when Europeans started settling here, from time immemorial, this land was home to others.\u00a0 What do you know about them?\u00a0 Looking for a place to start?\u00a0 Burnaby Village Museum has done some research for you:Others have come and settled here as well.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/2024\/02\/26\/local-history-or-history-in-your-backyard\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2033"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2039,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions\/2039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}