Letters. We’ve got letters. We’ve got stacks and stacks of letters.
In fact, correspondence makes up a large part of the Comox Logging and Railway Company fonds which is one of the collections in the CDM Archives.
Contained within the more than 30 boxes that make up the CLR fonds is correspondence that covers everything from sales promotions, to families searching for lost relatives, to the minutiae required to balance the books of such a large and complex company.
November 15-21 marks this year’s BC Archives Awareness Week. The CDM Archives collects and preserves records relating to Comox Valley regional heritage and is open by appointment from Tuesday to Friday, 10:00 AM – 3:30 PM.
And speaking of letters, Archives Awareness Week is a great time to highlight mail as it fits well with the temporary exhibit Signed, Sealed, Delivered currently on display in the second-floor gallery.
