Welcome to the Transcribimus Homepage. Transcribimus is a network of volunteer transcribers who take hand written documents of our early Vancouver history and transcribe them into a searchable state available for free to the general public and researchers.
This entire initiative would not be possible without our volunteer transcribers. We thank them!
We also thank our sponsors who are also critical to the success of the project.
We are so pleased to have been featured in the following media:
- front page of the Vancouver Sun article by John Mackie
- Spacing: Canadian urbanism uncovered article by Yuri Artibise
- CBC Radio “On the Coast” interview with volunteer Chris Stephenson
- Gordon Price‘s Price Tags blog
- Metro Vancouver article by Teresa Verenca
We hope you will enjoy exploring your history through our website. There is so much more to do. We hope to expand our service to other handwritten documents of our history.
Perhaps you might consider becoming a volunteer yourself. Together our remarkable volunteers have contributed 335 transcriptions of early Vancouver City Council minutes, as follows:
Master Scribes (more than 50 sets of minutes):
Margaret Sutherland (155)
Joy Marie Vasquez (78)
Darrin Pezer/Proactive Building Maintenance (58)
Journeyman Scribes (25-50 sets of minutes):
Chris Stephenson, MLIS (45)
Donna Kynaston (26)
Working Scribes (5-24 sets of minutes):
Anonymous (23)
Martha Hazevoet (12)
L. Ellema (10)
Christine Cathcart (7)
Gerald Soon (9) new volunteer as of June 2018
Krystyna Richards (6)
David Laing (5) new volunteer as of January 2018
Leah Minuk (5)
Susan Willows (5)
Apprentice Scribes (1-4 sets of minutes):
Bronwen Cripps (4)
Judy Lam Maxwell (4) of Historical Chinatown Tours
Leesa Poffenroth (4) new volunteer as of March, 2018
Sue Bryant (3)
Chris Mizzoni (3) of Nitzy’s Hockey Den
Mary-Ann Capistrano (4) new volunteer as of March, 2018
Alan Hart (2)
Gent Ng (2) new volunteer as of February, 2018
Jenn Ashton (1) Jenn’s website
Brenda Chapman (2)
Jordan Cripps (1)
Siobhan Devlin (1)
Anita Dos Santos (2) new volunteer as of July, 2018
Karen Gillespie (1)
Alannah Hall (1)
Devon Harlos (1)
Cathy Harmer (1)
Lesley Hebert (1)
Tegbir Kaur (1) new volunteer as of July 2018
Sara Keay (1) new volunteer as of July 2018
Maria Klukova (1) new volunteer as of July 2018
Andrew S. Liebman (1) new volunteer of July 2018
Andrea Mitchell (1)
Mary Eleanor Norris (1)