Time Capsules Buried Behind Welcome To PG Sign
Prince George Mayor Lyn Hall helps bury 100th anniversary time capsule. Here he receives assistance (to Hall’s right) from City Councillor Murray Krause and Chad Kinsley of RH Jones & Son Mechanical and Iain Elder of Armtec – photos 250 News
Prince George, B.C. – Two capsules filled with mementoes were lowered into the ground behind the Welcome to Prince George sign at the intersection of Highways 97 and 16 this morning.
Mayor Lyn Hall, City Councillor Murray Krause and other dignitaries were on hand for the official interment of the 75th anniversary and 100th anniversary time capsules.
“This is the culmination of a lot of group effort,” said time capsule coordinator Dori Alger.”Over a year of planning is all complete. There’s a feeling of satisfaction.”
Today’s event was preceded by a “Packing Party” at the Prince George Public Library on Monday where a wide variety of items to be buried were put on display – everything from Sidney Crosby hockey cards to rotary phones and 2015 Canada Winter Games memorabilia.
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This is such a waste of time.
Uh, the ‘internet’ is a ‘time capsule’ someone should let the city know about this new technology… nothing in that box can tell you more about 2015 than the archives…
And here I thought that the museums, libraries, etc. were all archives ….
The internet as an archive likely meets no standards acceptable for archival purposes. A private site dedicated to WWII history, for instance, can be excellent right now, but the likelihood of it being there 100 years from now is slim to none … Capture the information electronically now, and make sure that its technology will be updated as needed throughout the decades, turn that over to organizations and institutes responsible for maintaining it, and it will survive until funding is cut off, wars destroy it, major disasters destroy it or simple disinterest will destroy it.
Let’s talk the Smithsonian, as an example of what I have in mind.
Humans do a lot to “waste” time. What is one person’s view of what is a waste of time is another person’s reason for existing.
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