Access the document here Description by Kaila-Ann Guiste: This collection of dispatches from the colonial governor in charge of Dominica in 1916 contains normal and mandatory records of being stationed and other government matters of employment. The section which was digitized is the incident of a hurricane on August 18th 1916. The reports come from all over the island as …

Access the document here Description by Kaila-Ann Guiste: This year of dispatches are handwritten, and a bound section gives reports of a hurricane. It reports a major hurricane on the night of the 20th of September 1834. The bound stack of dispatches describes the plight of the island and issues several requests for supplies of provisions and lumber to rebuild …

An Archive Intern’s Podcast Kaila-Ann Guiste (a student at Dominica State College + Create Caribbean Research Institute) recently completed the Surviving Storms Past Archive Internship at Dominica’s National Documentation Centre & Archives. Here she digitised historic reports, newspaper cuttings + dispatches from historic storms that have affected Dominica throughout its colonial + post-colonial past. In this podcast Kaila Ann reflects …

Notes from an Archive Internship https://soundcloud.com/cccproject767/kaila-ann-guiste-surviving-storms-past-podcast On March 2nd, 2021 I began my archive internship at the Documentation Centre in Roseau, Dominica. Even typing out the date it seems like so long ago, and yet, it feels too soon to end. It has been a major learning experience for me as an intern at Create Caribbean Research Institute (Dominica State …