Description
Freeze and thaw dates for 90 lakes, recorded by volunteers and later entered by hand.
Provenance
Bought as part of a box of disks at an estate sale and donated anonymously. The tape was sticky with binder breakdown and was baked at low temperature before a single careful read. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
aeed3a6045bc84503a6ec9390f9b27e5d6576af94ecf616e29201bb6f091211f- Last verified
- Oct 23, 2026, by Vigil
- Migrated to
- CSV with a data dictionary, with the original files kept
- Copies
- Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
- Original carriers
- Kept in cold storage in Vancouver
Access
Free, in the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms. Copies may be taken away.
Reading-room copies are migrated to CSV with a data dictionary, with the original files kept. The recovered files are kept exactly as they were found.
Cite as: Capital Region Lakes Survey, Lake ice records, Capital Region, 1976–1987 (1976–1987). Lazarus Archive, LZ-21815.