Biography of Rob Budd

Memories To Memoirs founder Rob “Lucky” Budd graduated from the University of Victoria in 2005, earning a Master’s Degree in History with a focus on oral history. Between 2000 and 2004 the CBC and the Royal British Columbia Museum entrusted Rob with the preservation and restoration of the “Orchard Collection”, one of the world’s largest oral history collections. He has since worked with a number of private collections and high profile clients including the Okanagan Indian Band, the Provincial Archives of B.C. and the Neskonlith Indian Band. Rob has given talks on the subject of oral history and audio preservation at the University of Victoria and the Royal British Columbia Museum, and is the author of the book Voices of British Columbia: Stories from Our Frontier, a history of life in British Columbia at the turn of the last century.