Judi Stevenson carefully unpacks a bubble-wrapped wooden box. The worn box is about the size of two decks of cards, and held together with the same small metal clasps that have done the job for 100 years.

Stevenson, the district archivist for the Greater Victoria School District 61, lifts open the lid to reveal an old geometry kit compiled of fine metal tools with ivory handles and an ivory ruler.

“This was donated from a school that was keeping it in a filing cabinet, but it deserves to be taken care of,” Stevenson says.