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Point Grey’s original student hang-out – The Dolphins

By feedwordpress on December 1, 2020

[This is an expanded version of an article originally published in Alumni UBC’s Grad Gazette in 2010] Before The Pit, the Gallery Lounge, Koerner’s Pub, or any of the other popular student retreats on or around the UBC campus… there was The Dolphin. The Dolphin Tea House was located on Marine Drive, across from what […]

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Working as an Indigenous Work Learn Student at the UBC Archives

By feedwordpress on October 6, 2020

[The following was written by Kai Geddes, currently working for the UBC Archives in the Work Learn student employee programme] While continuing my academic career at the University of British Columbia (UBC) as a Masters in Library and Information Studies (MLIS) graduate student in September of 2019, from Vancouver Island University (VIU), I had the […]

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The early Chinese-Canadian presence at UBC

By feedwordpress on September 11, 2020

One of the projects undertaken by our colleagues at UBC Rare Books and Special Collections during the COVID-19 shut-down of on-campus operations  has been to develop a new on-line guide to Chinese-Canadian materials in their collections.  One of the subjects being researched for this project was the identity of the first Chinese-Canadian graduate of UBC. […]

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An Archival Science student jumps at an opportunity

By feedwordpress on August 31, 2020

[The following was written by Manfred Nissley, currently working for the UBC Archives in the Work Learn student employee programme] A year after starting at the University of British Columbia as an archival science and library science student, a work-learn position opened up in University Archives. I applied for this position because I saw it […]

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