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UBC, the UEL, and How They Got That Way

By feedwordpress on June 21, 2022

Anybody who has ever attended or worked at the University of British Columbia’s Vancouver campus knows that it is not actually part of the City of Vancouver – despite the fact that its mailing address clearly states “Vancouver”.  Together with the University Hill neighbourhood and Pacific Spirit Regional Park, it actually forms an “unincorporated area” […]

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New to the website

By feedwordpress on May 7, 2021

Recent additions and enhancements to the University Archives’ website include: Revised and enhanced our Indigenous Peoples Historical Resources – this includes a link to Verna Kirkness’ memorial tribute to the late Justice Thomas Berger, who together with Dr. Kirkness was instrumental in establishing the First Nations House of Learning Update to our list of faculty deans […]

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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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