New Books at the Law Library – 24/02/06

LAW LIBRARY reference room (level 2): KE7709 .I53 2023 Kate Gunn, Geneva Lloyd & Cody O’Neil, Indigenous Peoples and the Law in Canada: Cases and Commentary : 2023 (Toronto: Carswell, Thomson Reuters, 2023). LAW LIBRARY reference room (level 2): KEA322 .W55 2022 McKay White, Debtor-Creditor and Collections Law in Alberta (Toronto: Emond, 2022). LAW LIBRARY […]

B.C. Historical Books Highlight – Pacific Crest Trails from Alaska to Cape Horn (1948)

CW: the book contains some outdated, racist, and derogatory language.

“You rest in the forest against a form-fitting log. Your eyes are narrow pools, your mood, dreamy lassitude. Your whole body is inert but receptive. The murmur of a distant waterfall comes alive; birds twinkle, twitter, chirp, and sing; the air you breathe has a taste on nose and palate of green humidity, with carbonated oxygens, and elusive perfumes; a deer drifts across a path of whiter light; and forest life, no longer afraid and furtive, is all about you” (Hazard, p. 65).

Part of the British Columbia Historical Books Collection, Joseph T. Hazard’s book Pacific Crest Trails from Alaska to Cape Horn is foremost a personal account of his journeys of mountaineering, hiking, fishing, and many more recreational adventures. Intermingled with these detailed personal tales of his experiences across the expansive highlands, Hazard shares local historic stories, practical information for visiting these locations, and expresses a passionate if optimistic view that the shared enjoyment of the Pacific Crest Trails can contribute to “social and national unity” between the “Three Americas” (p. 9). In support of a ‘new’ Pan-American vision, Hazard describes his wish for “many nations, cooperating in material things, living side by side in understanding friendship”, and encourages the “abandonment of the ‘bloody tenets’ of imperialism” (p. 10). Rooted in this hope for the future, Hazard’s book aims to promote international travel to visit the Pacific Crest Trails through quirky and sentimental personal accounts, and splendid descriptions of the beautiful natural scenery.

Available through UBC’s Open Collections, Hazard’s book includes many beautiful and unique photographs taken throughout his travels, some of which I have included in this blog post.

Lake Garibaldi

This book includes a few chapters on the beautiful Provincial Parks in British Columbia. Hazard shares stories of his treks through Mount Robson Provincial Park (ch. III) and Mount Garibaldi Provincial Park (ch. IV). This photo of Garibaldi Lake is from Chapter III, “Western Canada, A Hostess Neighbor” and can be found on page 32. (Un-fun fact of the day – it has been suggested that if the barrier of Garibaldi Lake gives way, the volume of water released could pose a serious threat to the town of Squamish)

The Black Buttes

This beautiful photo of Black Buttes, a volcano on Mt. Baker, is from chapter “Cascade Crest Trail of Washington”. This image is from page 64.

Battling a Hanging Glacier

Next up, quite possibly my favourite photograph from the book – from chapter VII, “Up Glacier Park with Margaret and Mac”, this photograph shows a man scaling a glacier face. This photograph is from page 97.

The Sugar Pine

This photograph of a man standing in front of a massive tree with his arms extended to emphasize it’s girth. This tree was said to be 200 feet tall and 12 feet wide at the time of this photograph. This photo is from page 192. (Now it’s time for the fun-fact of the day – Sugar Pines are the tallest of the Pinus species! Regularly growing close to 200 feet)

Camping in California’s Coastal Redwoods

From Chapter XIV, “California Tours Along the Beaches and Coastal Mountains”. Sun beams reach into a campsite through the canopy of massive redwood trees. This photograph is from page 225.

Climbing Party on a Cliff

This photograph of shows several people sitting on a cliff, looking down onto Tepoztlan, Mexico is from Chapter XVII, “Trails Lead South Through Mexico’s Highlands”. This photograph is from page 288.

I hope you enjoyed these photographs from Joseph T. Hazard’s book.

Thank you for reading!

Access issues with Knovel

Users will be sent in an endless “Check Access” loop when trying to access Knovel. Access won’t be granted.

We are working to get this solved. In the meantime please use the Resource Page link to access Knovel – http://resources.library.ubc.ca/page.php?id=475

New Books at Education Library: February 2024

Ready to dive into February’s fresh reads? Explore the newest additions to the shelves of UBC Education Library and discover your next great read!

Click on the book cover or title for more information:

HV2426.Z4633 B8 2023 The butterfly cage: joy, heartache, and corruption: teaching while deaf in a California public school / Rachel Zemach ; [foreword by Dr. Paddy Ladd]

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PZ7.B67167 Sm 2023 Simon sort of says / Erin Bow.

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QL944 .V6 2022 Boobies / by Nancy Vo.

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Access not working to De Gruyter eBooks

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As a solution, login to De Gruyter using the “Access through your institution” on the De Gruyter page and search for UBC.

Access will also work when coming through the De Gruyter Resource Page https://resources.library.ubc.ca/page.php?details=de-gruyter-ebook-collections&id=2459

Discorder Retrospective: Early 2010’s Indie Music

Discorder Retrospective: Early 2010’s

CiTR-FM’s Discorder Magazine has been published every month since February 1983, and UBC’s Open Collections offers complete online access to every single edition. This collection is an amazing time capsule into Vancouver’s indie music scene in any decade.

This week’s blog post is for the 2010’s indie music fans. If you found yourself averse to the pop hits of the time and drawn to the lesser known (you hipster you), then this blog post will likely be as nostalgic for you to read as it was for me to write.

2010:

When I first heard the song Odessa by Canadian artist Caribou (Dan Snaith) I remember thinking it was one of the most unique songs I had ever come across. The combination of the punchy electronic dance beat, the sharp intermittent synth melody and Snaith’s soft vocals seem antithetical but create this completely cohesive and intriguing sound. If you’ve never heard this track, I highly recommend it! Dan Snaith was interviewed for the May 2010 edition of Discorder, shortly after the release of his fifth studio album, Swim. You can find the interview on pg. 12.

2011:

In July, 2011 Discorder did a feature on Future Islands, a synthpop, alt rock band based in Baltimore. The bands third album On the Water would be released later the same year. On the Water has a dreamy, fluid quality that is enhanced by the yearning, nostalgic lyrics. And you’d be hard pressed to read a feature about this band that doesn’t mention their incredible live performances. I was lucky enough to see them perform in Quebec City in 2015 and can honestly say it was one of the best shows I’ve ever seen. Herring’s stage presence is nothing if not unique, and I can confirm the accuracy of the ‘theatrical’ and ‘hyperactive’ descriptors used in the Discorder article.

2012:

            Originally from Vancouver but based in Montreal at the time, Grimes had been making music for several years before her 2012 album Visions was released. Visions is now considered her breakout album with her songs ‘Oblivion’ and ‘Genesis’ remaining by far her most played songs on Spotify to this day. Grimes has now seen massive success and is known for her wild vocal range and ethereal, sci-fi inspired experimental indie-pop. She was featured on the cover of the February, 2012 edition of Discorder which also includes a feature on the artist by Sarah Berman starting on pg. 9.

2013:

            Featured on the cover of the June, 2013 edition of Discorder are the Courtneys, an indie garage punk trio that formed in Vancouver in the early 2010’s. After three years together as a band they released their first self-titled album. The band is described in the Discorder feature (p. 14) as having a ‘summer laden aesthetic’, and the music video for their playful tune ‘90210’ (a montage of biking, skateboarding and sunbathing around the Stanley Park seawall) certainly lives up to that.

2014:

            Angel Olsen released her album Burn Your Fire for No Witness in February of 2014. Just before its release, Discorder’s Lindsay Stewart wrote about the album for their Under Review section (p. 47-8). She calls Olsen’s voice “equal parts strange, bone-chilling, and addictive”, to which I completely concur.

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That concludes this week’s blog post, I hope you enjoyed this 2010’s Discorder retrospective! Thanks for reading!

Winter weather closure

[Two women and a man holding walking sticks on snow]

[Two women and a man holding walking sticks on snow]. CC-PH-04319.

Due to winter weather conditions, the Rare Books and Special Collections and University Archives reading room will be closed on Wednesday, January 17. The reading room should reopen on Thursday, January 18.

We apologize for any inconvenience and hope you are all staying safe and warm!

Lexis+ Training Sessions

Location: Law Library Room 208 For current Allard School of Law students and faculty only. Registration is required . Enhance your law school studies with Lexis+ Canada, a leading online legal research service for cases, legislation, secondary materials, and more.  Angeline Han, a former BC law grad, will be coming to campus on February 8 […]

Newspaper Articles on Early Paleontological Findings in Western Canada

UBC’s Open Collections contains hundreds of thousands of materials covering a vast number of topics, making it an amazing resource for anyone with historical research interests. Personally, I find great joy in interest driven research, and one collection in particular that often returns excellent materials is the BC Historical Newspaper Collection.

This week I was interested in writing a blog post featuring historical news articles on paleontological findings in western Canada. I was pleased to find a great number of articles on discoveries in Northeastern British Columbia, Alberta, as well as international findings in 19th and 20th Centuries. This blog post features a few of the articles on some early Western Canadian fossil findings.

Since the late 19th Century, many paleontological fossils have been found in Western Canada, mainly concentrated around Northeastern B.C. and the Badlands in Southern Alberta. According to the Canadian Encyclopedia, at least 88 species of dinosaurs have been found in Canada (Dinosaurs and Canada, 2012).

Dinosaurs were unknown until the early to mid 19th Century, and the general understanding of these prehistoric animals was still developing when these newspaper articles were published. This elementary understanding is evident when reading articles such as this one found on page 3 of the October 1872 edition of the Cariboo Sentinel.

The article is concerning a fossilized bone that was found in a riverbed. At the time there was apparently only one individual “bold enough to express an opinion” on the fossil and they claimed that it was a vertebra from “a species of flying alligator”, of which the author seems slightly skeptical. While this idea may seem slightly silly as we now know enough to understand that the “flying alligator” description of dinosaurs is not entirely correct, considering the limited understanding and language for describing dinosaurs at the time it probably could have been worse. Unfortunately, I could not locate a follow up article or further information as to whether the specimen was ever identified or verified as a dinosaur fossil or not.

The following article is a short piece on Dinosaur remains found in Alberta and briefly recounts findings of Canadian geologist and paleontologist Lawrence Lambe. Found on page 2 of the October, 1898 edition of the Revelstoke Herald:

In October, 1911 the Daily News reported on the fossils found in Red Deer, Alberta being sent to the American Museum of Natural History rather than staying in Canada to be displayed at the Canadian National Museum in Ottawa. This arrangement was apparently due to permission given to the museum by the Canadian government many years prior.

The article is concluded in the following image:

In November 1913 the New Westminster News published this article on a report made by the vertebrate paleontologist of the Dominion government which discusses several amazing finds made near the Red Deer River in Alberta. These finds were reported as including several nearly complete skeletons of large dinosaurs some of which were thought to be new discoveries.

I hope you enjoyed reading these historical news articles and that maybe you were inspired to search within UBC’s Open Collections for any historical interests of your own!

Thank you for reading!

Works cited

Dinosaurs and Canada. The Canadian Encyclopedia. (2012, February 11). https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/dinosaur

 

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