The Women’s Resources Centre (WRC) opened in 1973 and serves nearly 25,000 people annually. As part of Extended Learning (formerly UBC Continuing Studies), the WRC offers career planning, vocational testing, community information, educational programs and free drop-in counselling services for men and women, certificate programs in cross-cultural and peer counselling, and working with an aging population.

Charles Joseph "Chuck" Connaghan was born in Arranmore Island County Donegal, Ireland. He joined the British Army and later emigrated to Canada. He obtained his B.A. (1959) and M.A. (1960) in psychology from British Columbia. After working in industrial relations for several years, he became Vice-President of Administrative Services in 1975 and served in this capacity until 1980. Connaghan also participated in the Council for Canadian Unity and the Task Force on Canadian Unity. The Council began in 1964 as a non-profit, non-partisan organization devoted to promoting a better understanding and appreciation of this country amongst all Canadians. The Task Force was established in 1977 and spent almost a year holding meetings across the country to support various groups dedicated to the cause of Canadian unity. Connaghan was made a member of the Order of Canada (C.M.) in 2000 and was a recipient of the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice from the Vatican in 2001and received the Queen's Jubilee Medal. In addition, he was awarded the Great Trekker Award from the UBC Alma Mater Society in 1995.

The Office of Physical Plant was established in 1967 to assume the responsibilities of engineering, maintenance, and planning of buildings and grounds on the University campus. Previously, these had been the responsibility of the Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds. In 1969, the Office of Physical Plant was organized into four divisions: Operations and Maintenance, Design and Planning, New Construction, and Administrative Services. In 1986, the Office of Physical Plant was further reorganized into two departments: Plant Operations and Plant Design and Construction. This department was renamed Campus Planning and Development in 1989 and again renamed Campus and Community Planning in late 2001.

William Osborn Richmond was born in Rouleau, Saskatchewan, in 1907. After completing degrees at UBC (BASc) and Pittsburgh (MS), he returned to UBC to teach in the Mechanical and Electrical Engineering department in 1950. He retired in the early 1970s.

Brock M. Fahrni came to the University of British Columbia in 1952 as a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Medicine. He became the founding Director of UBC's School of Rehabilitation Medicine in 1961 and served in this capacity until his retirement in 1978. Fahrni was renowned for his radical approach to geriatrics and spent much of his life challenging traditional myths about the ageing process. His contributions to the field began in the 1940s when he started working with ageing war veterans and advocated social planning. Fahrni opposed the notion that ageing was a disease and worked to keep older people in the general community with support programs' assistance.

The Fairview Committee was established under the auspices of the Alumni Association in the mid-1970s. Composed of UBC graduates from 1915 to 1928, the Committee undertook projects designed to commemorate the university's history, particularly relating to the Fairview era. Working on the recommendations of the Committee, the Board of Management of the Alumni Association passed the following motion at its January 1983 meeting: "That the work of the Fairview Committee be incorporated into a new heritage committee for UBC and that this committee be given every support by the Alumni Association to look after the recording and preservation of the University's heritage." Blythe Eagles, who served as chairman of the old Fairview Committee, assumed the chairmanship of the expanded Heritage Committee. The Heritage Committee included the following three original sub-committees: 1) Fairview - Dr. Harry Warren (Chairman) 2) 1928 - 1945 - A.H. Rome (Chairman) 3) 1945 - present John Banfield (Chairman) Later, a 1963 - 1986 sub-committee was added.

The Biological Discussion Club at the University of British Columbia began in the early 1920s. Its goal was to stimulate interest in biological subjects at the university by reading papers of general interest and by other means as determined by the club. In 1949 the name of the club was changed to the Biology Club. The club finally ceased operation in 1965.

Art history and visual art were first taught at the University of British Columbia in 1949 when noted Canadian painter B.C. Binning was appointed to the faculty of the newly formed School of Architecture. The then-named Department of Fine Arts was established in 1958 as an independent department within the Faculty of Arts. In 2001, the department changed its name to the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory.

In 1997, Annette Muttray was a graduate student in the Biology Department at British Columbia. Muttray was a vocal opponent to what she viewed as UBC's preoccupation with money before education and was involved in various actions on campus directed at showing discontent with this preoccupation. On November 25, 1997, during the clash at UBC between RCMP, Vancouver Police and student and other protesters, Muttray was arrested while searching for fellow protesters and friend Jamie Doucette who had, himself, been sometime detained earlier. Muttray was taken to the Richmond Police Detention Facility alongside many other APEC protesters and, like the other female protestors, subjected to a strip search by police. Muttray, like many of the other student complainants at the APEC PCC, was a vocal critic of the process, insisting that it could have no natural effect as long as the respondents (in this case, the RCMP, among other government ministries) were responsible for vetting their documents and evidence. In the end, Muttray's allegations that her arrest had been inappropriate and that her bicycle and backpack had been left unattended by police were rejected by the PCC Commissioner. In addition, while the strip search of female prisoners was, in general, deemed inappropriate by the Commissioner, he agreed that Muttray had been legally and rightfully arrested.

Jonathan Oppenheim is a graduate of the Physics Department at the University of British Columbia. He is a professor of Physics at University College London. As a student, Oppenheim was a member of APEC Alert, a grassroots group formed at UBC of students, former students, faculty, staff, and others opposed to APEC (the Asia Pacific Economic Summit) on the UBC campus and the entire APEC agenda. Oppenheim organized and carried out APEC Alert's three phases of resistance to APEC. "Refuse APEC" ran to November 17. "Summit Under Siege" began November 17 with the erection of a tent city on the lawn to the west of the Student Union Building (SUB). Finally, "Crash the Summit" began November 25, which UBC would welcome APEC. In the early afternoon of November 25, protesters and police began to clash in the afternoon. Among the various actions on the UBC campus that day, protesters, including Jonathan Oppenheim, broke through a police barricade at Gate 3 near the School of Theology. He was subsequently arrested. Oppenheim was party to the legal actions launched in the days and weeks following the APEC Leader's meeting at UBC, alleging that he had been wrongfully arrested and police used that unnecessary force during his arrest. Oppenheim chose to represent himself at the PCC hearings and was a vocal critic of the process, insisting that it could have no lasting effect due to its inability to call then Prime Minister Jean Chretien to account for decisions made in and around the protests at UBC. In the end, frustrated by what he saw as the corruption of the process, Oppenheim resigned from the PCC proceedings on February 25, 2000.

Andrew Henderson Hutchinson was born in York Mills, Ontario. He obtained his B.A. and M.A. in Education and Biology from McMaster University and Ph.D. from Chicago (1915). Hutchinson came to the University of British Columbia in 1917 as an assistant professor and acting head of the Department of Biology. In 1921, he served as head of the Department of Botany until 1939, when he became head of the reorganized Department of Biology and Botany. Hutchinson continued in this capacity until his retirement in 1954, although he remained an individual and honourary lecturer for another three years. He was an active member of many professional societies and government advisory bodies and was a member of the Royal Society of Canada. In addition, Hutchinson participated in numerous university, church, and community activities and pioneered work in marine biology laying the foundations for UBC's Institute of Oceanography. He died in 1975.

The Vancouver School of Theology is situated on the campus of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. In 1970 an Implementation Committee prepared the necessary steps for amalgamating the Anglican Theological and Union Colleges to form an Ecumenical Centre for theological education in British Columbia. The Anglican and Union Colleges had trained clergy for their respective denominations since 1927 on the UBC campus in a spirit of cooperation but under different governing bodies. The Vancouver School of Theology is a multidenominational community preparing clergy and lay leaders for ministry in a changing church in diverse cultures. It has established partnerships with aboriginal peoples. Its faculty is recognized for outstanding teaching and significant research in the disciplines of theological studies. In addition, it actively explores new partnerships with theological institutions and Churches around the Pacific Rim. The governing bodies of the School are the Board of Governors, its committees, and the Senate, replaced in 1992 by the Academic Policy Committee, which answers to the Board. The Principal is the chief administrative officer, assisted by the Vice-Principal, three Directors of Degree Programmes, Development, Operations and Personnel, and faculty and support staff.

Architect Frank W. Macey designed St. Helen's Anglican Church which was built in 1911. It was declared a Heritage Building in 1983.

Initial attempts to establish a commerce undergraduate degree program began in 1916, with the impetus coming from the Vancouver Board of Trade. Shortage of funds temporarily delayed the implementation of the suggested program, but continued interest resulted in the introduction of five courses in 1929. In September 1939, Ellis Morrow became head of a separate Department of Commerce within the Faculty of Arts and Science. Under Morrow's direction, the department grew, and in 1950, its status was changed to a school under the leadership of Earle D. MacPhee. Six years later, the Senate and Board of Governors approved the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration establishment, with Dr. MacPhee as Dean. UBC started helping establish overseas business schools in 1958, beginning in Malaysia, founded in 1961, and Singapore, founded in 1962. A partnership with Antai College of Economics and Management at Shanghai's Jiao Tong University was established in 2001. The faculty's name was changed to Sauder School of Business in 2003 after the most significant single private donation to a business school in Canada by William L. Sauder.

The Women's Research Centre (WRC) was founded in 1973 and emerged out of the BC Women's Studies Association. The Women's Research Centre was a feminist organization involved with research intended to promote action to change women's situations. The Centre maintained links with other women's organizations across Canada and responded to requests from women's groups and institutions regarding the project and organizational development, government and institutional responses to women's issues, and public and professional education. The objective of the Women's Research Centre was to provide individual women and community-based women's groups with the information, analyses, and/or skills they needed in order to take action on issues of concern to them. The research results were used in workshops, seminars, and consultations and published in various pamphlets, reports, and books which were later distributed to women's groups and other interested organizations. The Women's Research Centre was a registered, non-profit society with an annually elected board of directors and a policy collective composed of ten members of the Centre, who met monthly to make decisions on the overall policy and direction of the Centre and its various projects. In addition, an advisory committee, composed of representatives from across Canada, met once a year to provide information and to review the Centre's plan from a national perspective. The Centre's work was carried out by research committees composed of volunteers. The volunteers were made up of women who were both interested in and had the ability to contribute to a particular research area. At least one member of the policy collective sat on each research committee. The Women's Research Centre was funded by an operations grant from the Secretary of State Women's Program. In addition, the Centre also received grants or contracts from federal, provincial, and municipal departments and agencies and funding from private foundations for specific research projects. The Women's Research Centre disbanded in 2000.

The Knowledge Network was launched in 1981; it is a Canadian publicly funded educational cable television network serving the province of British Columbia.

Based on the first committee minutes found in the records, the University Lectures Committee was operating for some time before 1949 and went through several names changes, including the Committee on University Lectures and the Presidents Permanent Committee on Lectures before they were finally renamed the Presidents Advisory Committee on Lectures in 1985. The committee's goal was to bring outstanding academics or individuals representing a cross-section of the arts, humanities, business and government to talk to the university community. Over the years, the committee administered several lecture series, including the General Lectures (renamed the President's Lectures), Leon and Thea Koerner Lectures, Hewitt-Bostock Lectures, J. V. Clyne, Canadian Club Lectures, Sedgewick Lectures, Kapoor Singh Lectures and H.R. MacMillan Lectures. On some occasions, the committee co-sponsored the Koerner Lectures series with the Centre for Continuing Education and the Vancouver Institute. Although they shared administrative services with Green College, the committee did not administer or oversee the Cecil H. and Ida Green Lectures series.

By 1904, the movement for higher education in British Columbia had given rise to several organizations interested in pursuing the cause. In 1904, the University Graduates' Society convened in Vancouver to "make and co-operate in all efforts to secure a University (with endowments) for British Columbia." Several meetings of the Society were held with most of the discussion focusing on a proposed land endowment for a provincial university. Unfortunately, the local government was not yet prepared to provide the requisite funding for such an undertaking. However, the activity of the Society did help establish McGill University College of British Columbia in 1906.

UBC established the Technical Committee on the Endowment Lands in 1981. Its primary purpose was to act as a liaison between the University and the Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) regarding the management of the University Endowment Lands. In particular, it advised and assisted the GVRD on research projects; provided technical information and advice to the GVRD on forest management; provided guidelines and reviewed UBC uses of the UEL forest for teaching and research; and made recommendations for how UBC development and activities could best fit with the UEL. After establishing Pacific Spirit Regional Park in 1990, the committee was re-named the UBC Technical Committee on Pacific Spirit Regional Park. The committee has not met formally since 1997, although its former chair has been consulted by the GVRD on various matters regarding the park.

Iva Mann is a long-time University Endownment Land resident and outspoken advocate for the area's designation as parkland. Mann, an activist who organized the "Save the UEL" committee.

The University Endowment Lands (UEL) was formed due to the University Endowment Land Act of 1907. This was done to establish a lands trust to raise money for the formation of the University of British Columbia. The site that would become UBC was chosen in 1910, and the first residential lots were sold by public auction in 1925. UEL does not have an elected municipal council. Instead, the provincial government, through the Minister of Municipal Affairs, governs the University Endowment Lands under the authority of the University Endowment Land Act. Every four years residents, elect an electoral area director to represent them on the Metro Vancouver Regional District Board. It is the only urban area in B.C. directly governed by the provincial government.

George Lister Thornton Sharp was born in 1880 in London, England and educated at Haileybury. In 1908 he came to Vancouver and formed a business partnership with Charles Joseph Thompson. Thompson was also born in London in 1878. From 1906 to 1908, he was assistant chief architect for the CPR before joining Sharp to form the architectural firm of Sharp & Thompson. The firm was responsible for the design of such significant buildings in Vancouver as the BC Electric Building. Over the years, it played an essential role in developing the built environment of Greater Vancouver. Importantly for UBC's history, Sharp & Thompson won the competition in 1912 to design the Point Grey campus for the University. The firm built the first four original campus buildings and became the official architectural firm of the University, a position which it held until late into the 1950s. The company changed its name to Sharp & Thompson, Berwick, Pratt in 1945, when two new partners joined. When Sharp resigned in 1955, the name was changed again to Thompson, Berwick & Pratt. When the firm merged with two engineering companies who had worked with Thompson, Berwick & Pratt on past projects, the name was changed again to Thompson, Berwick, Pratt & Partners. Finally, the firm was re-organized and re-named Hemingway Nelson Architects in 1990.

Stephen Johnson was a librarian at the University of British Columbia who worked on a variety of special projects. Some of the projects with which Johnson was associated include Canadian Serial Directory, Journal of Canadian Library Science Society, Canadiana Out of Print, Directory of Canadian Reports, and Canadian Library Handbook.

In 1946, Harry Adaskin was appointed UBC's first music instructor and assumed the Music Chair. In the early 1950s, two committees, established to consider the future development of the music program, recommended that the Department be expanded and elevated to a School within the Faculty of Arts and Science.

In 1946, Harry Adaskin was appointed UBC's first music instructor and assumed the Chair of Music. The Department remained relatively small for the next decade. In the early 1950s, two committees, established to consider the future development of the music program, recommended that the Department be expanded and elevated to the status of a School within the Faculty of Arts and Science; this recommendation was supported by the Community Arts Council and the public at large. The Department did expand its program, first offering a Bachelor of Music degree in 1959, a Master of Music in 1966, and a Doctor of Musical Arts in 1973. However, it was not established as a full-fledged School until 1986. Today, the School of Music offers specialized instruction in music performance, composition, and scholarship. It also offers introductory courses in music history, theory, and appreciation to students outside the School and presents live performances and lectures by students, faculty, and outside guests. Since its founding, the Department/School of Music has been headed by Harry Adaskin (1946-58), G. Welton Marquis (1958-72), Donald M. McCorkle (1972-76), Robert B. Morris (1976-78), Wallace Berry (1978-85), William E. Benjamin (1985-91), Robert Silverman (1991-96), Jesse Read (1996-2007), Richard Kurth (2007-2018), Alexander Fisher (Acting Director, 2018-19) and Patrick Carrabré (2019-present).

The Architecture Undergraduate Society (also known as "Archus") was formed in 1955 when students from the School withdrew from the Engineering Undergraduate Society and formed their own organization. The Society's aims are to represent students' interests in the School and serve as a liaison between students, faculty, the Alma Mater Society, and the architectural profession.

Neal Harlow was born in Columbus, Indiana, in 1908. He began as a librarian at the Bancroft Library in Berkeley in 1934 and served as the University Librarian of UBC from 1951-1961. His book The Maps of San Francisco Bay was published in 1950, immediately before he arrived at UBC. He was the founder of the Friends of UBC Library. He helped to found the School of Librarianship at UBC, later known as the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, now the School of Information or iSchool. Harlow was also a proponent of fine printing and bookmaking and brought his enthusiasm for the printer's craft to Vancouver. While serving on the President's Committee on University Publications, he was influential in improving the design of books and pamphlets bearing UBC's imprint, utilizing and encouraging the talents of local typographers. His work at UBC increased acquisitions tremendously, which led to an expansion of the library in 1960 with the addition of the South Wing. Harlow resigned from UBC on June 30, 1961, to become Dean of the Graduate School of Library Service, Rutgers University. He retired on June 30, 1969. After his retirement, Harlow renewed his research into early California history and wrote several articles and books on the subject. Neal Harlow died on July 13, 2000.

Ronald Shearer was born in Trail, B.C. After completing his B.A. at UBC (1954), he studied economics at Ohio State University, receiving his M.A. (1955) and Ph.D. (1959). Shearer taught at the University of Michigan before joining the Department of Economics at UBC in 1964. He served as head of the Department from 1972 to 1976. In his time at UBC, he served on several committees that significantly affected the university and economic and constitutional issues in the province and Canada. These are a few: in 1971, Shearer, along with colleague Anthony Scott, prepared a submission for the Standing Senate Committee on National Finance. In 1977, Shearer wrote and distributed a brief to the Canadian Minister of Finance on proposed changes to banking legislation. In 1979 and 1980, Shearer served on the Academic Advisory Committee on Constitutional Changes. Shearer also led the Senate ad hoc Committee on University Organization at UBC. In this position, he led the process of reorganizing the university and its departments.

The history of the University of British Columbia Resources Office can be traced to 1964 with the establishment of the Resources Committee Office. In the early 1970s, the organization became the University Resources Council based at Cecil Green Park. In 1980, the name was changed to the Resources Office, and it appears to have operated until 1983.

Philip G. Haddock was born in San Diego, California, in 1913. He completed his B.S. in forestry (1934) and Ph.D. in plant physiology (1942) at the University of California, Berkeley. After graduation, Haddock enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Force, where he served until 1945. He then assumed his first teaching position at the New York State College of Forestry. In 1946, he returned to the west coast to become Assistant Professor of Silviculture at the College of Forestry, University of Washington. While there, he aided in developing plans and operations in the commercial thinning of Douglas firs. He also became interested in Douglas Fir's provenance and assisted Stan Gessel in his first fertilization plots. Haddock remained at the University of Washington until 1953, when he joined the Faculty of Forestry at UBC to work in silviculture. Throughout his career, Haddock has strived to infuse science into the art of silviculture. He is also an ardent conservationist. Although he retired from UBC in 1978, Haddock remained active. In 1982, he coordinated and taught a resource management course offered at Simon Fraser University.

The UBC Speakers Bureau was established in 1975 by the UBC Alumni Association. Its purpose was to arrange speaking engagements by University faculty to non-profit organizations on a wide variety of topics. Organizations could contact the Speakers Bureau and inform them of their preferred date, time, and topic. In turn, the Bureau would contact faculty members who had indicated their willingness to participate in the program and whose area of expertise included the topic in question. The Bureau ceased operations in 1987; however, a new Speakers Bureau was established by Community Relations by 1989.

The Players' Club Alumni of The University of British Columbia was established in 1933 to provide an organization of past and future members of the Players' Club to help form a permanent theatre. With encouragement from Frederic Wood, the Players' Club Alumni (PCA) entered the 1933 Dominion Drama Festival with a one-act play, Fog, written and directed by Sydney Risk. Full-length productions began the following year with Jules Romain's comedy, Dr. Knock, directed by Bea Wood. Ensuing productions included; By Candlelight, Fresh Fields, Once in a Lifetime, Boy Meets Girl, The Lady of Lyons, Lovers Leap, The Adding Machine and The Man Who Came to Dinner. Unfortunately, the productions of Distant Point and Claudia following a brief war-time hiatus exhausted the club's resources. The PCA returned in 1949 with three one-act comedies in the UBC Auditorium. In 1955, the club's production of The Crucible for the Dominion Drama Festival in Regina won the Calvert trophy for the best play. The PCA continued with several productions, all under the direction of John Brockington, which included: The Living Room, I am a Camera, The Cherry Orchard, Waiting for Godot and The Potting Shed. In 1958, the club staged its last production, At Our Wit's End. Although it continued to exist for several more years, at its general meeting in July 1965, the PCA wound up its activities by voting to donate the residue of club funds to the Dorothy Somerset Scholarship Fund.

Moses "Mo" Steinberg (February 16, 1918 - April 30, 2011). Born in Ottawa, he attended Queen's University (BA, MA) and Toronto (Ph.D.). From 1946 until his retirement, a total of 52 years, he taught in the English Department at the University of British Columbia, where he was twice honoured as a UBC Master Teacher. In addition to his teaching, Steinberg served on numerous committees within the English Department and on the UBC Senate, Board of Governors, and as an Executive Member of the Faculty committee. Much of Steinberg's work focused on the renowned Canadian-Jewish poet and writer A.M. Klein, publishing several volumes of his collected works. He authored numerous articles on various topics and was the editor of an anthology entitled Aspects of Modern Drama. Outside the University, he was an active member of Vancouver's Jewish community, where he served as president of the Pacific Region of the Canadian Jewish Congress.

The Men's Undergraduate Society (MUS) organized freshman initiation and controlled all class and faculty social activities, with the exception of the graduating class. The MUS executive consisted of a president as well as the presidents of each of the Arts, Science, and Agriculture Men's Undergraduate Societies. At the beginning of the fall term, the MUS called for the submission of budgets from each of the various classes and the Undergraduate Societies. The budgets were reviewed, and in the case of classes, fees were set according to the budgeted amount. The major social activities consisted of three faculty balls and two banquets. In 1945, the MUS became one of the bodies absorbed by the Undergraduate Societies Committee.

The L'Ordre du Radis Manifique or Magnificient Order of the Radishes began at the University of British Columbia in 1960, apparently arising out of an initial interest in establishing a wine tasting club. The Order operated as a gentleman's club, and its membership included men from faculty and the University administration. The primary instigators for the formation of the Order were Stephen Jennings, Malcolm McGregor and Ron Jeffells. Over time participation in the Order grew based on invitations approved by its membership. The group generally met twice each academic term at the Faculty Club to enjoy collegiality, good food and drink, and socialize. The Order included only men throughout its existence, and according to John Chapman, female membership never arose. The Order continued to meet into the mid-1970s, by which time many of the original members had left the University.

Mary J. Morehart was born in 1924 in Beverly Hills, California. She pursued a degree in visual art, earning a major from UC Berkeley. She was awarded the Fulbright Scholarship to study in Paris and spent a summer studying in Brussels. Returning for a master's degree, Morehart majored in art history, earning an M.A. from UC Berkeley in 1950 and a Ph.D. from the same institution in 1960. She worked briefly as a reference librarian in Ohio before accepting an offer to teach at UBC, beginning as a lecturer in 1962. She became an Assistant Professor in 1964 and an Associate Professor in 1969. She was Director of Graduate Studies in what was then called the Fine Arts Department from 1970-1972 and also worked as Acting Head of the department in several instances. Morehart's areas of interest included: Early Medieval Art, Anglo-Saxon Art, Indonesian Art, Indigenous Peoples' Art, and Gandharan Art. In addition, Morehart wrote on the study of sceattas, or ancient Anglo-Saxon coins, which was the topic of her Ph.D. and other research throughout her career. Morehart has published several articles on art history matters in journals such as Pacific Affairs and The British Numismatic Journal. Morehart became an Associate Professor Emerita in 1989 in the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory. After retirement, Morehart continued with her art, becoming a part of the Vancouver Art Guild, which displays the work of local Vancouver artists.

Margaret Rushton was born in England and came to Canada in 1930. She first became active in the theatre when she joined the Vancouver Little Theatre and served as president for five years (1949-1954). She also acted in several plays during her years with the Theatre. Rushton became a Dominion Drama Festival National Executive member and served as the British Columbia Drama Association president for eight years. She was very interested in theatre for children and joined the Holiday Theatre Company shortly after it was established, later becoming Tour Coordinator. When Holiday Theatre was incorporated into the Playhouse Theatre Centre, Rushton became Public Relations Officer and toured B.C., organizing tours for the company. In 1971, Rushton retired and began to write a history of the Holiday Theatre.

Charles Avery Dunning was the third premier of Saskatchewan. Dunning was born in England but later emigrated to Canada at the age of sixteen.

The Pacific Northwest Library Association (PNLA) is a professional organization for the Pacific Northwest's librarians and library workers.

The failure of the first University Act of British Columbia in 1891 and a desire to provide post-secondary education for students within the province led to McGill University and Vancouver High School (later Vancouver College) in 1899. The high school curriculum was extended to include the first two years of Arts. In 1903, Victoria High School (later Victoria College) also began an affiliation with McGill University. Although reluctant to establish an Indigenous higher education system, the B.C. Legislature passed an Act to Incorporate the Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning which established McGill University College of British Columbia (MUCBC). The institution provided post-secondary education in the province from 1906 to 1915. During this period, plans to erect a new university on the Point Grey site were postponed. When the University of British Columbia opened on the Fairview campus in 1915, MUCBC was closed, and many of its students and faculty transferred to the new University.

In 1899, a portion of Vancouver High School was renamed Vancouver College following an affiliation agreement between the High School and McGill University, which allowed the College to offer first-year Arts. When McGill University College of B.C. opened in 1906, classes were conducted at Vancouver College. When the College became overcrowded, students were moved to a site at Vancouver General Hospital, but when this facility was condemned, funding was organized, and the Fairview shacks were built.

Linda Peterat holds a B.Sc., B.Ed., M.Ed., and Ph.D. in Curriculum Studies from the University of Alberta. Prior to coming to UBC, she taught home economics in both junior and senior high schools. At UBC, she directed the home economics teacher education program and graduate programs at UBC and taught graduate courses in curriculum studies and research methodologies. At the end of her career at UBC, she pursued her interest in researching food as it relates to home economics. The research led her to become the co-creator of the Intergenerational Landed Learning Project in 2002 and its co-director until 2007. Following her retirement in 2006, she moved to Vernon BC, where she directs an Intergenerational Landed Learning Program in the Xerindipity Garden at the Okanagan Science Centre and is a Program Developer for the Okanagan Science Centre.

The Literary Department was formed in 1917, encompassing the previously autonomous activities of the Men's Literary Society and the Women's Literary Society. In 1920 the department became known as the Literary and Scientific Department. The executive of the new department included the presidents of the literary societies, the Player's Club, the Musical Society, the Chemistry Society, Sigma Delta Kappa Society, the Agriculture Discussion Group, and Dr. Sedgewick as honourary president. The resulting composition of the Literary and Scientific Executive (L.S.E.) was to be one representative from each campus club which was not athletic and did not fall under the Engineering Undergraduate Society. The task of the L.S.E. was to promote, direct, and coordinate the activities of its constituent organizations. In 1955 the L.S.E. changed its name to University Clubs' Committee (U.C.C.), remaining a self-governing subsidiary of the Student's Council of the Alma Mater Society. At the same time, engineering clubs and some athletic clubs (Fencing and Badminton) were added to the constituent clubs of the U.C.C.

Hunter Campbell Lewis was born in Tamworth, Ontario, in 1897 and graduated from the University of British Columbia with a B.A. (1923) and M.A. (1928) in English. He joined the Department of English in 1929 and remained on staff until his retirement in 1962. Lewis was well known to generations of students for his course in contemporary English literature. In addition to his teaching duties, Lewis was also recognized for his activities in the art world, serving as president of the Federation of Canadian Artists. Lewis was also one of the organizers of the Vancouver branch of the Civil Liberties Union and a former chairman of the Committee on Indian Citizenship.