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Brave New Play Rites

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-998
  • Corporate body
  • 1986-

The Brave New Play Rites festival began in 1986 under the initiative of UBC creative writing professor Bryan Wade. Wade sought a means for creative writing students to witness their theatrical works in front of a live audience and to become engaged in the theatrical process as a normal part of their coursework. Submitted plays were typically 20 minutes in length and student-authors were encouraged to participate in their play’s production from attending rehearsals to selecting actors. Creative writing courses that have participated in the festival included CRWR 407 and CRWR 507.
Brave New Play Rites continues as an annual festival into the present and a number of notable writers such as Dennis E. Bolen, Stephanie Bolster, Maureen Medved among others have had their plays featured in the festival. Wade also edited a published collection of one-act plays featured in the festival, Brave New Play Rites: Highlights plays from UBC's Creative Writing Department (Anvil Press, 2006).

Braverman, Doreen, 1932-

Doreen Braverman was born in Richmond in 1932 . She received a Bachelor of Education degree from the University of British Columbia in 1964. After being a teacher for several years, she became involved with the B.C. Liberal Party. She was on the campaign committee backing Garde Gardom and Pat McGeer in Vancouver-Point Grey in 1966 and 1969 respectively. From there, Doreen Braverman's involvement in the party escalated as she became president of the West Point Grey Liberals (1970-1971). Her success at that post allowed her to become treasurer of the B.C. Liberal Party in 1972 and its president in 1973.
Her efforts at promoting the Liberal Party, however, were not limited to provincial politics. In 1975, Doreen Braverman was co-chair of the Federal Liberal Party Convention in Ottawa. For the next ten years, she supported politicians who embodied the Liberal Party traditions. In 1986, Doreen Braverman decided to emerge from the shadows of supporting Liberal candidates and run as the Liberal candidate for Vancouver-Point Grey in the 1986 B. C. provincial election.
Despite her numerous political accomplishments, she was far from being a one-dimensional person . She wrote a thesis entitled Government and Small Business in 1983 as part of a Master of Business Administration degree. It assisted her in the management of several of her businesses. Thus, Doreen Braverman had diverse interests that led her to excel in multiple facets of life . She will always be best known, however, for her efforts in elevating the B.C. Liberal Party from a relatively unknown and indifferent party to a strong party with confidence and well-defined objectives. Any success that the B.C. Liberal Party has in the future could not have been possible without the past dedication of people like Doreen Braverman.

Brayshaw (family)

  • Family

The Brayshaw family has a long history, tracing back to 1379, with a large portion of their lineage found in the Yorkshire area of England. This includes a notable relation to the Giggleswick parish and School, including the Brayshaw Library at Giggleswick School, where generations of the Brayshaws were educated.

Of the more recent family represented in this fonds is Thomas Brayshaw (1854 – 1931), located in Stackhouse, who was employed in the legal profession and served as a governor for the Giggleswick school. He was an avid historian of the Settle area, and published on the topic. His son, Thomas Brayshaw (1886 to 1967), was born in Settle, Yorkshire. He served in World Wars I and II, moved to Canada in 1911, and became a well-known sport fisherman who studied and illustrated fish in multiple publications. His son, T. C. Brayshaw (1919-2014), was born in Yorkshire but lived most of his life in Canada, where he was a botanist.

Brayshaw, T. C.

  • Person
  • 1919-2014

Thomas Christopher Brayshaw was born July 2, 1919 in Yorkshire, England, to Thomas and Becky Brayshaw. The family moved to Canada in 1920.
He served in the air force with the Coastal Command, part of the Royal Canadian Air Force, in World War II.

T. C. Brayshaw received a BA in biology and PhD from UBC. He earned his MA in at University of Saskatchewan. He find employment and passion in work as a botanist, including a role with the B.C. government, and the writer and illustrator of numerous publications on B.C.'s plants and ecosystems. He died December 22, 2014.

Brayshaw, Thomas

  • Person
  • 1886-1967

Thomas Brayshaw was born March 3, 1886, in Stackhouse in Yorkshire, England. He moved to British Columbia by 1911. He returned to England with World War I, serving in the Duke of Wellington`s Regiment, part of the Territorial Force, including a role as a revolver instructor. He was seriously injured while at the Western Front in France in 1915.

He married Edith Rebecca Sugden, who he met while she was a member of the Voluntary Aid Detachment searching with the Red Cross, in Wakefield in 1916. They had one son, Thomas Christopher Brayshaw. The family returned to British Columbia in 1920.

Brayshaw worked as a fruit grower and schoolmaster at Vernon Preparatory School in Vernon, B.C., until joining the WWII efforts from 1940-1945. He served as an army counsellor and recruiting officer, reaching the rank of major.

He was a well-known sport fisherman and devoted most of his adult life to catching, studying and drawing of fish, illustrating several of Roderick Haig-Brown's books. Brayshaw achieved recognition for his wooden fish carvings. He was a founding member of the Hope Rod and Gun Club, serving as president from 1948-1961, and a charter member of the Federation of Fly Fishermen. He died October 10, 1967, in Vancouver, B.C.

Breen, David

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-900
  • Person
  • [20—]

David Breen is a professor emeritus, historian, and author who focuses on Western Canadian history. Breen’s academic research interests revolve around the western settlement, land policy, and resource development. David Breen completed his Ph.D. In history at the University of Alberta in 1972, he was writing his dissertation on the history of ranching in the Canadian prairies. In 1998, Dr. Breen won a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Petroleum History Society – a group of academics, corporate representatives, and archivists – for his work in writing the first comprehensive scholarly book on the petroleum industry in Western Canada.
In the course of his life, Breen wrote and co-wrote many books and articles, including Alberta’s petroleum industry and the Conservation Board (1993), The Canadian Prairie West and the ranching frontier 1874-1924 (1983), William Stewart Herron: father of the petroleum industry in Alberta (1984) with R.C. Macleod, and Vancouver’s fair: an administrative and political history of the Pacific National Exhibition (1982) with K. Coates.

Brender á Brandis (family)

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-065
  • Family
  • [194-?]

The Brender á Brandis family is a family of artists and writers with whom Albert and Beatrice Cooke were acquainted.

Brennan, Pegeen

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-921
  • Person
  • 1928-2013

Pegeen "Peg" Brennan was born in Ashcroft, BC, on December 20, 1928. She was raised in Ontario but returned to Fernie, BC, to live with her father, a coal miner. She received her BEd (Honours English, 1964) and MA (English, 1965) at UBC. Brennan was a UBC English Department faculty member from 1968 until her retirement in 1988. She was married to Lee Whitehead, whom she met at UBC. Brennan and Geoffrey Riddehough were colleagues at UBC and had offices in the same building. They became acquainted in the academic year 1967-1968.

Brière, Elaine

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-061
  • Person
  • [20--]

Elaine Brière is an award-winning documentary photographer and filmmaker. Raised in Nanaimo, BC, Brière rediscovered photography in the 1960s while a student at the University of British Columbia. She holds a Master's in Liberal Studies. Her first documentary film, Bitter Paradise the Sellout of East Timor, was released in 1996. The Story of Canadian Merchant Seamen was released in 2004; this is a documentary about the privatization of Canada's merchant sea fleet after World War II and the dismantling of the Canadian Merchant Seamen's Union. Brière continues her work as a writer, photographer and filmmaker.

Bringhurst, Robert

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-725
  • Person
  • 1946-

Poet Robert Bringhurst was born in 1946 and raised in the Canadian Rockies. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), the University of Utah and Indiana University. Returning to Canada after a prolonged residence in South America, Europe and the Near East, Bringhurst joined the Creative Writing Department at British Columbia. He authored several books, including Bergschrund (1975), Tzuhslem's Mountain (1982) and The Beauty of Weapons: Selected Poems (1983). He also served as co-editor of Visions: Contemporary Art in Canada (1983), the first work to document the various movements in Canadian art since World War II.

Brink, Vernon C.

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-726
  • Person
  • 1912-2007

Vernon Cuthbert "Bert" Brink earned his MSc from UBC in 1936 and then a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1940. He joined the Department of Agronomy at UBC as an assistant professor in 1940, and in 1946 was promoted to associate professor. In 1955 he was promoted to full professor and became chair (1955-1967) of the newly formed Division of Plant Science. In 1970, VC. Runeckles became chair, but Brink continued to teach in the newly formed Department of Plant Science until 1978.
Brink was active in many organizations related to agronomy and plant science. They include the Agricultural Institute of Canada (AIC), the Canadian Seed Growers' Association, the British Columbia Institute of Agrologists (BCIA), the Canadian Society of Agronomy, the American Society of Agronomy, the Genetics Society of Canada, the American Society of Range Management, the Brewing and Malting Barley Research Institute, the Western Canada Turfgrass Association, the BC Parks Committee, the BC Fertilizers and Agricultural Poisons Board, and the BC Foundation Seed Committee. In 1969, Brink chaired the BC Indian Agriculture and Lands Committee, a BCIA and AIC. All of these organizations had close links to the Division of Plant Science.
Vernon Brink was also active in many UBC committees. They include the Sub-Committee to study the organization of Soil Science in 1953, the Genetics Committee, the Committee on Sports Turf Research, the Climatological Committee, the President's Committee for the Electron Microscope (installed in 1959), and the Advisory Committee on Botanical Garden Policy.
Brink's research interests encompassed several areas. Before becoming the division chair, he collaborated on a Diffuse Knapweed project with one of his graduate assistants, T.G. Atkinson. In 1959, he began a study of Gibberellin, an alfalfa growth regulator. He also was involved in various genetic experiments on Rhizoma alfalfa. Brink also continued to develop his interest in the study of barley. His Master's thesis examined the chemical process carried out by barley extracts. Other interests included the care and improvement of turfgrass, climate effects, crop genetics, and the ecological use of land. Brink also promoted the division's University Research Farm development at Oyster River as a teaching and research facility. He contributed to Crop Science, Ecology, The Journal of Plant Science, and Canadian Field-Naturalist. Brink served on the Environmental Assessment Panel, which studied the potential impact of reactivating the Boundary Bay Airport and a third runway at Vancouver International Airport. In 1984, he became a member of the Directors of The Nature Trust, a non-profit organization established to conserve areas of ecological significance in the province.

Britannia Beach Mining and Smelting Company

Copper mining activities began at Britannia Beach, B.C. in 1898 under the auspices of the Britannia Syndicate. In 1908 control of the property passed to the Howe Sound Company of New York which operated the mine as a wholly-owned subsidiary, Britannia Beach Mining and Smelting Company Ltd.. The scale of operations expanded until, in the late 1920s, the mine produced the largest copper output in the British Empire. Mining continued on a reduced scale during the Depression while, by comparison, many other copper mines were forced to close entirely. The Britannia Beach Mining and Smelting Company was finally placed in voluntary liquidation in 1958 as a result of rising production costs and declining ore grades. Shortly thereafter, the Howe Sound Company reopened the mines and operated them as a division of the parent company until the property was sold to Anaconda Copper. Mining operations finally ceased at Britannia Beach in 1974.

Britannia Mine Oral History Project

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-496
  • Corporate body
  • 1987-1988

In 1987 and 1988, the University of British Columbia students in Diane Newell's History 303 course ("The Canadian West") conducted a series of oral interviews with former Britannia Beach residents. The interviews were designed to provide students with a first-hand understanding of life in a mining community; this project was conducted in cooperation with the British Columbia Mining Museum. As a result, this collection provides valuable insights into the history of the Britannia Mining and Smelting Company and its impact on the community.

British Colonist

  • Corporate body

The British Colonist was a newspaper in Victoria, British Columbia.

British Columbia Academy of Science

Founded in 1909, the British Columbia Academy of Science promoted original scientific research, published papers reporting research results and coordinated and sponsored meetings to further develop interest in the sciences throughout B.C. Through a modest award system, the Academy provided support to scientific research in B.C. at the high school and post-secondary levels. In 1947 the Academy organized its first annual science conference; these conferences continued for fourteen years. In 1963 the Academy was legally disbanded as a result of declining financial and membership support. It played an important formative role in the development of the scientific community in the province. Many of the province's most influential scientists were connected with the Academy during its history.

British Columbia. Agricultural Services Coordinating Committee

  • UBCA-ARC-AUTH-047
  • Corporate body
  • [20--?]

Composed of representatives of the Provincial Ministry of Agriculture, Agriculture Canada, and the UBC Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, the British Columbia Agricultural Coordinating Committee advised the Minister of Agriculture and allotted research funds for research projects within the province.

British Columbia and Yukon Territory Building and Construction Trades Council

Established in the mid-1960s as a labour counterpart to the Canadian Labour Relations Association and the Amalgamated Construction Association, the British Columbia and Yukon Territory Building and Construction Trades Council bargains with these associations on behalf of approximately seventeen unions.

British Columbia Anti-Tuberculosis Society

  • Corporate body
  • 1907-1921

The British Columbia Anti-Tuberculosis Society formed in 1904 in the aim to care for and treat people suffering with tuberculosis. In July 1907 the Society purchased the Fortune Ranch at Tranquille, near Kamloops, which they converted into a treatment facility. In 1920 the Directors of the Society commenced negotiations with the provincial government to take over operation of the Tranquille Hospital. On February 23, 1921 an agreement was signed and the Tranquille Hospital was transferred to the Province of British Columbia. This marked the formal end of the British Columbia Anti-Tuberculosis Society. On October 30, 1922 the Tranquille Tuberculosis Publicity Society was incorporated under the Societies Act of British Columbia, and on November 9, 1936 this society changed its name to the British Columbia Tuberculosis Society. On July 27, 1978 the name was changed to the British Columbia Lung Association.

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