TRIUMF (TRI-University Meson Facility) is Canada's particle accelerator centre. It began as a consortium of three universities, the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, and Victoria. This consortium has continued to grow and today is over 20 members strong. TRIUMF affords infrastructure and tools that are too expensive for a single institution to provide.

Residing on the southern side of the Vancouver UBC Campus, TRIUMF houses the world’s largest cyclotron which has a source of 520 MeV protons on its 12.55 acre site. The cyclotron attracts scientists and researchers from around the world who focus on particle physics, nuclear physics, nuclear medicine, materials science, and detector and accelerator development. On-site, TRIUMF has a team of over 500 scientists, engineers, tradespeople, administrative staff, postdoctoral fellows, undergraduate, and graduate students. Since its inception, TRIUMF has been instrumental in the development of PET (Positron Emission Tomography) scanners and radiotracers, and ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS) detector for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN (French Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire). TRIUMF, and its researchers, have also received many important designations, and accolades since its formation. Moving forward, TRIUMF plans to explore questions in the areas of Rare-Isotope Beams, Particle Physics, Nuclear Medicine, Molecular and Materials Science, Accelerator Physics, Particle and Nuclear Physics Theory, and Detector Development. Ultimately, the ongoing pure research will be in subatomic physics which will lay the foundation for further advances in health, science, innovation, and future commercial success for Canadians.

Cameron MacLeod was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, on February 20, 1958. He was a talented artist from an early age and produced the main body of his work from 1967-1981. According to those close to MacLeod, he underwent open-heart surgery at the age of three, which affected him psychologically for the rest of his life. MacLeod became mainly involved in art during his high school years at St. Georges School, where his art teacher Edward Gale was an important mentor. Gale helped to stage MacLeod's first exhibit in 1976 at the school. Jack Shadbolt was also a significant supporter of MacLeod during this time. After graduating from St. Georges, Cameron MacLeod completed an Honours B.A. in Fine Arts at the University of British Columbia and studied in London, Trois Riviéres, and The Banff School. While at Banff, MacLeod studied under Takao Tanabe and Alan Wood, who influenced his art. He also spent time travelling through Europe in the late 1970s and early 1980s. MacLeod won various awards and scholarships and showed six exhibitions of his work during his lifetime.
Cameron MacLeod's art can be divided into four periods. From his time in high school and at UBC, the first period consists mainly of paintings of landscapes and graveyards. This period was influenced by the Group of Seven and Emily Carr and MacLeod's time in Haida Gwaii. The second period spans his time at The Banff School. It comprises landscapes and depictions of Indigenous encampments influenced by the Fauve School, Gordon Smith, Allen Jones, and Alan Wood. MacLeods third period of work, completed during his travels in France and England, is made up of landscapes influenced by Cezanne and Van Gogh. Francis Bacon and Giacometti heavily influenced his final period. MacLeod used charcoal and oil to create black and white pieces that often reflected the trauma of his open-heart surgery and represented, as curators Caroline Riedel and Meredith Temple described, a final journey inward.
MacLeod died of heart failure at age 25 in 1983, following a long struggle with anorexia. His work has been shown several times after his death. His family put on an exhibit in Vancouver in 2004 titled Beyond Presences: An Exhibition of Cameron Ian MacLeod (1958-1983), and in 2008-2009, the McPherson Library Gallery in Victoria put on an exhibit titled In Search of Lost Time: The Art of Cameron Ian MacLeod, 1958-1983.

Sharon Elaine Kahn was born in Kansas City, Missouri, the USA, in 1946. She received postsecondary degrees from Washington University, St. Louis (BA English Literature 1968), Boston University (Med Counselling and Guidance 1969), and Arizona State University (Ph.D. Counselling Psychology 1975). In 1975, Kahn accepted a faculty position in the Department of Counselling Psychology at the University of British Columbia, where she earned tenure and was promoted to full professor. Kahn concentrated her research on counselling theory, gender-fair practices, and women's career issues. Her scholarly activities included two edited books, seven book chapters, more than twenty-five refereed articles, as well as numerous conference presentations and research reports.
In 1989, Kahn became UBC's first Director of Employment Equity. In 1994, she was appointed UBC's first Associate Vice President, Equity, responsible for administering the University's employment and educational equity programs and for handling complaints of discrimination and harassment. Under her direction, UBC received two Certificates of Merit from the federal government for exceptional achievement in implementing an employment equity work plan and maintaining a representative workforce. In 1997, Human Resources Development Canada awarded the University its Vision Award for the excellence of its employment equity program. In 2006, Kahn became UBC's first Academic Leadership Coach, supporting the University's senior leadership. Kahn retired from UBC in 2013.
In 1986, Kahn married Thomas Edgar Blom, a professor of English literature at the University of British Columbia. Professor Blom died in 2003. In 2015, Kahn married Barrie James MacFadden, a retired Vancouver elementary school teacher.

Michael Craddock was born in the United Kingdom. He received his bachelor's, masters and Ph.D. from Oxford in mathematics, physics, and nuclear physics. Before coming to UBC's Physics department, he was also a scientific officer at Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory.
Once at UBC, Craddock was pivotal in the department's work to build a new accelerator at the UBC Campus – exploring many options, recommending designs, and managing the specifications. This work resulted in the 1968 federal approval of TRIUMF (TRI-University Meson Facility). TRIUMF is a consortium, now featuring 20 member universities, initially started by Simon Fraser University, the University of British Columbia, and the University of Victoria. Its original aim was to conduct research not possible by a single university in nuclear physics. TRIUMF is located at the south campus of UBC in Vancouver.
For the first ten years, Craddock was TRIUMF's beam-dynamics group leader. He was at TRIUMF for 50 years and spent 33 years as TRIUMF's head accelerator physicist, with various titles, before retiring in 2001. During that time, he was the chief architect for TRIUMF's attempt to build the Kaon Factory project through acquiring federal funding for a suite of synchrotron-type proton accelerators. In addition, Craddock worked on projects related to the Large Hadron Collider accelerator injector chain at CERN. He supervised many graduate students throughout his career, taught undergraduate and graduate courses, and was TRIUMF's Correspondent for the CERN Courier.
After retirement, he joined the Accelerator Development group at TRIUMF. He worked on fixed-field alternating gradient accelerators (FFAGS) from 2004-2012, remaining a constant presence at the lab, organizing conferences, presenting introductory accelerator physics lectures, workshops and acting as TRIUMF's historian. At the end of his life, he also made a financial gift to TRIUMF, establishing the Michael Craddock Fund for Accelerator students.

William James Pool Logan was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1931. He emigrated to Canada in 1952, and in 1954 was accepted onto a BC Government Technical Teacher Education Program. Logan moved to Vancouver in 1958 and began teaching at Point Grey High School. In 1960 he began teaching Drafting at UBC in their recently established Industrial Education Teacher Education Program as an Instructor Level 1.

Frank Tester was a professor in the School of Social Work at the University of British Columbia. His research and practice focus on community development to address what are often taken to be personal and mental health problems. He is interested in the structural origins of social issues and the policies and practices that address them. His work focuses on collaborative, and community development approaches to problems like young Inuit suicide, housing and living conditions, food security and the impacts “social, cultural and environmental “of resource development projects. The themes of social organizing and resistance through participatory action research and popular education inform his work, as do critical theories dealing with economic, social and cultural issues. While much of his research and community work currently focuses on Inuit settlements in the Canadian Eastern Arctic, he has also worked in Tanzania, Mozambique, Vanuatu in the South Pacific and Nicaragua. He also has an ongoing interest in First Nations and environmental issues.

Tester is a documentary filmmaker and recipient of two international awards: the Gustavus Myers Award for his contribution to human rights in North America, and the Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize from the American Society for Ethnohistory, Cornell University, for Tammarniit (Mistakes); Inuit relocation in the eastern Arctic, 1938-1962 (Vancouver, UBC Press, 1994), co-authored with Peter Kulchyski. In addition, he collected publications, records, and other materials documenting First Nations environmental and political concerns, First Nations child and family welfare issues, and media coverage of these and other issues in his career.

Pressure to establish a Home Economics course at the University of British Columbia began as early as 1923. By the mid-1920s, the Provincial Parent-Teacher Federation mounted a campaign amongst BC women to establish a degree course at UBC. The organization initiated a fund to endow a chair, and by 1927 it had reached $11,000. The money came in small donations from across the province, and public demand for a program continued to accelerate. In response, the University instituted a Home Economics Degree Course in 1931, but deep cuts in University funding the following year resulted in the temporary suspension of the course. The Provincial Parent-Teachers Federation established a permanent committee in 1933 to oversee the use of the development fund, which continued to grow. In addition, the committee provided bursaries to eight students who had begun the UBC program to complete their education at another university. In 1943, the Senate and Board of Governors approved the re-establishment of the course at the earliest possible moment. The Parent-Teacher Federation turned over $20,000 to the University in 1945 to help finance the construction and furnishing of facilities on campus. Finally, after holding classes in the campus army huts and enduring a terrible fire in 1948, the new Home Economics Building opened in September 1949.
Dorothy Lefebvre served as the first head of the Department of Home Economics. She resigned within a few years and was replaced by Charlotte Black, who served as director until the 1960s. In 1951, the program's status changed as it became the School of Home Economics, part of the Faculty of Arts and Science. It moved to a new building near the UBC Bookstore on East Mall in 1982 and was renamed the School of Family and Nutritional Sciences in 1984. Administrative responsibility for the School was transferred to the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences in 1992, following an earlier academic review which recommended that the dietetics and nutrition programs be relocated in a science-based faculty. There was strong support for the move. There were already several close links between the School and Agricultural Sciences, particularly between the School's nutritional sciences program and the Faculty's departments of Food Science and Animal Science. By 1992 the School was offering a Dietetics program leading to a BSc (Dietet.) degree, a Family Science major leading to a BA degree, a Home Economics program leading to a BHE degree, a Nutritional Sciences major leading to a BSc degree, an MA in Family Studies, and MSc and Ph.D. degrees in Human Nutrition. The School was discontinued in 1999 -- the dietetics and nutrition programs remained within the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, while the family studies program was transferred to the School of Social Work.

The Harry Hawthorn Foundation was established in 1953 by eight academics from the University of British Columbia. The Foundation began during a 1953 fishing expedition to Vancouver Island, at which time a mock court was staged. The judges presiding over the affair, N.A.M. MacKenzie and Roderick Haig-Brown, fined Harry Hawthorn for a fishing violation and, thus, the Harry Hawthorn Foundation "for the inculcation and propagation of the principles and ethics of fly-fishing" came into existence. Money raised by the Foundation was turned over to the Library to establish a unique collection of fishing books. Members of the Foundation continue to meet for fishing trips and dinners and contribute funds for expanding the collection.

The Institute of International Relations was established at the University of British Columbia in 1970 to promote multi-disciplinary research projects involving international relations. Included within the scope of the Institute is research on international politics and organizations, diplomatic history, strategic studies, international legal problems, trade and development, and social science theory insofar as it helps to describe or explain international relationships. Administered by a Committee of the Faculty of Arts composed of representatives of participating departments, the Institute supports individual or group research projects at the graduate, post-graduate and faculty levels.

The University of British Columbia Archives was established in 1970 as separate from UBC Library's Special Collections Division. It serves as the University's corporate memory by identifying, preserving and making available for using its permanently valuable records. The Archives acquires the corporate records (regardless of physical form or characteristics) created, received or accumulated by University officers or employees in the course of their duties. To augment the information in the University's corporate records, the Archives acquire the private papers of selected faculty members, administrators and alumni, and the records of students, alumni and employee organizations. The Archives helps facilitate the efficient management of the institution's records by coordinating the University's records management program. It also serves the institution in a public relations capacity by disseminating information about the development of the University to interested individuals and promotes academic research through the provision of reference services and the preparation of finding aids and other specialized research tools.

The Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) promotes the study of the English language, literature, and other cultural material in a global context in Canadian colleges and universities. It was founded in 1957 and held its first conference in 1958.

The British Columbia Library Association was formed in 1911. It is a non-profit, independent, voluntary association with more than 800 members. The Association's vision is to lead the library community in advocacy, professional development, and support of intellectual freedom.

Members of the Administrative and Professional staff (later renamed Management and Professional staff in 1987) founded the Association of Administrative and Professional Staff (AAPS) in October 1977. At first, AAPS was a voluntary association and had four representatives on the Liaison Committee, which met with senior members of the University to discuss such matters as salaries, benefits and other working conditions until the University cancelled the meetings in 1989. In 1990 an elected committee called the President's Advisory Committee on Management and Professional Staff (PACOMAPS) met to deal with staff issues. AAPS ran a six-member slate that subsequently won the election. Thus, PACOMAPS became an avenue to maintain a dialogue with the University. AAPS conceived the objective of a voluntary agreement to negotiate terms and conditions of employment and pushed this concept at PACOMAPS for over a year. In May/June 1991, staff voted overwhelmingly in favour of a voluntary agreement to govern their terms and conditions of employment. Before negotiations began, AAPS requested a mandate from staff members to represent them; the vote of 1992 was 67.69% in favour. The Framework Agreement defining the relationship between AAPS and the University was finally ratified in May 1995. It is a voluntary agreement under common law that recognizes AAPS as the bargaining agent for all Management and Professional staff of UBC.
At present, the Association's purposes are; "to promote the welfare of the Association's members employed by UBC and the welfare of the University of British of Columbia, to act as the bargaining agent of management and professional staff employed by the University of British Columbia, and to govern relations between the management and professional staff and the University through collective bargaining." The Association has an Executive Board composed of President, First & Second Vice-Presidents, Secretary, Treasurer and Members at Large, seven committees including Advocacy, Communications, Development & Education, Finance, Membership, Negotiating, and Recruiting, and representatives on several University committees.

The British Columbia Research Council was incorporated in 1944. Its purpose was to provide facilities to support technological research and industrial development in BC.

The British Columbia Parent-Teacher Home and School Federation was founded in Vancouver in 1922 to represent Parent-Teacher Associations. It aimed to "secure the cooperation of parents, teachers and other adults in the education of youth and children." The BC Parent-Teacher Home and School Federation changed its name to BC Confederation of Parent Advisory Councils (BCCPAC) in 1990.

Bitter Paradise: The Sell-Out of East Timor began as a film project with Elaine Brière's working trip to the former Portuguese colony in 1975: she was the last independent photographer permitted to enter East Timor before the Indonesian invasion in that year. Through a series of filmed interviews, seminars, and speeches involving Canadian business people, politicians, public servants, and activists, Brière uncovers Canadian participation with Indonesian companies in business activities in East Timor during 1975-1990. The documentary reveals the lives of East Timorese families and individuals who engage in the liberation struggle in East Timor, Europe and Canada. Finally, the feature engages members of western organizations (TAPOL, the East Timor Alert Network) that seek to bring awareness of the Indonesian occupation of East Timor to the world. Brière films rallies in Canada in support of the liberation struggle, attempts (unsuccessfully) to publicly question Canadian and Indonesian political and government leaders on the occupation, and sympathetically portrays young Timorese who employ stories and song, along with public speaking, to enlighten Canadian audiences (including labour organizations) regarding the extortion and destruction of the island nation, its peoples and cultures.
Elaine Brière is a Vancouver documentary-maker, photographer, journalist and social justice activist. Her documentary, Bitter Paradise: The Sell-Out of East Timor, won the best political documentary award at the Hot Docs Festival, North America's preeminent documentary film showcase, in 1997. In addition to her work on East Timor, which includes a published collection of photographs Testimony: Photographs of East Timor, (Between the Lines, 2004). Brière has directed a documentary on Canadian merchant seamen, Betrayed: The Story of Canadian Merchant Seamen (1997), and has produced photo-journalism and print articles for The Tyee, Briarpatch, Our Times, and other publications dedicated to labour and social justice issues. Brière's photographs have appeared in many publications including, Carte Blanche Photography 1 (2004); The Other Mexico: The North American Triangle Completed (1996), South East Asia Tribal Groups and Ethnic Minorities (1987) and The Family of Women (1979). In addition, her photographs have been featured in exhibits in Canada, Japan, Sweden and the United States.

An Ecological Reserve is an area of Crown land with the most special conservation designation within the British Columbia Protected Areas system. The purpose for designating an ecological reserve is for scientific research, establishing benchmark areas to measure changes in ecosystems, protecting biological diversity, protecting rare and endangered organisms, and preserving unique, unusual or outstanding natural phenomena. In the 1960s and 70s, Canada participated in a decade of research known as the International Biological Program (IBP); this involved describing essential sites on standard international check-sheets. In some cases, check sheets are the only source of information for many ecological reserves. The British Columbia Ecological Reserves Act was passed in 1971; this meant that BC became the first province in Canada to give permanent protected status to ecological reserves. As a result, BC has the world's most comprehensive environmental reserves program. As of 2015, there are 148 ecological reserves in BC.
The University of British Columbia Professor Vladimir Joseph Krajina (1905-1993) advocated for the formation of ecological reserves throughout the 1950s amidst the increase in logging in the province. Krajina had a remarkable life, having emigrated after World War II from Czechoslovakia, where he had been an Intelligence Service leader. During the war, he was captured, served time with his wife in a concentration camp and narrowly missed execution. After the war, Krajina joined the UBC Botany Department, where he taught plant ecology for over twenty years and developed a reputation as a distinguished teacher, botanist, ecologist, and conservationist.
Krajina argued for ecological reserves, emphasizing during debates on the reserve concept, "They [the ecological reserves] serve as genetic banks of paramount importance which accomplish a museum function. Distinctive, large, heterogeneous, natural gene pools of different organisms and especially indigenous trees are an irreplaceable resource." In 1968, in BC, Krajina's work, the Ecological Reserves Committee, was formed to advise selecting potential reserve sites to preserve in British Columbia. On May 4, 1974, the first 29 reserves received protective status by Order-in-Council, a conservation landmark. In 1974, a full-time ecological reserve coordinator was hired, and a volunteer warden program was put into effect in 1980.

Born in London, England, Roy Daniells emigrated to Victoria, B.C., in 1910. He received a B.A. from the University of British Columbia (1930) before continuing his graduate education in English at the University of Toronto (M.A., 1931 and Ph.D., 1936). After serving as head of the Department of English at the University of Manitoba, Daniells came to UBC in 1946. He became head of the department following the retirement of G.G. Sedgewick in 1948 and continued in this position until 1965. At that time, he was named the first University Professor of English Language and Literature. Daniells authored two volumes of poetry and wrote extensively on Canadian literature. However, he is best known for his studies of seventeenth-century English literature, particularly the work of John Milton. He died in 1979.

Alice Victoria Borden (née Witken) obtained her B.A. at the University of California in 1930. She married the noted archaeologist Charles Borden in 1931. Borden studied at the University of Heidelberg (1935-1936), taught at her private kindergarten, and later became the first Director of the University of British Columbia's Child Study Centre (1961-1963). After that, she served as a professor in the Faculty of Education until 1970.

Bertram Charles Binning (1909-1976) was born in Medicine Hat, Alberta and grew up in Vancouver. Before pursuing his studies in Oregon, Greenwich Village, New York, and London, he later attended art school. He joined the University of British Columbia School of Architecture in 1949 after many years as an instructor at the Vancouver School of Arts. In 1955, Binning became head of the Department of Fine Arts, which he had helped establish. He resigned from the position in 1968 to devote more time to teaching and painting. Binning retired from the University in 1973. He was involved in the founding of the Department of Fine Arts, the development of the UBC Fine Arts Gallery, the initiation of the Brock Hall Collection of Canadian Art, the conception and direction of the Festival of Contemporary Arts, and the negotiations for the planning of the Nitobe Memorial Garden.

Charles E. Borden, the grandfather of British Columbia archaeology, was born in New York City on May 15, 1905. Shortly after, he accompanied his widowed mother to her family home in Germany, where he was raised. At the age of 22, after accidentally discovering he was an American citizen, Borden returned to the United States. He enrolled at the University of California at Los Angeles, receiving his BA in German Literature in 1932. He continued his German studies at the Berkeley campus of the University of California. He later secured an MA in 1933 and a Ph.D. in 1937. In addition, he held a brief teaching assignment at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Borden joined the Department of German at the University of British Columbia in 1939 and remained a member until his retirement.
As a result of various circumstances, including the difficulty of securing research materials from Germany during World War II and the post-war period, Borden became increasingly more interested in a subject closer to home, the archaeology of British Columbia. Borden began his archaeological career with a small privately funded dig in the Point Grey area in 1945. He gradually expanded the scope of his archaeological research to include major surveys throughout the province, salvage archaeology and in-depth studies of Fraser Canyon and Delta areas. In 1949 he was appointed Lecturer in Archaeology in the Department of Sociology and Archaeology at the University of British Columbia while retaining his German department responsibilities.
From 1949 to 1978, Borden established a highly respected and internationally visible presence in archaeology as an instructor, an author, an editor, a researcher, and a spokesman for his chosen discipline throughout the balance of his career. His publications reflect his principal interest in archaeology and cultural-historical synthesis. He developed the Uniform Site Designation Scheme, adopted in most of Canada. In addition to his academic contributions to archaeology, Borden also devoted considerable energy to securing provincial legislation to protect archaeological sites. In conjunction with Wilson Duff, he was responsible for the passage in British Columbia of the 1960 Archaeological and Historic Sites Protection Act and the Archaeological sites Advisory Board. Borden married Alice Victoria Witkin in 1931. They had two sons, John Harvey and Richard Keith. Alice Borden pioneered the development of numerous new techniques in pre-school education throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Her papers are also available at the University of British Columbia Archives. Alice Borden predeceased her husband in 1971. In 1976 Borden married his second wife, Hala. Charles E. Borden died Christmas afternoon in 1978, having completed editing a chapter in a book on the prehistory of Northwest Coast art.

Italian Renaissance scholar Danilo Aguzzi-Barbagli was born in Arezzo, Italy, in 1924. After completing undergraduate work in Italy, he received his Dottore in Lettere from the University of Florence in 1949 and Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University in 1959. Aguzzi-Barbagli began his teaching career at Vassar College, New York (1955/56), before moving on to the University of Chicago (1959-1964) and then Tulane University (1964-1971). He joined the University of British Columbia's Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies as a professor in 1971. He taught courses, published and lectured in the Italian language, Italian literature (from the late Middle Ages to the seventeenth century), and comparative literature. After retiring from UBC, Aguzzi-Barbagli died in 1995. The following year an excellent collection of sixteenth and seventeenth-century books collected by Aguzzi-Barbagli were donated to the UBC Library by Hannibal Noce.

Jacob Biely, an internationally recognized poultry scientist, was born in Russia. He came to Canada with his family following the Russian Revolution and enrolled at the University of British Columbia in 1922. Biely graduated in 1926 with a B.Sc. in agriculture. He took a Masters's degree in science at Kansas State College (1929) before returning to UBC, where he earned his M.Sc. in Agriculture (1930). Biely worked for the Canadian National Research Council before joining the UBC Department of Poultry Science faculty full-time in 1935. In 1952, he succeeded E.A. Lloyd as head of the department. Following the Faculty of Agriculture reorganization in 1955, Biely became Chairman of Poultry Sciences, which he held until his retirement in 1968.

Jean Blake Coulthard (née Robinson) was born in New Brunswick in 1882. She studied piano under Charles Dennée in New England, Boston. Coulthard moved to Vancouver in 1905 and was an organizer of the Vancouver Woman's Musical Club. She taught music and was the first teacher to her daughter, composer Jean Coulthard.

Michael Ames was born in Vancouver and attended the University of British Columbia, where he graduated with a B.A. in Anthropology in 1956. He continued his education at Harvard University, earning his Ph.D. in Social Anthropology in 1961. Ames returned to UBC as an assistant professor in 1964, rising to full professor in 1970. In addition to his work in the department, Ames also became Director of the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) in 1974. From 1974 to 1976, Ames was president of the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, established in 1968 with funding from the Government of India to promote Indian studies in Canada. A recipient of the Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 1970-1971, Ames was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1979 and promoted as a Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology in 1996. Ames also has an extensive list of publications in a broad range of topics, from religion and social organizations in South Asia, First Nations affairs to museums and popular culture, including the monograph Cannibal Tours & Glass Boxes: The Anthropology of Museums, published by the University of British Columbia in 1993.
Ames retired from the MOA directorship at the end of June 1997 and received emeritus professor status in 1998. From 1998 to 2002, Ames co-taught with adjunct professor Jim Green several undergraduate anthropology courses on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. He also chaired the Dean of Arts First Nations Language Programme advisory committee from 1998 to 2002. In 2002, in cooperation with Associate Dean Margery Fee and the Musqueam Band Council, a joint "Musqueam 101" seminar at Musqueam was loosely patterned after the Humanities 101 programme. The Provost's Office funds it. In July 2002, Ames returned to the MOA as Acting Director for one year, then extended to August 2004.

Born in Quebec, Mulroney became prime minister of Canada from 1984-1993. He served as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party from 1983 to 1993.

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.

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.

William McColl Armstrong was born in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1915 and graduated in Applied Science from the University of Toronto in 1937. Before becoming Dean of Applied Science at UBC, he was the head of the Department of Metallurgy for two years. After ten years in business with the Steel Company of Canada and the Ontario Research Foundation, he was appointed Associate Professor of Metallurgy at UBC in 1946. Between 1964 and 1974, he held the Head of the Department of Metallurgy, Dean of Applied Science, and Deputy President. In 1974, Armstrong resigned his position at UBC to become the first Chairman of the Universities Council of B.C. and was later appointed Executive Director of the Research Secretariat.
He played a vital role in the formation of TRIUMF, chaired the board of directors of the Tri-Nation body to construct a 144-inch telescope on the island of Hawaii, and served as a Director of WESTAR. His honours included an Honorary Doctor of Science from UBC in 1975 and his appointment as Member of the Order of Canada in 1982. Armstrong assumed leadership positions in the Engineering profession, the university community, and this province's educational system. He played an essential role as a member of Canada's Science Council, the National Research Council, and the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada. He was committed to the promotion of science and research in the nation's interest. He approached every task as a challenge and an opportunity to improve the quality of life for all Canadians. He died on July 6, 1990.

Arthur Evan Boss graduated from UBC as part of the Arts '21 class. He then completed an M.A. in Chemistry and wrote a thesis titled:"The solubility of certain inorganic salts in ethyl acetate" in 1923. Following graduation, he appears to have gone to the United States. The 1932 edition of the Graduate Chronicle listed him among the alumni with whom the organization had lost contact. However, in 1937 he was listed as a research chemist for the Columbia Alkali Corp. in Barberton, Ohio. According to the American Chemical Society, Boss died on May 18, 1949.

David F. Aberle was an American anthropologist and author. Born in 1918 in St. Paul, Minnesota, Aberle completed a Ph.D. in Anthropology at Columbia University in 1947. After returning from a stint overseas during World War II, Aberle began teaching at Harvard University between 1947 and 1950. Having worked in New Mexico studying the Navajo and Hopi for two summers in 1949 and 1950, Aberle worked for the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs in Window Rock, Arizona, where he developed an enduring interest in Navajo culture and land rights in the Southwestern United States.
Pursuing extensive field research in Arizona in the 1960s and into the 1970s and 1980s, Aberle studied Navajo kinship patterns, economic development and the Peyote religion among the Navajo. He also became an active participant in the Navajo-Hopi land dispute before the American courts in the 1970s, 80s and 90s, centred on the issues surrounding historical land occupation, removal to Reservation lands, land use and grazing rights between the Navajo and Hopi tribes in Arizona. Aberle collaborated on various exploratory reports on the subject and participated in an American Anthropological Association Ad Hoc Panel on Navajo-Hopi land claims, making recommendations to the courts and government agencies involved in the case.
From 1952 to 1960, Aberle taught in the Departments of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Michigan, moving to Brandeis University in 1961 and the University of Oregon in 1963. Aberle and his wife, Kathleen Gough Aberle, also a professor at Brandeis and Oregon, left the United States in the wake of some controversy surrounding Gough's stated position regarding the Cuban Missile Crisis, which Aberle supported. Both Gough and Aberle were known to have Marxist leanings and openly challenged the U.S.'s position toward Cuba and the war in Vietnam and actively sought university postings in Canada. Moving to Vancouver, Aberle taught at UBC in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology from 1967, becoming Professor Emeritus in 1984.
The contributor to several volumes, and author of many essays and articles, in 1962, Aberle published the book Chahar and Dagor Mongol Bureaucratic Administration: 1912-1945. In 1966, Aberle published The Peyote Religion among the Navajo and in 1974, he published Lexical Reconstruction: The Case of the Proto-Athapaskan Kinship System with Isidore Dyen. The majority of Aberle's academic career was focused on his work with the Navajo in the Southwestern U.S. David Aberle died in 2004.

In 1979, the Women Student's Office sponsored a "Youth Employment Project" to gather information about women's history at the University of British Columbia. The project workers consisted of Penny Washington and Frances Wasserlein, who carried out research and conducted interviews.

William Dunbar was a Scottish poet active in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.

The Institute of International Relations was established at the University of British Columbia in 1970 to promote multi-disciplinary research projects involving international relations. Included within the scope of the Institute is research on international politics and organizations, diplomatic history, strategic studies, global legal problems, trade and development, and social science theory insofar as it helps to describe or explain international relationships. Administered by a Committee of the Faculty of Arts composed of representatives of participating departments, the Institute supports individual or group research projects at the graduate, post-graduate and faculty levels.

The International House Association - B.C. Chapter was formed in 1950 and obtained its charter the following year. Its main goal was to bring together alumni of International Houses residing in the province of B.C. as well as others interested in the International House movement. In addition, the Association sought to "promote the development of better international understanding through personal contact and interchange of ideas between peoples from other countries and residents of Canada." The B.C. Chapter of the Association played a prominent role in developing International House at the University of British Columbia, which opened in 1959. In 1964, the International House Association - B.C. Chapter was amalgamated with International House, and the latter's constitution was broadened to reflect this change.

Ian Slater was born in Australia in 1941 and worked for the Australian navy, as a cipher clerk in that country's Department of External Affairs, and as a defence officer for the Australian Joint Intelligence Bureau. After leaving Australia, he became a marine geology technician with New Zealand's Institute of Oceanography and UBC's Institute of Oceanography. In 1977 he earned his Ph.D. in political science from UBC. As an author and lecturer, he has taught a wide variety of courses in the humanities.
Slater is the author of twenty-three adventure thrillers, including his best-selling Firespill; Sea Gold; Air Glow Red; Storm; Deep Chill; Forbidden Zone; MacArthur Must Die; Showdown; Battle Front; and Manhunt. He is also the author of eleven books in his World War III series. His non-fiction book Orwell: The Road To Airstrip One, a study of George Orwell's social and political thought, has been acclaimed by publications from The Times Literary Supplement to the Washington Post. The latter wrote, "It is doubtful that any book provides a better foundation for a complete understanding of Orwell's unique and troubling vision." However, ABC Book World states, "In Slater's revised version, his new preface contains a true story that Slater was part of and which is at once so moving about the power of one good, brave man and the power of literature to change events that it alone is worth the price of the book."
Slater also served as editor of the UBC academic quarterly Pacific Affairs from 1988 to 2002; has written book reviews for major North American newspapers; worked as a film critic; and written radio dramas and short stories for the CBC. He also wrote the screenplay for the National Film Board's animated film, Flash Point, based on his novel Firespill.

Ellis H. Morrow served as the first head of UBC's Department of Commerce until his retirement in 1950.

Gordon Smith was born in Brighton, England, in 1919. He began painting at a very young age under the guidance of his father and had formal training at the Winnipeg School of Art before going overseas to serve in World War II. He came to Vancouver in 1944 and spent a year studying at the Vancouver School of Art with Jack Shadbolt, Bruno Bobak and B.C. Binning. From 1946 to 1956, he taught at the School of Art, then joined the Faculty of Education at U.B.C. He remained until his retirement in 1982. From 1976 to 1981, he was an art advisor with the National Capital Commission and has held numerous short-term positions as visiting artist at universities across Canada. In addition, his work has been exhibited in galleries across Canada and the United States.

Ronald Dore was first appointed as Associate Professor of Asian Studies in 1956-57, and the same year twelve students enrolled in the Asian Studies courses. By 1959, other members of the Department included J. Ross Mackay, Wayne C. Suttles, Frederick H. Soward, and Ping-Ti Ho. The Department was officially established in 1961, and William L. Holland became the first Head of the Department. Ch'u T'ung-Tsu was appointed to teach Chinese history, and Liu Chun-Jo was appointed to Chinese Literature in 1962-63. In 1967-68 Leon Zolbrod was hired to teach Japanese literature. Edwin G. Pulleyblank became head of the Department in 1968; Peter Harnetty, 1975; Ashok Aklujkar, 1979; Daniel Overmeyer, 1986-87; Michael S. Duke, 1991; Ken Bryant, 1996; Joshua Mostow, 1999; Peter Nosco, 2003, Ross King, 2008 and Sharalyn Orbaugh appointed head in 2020.

John Forman Howes was born in Chicago, Illinois, on June 19, 1924. He completed undergraduate courses at Kalamazoo College (1942-1943), Western Michigan State University (1943-1944), U. S. Naval School of Oriental Studies in Boulder, Colorado (1944-1946) and Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts (AB) in history in 1950. From 1950-1961, he attended Columbia University, where he received a Master's in 1953 and a Ph.D. in 1965. While working on his graduate degrees, Howes also took courses at Tokyo University (1953-1956) and Kyoto University (1959-1960). In 1961, Howes joined UBC as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian Studies. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1966 and then rose to Professor in 1986. Howes taught a number of courses on Japan in the Asian Studies department: Asian Studies 105, 330, 400, 422 and 423. His main areas of research and scholarly interests focused on modern Japanese history, Japanese pacifism before World War II, life and works of Uchimura Kanzo and Nitobe Inazo, and Japanese cultural history from 1890 to 1945. He wrote and published numerous articles, reports and books in both English and Japanese on a wide variety of Japanese-related topics and actively attended and participated in a variety of conferences and seminars promoting Asian Studies. In addition to his scholarly work, Howes was also involved in the extensive planning and fundraising for the creation of the Asian Centre at UBC.

Juda Quastel is remembered for his crucial scientific research contributions in cancer, soil metabolism, cell metabolism, and neurochemistry. Born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, in 1899, Quastel began his successful career in the life sciences as a lab assistant at the St. Georges Hospital for the British Army from 1917-1919. Quastel studied chemistry at Imperial College London and pursued graduate work at Cambridge University. He received a Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1924, followed by a doctorate of science in 1926; additionally, by 1930, Quastel became the Director of Research at Cardiff City Mental Hospital and began to research the metabolism and enzymology of the brain. In 1941 the Agricultural Research Council contacted Quastel to research crop yields because of the deficiencies of food supplies. In 1947, Quastel became Assistant Director of McGill University-Montreal General Hospital Research Institute and professor and then the institute's director in 1948 while supervising 70 Ph.D. candidates. Quastel, although retired, came to UBC in 1966 to become a professor in neurochemistry in the Department of Psychiatry. Over his career, significant honours for Quastel included earning an honorary doctorate of science from McGill University in 1969, receiving the Companionship of the Order of Canada and an honorary doctorate at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1970, as well as becoming an honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1983. Quastel was widowed by his first wife, Henrietta Quastel, in 1973, and he passed away in 1987, leaving behind a second wife, Susan Ricardo, three children Michael, David, Barbara and eleven grandchildren.

John Gordon Spaulding earned a B.A. at Pomona College, California, and a Ph.D. from California, Berkeley. After teaching at Stockton Junior College in California, he joined the UBC Department of English in 1946, where he remained on faculty until his retirement in 1972. His areas of scholarly interest included the history of literary criticism, Romantic poetry and prose, semantics, and the relationships between literary criticism and philosophy, science, and psychology.
While researching at the British Museum in 1961, Spaulding used The Preacher's Assistant, a catalogue of sermons presented and published in Great Britain, Ireland, and the American colonies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, compiled by the Rev. John Cooke and published in 1783. Spaulding saw the possibility of gaining new insights into the political, social, and literary history of the period covered by the catalogue by correlating the entries in the first volume (the sermons) with the entries in the second volume (the authors), using then-new computer technology. By 1966 he had both volumes encoded on punch cards and then spent the next 25 years correlating the two sets of records. An early print-out version was deposited at the Huntington Library in California in 1988. In six volumes, the final version was published in 1996, shortly after Spaulding's death, as Pulpit Publications 1660-1782. As he wrote in the preface:
"By translating the data from Cooke's two volumes into six volumes, it lays out the data in ways that make them accessible for purposes that Cooke did not have in mind. His catalogue of sermons is herein transformed from an Assistant to Preachers into an Assistant for Historians who wish to search out the vital relations between religion and literature, philosophy, science and politics in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries or, more generally, are making bibliographical, philological and economic studies concerning the period. The usefulness of the sermon catalogue in historical studies is enhanced by the fact that the data within the catalogue come close to being exhaustive in regard to certain aspects of the period and, in the form presented within the present edition, make some novel statistical studies quite possible."

Harry Keith Ralston was born in Victoria, B.C., on 3 September 1921. Graduating from Victoria High School in 1938, he earned the Royal Institution Scholarship for Victoria District. He then attended Victoria College and the University of British Columbia, receiving his BA in 1942 with First Class Honours in History. Ralston entered the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve in 1942 – beginning as an Ordinary Seaman; he worked his way up the ranks to Lieutenant and served on the Atlantic Coast before being discharged in 1945. He was the legislative correspondent for the left-wing weekly Pacific Tribune from 1952 to 1955 and wrote for The Fisherman and other labour periodicals – he was a life-long supporter of socialist and labour causes. Turning to teach, Ralston entered the Vancouver Normal School, graduating in 1956 "with distinction," in the top ten among 500 graduates. He taught at Templeton High School in East Vancouver from 1956 to 1960. In 1960 he was hired as the first curator of the Vancouver Maritime Museum, where he assembled its original collections and mounted the first exhibits. Returning to UBC, he completed his MA in History in 1965; his dissertation was entitled The 1900 strike of Fraser River sockeye salmon fishermen. He joined the UBC Department of History in 1967. His teaching focus was on the history of British Columbia and the Canadian West. Ralston retired in 1986 with the rank of Assistant Professor, although he continued to write and conduct research. He published articles on BC and labour history in BC Studies and The Beaver, and several articles for the Dictionary of Canadian Biography. He died on 20 June 2009.

John MacKenzie Norris was born on March 3, 1925, in Kelowna, BC, to Jean Mary Norris Denovan and Thomas Grantham Norris. At his birth, his father, T.G. Norris, was practicing as a lawyer in Kelowna and subsequently served as a judge on both the British Columbia Supreme Court and the British Columbia Court of Appeal. John Norris had an older sister and a younger brother, attended elementary schools in Kelowna and Vancouver, and graduated from Lord Byng Secondary School in Vancouver. He enlisted with the Royal Navy in 1943 and, after returning, attended UBC from 1946-1949, where he obtained both a Bachelor of Arts Degree (1948) and a Master of Arts Degree (1949). At UBC, he met Barbara Violet Casey, whom he married in 1947. They had one son, Thomas Norris. John Norris pursued additional graduate work at Northwestern University, obtaining his Ph.D. in 1955 and post-graduate studies at the London School of Economics.
In 1953, John Norris began teaching as an instructor within the Department of History at the University of British Columbia and in 1964 became a Professor of the Department of History. He published five books and numerous articles in the areas of administrative, economic and demographic history. During the 1970s, he began to change his academic focus towards the history of medicine. Over the next few decades, he specialized in studying the history of various diseases, including plague, cholera, and scurvy.
In 1980, John Norris was appointed Professor and Director of the Division of the History of Medicine and Science at UBC. He continued to serve in this role until his retirement early in 1990, when he was extended the title of Professor Emeritus in the History of Medicine. He continued to teach on a part-time basis until at least 2004.
Norris served on many boards and committees, including acting as the Chair of the Osler Medal Committee of the American Association for the History of Medicine (1978-1979); as Chair of the Programme Committee of the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine (1983); and as the Chair of the Grants Committee of the Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine (1980). At UBC, he served in such capacities as Chairman, University Curriculum Committee, UBC (1968-1974); as a Member of the University Senate (1964-1974); and as Chairman of the University Grievance Committee (1968-1969). In addition, he held an American Council of Learned Societies Graduate Fellowship, 1951-3; a Nuffield Commonwealth Fellowship, 1961-1962. A Canada Council Senior Fellowship, 1967-1968; and a Killam Senior Research Scholarship, from 1975-1976.
John Norris was an active member in politics, first in the CCF and subsequently of the NDP. In 1963, he unsuccessfully ran to be NDP representative for Vancouver Centre during the British Columbia Provincial election. John Norris died on May 2, 2010. At the time of his death, he was working on a history of cholera.

Laurence "Laurie" R. Ricou was born in Brandon, Manitoba, on October 17, 1944, and earned his B.A. at the University of Manitoba in 1965. He moved to the University of Toronto, earning his MA in 1957 and Ph.D. in 1971. Ricou then went to the University of Lethbridge, where he taught English for eight years, beginning in 1970. While at Lethbridge, he became a specialist in Canadian Prairie regionalism and prairie writing. In 1978 he moved to Vancouver and joined UBC's Department of English. Ricou has written or co-authored several books, including The Arbutus/Madrone Files: Reading the Pacific Northwest (2002), A Field Guide to Dungeness Spit (1997), Everyday Magic: Child Languages in Canadian Literature (1991), and Vertical Man/Horizontal World: Man and Landscape in Canadian Prairie Fiction (1973). He has also contributed numerous journal articles, conference papers and chapters for books.

Leon M. Zolbrod was a pioneer scholar of traditional Japanese literature who first came into contact with Japan during his service with the American military in 1948 and later taught English there. Zolbrod earned his MA and Ph.D. degrees in Japanese literature from Columbia. He taught at the University of Indiana and then Kansas before moving to the University of British Columbia in 1967, where he taught Japanese language and literature for twenty-three years. Much of Zolbrod's research and publication activities focussed on making the literature of Edo Japan more accessible to Western audiences. His first book was Takizawa Bakin (1967), and he later edited and translated Ugetsu Monogatari (1975). In addition, Zolbrod completed a significant study tentatively entitled Reluctant Genius: The Life and Work of Buson, a Japanese Master of Haiku and Painting, not published. Leon Zolbrod passed away in Vancouver on April 16, 1991.