Isabel Bescoby was active in several student organizations. She graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1932 with Honours in History. She received an M.A. in history three years later after completing a thesis on the social aspects of American mining advance in the Cariboo and Kootenay regions in the 1870s. After graduation, she joined the B.C. Department of Education as Director of the Elementary Correspondence School. In 1937, Bescoby became principal of the Provincial Model School in Victoria until World War II. After that, she joined the Unemployment Insurance Commission and National Employment Services. In 1950, she moved to Vancouver and became a regional supervisor of staff training before moving on to Ottawa as chief of the Civil Service Commission's training division. Bescoby remained active in adult education as a lecturer and as a panellist at conferences throughout Canada and the United States throughout her career.

Lois Bewley was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, in 1927 and completed her undergraduate degree at the University of British Columbia in 1947. She then went on to study library science, graduating from the University of Toronto with a BLS (1949) and later from the University of Illinois with an MSLS (1966). After working as a librarian and lecturing in the field, Bewley joined the School of Librarianship at UBC in 1969. She worked extensively in various professional associations, including the British Columbia Library Association and the Canadian Library Association. She was involved on numerous committees and panels in British Columbia and the Greater Vancouver Regional District. Interested in legislation affecting the financing and structure of public libraries in general, Bewley was active in the 1970s in the Library Development Commission, which sought to restructure public libraries in British Columbia.

Paul Axel Boving was born in 1874 in Denmark. He studied at the Alnarp Agriculture Institute in Sweden, and in 1916 he joined the newly formed U.B.C. Department of Agronomy as an assistant professor. He taught Agronomy 1 and 2, as well as several extra sessional courses to returning soldiers. His primary areas of interest were the study of weeds, turnips, seed production, cultural methods and fertilizers. During 1925 and 1926, Boving was absent on sick leave, during which G.G. Moe was acting head of the department. Boving resigned in 1930 due to ill health but remained in the department until his retirement in 1939. Shortly after his retirement, Boving was awarded an honorary doctorate. He died in 1947.

Born in Calgary in 1913, George Philip Vernon Akrigg received a B.A. (1937) and M.A. (1940) from the University of British Columbia and his Ph.D. from the University of California (1944). He began his UBC teaching career in the Deptartment of English in 1941. The author of many scholarly articles and books, Akrigg continued his research in British Columbia history after his retirement in 1978. He died in 2001.

Helen Manning was born in Prince Rupert in 1921, grew up in Victoria and attended UBC in Vancouver for her third and fourth years. She earned a BA in 1943. At UBC, she met and married Philip Akrigg [1913-2001], who taught in the English Department. Akrigg wrote her Master's Thesis on the History and Economic Development of the Shuswap Area in 1964. The couple had three children, Marian, Daphne and Mark. They owned a lakeshore lot on Shuswap Lake at Celista and spent summers there.

The Akriggs co-authored 1001 British Columbia Place Names and two volumes of British Columbia Chronicle.

Theodore Harding Boggs (1882-1969) became the University of British Columbia's first economics professor and head of the Department of Economics, Sociology and Political Science from 1916 to 1930. He was born in southern India, where his parents served as missionaries. He was educated at Yale (M.A. 1906) and Acadia (Ph.D. 1908) before his UBC appointment. He moved to Stanford University in 1930 and remained there until his retirement in 1947. As a Faculty member, he is recognized as one of the pioneers who helped build the University of British Columbia.

The University of British Columbia Professor Vladimir Joseph Krajina 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.

Ronald "Ron" James Baker was the first faculty member hired by President Patrick McTaggart-Cowan for the new Simon Fraser University (SFU) in 1964. Baker served as the University's Director of Academic Planning and as the first head of the English Department. He remained at SFU until 1969 when he was appointed the first president of the new University of Prince Edward Island.

Baker was born in London, England, on August 24, 1924, to James "Jim" Herbert Walter and Ethel Frances Baker (née Miller). He served with the Royal Air Force (1943-1947), during which he trained in Manitoba. After the war, in 1947, he immigrated to Canada.

He married Helen "Jo" Gillespie Elder [ca. 1947]; they would have five children (Sharon Ann, Lynn Frances, Ian James, Sarah Jane, and Katherine Jean). In 1975, he married Frances Marilyn Frazer (1932-2010), with whom he had one son, Ralph Edward "Ted."

Baker graduated from the University of British Columbia (UBC) with a Bachelor of Arts in 1951 and a Master of Arts in 1953, both in English. He went on to do graduate work in the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London (1954-1956). Baker had lectured in English during his undergraduate degree at UBC and returned to the University to become an associate professor in 1962. While at UBC, Baker was involved in the production of John B. Macdonald's report, Higher Education in British Columbia and a Plan for the Future (1962), which led directly to the development of a second university (SFU) in the Lower Mainland.

In 1964, Baker became the first faculty member of President Patrick McTaggart-Cowan for the newly created SFU. Baker served as University's Director of Academic Planning and as the first head of the English Department. He remained at SFU until 1969 when he was appointed the first president of the new University of Prince Edward Island (1969-1978). He continued to teach there as a professor until 1991, when he retired.

He served on numerous councils and committees throughout his career, including the Canadian Association of University Teachers (1954-1969), the Royal Society of Arts (Fellow, 1971-1990), the Royal Commonwealth Society (1964-1966), the National Defence Strategic Studies Committee (Chairman, 1986-1998), the Canadian Executive Service Organization (CESO) (Volunteer Advisor to First Nations Groups, 1988-2004), and the Canadian Citizen Court (Presiding Officer, 1996-2004).

Baker was made an Officer of the Order of Canada (1978) and received numerous awards and honours, including the Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal (1977), a Canada 125th Medal (1992), and Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal (2002). He also received honorary law degrees from the University of New Brunswick (1970), Mount Allison University (1977), University of Prince Edward Island (1989), and Simon Fraser University (1990).

Helen Hubbard Wolfe Sonthoff was born in Rochester, New York, on September 11, 1916. She was educated at Smith College (AB 1937) and Radcliffe College. She taught for some years in Massachusetts and Washington, DC before coming to the University of British Columbia in 1958 as a Teaching Assistant. Sonthoff, a teacher and scholar of Canadian Literature back when Canadian literature was still struggling to establish itself as a field worthy of study, gained a tenured appointment as an Assistant Professor of English at UBC in 1968. Her writing was on the fiction and poetry of such contemporary figures as Phyllis Webb, Milton Acorn, Eli Mandel and Leonard Cohen. She promoted their work on the CBC as a reader and critic from time to time. Sonthoff served on numerous departmental and faculty committees, and in 1972 she was elected to a three-year term on the University Senate as a representative of the Faculty of Arts. As a fledgling Women's Action Group member, she contributed to the first Report on the Status of Women at UBC in 1973. Sonthoff was also an early supporter of education for Indigenous peoples at the post-secondary level and worked with colleagues in Arts and Education to give exceptional help to Indigenous students. In 1976, Sonthoff and her long-time partner, writer Jane Rule, moved permanently to Galiano Island after retiring from the English Department. Sonthoff passed away in Victoria, B.C., on January 3, 2000.

Henry Mervyn Howard was born in Lynden, Ontario and received his early education in the Hamilton-Burlington area. He attended the University of Toronto, graduating in 1940 with a B.A.Sc. in Mining Engineering. After graduation, Howard went to work for Eldorado Gold Mines Ltd. After a brief stint at the Port Hope refinery, he became Mill Superintendent at Port Radium on the shore of Great Bear Lake in 1942. In 1946, Howard left Eldorado to become a professor of Mineral Dressing in the Department of Mining and Metallurgy (later Mineral Engineering) at UBC. He taught at the university for twenty-five years until his retirement in 1970.

The Historical Society of the University of British Columbia was established in 1919 to provide a forum for discussion and independent investigation of the historical problems of the day. The original constitution established three classes of members: honourary, associate and ordinary. The Society initially imposed a fourteen-student membership limit, but later this was amended to allow twenty active members. No attempt was made to limit the number of associate members (former members of the Society who graduated). The Society annually awarded a $25 prize for the best essay in Canadian history and the Historical Society Gold Medal (donated by E.W. Keenleyside) to the outstanding graduating student in history at UBC. Each year a banquet was held at which a prominent speaker would address the club, or a paper would be read by one of the members.

Henry Home Kames was a Scottish writer, philosopher and agricultural improver. A founding member of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh.

George Lawson Pickard was born in Cardiff, Wales and earned a Ph.D. in Physics from Oxford University. He joined UBC's Department of Physics and was Director of the UBC Institute of Oceanography from 1958-1978.

John Lewis "Lew" Robinson was born in 1918 in Leamington, Ontario. He completed his BA at the University of Western Ontario in 1940. He went on to study geography, earning an MA from Syracuse University (1942) and a Ph.D. from Clark University (1946). At the request of President Norman Mackenzie, Robinson came to the University of British Columbia to establish a Geography Division within the Department of Geology. He became chair of the division and, in 1958, established a separate Department of Geography. Robinson served as head of the department until 1968. In addition to his contributions as an administrator, Robinson also remained very active as an academic, particularly in the geography of British Columbia and northern Canada. His extensive list includes contributions to critical academic journals and more popular publications such as magazines and encyclopedias. His textbooks, particularly the Geography of Canada, are used in university and secondary schools. Throughout his career, Robinson earned a reputation as an outstanding teacher. He consistently communicated his enthusiasm for geography to graduate and undergraduate students alike and groups within the general public through his lectures and writings. In recognition of these contributions, UBC awarded him a "Master Teacher Award" in 1977. Following his retirement from UBC in 1984, Robinson remained a very active force at the institution. He played a significant role in organizing services for alumni of the Geography Department and establishing the Alumni Associations Professors Emeriti Division, the first organization in Canada. He has also been an avid supporter of UBC sports programs. In recognition of his significant accomplishments, Lew Robinson has received numerous honours and awards. Some of these include the Centennial Medal and the Silver Jubilee Medal from the Government of Canada, the Massey Medal of the Royal Canadian Geographical Service and the Distinguished Teaching Award for Canada of the National Council for Geographic Education. He has also received honorary degrees from the University of Western Ontario (1984) and British Columbia (1994).

James William Pilton was a graduate student in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia from 1948 to 1950. He prepared an MA thesis entitled "Negro Settlement in B.C., 1858-1871".

James Frank Richards was born in Winnipeg, and he earned a BSA (1958) and MSc (1960) at the University of Manitoba. He then went to the University of Minnesota, completing his Ph.D. in 1963. Richards joined the Department of Food Sciences at the University of British Columbia in 1964. Since then, he has participated in numerous administrative activities and published widely in food science. After serving as assistant and Associate Dean, Richards became Dean of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences in 1986, serving in this capacity until 1997.

The Department of Commerce was established in 1917. Earle MacPhee was appointed Head of UBC's School of Commerce in 1950. Later the UBC Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration was established in 1956. It wasn't until 2003 that it was renamed UBC Sauder School of Business.

Born in Winnipeg, Dilworth moved with his family to the Okanagan Valley, where he studied piano. He taught English at UBC from 1934-38 and lectured on music throughout the province. He was a contemporary of Walter Gage, Roy Daniells and Jack Shadbolt. Daniells went on to become Head of the UBC English Department. Dilworth was a tireless promoter of Emily Carr's work.

The UBC Press was established in March 1971 as the incorporated successor to the Publications Centre, which had been the publishing department of the University since 1961. With the change of name, the Press expanded its publishing program. In addition, it broadened its services to the regional, Canadian, and international scholarly communities, frequently providing book production and distribution services to many national and international university presses, cultural institutions, government agencies, and international publishing houses.
The Press has editorial, promotion, and distribution facilities for its books. At the same time, commercial firms, although controlled by the Press, do the design and printing. All books published by the UBC Press are subjected to peer review and must be approved by a committee of faculty members appointed by the University President.
The Press concentrates a significant portion of its book publishing activities in four general areas of Asia and the Pacific, International Law, and Canadian subjects, emphasizing British Columbia. A wide range of academic disciplines in these areas, from the humanities through the sciences, is included. The Press also publishes works of special significance outside these areas when warranted. In addition to books and monographs, several journals and a yearbook are also published in association with the Press. Most notable are the journals Canadian Literature, B.C. Studies, and Pacific Affairs, as together they formed the primary impetus for developing a Publications Centre, turned Press, within the University of British Columbia. These journals retain their "associative" relationship with the UBC Press. More or less concurrently, the Canadian Yearbook of International Law commenced publication under the auspices of the Canadian Branch of the International Law Association, also in association with the UBC Press. Aside from these editorial considerations, the UBC Press has also carried on an active book-publishing program, encouraging faculty members who wish advice on the publishing process to consult the Press.
In the early 1960s, the Executive Director of the UBC Press reported to the Deputy President of the University. The Executive Director also reported to a Faculty Board of 23 members to whom the Director was to submit an Annual Report. While the Board authorized all major policy decisions of the Press, it also facilitated the establishment of a supportive sub-committee whose mandate was to handle routine publishing decisions and any other, less significant, Press affairs. In1998, the UBC Press was granted the official designation of a University Department. As such, both the Press and its Executive Director report directly to the Vice-President, Research. A Publications Committee, as the descendent of the founding "supportive sub-committee," is presently the collective entity responsible for all publishing decisions.
James Banham, Information Officer at the University, acting Executive Director of the Centre during the 1960s, initially oversaw the Publications Centre / UBC Press administration. In 1969, Anthony N. Blicq was appointed Executive Director of the UBC Press. Blicq acted in this capacity until 1983 when Basil Stuart Stubbs was directed to fill the resulting vacancy in an interim capacity. In 1984, James J. Anderson, who served in this executive capacity until 1990, relieved Stubbs. For the following year, Jean Wilson was appointed to the Acting Director until 1991, when R. Peter Milroy received the full executive appointment.

Jean Wilson became friends with Jane Rule through correspondence that began in 1975. Wilson then lived in Toronto, working as an editor at the University of Toronto Press (UTP). However, the following spring, she relocated to Vancouver. It started life as a freelance editor, mainly for UTP and UBC Press and a variety of other publishers and individuals. Soon after she moved, she travelled to Galiano Island to meet Jane Rule and Helen Sonthoff. Early in 1977, with encouragement from them, she moved to Galiano herself. There, she rented various houses for the next 3 1/2 years and became very much part of Jane and Helen's life and that of their many friends and acquaintances. Although she loved life on the island and was closely tied to Jane and Helen, working as a freelance editor came to be much work in itself, so she reluctantly moved back to Toronto, where she lived for four more years before finally deciding that the west coast was the place to be and where she returned in 1984. After another four years in Vancouver as a freelance editor, she joined UBC Press in 1988 as Managing Editor and, 20 years later, in 2008, retired as Senior Editor/Associate Director. Wilson currently lives on Vancouver Island, near Sidney -- freelancing once again.

Ken MacDonald is an award-winning Vancouver art director, set designer, and playwright. After receiving a Bachelor of Education in 1972 from the University of British Columbia, Ken began his career as a set designer. He has designed for all of the major theatre companies in Vancouver, such as Arts Club Theatre, The Vancouver Playhouse, The Vancouver Opera, and for many productions at the Tarragon Theatre, the Canadian Stage in Toronto, the Shaw in Niagara-on-the-Lake, and an opera at the Banff Centre. MacDonald is a frequent collaborator with director Morris Panych and has designed the premieres of the plays 7 Stories, Vigil, Ends of the Earth, Lawrence and Holloman, Earshot, The Girl in the Goldfish Bowl, and other plays written by Panych. Other selected credits include Hysteria, Amadeus and Sweeney Todd (CanStage) and Hamlet, Art and Arsenic and Old Lace (Arts Club in Vancouver). His opera credits include Susannah, The Rake's Progress and The Threepenny Opera at the Vancouver Opera. MacDonald is a recipient of 14 Jessie Richardson Awards, a Gemini, and two Dora Mavor Moore Awards.

Laura Holland was both a nurse and social worker and assumed an active leadership role in both professions at national and provincial levels. She received numerous honours and awards for her contributions. Holland was born in Toronto and, after briefly considering a career in music as a concert pianist, she studied nursing and graduated from the Montreal General Hospital School of Nursing in 1914. She joined the Canadian Army Medical Corp in 1915 and served with distinction in the active theatres of war in France and Greece from 1915-1918. In recognition of her dedicated service, Holland was awarded the Royal Red Cross medal. Following her release from the Army in 1919, she went to Boston and qualified in social work at Simmons College. For the next nine years, Holland worked in Ontario, first as Director of Nursing Services for the Ontario Red Cross and before moving to become Director of Social Work for the Toronto Public Health Department. In 1927 she accepted an invitation to move to British Columbia to reorganize and coordinate the Vancouver Children's Aid Society, responsible for overseeing child welfare throughout the province. With the assistance of Zella Collins and Kay Whitman, Holland converted the institution into a modern child welfare agency, with an emphasis on foster rather than institutional care. Despite enduring criticism, Holland persisted. She reorganized the child welfare system and helped initiate the Infants Act, the Adoption Act, and the Children of Unmarried Parents Act. In the early 1930s, the University of British Columbia began offering courses in social work, and Holland lectured in that program and the public health certificate program in UBC's nursing program. In 1932 she was appointed Deputy Superintendent of Neglected Children for the provincial government and, in 1933, Deputy Superintendent of Child Welfare. In the mid-30s, she helped implement the provincial Welfare Field Service. In 1938, the post of Advisor to the Minister of Health and Welfare on Social Welfare Policy was created. Although Holland retired in 1945, she remained active in various community ventures. In 1950, the University of British Columbia awarded Holland an honorary degree. Her citation in part read, "... whose compassion for the unprotected, made effective by abundant common sense and great executive ability, has been responsible in large measure for our provincial child welfare program and has contributed greatly by thought and action to the increasing efficiency of our national welfare services." Laura Holland died in January 1956 at the age of 72.

Leslie Upton was educated at Oxford University (B.A., 1954) and the University of Minnesota (Ph.D., 1957). From 1957 to 1964, he served as assistant professor of history at St. John's College, Winnipeg. Upton joined the Department of History at the University of British Columbia in 1971. His main areas of study included United Empire Loyalists and the relationship of Amerindians and whites in pre-Confederation Atlantic Canada.

A member of the University of British Columbia's Class of '22, Lester McLennan was selected as the B.C. Rhodes scholar for 1922. He studied chemistry for three years at Balliol College, Oxford, before returning to North America to work with Union Oil of California. McLennan maintained a keen interest in the activities of UBC throughout his lifetime.

George Albert McGuire was born in Mount Forest, Ontario. He was educated as a dentist and practiced until his retirement in 1951. He served as a Conservative MLA for Vancouver from 1907-1916 and served as Minister of Education. Father to Stella Lewis Maguire, who was married to UBC Department of English Professor Hunter Campbell Lewis.

Stella Lewis (née Maguire) was married to Hunter Campbell Lewis (b. 1897). The latter joined the Department of English in 1929 and remained teaching at UBC until 1962.

This organization was composed primarily of social democrats who opposed deportations of Japanese Canadians during World War II.

John Laurence Russell Meredith was known as “Laurence,” “Laurie,” and “Larry.” Before attending UBC, he worked for a lumber camp. This allowed him to interact with the Kwakwaka'wakw ("Kwakiutl") First Nation. He wrote four articles about the nation that the Library of Congress published. The publishing fees allowed him to attend UBC. He graduated in October 1929 with 2nd class honours in English and Latin. While at UBC, he was literary editor of The Ubyssey, president of the Letters Club, winner of the University Prize, English honour student, member of the Players' Club, and the Publications Board. After graduation, he moved to London and became a teacher. He soon joined United Press International. He joined the RAF during WWII.

Ruth Wells Sandwell is a historian specializing in education, rural society, and energy's social history. She is the founding co-director and executive board member of The History Education Network/Histoire et Education en Rseau. Sandwell teaches at the University of Toronto at the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning.

The Pacific Northwest Bibliographic Centre (PNBC) was established in 1940 to be housed at the University of Washington.

George Eulas Foster was a Canadian politician and academic. In 1870 he was appointed Professor of Classics and Ancient Literature at the University of New Brunswick. He served as a Member of Parliament and a Senator in the Canadian Parliament for over 45 years.

William Stevens Fielding was a Canadian Liberal politician and the seventh Premier of Nova Scotia.

Margaret Sage (b. 1919) was born in Vancouver and received her BA from the University of British Columbia in 1941. After obtaining a Diploma of Social Work from UBC in 1943, Sage served as a social worker in Vancouver and the Fraser Valley. In 1945 she became Welfare Manager, Japanese Division, Federal Dept. of Labour at Tashme, B.C. In 1946, Sage returned to UBC, where she specialized in reading therapy. In 1964 she moved to Simon Fraser University as assistant professor of Psychology and director of the Reading and Study Centre. Sage married UBC chemist Douglas Hayward in 1956.

The Department of Nursing was established at UBC in 1919. In 1924, the Departments of Nursing and Public Health were merged to form the Department of Nursing and Health in the Faculty of Applied Science.

Margaret Mary Street (1907-1993) was born in Toronto and received a BA from the University of Manitoba in 1928. In 1936, she graduated from the Royal Victoria Hospital School. In 1942, she earned her Master's degree in Nursing from McGill University. She then taught nursing in Montreal, Winnipeg and Victoria before coming to UBC in 1952 for one year. After eight years as associate director of nursing in Calgary, Street earned an MSc in Nursing Service Administration from Boston University. In 1960, she returned to UBC, where she remained until her retirement in 1972.
As a personal commitment to help mark the golden jubilee of UBC's School of Nursing, Street undertook a project to write a biography of Ethel Johns. Published in 1973, Watch-Fires on the Mountains: The Life and Writings of Ethel Johns recounted the career of Johns (1879-1968), one of Canada's pioneer nurses who influenced the development of the profession and also served as the first director of nursing at UBC.

An extensive ecological study of Marion Lake, B.C., was undertaken by the University of British Columbia Institute of Fisheries between 1963 and 1973. The Institute of Fisheries was later renamed the Institute of Animal Resource Ecology in 1968/69. The purpose of this project was to identify the components of a fresh-water ecosystem. Under the direction of Ian E. Efford of the University of British Columbia's Department of Zoology, the project received funding from the Canadian Committee of the International Biological Program in 1967, becoming a part of a fifty-nation plan of interdisciplinary research on biological productivity and adaptability.

Former University of British Columbia faculty member and Nobel prize winner Michael Smith (1932-2000) was born in Blackpool, England. He attended Arnold School from 1943 to 1950. He received his B.Sc. in 1953 Ph.D. in 1956 from the University of Manchester. Smith completed a post-doctoral fellowship with the B.C. Research Council between 1956 and 1960 under the direction of Gobind Khorana. In 1960, the Khorana group, including Smith, moved to the Institute for Enzyme Research at the University of Wisconsin. Wanting to return to the west coast, Smith accepted a position with the Fisheries Research Board of Canada Laboratory in Vancouver in 1961. From 1966 to 1997, he was a Career Investigator (formerly Medical Research Associate) in the Department of Biochemistry. He also served as Director of the Biotechnology Laboratory at UBC from 1987 to 1996 and Scientific Leader of the National Network of Centres in Excellence in Protein Engineering. In 1994, Smith was named as Peter Wall Distinguished Professor Biotechnology, and in 1998 he became director of the B.C. Cancer Agency Genome Sequence Centre. In 1993, Smith was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering work in developing the technology of "site-directed mutagenesis," a technique that allows gene sequences to be altered in a designated manner. In commenting on the importance of this development, a departmental tribute to Smith observed that: "Site directed mutagenesis allows the reprogramming of genes to investigate the influence of genetic makeup on the characteristics and development of cells. Proteins of medical or industrial importance, such as antibodies and enzymes, can be redesigned to improve their stability and effectiveness. Dr. Smith's contribution to many fields of biology and medicine is therefore enormous." In addition to his Nobel Prize, Smith received numerous other awards and distinctions for his scientific achievements. Some of these included: Boehringer Mannheim Prize of the Canadian Biochemical Society (1981); Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1981); Gold Medal, Science Council of British Columbia (1984); Fellow of the Royal Society, London (1986); Gairdner Foundation International Award (1986); Killam Research Prize, UBC (1986); Award of Excellence, Genetics Society of Canada (1988); G. Malcolm Brown Award, Canadian Federation of Biological Societies (1989); Flavelle Medal, Royal Society of Canada (1992); Principal Award, The Ernest C. Manning Awards Foundation (1994); Companion of the Order of Canada (1994); Induction into Canadian Medical Hall of Fame (1995); Order of British Columbia (1995); B.C. Biotechnology Award for Innovation and Achievement (1999); and Royal Bank Award (1999). He also received twenty-five honorary degrees. Michael Smith died on 4 October 2000.

Albert Milton Moore was born in Lancashire, England. He attended high school in Windsor, Ontario. Upon graduation, Moore attended Queens University. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics with Honors and a minor in philosophy. After joining the Royal Canadian Air Force, Moore spent four years at the RCAF Overseas Headquarters until he was discharged in December 1945. In 1951, Moore earned a Master of Arts in Economics from the University of Chicago. He also completed post-graduate work in theory, international trade, and public finance. He was regarded as a Canadian taxation expert, having served as research director and staff economist for several royal commissions, including one on the gasoline price structure in BC. Before joining the Department of Economics at UBC, Moore was a research associate with the Canadian Tax Foundation and an economist with the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association in Montreal. He became a UBC faculty member in 1959 and later served as department chair for three years. His publications include a book entitled Forestry Tenures and Taxes in Canada and numerous articles and monographs on such subjects as the Carter Royal Commission on Taxation, sales and commodity taxes and taxation for the financing of higher education. In 1984, Moore was honoured as Professor Emeritus of Economics. Moore died in 2007.

The UBC Musical Society (MUSSOC) was one of the first Alma Mater Society student clubs formed at UBC in 1916. Its original aim was to allow students to present concerts on campus. On occasion, it also performed off-campus in Vancouver and Victoria. In 1930, the Society expanded its repertoire to include operettas, beginning with Garden of the Shah and later, including Gilbert and Sullivan productions as The Pirates of Penzance, Iolanthe, and HMS Pinafore. In 1950, the Society began presenting twentieth-century operettas such as The Student Prince and Maid of the Mountains. In 1957, with Call Me Madam, the Society embarked upon a series of Broadway musical comedies, including Damn Yankees and Lʹil Abner. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, work by Rodgers and Hammerstein, including Carousel and Oklahoma, were performed. Apart from the 1980‐81 seasons, the Society performed at least one musical per season when there was no production. The Society came to an end in 1989 after its performance of The Best of MUSSOC: A Celebration! however, it was revived in the late 1990s. The musicals are all put on by volunteer student casts and stage crews. The directors and choreographers are the only paid professionals involved.

Neville Vincent Scarfe, UBC's first Dean of Education, was born in Essex, England, in 1908. He attended the University of London, graduating with first-class honours in geography. After teaching geography until 1935, Scarfe became Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Education at the University of London, where he remained until 1951. Internationally recognized for his research work in the teaching of geography and the principles and philosophy of education, he became Dean of Education at the University of Manitoba in 1951 and remained there for five years. In 1956, Scarfe became the founding Dean of Education at UBC. A consolidation of the Universityʹs School of Education and the Provincial Normal School had given rise to the new Faculty of Education. He continued to guide the faculty until his retirement in 1973. Throughout his career, Scarfe wrote over 100 articles and gave numerous speeches around the world on education. Always an advocate for educational reform, Scarfe was particularly critical of the Chant Report on Education (1961) findings.

Pacific Affairs is an international quarterly journal featuring articles on Asia and the Pacific's current political, economic, social, and diplomatic problems. The Institute of Pacific Relations initially published it from 1928 to 1960. After the Institute disbanded in 1960, IPR secretary‐general William Holland came to the University of British Columbia to head the Department of Asian Studies, bringing many of the IPR's records. As a result, Pacific Affairs was revived in March 1961, published by the University and Holland as editor. Since Holland's retirement in 1978, Pacific Affairs has been edited by Heath B. Chamberlain (1978‐85), R. Stephen Milne (1985‐88), Ian D. Slater (1988‐2002), and Timothy Cheek (2002‐ ).

Otis Johnson Todd was born in Garland, Pennsylvania, in 1883 and died in Vancouver in 1952. He earned a BA from Harvard University in 1906, and after teaching Greek for six years, returned to Harvard, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1914. After three years at Carleton College, Minnesota, Todd moved in 1918 to the fledgling University of British Columbia. After 1922, he was a professor of Greek, after 1932 professor of Classics and from 1941 until his retirement in 1949 head of the Department of Classics. Todd was also keenly interested in sports and served as president of the Dominion of Canada Football Association (1947-1949).

Paperny Films is an internationally recognized, independent, Vancouver-based production company established in 1994.
Following graduation with a Master's Degree from the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School of Communications, David Paperny took a position with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in Toronto in 1983, first as a researcher and then as a producer. In 1989, he moved to Vancouver to produce documentaries for the CBC, which included 1993's The Broadcast Tapes of Dr. Peter, which earned Paperny an Academy Award nomination in 1994. That same year David Paperny along with his wife and fellow Annenberg graduate Audrey Mehler. From an original staff of two, Paperny Films has grown over the years to include a permanent staff of eighteen with an additional 100-200 production staff on contract at any given time. Currently, Paperny Films has seven productions running simultaneously and is considered one of the busiest West coast production companies. In 2006 Paperny's production budget totalled more than $9 million.
Since its inception, Paperny Films has adopted a relatively broad scope of programming. The material includes in-depth profiles of well-known Canadians, including Mordecai Richler, Jimmy Pattison, Nancy Greene, Henry Morgentaler. Productions have included historical documentaries subjects such as the history of British Columbia, the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919, the Holocaust, the Canadian War Experience during World War II and the Korean War and the history of the Canadian airline industry; science documentaries showcasing Canadian medical research; social documentaries on arranged marriages in the Canadian Sikh community and Canadian emigration to the United States; sports documentaries, lifestyle documentaries; the Canadian business establishment and the black market trade in human organs. The reality series in this collection examine the issues of being single in Vancouver and the experience of functioning as a surrogate mother.
Until the creation in 2006 of a documentary intended for theatre release, the market for Paperny productions was exclusively television. Networks that have purchased broadcast rights to Paperny productions include; CBC, CTV, Discovery Health, Global, History Television, the Independent Film Channel, Life Network, LOGO, Slice TV. While many of the productions have a uniquely Canadian subject matter and tell important stories of the Canadian experience, they also have a resonance extending beyond its national borders. As a result, Paperny Films continues to contribute to the growing Vancouver film and television sector.