Dr. Robert A.J. (Bob) McDonald was born on April 5th, 1944, in Brandon, Manitoba. He graduated from the University of Manitoba with a BA and an MA (inaugural winner of the W.L. Morton Gold Medal); he later earned his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia. He was appointed assistant professor of History in 1978. With more than three decades of teaching at Simon Fraser University, the University of Western Ontario, and the University of Victoria and UBC, Bob has educated thousands of undergraduate students in Canadian and British Columbia History. In recognition of his academic commitments, Bob received the Killian Teaching Prize from UBC in 2000. McDonald published a book on Vancouver's early History, Making Vancouver: Class, Status, and Social Boundaries, 1863-1913 (1996), and many academic articles on BC and Canadian History. In addition, he edited the journal BC Studies and served on the boards and committees to raise awareness of the History of his adopted city and province, Vancouver, B.C. McDonald was also the Seagram Chair at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada and the Vancouver Historical Society president. He retired from teaching in 2012 but continued his research, sitting on the UBC History Department almost daily to work on his contribution to the book Party Conscience: The CCF, the NDP, and Social Democracy in Canada (2018), and finally, his long-awaited book on the first 100 years of BC politics. He was in the final stages of finishing that book when he passed from a stroke on June 19th, 2019. He was 75. A scholarship fund has been created at UBC in McDonald's memory.