Terzaghi went to the Technical University in Graz, Austria, to study mechanical engineering. He graduated with honours in 1904. After WWI, he began a study of the properties of soils in an engineering context, and this was quickly recognized as an important new contribution to the behaviour of soils. He later accepted a job offer from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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When British Columbia joined the Confederation in 1871, it was with the promise of a railway connecting it to the rest of Canada within 10 years. By 1881, however, very little of the railway had been completed. The Canadian Pacific Railway Company was incorporated on February 16, 1881 to take over construction of the transcontinental railroad. They were granted land for railway use as well as other development and were given a new deadline: 1891.

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.

William Tetlow was Director of UBC's Office of Institutional Analysis and Planning.

Harold Thayer was a member of both the CCF and the NDP and was an active member of the International Association of Machinists in Manitoba and B.C. as well as being appointed as an international representative. He served as director of the Canadian Machinists Political League (1967- 1970), president of IAM Lodges 456 (1947-1951) and 692 (1959-1961) and vice-president of the Ontario Federation of Labour in the 1960s. He also participated in various CCF and NDP organizations at the local, provincial and federal levels.

The Corporation, a film released in 2004, is a groundbreaking documentary about the identity, economic, sociological, and environmental impact of corporations' dominance and dubious standing as an institution. Based on the book The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power by Joel Bakan, the film portrays corporations as legal persons and how this status has contributed to their rise in dominance, power, and unprecedented wealth in Western society. The Corporation exposes corporations' exploitation of democracy, the planet, and individuals' health through case studies, anecdotes, and interviews. In addition, the documentary includes 40 interviews of CEOs, critics, whistleblowers, corporate spies, economists, and historians to illuminate corporations' actual character further. The Corporation was co-created by Vancouver-based Mark Achbar and associate producer and writer Joel Bakan. The film, coordinated by Achbar and Jennifer Abbott and edited by Abbott, has received 26 international awards and was awarded the winner of the 2004 Sundance Audience Award and Best Documentary at the 2005 Genie Awards.

The Pilgrimage, or later the Great Trek, was a mass student protest. This protest was due to overcrowded lecture halls and inadequate facilities that characterized UBC's early years at Fairview. Professors held agricultural classes in private residences, French courses in the basement of a church, and chemistry classes in a tent erected on the Fairview site. Unfortunately, the inadequate Fairview facilities would serve as home to the University for almost its entire first decade. As the number of students attending UBC grew, student frustration with government inaction also grew.

Planning for the student campaign began in early1922 under the leadership of returned war veteran and AMS president-elect Albert Richards. As a first step in what would become a massive and well-organized "Build the University Campaign," students were asked to take petitions back to their hometowns in the summer and collect signatures petitioning the government to resume construction of the Point Grey campus.

In October 1922, Varsity Week activities culminated in the "Pilgrimage" (the term "Great Trek" would be coined some 25 years later) on Saturday, October 28. Nearly 1,200 students with banners and placards, floats, and a marching band made their way through downtown Vancouver and onto the unfinished campus at Point Grey. After travelling to the campus, the marchers gathered beside the eight-year-old concrete and steel framework of the Science building and then climbed into the unfinished structure. That early student "sit-in" and subsequent Trek participants' formation of the human "UBC" helped lay symbolic claim to the unfinished Point Grey campus.

The Learned Societies conference was established in 1930 and evolved from the older Royal Society's yearly meetings to Canada's largest gathering of academics and professionals working in the social sciences and humanities. The conference is held at a different university every spring; the conference attracts multiple academic societies and universities.

Produced and directed by Peter Davis and Harvey McKinnon, The Nature of David Suzuki is a documentary created for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's biographical series, Life and Times. The first broadcast was in January 1998. This short film (44 minutes) is a biographical treatment of environmentalist David Suzuki that highlights significant events in his life, particularly his childhood years in a Japanese-Canadian internment camp. Suzuki reflects on his life and work, and the film includes appearances of family members, school friends, colleagues, and adversaries about his environmental work. In addition, the film contains interviews interspersed with still photographs and footage of Suzuki driving through childhood neighbourhoods and includes Suzuki's self-critical reflection on his life and work.
Peter Davis is a British-Canadian documentary film director with more than thirty titles to his credit, several of his films deal with African nations during the liberation and independence years, including South Africa: The White Laagger, Remember Nelson Mandela!, Winnie Mandela: The Apartheid Years and Side by Side: Women against AIDS in Zimbabwe. In addition, he directed the 1967 short film Anatomy of Violence, which reports on a London (UK) symposium on Liberation and Violence and includes American left-wing activists Paul Goodman, Stokely Carmichael, Malcolm X and Herbert Marcuse.
Harvey McKinnon is an inspirational speaker and trainer and has raised significant funds for various non-profit organizations. He has worked as a radio columnist for CBC Radio and has been published in numerous Canadian newspapers. In addition, McKinnon has produced or written several award-winning documentaries, including Side by Side: Women Against Aids, At Home in the Universe: The Life and Times of William Shatner, and The Black Sea in Crisis.

The Paper Trail to the 1923 Chinese Exclusion Act was conceived in 2020 by community curator and exhibition designer, Catherine B. Clement, to commemorate one hundred years of the passing of Canada’s Chinese Exclusion Act. The community-based project has two components: first, a national, year-long exhibition opening July 1st, 2023 in Vancouver’s Chinatown; secondly, a community archive of the Chinese Immigration (C.I.) certificates issued to implement the Chinese Immigration Act (1885-1947), within which the 1923 Exclusion Act was a significant amendment and dark turn.

Project values include paying tribute to those who lived through this period, preserving documentary evidence and oral history, educating new generations, and public telling of this collective story. The project prioritized community participation through the “crowdsourcing” of family histories and archival documents from across every province.

The methodology of community collection was adapted by Clement from her previous ten-year research project, Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow, that was coming to a close. Many families who had contributed photos from their private family collections also had Chinese Immigration certificates in their custody. Original C.I. certificates were identified, borrowed, digitized, and returned to families, while helping members interpret the records. Family history was also collected as important context to understanding the records and remembering certificate subjects.

In 2020, the project team expanded its capacity for identifying and digitizing certificates through a volunteer scanning network with locations established in Victoria, Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Halifax, and St. John’s. In 2021, the team worked with Library and Archives Canada to have previously restricted Chinese Immigration records opened and made accessible, namely, C.I.44 forms related to the registration of all Chinese in Canada required by Section 18 of the Exclusion Act.

In 2022, the project pursued collection of oral history interviews and digital content creation in complement to concept development, design and outreach of the exhibition. The project will launch on Canada Day, July 1st, 2023 as an exhibition at the Chinese Canadian Museum of British Columbia based in Vancouver’s Chinatown.

UBC's student newspaper was first issued under the title Anon, then Anonymous, before becoming the Ubicee in 1916. In 1918, the newspaper officially became The Ubyssey and its first issue was published in October of that year. Editors and contributors over the years have included Deb Hope, Pat Carney, Pierre Berton, Eric Nicol, Joe Schlesinger, Allan Fotheringham, Michael Valpy, Stephen Scobie, Bruce Arthur, and Earle Birney. Other notable alumni include cartoonist Katherine Collins, photographer Jeff Wall and prime minister John Turner.

The Thea Koerner House Graduate Student Centre was donated to UBC by Leon J. Koerner in memory of his wife in 1961. The building received the Massey Gold Medal in 1961 for its architectural design. Incorporated under the Societies Act of B.C., the Centre is administered by a manager and a Board of Directors. The Board is composed of elected members and members appointed by the President of the University and by the Graduate Students' Association. The organization is intended to promote and serve the social, intellectual, cultural, and recreational activities of UBC graduate students.

Thom Shee was the third wife of YIPP Ah Wing. Amongst the family's legends, there were whispers that her husband may have helped run a brothel in Victoria, B.C. and may have already had two wives. However, there is no way to verify either story.

Thom Shee was born in [開平 Hoiping / Kaiping], China around 1862. She arrived in Canada in January 1898, at age 36. She was already married to Yip Wing. Making the journey with Thom Shee was an eight-year-old girl named Miss Kum Lin (also known as Gwoo Ma) who was identified as a “servant girl” to the family.

Thom Shee settled in Victoria with her husband. The next year (1899) she gave birth to Chack (Jack) Nam Yipp. Jack would be her only child; he suffered from a range of health issues.

Thom Shee would not live in Canada very long. By 1917, she had passed away although the cause of her death is no longer known.