Organized by the University of British Columbia President N.A.M. MacKenzie and Gordon Shrum in 1945 to provide housing for returning veterans interested in continuing their education, Acadia Camp became the first residential unit on campus. Army huts assembled on the university grounds helped alleviate serious accommodation shortages following World War II. The Acadia Camp Householders' Association was formed shortly after 1945 to address the collective interests of the residents.

The Alcuin Society is a non-profit organization devoted to the art of the book and fine book publishing. The society‟s aims are to further the interests of book collecting and promote the interest of fine books and reading. To achieve this end, the society is involved in the production of limited edition books, memorabilia and a society periodical, the Amphora. The society was established in 1965 in Vancouver in response to the initiative of one of the original society members, Geoff Spencer. Since its creation, the Alcuin Society has continued as a limited editions venture while actively promoting other book related interests including “authorship, book design and production, bookselling, book buying and collecting, printing, binding, papermaking, calligraphy and illustration.” (Alcuin Society Website)
The Alcuin Society is actively engaged in a wide variety of cultural activities, including book design competitions, educational events, awards and prizes. The Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada and the Antiquarian Book Roadshow are the most prominent of these activities.
The Alcuin Society is a volunteer association, with members throughout Canada and the world. The Alcuin Society is governed by a Board, which is elected annually at the Annual General Meeting.

Algorithmic Language 1968 (ALGOL 68) was an imperative computer programming language developed by computer scientists from around the world. The programming language was highly influential, used by many European defence agencies, and parts of it have been seen in computer languages developed years later. At UBC, John E.L. Peck (known in the ALGOL 68 working group as JELP) took a significant role in creating the language and leading the group as they developed and edited the programming language from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s.

UBC's Alpha Tau Omega fraternity Epsilon Pi chapter traces its origins to a 1940 student organization called theTau Omega Group. The organization broke up during World War II, but in 1946 three original members returned to UBC and revived it. In February 1947, it was officially recognized by the UBC Inter-Fraternity Council as the Tau Omega Fraternity. In November of that year, it was formally installed as the first Canadian chapter of the international Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. Its objective was proclaimed as to give an opportunity of fraternity membership to all students who wished to share in festival life. The chapter was active on campus for many years but ceased operations around 1970.

Local 178 of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union received its original charter from the Journeymen Tailors’ Union in 1876. In 1936, Local 178 became part of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union and formed the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union.

The American Friends of Spanish Democracy (originally called Friends of Spanish Democracy) was founded in New York City in 1936 by a group of clergymen and intellectuals under the leadership of Roger Baldwin, a member of the executive committee, and Bishop Robert L. Paddock, the chairman. John Dewey was named vice-chairman but his role appears to have been largely honorific. The objective of the organization was to arouse support for the Loyalist government during the Spanish Civil War. By organizing public appeals, petitions and letters of protest and by disseminating information on the situation in Spain, it hoped to counteract the effects of fascist propaganda and bring pressure on the U.S. President and Congress to end the arms embargo against Spain. It also raised funds for medical aid and refugee relief which were distributed by the North American Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy. By decision of its executive committee the organization was dissolved in 1939.

The Anglican Theological College (A.T.C.) of British Columbia, located in Vancouver, was registered with the Provincial Department of Education. The Board of Governors met for the first time in 1912. Its main function was administering provincial Anglican theological education until 1920 when the separate teaching colleges, Latimer Hall and St. Mark's Hall, became a unified body of faculty and students in "The Anglican Theological College of British Columbia." The College erected a building and moved into its final location on the University of British Columbia campus in 1927. It continued to operate until 1971 when it merged with Union College to become the Vancouver School of Theology.

In 1889, Henry Ogle Bell-Irving acquired options on nine operating fish canneries: seven on the Fraser River and two on the Skeena River. On 14 april 1891, Bell-Irving purchased a Prospectus for $330,000. Later that year on the 22 December, the Anglo-British Columbia Packing company was incorporated in Middlesex, England. Bell-Irving's firm, then named Bell-Irving and Patterson, was appointed first Managing and Selling Agents. They maintained a head-office for the company in Vancouver, and titular head-office in London, England.

In 1894, the Anglo-British Columbia Packing Company began expansion of their operations by constructing the Good Hope Cannery on Rivers Inelt. In 1895, H.O. Bell-Irving and Company assumed sole Managing and Selling Agent responsibilities. Also in that year, the Anglo-British Columbia Packing Company established the Fidalgo Island Packing Company, which remained a subsidiary until 1964, when it was sold.

In 1931, after the death of H.O. Bell-Irving, the management of the Anglo-British Columbia Packing Company was assumed by Bell-Irving's son Richard and Peter Traill, both former directors. In 1966, the company expanded its operations to Caraquet, New Brunswick, where it built a herring reduction plant. The Anglo-British Columbia Packing Company sold the salmon cannery business in1969,yet continued to operate the herring reduction plant until 1974, when the company folded completely.

For further information see also:
Lyons, Cicely. Salmon, Our Heritage: The Story of a Province. And an Industry. Vancouver: Mitchell Press, 1969; and

Newell, Dianne, ed. The Development of the Pacific Salmon-Canning Industry: A Grown Man's Game. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1989.

The Anti-Apartheid Network (AAN) ran from 1985 to 1990 as an umbrella organization for British Columbian organizations addressing issues in Southern Africa to coordinate anti-apartheid action. Apartheid in South Africa and South West Africa (the latter now Namibia) was an institutionalized system of racial segregation imposed from 1948 to 1990s by a minority white population to execute political, social, and economic domination over the majority non-white population. It created a racial hierarchy which determined one’s access to public facilities, events, housing, and employment opportunities. The ruling National Party’s violent enforcement of apartheid caused thousands of deaths and detentions, as well as over three million forced evictions. Significant internal resistance from political movements African National Congress (ANC) and Pan African Congress (PAC), alongside extensive international condemnation and sanctions, eventually led to negotiations abolishing apartheid.

According to its by-laws, AAN’s purposes included: working for an end to the apartheid system in South Africa; supporting sanctions against South Africa, including the severing of diplomatic relations between Canada and South Africa; supporting the peoples of Southern Africa in their struggles against apartheid and racial oppression; organizing non-partisan activities to support the aforementioned purposes; and providing a communication network for anti-apartheid activities in B.C.

According to AAN’s by-laws, its member organizations fell into the following categories: unions, including union federations, individual unions, and union locals; religious organizations, including provincial “umbrella groups,” social concerns organizations within churches, and individual churches; officially registered international development NGO’s; and community organizations, such as registered political parties, women’s organizations, student groups registered with their university, professional organizations, ethnic and cultural groups, and solidarity groups. Member organizations included the International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa, B.C. (IDAFSA), the International Development Education Resources Association (IDERA), the New Democratic Party Vancouver Point Grey and Vancouver South Constituencies, and OXFAM, among others. Individuals could also become members if they had a valid reason for not representing an organization and agreed to attend regular meetings.

AAN was run by a committee known first as the Steering Committee, then as the Executive Committee. This committee consisted of the following seven offices elected at annual meetings: Chairperson, Co-Chairperson, Treasurer, Secretary, Communications Director, Membership Secretary, and one to three Members-At-Large. The committee was authorized to act on behalf of AAN membership between meetings, with all decisions subject to review at regular meetings held once a month.

AAN’s central focuses included educational activities and workshops, as well as campaigns and actions aimed at keeping the anti-apartheid movement in the public eye. It curated and promoted materials for K-12 educators, coordinated and participated in various conferences and workshops aimed at anti-apartheid activists and teachers, and organized several boycotts and protest campaigns. The AAN’s anti-apartheid actions usually addressed South Africa, but some also targeted other Southern African countries including Mozambique and Namibia.

The Archaeological Society of B.C. developed out of an archaeology course offered by the Extension Department at the University of British Columbia in 1966. The Society has offered regular lectures by authorities in archaeology, carried out field trips to places of interest to members and it arranges "digs" for members. The Society undertakes surveys and records sites, and also draws the attention of the proper authorities to cases where sites have been, or are about to be, destroyed through road construction, damming, subdivision development or by vandalism.

The Archives Collective serves as an umbrella organization for the collection of material relating to the gay community.

The intention of the Archives Collective was to acquire knowledge of the heritage of gay people, and in so doing develop “that sense of pride and security which is so vital to the building of self-confidence.” Run by a BC based group of librarians and archivists, such as Archives Collective founder James Thomas, Ron Dutton, and Rob Joyce, the Archive was founded in 1976 to collect and preserve materials by and about gay groups and individuals in the Pacific Northwest. Many of these items were immediately transferred to other organizations which were better suited for the long-term preservation of the materials. The Archives Collective “placed several thousand items in some twenty archival collections, but mainly in the Canadian Gay Archives… and in UBC Special Library Collections.” After the group disbanded in the late 1980’s, Ron Dutton continued his practice of collecting materials related to gay and lesbian life in BC, and in 2018 his collection was donated to the Vancouver Archives as the BC Gay and Lesbian Archive.

Established in 1971 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Scriveners Pulp Press Limited was one of several ventures in alternative arts and literature of the early 1970s. In addition to fiction, poetry and drama titles, Scriveners' issued a twice-monthly literary magazine, Three-Cent Pulp, from 1972 to 1978. In 1981 Scriveners' initiated a subscription library service, the Arsenal Collaborative Library, to serve as a central distribution point for readers, writers and publishers. Following the sale of its typesetting and printing operations in 1982, the company changed its name to Arsenal Pulp Press. Although still a literary press, Arsenal gradually began to publish literary non-fiction titles, and it continued to maintain a tradition of commitment to publications about British Columbia. In the fall of 2001, Arsenal Pulp Press celebrated its 30th anniversary.
The management and editorial team during its first decade of operation included Stephen Osborne, William Gregory Enright, D.M. Fraser, Jon Furberg, and Charles Tidler. In 1982, following the sale of its typesetting and printing operations, Pulp changed its name to Arsenal Pulp Press. In 1988 Brian Lam joined Arsenal following a co-op placement at the Press while studying creative writing at the University of Victoria. Lam became president in 1992 and co-owner with Stephen Osborne, one of the original owners and now editor of the literary magazine Geist.

The Asia Pacific Business Institute (APBI), formerly the Centre for Asia Pacific Business Studies (CAPBS), was founded in 1985 and administered jointly between UBC, SFU and UVIC with funding from the Federal Government. The organization's purpose was to coordinate, develop, and disseminate information to enable Canadian business people to deal effectively with the Asia-Pacific region's diverse business practices and cultures. In 1986 it was decided to close the CAPBS and reestablish it as a non-profit Society that would administer its finances. Thus, the CAPBS became the Asia Pacific Business Institute with Joe Weiler as its executive director. The APBI dissolved in 1990.