- Series
- [1933-2015]
Series consists of books about the historical context of St. John’s University and the Johanneans.
Series consists of books about the historical context of St. John’s University and the Johanneans.
The series consists of the development of the code book, printouts of data, and specific contextual information pertinent to the study that was included in a database. This data was used to compute statistical analyses and derive conclusions. It includes the work of studies done by other researchers on related topics. The order of the printouts has been retained as it is believed they were in their original order when reviewed during processing.
This series is dedicated to Sybren’s Lecture and Course Notes from his time as a demonstrator of Civil Engineering at the University of Toronto and his time as an associate professor and professor at the University of British Columbia. For over a decade, Sybren taught Civil Engineering 353 and Civil Engineering 453 at UBC. This series includes mathematical problems that he would give to his students, exam preparation notes, and reading lists.
This series includes correspondence and minutes from various associations in that Sybren participated. The Association of Professional Engineers minutes from 1960-1977 is quite comprehensive. It also includes some papers forwarded to him from colleagues and students, correspondence, and other documents related to professional conferences and other scholarly activities.
Series consists of video recordings made for a documentary on the history of the Fraser Canyon (titled “On The Fraser”), focusing on the First Nations of that region and the building of the Canadian Pacific and Canadian National railways. It was a joint project by the UBC Departments of Geography and Theatre and Film, with graduate students led by Raymond Hall (Theatre and Film) and Cole Harris (Geography). All recordings are in Betacam format.
Series consists of videos documenting Women`s and Gender Studies research, a career panel and a conference.
This small series includes season statistics from 2001, memorandums, and a post-season roster from 2005. In addition, please see the Media and Promotions Series for baseball programs and other publications on UBC baseball statistics.
This series consists of agendas, memorandums, and correspondence mainly on the Millennium Breakfast in the 2000s. Also present are records relating to the Big Block Awards Banquet and UBC Hall of Fame, including programs, newspaper clippings, and other miscellaneous items.
Cross Country Track & Field series
Newspaper clippings make up most of the Cross Country Track and Field Series records. Other documents include a team roster from 2004. Also, please see the Media and Promotions series for programs on track and field at UBC.
The Media and Promotions Series makes up the most extensive portion of the Department of Athletics and Recreation fonds, and sporting publications make up the majority of those records. Included are programs, media guides, championship statistics, fact books, and yearbooks related to the more dominant sports at UBC. News releases can be found in this series, but the most common records are newspaper clippings and sporting publications. Editions of the Alumni magazine Blue & Gold can be found along with miscellaneous items on the UBC Hall of Fame, BC Hall of Fame, and the Big Brock Club.
Records found in this series include newspaper clippings, hand-drawn rugby plans, rugby crests [textiles], press guides, ruby programs, team rosters from 1970-74, and other rugby publications.
The records in the Soccer Series consist of game sheets for men’s and women’s soccer games, predominantly for 2013-2014. Also found are newspaper clippings, media guides, and soccer programs. Further newspaper clippings and soccer programs can be found in the Media and Promotions Series.
The Swimming Series consists of newspaper clippings, research materials, ephemera, swimming results, and meeting minutes from the 2002 swim championships. More information on swimming at UBC can be found in swimming programs, results, and newspaper clippings in the Media and Promotions Series.
Series consists of newspaper clippings about sports, sports periodicals, and writings on various sports techniques. Series includes clippings of Gnup's column, "Gnupermania," from The Courier. Series also includes photocopies and clippings of newspaper articles that refer to the late Frank Gnup and would have been added to his papers after his death in 1976.
Series consists of term papers written by Gnup's students. This series is restricted.
Series consists of a report about a study of extramural athletics at UBC.
Series consists of guest lists, invitees' business cards, newsletters, correspondence, thank-you notes, and ticket receipts concerning the annual Pigskin Party.
Miscellaneous Headlines, Notes, and Clippings series
Series consists of various headlines, notes, and clippings.
Series consists of notes, correspondence, registers, petitions, receipts, proceedings, printed material, transcripts, and copies of legislation gathered primarily from numerous archival repositories. Series contains seven subseries: Archival Research Material; Charles Sedgewick's Files from Victoria; Material sorted by Geographical Area; Foon Sien Papers; Briefs, Statutes, and Acts; Miscellaneous Project Files; and Subject Files subseries.
Series consists of a biography, clippings, reports, a newsletter, printed material, correspondence, and photographs about E.C. Mark.
Chinese Benevolent Association series
Series consists of printed material, notes, correspondence, reports, tickets, and financial materials about the Chinese Benevolent Association.
Chinese Canadian Research Project Survey series
Series consists of completed questionnaires about the Chinese Canadian Research Project.
Interviews with Leaders series
Series consists of the texts of interviews with various leaders in the B.C. Chinese community.
Series consists of theses and papers about the Chinese community in Canada. The chart of the Yip family tree (file 26-33) was added in August 1996.
Microfilm and Audiotape series
Series consists of microfilmed copies of government records and a microfilmed copy of the Wells Fargo and Company Directory of Chinese Business Houses. Series also includes audio cassettes containing interviews regarding Chinese history, both in China and North America.
Series consists of records reflecting Dahlstrom's music activities in Canada and the United States in her capacity as a pianist, accompanist, music teacher, choir conductor, examiner, and adjudicator. The records consist of a scrapbook, newspaper clippings, passenger receipts, travel claim vouchers, thank you notes, correspondence, speeches, concert programs, histories of Canadian music, A Capella Singers promotional material, examination lists, material relating to music teaching, jury schedules, competition policies, letters of confirmation of exam schedules, and photographs. The records are arranged according to documentary form and content. The series is arranged according to the original titles of the folders created by Helen Dahlstrom.
Records relating to Canada Music Week committee series
Series consists of Dahlstrom's records relating to the Canada Music Week committee. Canada Music Week (CMW) is an annual nationwide festival sponsored by the Canadian Federation of Music Teachers Association (CFMTA) to introduce and stimulate a keener appreciation of Canadian music to students, teachers, and audiences; to encourage and promote Canadian music, musicians, and music teaching; and to emphasize the significance of music in society. Introduced in 1959 during the silver anniversary of CFMTA, it has become a regular event on the last week of November since 1969. The Canada Music Week Committee has nine provincial and other branch chairpersons and a national chairperson. Dahlstrom became the third national chairperson in 1969. The Canada Music Week committee publishes a newsletter (since 1959 but regularly since 1969) with suggestions for activities and promotional material and administers the national music writing competition to stimulate interest in music composing among young Canadian musicians. Dahlstrom has edited special issues of the newsletter. During Canada Music Week, special events and programs take place in each community under the responsibility of individual centers throughout Canada. In addition, the CBC broadcasts student recitals, provides capsule biographies of Canadian composers and panel discussions and features Canadian music during the week. In 1985, the CFMTA and Waterloo Music Co-published The Canada Music week Silver Anniversary Collection a piano solo book by Canadian composers. This edition was compiled and edited by Dahlstrom and resulted from a juried competition. This series includes correspondence, drafts of the newsletter, writing competition material, biographical material relating to Canadian music, curriculum vitae, speeches, Canadian music sheets, grant proposals, promotional material, news releases, radio announcements, annual reports, financial records, minutes of annual and biennial meetings of chief officers of the Canada Music Week committee, and photographs. The records are arranged according to documentary form and chronological order.
Miscellaneous photographs series
Series consists of photographs by unknown photographer(s). These photographs were created for private and for promotional use. Many of the photographs were used to promote the 1975 CFMTA convention. The series includes photographs of Dahlstrom and unidentified persons and one of a comic strip. In addition to the graphic material, the series consists of one page. The textual record is a typewritten dialogue describing one of the photographs. The material is arranged according to the content of the photographs. No original arrangement was apparent. The photographs were scattered loosely amongst the fonds with no immediate relationship with other records from other series of the fonds. They were subsequently brought together in this series to facilitate their access.
Hart House String Quartet series
Series consists of newspaper clippings, concert programmes, and correspondence documenting the history of the Hart House String Quartet, both during Harry Adaskin's tenure and afterwards. Some items are pasted onto cardboard.
Harry and Frances (Marr) Adaskin Concerts series
Series consists of newspaper clippings and concert programmes documenting concerts presented by Harry and Frances Adaskin. Some items are pasted onto cardboard.
Series consists of eight audio discs. Most of the discs are 33 1/3 r.p.m. although one is 78 r.p.m. The discs include performances by the Hart House String Quartet, as well as Harry Adaskin presenting his radio show Musically Speaking.
Series consists of three rolls of film. "The Passionate Canadians" – 2 rolls, colour, original (n.d.) and "Harry Adaskin: To Play Like an Angel" (n.d.).
Series consists of Weisgarber's research material arising from "The Honkyoku of the Kinko-Ryu: Some Principles of its Organization" published 1968, a manuscript entitled “Flute Music of Zen,” and his unpublished biography of Aurelio Giorni.
Series consists of biographical materials relating to Weisgarber, including copies of his curriculum vitae, biographical articles, reviews, various awards and achievements, scrapbooks consisting of press clippings, programs and other material. Also included are autobiography drafts by Weisgarber and some materials from a biography project on him in the late 1980s.
Consists of a handwritten copy of Alban Berg’s Violin Concerto, apparently sent by a friend living in Germany to Elliot. The context of this record is uncertain.
Series consists of correspondence and memoranda about various University faculties, divisions, deans, and programs with which the School of Music has a relationship. Series is arranged in alphabetical order.
The series consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence with friends, fellow writers, publishers and organizations. A large proportion of the correspondence consists of printed emails. The emails were printed out and placed in folders by the donor. Please see the Digital Media series for further correspondence.
The series consists of handwritten and typed scripts for McWhirter's adaptation of Euripides' Hecuba.
A Verse Map of Vancouver series
The series consists of draft documents, reviews, correspondence, and miscellaneous papers regarding A Verse Map of Vancouver (2008).
Series consists of records documenting the production of the Institute's publications, including Pacific Affairs and the Inquiry series, and copies of publications of the Institute and its related organizations. Records include correspondence with authors and publishers, manuscripts, galley proofs, published materials, contracts and other agreements, and distribution records. The series is arranged in the following sub-series: General I.P.R. Publications Records, Inquiry Records, Miscellaneous Business Records, Book Reviews, Pacific Affairs, and General (the last consisting of both manuscripts and published items).
Three publications in Box 100 were donated to the University Archives by Paul Hooper in 2011.
Series consists of annual reports of the American IPR, the International Secretariat, and some national councils.
Vice President Student and Academic Services
The series consists of minutes, agendas, reports and accompanying material of presidential and ad hoc committees, as well as constitutive documents relating to the functional areas of student and academic services. The series consists of five sub-series: Administrative, Committees, Subject Files, Student and Academic Affairs, and Computing Services.
Vice President Administration and Finance – A.B. Gellatly series
Series consists of subject files, which document the financial administration of programs, faculties and properties belonging to the University. Arrangement of subject files in alphabetical and chronological.
Vice President of Faculty and Student Affairs series
The series consists of records corresponding to the various areas of responsibility of the position. The records reveal the changing role that the Faculty and Student Affairs office held within the university. The series includes four sub-series, which are Knowledge Network (consists of program proposals for the Open Learning Institute / Knowledge Network from faculty, along with accompanying correspondence, receipts, and memoranda), Committees (subject files consisting of correspondence, reports, and memoranda referring to Presidential and ad hoc committees); Faculties (subject files consisting of correspondence, reports, and memoranda, arranged by faculty), and Student Affairs (subject files comprised of minutes of meetings, interdepartmental memoranda, surveys, and newsletters). The records in the Student Affairs sub-series also consist of records created after the responsibility was shifted to different VP positions. This is due to several files consisting of records spanning three individuals in those differing positions in the early 1980s.
Deputy Vice President – W.M. Armstrong series
The series consists of academic planning, budgets, cliff erosion reports, Vice President's meetings, President's Permanent Committees on Academic Deans and Animal Care, Appointments, Computing Centre and Emergency Research Grants. Reports including the McDowell Committee on Course and Curriculum Changes. Various Senate Committees, including the Senate Committee on the Universities Act, Library, and Role and Organization of the Senate. Also included are research administration records, course evaluation, TRIUMF, University Press, Ubyssey, Suba Diving Policy, Student Residences and Services, System Services, Physical Plant, Status of Women at UBC etc. Please see the inventory of files in the finding aid for a complete list of topics.
Early University Records series
The series consists of correspondence (1890-1920) generated both before and during UBC's first two presidents, Frank Wesbrook and Leonard Klinck. The correspondence that predates the appointment of UBC's first President Wesbrook deals with various issues, including membership in Convocation, appointments to the Board of Governors, hiring a President and selection of a site for the University. Correspondence generated during the presidencies of Wesbrook and Klinck provides information about the University's establishment, the hiring of staff, strictures placed on the University during World War I, attempts to move the University to its eventual Point Grey campus and many other matters. Arranged chronologically by year and then alphabetically. The series also includes subject files (1904-1936), divided into pre- and post-1915 and arranged alphabetically.
Miscellaneous Subject Files series
The subjects covered in this series include Early Medical Education at UBC (1938-1948), records relating to the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (1966-67), the Westar Consortium (1968-69), Campus development (1941-1982), records on the office of Research Administration later renamed Research Services (1967-1979). Subject files in this series contain information on the Asian Centre's construction, refurbishment to the President's office and records that trace the UBC Bookstore's history. Other subject files include the President's Task Force to Renew Sports Service 1987-1989. The President's Advisor files include speeches, fees, trips, Personal Security Advisory Committee, Down Town Eastside, Core Services Review and legal affairs 1998-2006.
Miscellaneous Financial Records series
This series contains annual balance sheets and financial statements, budget operating estimates, and university statistics for senate budget meetings (1976). Financial records in this series relate to Applied Sciences, Arts, Commerce, Forestry, Graduate Studies, VP Finance, Administrative Services, VP Faculty and Student Affairs, Dean of Women, Agricultural Sciences, Dentistry, Education, Law, Medicine, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Bursar and University Development Faculty and Student Affairs. Financial records can also be found throughout the Miscellaneous Committee series, Central Office Files series and Miscellaneous Subject Files series.
John M. Buchanan Memorial Fund series
H.R. MacMillan established the John M. Buchanan Memorial Fund shortly before his death in 1975. It was named for his friend, former UBC Chancellor John M. Buchanan, and administered through the President's Office. The fund was established with a $50,000 donation spent on student-related projects related to academic programmes. The University paid interest on the fund balance, but the grant terms stated that it was to be paid out over a specific period – about $4000 every year. By the time the final disbursement was paid in 1996, total disbursements were more than $150,000.
The Buchanan Fund Committee's chairs initially maintained records throughout its operation: Erich Vogt, Cy Finnegan, James Dybikowski, and Byron Hender. The bulk of the documents was transferred to the Archives by Byron Hender in 1996