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Sybren Henrik de Jong fonds
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Lectures, Course Notes series

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.

Photographs series

Series consists of 12 black & white photographs of activities related to Dr. de Jong’s role as a Professor at the University of British Columbia.

Professional Life series

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.

Projects series

This series is related to his time as the Dominion Land Surveyor and includes correspondence, a paper that would inspire his dissertation, and mostly, Dominion Land Survey Project Calculations, spanning from 1961-1966.

Publications series

The series consists of drafts and final editions of Sybren de Jong’s papers, predominantly his Master’s Thesis and Dissertation. It includes correspondence, theses, advertisements about his theses, and drafts of his papers.

Sybren Henrik de Jong fonds

  • UBCA-ARC-1537
  • Fonds
  • 1940-1977

The fonds consists of personal and professional materials created and collected by Sybren de Jong. The fonds is divided into five series:
• Publications (1940-1975)
• Lectures and Course Notes (1944-1975)
• Projects series (1955-1966)
• The Professional Life series (1960-1977)
• The Photographs series (1954)

De Jong, Sybren Henrik