Fonds UBCA-ARC-1009 - John Davidson fonds

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John Davidson fonds

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UBCA-ARC-1009

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2.6 m of textual records
18 photographs
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(1878-1970)

Biographical history

John Davidson was born in Aberdeen, Scotland and graduated from Gordon's College. As botany assistant and later curator of the Botany Museum at the University of Aberdeen from 1893 to 1911, he developed considerable plant classification and general biology skills. In 1911, he was appointed as British Columbia's first Provincial Botanist. Davidson established Canada's first botanical garden at Essondale's Colony Farm near New Westminster. In 1916, the 25,000 plants were transferred to the new Point Grey site of the University of British Columbia, and the garden continued to develop under his supervision. Davidson joined the UBC faculty in 1917 as an instructor of Botany. He remained at the university until his retirement in 1945. He was the founder and, until 1937, president of the Vancouver Natural History Society.

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The fonds consists of biographical material (1901-1987), teaching material (1899-1948), publications (1913-1949), lectures (1919-1945), journals/notebooks (1911-1948), correspondence/ subject files (1912-1962), Vancouver Natural History Society material (1927-1941), printed material and photographs (1919-1949).

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The collection of badges and judge's ribbons was transferred to the Archives from Koerner Library in April 2017.

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Selected teaching materials and manuscripts have been digitized and are available online via links in the inventory.

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There is a separate John Davidson fonds at the City of Vancouver Archives.

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Photographs have been digitized and included in the UBC Archives Historical Photograph Database UBC 32.1

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Updated in January 2021, JM.

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