Fonds UBCA-ARC-1050 - Leonard Klinck fonds

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Leonard Klinck fonds

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  • Photographic material
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UBCA-ARC-1050

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1.4 m of textual records.
ca. 114 photographs.
2 audio reels.

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(1877-1969)

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Leonard Sylvanus Klinck (1877-1969) was born in Victoria Square, Ontario. He completed his first degree at the Ontario Agricultural College in 1903 and continued his studies at Iowa State College (MSA,1905). Klinck then assumed responsibility for the cereal husbandry department at Macdonald College in Quebec. He first visited Vancouver in 1914 to consult with University of British Columbia President Wesbrook in planning the future of UBC and was invited to become Dean of Agriculture. In accepting the position, Klinck became the first appointment to the UBC faculty. Following the sudden death of Wesbrook in 1919, he became UBC's second president. From this time until UBC's retirement in 1944, Klinck supervised the physical building of the university through the Fairview campus days, the war-delayed move to Point Grey, the controversies of the 1930s and the trying times of World War II.

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The fonds consists of copies of speeches (1918-1944), notes from eastern trips (1930-1942) during which Klinck recruited personnel for the university, biographical material (1914-1957), subject files, memorabilia, photographs, and a small amount of material generated after Klinck's death.

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The photographs' in the Memorabilia series are presumed to be Leonard Klinck or his family – their origins are otherwise uncertain.

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Updated in January 2021, JM.

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