Title and statement of responsibility area
Title proper
Sybren Henrik de Jong fonds
General material designation
- Textual record
- Photographic material
Parallel title
Other title information
Title statements of responsibility
Title notes
- Source of title proper: Title based on the contents of the fonds.
Level of description
Fonds
Repository
Reference code
Edition area
Edition statement
Edition statement of responsibility
Class of material specific details area
Statement of scale (cartographic)
Statement of projection (cartographic)
Statement of coordinates (cartographic)
Statement of scale (architectural)
Issuing jurisdiction and denomination (philatelic)
Dates of creation area
Date(s)
Physical description area
Physical description
1.46 m of textual records
12 photographs (b&w)
Publisher's series area
Title proper of publisher's series
Parallel titles of publisher's series
Other title information of publisher's series
Statement of responsibility relating to publisher's series
Numbering within publisher's series
Note on publisher's series
Archival description area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Sybren de Jong was born October 20, 1908, in Ashern, Manitoba, Canada, and moved to East Kildonan, Winnipeg, in his early teens. He graduated from the University of Manitoba with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering in 1931. He proceeded to teach as a Demonstrator at the University of Manitoba for the next four years. From 1936 to 1940, Sybren assisted as a surveyor and helped produce the Topographical Survey of Canada. In 1938, he was commissioned as a Dominion Land Surveyor to continue the project. However, after working on the Dominion Land Survey, he returned to the University of Manitoba to complete his Master's degree in Civil Engineering and graduated in 1940. For three years, he taught as a Demonstrator of Civil Engineering at the University of Toronto. From 1944-1945, he was an official Lecturer at the University of Toronto and in 1945-1967, de Jong taught Civil Engineering as an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia. In 1967-1968, he attended the University of Ohio at Columbus, earning his Doctorate of Applied Science and subsequently obtaining a full Professor. He continued to teach at UBC until he retired in 1975. He died in 1983. Sybren was published extensively in the Engineering Journal and the Canadian Surveyor. And he co-authored a book with Semih Tezcan in 1965 entitled, The Electronic Computer in Surveying Adjustment at the University of British Columbia. His significant fields of interest never changed throughout his career: from his BSc. to his Ph.D.; they remained Geodetic Science (in particular Photogrammetry) and Civil Engineering.
Custodial history
Scope and content
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)
Notes area
Physical condition
Immediate source of acquisition
Arrangement
Language of material
Script of material
Location of originals
Availability of other formats
Restrictions on access
Terms governing use, reproduction, and publication
Finding aids
Finding aid
Please see the finding aid for an inventory of files.
Uploaded finding aid
Associated materials
Accruals
Boxes 1-5 were acquired in the first accrual. Boxes 6-7 were added in 2014.