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Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
1961 East Mall
Vancouver, BC,
V6T 1Z1
By kalsbeek on January 26, 2011
This week, we thought that we would post on the Ridington Room, a room in the Barber Centre that is not named after a place in British Columbia. Rather, the Ridington Room (room 321) is named after an important person in the history of the University of British Columbia Library: John Ridington. John Ridington was […]
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By sromkey on January 12, 2011
Happy new year, and welcome back to Rare Books and Special Collections’ series of blog posts featuring places in British Columbia based on the room names in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Our featured place for this post is Lillooet, which was founded as “Mile 0” on the Cariboo/Barkerville gold rush wagon trail. Located […]
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By sromkey on January 7, 2011
A small collection of drawings and paintings from turn of the century Vancouver has been recently catalogued at Rare Books and Special Collections. The Albert Lindgren fonds contains 37 small watercolour paintings and 9 drawings, dating from ca. 1900-1903. The paintings and drawings mostly depict Vancouver-area waterfront views, as Lindgren was a ship captain. Archives […]
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By sromkey on December 23, 2010
The end of the year for an archivist can feel like… well, like Christmas! At the end of the year a lot of people get around to adding to their archives. As a little preview, next year you can expect to see additions to: The Douglas Coupland fonds The Ann Blades fonds The Chung Collection […]
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By kalsbeek on December 21, 2010
This week our featured place is Fort Fraser, British Columbia. Today, Fort Fraser, named by the explorer, Simon Fraser in 1806, is a community of about 1000 people that is active in the tourism and forestry industries. Historically, Fort Fraser played an important role in the development of British Columbia for a number of reasons, […]
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By kalsbeek on November 30, 2010
Every two weeks, Rare Books and Special Collections is featuring a historic document based on a B.C. place name used in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Our third featured B.C. place is the Nimpkish area. The community of Nimpkish is on the end of Nimpkish Lake, on the northern part of Vancouver Island. An […]
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By kalsbeek on November 16, 2010
Our second featured place is Moresby Island. During the course of doing research for this blog post, we discovered that there are actually two Moresby Islands in British Columbia; one island is located in the Queen Charlotte archipelago and one island is located in the Gulf Islands. Our collection of early British Columbia Admiralty charts […]
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By kalsbeek on November 2, 2010
In a new series of blog posts, Rare Books and Special Collections will be featuring a historic document, photograph or map related to one of the B.C. towns represented in the room names of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. To kick things off, we’ll start with Bella Coola which is a small town on […]
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By kalsbeek on September 30, 2010
This week we’ve added a small group of material to the archives of Weston Garnett, a screenwriter, novelist and poet, born in Toronto in 1890 who eventually settled in East Sooke, Vancouver Island. A little research on Weston proves interesting: he was the screenwriter for the 1932 film “White Zombie” which among Zombie aficionados is […]
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By sromkey on March 5, 2010
Archives of note recently added at Rare Books and Special Collections: Peter Faminow fonds: Peter Faminow was born in Alberta to Doukhobor parents. He studied law, and became actively involved in the Doukhobor youth movement. He helped organize the 1958 Conference on Peace through Non-violence, authored a column called “Dasha” in the Doukhobor publication Mir, […]
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