Hours This Week

RBSC Reading Room

Hours of Operation

Summer (May – Aug., 2025)

Monday-Friday

10:00 am-2:00 pm

Closed on weekends and the following statutory holidays: Monday, May 19; Tuesday, Jul. 1; Monday, Aug. 4

We recommend that you request materials in advance to make your visit more efficient and to ensure materials are available.

The Rare Books and Special Collections and University Archives Reading Room has been temporarily relocated to Irving K. Barber Learning Centre room 142 due to upgrades.

source: https://wiki.ubc.ca/Library:RBSC_Hours

Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
1961 East Mall
Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1

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Phil Lind Klondike Gold Rush Collection

CPR steamer SS Princess Sophia at sail, 1907

The Northland’s Greatest Disaster – The Sinking of the SS Princess Sophia

By Emily Witherow on November 29, 2024

By 1918, the world had all but forgotten the Klondike, but on October 25th of that year the tragic sinking of the CPR steamer SS Princess Sophia in the Lynn Canal, causing the deaths of all 343 of her passengers, shocked the world and reminded BC residents of the shrinking mining communities across the Yukon and Alaska.

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Image of mining claim 26 Above Bonanza, ca. 1897, Yukon Territory, with mining equipment and miners in background.

26 Above Bonanza

By Emily Witherow on November 15, 2024

A spotlight on one of Johnny Grieve Lind’s wealthiest mining claims in the Klondike goldfields, 26 Above Bonanza.

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Picture of a fireman in Dawson after a fire at 45 Below.

Dawson City Firemen

By Emily Witherow on October 18, 2024

As part of a new series spotlighting items in the Phil Lind Klondike Gold Rush Collection and the Wallace B. and Madeline H. Chung Collection, we look at Dawson City’s firemen.

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