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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Image of Mar Dong at an older age.

Part 2: A Tale of Seattle’s Chinatown 

By Andrew R. Sandfort-Marchese on December 7, 2024

This Part 2 blog continues the exploration of a single letter from the Chung Collection, from small-town Saskatchewan to transnational impact in Seattle, exploring how objects and spaces hold stories of resilience, migration, and history.

Posted in Chung, Chung | Lind Gallery, Collections, Exhibitions, Frontpage Exhibition, Highlights, Immigration and Settlement, Research and learning, Uncategorized | Tagged with , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

This letter from the Crystal Bakery shows the network of connections that brought together Chinese Canadian communities.

Part 1: The Mah family of Crystal Bakery-Letters and Legacies

By Andrew R. Sandfort-Marchese on November 2, 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 the Mah family of Crystal Bakery.

Posted in Chung, Chung | Lind Gallery, Collections, Exhibitions, Frontpage Exhibition, Immigration and Settlement | Tagged with , , , , , , , ,