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Vancouver’s First Newspaper

Vancouver’s First Newspaper

By michelle blackwell on January 19, 2018

UBC Library’s recent acquisition of The Vancouver Weekly Herald and North Pacific News was featured in Montecristo Magazine.

Posted in General | Tagged with acquisitions, BC, collections, links, Media coverage, newspapers

UBC Library featured on North by Northwest with Sheryl McKay

UBC Library featured on North by Northwest with Sheryl McKay

By Jessica Woolman on January 7, 2018

UBC Library’s recent acquisition of The Vancouver Weekly Herald and North Pacific News was featured on CBC radio. The interview begins at the 2 hour 50 sec mark.

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Acquisitions: University of British Columbia (UBC) Library Acquires the First Item Ever Printed in Vancouver

Acquisitions: University of British Columbia (UBC) Library Acquires the First Item Ever Printed in Vancouver

By Jessica Woolman on January 6, 2018

UBC Library’s recent acquisition of The Vancouver Weekly Herald and North Pacific News was featured in the Library Journal’s InfoDocket.

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This is the first thing that was ever printed in Vancouver

This is the first thing that was ever printed in Vancouver

By Jessica Woolman on January 5, 2018

UBC Library’s recent acquisition of The Vancouver Weekly Herald and North Pacific News was featured in the Daily Hive.

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You can now see the oldest item ever printed in Vancouver

You can now see the oldest item ever printed in Vancouver

By Jessica Woolman on January 5, 2018

UBC Library’s recent acquisition of The Vancouver Weekly Herald and North Pacific News was featured in Vancouver is Awesome.

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UBC Library acquires the first item ever printed in Vancouver.

UBC Library acquires the first item ever printed in Vancouver.

By michelle blackwell on January 4, 2018

The first edition of the Vancouver Weekly Herald and North Pacific News was printed January 15, 1886.

Posted in General, Press releases | Tagged with acquisitions, BC Historical Newspapers Program, Chung Collection, collections, Heritage Vancouver, Rare Books and Special Collections, Vancouver history

A heralded glimpse of Vancouver, before it was Vancouver

A heralded glimpse of Vancouver, before it was Vancouver

By Jessica Woolman on January 4, 2018

UBC Library’s recent acquisition of The Vancouver Weekly Herald and North Pacific News was featured in the Vancouver Sun.

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UBC Library acquires first known account of British Columbia by an English woman

UBC Library acquires first known account of British Columbia by an English woman

By michelle blackwell on August 1, 2017

The journal kept by Susannah Weynton documents four months spent on Vancouver Island at Fort Victoria and Fort Rupert and on the mainland at Fort Langley between March and July 1850.

Posted in General, Press releases | Tagged with acquisitions, BC History, collections, journals, Rare Books and Special Collections, Susannah Weynton

Melody Burton, Head Librarian, Katherine Kalsbeek ,Head of Rare Books and Special Collections and Dr. Gregory Mackie, assistant professor in UBC’s department of English.

UBC Library acquires a copy of the Kelmscott Chaucer

By michelle blackwell on August 23, 2016

UBC Library has acquired a copy of the Kelmscott Chaucer, one of the world’s most extraordinary books. Printed in a limited edition of only 438 copies, the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer was published by William Morris’s Kelmscott Press in 1896.

Posted in General, Press releases | Tagged with acquisitions, art, Colbeck Collection, collections, community engagement, donation, donors, Kelmscott Chaucer, Kelmscott Press, press release, Rare Books and Special Collections, research learning and scholarship

Rare medieval manuscripts acquired

Rare medieval manuscripts acquired

By Clare Yow on March 23, 2016

Learn how the Library’s new acquisitions are enhancing teaching and learning at UBC.

Posted in General, Press releases | Tagged with acquisitions, collections, donation, donors, Media coverage, Rare Books and Special Collections, research learning and scholarship

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