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This is the first thing that was ever printed in Vancouver
UBC Library’s recent acquisition of The Vancouver Weekly Herald and North Pacific News was featured in the Daily Hive.
You can now see the oldest item ever printed in Vancouver
UBC Library’s recent acquisition of The Vancouver Weekly Herald and North Pacific News was featured in Vancouver is Awesome.
UBC Library acquires the first item ever printed in Vancouver.
The first edition of the Vancouver Weekly Herald and North Pacific News was printed January 15, 1886.
A heralded glimpse of Vancouver, before it was Vancouver
UBC Library’s recent acquisition of The Vancouver Weekly Herald and North Pacific News was featured in the Vancouver Sun.
UBC Library acquires first known account of British Columbia by an English woman
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.
UBC Library acquires a copy of the Kelmscott Chaucer
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.
Rare medieval manuscripts acquired
Learn how the Library’s new acquisitions are enhancing teaching and learning at UBC.
800-year-old Papal bull comes to UBC Library
The Library has acquired an 800-year-old medieval Papal Bull, a legal decree issued in Latin by Pope Innocent IV in 1245.
Rare Wilde book coup for UBC Library
The Library has acquired two examples of early gay literature that are connected to famed author Oscar Wilde.
Medieval manuscript’s impact spans centuries
UBC Library’s oldest book, which it recently acquired, is a cross-disciplinary treasure.