By Glenn Drexhage on September 22, 2008
A riveting collection that highlights the effects of B.C.’s colonial justice system on Chinese and Aboriginal populations is now available at UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections (RBSC). The John Keenlyside Legal Research Collection features court cases involving Chinese and Aboriginal people as both witnesses and defendants. The documents reveal how the 19th-century justice […]
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By Glenn Drexhage on January 17, 2008
The recent valuable and generous donation of golf books from Sam Martz to UBC Library has been featured in several newspapers. The Globe and Mail, Sept. 5, 2007 “Fifty years in the making, collection of golf books ‘is the big leagues’.” Read more online. The National Post, Sept. 5, 2007 “The 81-year-old retired businessman […]
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