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Vancouver’s First Newspaper
UBC Library’s recent acquisition of The Vancouver Weekly Herald and North Pacific News was featured in Montecristo Magazine.
UBC Library featured on North by Northwest with Sheryl McKay
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.
Acquisitions: University of British Columbia (UBC) Library Acquires the First Item Ever Printed in Vancouver
UBC Library’s recent acquisition of The Vancouver Weekly Herald and North Pacific News was featured in the Library Journal’s InfoDocket.
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 2016/17 Senate Report
Read our highlights from the past fiscal year which include growing our collections, improving student spaces, connecting research to the community and engaging with our community partners.
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 brings its rare Harry Potter collection to VSO concerts this weekend
The Library’s exhibit of Harry Potter books at VSO was featured in the Georgia Straight.