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University of British Columbia Archives · Corporate body · 1962-

The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) is a "non-partisan, autonomous and charitable society" whose mandate is to "preserve, defend, maintain and extend civil liberties and human rights in British Columbia and across Canada." On November 25, 1997, approximately 1,500 protesters came to the University of British Columbia campus to voice their opposition to the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit. Protesters were concerned that APEC discussions aimed at liberalizing trade between the participating countries would not include any reference to human rights and social and environmental issues. In particular, the protesters demonstrated against President Jiang Zemin of China and President Suharto of Indonesia. Several anti-APEC organizers, including Jaggi Singh, were detained or arrested in the days leading up to the protest. Following a series of peaceful demonstrations on the morning of November 25th, protesters clashed with police in the afternoon. At the Rose Garden plaza, protesters broke through a police barricade and were pepper-sprayed by the police. The protesters then spread out in hopes of being seen by APEC delegates. At one of the roadblocks on N.W. Marine Drive, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Staff Sergeant Hugh Stewart warned protesters that officers would use whatever force necessary if they did not clear the area. Shortly thereafter, officers moved in to the crowd with pepper spray. Differing versions of events, both before, during, and after the protest, led to the initiation of various legal actions. Serious charges were levelled at the RCMP for their handling of the event and their alleged role in suppressing free speech and other civil liberties. Allegations of political interference by the Prime Ministers Office (PMO) into the actions of the RCMP were also made. The APEC Inquiry was launched by the RCMP's Public Complaints Commission (PCC) on February 20, 1998, and formal hearings commenced on October 5, 1998. Following additional allegations of renewed political interference, the hearings ended abruptly with the resignation of the Inquiry's Chief Commissioner, Gerald Morin, on December 4, 1998. The second round of hearings under the direction of Ted Hughes began on March 23, 1999, and concluded on June 30, 2000. The PCCs interim report was released on July 31, 2001, and its final report appeared on March 25, 2002. The B.C. Civil Liberties Association, through its president, Kay Stockholder, filed a complaint with the RCMP PCC. Although the BCCLA took no position on the merits of the various protestors views, the Association was the first to call for public hearings into the events at the APEC summit, and, as President of the BCCLA, Stockholder was the complainant before the PCC until replaced in 1998 by incoming president Andrew D. Irvine.

Universities Canada
University of British Columbia Archives · Corporate body · 1911-

In 1911, the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC), representing Canadian universities, was formed. Its name was later changed to Universities Canada. It is a membership organization providing university presidents with a unified voice.

University of British Columbia Archives · Corporate body · 1937-[196-?]

In 1937 the Biological Board of Canada became the Fisheries Research Board. It had a distinguished record of marine biological and physical oceanographic research, and after World War II, it opened new laboratories and expanded its work. In the 1960s, the work done by the Fisheries Research Board was taken on by several government departments.

University of British Columbia Archives · Corporate body · 1973-1985

The Association of University and College Employees, Local 1 was established in 1973 to represent library workers and the support staff at the University of British Columbia. The union disbanded in 1985, and CUPE now represents its members.

University of British Columbia Archives · Corporate body · 1945-

Organized by the University of British Columbia President N.A.M. MacKenzie and Gordon Shrum in 1945 to provide housing for returning veterans interested in continuing their education, Acadia Camp became the first residential unit on campus. Army huts assembled on the university grounds helped alleviate serious accommodation shortages following World War II. The Acadia Camp Householders' Association was formed shortly after 1945 to address the collective interests of the residents.

University of British Columbia Archives · Corporate body · 1957-

The Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) promotes the study of the English language, literature, and other cultural material in a global context in Canadian colleges and universities. It was founded in 1957 and held its first conference in 1958.

Biological Board of Canada
University of British Columbia Archives · Corporate body · 1912-1937

The Biological Board of Canada was established in 1912 and had evolved from a management board in 1898 that established a biological station on the Atlantic Coast. During the 1920s, the Biological Board of Canada hired full-time employees and opened laboratories concerned with the fishing industry and food processing. By 1937 the Biological Board of Canada became the Fisheries Research Board,

University of British Columbia Archives · Corporate body · 1989

The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation is the result of a call by Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke in January 1989 for Asian-Pacific economies to consult on how they could effectively cooperate and increase trade and investment flows in the Asia-Pacific. Australia’s motive was to create an Asia-Pacific economic identity, of which it would be an integral part. Japan endorsed the Australian proposal and became the second driving force in the creation of APEC. The first APEC meeting of trade and foreign ministers took place in Canberra in November of 1989 (with twelve attendees: Australia, Brunei, Canada, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and the U.S.).
A summit or Leaders’ Meeting has become an annual event since President Clinton invited leaders to Blake Island in 1993. The first APEC Leaders’ Meeting was held in Seattle in November 1993. This first Leaders’ Meeting of economies represented half the world’s population and 56% of its GNP. A year later, all APEC leaders met at Bogor, Indonesia. At that meeting, the Leaders resolved to move to free trade and investment by 2010 for industrialized member economies and by 2020 for developing member economies. The 1995 meetings were in Osaka, Japan, where the Osaka Action Agenda was agreed to, setting out a template for future APEC work towards common goals. The Philippines convened the APEC Leaders’ Meeting in 1996 at Subic Bay. Finally, the Leaders’ Meeting was held in Vancouver, Canada, in 1997 at the Museum of Anthropology on the University of British Columbia campus.
The following countries are members of APEC as of 1999: Australia, Brunei, Darussalam, Canada, Chile, China, Hong Kong SAR, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, Chinese Taipei, Thailand, United States, and Vietnam.
APEC has two standing committees, 10 working groups, and a few other forums that report to the Senior Officials Meeting. The two committees are the Committee for Trade and Investment (CTI) and the Economic Committee (EC). The CTI deals with trade and investment liberalization and business facilitation concerns. The role of the EC continues to evolve. It is primarily responsible for providing the Senior Officials Meeting with information and analysis on broad, cross-cutting issues not easily handled by one working group.
The ten working groups are Trade and Investment Data, Trade Promotion, Investment and Industrial Science and Technology, Human Resource Development, Energy, Marine Resource Conservation, Telecommunications, Fisheries, Transportation, and Tourism.

University of British Columbia Archives · Corporate body · 1912-

The Anglican Theological College (A.T.C.) of British Columbia, located in Vancouver, was registered with the Provincial Department of Education, and the Board of Governors met for the first time in 1912. Its main function was administering provincial Anglican theological education until 1920 when the separate teaching colleges, Latimer Hall and St. Mark's Hall, became a unified body of faculty and students in "The Anglican Theological College of British Columbia." The College erected a building and moved into its final location on the University of British Columbia campus in 1927. It continued to operate until 1971, when it merged with Union College to become the Vancouver School of Theology.

B.C. Studies (journal)
University of British Columbia Archives · Corporate body · 1968-

BC Studies was established in late 1968 by its first editors Margaret Prang and Walter Young. While professors in the Faculty of Arts at UBC, both Prang and Young, perceived a need to establish a journal for the publication of the work of British Columbia's expanding scholarly community. In support of this endeavour, UBC provided office space and a business manager to operate within the administrative structure of the University's Publications Centre, which later became UBC Press (1971). As a quarterly journal, BC Studies communicates the results of scholarly inquiry in various fields relating to British Columbia. BC Studies also reviews books dealing with the province and publishes a comprehensive bibliography of material. The intellectual direction of the Journal has been monitored through an editorial board made up of representatives from British Columbian universities. Prang and Young remained co-editors until 1983, when Allan Smith replaced them. Jean Barman and Cole Harris became co-editors in 1995, succeeded in turn by R.A.J. McDonald in 2002, and Graeme Wynn in 2008. BC Studies has been supported through funding from UBC, the University of Victoria, Simon Fraser University, and various government funding agencies.

University of British Columbia Archives · Corporate body · 1977-

Members of the Administrative and Professional staff (later renamed Management and Professional staff in 1987) founded the Association of Administrative and Professional Staff (AAPS) in October 1977. At first, AAPS was a voluntary association and had four representatives on the Liaison Committee, which met with senior members of the University to discuss such matters as salaries, benefits and other working conditions until the University cancelled the meetings in 1989. In 1990 an elected committee called the President's Advisory Committee on Management and Professional Staff (PACOMAPS) was established by the President to deal with issues relating to M & P staff. AAPS ran a six-member slate that subsequently won the election. PACOMAPS became an avenue to maintain a dialogue with the University. AAPS conceived the objective of a voluntary agreement to negotiate terms and conditions of employment and pushed this concept at PACOMAPS for over a year. In May/June 1991, M & P staff voted overwhelmingly in favour of a voluntary agreement to govern their terms and conditions of employment. Before negotiations began, AAPS requested a mandate from M & P staff to represent them; the vote of 1992 was 67.69% in favour. The Framework Agreement defining the relationship between AAPS and the University was finally ratified in May 1995. It is a voluntary agreement under common law that recognizes AAPS as the bargaining agent for all Management and Professional staff of UBC.
At present, the Association's purposes are; "to promote the welfare of the Association's members employed by UBC and the welfare of the University of British of Columbia, to act as the bargaining agent of management and professional staff employed by the University of British Columbia, and to govern relations between the management and professional staff and the University through collective bargaining". The Association has an Executive Board composed of President, First & Second Vice-Presidents, Secretary, Treasurer and Members at Large, seven committees including Advocacy, Communications, Development & Education, Finance, Membership, Negotiating, and Recruiting, and representatives on several University committees.

University of British Columbia Archives · Corporate body · 1914-

In 1914, L.S. Klinck, Professor of Cereal Husbandry at Macdonald College, McGill University, was appointed as the University of British Columbia's first Dean of Agriculture. During UBC's first two sessions, there was no teaching undertaken in the Faculty, although a general course in agriculture was given by Klinck, which was open to 3rd and 4th year Arts students. The first students in Agriculture were enrolled in 1917/18. In 1917, the Faculty consisted of Agronomy, Animal Husbandry, Horticulture and Poultry Husbandry. Later, the departments of Dairying (1919), Agricultural Economics (1940), and Agricultural Mechanics (1947) were added. In 1955 the Faculty was reorganized into Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Mechanics, Animal Science, Plant Science, Poultry Science and Soil Science. In 1969, the Faculty's name was changed to Agricultural Sciences, and the Dept. of Food Science was added. In 1985, the Dept. of Agricultural Mechanics and Bio-Resource Engineering discontinued the Agricultural Mechanics program, and that part of the name was dropped. In 1986, Animal Science and Poultry Science departments amalgamated to form a new Dept. of Animal Science. In 2005 the Faculty's name was changed again to Faculty of Land and Food Systems.

University of British Columbia Archives · Corporate body · 1997

"Bitter Paradise: The Sell-Out of East Timor" began as a film project with Elaine Brière's working trip to the former Portuguese colony in 1975: she was the last independent photographer permitted to enter East Timor before the Indonesian invasion in that year. Through a series of filmed interviews and seminars and speeches involving Canadian business people, politicians, public servants and activists, Brière uncovers Canadian participation with Indonesian companies in business activities taking place in East Timor during the period 1975-1990. The documentary reveals the lives of East Timorese families and individuals who engage in the liberation struggle in East Timor, Europe and Canada. Finally, the feature engages members of western organizations (TAPOL, the East Timor Alert Network) that seek to bring awareness of the Indonesian occupation of East Timor to the world. Brière films rallies in Canada in support of the liberation struggle, attempts (unsuccessfully) to publicly question Canadian and Indonesian political and government leaders on the occupation, and sympathetically portrays young Timorese who employ stories and song, along with public speaking, to enlighten Canadian audiences (including labour organizations) regarding the extortion and destruction of the island nation, its peoples and cultures.
Elaine Brière is a Vancouver documentary-maker, photographer, journalist and social justice activist. Her documentary, "Bitter Paradise: The Sell-Out of East Timor," won the best political documentary award at the Hot Docs Festival, North America's preeminent documentary film showcase, in 1997. In addition to her work on East Timor, which includes a published collection of photographs ("Testimony: Photographs of East Timor," Between the Lines, 2004). Briere has directed a documentary on Canadian merchant seamen, "Betrayed: The Story of Canadian Merchant Seamen" (1997), and has produced photo-journalism and print articles for "The Tyee," "Briarpatch," "Our Times," and other publications dedicated to labour and social justice issues. Brière's photographs have appeared in many publications including, "Carte Blanche Photography 1" (2004); "The Other Mexico: The North American Triangle Completed" (1996), "South East Asia Tribal Groups and Ethnic Minorities" (1987) and "The Family of Women" (1979). Her photographs have been featured in exhibits in Canada, Japan, Sweden and the United States.

University of British Columbia Archives · Corporate body · 1985-1990

The Asia Pacific Business Institute (APBI), formerly the Centre for Asia Pacific Business Studies (CAPBS), was founded in 1985 and administered jointly between UBC, SFU and UVIC with funding from the Federal Government. The organization's purpose was to coordinate, develop, and disseminate information to enable Canadian business people to deal effectively with the diverse business practices and cultures in the Asia-Pacific region. In 1986 it was decided to close the CAPBS and reestablish it as a non-profit Society that would administer its finances. Thus, the CAPBS became the Asia Pacific Business Institute with Joe Weiler as its executive director. The APBI dissolved in 1990.

Alpha Tau Omega
University of British Columbia Archives · Corporate body · 1947-1970

UBC’s Alpha Tau Omega fraternity – Epsilon Pi chapter traces its origins to a 1940 student organization calling themselves the “Tau Omega Group.” The organization broke up during World War II, but in 1946 three original members returned to UBC and revived it. In February 1947, it was officially recognized by the UBC Inter-Fraternity Council as the Tau Omega Fraternity. In November of that year, it was officially installed as the first Canadian chapter of the international Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. Its objective was proclaimed as “to give an opportunity of fraternity membership to all students who wished to share in festival life.” The chapter was active on campus for many years but ceased operations around 1970.