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Bill Wray

Bill’s research interests included Japanese business and industrial history, as well as Japanese politics in the 1930s.

Prof. Wickberg taught Modern Chinese History at UBC between 1969 and his retirement in 1992, and achieved an international reputation as a leading scholar of the global Chinese diaspora, but his lasting impact went well beyond his research on the Chinese in the Philippines and in Canada.

Daniel Vickers

Daniel’s research interests included early America, the social history of seafaring, and work and economic culture.

Sylvia Thrupp

Sylvia’s books, The Worshipful Company of Bakers and The Merchant Class of Medieval London, 1300–1500, along with her many articles on guilds and on demography, brought increased dynamism to medieval social history as a field in which the methods of economic history and sociology opened fresh questions, and her personal ties as well as her teaching and research connected North American scholarship to the stimulating new work being done by British and French historians.

Stephen Straker

Stephen Straker (1942-2004) was an historian of science at UBC for thirty years and the chief inspiration for the creation of the STS program. We honour his memory with an annual distinguished lecture.

Frederick H. Soward

Soward developed a keen interest in studying foreign relations and international affairs, and particularly after Mack Eastman’s departure for Geneva, was responsible for the major introductory surveys in European diplomatic history.

Allen Sinel

Allen Sinel, who served the UBC Department of History for more than 50 years as a gifted teacher and scholar, a wise administrator, and an engaged and engaging mentor and raconteur, died at peace on January 29 at Vancouver General Hospital.

Walter Noble Sage

Born in London, Ontario, in 1888, Walter Sage was educated in both Canadian and English schools, and received his degrees from Oxford University and the University of Toronto. He lectured at Calgary College and at Queen’s University, and, at the age of thirty started his long association with the University of British Columbia, where for the last twenty years of his teaching career (1933-1953) he was Head of the Department of History

Margaret Prang

Margaret Prang was a remarkable woman, a long-time member of the History department and Department Head from 1974 to 1979 and again from 1982-83. She was awarded an honourary doctorate at the UBC spring congregation in 1990.

Margaret Anchoretta Ormsby

Margaret Ormsby was born in 1909 in Quesnel but spent most of her childhood in the Okanagan Valley, where her father, a returned veteran, had taken out an orchard acreage on the banks of Kalamalka Lake in the suburb of Coldstream near Vernon, which subsequently became Margaret’s much beloved home base. Thanks to her parents’ strong encouragement to pursue higher education, in 1925, she enrolled at UBC earning a B.A. (1929) and M.A. (1931) in History.