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Harvey Mitchell

Harvey’s research interests included modern Europe, with a particular focus in France, as well as European intellectual history.

Norbert was born in 1925, the last of six children in Stellarton, Nova Scotia. Encouraged by his high school teachers to go to college he and his best friend applied to Acadia University and were accepted. He received his BSC in Chemistry in 1946 and went to work for the CNR in Montreal.

Robert Kubicek

Robert’s research interests were focussed on the 19th century British Empire, specifically in the administrative, economic, and technological aspects.

Ho Ping-ti

Ho’s ancestral hometown is Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, and was born in Tianjin in 1917. In 1934, Ho studied at the Department of History of Tsinghua University in Beijing, and graduated with a BA in 1938.

Ted Hill

Leonidas (“Ted”) Hill (1934-2012) taught in the Department of History for 34 years, and was a passionate advocate of public education, as well as the author of numerous scholarly articles, the editor of four books, and a regular speaker at the UBC Symposia on the Holocaust.

Mack Eastman

Mack was an accomplished author whose research interests focused on Canada, Europe and the history of work.

Bogdan Czaykowski

CZAYKOWSKI Bogdan Edward. On August 16, 2007, after an 8-month struggle with lung cancer, Bogdan Czaykowski passed away peacefully in Vancouver at the age of 75. He is survived by his loving wife of 47 years, Jadwiga (nee Januszajtis), by his daughter Ewa (Iain Higgins), and by his son Piotr (Anne Worley). He liked to spoil his grandchildren, Stefan, Nicholas and Helena. Bogdan was born in 1932 in what was then Eastern Poland.

John Conway

John Conway (1929-2017) was born in London, England, and took all his studies at St John’s College Cambridge. He emigrated to Canada in 1955 and taught International Relations for two years at the University of Manitoba. In 1957 he joined the Department of History at UBC, and continued teaching Modern European History and International Relations until 1995.

Ivan Avakumovic

Linked by his Serbian background to the complicated history of Balkan Europe, in touch through an enviable command of languages with the politics of France and Russia, and with deep roots in the Atlantic world thanks to his education at Rugby School and the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Ivan Avakumovic brought the varied perspectives these affiliations gave him to a long career of scholarship and teaching at the Universities of Aberdeen, Manitoba, and British Columbia.