Harry Keith Ralston
Harry Keith Ralston was born in Victoria, B.C. on 3 September 1921. Graduating from Victoria High School in 1938, he earned the Royal Institution Scholarship for Victoria District. He then attended Victoria College and the University of British Columbia, receiving his BA in 1942 with 1st Class Honours in History. Ralston entered the Royal Canadian […]
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.
John Norris
March 23, 1925-May 2, 2010 Eulogy John Norris, member of the University of British Columbia’s Department of History from 1953 until his retirement in 1990, died in Vancouver following a prolonged struggle with stroke-induced memory loss. Born in Kelowna, a boy and adolescent during the Depression, and approaching young manhood as World War Two broke […]
Harvey Mitchell
Harvey’s research interests included modern Europe, with a particular focus in France, as well as European intellectual history.
Robert McDonald
Professor Emeritus and BC Services Editor Books R.A.J. McDonald. Making Vancouver: class, status, and social boundaries, 1863-1913. Vancouver, B.C: UBC Press, 1996. J. Barman; R.A.J. McDonald. Readings in the history of British Columbia. Richmond, B.C: Open Learning Agency, 1989. R.A.J. McDonald; J. Barman. Vancouver past: essays in social history : Vancouver centennial issue of […]
Norbert Macdonald
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.
Edward Hundert
Edward Hundert was born in 1940 in New York City and grew up there. He received his PhD from the University of Rochester. Ed’s area of research interest was British intellectual history of the Enlightenment era. After teaching briefly at the University of Calgary, he began his career at UBC in 1966. His teaching in the Department of […]
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.