Jim Winter
James H. Winter was born on 24 October 1925. He pursued his undergraduate degree at Dartmouth College, and completed his MA and PhD at Harvard University in 1961. He first joined UBC History in 1961, and served the academic community here for 30 years. He was the recipient of the UBC Teaching Prize in 1991 […]
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.
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 […]
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.