William Kaye Lamb was born in New Westminster, B.C. in 1904 and received his B.A. (1927) and M.A. (1930) at the University of British Columbia. He completed his Ph.D. at the London School of Economics in 1933. Lamb served as Provincial Librarian and Archivist of B.C. until 1940 when he became University Librarian at UBC, succeeding John Ridington. He resigned in 1948 to assume the position of Dominion Archivist and National Librarian. Lamb founded the British Columbia Historical Quarterly and continued to edit the journal until 1946. After he retired in 1968, Lamb continued to write, and to edit historical documents including the journals of Sir Alexander Mackenzie, George Vancouver, and Simon Fraser. In the course of his research he collected a number of copies of historical documents (including official correspondence, journals, and maps) from archives and libraries around the world, and which he maintained as a research collection and donated to the UBC Archives. He died in 1999.
From the description of Lamb research collection. 1959-1991. (University of British Columbia Library). WorldCat record id: 606455891
