Blythe Eagles fonds. 1902-1986.

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Blythe Eagles fonds. 1902-1986.

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Fonds consists of family histories, correspondence, reports, printed materials, photographs, notes, minutes, publications, building plans, reminiscences and other materials pertaining to Eagles' professional career and personal life. Fonds contains ten series: Biographical Information, Speeches, Publications by Eagles, Personal Correspondence/Subject Files, Research /Lecture Notes, Miscellaneous Personal Materials, Faculty of Agriculture Material, UBC History - General, Miscellaneous Printed Materials and Publications, and Photographs series. Fonds also contains three sous-fonds: L.S. Klink, Wilfred Sadler, and F.M. Clement sous-fonds. The Eagles papers contain only limited records of a purely administrative nature. One of the few sources for the researcher seeking information from the Eagles period as Dean of Agriculture is in the "Faculty of Agriculture - Dean's Office" File List, Boxes 1-4.

4.15 m of textual records and other material.

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University of British Columbia. Alumni Association. Heritage Committee.

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Eagles, Blythe Alfred, 1902-1990.

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Blythe Alfred Eagles, UBC's long-time Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture (1949-1967), was born in New Westminster in 1902. His parents reached British Columbia with their respective families in 1885; his mother arriving from Ontario and his father from England via Manitoba. Both families were actively engaged in agricultural or horticultural pursuits. Eagles entered UBC in 1918 where he took a double Honours program in biology and chemistry. During his studies, he attended classes taught by some...

Klinck, Leonard Sylvanus, 1877-1969.

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Born in Victoria Square, Ontario, Leonard Klinck developed an early love of the land. He completed his first degree at the Ontario Agricultural College in 1903 and continued his studies at Iowa State College (M.S.A.,1905). Klinck then assumed responsibility for the cereal husbandry department at Macdonald College in Quebec. He first visited Vancouver in 1914 to consult with University of British Columbia President Wesbrook in planning the future UBC and was forthwith invited to become Dean of th...

Sadler, Wilfrid, 1883-1933.

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Wilfred Sadler was born in Haughton, Chesire, England on December 22, 1883. In his early years, he attended Wesleyan Schools in Nantwich, and Teachers' School in Crewe. In 1906, he entered the British Dairy Institute at University College, Reading. He then became an instructor in Dairying at Hauts from 1907 to 1908, and an assistant instructor in Dairying and Dairy Bacteriology at Midland Agricultural and Dairy College, Kingston, Derby from 1908 to 1912. In 1912, Sadler published a book entitled...

University of British Columbia. Alumni Association. Fairview Committee.

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University of British Columbia. Faculty of Agriculture

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Clement, Frederick Moore, 1884-1974.

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Born in Niagara-on-the-Lake, F.M. Clement took degrees in agriculture at the Ontario Agricultural College (1911) and the University of Wisconsin (1922). After serving two years as a lecturer in Horticulture at Macdonald College and two years as director of the Vineland Experimental Station, he came to the University of British Columbia as Professor of Horticulture in 1916 and became Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture in 1919. He led the faculty for thirty years before retiring in 1949. In recogn...