Margaret Ormsby fonds. 1839-1996.

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Margaret Ormsby fonds. 1839-1996.

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The fonds consists of correspondence, drafts, essays, lecture notes, course outlines, clippings and research materials created and collected by Ormsby in her diverse roles as student, professor, researcher and author. Also included are records generated between 1957 and 1967 by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.

4.8 m of textual records.319 photographs.

University of British Columbia Library

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University of British Columbia Library

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University of British Columbia. Dept. of History.

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Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada

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Sage, W. N. (Walter Noble), 1888-1963

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Born in London, Ontario, Walter Sage was educated at the University of Toronto (B.A., 1910) and Oxford University where he obtained his M.A. in history (1916). He later earned a Ph.D. from Toronto (1925). His first teaching position was at Calgary College in 1913 as a lecturer in history. After teaching there for two years, he went to Queen's University. Sage joined the faculty at the University of British Columbia in 1918 as an assistant professor of history, rising to head the department fourt...

Quennell, Peter, 1905-1993

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Margaret Anchoretta Ormsby was born in 1909 in Quesnel but spent most of her childhood in the Okanagan Valley. In 1925, she enroled at UBC earning a B.A. (1929) and M.A. (1931) in History. Ormsby began her Ph.D. at Bryn Mawr in 1931, interrupting her studies between 1934 and 1936 to work as a teaching assistant in the Department on History at UBC. After completing her Ph.D. in 1936, she taught in the United States for three years. In 1940, Ormsby became a lecturer in the History Department of Mc...