Explore Open Collections: Halloween Through the Ages
Happy Halloween! To help get ourselves ready for spooky season, we did a digital dive into our holdings looking for all things Halloween. Follow along as we exhibit what we found from across different eras in our digitized periodicals. What can we learn about Halloween? Have traditions changed over time? Don’t forget to click on […]
Dipping into the Hawthorn Fly Fishing and Angling Collection
The Harry Hawthorn Fly Fishing and Angling Collection is approaching 70 years old. It holds more than 2200 books on fishing related subjects, with 63 of them digitized. The collection itself was dreamed up in 1953 by eight UBC professors who were on a fishing trip together at Upper Campbell Lake. They decided to start […]
World Tour in the early 1930s: The Empress of Britain World Cruise
Prior to air travel, cruises used to be one of the more popular ways to travel abroad, especially in the 1920s and 1930s. Launched in 1930, the Royal Mail Ship (R.M.S.) Empress of Britain took around-the-world tours to a whole new level. In the 1930s, the most luxurious world tour package allowed passengers to spend […]