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The University of British Columbia (UBC) ... UBC's marching band, the Thunderbird Marching Band, was founded in September 2012 and is entirely student-run.
The Peter A. Allard School of Law is UBC's faculty of law. Founded in 1945, it was renamed after an alumnus in 2015 after a $30-million donation. The Allard School of Law offers a wide range of courses, especially in Indigenous law, environmental law, and business law.
The current site of UBC Okanagan was initially used by Okanagan University College (OUC), which was founded in 1989 (in principle) as a part of a plan by the government to improve access to post-secondary education in the Southern Interior of British Columbia. Initially, degrees were awarded in partnership with other universities, but by 1995 ...
The first European visitors to present-day British Columbia were Spanish sailors and other European sailors who sailed for the Spanish crown. There is some evidence that the Greek-born Juan de Fuca, who sailed for Spain and explored the West coast of North America in the 1590s, might have reached the passageway between Washington State and Vancouver Island – today known as the Strait of Juan ...
The President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of British Columbia (UBC) serves as the administrative head of the institution. There have been fifteen people have served as president in the history of the institution, including those that held the position on an interim basis, with Martha C. Piper serving twice as president.
1858 – Colony of British Columbia established; 1859 – New Westminster is named the capital of the Colony of British Columbia. 1866 – The Colony of British Columbia and Colony of Vancouver Island are united as the new Colony of British Columbia, with the capital at Victoria. 1867 Hastings Mill founded
Formerly Liverpool Polytechnic from 1970. Founded as Liverpool Mechanics' School of Arts in 1825. [85] London South Bank University: 1992 With Thy Might Founded as the Borough Polytechnic Institute in 1892 Manchester Metropolitan University: 1992 [86] Many Arts, Many Skills Founded as Manchester Polytechnic in 1970 Middlesex University: 1992
The press is based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and has editorial offices in Kelowna, British Columbia, and Toronto, Ontario. It was established in 1971, and was the third Canadian university press to be founded. [1] [5] UBC Press is primarily a social sciences publisher. It publishes books of original scholarship that draws on and ...