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Vancouver asks BC to incorporate High Schools, build University here – March 8, 1894

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The meeting formed an official resolution to incorporate High Schools in British Columbia and to situate the Provincial University in Vancouver. This transcript was made in 2019 by Transcribimus volunteer…

Rev. E. D. McLaren to head University of British Columbia – August 11, 1890

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Rev. E.D. McLaren appointed the City’s representative to the newly-formed Corporation of the University of British Columbia. Council recommended that the Union Steam Ship Company be granted a subsidy of…

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