British Columbia / Canada

	Judith Marcuse Dance Collection View selected photographs, posters, publications, and promotional materials from the Judith Marcuse fonds held by the SFU Library’s Special Collections. For more information about this content, including a biographical history of creator Judith Marcuse, visit the... more
	Komagata Maru - Continuing the Journey In the early hours of Saturday, 23 May, 1914, the Komagata Maru anchored on the far side of the Burrard Inlet, opposite Vancouver. At dawn the passengers were out on deck with tree-covered mountains rising behind them and the city across the water in front. They were dressed in their best... more
	Komagata Maru Passenger List This collection presents an aggregated "master list" of multiple passenger lists associated with the Komagata Maru. Each list had its own unique way of collating passenger information, including inconsistent spelling of passenger's names to places of origin. The process of compiling the... more
	Pacific Herring video collection These videos are a collaborative effort by the many people involved in the Herring School. The Herring School is part of the Tula Foundation's Hakai Program. The Herring Schoolers come from diverse backgrounds, training, and communities, but are linked in their passion to learn about the... more
	Pacific Tribune Photograph Collection The Pacific Socialist Education Association’s Pacific Tribune photograph collection comprises over 40,000 35-mm images taken for the weekly Vancouver labour newspaper Pacific Tribune. The images cover a twenty-year period, from 1972 to 1992, one of the most active periods... more
	Perry Giguere "Perry the Poster Man" From 1978 to 2018, Perry Giguere (aka "Perry the Poster Man") made a living putting up promotional posters all over Vancouver, always holding on to an extra copy or two at the end of a job. The result was a comprehensive archives of nearly 250,000 posters documenting cultural, social and... more
	Philip Francis Postcard Collection Postcards provide a window into the past unlike other written or photographic materials. In many respects, they can be viewed as the precursors of today’s social media. They were, first and foremost, a quick, inexpensive and often visually appealing means of communication. In the Golden Age... more
	Richard Harwood (Dick) Chambers Alpine Photograph Collection This digital collection consists of more than 800 colour slides and black-and-white prints, with corresponding photography logbook, created by Richard (Dick) Harwood Chambers (1922-1999), and donated by his niece and nephew, Barbara and Jim Diggins. Richard Chambers was a prominent... more
	Robin Blaser Readings Selected audio recordings of readings of the works of Robin Blaser, poet and SFU professor. The collection also includes special lectures given by Robin Blaser. These recordings come from the SFU Library's Special Collections' Contemporary Literature Collection. Contributed by... more
	Scottish Oral History Collection "Scottish Voices from the West" oral histories is a collection of 52 oral histories of Scottish immigrants to British Columbia that were recorded in 2003 and 2004 by SFU's Centre for Scottish Studies. Contributed by Centre for Scottish Studies, Simon Fraser University. more