John Oliver stories

May 8, 1920 – January 26, 2017 Barbara Howard was born in Vancouver and raised at 10th and Nanaimo. She attended Laura Secord Elementary School,...

While competing for UBC, Cuttell was acknowledged by many to be Canada’s best all-round track and field man, a three-time Canadian champion in both the...

Multi-sport athlete at UBC and one of the best basketball players in BC during ’50s. First winner of UBC’s Female Athlete of the Year award...

A unique two-sport star at UBC, Whyte captained some of UBC’s finest rugby teams during the 1950s. At the same time he was the showcase...

UBC Grad’s Passion for Learning Passed On Hereditary Nisga’a chief Peter Nyce was helping people learn long before he enrolled in UBC’s Faculty of Education....

Written by Ken McLeod, BA 1968, appeared originally at Walter Gage Book Project “I couldn’t help be good at mathematics” I developed an interest in...

Thanks to Rob Howatson for sharing this article on JO Alumni, Sadhu Singh Dhami from Vancouver Trueborns:  In the 1920s, Sadhu Singh Dhami was the...