University of British Columbia

Back in Toronto between periods of study, MA took a job in 1963 with a market research company, and then taught at the University of British Columbia , 1964-5. After this she taught briefly at...

Wallace served as President of the Canadian Medical Association from 1946 to 1947 and he retired from practice in 1953. He would go on to lecture on medical ethics at the University of British Columbia

From 1941 to 1943, the Wilsons received into their home sixteen-year-old Audrey Butler , an evacuee from England. They were generous with both their familial warmth and finances. Audrey shared the Wilsons' love of Shakespeare

EW 's desire to present herself as an amateur writer who published merely by chance has complicated determining her method of composing Hetty Dorval. In her talk Somewhere Near the Truth given at the...

The early 1950s were a pleasurable time for EW , who enjoyed creative success in addition to the improved health of her husband. Furthermore, she now became more active in the Canadian literary scene. Since...

EW began a series of public speaking engagements the day before her mastectomy on January 28, 1956, at the University of British Columbia , with How Does a Writer Reach His Audience? She continued to...

In summer 1973 she taught creative writing at Notre Dame University in Nelson, BC (two hours a day for a small salary plus $70 travel allowance and a three-room apartment). In the following academic year...

EW was also explicitly anti-American in her letters. She decried UBC 's decision to hire numerous American professors, expressing her distaste at listening to an American lecturer . . . with two American degrees, shooting...

MA has been condemned for her part as a signatory of the November 2016 UBC Accountable open letter, which called for due process for an academic at the University of British Columbia who in 2016...

The article put great strain on her friendship with Earle Birney , who was fighting to keep creative writing courses alive at the University of British Columbia . As an explanation she wrote to Birney,...

At her death, SG left all her manuscripts, copyrights, and published works to her step-granddaughter, Elizabeth Genevieve Bernadine Crawford Haldane McFall , daughter of Haldane McFall .Her letters and papers are now...

In addition to matters of love and relationships, Love and Salt Water explicitly engages with ethical and philosophical issues. EW downplayed its depth, calling it a temperate affair like the water and climate of our...

In January 1956, EW began work on a new manuscript. At the end of a talk given on 24 January 1957 at the UBC Library, she told her audience she was working on a book...

While working on the collection that became Mrs. Golightly and other stories, EW began a series of public speaking engagements. She gave a talk at the University of British Columbia on January 28, 1956...

EW expressed to John Gray some self-doubt as to whether she was truly qualified to speak to a university audience: How pretentious of me [to speak], who have [sic] nothing but a very treasured conferred...