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Organized by the University of British Columbia President N.A.M. MacKenzie and Gordon Shrum in 1945 to provide housing for returning veterans interested in continuing their education, Acadia Camp became the first residential unit on campus. Army huts assembled on the university grounds helped alleviate serious accommodation shortages following World War II. The Acadia Camp Householders' Association was formed shortly after 1945 to address the collective interests of the residents.

Cyril Shirley Belshaw was born on 3 December 1921 in Waddington, New Zealand. He received an M.A. from Victoria College, New Zealand and a Ph.D. in 1949 from the London School of Economics. Before coming to the University of British Columbia in 1953, he was a research fellow at the Australian National University. Belshaw arrived at UBC in 1953 and joined the Department of Anthropology, Criminology and Sociology. In 1959 Belshaw was appointed as acting head of that department, serving as official head from 1968 to 1974. He remained on staff as a professor until his retirement in 1987. The suspicious death of his wife Betty Joy Belshaw in Switzerland in 1979 saw Belshaw go on trial for her murder, but he was acquitted. Professor Betty Joy Belshaw taught at the Department of English.

Belshaw also served as president of the Faculty Association in 1960, and in 1961 he was appointed director of the UN Regional Training Centre at UBC. He was also involved with the Senate Committee on Long-Range Objectives. In addition, he served as a consultant to the UN Bureau of Social Affairs and as editor of Current Anthropology. Outside the University, Belshaw actively participated in numerous national and international academic initiatives such as the Social Science Research Council, UNESCO, and the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association (among others). Following his time at UBC, Belshaw continued to write and maintained involvement with publishing through Webzines of Vancouver.

Italian Renaissance scholar Danilo Aguzzi-Barbagli was born in Arezzo, Italy, in 1924. After completing undergraduate work in Italy, he received his Dottore in Lettere from the University of Florence in 1949 and Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University in 1959. Aguzzi-Barbagli began his teaching career at Vassar College, New York (1955/56), before moving on to the University of Chicago (1959-1964), and then Tulane University (1964-1971). He joined the University of British Columbia's Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies as a professor in 1971. During his career, he taught courses, published and lectured in the Italian language, Italian literature (from the late Middle Ages to the seventeenth century), and comparative literature. After retiring from UBC, Aguzzi-Barbagli died in 1995. The following year an excellent collection of sixteenth and seventeenth-century books collected by Aguzzi-Barbagli were donated to the UBC Library by Hannibal Noce.

Olav Slaymaker received his Ph.D. in Geography in 1968 from Cambridge University and began teaching as an Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia. In 1972 Slaymaker was elevated to the status of Associate Professor. He became a full Professor in 1981 and served as Head of the Department of Geography at UBC from 1982 to 1992. Slaymaker served as Vice-President Research at UBC from 1991-1995. He is co-editor of The Canadian Geographer and Catena, an international interdisciplinary journal of geomorphology, hydrology and soil science. His research interests include sustainability of mountain environments, alpine hydrology and geomorphology, lacustrine sedimentation and the human impact on geomorphic and hydrological processes.

Joseph A.F. Gardner was Dean of the Faculty of Forestry from 1965-1983.

Gordon Selman was a committed adult educator. He joined the UBC Department of University Extension in 1954 and served as associate director from 1960 to 1965. After serving two years as executive assistant to University President John B. Macdonald, Selman returned to Extension to serve as director from 1967 to 1974 he then transferred to the Faculty of Education to teach adult education. In 1976 he served on the Faris Committee.

Education Minister Pat McGeer established the Committee on Continuing and Community Education in British Columbia in 1976 to study adult and community education around the province and make recommendations on funding, administration, and programming. Chaired by Ron Faris of the Ministry of Education, it became known as the "Faris Committee." Gordon Selman joined the UBC Department of University Extension in 1954 and served as associate director from 1960 to 1965. After serving two years as executive assistant to University President John B. Macdonald, Selman returned to Extension to serve as director from 1967 to 1974 - he then transferred to the Faculty of Education to teach adult education. In 1976 he served on the Faris Committee.

William Stewart Hoar was born in New Brunswick in 1913. He worked at the University of New Brunswick and the University of Toronto and also worked for the Fisheries Research Board of Canada. In 1954 he was appointed to the Department of Zoology and Fisheries at the University of British Columbia. He became head of the Department of Zoology between 1964-71.

Originally a member of the University of British Columbia Arts Class of 1926, Horace Wesley Fowler completed his M.A. in 1929 before embarking on a teaching career. He taught in the UBC Department of Physics for two years and then went to the former combined elementary-high school, which later became University Hill Secondary School. Fowler completed his Bachelor of Education in 1943. He died in 1963.

The Indian Education Resource Centre was established in Brock Hall on the UBC campus in 1970. It functioned as a resource centre for Indigenous Peoples education in British Columbia, visiting Indigenous schools, establishing Indigenous research and curriculum projects, producing the Indian Education Newsletter, disseminating information about Indigenous affairs and education, and serving as a lobby organization for Indigenous Peoples education in B.C. and across Canada. An association of professionals, para-professionals and members of the educational community, the Centre was funded by government grants and private donations. The Centre was closed in 1978.

J.G. Brown was born in Lakefield, Ontario and received his university and theological education in Toronto. After a few years in pastoral work in Ontario, he came to British Columbia, ministered in several congregations. He was appointed to the Principalship of Ryerson Theological College. When, in 1927, Ryerson College and Westminster Hall were merged, he became the first Principal of Union College of British Columbia, affiliated with UBC. Under his administration, the main Union College buildings on campus were erected. He successfully faced the difficult task of guiding the College through the Depression and then through World War II. After his retirement in 1948, he lived for three years in Oxford, England, until his return to British Columbia, where he assumed the pastorate of the Church of Our Lord in Victoria.

Goodall was born in Wells, Somerset, in 1909. In the early 1930s, he visited Canada. Goodall returned in 1935, first to Vancouver, then Alberta, before getting married and settling in Victoria as a commercial artist. He wrote to the Illustrated London News (ILN) asking if they wanted any British Columbia events covered. His grandfather had done illustrations for the ILN of the Crimean War. His first assignment was the aluminium smelter at Kitimat, followed by sketches of famous Canadian universities and schools. Later he was invited to cover Royal Canadian Navy exercises to San Francisco, Southern California and the Hawaiian Islands. He has done watercolours for one of the biggest greeting card firms in North America, as well as other commissions. In March 1947, The Graduate Chronicle featured a University Library sketch by "Ted" Goodall. The Chronicle had commissioned this sketch. Readers were invited to purchase 8 x 5-inch prints from the UBC Alumni Association (March 1947, cover and page 9).

Esther Birney (née Bull) was born in 1908 in London, England, where she was active in a Trotskyist group. She met Earle Birney in London while studying at the University of London (1935/36) and returned to Canada with him, and they were married in 1940. Esther Birney received a degree in Social Work from the University of Toronto, and she remained active in this field until 1978. She and Earle Birney were divorced in 1977.

Born the brother of musician Harry Adaskin, Gordon was adopted by Harry and his wife Frances at the age of five, after his father's death. Although Gordon's birth mother, Rifle, was still alive, she allowed the Adaskins to adopt Gordon, following the elder Adaskin's dying wish. Gordon moved to Vancouver in 1946 and attended University Hill Junior School. He would forego his final year at University Hill in order to attend the Vancouver Art School. Subsequently, Gordon toured Europe, paying particular attention to the museums and galleries of Italy. Upon his return to Canada, Adaskin went to the Alberta College of Art and was soon hired to teach at the University of Manitoba in the Faculty of Architecture, where he remained for over twenty-five years. His artwork was regularly exhibited at the university, as well as in touring shows, two of which visited Vancouver, the home of his parents.
Adaskin, a visual artist, was also an interviewer and commentator on art and artists. He interviewed many of the leading Canadian artists of the mid-twentieth century, including B.C. Binning and Jack Shadbolt. In the early 1990s, Gordon moved to Gibsons, British Columbia and married Jan Busch, his second wife, in April 1997. Gordon Adaskin died in December 2001.

Born in Victoria, B.C., Frederic Gordon Campbell Wood (1887-1976) enrolled in the first class established in that city by McGill University and, in 1910, graduated from McGill itself. After teaching high school in Victoria for four years and earning an M.A. from Harvard University (1915), Wood joined the faculty of the newly-established University of British Columbia as one of the two original members of the Department of English. He founded and directed the Players' Club, which staged theatrical performances throughout the province. The Frederic Wood Theatre stands as a tribute to his significant contribution to theatre development in B.C. In 1950, he retired from UBC after thirty-five years of service to the university and became the longest-serving original staff member. Even after his retirement, Wood continued to assume an active interest in the theatre.

The Players' Club was founded at the University of British Columbia in 1915 by Frederic Wood who served as honourary president and director of all plays staged from 1916 to 1931. The objective of the organization was to provide training in the theatre arts for UBC students. Each spring and fall, the club performed one act plays throughout the province. Such tours contributed significantly to the cultural life of B.C. and helped integrate the activities of the university with the outlying areas of the province. The Players' Club disbanded in 1966 following the institution of the Department of Theatre at UBC - however, it was revived in the 1990s.

Kenelm Oswald Lancelot Burridge was born in Malta in 1922. After spending his childhood in Lucknow, India, he was educated in England, and in 1939 he joined the Royal Navy. Burridge served on the battleships HMS Ramillies and Royal Sovereign in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic and Indian Oceans until 1942, when Burridge transferred to the submarine service. He was serving aboard HMS Splendid when she was sunk off Naples in 1943, and he was captured. Later that year, he escaped to service in the Far East, retiring as a lieutenant in 1946. Burridge entered Exeter College, Oxford, that year and completed his B.A. in 1948, a diploma in Social Anthropology, the following year, and later his B.Litt. (1950) and M.A. (1952) in Anthropology. He then obtained a Ph.D. in that field from Australian National University in 1954. Burridge has conducted fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, Malaya (where he was a research fellow at the University of Malaya), Australia, New Hebrides, and India. In addition, he held teaching posts in anthropology and ethnology at Baghdad University and Oxford before joining UBC as an anthropology professor in 1968.
Burridge’s main interests were anthropological history and theory, religion, myth, museology, and missiology. Until his retirement in 1988, Burridge also served as a visiting lecturer or professor at the University of Western Australia, Princeton University, and International Christian University in Tokyo. He received Killam, Guggenheim, and Canada Council, fellowships. In addition, he was named honorary life fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute, the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, and the Royal Society of Canada.

The Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) promotes the study of the English language, literature, and other cultural material in a global context in Canadian colleges and universities. It was founded in 1957 and held its first conference in 1958.

Marion Gilroy was born in Nova Scotia in 1912. She received her B.A. from Acadia University (1932) and completed an M.A. at the University of Toronto (1933). While working as a research librarian at the Public Archives of Nova Scotia (1933-1940), she completed a Bachelor of Library Science degree from Columbia University (1939), where she attended as a Carnegie fellow. In 1946, Gilroy moved to Saskatchewan to become supervisor of the Saskatchewan Regional Libraries (1946-1963). While promoting the development of regional libraries in the province, she also completed graduate study in librarianship at the University of Chicago (1959). In 1963, Gilroy left Saskatchewan to undertake a teaching career as an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia's School of Librarianship. She taught several courses on public libraries, special libraries, readers' services and book selection. Gilroy also published a book and several articles, surveys and reports on regional library systems and library needs across Canada, such as Montreal Island and Northwest Territories. After she died in 1981, her papers were donated to the Archives

Lois Carrier received her B.A. from the University of Saskatchewan and B.L.S. (1952) and M.L.S. (1968) from Toronto. She came to the University of British Columbia Library as head of the Social Sciences Division in 1966 and served in this capacity until 1984, when she became a general reference librarian. Carrier served as President of the Association of British Columbia Librarians in 1968. The A.B.C.L. was established in 1966 to provide continuing education for librarians and to encourage study and research on the part of professional librarians in the province. The organization concluded operations in the early 1970s.

The UBC Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering is one of six departments in the Faculty of Applied Science carrying out engineering studies. Chemical Engineering was established at UBC in 1915, as the first Canadian chemical engineering program west of Ontario, and a separate Department of Chemical Engineering was established in 1954. Biological Engineering evolved from Agricultural Engineering, and Agricultural Mechanics established at UBC in 1945. In 1975, the name and degree were changed to Bio-Resource Engineering. In 1996, the Department of Chemical and Bio-Resource Engineering was formed from the merger of these two separate departments. In 1999, the name was changed to the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and reflected the growing need for engineers in biotechnology, biomedical and bio-resource engineering.
The Department has established a world-class reputation in chemical engineering science, including fluid-solids contacting pulp and paper engineering, heat exchanger fouling and, more recently, biotechnology. Several faculty members have won national and international recognition for their research contributions. Many former students have gone on to become leaders in industry and academia in Canada and abroad. The Department's administration is represented by the Department Head, Associate Heads, Manager Administration, Systems Administrator, Secretaries and Financial clerk. Various workshops and store personnel also complement the staff – technicians, storekeepers and teaching lab assistants.

In 1954 a President's Climatological Station Committee was established to explore the possibilities of installing and operating a climatological station. In the same year, a request was made to the Meteorological Division in the Federal Department of Transport to supply the essential equipment. An agreement was reached in 1955 for the establishment and maintenance of a station, providing the UBC provided a suitable site and qualified observers, maintained records according to Meteorological Division standards, and provided monthly reports to the Division. The Station was set up in 1957 west of the Agronomy Barn on Agronomy Road; campus development forced its relocation further south in 1964. The Committee administered the Station, maintained liaison with the Meteorological Division, and until 1963 held informal seminars on weather and climate studies during its regular meetings. The Committee was re-constituted to report to the Dean of Graduate Studies; that year, an Atmospheric Sciences Colloquium was established to organize lectures and seminars.

Vernon Cuthbert "Bert" Brink earned his MSc from UBC in 1936 and then a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1940. He joined the Department of Agronomy at UBC as an assistant professor in 1940, and in 1946 was promoted to associate professor. In 1955 he was promoted to full professor and became chair (1955-1967) of the newly formed Division of Plant Science. In 1970, VC. Runeckles became chair, but Brink continued to teach in the newly formed Department of Plant Science until 1978.
Brink was active in many organizations related to agronomy and plant science. They include the Agricultural Institute of Canada (AIC), the Canadian Seed Growers' Association, the British Columbia Institute of Agrologists (BCIA), the Canadian Society of Agronomy, the American Society of Agronomy, the Genetics Society of Canada, the American Society of Range Management, the Brewing and Malting Barley Research Institute, the Western Canada Turfgrass Association, the BC Parks Committee, the BC Fertilizers and Agricultural Poisons Board, and the BC Foundation Seed Committee. In 1969, Brink chaired the BC Indian Agriculture and Lands Committee, a BCIA and AIC. All of these organizations had close links to the Division of Plant Science.
Vernon Brink was also active in many UBC committees. They include the Sub-Committee to study the organization of Soil Science in 1953, the Genetics Committee, the Committee on Sports Turf Research, the Climatological Committee, the President's Committee for the Electron Microscope (installed in 1959), and the Advisory Committee on Botanical Garden Policy.
Brink's research interests encompassed several areas. Before becoming the division chair, he collaborated on a Diffuse Knapweed project with one of his graduate assistants, T.G. Atkinson. In 1959, he began a study of Gibberellin, an alfalfa growth regulator. He also was involved in various genetic experiments on Rhizoma alfalfa. Brink also continued to develop his interest in the study of barley. His Master's thesis examined the chemical process carried out by barley extracts. Other interests included the care and improvement of turfgrass, climate effects, crop genetics, and the ecological use of land. Brink also promoted the division's University Research Farm development at Oyster River as a teaching and research facility. He contributed to Crop Science, Ecology, The Journal of Plant Science, and Canadian Field-Naturalist throughout his career. Brink served on the Environmental Assessment Panel, which studied the potential impact of reactivating the Boundary Bay Airport and a third runway at Vancouver International Airport. In 1984, he became a member of the Directors of The Nature Trust, a non-profit organization established to conserve areas of ecological significance in the province.

Ronald Eric Burgess, a member of the University of British Columbia Dept. of Physics for twenty- three years, was born in London, England. He entered the University of London in 1935 and, in 1939, obtained his B.Sc. in Physics and Mathematics. He joined the staff of the Radio Research Station in Slough, England in 1939 and carried out a wide range of research interests. In the fall of 1954, Burgess was appointed as a full professor in the UBC Dept. of Physics, which had secured initial funding for the position through the Defense Research Board of Canada. Burgess remained with the department until he died in 1977.

Edward Killoran Brown was born in Toronto in August 1905. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1926 and taught at Toronto and Manitoba's English Department. He won a Governor General's Award for non-fiction in 1943 for "On Canadian Poetry."