Happy Anniversary UBC!
Premier Campbell and UBC president Stephen Toope celebrated the centenary of the 1908 University Act that created UBC as B.C.'s first post-secondary institution on March 7, signing a rededication of the act exactly 100 years after its original March 7, 1908 signing. Construction at UBC Vancouver began in 1914 but halted due to World War I and didn't resume until 1923, following the historic Great Trek of 1922 when 1,200 students marched from a temporary campus near 12th and Cambie to the Point Grey campus, urging the provincial government to continue building UBC.