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W. Gordon Fields fonds
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91 cm of textual records;823 photographs
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Gordon Fields attended Victoria College from 1929-30, and 1934-35, and graduated from UBC with a BA in 1938. He received an MA in 1949, and a PhD from Stanford University in California. Fields joined the Victoria College Biology Department in 1941, and served as the Chair from 1951-1971. He was a member of the Victoria College Building Committee (1957-63) and the UVic Campus Planning Committee (1963-67), and involved in the planning and construction of UVic's Elliott Building. He was a noted Invertebrate Zoologist, and was Canada's leading authority on squid. He retired in 1978, and died at the age of 74 on 26 January 1986.
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The fonds consists of historical notes, student notes, PhD research data on squid and sardines (including photographic data), lecture notes by subject, and course notes; and files from: Victoria College Biology Department (1958-67), Victoria College Building Committee (1957-58), Victoria College Faculty Association (1952-63), Victoria College Board (1957-63), and Victoria College Faculty and Staff Association, (1949-55).
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File list available. <br /><a href= "http://gateway.uvic.ca/archives/featured_collections/esa/default.html">Online Finding Aid</a>
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BCAUL control number: UVICARCH-9
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- Victoria College (B.C.). Board (Subject)
- Victoria College (B.C.). Dept. of Biology (Subject)
- Victoria College (B.C.). Building Committee (Subject)
- Victoria College (B.C.). Faculty Association (Subject)
- Victoria College (B.C.). Faculty and Staff Association (Subject)