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- Archival Film Flashes Back to 70s Student Life
- Manuscript Traces SFU's Architectural History
- Early University News Publications Now Digitally Available
- Digitized Programs Commemorate SFU’s Opening & Installation Ceremonies
- Archives Celebrates Fall Convocation with Release of Digitized Programs
- Films Capture Visual History and Sentiment of Time Gone By
- Lost and Found: Simon Fraser Letters
- Oral History Provides Glimpse into Mind of SFU’s First Chancellor Gordon Shrum
- Early SFU Photos Tell a Story That Frames Our World
- Aerial Photos Capture Campus Landscape & Photographer’s Legacy
- You have what...?!! and other interesting things you didn't know about the SFU Archives
- Charting the course of history: documenting SFU's early days from the student perspective (Part 1)
- Charting the course of history: documenting SFU's early days from the student perspective (Part 2)
- Helping others find their history in the future: Preserving the records of the Students of Caribbean and African Ancestry at SFU
- Preserving the sparks of global revolution in the Adbusters Media Foundation fonds
- Reflections of a co-op student
- Debunking popular myths and conspiracies with the Barry Beyerstein fonds
- In "The Beginning...": First student film returns to SFU
- "Got any pictures of Terry Fox?"
- My summer in the archives: a co-op placement retrospective
- Seeing the world through Arthur Erickson's eyes
- Beer (records) in the Archives!
- Quartet in the Quadrangle: PSQ Records Come to SFU
- Navigating silences and filling gaps: finding Black stories in the Archives
- Boxes, boxes, and more boxes: my summer co-op at SFU Archives
- Finding queer joy in the SFU Archives: Out On Campus records now available
- The Selma Wassermann fonds
- Glossary
Thematic Research Guides
The SFU Archives' finding aids are provenance-based (i.e. organized by the creating bodies, persons or families). To supplement these, we also prepare subject-based thematic guides.
Last updated: Sep 3, 2024
SFU Archives Holdings: Thematic Groups
All fonds and collections organized by broad thematic subject categories, with links to online finding aids. Format: pdf. Last updated: September 2024.
British Columbia Beer History Archive
In 2021, the Archives began to acquire records relating to British Columbia's brewing history – from documentation of BC's early, pre-Prohibition brewers to the records of the contemporary craft beer scene. Read more about our holdings, recent acquisitions, and other research resources on BC's beer history. Format: online. Last updated: May 2024.
SFU Heritage Displays
Display posters originally created for SFU's 40th Anniversary (2005), then redesigned in 2022. The displays are mounted along the walls of the corridor leading to the Archives on the ground floor of Maggie Benston Centre. Format: jpg. Last updated: 2022.
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CREATIVE British Columbia: a Guide to Arts and Culture Resources in the SFU Archives
This guide highlights individuals and organizations that have contributed to the arts and cultural life of British Columbia and whose records are preserved in SFU's archival holdings. Format: pdf. Last updated: 2012.
SFU Campus Politics: A Guide to Sources
The Archives holds a wealth of material relating to the history of campus politics at SFU: protests, demonstrations, sit-ins, occupations, strikes. This guide briefly describes key events from 1965 up to the 1980s, identifies the main records creators, and traces the fate of their records. Format: pdf. Last updated: March 2010.