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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
- Glossary
Education and outreach
SFU Archives preserves important historical documents and images much of which is used to educate and inform about the history and events with which the campus has been connected. Browse this section to see some of the interesting products that have been researched in the SFU Archives and to learn more about SFU's history.
Heritage Displays Available for Loan
To make SFU's story more accessible, the Archives developed a series of portable displays that showcase key moments of the university's history:
- our momentus athletic achievements
- the orgins of our vibrant artistic community
- the birth of the women's movement on campus
(also an HTML research guide)
- the role of archives into the future and incorporation of digital records
- the university's innovative programming and expansion off Burnaby Mountain.
Each exhibit weaves a series of stories enriched with archival photographs and records that will engage and draw viewers into SFU's dynamic history.
To borrow any of our displays for campus anniversary events, meetings or reunions, please fill in the Request to Borrow form and someone will get back to you within three buiness days.