September 3-30, 2003
McPherson Library Gallery

To celebrate the history of the University of Victoria and its predecessor,
Victoria College, the Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery will display a series of
20 banners printed with photographs from various points in the city’s past
century of higher education. These banners will be accompanied by a display of past annuals, old photographs, and other treasures from the University’s
Archives, which provided many of the banner images as well.

Local alumni may discover photographs of themselves or their parents practicing soccer, writing for the student newspaper, or marching to the Legislature to protest the College’s cramped conditions in Craigdarroch Castle after the Second World War. Others may be interested in the early cartoon by Pierre Berton, or some insight into the formative years of famous alumni like the artists Jack Shadbolt and Bill Reid.

The banners trace the College’s various locations from a few rooms in Victoria
High School, to Craigdarroch Castle, to the Provincial Normal School that once
occupied Camosun College’s Landsdowne campus, and finally to the creation of the University’s campus in 1963.

The display will form part of Uvic’s Campus and Community Celebration on
September 5th and 6th, which also includes craft fairs, live music, outdoor
film screenings, and a lecture by Mary Robinson, who served as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997 to 2002 and as President of Ireland from 1990-1997.

For more information, please contact the Maltwood Publicist at 721-6562,
maltpub@maltwood.uvic.ca, or visit www.maltwood.uvic.ca. For information on the Campus and Community Celebration, please go to celebration2003.uvic.ca/festival.

Publicist
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery
University of Victoria
P.O. Box 3025 STN CSC
Victoria, B.C.
V8W 3P2

Email: maltpub@maltwood.uvic.ca
Ph.: (250) 721-6562
Fax: (250) 721-8997