Developing a UBC-Aboriginal Timeline with Musqueam content – Time and Place at UBC: Our Histories and Relations

A centerpiece of an online educational resource, Time and Place at UBC: Our Histories and Relations (http://timeandplace.ubc.ca/), is a timeline, which presents major historical events of UBC and its relationship with Aboriginal peoples against the backdrop of the broader society in BC and Canada. Despite that UBC’s main campus is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam people, representations of the Musqueam Nation on the timeline are neither enough nor visible. In collaboration with the Musqueam Treaty, Lands and Resources Department, this TLEF project creates a new timeline row that presents the history of the Musqueam Nation, including the community’s relationship with UBC. By elucidating the local Indigenous history and ongoing connections, the timeline will better support UBC community members in developing a historical understanding of their presence on this land today in a concrete, rather than abstract, manner.