Libraries

Bruce Peel Special Collections Library - Past Exhibits

2013

• Miriam Green Ellis, Champion of the West  (March 2013 to May 2013)

2012

• The Spacious Margin: Eighteenth-Century Printed Books and the Traces of Their Readers  (October 2012 to February 2013)
• Sam Steele: The Journey of a Canadian Hero at Enterprise Square Gallery at Enterprise Square Gallery  (June-September, 2012)
• Recalling the Buffalo: The Martin S. Garretson Collection at Enterprise Square Gallery at Enterprise Square Gallery  (June-September, 2012)
• Charles Dickens (1812-1870): From Whom We Have Great Expectations (May-August, 2012)

2011

• Ally Sloper & C.H. Chapman:A Victorian Comic Strip Star and His Devoted Illustrator  (November 2011 to March 2012)
• I'm No Superman: The Comic Collection of Gilbert Bouchard (November 2011 to February 2012)
• The Last Best West: Glimpses of the Prairie Provinces from the Golden Age of Postcards (March 2011 to June 2011)

2010

• The John H. Meier, Jr. Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction Collection (September 2010 to February 2011)
• The Other Side of Gold Mountain: Glimpses of Chinese Pioneer Life on the Prairies from the Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection" (June to August, 2010)
• Marginated:Seventeenth-Century Printed Books and the Traces of Their Readers (February 2010 - May 2010)

2009

• The Art of the Book (October 2009 - January 2010)
• Alter-Aesthetics:The Book Transformed (June 2009 - September 2009)
• Woolf's-head Publishing:Hogarth Press  (February 2009 - May 2009)

2008

• Legacy of Empire (August 2008 - Feb 2009)
• A Most Dangerous Voyage (May 2008 to August 2008)
• Mappae Mundi: (February 2008 to April 2008)

2007

• The Golden Cockerel: (October, 2007 to Jan, 2008)
• Women,Writing and Reading: Past and Present, Local and Global (March, 2007 to September, 2007)
• ImPRESSions of Vancouver (February, 2007 to April, 2007)

2006

• The Blue Sky Their Horizon: Alberta Women Making History (October, 2006 to January, 2007)
• Randolph Caldecott: His Books and Illustrations for Young Readers (June to September, 2006)
• Gatherings: An Exhibition of Recent Additions to the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library (February to May, 2006)

2005

• Laying the Foundations: The Legacy of Alexander Cameron Rutherford  (September to December, 2005)
• Pressing: An Exhibition of Canadian Poetry and Small Publishers, 1950-1980 (May to August, 2005)
• The Art of Insect Illustration and Threads of Entomological History (December, 2004 to March, 2005)

2004

• Marginal Notes: An Exhibition of Bookworks Concerning Social Issues (April to September, 2004)
• Celebrating the University Senate's Splendid Gift: Honorary degree books in the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library (November 2003 to March 2004)

2003

• First Impressions: The Fledgling Years of the Black Sparrow Press (May to September, 2003)

2002

• The Zamorano Eighty: Landmark books in California history
• The Illustrated London News: The Victorian World At Home & Abroad

2001

• Illustrated British Novels: 1800-1899 (July to September, 2001)
• Graphic Design and Fine Printing: Five Centuries (March 12 - April 30, 2001)

2000

• Studious Youth and Imperial Adventure - The George James Collection of Children's Books (September 15 - December 20, 2000)
• Pierre Ouvrard: Master Bookbinder - A Retrospective (May 15 - August 15 2000)

1999

• Enitharmon: A Contemporary British Private Press (July 5 - October 1, 1999)
• Jackets Required (through May 21)

1998

• Adversaria:Sixteenth-Century Books and the Traces of their Readers (September 14 - December 24, 1998)
• TheBookofNature (September 16 - December 24, 1998)
• "An Exquisite and Rational Enjoyment" -From early travel books to Baedeker guides (February through May, 1998)

1997

• She Wields a Pen - An Exhibition of Women's Literary History (September through December 1997)
• word sounz & eye rhymes an exhibition of visual poetry & artist books (June 1 through August 15, 1997)