YCP Schmidt Library

Held over by popular demand! The exhibit in YCP's archives celebrating student life, with artifacts and stories spanning almost 200 years will be open to visitors until Friday May 23. Contact [email protected] for hours.

Like vinyl? Come see the exhibit in the lobby!

For Indigenous Peoples Day:

Akih was the undergraduate literary publication of York Junior College. This issue from 1963 contains poems, prose and short stories. We aren't certain why the booklet was named this-does anyone have a guess? There could be a very swell prize in it for you!

150 years ago today, the York Collegiate Institute opened. This rare photograph shows the original building. If you look closely, Rev. McDougal the first headmaster and why there is McDougal Lounge in today's Student Union, is standing at the entrance to the left of the gentleman in the stovepipe hat.

York Collegiate Institute became York Junior College in 1941.

Who are these people?
Photographs taken at the same event--looks like a debate, doesn't it? - appear in the 1982 yearbook on pages 2 and 3. It's unfortunate that there are no captions in that year's Horizon, because your YCP Archives would like to identify the occasion and the folks in it for digitization. We all think that the individuals on the right are students and those on the left are visitors to the campus. Anyone out there who might have more of a clue than we do?

From our archives:

Did you know that Country Club Manor dorms were originally apartments for York residents? York College purchased them in 1976 for $905,000 Check out this architectural drawing for the original complex courtesy of the York County History Center.

From our archives:

Check this out! Just added to the archives: The first issue of The Spartan which is dated March 20, 1972. Thanks to Jeff Remaly '74 for keeping this and 16 other early issues of the student newspaper. Donations like Jeff's help to enrich our collection.