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Lamb specialized in the early history of British Columbia. He edited and wrote a number of scholarly books relating to explorers of Western Canada, including
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and was its president from 1965 to 1966. In 1969, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. Between 1964–1965 he served as president of the
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In 1939, he married Wessie Tipping, and they had a daughter, Elizabeth (Lamb) Hawkins.
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of Canada, and from 1953 to 1968 he was the first National Librarian of Canada.
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William Kaye Lamb

Historian
archivist
librarian
civil servant
Order of Canada
OC
FRSC
historian
archivist
librarian
civil servant
New Westminster
British Columbia
BA
MA
University of British Columbia
PhD
London School of Economics
Harold Laski
British Columbia Historical Federation
British Columbia
Dominion Archivist
fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Society of American Archivists
George Vancouver
Daniel Williams Harmon
Alexander MacKenzie
Canadian Pacific Railway

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