Archive No. 01
Objects for the Table
1966 Tree-Ring Wooden Coaster
$10One Ring for Every Year
Every ring begins at 1966: a small record of time, held in the hand and returned to the table each day.
Chapter One · A Campus Planted by a City
“Built by a university.
Planted by a city.”
Six objects shaped by Calgary's living gift of mature trees to a young university campus beginning in 1966.
The living archive
A city gave the campus something living.
Around 1966, the University of Calgary was still a young, open campus without mature trees. Calgary residents moved trees from private yards, family estates and nurseries to the university.
Today's shade was left by ordinary citizens decades earlier—a civic gift still alive in the landscape, carrying stories of transfer, shared growth and legacy.
Before there was shade, there was a gift.
01
The Gift Registry
Each tree is treated as a civic gift transferred from the city to the campus.
02
Borrowed Shade
We gather beneath branches planted by people we may never meet.
03
One More Ring
Every student generation adds another ring to a story still growing.
The first collection · 6 records
Objects that remember.
Six everyday objects in white, burgundy, wood brown and warm gold—each carrying one part of a living civic archive.
Archive No. 02
Bags & Accessories
Roots of UCalgary Canvas Tote
$15Carry the Roots Forward
The roots beneath today’s student paths began in Calgary backyards, family estates and local nurseries.
Archive No. 03
Paper & Correspondence
Planted by a City Postcard
$2.99A City Sends Something Living
A message travels from one place to another. In 1966, so did the trees.
Archive No. 04
Pins & Keepsakes
A Gift from a City Commemorative Pin
$8A Gift, Worn Close
The city did not only build the university. It gave it something living.
Archive No. 05
Paper & Correspondence
1966 Tree-Ring Notebook
$20Add One More Ring
Every class, every note and every graduating year becomes one more ring in a story still growing.
Archive No. 06
Objects for the Table
1966 Burgundy Ceramic Mug
$18Borrowed Shade, Shared Table
The shade was a gift for strangers. The mug brings that same generosity to an everyday table.