WELCOME
The WPIRG Archives are now public. Take a peak into our online selection to explore the imagination, mettle, political and intellectual rigour of the many students who have passed through Waterloo campus since 1973.
EXPLORE
Browse over 40 years of student-led initiatives — from conferences, workshops, action groups, research projects, film and cultural festivals, and more.
VISIT THE COLLECTION
Housed at the Dana Porter Library’s Special Collections & Archives on the University of Waterloo Main Campus, the fully digitized WPIRG archives are accessible to students, researchers, and other visitors. This website is a sample of the collection. Please contact archives@uwaterloo.ca to request information on visiting guidelines or arrange an appointment.
This region’s story begins long before WPIRG. Seated on the traditional territories of the Haudenosaunee, Anishnaabe, and Neutral Peoples, we acknowledge the continued violence in which the University of Waterloo is complicit.
For those of us whose ancestors arrived only recently to Turtle Island (North America) — within the last 500 years — it is crucial to recognize we live on stolen indigenous land. We must recognize the ways that we benefit from continued forms of colonization, which has for centuries made violent efforts to dispossess Indigenous nations of their lands and cultures. Let us learn and remember their stories of courageous resistance. Let us learn to act in solidarity with those who have struggled, and those who continue to struggle, to retain their ways of life and protect these lands in the face of ongoing colonial violence.
Reflecting a long commitment to Indigenous solidarity, in 2020, shortly after closing our doors, WPIRG gifted our funds to the Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre. We encourage Indigenous students at the University of Waterloo to learn more about the grant awards available to them through this fund.