James Bowman was born in Edmonton, Alberta, and received a Master of Library Science degree from the University of British Columbia in 1982. He has worked as an archivist in Vancouver, Chilliwack, and Calgary. As an anthropology student in the 1970s, he had a personal and scholarly interest in intentional communities.

The International Association of Machinists was organized in the American South and Midwest in the 1880s. The name, IAM, was adopted at a Cleveland convention in 1891. In 1964 IAM incorporated the aerospace workers into an expanding union.

Isabel Mackay was a writer and poet.

J. Howard Woolmer was born in Montreal. As a professional bookseller in New York, he developed an interest in the works of Malcolm Lowry and began a collection of books and periodicals with material by or about Lowry. In 1969, Woolmer published "A Malcolm Lowry Catalogue" which included two previously unpublished Lowry poems introduced by Earle Birney. In 1983, Woolmer published "Malcolm Lowry: A Bibliography".

John W. (Jack) Duggan was born in Toronto. He joined the RCMP in the early 1940s and in 1943 was posted to the Slocan Valley, B.C., to supervise the Japanese internment camps. He worked there discontinuously between 1943 and 1947. Most of his career was spent in Vancouver, where he later worked for the Royal Bank in its credit card security division.

In 1944 the founders of Canadian Forest Products (Canfor) acquired the timber interests and logging operations in the Nimpkish Valley, which later became known as the Englewood Logging Division. In 2006 the company was purchased by Western Forest Products.

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Jack Stickney was born in the United States and moved to Canada in 1913. He worked in the Fraser River Canyon area. He joined the 101st Edmonton Fusiliers in 1914, and trained at Aldershot on Salisbury Plain in England as part of the first Canadian contingent. He served in France and was killed in action in Belgium in 1915.

Jack Whittaker worked for 48 years in British Columbia sawmills before his retirement in 1959. His last position with British Columbia Forest Products Limited (BCFP) was superintendent of the Youbou Sawmill on Cowichan Lake, Vancouver Island.

James Loughery was a B.C. Corrections Officer who corresponded with Claire Culhane about the penitentiary system.

Shortly after arriving in Canada from Great Britain, James McKenzie joined the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation in 1952. He supported the development of the New Democratic Party and later served on its Provincial Council. McKenzie served first as secretary (1968-1993) of the Alan Boag Foundation, a non-profit society and, in 1993, became its president.

James Paterson became president of the Moran Company in 1909 and then General Manager of the Seattle Construction and Drydock Company in 1912. He formed the British Pacific Engineering and Construction Co. Ltd. in order to obtain the contract for building submarines in Vancouver, B.C.

Jean Burton was born in Saskatchewan and majored in history at the University of British Columbia, completing her B.A. in 1924 at the age of nineteen. In 1928 she took her M.A. in economics at the University of Alberta. From an early age Burton was interested in writing, at first short stories in magazines, then later two plays, Left Turn and Prelude (1933). In 1941, Burton wrote her first biography, "Sir Richard Burton's Wife", started her upon her non-fiction writing career.

Hakim Singh Hundal, a director of the Canadian-Indian Supply and Trust company left India for Canada in 1911 with his family--his mother, Bishan Kaur, and his four sons, Atma, Iqbal [Ikball], Teja, and Jermeja. The family spent two years living in the Hong Kong Sikh Temple awaiting immigration clearance to land in Canada. The family eventually arrived in Canada in 1913 after a barrage of appeals to all levels of government. The Hundal boys went on to become excellent students. They lived in Point Grey and attended Queen Mary Elementary and Prince of Wales High School, then on to the University of British Columbia.

Iqbal [Ikball] (b. 22 Aug. 1902) earned a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Washington in 1925 and went on to become an aeronautical engineer in the United States. While in the United States, Iqbal also served with the Air Unit of the Reserve Officers Training Corps. Later, he married Ranjit Kaur Bains and had at least one son and one daughter. He also worked in the automobile industry in Oshawa, Ontario.

Teja (5 June 1903-14 Nov. 1971) worked as a lumber grader for 35 years and married Beatrice Evelyn MacDonald. He died in Burnaby, B.C.

Jermeja "Jerry" (5 Apr. [1905 or 1906]-25 May 1991) attended UBC, where he played rugby, and then Oregon State College. Jermeja lived and worked for a time in Toronto where he met his wife, Joyce. The couple moved to Los Angeles in 1957 where Jermeja opened the West Coast office of Air-India. Prior to that he was the commercial assistant to the Indian consul general in San Francisco. In the 1960s, he was also the president of the India-American Society.

Born in Findern, Derbyshire, England, Jim Spilsbury grew up on the B.C. coast, mainly on Savary Island. His entrepreneurial career evolved from radio communications with Spilsbury & Hepburn Ltd. and Spilsbury Communications to ownership of Queen Charlotte Airlines Ltd. to author of three books on his coastal experiences to painting pastels of the B.C. coast.

Born in England, Joan Lowndes immigrated to Canada with her parents in 1919. She was educated at the University of British Columbia and the Sorbonne. While working as a translator for the American Office of War Information she became interested in modern art. She worked as a freelance broadcaster for the CBC in the 1940s and 1950s. Shortly afterwards she began her career as an art critic and over the next thirty years became widely involved in art criticism while working for the Vancouver Sun and the Vancouver Province.

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John Boyd was a rancher who lived in the Cariboo District at the turn of the century. He was the owner of Cottonwood House and Cold Springs House, combined ranches and roadhouses located in the Cariboo.

John Mather was a forest products pioneer in Ontario. He founded the Lake of the Woods Milling Company as well as the Keewatin Lumber Company in 1879. For twenty years he was active in various Gatineau Hill operations in the Ottawa Valley.

John "Lefty" Morgan was active in the union organization of the railway trades in British Columbia.

John Smith was born on May 28, 1859 in Crownthorpe, Norfolk County, England. In 1887, he married Frances Rose Middleton. Together they had four children: John Douglas, Arthur Middleton, Lucy Margaret and Olga Marie. Smith was a graduate chemist in Norwich before immigrating to Canada in 1892, where he purchased and farmed a homestead above Pitt River, northeast of Port Coquitlam in British Columbia.;He and his wife were active in the community of Port Coquitlam, and helped to establish its Anglican church. His wife Rose was the first women to hold civic office in Port Coquitlam when she was elected as a school trustee in 1913. During his time in British Columbia, Smith held many public positions. He was appointed Municipal Clerk of the Municipality of Port Coquitlam in 1899. In 1900 he was named Justice of the Peace for the counties of Victoria, Nanaimo, Vancouver, Westminster, Yale, Cariboo and Kootenay. He became a Police Magistrate for the City of Port Coquitlam in 1913. He was City Clerk of Port Coquitlam from the time it was incorporated in 1913 to 1937. In 1923 he became Justice of the Peace for British Columbia. He was the Stipendiary Magistrate for Counties of Vancouver and Westminster from 1933 to 1945.;In 1989 Smith travelled to the Yukon and kept an account of his experiences in a diary. This diary was later published in the British Columbia Historical Quarterly in 1952 with an introduction and annotations by Walter N. Sage. He died on January 24, 1950, at the age of 90.

John Stanton served as legal counsel for numerous industrial trade unions in British Columbia including the International Woodworkers of America, International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union and International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union. Stanton worked for the Vancouver Community Legal Assistance Society from 1976 to 1984.

John Ulinder moved to Vancouver Island around 1926 and found employment as a logger with the Comox Logging and Railway Company. He held the position of Secretary in the Ladysmith Sub-local 1-80 of the International Woodworkers of America (IWA), 1941-1944.