The Alvey family emigrated from Stralsund, Germany to the United States in the late 1870s. Frederich Alvey (d. 1920) and Sophia Alvey (née Ott, d. 1925) had two children together: William James Alvey (1881-1920) and Ernest Alvey (1883-1974).

William James Alvey served in the United States Army, having enlisted in 1897 and served in the Spanish-American war and the Philippine-American war. En route home to Detroit, he travelled through Seattle, where he worked as a motorman on a cable car, then at the Seattle Police Department. In Seattle he met Eva L. Berneche (1885-1956), a descendant of French Canadians who came west during the gold rush era. William and Eva had two children: Melvin Gerard Alvey (1902-1964) and A. Alexis Alvey (1903-1996). Following the death of her husband, Eva (Richards) worked as a nurse and teacher in Wainwright, Alaska; she published a memoir of her time in the arctic, Arctic Mood: A Narrative of Arctic Adventures (1949).

Melvin Alvey was a lifelong seafarer, and had a long career as a coast guard, stationed at several locations in the Pacific northwest. Together with his wife Edna M. Huntley, he had three children: William Jerard Alvey (b. 1924), Charlene Alvey, and Huntley Darnell Alvey.

A. Alexis Alvey was born in Seattle and attended McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. She led a distinguished career with the Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service (W.R.C.N.S.) during the Second World War, having been selected as one of first class of that body, and she served as an officer on several naval bases across Canada.

Ernest Alvey was a seaman in the United States Navy, and served in the Spanish-American war. He later worked as an upholsterer, and retired as a Master Craftsman at General Motors. He married Aileen Casey (1884-1971), an Irish immigrant, and had a son, Maurice Francis Alvey (1903-1985). Maurice married Margaret E. Turban (b. 1911) and had two children: Robert Maurice Alvey (b. 1962) and Maureen Katharine Alvey (b. 1946).

The Lowry Family refers to parents Arthur Osborne Lowry and wife Evelyn Boden Lowry and their four sons, from oldest to youngest: Stuart Osborne (b. 9 May 1895), Wilfrid Malbon (b. July 1900), Arthur Russell (b. September 1905), and Clarence Malcolm (b. 28 July 1909). Arthur O. was born in 1870, one of many children of a Liverpool contractor and architect. Arthur himself became a successful cotton broker in Liverpool, as well as a director at various points of sugar and oil corporations. As a cotton broker, he was a head partner at Bustons and often travelled with Evelyn as the company’s international representative. Evelyn Boden, born in 1873, was the daughter of a Liverpool ship owner and mariner. Arthur and Evelyn were married on June 5, 1894, and the couple moved to various houses in neighbourhoods across the river from Liverpool until settling at what became the family home, Inglewood, in Caldy sometime shortly after youngest son Malcolm’s birth in 1909. Arthur died in 1945, survived by Evelyn, who died five years later in 1950.

Arthur was highly successful in his business, and all four of the Lowry sons went to the Leys Public School and later Cambridge. Eldest son Stuart achieved the rank of Captain in WWI. He married Marguerite (Margot) Peirce in January 1919, against his family’s wishes (Margot was a Catholic and the Lowrys Protestant; Margot was excommunicated for marrying Stuart because of the difference in religion). Stuart and Margot spent six years in Texas, where Stuart learned the cotton trade at the source of its supply chain, then returned to England where Stuart became a partner at Bustons under his father. Stuart and Margot settled in Upton, in a house called Corvelly, which the younger brothers visited frequently.

Wilfrid was a skilled sportsman in school and played on the school, local, county, and, once, the England rugby teams (he was on the England team for the game against France on January 21, 1920). Based on accounts from his brothers, Wilfred frequently acted as a stand-in father figure for Russell and Malcolm during their school years, visiting them at school and taking them on holidays during school breaks. Wilfrid became engaged, against his mother’s wishes, some time in 1924 and married in May 1925. He also became a partner in Bustons in 1926, with brother Stuart, and was a Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery in WWII.

Russell did well academically at school and went to Lile, France, in 1924/1925 to study commercial French. While in Lile he met Meg Gillies, a Scots girl with whom he fell in love; his parents were extremely opposed to his relationship with Meg. Russell became an apprentice and junior partner in Bustons, though not elevated to partner until 1 September 1938.

Arthur was obliged frequently to intervene in the affairs of youngest son Malcolm, with whom he had a strained relationship. Malcolm became a successful writer, but he was often in need of financial assistance, and his alcoholism and misadventures led to several periods where his finances were directly controlled by Arthur or by Arthur via intermediaries (lawyers and sometimes friends of Malcolm’s like Conrad Aiken). Malcolm’s relationships with his brothers were also fraught. He was closest Stuart throughout his life; though he was fairly close with Wilfrid and Russell in their younger years, they drifted apart as Wilfrid and Russell began pursuing their careers in the family business in earnest. Malcolm died in England on June 27, 1957.

The Humbird family was prominent in the lumber business from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, first in the mid-western United States, and then in the western United States and British Columbia. The son of Jacob Humbird, a builder of railroads in South America, John A. Humbird was a shareholder in the Victoria Lumber and Manufacturing Company of Chemainus, British Columbia. The company was incorporated in 1889 and dissolved in 1950.

Humbird, who had interests in several companies, formed various partnerships with Frederick Weyerhauser; this included partnerships involving the White River Lumber Company in Mason, Wisconsin, and the Sand Point Lumber Company in Sandpoint, Idaho, and the creation of the Clearwater Timber Company, also in Idaho, in 1900. The Sand Point Lumber Company was combined with the lumber holdings of Edward Rutledge in December 1900 to form the core of a new business, the Humbird Lumber Company.

Humbird's son Thomas J. Humbird became manager of the company in 1902 and was involved in the operations of several mills, including the Sand Point mill. His son, John A. Humbird (grandson of the original John A.), continued the family tradition and was one of the key figures in the development of the Seaboard Lumber Sales Company, Limited of British Columbia in 1935.

Bill and Joyce De Meester were semi-professional photographers from Ontario before settling in BC where they continued photography non-professionally. In 2002, they proposed to Deborah Greaves, the fundraising coordinator for the Okanagan Thompson International Sculpture Symposium (OTISS), that they would like to photograph the sculptures with the intent to make them available globally through different media outlets such as newspapers, magazines, postcards, books, or other fundraising opportunities.

Wallace Bakfu Chung was born in Victoria on November 1, 1925. After graduating from Victoria High School in 1945, Dr. Chung attended Victoria College and the University of British Columbia, before being accepted to McGill University’s School of Medicine in 1949. After graduating from McGill University in 1953, Dr. Chung moved to Vancouver to complete a medical residency at Vancouver General Hospital. In 1958, he was appointed Chief Resident at Vancouver General Hospital, and in 1959 entered medical practice, where he specialised in vascular surgery. Soon thereafter, Dr. Wallace Chung began teaching at the University of British Columbia, and became a full Professor of Surgery in 1972. Dr. Chung was appointed Head of the Department of Surgery at the University of British Columbia Hospital in 1980, a post he held for nearly 10 years before retiring in 1991.

Dr. Madeline Chung (née Huang) was born in Shanghai, China, and was raised in Hong Kong. She graduated from Yale Medical Mission in Hunan, China in 1948, before immigrating to North America for a medical internship at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Victoria. Her next internship was at St. Mary’s Hospital in Montreal, where she met Dr. Wallace Chung in October 1949. The two were married on June 7, 1953 in Seattle, Washington, where Dr. Madeline Chung’s grandmother lived. Dr. Madeline Chung then returned to Rochester, Minnesota to complete a medical residency in obstetrics and gynaecology at the Mayo Clinic. She then moved to Vancouver to join her husband in 1954, where she worked as a pathologist before opening her own medical practice in 1956. She became a Clinical Instructor at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine in 1964, was promoted to Clinical Assistant Professor in 1979, and became Clinical Associate Professor in 1990. For a time the only Chinese-speaking obstetrician in Vancouver, she delivered over 7,200 babies before her retirement in 1995.

Drs. Wallace and Madeline Chung were among the first Chinese-Canadians to pursue careers in medicine. When Dr. Wallace Chung arrived in 1953, there were only 7 doctors of Chinese ancestry practising in Vancouver, while Dr. Madeline Chung was the first Chinese-Canadian and the first female obstetrician in British Columbia. Together they had two children, Maria and Stephen, both of whom followed their parents into medicine.

Drs. Wallace and Madeline Chung have both contributed extensively to their community. Dr. Wallace Chung was a member of numerous cultural boards, including the Vancouver Chinese Cultural Centre, the International Dragon Boat Society, the British Columbia Heritage Trust, the Vancouver Maritime Museum, and the Canadian Multiculturalism Council, where he helped draft the 1988 Multiculturalism Act. He also served as Governor of the American College of Surgeons, President of the Canadian Society for Vascular Surgery, and Director of the B.C. Cancer Society. He was awarded a 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal (1992), a UBC Honorary Alumnus Award (2002), the Order of Canada (2005) and the Order of British Columbia (2006). Dr. Madeline Chung was a founding member of the True Light Chinese School in Vancouver, where she served as superintendent for 21 years and as treasurer for 27. She was made an honorary Life Member of the British Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons (1999).

Dr. Wallace Chung began collecting the items in the Chung Collection as a child, inspired by a poster of the Canadian Pacific steamship Empress of Asia that hung in his father’s tailor shop in Victoria. He began collecting newspaper clippings and Canadian Pacific Railway pamphlets in 1931, although he soon set aside this hobby to focus on his education. He rekindled his interest in Canadian Pacific Railway materials in the 1960s, once he had finished school and begun working. He soon became known among booksellers and dealers as a serious collector. Thanks to these established relationships, Dr. Chung was frequently contacted by dealers about items that would fit into his collection. His interest in the Canadian Pacific Railway grew to include Chinese Canadian immigration and British Columbia history, as he became interested in tracing his father’s and grandfather’s journeys from China to Canada. Dr. Chung donated this extensive collection to the University of British Columbia Library in 1999, saying, “We are giving the collection to UBC so as many people as possible can have the opportunity to understand and appreciate the struggles and joys of those who have come before them.” Other parts of Dr. Chung’s collection may be found at the Vancouver Maritime Museum.

The Ko Bong family of Victoria, B.C. is known for the military service of four siblings in WWII: Mary, John, Peter and Andrew.

When WWII broke out, hundreds of families of Chinese heritage in Canada held their breaths as their Canadian-born children signed up for the war effort. These children had grown up under the Chinese Exclusion Act and sought to fight for full and equal rights for Chinese Canadians through their service to Canada in the war. In some families, more than one child decided to enlist or was requested to report for duty.

Patriarch, KO Bong, was from China and well-known for his involvement in China’s politics. He was a personal friend of the revolutionary Chinese leader, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, and was heavily involved in generating the local support of overseas Chinese to overthrow the Manchu dynasty. During the war, Ko Bong learned how to fly in case he was needed by China for their fledgling air force.

Four of his Canadian-born children would enlist to serve in Canada’s war effort: Mary, John, Peter, and Andrew. A famous photograph taken by Yucho Chow Studio can be found in the City of Vancouver Archives of Ko Bong sitting proudly with his four children dressed in their uniforms.

Mary was the first to enlist and joined the Canadian Women’s Army Corps. A Lance Corporal, she worked as an instrument mechanic.

John started with the 16th Canadian Scottish Army Reserve and later became a member of Operation Oblivion, a select group of 13 Chinese Canadian men trained in guerrilla warfare.

Peter was with the Royal Canadian Engineers in India and also trained as a parachutist.

Andrew enlisted in January 1944 and became a Lance Corporal in the Reserve Army, assigned to the B.C. Regiment (Dukes of Connaught’s Own).

Bernard George Webber and Jean Patricia Browne met while studying for their respective teaching certifications at Provincial Normal School in Victoria, British Columbia. After graduating in 1938, they took positions in rural schools, maintaining contact by correspondence. The couple married in 1941 and made Osoyoos their first home. Bernard had been active in politics with the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) since a teenager in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He was nominated and elected as CCF candidate for Member of Legislative Assembly in 1941 representing Similkameen, serving as education critic until 1945. Throughout this time, Jean ran his constituency office and was a valued speaker on CCF issues while she maintained the couple’s home and growing family in Penticton.

After Bernard’s unsuccessful run in the next two general elections in B.C. in 1945 and 1949, the couple returned to their teaching careers. Bernard and Jean fought hard to obtain and upgrade their education. For many years while working and raising their family, they took additional courses at UBC to earn their respective Bachelors and Masters degrees, usually through summer courses.

Bernard enjoyed a distinguished career in education administration at the school, district and ministry levels, retiring in 1979 as a celebrated educator and administrator. Conversely, Jean’s teaching career reflected the prevailing attitudes about the role of women in society, and her obligations as wife and mother of five children. Bernard’s career advanced as Jean struggled to have her qualifications recognized. Jean retired in 1975 having specialized in teaching in multi-graded rural schools.

Bernard and Jean contributed to the advancement of Indigenous rights and education across their political, professional and volunteer lives. They maintained a lifelong commitment to the issue through their close friendship with Anthony Walsh, whom they met in 1940 while Walsh was teacher at the Inkameep Day School on the Nk’mip reserve. Walsh was renowned for his teaching within the day school system that integrated Indigenous knowledge and culture into classroom learning and instilled pride in his students’ native heritage at a time when the government’s residential school system sought to erase Indigenous culture. His methods contributed directly to the resurgence of Indigenous cultural production in the region, which Bernard and Jean actively supported in the 1940s and 50s through amateur theatre and drama festivals, including as members of the Society for the Revival of Indian Arts and Crafts. As an education administrator, Bernard advocated for courses in Indigenous languages, history and culture, specifically of the Haisla people while as District Superintendent of Schools in Kitimat. Jean advocated for Indigenous issues through her various writing; notably, in her authorship of the CCF’s Indigenous policy in 1945, and in her writing and editing in the 1980s on the Indigenous history of the Okanagan.

Jean and Bernard were active volunteering in local arts councils and historical societies, particularly after moving to the Okanagan in 1965. Jean made significant contributions to federal and provincial arts policy as a representative of the region. They wrote extensively on the local history of the Okanagan and Kootenays, including over many years as members of the Okanagan Historical Society where Jean served as editor of Okanagan History: Report of the Okanagan Historical Society from 1982-1988 and Bernard as its President from 1989-1991.

The couple’s careers in politics and education brought them to many rural regions of British Columbia and particularly the Okanagan where they became involved also in local arts and history. Together, they contributed to the development of political thought, the education system, arts and culture policy, history writing, and the Indigenous heritage of the province.

The Allison family traces paternal lineage to John Fall Allison (1827-1897), who arrived in what would be named the Princeton area in about 1860. John Fall Allison is the namesake of the Allison Pass, which connects the Similkameen to the Fraser Valley.

Allison married Nora Yakimtikum in 1862. “Nora and John Fall had one girl and two boys, but when in 1868 John Fall found a white partner, Susan Louisa Moir, the daughter of a Ceylon tea plantation owner, he started a second family. Nora’s sons accompanied her to the reserve and remained within First Nations culture, while her daughter Lily stayed within the Allison household as a servant, and after Lily married, her family, from which Scott descends, shifted more towards European culture.” (http://www.vancouver-historical-society.ca/PDF/March2015.pdf)

This portion of the Allison Family fonds is associated with the branch of the family with the surname Thomas, or, the descendants of John Fall Allison’s daughter Caroline Allison, who married William Heald Thomas, and with whom she raised four children.

The family members represented in the Haweis family fonds include Lionel Haweis, his father and mother, Reverend Hugh Reginald and Mary Eliza Haweis (née Joy), sister Hugolin Haweis and brother Stephen Haweis, and other relatives. The name is pronounced, "Hoyse."
Hugh Reginald Haweis was an English scholar, author and lecturer. His wife, Mary Elizabeth Haweis, was an author of women's and children's books whose book on Chaucer became a standard text for English schools. Their children included Lionel, who worked as a tea planter before moving to Vancouver to open the Rosetti Photographic Studio and later worked at UBC Library; Hugolin, a photographer, humourist and writer; and Stephen, an artist. Lionel's daughter, Renee Haweis Chipman, was a writer who worked as assistant editor to Ma Murray and served in the Canadian Army Women's Corps. She established the Lillooet Museum and was a curator until she died in 1986.

John Ridington was born in West Ham, London, England, in April 1868, the son of William Richard Ridington, a building contractor, and his wife, Cecilia James Eleanor. He was the eighth of nine children. Four of his sisters died in infancy before his birth. The three who survived all married. They were Jane Ennor (Mrs. Alexander H. Guest), 1852-1942; Elizabeth Symons (Mrs. Joseph Henry Williams), 1856-1941; and Rosina Symons (Mrs. John Ellis Griffith), 1862- 1939. The ninth child and John Ridington's only brother was William Richards Ridington, 1870-1944. The details of John Ridington's education are not known. In later life, he claimed to have been a student at the London School of Art and the University of London; he also received training for a career in teaching. William Richards Ridington emigrated to Canada in the spring of 1889, bringing his wife and two sons. The three sisters remained in England. On April 25, they sailed from Liverpool aboard the S.S. Parisian, arriving at Québec City on May 5. Then they travelled by train to Birtle, Manitoba, where he took up farming and opened a carpenter's shop in Foxwarren. John Ridington was employed as a school teacher in rural schools of northwestern Manitoba, first in the summer of 1889 at Burdette, later at Rookhurst. In January 1896, John Ridington became the publisher and editor of the Carberry News. On November 6 of the same year, he married Maggie Dykes Charleston.
When fire destroyed the press early in 1901, he sold his interest in the paper. He moved to Winnipeg, where he became "special reporter, dramatic and art critic, and editorial writer" for the Manitoba Free Press, under the editorship of J.W. Defoe, with whom Ridington developed a lifelong friendship. In 1907 Ridington changed careers again and joined the firm of William Pearson Co. as a real estate salesman. In 1910 or 1911, he moved to Vancouver and became sales manager for Canada Western Trust Co. He invested in land development but lost everything in the depression of 1913. He was destitute to the point of borrowing money from neighbours. The only work he could find was teaching a course in English literature for the Vancouver Night Schools. His daughter Margaret Dorothy Ridington died on March 28, 1912. In later years when reporting the details of his life to biographical directories, Ridington eliminated these unhappy years from the record, stating that he moved from Winnipeg to Vancouver in 1914. By August 1914, he had found employment as the "acting librarian" of the new University of British Columbia. From May to August 1916, he attended summer school at the New York State Library, Albany. UBC President Frank Wesbrook nevertheless continued to search for an experienced librarian to replace Ridington. In June 1922, Wesbrook's successor, Leonard Klinck, finally changed Ridington's title from Acting Librarian and Cataloguer to Librarian.
Ridington's wife Maggie died on April 26, 1927. He married for a second time on August 8, 1929. Muriel Patience Fallows, the daughter of William W. Fallows and his wife, Patience Seale. John and Muriel Ridington's son John Fallows Ridington was born on May 29, 1930. John Ridington retired as University Librarian on April 31, 1940, at the age of 72. In the following years, he occupied himself by acting as Secretary to the Western Gate Lodge of the Masonic Order and by writing the occasional column for the Vancouver News-Herald. He died on April 20, 1945. A portrait of John Ridington, painted in 1912 by his brother-in-law Malcolm Charleston, hangs in the Ridington Room, Main Library. Malcolm Charleson was a graduate of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he worked as a commercial artist.

Murray Aiken and Marian L. Cowie came to the University of British Columbia in the mid-1940s and remained at the University until 1959, when they went to the United States. The Cowies taught languages in the German Department. While at UBC, they befriended Geoffrey Riddehough, and that relationship continued after they left Vancouver.

Harry Keith Ralston (born September 3rd, 1921, died June 20, 2009) was the oldest of three sons of Henry Wellington Ralston (1887-1943) and Gertrude Marinda Walker (1884-1964). Keith was educated at Oaklands Elementary and at Victoria High School, where he won the Royal Institution Scholarship for Victoria District on his graduation in 1938. Proceeding to Victoria College and the University of BC, he received a BA with 1st Class Honours in History in 1942 and later completed an MA at UBC in 1965. He also did graduate work at the University of Toronto. In 1942 Keith entered the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve as an Ordinary Seaman and was discharged in 1945 as Lieutenant after serving on the Atlantic Coast. A lifelong socialist, Keith was the legislative correspondent in 1952-55 for the left-wing weekly Pacific Tribune as well as for The Fisherman and other labour newspapers. Turning to teaching, he graduated in 1956 from the Vancouver Normal School with distinction, an honour given to only ten graduates among more than 500. From 1956 to 1960 he taught at Templeton Secondary School on Vancouver's east side. In 1960-64 he was first curator of the newly-established Vancouver Maritime Museum and mounted its initial exhibitions as well as assembling its early collection. After further academic study, he was appointed to the History Department of UBC in 1967. There he specialized in teaching the history of the Canadian West and developed UBC's first course in British Columbia's history. He retired at the end of 1986 with the rank of Assistant Professor.

Edith Mary “Mollie” Ralston (born March 11, 1922) , died December 18, 2011) was a teacher in the Vancouver school system. Born March 11, 1922 in Prince Rupert, eldest child of James Owens (1887-1978) and Margaret Janet Owens (nee Anderson) (1890-1982), at the age of five months, she and her mother went to the Bulkley Valley where her father had taken up land in the community of Evelyn, 12 miles north of Smithers, BC. She grew up on the farm, and walked the 2 and a half miles to the one-room Evelyn School until Grade 8, and completed a further three years of high school through the provincial correspondence program. For Grade 12 she went with her sister Janet to Prince Rupert where the girls boarded at the convent run by the Sisters of St. Joseph. Mollie graduated in 1939 from Booth Memorial High School and came down by steamer to attend UBC that fall as WWII broke out. At UBC she completed the first two years in the Arts and Science faculty, then enrolled at Sprott-Shaw Business College to take a one-year program. She then went to work for Northwest Mortgage, the first of several office jobs. In 1944 she left her position at Marsh McLennan to travel across Canada by train to Sydney, Nova Scotia, where on July 3, 1944 she married Keith Ralston, whom she had met at UBC and who was then serving in the Royal Canadian Navy. There followed a period of moving about the country, to Vancouver in 1945-47, Toronto in 1947-49, and Victoria in 1949-54. In all these places Mollie was the major family breadwinner as her husband pursued a graduate degree in history. Mollie's two children were born in Victoria, Bruce in 1952, and Delia in 1954. In mid-1954 the family moved back to Vancouver and Keith attended Normal School, thereafter becoming a teacher in the Vancouver school system, a move made possible by Mollie's continuing office work. Settling into their first house in 1958 both were employed while Mollie also went to evening degree classes at UBC. By 1965, she had accumulated enough credits to take a year in the Faculty of Education and qualify as an elementary teacher. This second career was to last 18 years and to take her to several Vancouver schools, including Begbie Annex, General Gordon, Sir William Osler, Seymour and latterly Carnarvon. All this was plus a year in the English Midlands as an exchange teacher. Along the way by taking UBC Summer School courses she completed in 1968 the UBC program she had started almost 30 years before. Retiring in 1984, she had completed a working life of 42 years in which, as she said, there was only one year she did not file an income tax return.

The Fuller family were from Sturminster Newton, Dorset England. The three sisters of the family, Dorothy, Rosalind and Cynthia, performed traditional English, Scottish and Irish folk songs in Victorian costume; their brother Walter acted as their manager. From 1913 to 1917 the sisters toured American towns and cities, especially in the Eastern and Midwestern United States. During this period Walter Fuller was based in New York City. Walter Fuller was married to Crystal Eastman (feminism activist and sister of Max Eastman, author and activist). At the end of the First World War, Walter Fuller returned to England.
Source: McLeods Books. “The Fuller Sisters in U.S.A.” (booksellers’ description).
Available for consultation upon request in collection accession file.

Minoru Kudo was born on December 2, 1886 in Ariho-mura, Takada-gun, Hiroshima-ken, Japan as the second son of Ryonosuke Kudo and Utano Kudo (nee Nomura). In December 1906, Kudo left Japan for the Americas, arriving in Vancouver in 1907. Kudo worked as an office clerk for the local Japanese press, the Tairiku Nippo, and spent much of his early years in Canada studying English.

In 1911, Kudo purchased land to farm in Mission City, B.C. He was only the third Japanese immigrant to do so. In 1916, Kudo co-founded the Mission Japanese Farmers’ Association and was elected the association’s first chairman.

Toward the end of 1918, Kudo temporarily returned to Japan and married Hatsune Kudo (nee Kawamura). Hatsune was born in 1895 to Yasu Kawamura and Toyonosuke Kanaya and was a primary school teacher.

In addition to the family’s farming work in Mission, the couple worked as teachers at the community’ Japanese language schools, and Minoru Kudo served as principal between 1930 and 1942. They had 6 children: Joyce Harumi (later Miyagawa) [1920-1969], Roland Kho [1921-2003], Margaret Makiko [1923-1945], Alice Chie [1924 – 2018], Jack Sadamu [192- - after 2003] ,and Kathleen Chisato (later Merken) [1937- ].
Due to his command of the English language and leadership positions within the Mission Japanese Canadian community, Minoru Kudo volunteered as a daishonin (scrivener), helping community members to navigate disputes, complete paperwork, and compose communication (often in English). This role is something that he continued to fill during the forced displacement of Japanese Canadians from British Columbia in 1942. During this period, Kudo communicated with the British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) as well as with land ‘custodians’ and farm managers to coordinate where Japanese Canadian families could find work in Alberta and to advocate for their better treatment and compensation.
Around 1947, the Minoru, Hatsune, and Kathleen moved to Chatham, Ontario and worked at the general hospital there. In 1952, they moved to London, Ontario, where Minoru Kudo worked for Wonder Bakeries as a nightwatchman.
Alice Chie Kudo was born in 1924 in Mission City, B.C. She enrolled at UBC in 1942 before her education was disrupted due to the forced displacement of Japanese Canadians from B.C. She was one of 76 students at UBC who were forcibly removed. Kudo ultimately graduated from Queen’s University in 1950 with a B.A. in mathematics and physics. She continued on to get a MA in library science from the University of Montreal. Kudo worked for the Canadian National Railway from 1953 to 1962 and then for the Financial Times of Canada from 1962 to 1972. From 1975 to 1989, she worked as an editorial researcher for Reader’s Digest.
Kathleen Chisato Merken (nee Kudo) is the youngest child of Minoru and Hatsune Kudo. She was 4 years old when the family was forcibly displaced from B.C. Kathleen graduated from the University of Toronto with a B.A. in Honours Modern Languages and Literatures in 1959, an M.A. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1961, a PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of California at Berkeley in 1966. Following her graduation from Berkeley, Merken worked as a freelance translator for advertising agencies in Japan. She then held an appointment as a visiting assistant processor in the Department of French at UBC from 1971-1972, after which she enrolled in a doctoral program with the Asian studies department. Merken completed this doctorate in 1979 and served as a visiting professor in the Asian Studies department for a year. She then served as a visiting professor at the University of Montreal (82082), as a lecturer at McGill and a charge de cours at the University of Montreal (1983-1984), and finally as an assistant professor and later faculty lecturer in the Department of East Asian Studies at McGill (1986-200-). She retired in the early 2000s but continued to work as a translator both professionally and personally.

Henry Forbes Angus (1891-1991) was born in Victoria, B.C. While attending high school, he also spent part of the 1906-07 school year at the Lycée Descartes in France. He graduated from McGill University in 1911, and then in 1914, he went to Oxford University. His studies were interrupted by war service, but he returned to Oxford and obtained his MA in 1919. In 1919 Angus joined the University of British Columbia faculty as an assistant professor of Economics. From 1930 to 1956, he served as head of the Department of Economics, Political Science and Sociology. Angus was also a Dean of Graduate Studies from 1949 to 1956. Among his many roles and responsibilities, he was also a member of the Rowell-Sirois Commission on Dominion-Provincial relations, a member of the Royal Commission on Transportation, and Chairman of the Public Utilities of B.C. From 1940 to 1945, Angus was seconded to work in the Canadian Department of External Affairs. He also worked for full rights for Japanese-Canadians in the inter-war years and vigorously opposed their incarceration and suspension of rights during the Second World War.
Annie M. Angus (wife of Henry Angus) was formerly a Trustee and Chairman of the Vancouver School Board and a volunteer worker. Other family members include Henry Dunckley (Angus' grandfather), who was editor of the Manchester Examiner Times (1855-1889), William H. Dunckley (his uncle) and Mary E. Angus (his mother).

Hunter Campbell Lewis was born in Tamworth, Ontario, in 1897 and graduated from the University of British Columbia with a B.A. (1923) and M.A. (1928) in English. He joined the Department of English in 1929 and remained on staff until his retirement in 1962. Lewis was well known to generations of students for his course in contemporary English literature. In addition to his teaching duties, Lewis was also recognized for his activities in the art world, serving as president of the Federation of Canadian Artists. Lewis was also one of the organizers of the Vancouver branch of the Civil Liberties Union and a former chairman of the Committee on Indian Citizenship.

UBC President Norman MacKenzie was a nephew to Archibald Oswald McRae.

Beatrice Cooke was born in Nanaimo in 1901. She taught school for several years before marrying. She raised six children before she became an undergraduate at UBC. Cooke received her BA from the University of British Columbia in 1959 and a BSW in 1960. She worked as a social worker until 1965. Cooke was widowed in 1960 and married Albert C. Cooke in 1963. In addition to her career as a social worker and mother, Cooke wrote short stories and poetry. She died in 1997.

Albert C. Cooke was born in 1895 in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. He received his BA from the University of Manitoba in 1917, a BA (1923) and an MA (1926) from Oxford. Cooke served in the army during World War I. After his discharge from the military, Cooke embarked on a lengthy teaching career at several institutions, including Wesley College, Winnipeg (1919-1921, 1924-1929), Brandon Collegiate Institute (1923-1924), and the University of Manitoba (1928-1929). Cooke taught in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia between 1929 and 1963. Albert Cooke died in 1986.

Professor of Classics at the University of British Columbia, Harry Tremaine Logan, was born on March 5, 1887, in Londonderry, Nova Scotia. He was educated at Vancouver High School; McGill University (Honours Classics, 1908); Oxford University (1908-11), where he was a British Columbia Rhodes Scholar; Presbyterian College (McGill, 1911-12); and New College Edinburgh (1912-13), where he studied Theology. Harry Logan and Gwyneth Murray met in Oxford in 1909 and were engaged to be married in 1911 when Logan returned to Canada. They were married in 1916, shortly after the 72nd Seaforth Highlanders arrived in England. Gwyneth Murray was born in 1888 in Oxford, England, the daughter of James Murray, the editor of the Oxford English Dictionary. She attended Oxford University for a short time but later moved to Cambridge University, studying mathematics and physics. From 1912 to 1916, she taught at the Perse School for Girls at Cambridge. Logan taught Classics at McGill University College of British Columbia from 1913-15 until his career was interrupted by war service. He later returned to Oxford, where he received his Master's degree in 1919. In 1920 Logan began teaching at the University of British Columbia, where he was successively Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor of Classics and Head of the Department of Classics until 1952. Professor Logan left the University of British Columbia in 1936 to become Principal of the Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School, Vancouver Island, where he remained until 1945. In 1946 he became Acting General Secretary of the Fairbridge Society in London, England, and Secretary between 1947-49. He returned to the University of British Columbia in 1949. His many activities with the University include his senate membership (1930-48); Member of the Board of Governors (1941-46); Trustee of the B.C. Canteen Fund; Editor, UBC Alumni Chronicle; and, notably, author of the first official history of the University, Tuum Est (1958).
During World War I, Logan served as a trooper in the King's Colonial Cavalry and King Edward Horse in Oxford (1908-11). Later, he was with the 72nd Seaforth Highlanders of Canada and Canadian Machine Gun Corps (1915-18) as, successively, Lieutenant, Captain, and Major. He was mentioned in dispatches and won the Military Cross. In 1919 he prepared the official history of the Canadian Machine Gun Corps. He later commanded the 12th Canadian Machine Gun Brigade, Vancouver (1924-27), and the UBC Contingent, Canadian Officers Training Corps (1928-30), as Lieutenant Colonel. Harry Logan died in 1971.

The Budd family were part-owners of the building known as "The Gables" at 5700-5736 University Boulevard, in the commercial area near UBC known as the "University Village." Henry Budd was involved in the construction of the building and was later a member of the "University Hill Syndicate," which owned the property.

The history of the Warren family dates back to the 1700s in England. Harry Warren accumulated extensive documentation of the history of the Warren
family. Harry V. Warren was born in Anacortes, Washington, in 1904. He completed his B.A. (1926) and B.Sc. in geological engineering (1927) at UBC. In 1927 he went to Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and earned his doctorate in natural science in 1929. After completing post-graduate work at the California Institute of Technology, Warren returned to UBC as a lecturer in the Dept. of Geology and Geography in 1932. By 1945 he had been promoted to professor. Amongst his numerous outstanding contributions, Warren pioneered the study of biogeochemistry, in which plant life is used to help detect the presence of trace elements. He also studied the link between geology and medicine, particularly the impact of trace elements on health. Throughout his career, Warren received numerous honours as a scholar, teacher and amateur sportsman. Although he retired from the University in 1973, he remained active in multiple organizations and published a wide range of articles.

The Brender á Brandis family is a family of artists and writers with whom Albert and Beatrice Cooke were acquainted.

Thomas Edward Wilkinson (d . 1914) was a Bishop of the Church of England who served in Northern and Central Europe and in West Africa . The Wilkinson family (Thomas H., Margaret (Peggy) and Kenneth) were pioneers in British Columbia and had ties to schools in the lower mainland, York House School and St. George's School, as well as the Canadian Forestry Association's British Columbian branch.

Sir Edward Belcher (1799-1877) was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Members of the Belcher family moved to New England from England in the seventeenth century and then to Nova Scotia, where Belcher’s grandfather, Johnathan Belcher, became the first chief justice. In 1811, Edward Belcher and his family moved back to England, where he joined the Royal Navy the following year. Belcher gained recognition as a surveyor on a number of voyages, including the Beechey expedition in the mid-1820s, and in 1829 he was promoted to Commander. He married Diana Jolliffe in 1830, but the marriage lasted only a few years. In 1841, in reward for his participation in the conflict leading to the ceding of Hong Kong to Great Britain, Belcher was made a Companion of the Order of Bath. He was subsequently knighted in 1843 for his success in surveying the west coast of America. From 1852 to 1854, Belcher commanded an expedition to the Arctic in search of Sir John Franklin. In 1872 he attained the rank of Admiral.

The Brayshaw family has a long history, tracing back to 1379, with a large portion of their lineage found in the Yorkshire area of England. This includes a notable relation to the Giggleswick parish and School, including the Brayshaw Library at Giggleswick School, where generations of the Brayshaws were educated.

Of the more recent family represented in this fonds is Thomas Brayshaw (1854 – 1931), located in Stackhouse, who was employed in the legal profession and served as a governor for the Giggleswick school. He was an avid historian of the Settle area, and published on the topic. His son, Thomas Brayshaw (1886 to 1967), was born in Settle, Yorkshire. He served in World Wars I and II, moved to Canada in 1911, and became a well-known sport fisherman who studied and illustrated fish in multiple publications. His son, T. C. Brayshaw (1919-2014), was born in Yorkshire but lived most of his life in Canada, where he was a botanist.

George William Trayton (W.T.) Bush was born in Camberwell (London), England in 1889. In 1910, George immigrated to Winnipeg, Canada, where he was soon employed by the Dominion Express Company (later called the Canadian Pacific Express Company) as a traffic solicitor. He fought in the First World War, serving in the Canadian 1st Division for three and a half years. On January 19, 1922, George married Pearl Mee and settled in Vancouver. The couple’s son, Patrick George Seymour Bush, was born in 1932. George continued working at Canadian Pacific Express, retiring in 1949. At the time of his retirement, he owned two apartment blocks in Vancouver.

Pearl Mee was born in 1898. Pearl was the second child of Charles Mee and Annie Mee (née Seymour), early settlers in North Vancouver. After her marriage, Pearl did not work outside of her home.

Patrick George Seymour Bush studied at the University of British Columbia, graduating with a Bachelor of Laws degree in May 1958.
George, Pearl, and Patrick Bush are now deceased, dying in May of 1965, March of 1996, and August of 2015, respectively.

William Bamford (b. 3 June 1826) was born in England and immigrated to Canada in 1860. On 26 August 1862, Bamford married Lydia Ann Blackley in Belleville, Ontario. Blackley was a descendent of American Loyalists who fled Boston, Massachusetts, in 1785 and settled in Picton, Prince Edward County, Ontario. William Bamford and Lydia Blackley lived in Ancaster and Burlington, Ontario, where Bamford worked as a manufacturer and later as a store keeper and merchant. The couple had three sons that lived to adulthood: William Blackley Bamford; Charles Harry Sydney Bamford, who became the director of Ashdown Hardware Company; and Thomas Henry Lord Bamford, who was a merchant of the firm of Hicks and Bamford.

William Blackley Bamford (10 Sept. 1863-29 Aug. 1946) was a railroader, beginning his career in 1880 as a telegraph operator. In 1889, he married Henrietta Odell in in Sherbrooke, Quebec, and had at least one son, William Blackley Stanley Bamford, and one daughter, Florence Odell Bamford (d. 7 July 1918). Bamford served as a Canadian Pacific Railway operator, station agent, and later traveling freight agent and district freight agent in several Ontario cities and towns. He moved to St. John, New Brunswick, in 1910 to act as a division freight agent before returning to Ontario in 1916. In 1920 he was transferred to the Kootenay and Boundary Division at Nelson, British Columbia. Bamford’s retirement from the CPR became effective 31 December 1928 after 48 years as a railroader.

William Blackley Stanley Bamford (24 Jan. 1890-9 Oct. 1966) was born in Elora, Ontario, and enjoyed a long career in the banking industry. In 1908, he secured his first position with the Traders Bank of Canada in Tweed, Ontario, and in 1917, he obtained a job as a temporary clerk with the Bank of Montreal. He continued with the company in various roles and through a transfer to Vancouver, British Columbia, until his retirement in April 1952. Bamford married Amy Lauretta Huestis on 26 December 1929 at St. Mark’s Church in Vancouver. The couple had one son, William Huestis Bamford.

William Huestis Bamford (17 Sept. 1930- ) was at born in, Vancouver, British Columbia. After completing his schooling in Vancouver, Bamford worked briefly in the British Columbia forestry sector before joining the Canadian Army. Bamford acted as a driver mechanic, attaining the rank of Lance Corporal, and spent one year overseas in Korea before leaving the service in April 1954. Bamford then worked briefly as a taxi driver before becoming an employee of Canada Post in June 1956. Bamford served as a letter carrier and later as a supervisory letter carrier in Richmond and Vancouver until his retirement. Bamford married Esther Adelina Lasell Blyth in July 1957 in Vancouver. Bamford was step-father to his wife’s four children from a prior marriage: Lynne, Sharon, Roy, and Verne.

William Blackley Bamford, William Blackley Stanley Bamford, and William Huestis Bamford were all avid diarist and kept line-a-day or page-a-day diaries for most of their adult lives.

The McLennan family immigrated from Kintail, Scotland, to Canada in 1802 on the ship “Neptune,” initially settling in the province of Quebec. After the death of Murdoch McLennan (1746-1803), his widow, Christina McLennan (d. 1841), and her children moved to Glengarry County, Ontario. In 1823, the family took up land on the 4th concession of Glengarry, where they lived until 1847, when John McLennan (1789-1866) bought property on the shore of Lake St. Francis, east of Lancaster. John McLennan rose to become a man of some importance in southern Glengarry County where he held various minor offices, including clerk of the court at Williamstown, and worked as a conveyancer. John’s fourth child with his first wife was Hugh McLennan (1825-1899), who married Isabella Stewart, the daughter of Neil Stewart of Vankleek Hill. In 1853, Hugh McLennan and his brother founded the firm of J. and H. McLennan, a grain and shipping company, which later became the Montreal Transportation Company. In 1867, Montreal became the home of this branch of the McLennan family. In addition to his interest in the Montreal Transportation Company, Hugh McLennan has interests in the International Coal Company Ltd., the Black Diamond Steamship Company, and Williams Manufacturing Company, as well as serving as a director of the Bank of Montreal, among other companies. A number of Hugh McLennan’s nine surviving children made significant contributions to their chosen fields. John Stewart McLennan (1853-1939) was a businessman in the coal industry, a newspaper publisher, a Conservative Senator for Sydney, Nova Scotia, and the author of books including “Louisbourg from Its Foundation to Its Fall, 1713–1758.” William McLennan (1856-1904), was a notary, scholarly antiquarian, and the successful translator and author of poems, short stories, novels, and other works, including “Spanish John,” “In Old France and New,” “The Span o’ Life, A Tale of Louisbourg and Quebec,” and “Songs of Old Canada.” Francis McLennan (1857-1940) was a lawyer and the founder of the McLennan Travelling Libraries, in addition to contributing time and resources to McGill University’s Redpath Library and other cultural institutions. Bartlett McLennan (1868-1918) was a businessman before joining the 5th Battalion of the Royal Highlanders of Canada as a lieutenant after the start of World War I. He rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel before being killed in action at Amiens, France. Isabella Christine McLennan (1870-1960) was a philanthropist, her favorite cause being McGill University, particularly its library. Upon her death, her bequest to McGill University funded the McLennan Library, which was officially inaugurated on 6 June 1969. Hugh McLennan’s great-grandson, also named Hugh McLennan (1927-2004), earned a PhD in Neurophysiology from McGill University and later became a Professor in the Department of Physiology at the University of British Columbia.

For details on Inouye Family, see authority records of the following Inouye family members:
Morikawa, Jitsuo
Inouye, Hatsuno
Inouye, Beverly
Inouye, Zennosuke

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.

The Farris family was considered a prominent family in the Vancouver area, producing distinguished lawyers and scholars over several generations. The patriarch, John Wallace de Beque Farris (1878–1970) was a successful lawyer in Vancouver and an active member of the Canadian Bar Association. Farris was also active in politics throughout his life, and acted as the Liberal MLA for Vancouver, the Attorney General and Minister of Labour, and was called to the Senate in 1937. Evlyn Fenwick Farris (1878-1971) was a scholar and advocate for continuing education and women's rights. She was the founder of the first University Women's Club of Vancouver, and was elected to the Senate of the University of British Columbia. These eminent positions afforded the Farris family an elevated station in their community, and the opportunity to associate with families not only in the Vancouver elite, but with other prominent Canadians.

John Wallace and Evlyn married in 1905, and had four children, Katherine Hay, Donald Fenwick, Ralph Keirstead, and John Lauchlan. The Farris family's prestige also contributed to the success of their children. Evlyn and John Wallace's son, John Lauchlan Farris (1911-1986) was well-known as the Chief Justice of British Columbia, and was a Harvard Law School graduate. After being called to the bar in British Columbia in 1935, he had a successful legal career and became a leading litigation counsel in Vancouver. Dorothy Beatrice Farris (1912-2004), a University of British Columbia graduate, and homemaker, married John Lauchlan in 1933 and had three children, Ann, Haig, and Katherine.

Emil was born on October 10, 1918 in Wynyard, Saskatchewan to Paul Bjarnason and Halldóra Guðrun Jónsson. Emil attended elementary school up until grade 10 in Wynyard, and completed his high school in Vancouver at John Oliver High School. He won a Royal Institution Scholarship to go to the University of British Columbia. During his summers he worked for the American Can Company, packing tins. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1940 and won a scholarship to attend a Master’s program at Queens University. At the age of 50, Bjarnason enrolled in a doctoral program at Simon Fraser University.

Emil worked with the Dominion Bureau of Statistics in Ottawa, and during the Second World War was seconded to the Department of Labour Mobilization to be the chief statistician to conduct mobilization statistics. After the war, he resigned from civil service and moved to Vancouver to establish his own labour consulting service, the Trade Union Research Bureau. He served as director and president of his company for 44 years. As a life long Communist from a family of communists he dedicated his life to the betterment of working people world wide. Emil distinguished himself for his research on behalf of many unions including the International Woodworkers of America (IWA), the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), Mine Mill and Smelter Workers, United Fishermen and Allied Workers (UFAWU), and many locals of both the Firefighters and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). In 1973 he co-founded the Dogwood Foundation for Socialist Education to further the dissemination of labour-left works and ideas. He was also a member political organizations such as the Peace Council, the League for Democratic Rights, and became a co-founder of the Canada-Cuba Friendship Association in 1961.

During his career, Bjarnason published many pamphlets on topical economics and upon retirement wrote about his family genealogy back to the 900s. He wrote two more books, The Whole Truth, humorous episodes from his youth and a bilingual translation of some of the Icelandic Saga. Bjarnason was also the associate editor of the Icelandic Canadian Club of British Columbia (ICC of BC) newsletter for ten years and has contributed pieces to the Icelandic Canadian, and Lögberg-Heimskringla. He was awarded a Life membership in the ICC of BC. He died on October 12, 2006.

Spider Robinson was born in 1948 in the Bronx, New York, He graduated from Suny Stony Brook, Long Island, N.Y, with a B.A. in English. He married Jeanne Rubbicco in 1975 . Born in Boston in 1948, she attended the Boston Conservatory of Music, Dance and Drama, 1966-1968, and studied ballet and modern dance techniques at numerous schools since 1968 . After their marriage they moved to Nova Scotia and Jeanne was the founder, director, resident choreographer/teacher of the Nova Dance Theatre, 1980-1987.
Since 1973 Spider Robinson has been publishing short stories, novelettes and novellas in Omni, Analog, Destinies and other magazines. In addition to science fiction novels and short stories, he has written book reviews and articles for magazines and publications of science fiction organizations . Three novels, Stardance (1978 ; Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards), Starseed (1991) and Starmind (1994) were written in collaboration with Jeanne. Spider and Jeanne Robinson won Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards for Stardance . Spider robinson also won other international, national, and regional awards including the John W . Campbell Award for the best new writer (1974), Hugo Award for Best Novella for a portion of Telempath (1976), Hugo Award for Best Short Story for "Melancholy Elephants" (1983) and frequent AnLab awards, 1973-84. Some of his other works included Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (1977), Antinomy (1980), Time Travelers Stricly Cash (1981), Mindkiller (1982), Night of Power {1985), Time Pressure (1987), Callahan's Lady (1989), Copyright Violation (1990), Lady Slings the Booze (1992), The Callahan Touch (1993), and Off the Wall at Callahan's (1994) . They lived in Nova Scotia after getting married until they moved to Vancouver in July 1987.