POON Lin Tsing's future husband, WONG Wing Yun, journeyed to Canada in the 1880s to work on the railway. He was 38 years old when he returned to China in 1910 to marry and arrange for his young wife to join him in Canada in 1912.

Lin Tsing's ship docked in Victoria on September 27, 1912. She was 26 years old and had endured the long ocean voyage while very pregnant. Within two weeks after she arrived in Canada, her first child, a boy named Paul Wong, was born on October 11, 1912.

The family was constantly relocating, moving between B.C, Alberta and Saskatchewan as they owned and/or operated small town cafes, grocery stores and laundries.

There is one amusing story of Lin Tsing that has been passed down in the family. There was little if no welfare for Chinese who fell on hard times. So during a period when there was practically no food for Lin Tsing to feed her family, she got very creative. Apparently, she caught a skunk one day and fed it to the family for supper. Somehow she managed to avoid the scent glands.

Lin Tsing passed away in Whitecourt, Alberta in 1927.

The dispute which developed in the Department of Political Science, Sociology and Anthropology at Simon Fraser University began in 1969 when a trustee was appointed to administer the department. A strike of some faculty and students ensued and the resulting turmoil over controversial promotion and tenure decisions resulted in censure from the Canadian Association of University Teachers and the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association. During this time Nathan S. Popkin was fired.

Nicholas N. Poppe was Russian, born in Yantai, Shandong, China. He began teaching at the Institute for Modern Oriental Languages in 1920. He spoke fluent Mongolian, and his research focused on studies of the Altaic language family.

The Port Albion Cannery was located near Ucluelet, BC, on the west coast of Vancouver Island. It was built ca. 1927, possibly by the Banfield Packing Company. The plant operated primarily as a canning and processing station; a modern cannery, reduction plant, and shipyard was built up on the site after the 1936 purchase by the Nootka Packing Company, and as late as 1948 the plant consisted of a cannery, mild cure station, fishing station, and fish meal and oil plant. The plant primarily processed herring and pilchards.

The Port Albion cannery was a branch plant of several companies between the 1920s and 1940s. It was likely in operation by the 1926/1927 fishing season. Possibly, the Port Albion cannery was operated by Albion Fisheries Ltd (previously the Albion Fish Reduction and Oil Refining Company). The Banfield Packing Company, which operated in tandem with the Nootka Packing Company, apparently took over operation of an Ucluelet plant owned by Albion Fisheries sometime between 1931 and 1936; the Port Albion Cannery was located in Ucluelet, and while it is unknown whether it is the same as the Albion Fisheries plant taken over by the Banfield Packing Company, it is likely the two plants were at least contemporaneous.

The Port Albion Cannery was definitely purchased by Nootka Packing in 1936 and by British Columbia Packers sometime after 1948. Nootka Packing was incorporated in 1916 and reorganized in 1937, at which time it was renamed the Nootka Packing Company Ltd. At around the time of the reorganization, a sibling company, the Banfield Packing Company Ltd. (1936), was incorporated; the two companies shared an office in Vancouver, their charters imply they were intended to operate in tandem rather than as competitors, and executives of the Nootka Packing Company signed Banfield Packing Company correspondence multiple times. A third company, the Nootka-Banfield Company, was incorporated in 1940 and also operated out of the shared Nootka and Banfield office in Vancouver. The Nootka-Banfield Company, Nootka Packing Company, and Banfield Packing Company were nominally distinct entities but worked very closely, and when the Nootka-Banfield Company was purchased by the Canadian Fishing Company (CFC) in 1945, all three (Nootka-Banfield, Nootka, and Banfield) went into voluntary liquidation within two months of each other. The Port Albion Cannery, as one of the Nootka Packing Company’s assets purchased by the Canadian Fishing Company, was transferred to the CFC at the time of purchase. Despite the liquidations, very little disruption of day-to-day operations at any of the Nootka-Banfield, Nootka, or Banfield plants seems to have occurred as a result of the 1945 CFC purchase. The Port Albion cannery was still in operation in 1948, and BC Packers purchased the plant sometime after that.

The Positive Women's Network (PWN) was formed in 1991, in Vancouver, British Columbia, as a support group run for and by women living with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV positive/AIDS) and/or Hepatitis C (HCV). Their values included responding to the needs of individual women through women-specific services, working together as a community of women infected and affected by HIV and/or hepatitis C, recognizing the impact of colonization on the history and experiences of Indigenous women, applying the principles of Greater Involvement of People with AIDS (GIPA) and Meaningful Involvement of Women with AIDS (MIWA), working together across sectors on shared issues and goals, and being a trans-inclusive space that was also child friendly.

In order to achieve these values, the organization offered free programs and resources to women living with HIV and hepatitis C , women who were vulnerable to those diseases, as well as to health care and service providers throughout British Columbia. These programs supported communities in providing a full spectrum of non-judgmental care to women and their families. The PWN provided support and education in the form of advocacy, retreats, a drop-in centre, food bank, hospital visits, a hot lunch program, information and referrals, one to one support sessions, support groups, telephone counselling, and support for family and care providers.

One year after its foundation in 1991, the PWN received an invitation to join the Pacific AIDS Resource Centre (PARC) partnership on Seymour St. in downtown Vancouver. Originally a volunteer based, small peer support group, by 1993 the PWN had hired its first paid staff members, including an executive director, a part-time office coordinator, and a part-time newsletter coordinator. They started producing a quarterly magazine at this time, "The Positive Side" and would continue publishing and distributing it over the course of the next twenty two years. In 1995 the PWN moved into the "Women's Centre" within PARC and began the Physician Education Project to educate health care providers on women’s specific HIV/AIDS related issues. As the organization continued to grow they began several research projects, partnered with AIDS Vancouver and Mclaren Housing, continued with the Health Provider Education Project, launched a female condom campaign, and created the first “Pocket Guide for Women Living with HIV”, published and distributed nationally. By the year 2000 PWN moved to its own office on Davie St.

In 2001 they created and distributed the “HIV & Women Toolkit” and in 2002-03 they launched the Women and AIDS Virtual Education (WAVE) website. They formed a partnership with Youthco and held their first Aboriginal Women’s retreat. Over the next several years they would hold many other retreats, develop a women’s retreat toolkit, and receive an AccolAID Award for Innovative Programs and Services. In 2008 PWN launched the Provincial Service Provider Training Program, and in 2009 they created the Positive Players project including the You Should Know (YSK) website. In 2010 they began the Leadership, Engagement, Action, and Dialogue (LEAD) Provincial Needs Assessment, and launched a peer support training program. By 2012 over 760 HIV + women were members of PWN, and they had 7 full time employees on staff. At this time they launched the Aboriginal Women’s Support Group, and published and distributed the Pocket Guide on Aging for Women with HIV. In April of 2017 the PWN Board of Directors voted to close the organization due to lack of funding and the changing landscape of HIV/AIDS services in British Columbia.

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Helen Potrebenko was born June 21, 1940 on a farm in Woking, Alberta. She moved to Vancouver in order to attend university and with the intention of becoming a teacher, but instead went on to earn a sociology degree. She held various jobs including taxi driver, lab technician, office temp, legal secretary, and bookkeeper, but is best known as a published author.
Her early writing appeared in "Pedestal," Canada's first women's liberation newspaper, and she has published numerous books, including short stories, poems, plays, and novels.
Considered "one of Vancouver's most uncompromising feminist writers," and a self-described "working-class feminist," Potrebenko deals primarily with the realities and challenges faced by working-class women in the 1970s and 1980s. Her second book, "No Streets of Gold" (1977) is a social history of Ukrainians in Alberta.
Potrebenko was also very involved with labour activism and unions, particularly with SORWUC (the Service, Office, and Retail Workers' Union of Canada). She participated in meetings and picket lines, including the protest to obtain a first contract by workers of The Muckamuck restaurant on Davie Street, Vancouver. These issues and events also feature prominently in some of her work.

The Potters's Guild of British Columbia was founded in 1955 by Olea Davis.

Alfred Myrick Pound was born on Prince Edward Island. In his twenties Pound abandoned his legal studies to work at the St. John Telegraph, but he resumed his interest in law after settling in Vancouver in 1900. In 1901 he entered into partnership in the firm Champion & Pound. He was interested in B.C. literature and was a member of the Canadian Authors' Association, the Vancouver Poetry Society and the Vagabond Club. Pound occasionally wrote articles, usually biographies, for newspapers and magazines. Pound's library was one of the best private collections in Canada and was especially rich in the works of his friends Bliss Carman and Sir Charles G.D. Roberts.

Dwight Brooks, a former physician, and Michael J. Scanlon, a saleseman, formed the Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Company in Minnesota in 1901. Brooks acted as president and Scanlon as Vice President. Together they invested in tracts of Forest in British Columbia, and moved there in the early 1900's.. In 1908 Brooks-Scanlon merged with O’Brien to form Brooks, Scanlon and O’Brien, with plans to enter the newsprint business. In 1909 Brooks-Scanlon and O'Brien purchased water and property rights previously held by the Canadian Industrial Company along the Powell River, and later that year Powell River Paper Company Limited was incorporated for the purpose of newsprint manufacture. Townsite and plant construction began in 1910, and the Powell River Pulp and Paper Mill was built in 1912.

Between the years 1930 and 1931 both Brooks and Scanlon would pass away, while the Great Depression had a negative affect on the newsprint and pulp markets. Powell River maintained production to a lesser extent during this time. In 1939 Powell River was one of a group of pulp and paper companies indicted by a grand jury in San Francisco, California, for conspiring to fix prices. The vice president at the time, Harold Foley, pleaded no contest and paid fines as a result of the indictment.

The Powell River Company merged with MacMillian Bloedel in Dec 1959 and became known as MacMillan Bloedel & Powell River Ltd. Harold Foley, former president of the Powell River Company and other former directors of the Powell River Company, resigned as directors from the merged company in 1961. In 1966 Powell River was dropped from the name and the company became MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. In 1998 MacMillian Bloedel sold the plant and the site to Pacifica Papers. MacMillan Bloedel retained their timber rights, which included Stillwater Division, until they sold them to Weyerhaeuser in 1999. Weyerhaeuser sold these rights to Cascadia shortly after purchasing them.;Pacifica Papers divested themselves of the Powell River and Lois Lake dams and Powell River Energy was formed. In August 2001 Pacifica Papers sold the mill and plant site to Norske Skog Canada Ltd. With the increased holdings the name changed to NorskeCanada. In Oct 2005 the shareholders approved another name change, this time to Catalyst Paper Corporation.

Arriving in Revelstoke in 1972, William Douglas Powell, 1934-1999, he spent over twenty years involved in journalism in the area as a writer and editor for publications such as the Revelstoke Herald, the Dam Advertiser, and Unique.

Desmond Power was a born in Tientsin (天津), China to his parents Stephen and Grace Power. Desmond would spend his early years in China until his eventual internment by the Japanese occupying force during the Second World War. After his release, Desmond settled in Vancouver, Canada and has since spent his time researching and writing about his experiences living in both Imperial and Republican China.

William Duncan Powrie was born in Toronto and later studied in the US. He went on to work both at Michigan State University and the University of Wisconsin. The UBC Department of Food Sciences was created as part of the Faculty of Agriculture in 1968. In 1969, Powrie moved to UBC as Head of Food Sciences.

Margaret Prang was born in Stratford, Ontario, in 1921. She received a B.A. from the University of Manitoba (1945) and an M.A. (1953), and a Ph.D. (1959) from the University of Toronto. She joined the Department of History at the University of British Columbia in 1959 and served as department head from 1974 to 1979. She also served on the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada from 1973 to 1979.

Harry Noyes Pratt was born on July 14, 1879, in River Falls, Wisconsin. As a young man, he worked as a bookkeeper and purchasing agent. By 1920 he was calling himself a "writer of verse" (despite the fact that his middle name is a homonym for "noise"). He earned that title with two volumes of poetry, Mother of Mine and Other Verse (1918) and Hill Trails and Open Sky: A Book of California Verse (1919). As the title of the second book suggests, Pratt made a name for himself in the Golden State. He lived there as early as 1910 with his Californian wife and resided at one time or another in Lodi, Alameda, Berkeley, and Sacramento. Eventually he would become editor of The Overland Monthly, art critic of the San Francisco Chronicle, and curator and/or director of the Haggin Museum in Stockton and the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. His poetry and short stories were published in Short Stories, Ace-High Magazine, All-Story Love Stories, and Argosy, as well as in anthologies of verse. As a California poet of the 1910s-1930s, Pratt may very well known Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961). (Update: See the comment below.) The title of Pratt's operetta Atlantis (1926) implies that the author had an interest in the fantastic. His story for Weird Tales confirms that. Called "The Curse of Ximu-tal," Pratt's was the cover story for the August 1930 issue of the magazine. The cover and interior illustrations were by Hugh Rankin. Harry Noyes Pratt died on May 19, 1944, in Sacramento, two months short of his sixty-fifth birthday.

Patrice Eileen Pratt was both in Akron, Ohio, USA on March 17, 1948. She was raised in Phoenix, Arizona from the age of seven to eighteen. She graduated from Xavier High School in 1966 and later attended the University of San Francisco from 1966-1968. In 1969, she immigrated to Canada, and attended the University of Manitoba in 1970. On November 27, 1974, Pratt became a naturalized Canadian Citizen. Pratt later attended B.C. Institute of Technology from 1985-1987.

In Manitoba, Pratt worked with both the Manitoba Health Services Commission and the Manitoba Government Employees Association. She chaired several committees including, Membership, Grievances and Appeals, Staff, Finance and Status of Women and was involved as a member in several other capacities. She was employed as Employee Relations Officer from 1974-1976.

In the mid-1970s Pratt relocated to British Columbia where we worked with the British Columbia Government Employees Union (BCGEU) from 1976 until 2007. She held several positions within the Union as committee chair and member, Staff Representative, Officer, and Director. Pratt was also involved in the B.C. Federation of Labour (BCFed), including as Coordinator of Operation Solidarity in Victoria, B.C. in 1983. She was elected to the Executive Council in 1987, Vice-Chair of the Women’s and Political Action Committee, and served on the Resolutions, Education Political Action Committees. In 1999, she campaigned for President of the B.C. Federation of Labor.

Pratt’s political career with the New Democratic Party (NDP) began in the early 1970s in Manitoba. She was an Executive Member-at-Large in the Winnipeg, River Heights Provincial Constituency and on the Provincial Women’s Caucus. Pratt was Vice-President of the Federal New Democrats from 1991-1993, as well as a member of the Burnaby-Kingsway Federal Constituency. From 1992-1996 she worked as President of the BC NDP with the Mike Harcourt Government. In this role, she was involved with several committees as a member, Chair and Co-Chair, including the Computer, Women’s Rights, Labour Sub-Committee among others. Pratt’s affiliation with both the Federal and Provincial NDP party extended throughout these various roles.

In February of 2007, Pratt retired from the BCGEU and has since remained an active member on several Boards, Committees, and organizations. She has been a member of various community organizations and associations related to women’s rights, Director (1997-2006) and Board Chair (2000) of United Way Lower Mainland, and member of the United Way’s Burnaby Community Committee. From 2000-2002 she was Vice-Chair of the Simon Frazer University Board of Directors. Throughout her life she was a Member of BC Hydro’s Board of Directors, Burnaby Citizen’s Council, and Burnaby Multicultural Society and as President of Canadian Association for Williams Syndrome. Pratt served on the Board of Directors of Vancity (Vancouver City Savings Credit Union), from 2005-2014, and on various committees for the Central 1 Credit Union Board from 2011-2014. She remains an active member of the NDP party and in various community organizations.