Edward Sinclair Pretious was born in Calcutta, India. He obtained his B.A.Sc. in Civil Engineering from the University of British Columbia (1929) and M.Sc. in Hydraulics from Iowa State University (1939). He joined the Department of Civil Engineering at UBC in 1940, remaining there until his retirement in the early 1970s. Interested in hydraulic engineering and research projects relating to fish conservation in B.C., Pretious headed the Fraser River Model Project (1948-1961) and the Vancouver Harbour and Burrard Inlet Model Project (1953-1956). The Fraser River Model Project was designed to help improve navigation on the Fraser River Estuary. Located on a three-acre site on the western edge of the Point Grey campus, the project was a hydraulic, erodible-bed, tidal river model and one of the largest in the world. The Vancouver Harbour - Burrard Inlet Project had the primary objective of determining the effects on currents, tides, and navigation of proposed dredging in the First Narrows. A pilot model of the First Narrows was built by the National Research Council of Canada, in cooperation with UBC, on the site of the Fraser River Model, near the Arboretum.

Edward Sinclair Pretious was born in Calcutta, India. He obtained his B.A.Sc. in Civil Engineering from the University of British Columbia (1929) and M.Sc. in Hydraulics from Iowa State University (1939). He joined the Department of Civil Engineering at UBC in 1940, remaining there until his retirement in the early 1970s. Interested in hydraulic engineering and research projects relating to fish conservation in B.C., Pretious headed the Fraser River Model Project (1948-1961) and the Vancouver Harbour and Burrard Inlet Model Project (1953-1956). The Fraser River Model Project was designed to help improve navigation on the Fraser River Estuary. Located on a three-acre site on the western edge of the Point Grey campus, the project was a hydraulic, erodible-bed, tidal river model and one of the largest in the world. The Vancouver Harbour - Burrard Inlet Project had the primary objective of determining the effects on currents, tides, and navigation of proposed dredging in the First Narrows. A pilot model of the First Narrows was built by the National Research Council of Canada, in cooperation with UBC, on the site of the Fraser River Model, near the Arboretum.

Gordon Price was was born in 1949. He received his high school and university education in Victoria. In 1972, Price was one of the first people to be employed with the BC Legislatures Hansard. Next, undertaking some freelance writing and editing projects, he worked for the Tourism Ministry, BC Hydro, the Ministry of Forests (particularly ForesTalk magazine), and the Outdoor Recreation Council. In the early 1980s, he and his neighbours in Vancouvers West End established CROWE (Concerned Residents of the West End), an organization that lobbied government to address the problem of street prostitution. In 1983, the Citys Social Planning Department hired him on short-term contract as West End Community Coordinator. In this role, he helped develop the West End Citizens Advisory Committee and acted as liaison between the Committee and various levels of government, with a view to improving the livability of the area. He was also a founding member of AIDS Vancouver (1983) and served as its Information and Education Officer from 1985 to 1986. Price was elected to Vancouver City Council in 1986, where he served as a councillor until 2002. During this time, he participated on various Council standing committees, commissions, and task forces concerning finance, transportation, land use, and the environment. He also sat on the board of the Greater Vancouver Regional District and was appointed to the first board of the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority (TransLink). After leaving City Council, Gordon Price continued to explore issues of urban development and transportation, writing and lecturing in Canada and the United States. He has participated in such organizations as the International Centre for Sustainable Cities and Northwest Environment Watch. He has also taught at the University of British Columbias School of Community and Regional Planning.

Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School was part of a philanthropic scheme to strengthen the British Empire and improve the condition of underprivileged British children, an idea conceived by Kingsley Fairbridge. The plan was to resettle selected British children in overseas dominions. The Prince of Wales school opened in 1935 near Duncan, BC. Over 300 children passed through Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm school in its first ten years of operation. The estate was eventually sold in the early 1950s.

The Trades and Labour Council of Prince Rupert represented 2,000 workers in Prince Rupert in 1955 and was affiliated with other workers groups, such as the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.

Prism International was founded in 1959 by a group of Vancouver writers, teachers and others with literary interests, including several members of the University of British Columbia's Department of English. Then known as Prism, it was the only literary magazine in Canada west of Toronto, becoming a forum for Canadian authors including Margaret Laurence, Margaret Atwood, Irving Layton, George Bowering and Jack Hodgins. Between 1959 and 1963, Jan de Bruyn served as its first editor. In 1963, due to financial difficulties, Prism found it necessary to affiliate itself with the Department of Creative Writing at U.B.C. In 1964, Earle Birney became Editor and Chief of the Journal, and the University became its publisher. Known afterwards as Prism International, the Journal began publishing the work of authors worldwide. Jack Zilber, one of the founders, succeeded Birney in 1966 and served for seven years. Zilber reduced the publication of Prism International to three issues annually. Michael Bullock (1973-1977) became the Journal's fourth editor, and then George McWhirter and C.J. Newman assumed joint editorship. In 1978, Prism International became the first student-edited literary Journal in Canada. In 1981, editor John Schoutsen returned Prism International to a quarterly publication. The Journal continues as a student-edited publication changing its editorship annually.

Harold Pritchett was born in Birmingham, England and arrived in Port Moody, B.C. in 1912. He began working at the Thurston-Flavelle Mill in 1919 and gradually became involved in union activities. By 1931, he was Chairman of the Fraser Mills Strike Committee and President of the Shingle Weavers Union in 1933. He was elected president of the Independent Federation of Woodworkers in 1936; then with the affiliation of the Federation of Woodworkers to the Congress of Industrial Organizations, he was elected founding president. Pritchett resigned from activities in the United States in 1940 and became President of District Council No.1 (IWA) for British Columbia. Following a split in the Union, Pritchett helped organize the short-lived Woodworkers Industrial Union.

The Pro-Choice Action Network (Pro-CAN) was formed in 1987 under the name B.C. Coalition for Abortion Clinics (BCCAC) with the mission of securing safe, fully-funded, high-quality abortion services for women. With the support of the labour movement, women’s health groups, student groups, the United Church, and health care professionals, BCCAC opened Everywoman’s Health Centre in November 1988. Although it was illegal for freestanding clinics to offer abortion services at that time, the centre remained open and continues to function today as an abortion and sexual health clinic in Vancouver, B.C.

After establishing the Everywoman’s Health Centre, BCCAC broadened their mandate to begin lobbying and advocating for: full government funding of reproductive health services, including surgical and medical abortion services; the defeat of all laws that criminalize abortion or impede women’s rights or access to choice; enforcement and protection of the Access to Abortion Services Act; provision for universal and federally-guaranteed access to abortion in all regions of Canada; the availability of safe, affordable, and effective contraception; and comprehensive sex education in schools.

In 1995, the Coalition began publishing their quarterly newsletter, The Pro-Choice Press, as a way to further its aims and reach the public. A few years later, in 1998, its name was officially changed to Pro-Choice Action Network. Despite the name change, the group continued to build a broad-based political movement and advocate for public education on women’s right to choice. It also established mutually productive relationships with clinics, hospitals, health care professionals, pro-choice groups, women’s groups, and various local, provincial, and national governmental agencies.

Around the same time in the late 1990s, Pro-CAN found itself increasingly focused on national issues. After the Canadian Abortion Rights Action League (CARAL) disbanded in 2004, the Board realized a new national group was needed to replace its efforts. The need was filled when Joyce Arthur of Pro-CAN led the formation of a new national group known as the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada (ARCC-CDAC). As the years went on, the Network found itself becoming relatively inactive due to a lack of need for a provincial pro-choice group in British Columbia. As such, Pro-CAN made the decision to close its doors in January 2009 with the assurance that ARCC would take up the mantle on provincial issues as needed.

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