Kenneth Rogers was a descendant of the Swaledale Elliots and the Reedley Nutters.

The Kidd family lived in Vancouver. One of their children, Honor (Mollie) Kidd, became a well-known Vancouver physician.

Klanak Press was established in 1958 by William McConnell, writer and Vancouver barrister and solicitor, and his wife Alice McConnell, also a writer. The aim of the press was to publish quality limited editions of works by Canadian writers. The press emphasized the design and typography of its books as much as the writing itself.

The Labour History Provincial Specialist Association was established under the auspices of the British Columbia Teachers' Federation in 1976. The name of the organization was amended to the Labour History Association, BCTF in order to satisfy legal requirements. The Association produced a film, a manual and slide-sound program and ten issues of a journal, Labour History. The Association was disbanded as a result of reduced funding.

During an annual general meeting of the British Columbia Teachers Federation (BCTF) in March, 1976, sufficient interest was shown to make possible the formation of a Labour History Provincial Specialist Association (PSA) dedicated to the teaching of labour history in schools. With an individual membership of 106, the first general meeting of the Labour History PSA occurred in May 1976. On June 12, 1976, the BCTF voted official status to the Labour History PSA at its executive meeting. In order to sign legal contracts for some of its projects, the name was changed to Labour History Association, BCTF (LHA). The LHA was disbanded in 1984 by the BCTF, owing to a reduction in the amount of funding the BCTF was able to provide.

Lee Kepment was born in China on October 23rd, 1898 in present day [台山 Toisan/Taishan] county. His father, Lee Thung, was a prominent Vancouver businessman, labour contractor, and property investor. He played an important role in the building of Vancouver’s Chinatown and its Lee Family Association.

In 1911, Kepment and his mother journeyed to Canada to join his father. As members of a merchant family, they were exempt from paying the head tax.

Kepment worked in his father’s business, the Lee Yune Company, until it closed in the late 1920s around the beginning of the Great Depression.

From 1919 until his death, Kepment lived at 1576 Kitchener Street in Vancouver. His first wife was Low Yoke Lan, and together they had four children: Phyllis, Ruth, Lillian, and Harden.

After his first wife died, Kepment married Canadian-born Irene Kee (known as Irene Lee after marriage) in 1931. With Irene he had two more children: Elizabeth and Ian.

Kepment worked as a court interpreter. He also became general manager of the Kam Yen Jam Chinese Sausage factory on Keefer Street in the 1930s/40s. Today, it is one of North America’s most popular brand of Chinese sausages.

With a large family, connections, wealth, and education, Lee Kepment rose to become one of Vancouver’s most prominent Chinese Canadian leaders during the mid-1900s.

During the Great Depression, he was active in raising money for the Welfare Federation of B.C., supporting the unemployed and needy of all communities.

A long-standing supporter of China’s Kuomintang (Nationalist) government, he was chosen by party branches across the country as Canada’s overseas Chinese delegate. He arrived in Chungking/Chongqing [重慶] for the Nationalist congress of 1939 right in the midst of the war with Japan. During his time there, the city was severely damaged by the Japanese air bombers, but Lee managed to return home to Canada safely.

Kepment also did fundraising for both the Chinese government and Canadian government, helping the latter through encouraging purchases of Victory Loans as president of the Chinese Merchants Association. He was a supporter of the United Church, active in Vancouver and in China.

After leaving Kam Yen Jam in 1949, Lee worked as a self-employed businessman until his death, supported by diverse business, wholesale, and property holdings.

Politically, Kepment was a prominent member of Canada’s Liberal Party leadership in Vancouver, alongside important civil rights figures. Kepment’s activism and support was crucial to the party’s electoral success in the post-Exclusion era, helping to unseat Conservative Douglas Jung in 1962.

Due to his high visibility and political skills, Kepment often had the chance to champion the cause of Chinese Canadians to diverse audiences. His family kept a speech he gave to the Royal Bank of Canada, a business he had supported and recommended to peers for much of his career. The speech outlined the history of the Chinese in Canada and the negative impacts of the head tax and exclusion.

Kepment died in 1976 and was buried alongside his wife in Mountain View Cemetery in Vancouver. Many of his papers, along with those of his father, were donated by his son Ian Lee to UBC Rare Books and Special Collections in 1982.

The Lumber Inspectors' Union, B .C . Division, was incorporated under the Societies Act on March 7th, 1945. On April 11th, 1949, upon the recommendation of its executive officers, members agreed to transfer to the Canadian Congress of Labour (CCL) and become the Lumber Inspectors' Union, B .C . Division, Local 1, CCL. Following the receipt of its charter from the CCL on May 5th, 1949, this title was officially certified. In 1956, the Union became a charter local of the new Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) . On May 1st, 1961, it joined the International Woodworkers of America (IWA) to become the sole member organization of Local 1-288, which was a local chapter of IWA's Western Canadian Regional Council No . 1 .

The Lumber Inspectors' Union's mandated objectives of 1945 were to organize and unionize lumber inspectors in British Columbia , to promote lumber inspectors within the industry, to increase their knowledge and efficiency, to create and distribute opportunities in lumber inspection, to further the enactment of legislation which would benefit the Union members, and to secure compensation and pay comparable to that of similarly skilled workmen . As well, the Union was to promote cooperation and friendship among its members, to encourage members and their families to achieve a high level of citizenship, and to make provisions for misfortune or death benefits for the members and/or their dependents . These last three objectives were expunged in the 1949 Constitution . In the 1961 Constitution, only the first four objectives of the Societies Act remained, while the responsibility for the payment of benefits was jointly assumed by the Welfare Fund (1951), the Lumber Inspectors' Mutual Benefit Association (1953), the Lumber Inspectors' Credit Union (1955), and the Benevolent Society (1955). In reality, the functions the Union carried out were supporting on the job concerns (including safety, working conditions and promoting the availability of job positions), assuring general job satisfaction (through negotiations, arbitrations, grievances, and conciliations), and maintaining the members' financial security (by administering benevolent funds, pensions, and workers' compensation) . The Union's primary responsibility was to its members, although it was subordinate to the CLC and later the IWA . The Union was organized on a province-wide basis, with sub-locals in Victoria, Duncan, Nanaimo, Port Alberni, 100 Mile House, Haney-Mission, Tahsis, and Vancouver . Its records were kept in the Vancouver sub-local's office . The Union's membership's primary employer was the Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau (PLIB), although any inspector in British Columbia, regardless of his or her employer , could be a member of the Union . In 1980, the Lumber Inspectors' Union was disbanded and its members transferred to other IWA locals .

The Reverend Betty Atwater (née Carol Betty Osborne) was born in 1915 near Great Falls, Montana, the fifth of seven children. Her father was a travelling Baptist minister. Atwater married Charles Phillips at age 15; by the time she met Lowry in 1939, she was divorced and living in Long Beach with her two young daughters.

Atwater was Malcolm Lowry’s typist during the spring and early summer of 1939 when the author was in Los Angeles. Without steady employment, Atwater did freelance typing work; her brother, Jimmy Osborne, was a friend of Lowry’s and recommended his sister when Lowry mentioned he needed a typist. Atwater assisted Lowry first with The Last Address and then for several weeks with a very early draft (possibly the first) of Under the Volcano. The two never met again after Lowry abruptly left Los Angeles for Vancouver, him having met his future second wife Margerie that July, but they maintained a limited correspondence until September 1939, when Atwater mailed Lowry the draft Volcano manuscript and what work she had managed to complete of it to that point.

After her brief relationship with Lowry (they were lovers, according to Atwater, during work on the Volcano typescript), Atwater became a Baptist minister, piano teacher, and student and teacher of astrology. She also continued to write poetry, plays, and novels. She married Dwight Edward Atwater in 1942.

Born in 1886 in Simcoe County, Ontario, Margaret C. Cowie began teaching in Aberdeen Public School, located at 901 Barclay Avenue in Vancouver in November 1914. Moved to Nightingale Public School in February, 1934, was superannuated in 1946, but continued at Nightingale as a substitute until June 1948. During her career as a Grade 5-6 teacher she was instrumental in developing a Canadian Literature library within her school. She passed away in 1961.

Mary F. Bishop (née Fraser) was born in Cobourg, Ontario on July 29, 1913, the only child of James Kenneth Fraser and Anna Beeman. In 1935 she received a Bachelor’s Degree in History and Literature from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. She married Joseph (Joe) Bishop in 1937 and had three children: Charles Walter Fraser (Chuck) Bishop, Ann Josephine Louise Bishop, and James Kenneth Branson Bishop.

Over the following decades, the Bishop family relocated several times, corresponding to Joe’s duties within the Canadian Military. They lived in Washington, D.C. (1952–1962), where he served as Commander Canadian Army Staff and Canadian Military Attache, then in Vancouver (1956–1962) where he was Commander of the Canadian Army’s B.C. Area. Between 1962 and 1964, they lived in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where Joe served as a consulting engineer. While in Sri Lanka, Mary began what would become a long-term dedication to voluntary service in family planning movements: she worked as a clinic volunteer, and served on the national executive committee for the Family Planning Association of Sri Lanka.

After her return to Canada, Mary dedicated her efforts to groups concerned with reproductive rights, family planning, and population planning. She served on the board of the Planned Parenthood association of B.C. (PPABC) from the mid-1960s, and was its president between 1971–1973. She also served on the board of the Planned Parenthood Federation of Canada (PPFC), was involved in the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), and served on the IPPF Panel on Population Laws and Policies (Western Hemisphere Region). Her other volunteer involvements include the Canadian Institute of International Affairs; the University Women’s Club of Vancouver’s human rights committee; the University of British Columbia (UBC) Alumni Association heritage committee; Girl Guides of Canada (where she served as National Director from 1939–1949); and the Norman MacKenzie Scholarship Award jury at UBC. In 1984, Mary’s longstanding volunteer service was recognized when she received the Lifestyle Award from Hon. Monique Begin, Minister of National Health and Welfare in Ottawa.

Mary completed a Masters degree at UBC in 1971, her thesis titled “From ‘Left’ to ‘Right’: A perspective on the role of family planning in the West and in South Asia.” She subsequently worked as a research associate with the Department of Health Care and Epidemiology in the Faculty of Medicine, where she was later appointed an honorary lecturer. Throughout the 1970s and 80s, Mary pursued a project of writing a history of the birth control movement in Canada, which she aimed to publish as a book. While her book project never came to fruition, she did publish several articles, including “The Early Birth Controllers of B.C.” (BC Studies, 1984), “The Politics of Abortion: Trends in Canadian Fertility by Larry Collins—Revisited” (Atlantis, Fall 1983), and an entry on “Birth Control” in the first and second editions of the Canadian Encyclopedia. She also contributed a chapter to Not Just Pin Money: Selected Essays on the History of Women’s Work in British Columbia on the life of B.C.-based birth control activist Vivian Dowding.

Mary died on November 1, 1997 in Vancouver at the age of 84.

A Canadian writer and journalist born and based in Vancouver, Mary McAlpine wrote fiction, various articles published in journals and newspapers, short stories with some turning into radio plays, and documentaries for the National Film Board. McAlpine graduated from the University of British Columbia with a bachelor of arts degree and began her career as a copy and radio writer for an advertising agency. In 1954, she joined The Sun staff. Some of her best-known journalistic work was her columns written from Europe as a tourist, and a series titled Other Women's Shoes. She married writer Kildare Dobbs in 1958, and had two daughters, Sarah and Lucinda. She also wrote a biography of Ethel Wilson that was published in 1988. Mary McAlpine passed away in Vancouver February 3, 1993.

The Swedish Cultural Society was founded in 1952.

Moses Bruine Cotsworth was born on December 3, 1859, in Willitoft, near York, England. He was the son of George and Sarah Cotsworth. Orphaned at the age of two, he was raised by his grandparents and great-grandparents. In 1884, he married Kezia H. Gardiner, (of Blairendinnie, Aberdeenshire), and they had one son and four daughters. He was educated at York Blue Coat School.
Cotsworth began work in 1874 in the office of the Chief Goods Manager of the North Eastern Railway Company, York. He had a series of jobs in which his aptitude for calculations and his investigative skill were evident: in 1881, he worked at Aire and Calder Navigation; from 1884 to 1886, he was the traffic manager for Trent Navigation; and from 1887 to 1891, he was the manager of Manners Colliery, Derbyshire. In 1892, he returned to the Chief Goods Manager office to work on a revision of railway rates and to do research. He published a book, Railway Maximum Rates and Charges, and his improved system of railway statistics has since been used by the British Railway companies and the Ministry of Transport. In 1907, he was appointed by the British Columbia government as Chairman of the Commission to re-organise and regrade the Civil Service. He moved to Vancouver in 1910, and from then until 1921, he was in business as an accountant and investigator of the cost of living for Western Canada.
Cotsworth devoted most of his time and efforts on calendar reform. His interest in calendars and time goes back to his upbringing by his grandparents and great-grandparents who used the old shadow pin, noon-mark, and hour-glass methods as well as an old series of calendars which contained charts, illustrations, and quotations. While he was working for the North Eastern Railway Company, he became aware of the difficulties in using the Gregorian calendar to calculate monthly totals for income and expenditures. These difficulties were due to the different number of weekdays in a month and the fact that, for the railway, every day of the week had a different economic value. The yearly changes of the date for Easter, and other holidays, imposed another difficulty. Even before he founded the International Fixed Calendar League in 1922, he was active in calendar reform. Cotsworth devised a thirteen-month calendar in which each month would have twenty-eight days or four weeks. The thirteenth month, called Sol, would be made up of the last thirteen days of June and the first fifteen days of July. In leap years, the extra day would be added after June the 28th. The 365th day, at the end of the year, would be called Year-day, and it would fall between December the 28th and January the 1st. In this way, Easter would always fall on the same date (the 15th of April). At one point, both the League of Nations and the Royal Society of Canada endorsed Cotsworth's proposal for calendar reform. The federal government of Canada officially endorsed it in 1931. However, Cotsworth's 13-month calendar was not adopted due to lack of world-wide consensus and to other individuals or calendar associations pushing for calendar reform.
Even though the International Fixed Calendar League ceased to exist, Cotsworth continued his work on calendar reform. From 1922 to 1931, he was the Director of the International Fixed Calendar League (previously called the International Almanak Reform League), as well as the Expert to the League of Nations' Committee on Calendar Reform. As such, he visited more than sixty countries as part of his effort to convince people of the benefits of converting to a 13-month calendar. He served as Secretary to the British Association's Research Committee on Geological Evidence of Climactic Change from 1934 to 1937. He was a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, and a Fellow of the Geological Society. His publications include monographs as well as a series of more than 50 pamphlets on calendar reform. He also wrote about railway rates and climactic change, among other topics. Moses Bruine Cotsworth died in Vancouver on June 4, 1943 .

The Murray-Latta Machine Company is a machine manufacturer and steel fabricator that over the years has specialized in fish canning machinery. The company began in 1919 in Vancouver as Murray-Latta Machine Works as a partnership between John F. Latta and James L. Murray. In 1926, the partnership became Murray-Latta Machine Company Ltd., with Murray as president and Latta as secretary-treasurer. Murray seems to have retired in 1939 and Latta continued as president and manager until 1955.

Nan Bourgon was a pioneer settler in the Bulkley Valley.

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.

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Noel Money was born in Montreal and educated at Radley and Christ Church, Oxford. He served with the Shropshire Imperial Yeomanry in the South African War from 1900 to 1902, and with the South African Constabulary to the end of the war. In World War I, Money commanded the 159th Infantry Brigade in the 53rd Welsh Division in Palestine. He became proprietor of the Qualicum Beach Hotel and pursued his recreational activities of hunting and fishing.

Norman Newton, a Vancouver native, worked at a variety of jobs. He spent time in England in the early 1950s, where he worked for the BBC. In 1949 his first radio transcript was accepted by CBC Radio in Vancouver. He was employed by the CBC for several years, and eventually became the senior drama producer. Newton's prime literary interest is poetry, although he has written novels, plays, histories and one libretto for the first all-Canadian opera ever to be produced in Canada. Newton resides in Vancouver.

The BC Hydro and Power Authority is a Crown corporation responsible for generating, purchasing, distributing and selling electricity.

Patrick O'Neal was the western regional organizer for the International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers. Prior to his holding that position, he served as Secretary-Treasurer of the B.C. Federation of Labour. In 1973 he became vice-president and director of Area XIV, United Paperworkers International Union.

Emily Pauline Johnson (10 March 1861 – 7 March 1913), also known by her Mohawk stage name Tekahionwake, was a Canadian poet, author and performer who was popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Her father was a hereditary Mohawk chief of mixed ancestry and her mother was an English immigrant.
Johnson was notable for her poems, short stories, and performances that celebrated her mixed-race heritage drawing from both Indigenous and English influences. She is most known for her books of poetry The White Wampum (1895), Canadian Born (1903), Flint and Feather (1912) and her collections of stories Legends of Vancouver (1911), The Shagganappi (1913) and The Moccasin Maker (1913).

Penkill Castle housed records of individuals in the Pre-Raphaelite movement.