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CAIMAW was formed in Winnipeg in 1964, merged with the Canadian Electrical Workers Union (CEWU) in 1969, and after 1971, reorganized structurally and relocated in Vancouver. In 1991 CAIMAW merged with the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW).

Chris De Bresson was the principal investigator for the Canadian Industrial Innovative Data Base, a survey of industrial innovations in Canada from 1945 to 1978.

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The Refinery Workers Union at the Imperial Oil plant in Port Moody had a long history prior to being permanently closed. The plant was organized by the United Oil Workers Union, Local #3, in 1946 and became the Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers, Local 16-614 in 1955 and the Energy and Chemical Workers Union, local #614 in 1980. In 1991 it changed its name to Communication, Energy, and Paperworkers Union, Local #614 and became Local #601 in 1995. A national history of much of the union's history can be found in Wayne Roberts, Cracking the Canadian Formula, The Making of the Energy and Chemical Workers Union, 1990.

The Energy and Chemical Workers Union Local 614 came into existence in September 1980. It was the union recognized as the sole collective bargaining agency for the employees of the Imperial Oil Ltd. refinery known as Ioco in present-day Port Moody, B.C. The workers of this refinery were initially represented by a non-union Joint Industrial Council that began in 1918. They continued to be represented by this Council until they became unionized in 1946 and formed the United Oil Workers Union, Local 3. This was superseded by the Oil Workers International Union, Local 614 in 1950; the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union, Local 16-614 in 1955; and finally the Energy and Chemical Workers Union Local 614 in 1980. Despite these changes, the union's mandate of representing the workers of the refinery and acting as their sole collective bargaining agent did not change.

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David Merrill Markson was born December 20, 1927, in Albany, New York, to parents Samuel and Florence Markson. He served in the US Army from 1946 to 1948. After the war, Markson attended Union College, New York, graduating with a BA in 1950, and then Columbia University for his MA, graduating in 1952. His master’s thesis was on Lowry’s Under the Volcano, and it was during his work on his thesis that he began corresponding with Lowry. That correspondence evolved into a close personal friendship which lasted until Lowry’s death in 1957. Markson’s 1952 thesis was later expanded and republished in 1978 as Malcolm Lowry’s Volcano: Myth, Symbol, Meaning, the first major study of Lowry’s Volcano.

Markson married his wife, Elaine Kretchmar, in 1956, and the couple moved to Mexico in 1958. They stayed there until 1961, during which time Markson finished a draft of his first novel, then moved back to New York where they had their two children, Johanna Lowry Markson (b. 1963) and Jed Markson (b. 1964). After selling the rights to another of his books, the Marksons moved to Spain, where they lived for some time between ca. 1970 and 1972, before returning once again to New York. Markson separated from Elaine in 1982 and later took up a relationship with Joan Semmel which lasted for ten years.

During his career, Markson worked as a journalist, book editor, and as a college instructor at Columbia University, Long Island University, and the New School, while also writing and publishing works of genre fiction (mostly westerns), poetry, plays, and, later in life, experimental novels. He passed away on June 4, 2010, in New York.

Margerie Lowry (née Bonner) was born on July 18, 1905, in Adrian, Michigan, to parents Mr. and Mrs. John Stuart Bonner. Her father was a diplomat, newspaperman, and manager of a wire fence company, and reached the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the AEF during the first World War. By the end of the war, he had lost much of the family’s money, and so daughters Margerie and Priscilla were encouraged to work. Both girls went into the film industry in Hollywood and did well. Margerie began starring as a horsewoman in Westerns, among other roles, at age 14, after completing only one year of high school. Between 1919 and 1923, Margerie did well enough as an actress that she was able to support herself, her sister, and her parents; her acting career largely ended with the advent of “talkies”.

Margerie was briefly married to Jerome Chaffee, from 1923 to 1925. After her divorce from him, Margerie continued working in various positions in film and radio, including as an animator for Disney, over the subsequent decade. She also wrote novels during this period, though none were published.

Margerie met Malcolm Lowry in Los Angeles, California, in 1939, and the two immediately took to each other. When Lowry moved to Vancouver later in 1939, Margerie followed him. The two were married, after Lowry’s official divorce from Gabrial, in 1940 and remained so until Lowry’s death in 1957. Lowry assisted Margerie with the publication of several of her novels, and Margerie likewise helped Lowry with the many works he began and published during their marriage.

After Lowry’s death in 1957, Margerie eventually moved back to Los Angeles, where she passed away in 1988.

David Mattison is an archivist with the British Columbia Archives and Records Service in Victoria where he has worked since 1981. Born and raised in Hawaii, where he received a B.A. from the University of Hawaii, he moved to British Columbia in 1972 where he received a M.F.A. in Creative Writing from UBC in 1974 and a M.L.S. from UBC in 1978. He has published extensively on photography in Western Canada and was awarded in 1986 for this work an Award of Merit from the Association for Canadian Studies.

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Denbei Kobayashi was born on September, 10, 1878 in Nagano-ken, Japan. He grew up working on his familys silk worm farm, and later briefly became a gold miner on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. Kobayashi emigrated to Canada in 1906, where he initially made his living by fishing. After working construction for the Canadian Pacific Railway, he found employment at the Coldstream Ranch in the Okanagan, before moving to Okanagan Centre to work at the Grandview Hotel. Kobayashi also worked at the Rainbow Ranch in the same area, as well as for Mr. Goulding in Oyama. He was then awarded a contract by the Okanagan Valley Land Co. in Winfield to plant 800 acres of fruit trees.

In 1913 he temporarily returned to Japan to marry Hiro Yanagisawa, and in 1914 they bought orchard property in the Okanagan. Kobayashi concentrated on fruit growing for the rest of his career. His family home became a social centre in the area, playing host to everyone from Japanese consuls to ordinary folk. After being converted by Methodist missionaries in Japan, Kobayashi became a devoted member of the United Church in the Okanagan. He was also a writer and supporter of the ancient Japanese literature and poetry known as haiku, and judged entries from across Canada in addition to organizing a local group of such writers in 1921.

In 1966 Kobayashi was bestowed with a citation and a silver medal by the Prince Takamatsu, brother to the Japanese emperor, for his work regarding agricultural development. Kobayashi died on January 4, 1968, leaving behind three sons and four daughters. He was predeceased by his wife in 1960.

Donald Graham came to British Columbia in 1874 and settled in the Okanagan Valley. His diary chronicles his work as a driver of a pack-train, serving with the government survey party for the right of way that was to become the Canadian Pacific Railway. Graham held a series of public offices in the Okanagan.

Born in Nova Scotia in 1946, Donald Fraser received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Acadia University in 1966 and moved to Vancouver to pursue graduate work. With friends, he formed the original nucleus of Pulp Press in the early 1970s. Under the name "D.M. Fraser", he wrote for, and contributed sporadically to the Georgia Straight, 3 cents Pulp, Alive, Parallelogram Retrospective, and Rough Beast. He published two collected works under Pulp Press, Class Warfare (1974) and The Voice of Emma Sachs (1983). After his death, editors and friends at Pulp Press, now Arsenal Pulp Press) published two more volumes of Frasers' work, Prelude: D.M.Fraserf, The Collected Works. Vol. 1;(1987) and Ignorant Armies (1990), by consulting unfinished manuscripts and drafts.

Doris Noble and Rosamond Sarles were the authors of "A History of Nutrition Programs in British Columbia (1900-1979)".

E. Tilford Fenton was member of the Local 213 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, and served as the Executive Board representative of the First District of the Pacific District Council of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers from March 1912 to October 1913. Fenton lived in Mission City, B.C. for some years. Fenton had been Local 213 President in 1911. On 26 October 1912, Fenton was re-elected as Executive board member. During Fenton’s term of office, the Local 213 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers was mostly devoted to improve working conditions and fight for the rights of local electrical workers.

The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 213 was formed in 1901. The following year, women telephone operaters were organized into an auxiliary of 213, one of the first successful attempts at organizing women workers in British Columbia. Strained relations between the local and its international headquarters were marked by such events as the suspension of its charter in 1919 and allegations of communist sympathies in the 1950s.

Elizabeth Lane was educated at the University of British Columbia and has long been active in community arts organizations. She is former president of the Canadian Conference of the Arts (1976-1978), Community Arts Council of Vancouver and the Vancouver Museums Association. She also served as the first chair of the B.C. Arts Board. Among other distinctions, Lane also became Chairman of the Commission's Advisory Committee on Culture and Communications. Established in 1980, the Federal Cultural Policy Review Committee evolved out of the Advisory Committee on Cultural Policy (1979).

Ephraim Weber was born in Bridgeport, Ontario. He later moved to Alberta to homestead with his family. After a few years, Weber returned to his studies in Calgary where he also taught for six months. He then attended Queen's University and the University of Chicago before returning to the Prairies. Weber was the author of articles, short stories, poems and a novel.

Father Marcel Bobillier has served as a Catholic missionary in northern B.C. and the Yukon for many years.