Israel Michael Lerner was a geneticist and evolutionary biologist. He studied genetics at the University of California Berkeley in 1936.

Born in Adelaide, South Australia, James Playford Duncan undertook graduate physics and engineering at the University of Adelaide (M.E., 1954) and the University of Manchester (D.Sc., 1964). Duncan became a professor and head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Sheffield in 1956. He came to the University of British Columbia in the same capacity in 1965 and retired in 1984.

Jan de Bruyn was born in Abcoude, Netherlands, in 1918. He obtained his BA from UBC (1949) and MA in English from London (1951). He joined UBC's Department of English as a lecturer and remained there until his retirement in 1983. De Bruyn was the founding editor of Prism and edited the departmental newsletter, The Newsense. After his retirement, he and his wife moved to Castlegar, BC, leading the Lifewriters. This group of senior citizens met regularly to tell and write stories about their lives; de Bruyn edited several published collections of their stories.

John Seymour Conway was born in London, England, and studied at St John's College Cambridge. He emigrated to Canada in 1955 and taught International Relations for two years at the University of Manitoba. In 1957 he joined the Department of History at UBC and continued teaching Modern European History and International Relations until 1995. In 1998 he was appointed the Smallman Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of History at Western Ontario. His research concentrated on the role of German Churches in the 1930s and 1940s. From this research, he wrote "The Nazi Persecution of the Churches 1933-1945". This book was first published in Britain in 1968, translated into German, French and Spanish, and reissued in 1997. His researches took him frequently to Germany, which he visited almost every year, including several sabbatical periods at various German universities. In 1970 he was a founding member of the Scholars' Conference on the German Church and the Holocaust. He wrote many articles dealing with the role of the European churches and the Vatican during the Holocaust and on Christian-Jewish relations during the twentieth century. He paid three visits to Israel and lectured at the Yad Vashem Memorial Foundation in Jerusalem in 1993. In 1995 he became the Director of the Association of Contemporary Church Historians and editor of its monthly newsletter, which has a worldwide audience. He was also a member of the editorial boards of Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte and the Journal of Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Conway played an active part in several associations connected with Vancouver's international relations, including being Chairman of the Vancouver Branch of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs and the United Nations Association. For ten years, he was the executive vice-chairman of the Tibetan Refugee Aid Society of Canada. In this connection, he paid several visits to India. In 1977 he was awarded the Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal for his services. He also served as a member of the Anglican Diocese of New Westminster's Refugee Liaison Committee. He was long associated with the Student Christian Movement and the World University Service on the UBC campus. He acted for many years as the Faculty Advisor. He served for many years as the editor of the Newsletter of the Association of Contemporary Church Historians. He was also a faithful member of St James' Anglican Parish, Vancouver. Conway passed away on June 23, 2017.

In 1907, several Vancouver and district residents founded the Vancouver Naturalists' Field Club to study the Lower Mainland's natural history. The first field trip was made to Kitsilano beach on 18 August. The club existed for only a few seasons. In 1918, members of the botanical section of the BC Mountaineering Club, led by Professor John Davidson (former Provincial Botanist), founded the Vancouver Natural History Society (VNHS). Davidson organized popular evening botany classes for members of the society. The VNHS also developed a field trip program to sites of botanical interest, such as Crescent Beach. Summer camps were established at Garibaldi, Botanie Valley (near Spence's Bridge), Skagit Valley, and several other locations. To make the Lower Mainland greener, local naturalists, including the Natural History Society members, successfully campaigned for local arbour days. Yet, the activities of society have not focused only on botany. Field trips organized and led by Jack Armstrong, Bill Mathews and Charley Ney popularized geology in society. Members have also studied geology, entomology, ornithology, microscopy, and photography. More recently, interest in the maritime environment has expanded. During recent decades, society has witnessed continued growth, as many members of the environmental movement have joined to study our natural heritage.

After obtaining his Bachelor of Arts from the University of British Columbia in 1924, John Gibbard embarked on a teaching career that lasted almost thirty years at McGee High School. In 1937, he completed his Master's thesis on the history of the Fraser Valley. Gibbard obtained his Bachelor of Education in 1946 and nine years later returned to UBC to serve as a special lecturer in the Faculty of Education. He retired in 1966 but remained active in the faculty for some time.

Ralph Brazelton Peck was born in Winnipeg, Canada. He grew up in Denver and received his engineering degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic. He was a Civil Engineer specializing in soil mechanics.

Charles Ripley was born in Lethbridge, Alberta. He studied engineering at the University of Alberta. In 1951 he founded Ripley and Associates in Vancouver, one of Canada's earliest soil mechanics consulting practices.

Harry Tremaine Logan was born on March 5, 1887, in Londonderry, Nova Scotia. He was educated at Vancouver High School; McGill University (Honors 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. They 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.

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.