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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.

Born near Wooler, Ontario, Alfred Purdy moved to Trenton, Ontario in 1920. He left high school and then worked at various occupations: in a factory, in the RCAF (1940-1945), as a store clerk, at Simon Fraser University as a visiting professor and at the Banff School of Fine Arts as a creative writing teacher (1971-1973). In 1940 Purdy published his first book, The Enchanted Echo. Purdy has also published short stories and fifteen plays and has produced radio and television programs for the CBC.

Born in Victoria, Alfred Taylor was a prominent B.C. engineering contractor and entrepreneur. During World War II, he served as technical advisor to the British Ministry of Production in London and Washington, D.C. In addition to developing projects such as the construction of the Lion's Gate Bridge and British Properties, Taylor's company also helped develop the Dolly Varden Mine and related projects in the Alice Arm area of B.C.

Alfred Wegener was a German geophysicist and meteorologist who worked on the thermodynamics of the atmosphere and originated the theory of continental drift (the Wegener hypothesis), a theory which has won scientific respectability in recent years. He served on and led scientific expeditions to Greenland in 1906-1908, 1912-1917, 1929 and 1930. On the last of these he lost his life.

A British artist, Alica Davies (nee Somerscales) lived in British Columbia for some years in the 1930s. Her attempt to establish a private school in central B.C. failed. Lumbering and crop-picking sustained Davies and her husband while they remained in Canada. Davies returned to England in the 1940s to pursue her career.

Alice Maud Jones (1882-1948) was born in Great Britain and married James McKay Burge in 1903. After employment in South Africa, England, Rossland, and Vancouver, James Burge purchased the Cariboo Ranch at Gray Creek on Kootenay Lake and moved there in the early twenties where he combined managing the family farm with fulltime work as an assistant ranger for the B.C. Forest Service until his death in a car accident in 1934. His wife, Alice Maud, continued to live on the family farm and raise their five children on her beloved Kootenay Lake property.

Born in England, Alice Ravenhill was trained in home economics, child care and sanitation and worked in rural and factory districts in England. Arriving in B.C. in 1910, she was active in organizations devoted to women, education, and native Indians. She researched aboriginal culture, published books, and was a founding member of the Society for the Furtherance of B.C. Indian Arts and Crafts. She received an honourary doctorate from UBC in 1948.

Alistair MacLeod was involved in the socialist and labour union movement in B.C. for many years. At one time he served as associate secretary of the Nanaimo, Duncan and District Labour Council.

In the 1940s the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada chartered groups of writers and performers in Toronto, Winnipeg and Vancouver called the Association of Canadian Radio Artists. Local 24498 of the Association was located in Vancouver. In 1963 the organization's name was changed to the Association of Canadian Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA). All records were centralized, and a national office was established in Toronto. The B.C. Branch of ACTRA was founded in 1963. The organization assumed its present name in 1983.

Local 178 of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers' Union received its original charter from the Journeymen Tailors' Union in 1876. In 1936 Local 178 became part of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers' Union and formed the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers' Union.

The Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners organized a local chapter in Vancouver in 1889. After a two-month strike in 1889, some of the chapter's members split from the union, eventually forming a group that in 1890 became Local 617 of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners.

The Amalgamated Association of Street, Electrical Railway and Motor Coach Employees of America was established in 1893. Division 101 received its charter for related workers in the Vancouver area in 1899. In 1901 Division 134 was established in New Westminster and given its charter. Divisions 101 and 134 were amalgamated in 1968 and from this date, correspondence and other records have been maintained in the files of Division 101. The Independent Canadian Transit Union successfully raided this division of ATU and currently represents city bus drivers in Vancouver and Victoria. The ATU continues to represent the Motor Coach drivers of Vancouver and Victoria.

Amy Kirby (nee Coles) spent four years in Russia (1879-1883) where she taught English to the children in the Alexieff family.

Geoffrey Andrew was Dean and Deputy President of the University of British Columbia from 1947 until leaving to become Executive Director of the A.U.C.C. in Ottawa. Margaret Andrew was a graduate of economics, social work and librarianship. The Andrews were close friends of Ethel Wilson.