The American Friends of Spanish Democracy (originally called Friends of Spanish Democracy) was founded in New York City in 1936 by a group of clergymen and intellectuals under the leadership of Roger Baldwin, a member of the executive committee, and Bishop Robert L. Paddock, the chairman. John Dewey was named vice-chairman but his role appears to have been largely honorific. The objective of the organization was to arouse support for the Loyalist government during the Spanish Civil War. By organizing public appeals, petitions and letters of protest and by disseminating information on the situation in Spain, it hoped to counteract the effects of fascist propaganda and bring pressure on the U.S. President and Congress to end the arms embargo against Spain. It also raised funds for medical aid and refugee relief which were distributed by the North American Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy. By decision of its executive committee the organization was dissolved in 1939.

The American Institute of Electrical Engineers - Vancouver Section, was established in 1911. The Institute, however, was founded in New York City on 13 May 1884 and was incorporated in the State of New York in 1896. The object of the Institute, as stated in the Institute Constitution, Article I, was "the advancement of the theory and practice of Electrical Engineering and of the allied Arts and Sciences and the maintenance of a high professional standing among its members." In the '80s, an international Electrical Exhibition held by the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia at the presence of twenty-five of America's most prominent electrical engineers, including Thomas Edison, Elihu Thomson, and Edwin Houston had raised a call for the formation of a society to promote engineering.

For the purpose of the administration, the membership in the United States and Canada was divided into ten districts. In order to make the members meet and discuss technical matters and to advance the engineering profession through closer cooperation with other engineering societies, a number of local Sections were organized in the leading industrial cities of the United States, Canada and Mexico. The Vancouver section is one of these. In particular, the Vancouver Section aims to provide for electrical engineers in British Columbia and all others interested, a meeting place and forum for the exchange of views. At the beginning the Vancouver Section was part of District 10 (Canada); then, in 1948 the Section decided to be part of the District 9, which embraced sections in the Northwest States. The transfer was opposed by District 10 executives on various counts and caused a second vote on the question that finally was resolved for the transfer from District 10 to District 9. The Sections reported to the Board of Directors, through the Secretary of the Institute. All matters pertaining to membership, appropriations, prizes, etc. were handled between the Section and the Institute Headquarters. Section activities were headed by a chairman and a secretary treasurer and were governed by an executive committee elected by the local membership. These officers were assisted in their administrative duties by Standing Committees. The Executive Meeting was the governing body of the Section and directed the management of its affairs. The Committee consisted of the effective officers including the Chairman, Vice Chairman, Secretary, Treasurer, and any other officers of the Section. Sometimes it included one or more recent Past Chairmen. The Chairman of the Section is the Chairman of the Executive Committee, as well as the Secretary of the Section is the Secretary of the Executive Committee. This committee was responsible for the operations ad progress of the Section and for the expenditure and accounting of all funds. The Chairman was elected for a term of one year as well as the Secretary. It was the Secretary's responsibility to attend all Section meetings and to record the minutes of each meeting. He had then to forward the report of each Section Meeting to the Secretary of the Institute. He was also responsible for securing a copy of the minutes of other meetings from the Secretary of Subsections, Technical Groups, etc. and for forwarding a report of such meetings to the Secretary of the Institute. These reports of meetings were made on special form No. 41, furnished by the Institute. All meetings had to be reported promptly since the money rebated from Headquarters to the Section depended partly on the number of meetings. The Secretary, amongst many other duties, was also responsible for the maintenance of the Section mailing lists and was the custodian of all records of the Section including copies of reports to Headquarters, annual reports of Secretary, Treasurer, etc. The Treasurer was responsible for the payments of all bills and had to prepare an annual report on the finances of the Section. This role was often combined with that of Secretary into Secretary-Treasurer. The Section was responsible for conducting monthly meetings devoted to the presentation and discussion of technical papers, as well as demonstration, inspections or social activities. The Section had also to organise inspection trips occasionally, as well as general social events; basically it coordinated the local activities with the national and international administration. Sections could establish Subsections and Student Branches.

The society merged with the IRE officially in 1 January 1963, to constitute the IEEE.

Michael Ames was born in Vancouver and attended the University of British Columbia, where he graduated with a B.A. in Anthropology in 1956. He continued his education at Harvard University, earning his Ph.D. in Social Anthropology in 1961. Ames returned to UBC as an assistant professor in 1964, rising to full professor in 1970. In addition to his work in the department, Ames also became Director of the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) in 1974. From 1974 to 1976, Ames was president of the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, established in 1968 with funding from the Government of India to promote Indian studies in Canada. A recipient of the Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 1970-1971, Ames was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1979 and promoted as a Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology in 1996. Ames also has an extensive list of publications in a broad range of topics, from religion and social organizations in South Asia, First Nations affairs to museums and popular culture, including the monograph Cannibal Tours & Glass Boxes: The Anthropology of Museums, published by the University of British Columbia in 1993.
Ames retired from the MOA directorship at the end of June 1997 and received emeritus professor status in 1998. From 1998 to 2002, Ames co-taught with adjunct professor Jim Green several undergraduate anthropology courses on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. He also chaired the Dean of Arts First Nations Language Programme advisory committee from 1998 to 2002. In 2002, in cooperation with Associate Dean Margery Fee and the Musqueam Band Council, a joint "Musqueam 101" seminar at Musqueam was loosely patterned after the Humanities 101 programme. The Provost's Office funds it. In July 2002, Ames returned to the MOA as Acting Director for one year, then extended to August 2004.

Dr. Joan Anderson joined the UBC School of Nursing faculty in 1976 and remained on the faculty until her retirement in 2006 when she was named professor emerita. In 1992 she was appointed Director of the Multicultural Liaison Office at UBC, a position which she held until the following year when the functions of the Office were subsumed under the Associate Vice-President, Equity. The Office organized several events for faculty, staff, and students during that time, including two workshops entitled “Racism: Breaking the Silence.” The workshops had the full support of then-President David Strangway, Vice-President Academic and Provost Daniel Birch, and many deans and department heads. The Multicultural Liaison Office should be noted as one of the forerunners of UBC’s current equity, diversity, and inclusion programmes.

Peter Anderson was born in Onsjo, Sweden. He emigrated to the United States in 1885, settling in Minnesota. After working as a farmer, he joined Weyerhaeuser Timber Company in Wisconsin as a logger. In 1888 Anderson moved to Tacoma, Washington where he became a partner in a small shingle mill. After the mill closed, Anderson went to the Klondike in 1897. While there he earned enough money to open a saw mill back in Washington State. He then moved north to British Columbia where, after contracting to log for Hastings Mill, he and his sons began a new company at Knox Bay and then Grassy Bay.

Peter Anderson was born in 1950 in Detroit, Michigan, to architect Donald Carl Anderson and schoolteacher Phyllis Anderson (Beet).
He attended the Residential College at the University of Michigan from 1968-1972, where he studied creative writing under the mentorship of Warren Jay Hecht and received three Hopwood awards for fiction and poetry. He was one of the first graduates of the Residential College’s Creative Writing program, receiving a B.A. in English with honors.
After graduating, Peter remained in Ann Arbor, Michigan, working as managing editor at Street Fiction Press, and co-founding the satirical political comedy troupe Peachy Cream Productions. In 1973 his first play, The Banana from Outer Space, was produced by the RC Players. His second play, The Janitors (co-written with Warren Jay Hecht), was produced two years later.
1n 1975 Peter left Ann Arbor to study clown and mime under Carlo Mazzone Clementi at the Dell’Arte School of Mime and Comedy (now the Dell’Arte School of Physical Theatre) in Blue Lake, California. After completing his studies in 1977, he hitch-hiked to British Columbia to audition for the Caravan Stage Company, a horse-drawn theatre company founded by Paul and Nans Kirby, and was cast in the summer touring production of Hands Up! to play the lead role of the legendary train robber Bill Miner. After contributing several scenes to the collectively-created script, Peter was commissioned by artistic director Nick Hutchinson to write a play for the following season. The play, The Coyotes, toured the North Okanagan and Alberta and was documented in the 1978 NFB film Horse Drawn Magic. It was during rehearsals that year that Peter met the love of his life, artist/maskmaker/playwright Melody Anderson. Their life-long partnership and ongoing artistic collaboration has spanned decades and numerous productions. The Coyotes also marked the beginning of a long and fruitful collaboration between Peter and Nick that continued when the Caravan Stage Company (later the Caravan Farm Theatre) settled in Armstrong, B.C. on an eighty-acre farm. After Nick’s retirement as artistic director, Peter found a new and exciting collaborator in artistic director Estelle Shook and continued his close association with the Caravan Farm Theatre.
Over the years, Peter has authored over a dozen plays for the Caravan, including The Coyotes, Law of the Land, The Ballad of Weedy Peetstraw, Head Over Heels, The Blue Horse, Coyotes’ Christmas, Sleigh-Ride Christmas Carol, The Second Shepherds’ Play, Horseplay (co-written with Phil Savath), Bull by the Horns, Animal Farm, and the Mystery Cycle trilogy: Creation, Nativity & Passion. In 2017, the Caravan programmed three years of Peter’s early plays, all with new revisions.
Throughout his many years with the Caravan, Peter has maintained a parallel career in Vancouver theatre as both a playwright and performer (including a one-year stint doing stand-up comedy). His playwriting credits include the internationally-produced Rattle in the Dash; adaptations of Don Quixote (with Colin Heath), Lysistrata and Eurydice; the libretto for a micro-opera Aftermath and a song cycle 4 Horses with composer Jennifer Butler; and The Emperor’s New Threads (a theatre-for-young audiences play co-written with Melody Anderson). Peter was also a co-creator and original performer in Axis Theatre’s The Number 14, a comedy set on a city bus featuring Melody Anderson’s masks, that toured nationally and internationally for twenty years.
As a performer, Peter is perhaps most well-known for his lead role in The Overcoat (Morris Panych & Wendy Gorling’s movement-theatre production) which drew heavily on his clowning and physical theatre skills. He received both Gemini and Leo best actor nominations for the filmed version of the play. Other acting credits include Slobberjaw in the 2019 revival of his 1978 play The Coyotes, Coyote in the 2018 revival of his 1982 play Law of the Land (Caravan Farm Theatre), Titus in The Society for the Destitute Presents Titus Bouffonius (Rumble Theatre), three productions of Waiting For Godot (in which he’s played Vladimir twice and Lucky once), numerous shows for Vancouver’s Leaky Heaven Circus, various roles in The Tosca Project (American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco); the lead role in his and Colin Heath’s adaptation of Don Quixote (Arts Club/Centaur/Axis); and the lead role in the premiere production of Morris Panych’s 7 Stories.
He’s the recipient of eight Jessie Richardson Awards for playwriting and acting, a Bay Area Critics’ Circle Award for ensemble performance (The Tosca Project), a Victoria Theatre Critic’s Award for Best Actor (Waiting for Godot), a NY Drama Desk nomination (The Number 14), and Gemini, Leo, Dora Mavor Moore and Betty Mitchell nominations for Best Actor (The Overcoat). He continues to live in Vancouver, B.C., with his wife Melody Anderson. All of his plays are available online at the Canadian Play Outlet.

W.J. Anderson served as head of UBC's Department of Agricultural Economics from 1949 to 1964.

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.

John Hobart McLean Andrews was born in Kamloops in 1926, where he attended High School. He received a BA in Physics and MA from UBC. It was at UBC where he met his wife, Dorie. He taught at the high school in Salmon Arm and Squamish. Andrews later studied for his Ph.D. in Education Administration at the University of Chicago. He became a Professor of Education Administration at the University of Alberta from 1958-1965. Before becoming Dean of Education at UBC, he was Assistant Director of the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education. In 1972 he won the Canadian Council for Research & Education Award. He was Dean of Education at UBC from 1973-1980, succeeding Neville Scarfe.

Leonard Jay Angel was born in Montreal in September 1945, and received his Bachelor of Arts from McGill University in 1966. Angel then moved to Vancouver to study at the University of British Columbia where he completed an MA in Philosophy in 1968, an MA in Creative Writing and Theatre in 1970, and a PhD in Philosophy in 1974. He was an associate fellow in UBC’s Department of Philosophy in 1992, and taught philosophy at Douglas College from fall 1993 through 2012. Angel maintained a close relationship with UBC throughout his career, working on and off as a sessional lecturer for philosophy and creative writing courses, and participating in student study groups and departmental colloquia. He also produced at least two plays (“The Ballad of Etienne Brule” and “Eleanor Marx”) through UBC’s theatre department.
Angel was a poet, playwright, philosopher, and author, with 17 plays produced and 7 published books. He was an active figure in the Vancouver theatre scene from the 1970s through the 1990s, with plays produced and performed by Vancouver’s Street Theatre, Terrific Theatre, and the New Play Centre. Angel also had several of his plays produced in theatres in Toronto and Seattle. Outside of his academic writing on philosophy, he practiced and wrote at length about Jewish theology as well as Zen practices. He was connected to Vancouver’s Jewish community through his involvement in Or Shalom Synagogue and founded the Integral Studies Institute in 1987 to provide instruction on meditation and spirituality. Angel was also an advocate for World Federalism and was president of the Vancouver branch of World Federalist Movement Canada from 1996 through 2013. Leonard Angel passed away in August 2022.

The Anglican Theological College (A.T.C.) of British Columbia, located in Vancouver, was registered with the Provincial Department of Education. The Board of Governors met for the first time in 1912. Its main function was administering provincial Anglican theological education until 1920 when the separate teaching colleges, Latimer Hall and St. Mark's Hall, became a unified body of faculty and students in "The Anglican Theological College of British Columbia." The College erected a building and moved into its final location on the University of British Columbia campus in 1927. It continued to operate until 1971 when it merged with Union College to become the Vancouver School of Theology.

In 1889, Henry Ogle Bell-Irving acquired options on nine operating fish canneries: seven on the Fraser River and two on the Skeena River. On 14 april 1891, Bell-Irving purchased a Prospectus for $330,000. Later that year on the 22 December, the Anglo-British Columbia Packing company was incorporated in Middlesex, England. Bell-Irving's firm, then named Bell-Irving and Patterson, was appointed first Managing and Selling Agents. They maintained a head-office for the company in Vancouver, and titular head-office in London, England.

In 1894, the Anglo-British Columbia Packing Company began expansion of their operations by constructing the Good Hope Cannery on Rivers Inelt. In 1895, H.O. Bell-Irving and Company assumed sole Managing and Selling Agent responsibilities. Also in that year, the Anglo-British Columbia Packing Company established the Fidalgo Island Packing Company, which remained a subsidiary until 1964, when it was sold.

In 1931, after the death of H.O. Bell-Irving, the management of the Anglo-British Columbia Packing Company was assumed by Bell-Irving's son Richard and Peter Traill, both former directors. In 1966, the company expanded its operations to Caraquet, New Brunswick, where it built a herring reduction plant. The Anglo-British Columbia Packing Company sold the salmon cannery business in1969,yet continued to operate the herring reduction plant until 1974, when the company folded completely.

For further information see also:
Lyons, Cicely. Salmon, Our Heritage: The Story of a Province. And an Industry. Vancouver: Mitchell Press, 1969; and

Newell, Dianne, ed. The Development of the Pacific Salmon-Canning Industry: A Grown Man's Game. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1989.

Henry Forbes Angus (1891-1991) was born in Victoria, B.C. While attending high school, he also spent part of the 1906-07 school year at the Lycée Descartes in France. He graduated from McGill University in 1911, and then in 1914, he went to Oxford University. His studies were interrupted by war service, but he returned to Oxford and obtained his MA in 1919. In 1919 Angus joined the University of British Columbia faculty as an assistant professor of Economics. From 1930 to 1956, he served as head of the Department of Economics, Political Science and Sociology. Angus was also a Dean of Graduate Studies from 1949 to 1956. Among his many roles and responsibilities, he was also a member of the Rowell-Sirois Commission on Dominion-Provincial relations, a member of the Royal Commission on Transportation, and Chairman of the Public Utilities of B.C. From 1940 to 1945, Angus was seconded to work in the Canadian Department of External Affairs. He also worked for full rights for Japanese-Canadians in the inter-war years and vigorously opposed their incarceration and suspension of rights during the Second World War.
Annie M. Angus (wife of Henry Angus) was formerly a Trustee and Chairman of the Vancouver School Board and a volunteer worker. Other family members include Henry Dunckley (Angus' grandfather), who was editor of the Manchester Examiner Times (1855-1889), William H. Dunckley (his uncle) and Mary E. Angus (his mother).

Anne "Annie" Angus (née Anderson) was born in Diyarbakir, Asia Minor. In 1909, her father, who had been in the British Army, retired with his family to the Kettle Valley in British Columbia to grow fruit. Anderson's father was killed during World War I after rejoining the army, and soon after, many of the orchards in the Kettle Valley lost their crops. Anne Anderson eventually moved to Vancouver. In 1923, she graduated from the University of British Columbia in English Language and Literature. The following year, she married Professor Henry Forbes Angus. She was a board member of the Vancouver Children's Aid Society (1940-1941 and 1945-1952) and was a prominent member of the Community Chest and Council of Greater Vancouver, and a founding member of the Children's Foundation. From 1952 to 1958, she was a member of the local Board of School Trustees and acted as chair for the last two years. In 1951, she produced a history of the Children's Aid Society, The Children's Aid Society of Vancouver, 1901-1951