After the Local 1 Chapter of the Association of Union of College Employees (AUCE local 1) succeeded from the provincial Association, they entered into a two year service contract with the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), however they were not an official affiliate of CUPE until the end of this contract, and because they were no longer associated with AUCE needed a new name. For this two year interim period the members voted to call themselves the Canadian Union of Employees.

Rex Pendril “Pen” Brown was born in Vancouver in 1923 to Emma Bentall Brown and Philip Pigott Brown, both from Essex. Brown attended UBC at age 16. At age 19, Brown was called to serve the army in WWII, but received conscientious objector status. Brown objected the war on philosophical grounds, having read pacifist writings by Bernard Shaw and others. His mother, a member of the Society of Friends and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, supported his conscientious objection.

Brown served his time in alternative service work camps at Kootenay National Park and Blubber Bay. He also served 30 days in Oakalla prison for refusing to complete work during his service. After the work camps, Brown worked as a bank teller in Vancouver. He was released from service in 1946. He married Elizabeth Dorothy Kovalcik in 1957, and the couple had two children, Rex and Marian. Brown was the lighthouse keeper at Pine Island, off the coast of British Columbia, from 1957 until a major storm damaged the station in 1967. The family then moved to Victoria, where Brown worked for the Coast Guard until retiring in 1989. He passed away on April 11 2018.

Audrey Hawthorn served as the first curator of the Museum of Anthropology at UBC, working unpaid for 20 years on organizing, cataloguing, conserving, and displaying the collections of the museum. She introduced the first course in museum studies in Canada in 1959 and a second course in 1969, and taught a full course load while also managing both the daily affairs and the growth of the museum. She was married to Harry Hawthorn, the Head of the Department of Anthropology.

Alan Haig-Brown was born in Campbell River, British Columbia. In his teens, he worked as a deck-hand and was later taught to seine fish by his father-in-law Herb Assu of Quadra Island. As a young man, he worked on commercial fishing boats and coastal freighters. He seined salmon and herring until 1973, and then served for eleven years as coordinator of First Nations education in the Cariboo-Chilcotin. He also taught in the Chilcotin and Shuswap First Nations.

Haig-Brown photographs and writes about commercial boats and their crews, from tugs to fishing boats, in British Columbia and internationally. He has published several books, including the award-winning Fishing for a Living (1993) and The Fraser River (1996). He became editor of the West Coast Fisherman in 1986 and later founded The West Coast Mariner and The West Coast Logger. He continues to contribute to a number of commercial marine and commercial fishing magazines, such as Professional Mariner and Maritime Life and Traditions. He also writes a regular column for Cummins, a marine engine manufacturer.

Alan Haig-Brown is the son of writer and conservationist Roderick Haig-Brown, brother of Valerie Haig-Brown and father of filmmaker Helen Haig-Brown. He lives in New Westminster, British Columbia and Bangkok, Thailand.

Susan Elizabeth McCaslin was born June 3, 1947. In 1969 she received her BA in English Literature from the University of Washington. She continued her education completing a MA in English Literature from Simon Fraser University in 1973, her graduate thesis focused on Nineteenth-Century Poetry, Poetics, and Edgar Allan Poe. In 1984, she received a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in English Literature, Twentieth-Century Poetry and Vernon Watkins.

McCaslin held several teaching roles at various institutions and taught workshops and programs independently. Between 1969 and 1984 she was a Teaching Assistant (SFU, 1969-71; UBC, 1984-1985), Sessional Lecturer (UVIC, 1973-1974, UBC 1977-1981), Instructor (Trinity Western College, 1974-1976), Substitute Teacher (Surrey School Board, 1976-1977) and Assistant Professor (Trent University, 1984) within English Departments. From 1984 to 2007 she was an English and Creative Writing Instructor at Douglas College in New Westminster and Coquitlam, B.C. She taught a variety of first and second-year courses and was active on committees, task forces and Boards at the College. McCaslin also developed, organized and facilitated various workshops between 2008 and 2009, including “Magical Mystics Tour”, “Into the Mystic”, and on the songs and poetry of Leonard Cohen, among others.

Susan McCaslin’s literary pursuits began at an early age, she has authored numerous poems, essays, book chapters, reviews, non-fiction works, children’s books, and edited several poetry anthologies and collections. She has received several literary awards and recognition, within competitions and for her published works, including the Alberta Book Publishing Award (2012), and finalist for the BC Book Prize.
In 1969, McCaslin was introduced to Mary Olga Park, a contemporary Christian mystic living along the Burrard Inlet in Port Moody, BC. Park served as McCaslin’s spiritual mentor and friend until Park’s death in 1985. Mary Olga Park’s poetry, writing and focus on mystical and esoteric streams of Christianity encouraged McCaslin on her poetry path. McCaslin’s poetry has evolved to a more inter-spiritual and global perspective of the sacred, influenced by her studies in Tibetan Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism, Sufism, Indigenous traditions and Chinese and Japanese literature.

She has maintained memberships in several writers associations, community organizations and professional societies. She was on the Board of Directors of the Thomas Merton Society of Canada (2001-2003) and Event Magazine (2006-2017). She maintains a membership with the Federation of BC Writers, League of Canadian Poets, and The Writer’s Union of Canada. She currently resides in Fort Langley, BC, where she initiated the Han Shan Poetry Project in 2012 combining her interest in poetry and environmental activism. The project gathered Canadian poets, scientists, musicians and visual artists to draw public attention and protect a rain forest near the Fraser River. McCaslin continues to write and is currently working on various projects to be published.

The Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau (PLIB) is an accredited non-profit inspection and certification agency. Organized in 1903, it provides grading and grade stamping services to the lumber industry, as well as certification for heat treated lumber (HT), ISPM 15 wood packaging, CE Marking, California WUI registration services, and wood pellet certification to lumber manufacturers, re-manufacturers, drying facilities, wood packaging facilities, and wood pellet facilities in the Western U.S. and Canada.

Appointed minister of public works in the first Diefenbaker government, Green assumed the Department of External Affairs portfolio in 1959. During his tenure in external affairs, Green was an advocate of nuclear disarmament and sponsored UN resolutions that furthered that goal. He took an active role for Canada in various international discussions that contributed to a higher profile internationally. First elected to the House in 1935, Green served until his defeat in the 1963 general election.

Responsible Enterprise, founded in 1942, was an association of about 100 Canadian industrial and business companies whose goal was to protect the free market, the rights of private property, and the economic system of competitive capitalism in Canada. The association hosted an annual dinner each year, wherein Murray delivered a speech reviewing the progress which had been made towards these ends. The association also published a magazine, The Outlook, bulletins, and cartoons.

Sir George Bailey Sansom was a diplomatist and Japanese scholar, was born in London on 28 November 1883, the only son of George William Morgan Sansom, naval architect, of Little Thurrock, Essex, and his wife, Mary Ann Bailey, from Yorkshire. He was educated at Palmer's School, Grays, and the lycée Malherbe, Caen, and later attended the universities of Giessen and Marburg. He passed a competitive examination for the British consular service in September 1903 and was attached to the British legation in Tokyo to study the Japanese language. He served as private secretary to Sir Claude Macdonald, ambassador to Japan, from 1905 to 1912, and also in consulates around Japan. In these posts, he acquired great proficiency in the Japanese language, including local dialects. In 1915 he was in London on home leave and, being unfit for military service, was lent by the Foreign Office first to the Admiralty and then to the War Office for political intelligence work, which took him to Archangel.

Sansom worked as secretary to the ambassador, Sir Charles Eliot, a post in which he made the acquaintance of many Japanese leaders and scholars. Eliot, for whom he had unbounded admiration, encouraged him to devote the spare time which was available to him in the relatively relaxed pace of official life to the study of Japan, her language, culture, and history. In 1928 he published his first work, An Historical Grammar of Japanese, a pioneer study. Already regarded as an authority on the early history of Japan, he published in 1931 Japan: a Short Cultural History, which was based on primary materials in Japanese and added a new dimension to the English-language literature on the subject. While he was dissatisfied with aspects of the work and wanted to revise it, it was reprinted as it stood in 1936 and on countless occasions thereafter. It became the standard and most reliable text for the university courses on the subject which were growing up in the United States and elsewhere. Sansom then edited the monograph Japanese Buddhism (1935) which Eliot had left incomplete at the time of his death in 1931 and added a chapter of his own. His scholarship was recognized when, during leave in 1935, he spent half a year in New York, lecturing at Columbia University.

From the 1920s Sansom was responsible for the commercial work of the embassy. He was appointed commercial secretary in September 1923 and then commercial counsellor in January 1930. In this capacity he travelled to the Philippines in 1932 and then to India in the autumn of 1933, where he played an important negotiating role in resolving the difficult Indo-Japanese cotton dispute in a dual capacity as representative of both the Indian and British governments. He was made a KCMG in June 1935, having been appointed CMG in January 1926.

From 1947 to 1953 Sansom was professor of Japanese studies at Columbia University and from 1949 to 1953 he was the first director of its East Asian Institute. It was during this period that he wrote The Western World and Japan: a Study in the Interaction of European and Asian Cultures (1950), in which he emphasized the influence of Western thought as it reached Japan down the centuries. He was able to make another academic visit to Japan in 1950 and to publish the seminal lectures he gave on that occasion under the title Japan in World History (1951). In 1955 he decided on health grounds to move to California, where he was given an honorary ‘consultant professorship’ at Stanford University. There he spent much of the last ten years of his life, freed from routine work, working on his three-volume History of Japan (1958–64). Considering the exacting standards that he set for himself, it was a marvellous publication, but the strains of age and illness affected the final volume. He had built up over half a century a range of intellectual contacts in Japan unusual for a diplomatist; and he was able to plough into his writing the richness of Japanese material towards which he was guided by a network of academic friends. He became an honorary fellow of the Japanese Academy in 1951.

Although Sansom's official career was distinguished in its own right, it is as an interpreter of Japan that he will be remembered. His writings, originating in linguistic and Buddhist studies, gradually moved away from cultural history and in later works tended towards social and political history. He was the bridge between Japanese scholars who were anxious to have their country understood abroad and a western readership who appreciated the style and wit of his writing.

A. Alexis Alvey was born in Seattle, Washington on November 22, 1903. She attended McMaster University in Hamilton (1932-33). Following University, she was employed as a special technician in charge of photography at the University of Toronto's School of Medicine. Alvey also helped organize the business women's company of the Toronto Red Cross Transport Corps and commanded it for two years, and served as lecturer to the entire Transport Corps for Military Law, Map Reading, and Military and Naval insignia. In 1942, the Womens Royal Canadian Naval Service (W.R.C.N.S., Wrens) selected Alvey for its first class for training in Ottawa. Having passed a selection board to become one of the first commissioned officers, Dorothy Isherwood, W.R.C.N.S., appointed Alvey acting Chief Petty Officer Master-at-Arms. Her other assignments included duty as Deputy Unit Officer H.M.C.S. Bytown (Ottawa), duty with the Commanding Officer Pacific Coast H.M.C.S. Burrard (Vancouver), assignment as Unit Officer, Lieutenant H.M.C.S. Bytown, and Unit Officer to H.M.C.S. Stadacona (Halifax). Following her career with the W.R.C.N.S., Alvey rejoined University of Toronto in 1945. Eventually, Alvey returned to Seattle to work for the University of Washington Libraries as an acquisitions technician, but retired in 1969. Alvey died on June 5, 1996. Throughout her life, Alvey took special care to collect and preserve memorabilia related to the activities of the W.R.C.N.S. She regularly accepted donations from former W.R.C.N.S. to aid her documentary activities.

Samuel Service was a Constable, and later Sergeant, for the British Columbia Provincial Police and, following the merge of organizations, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. He worked in Port Alberni, Cowichan, Chemainus, and surrounding regions in British Columbia.

Alan Twigg was born in North Vancouver, British Columbia in 1952. Since 1987, he has owned and published the newspaper, B.C. BookWorld, Canadas largest circulation publication about books. In 1985, Twigg co-founded the B.C. Book Prizes, and he was its executive director and chief fundraiser in the 1990s. He also created the Van City Womens Book Prize, and coordinated it between 1992 and 2005. Twigg was a representative of the Writers Union of Canada, on the original Board of Directors for the Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing at Simon Fraser University. He also served on the boards of the City of Vancouvers Public Art Committee and the Vancouver Cultural Alliance. He is a founder of British Columbias annual Lifetime Achievement Award for an outstanding literary career in British Columbia, which he has also coordinated since 1995. In 1994, he organized events aiming to honor George Woodcock, who was British Columbias most prolific man of letters. In the 1970s and 1980s, Alan Twigg worked as a freelance writer. From 1995 to 1998, he wrote a weekly editorial column for <i>The Province</i> newspaper. He has written for The Quill & Quire, BC Historical News, as a theatre critic forThe Georgia Straight, Globe & Mail, Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen, Macleans, Vancouver Sun, Step and Pacific Northwest Review of Books. Alan Twigg appears frequently as a guest on CBC Radio, and he has been the host of a CBC television series about B.C. authors. Alan Twigg has taught at the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, University of Victoria, and at high schools. He hosted Simon Fraser Universitys third annual Symposium on the Novel at the Wosk Centre for Dialogue in 2004. In 1999, Twigg coordinated a fundraising campaign for the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, an organization which he continues to support.;Alan Twigg has been married since 1973 to Tara. They have two sons and continue living in Vancouver.

The History Articulation Committee (HAC) was created in 1969 to help facilitate the administration of college transfer programs in the province of British Columbia. The goals of the HAC are to expand educational opportunities for students by facilitating the transfer of students from one educational institution to another; to foster understanding of the objectives of the courses in the discipline or program; to exchange information about entry requirements, measures of achievement, course numbering systems, text books, and supporting facilities; to provide for exchange of information, particularly as it relates to new developments in the filed; to identify common professional issues, and to search out needs and opportunities for program development; to provide for liaison among instructors of the subject at all levels; to maintain liaison with appropriate external certification bodies as appropriate; to provide a forum for discussion of instructional practices and for the exchange of learning materials; to foster an orderly implementation of the Transfer Guidelines; and to identify and forward transfer problems which require the attention of the Council on Admissions and Transfer.

The HAC meets annually to discuss numerous issues related to admissions and transfer from local colleges and secondary schools to university programs within the province of British Columbia including: university accreditation for college history courses, changes to curriculum in university history programs, secondary school history curriculum reviews, budget cutbacks at smaller local colleges, the establishment of University-Colleges, the adoption of an associates degree program, issues concerning Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate course recognition across institutions, approval of transfer credits, retirement and hiring of instructors and professors, the availability of library resources, and providing funding for the reproduction of historical materials. The HAC also conducts reviews of program reenrollment and course offerings at educational institutions across the Province.

The HAC operates under the aegis of the British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer and reports to the council through its Program and Articulation Committee. The British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer was created by the Ministry of Advanced Education and Job Training in response to a recommendation by the Provincial Access Committee and as a part of a major Government initiative to improve access to post-secondary education. The council provides leadership and direction in achieving an overall objective of expanding educational opportunities for students through inter-institution transfer, review of admission requirements, and of other arrangements which lead to the various post-secondary institutions working together as a coordinated system.

Members of the HAC include representatives from universities, colleges, secondary schools and vocational institutions across the province of British Columbia including, but not limited to the following: the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, the University of Victoria, the College of New Calendoina, Capilano College, Okanagan College, Malaspina College, Selkirk College, Vancouver City College, Caribou College, Camosun College, Douglas College, East Kootenay College, Fraser Valley College, North Island College, Northern Lights College, North West College, Notre Dame University in Nelson, Royal Roads Military College, as well as a representative form the Post-Secondary Co-ordinating Committee.

Albert Lindgren was boat captain who moved to Vancouver ca. 1900 and lived with his family on Heatley Street. He may have worked for the C.H. Cates Shipyard.

Crawford Kilian was born in New York City (NYC) in 1941. He spent his formative years in Los Angeles and Mexico City. In 1962 Kilian graduated from NYC’s Columbia University, and began service in the US Army, later working as a technical writer at the Berkeley University Laboratories. Subsequent to his marriage, he and his wife, Alice, moved to British Columbia, residing in North Vancouver. In 1983 Kilian and his wife lived in the Guangzhou province of China, where he taught English. Crawford officially became a Canadian citizen in May of 1973.

Since 1967, Kilian has maintained a career as a writer and teacher. He has published 21 books and hundreds of articles and newspaper columns. His books include eleven novels, two textbooks on writing, a regional history, two books on education and politics, three manuals on writing and publishing, and two children’s books.

Kilian’s most recent work pertains primarily to education and its relationship and development in relation to computers and technology, especially distance learning and the Internet. He has developed courses in Webwriting and his book, Writing for the Web, provides concrete instruction on the topic. He has also written a monthly column, The Online Writer, for a Web magazine called Content Spotlight.

Crawford Kilian lives in North Vancouver, teaches at Capilano College, and continues to write.

Founded in 1900 and formally registered under the name British Columbia Lumber and Shingle Manufacturers Limited in 1907, the British Columbia Lumber Manufacturers Association (BCLMA) main objective was to protect the trade of different businesses and public organizations, to promote the lumber and shingle trade, to gather and publish information of interest to the forest industry, establish standards for grading and weighing and manufacturing lumber.
BCLMA was divided into a number of branches, which reflected the organizations main activities. These include: the Shingle Branch and Lumber Branch, Sash and Door Branch, and Box Branch. The affairs of the organization were overseen by the Board of Director’s with the Secretary-Treasurer responsible for the financial and record-keeping functions of the body.
The organization changed its name in 1936 to the British Columbia Lumber and Shingle Association. At this time, the organization added trade extension, research, the promotion of favourable legislation and safety, and advertising to its activities. The organization also conducted educational classes for member company employees.
In 1947 the organization changed its name back to the British Columbia Lumber Manufacturers Association and in 1949 amalgamated with Western Lumber Manufacturers Association.
In 1960 BCLMA became a member of the newly formed Council of Forest Industries of British Columbia. At this point some of the functions of the BCLMA were gradually taken over by COFI. In 1966 BCLMA’s Grading and Education Department merged to form the Quality Control Department. BCLMA amalgamated with COFI and four other associations in 1966, however, it continued to hold annual meetings for lumber manufacturers until 1982 when it was officially dissolved.