Edith White Tisdall was born in 1905 in Vancouver, British Columbia where her entrepreneurial father was a gunsmith and retail merchant; by the time she entered the UBC School of Nursing in 1923, he had served two terms as a Member [Conservative] of the Legislature in Victoria, and now was a mayor of and long-serving alderman for Vancouver.

At UBC, Tisdall, nicknamed "Toddy", was active and involved in campus activities, including the Players' Club, before she entered the clinical portion of the Nursing program at Vancouver General Hospital. She graduated from both UBC and VGH in 1929. As one of the early UBC Nursing graduates, she embraced the new field of provincial public health and school nursing, moving to Kelowna after graduation to become school nurse for the district.

Although she stopped nursing with her marriage to Harley Robertfield Hatfield in 1932, she maintained a lifelong interest in public health nursing and kept contact with classmates such as Muriel Upshall. For most of her married life, the couple and their four children lived in Penticton, where her husband ran a major construction company. He also became involved in local politics and had a lifelong interest in mapping the Cascade wilderness area. Edith died in 1984.

Otis Johnson Todd was born in Garland, Pennsylvania, in 1883 and died in Vancouver in 1952. He earned a BA from Harvard University in 1906, and after teaching Greek for six years, returned to Harvard, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1914. After three years at Carleton College, Minnesota, Todd moved in 1918 to the fledgling University of British Columbia. After 1922, he was a professor of Greek, after 1932 professor of Classics and from 1941 until his retirement in 1949 head of the Department of Classics. Todd was also keenly interested in sports and served as president of the Dominion of Canada Football Association (1947-1949).

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Simon Fraser Tolmie, son of William Fraser Tolmie, was born in Victoria, B.C. Tolmie graduated from the Ontario Veterinary College in 1891 and later became Dominion Inspector of Livestock. He was elected MP for Victoria in 1917 and served as Minister of Agriculture from 1919 to 1921 and in 1926. He was elected leader of the B.C. Conservative Party in 1926. In 1928, he was elected as MLA for Saanich and served as Premier and Minister of Railways until his government was defeated in 1933. He was elected MP for Victoria in a by-election in 1936 and died in office.

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy is usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, a Russian writer.

TOM Lung was born in Hong Kong on November 15, 1876 and raised there. She arrived in Canada in January 1904 as the 27-year-old wife of Won Stephen Cumye. As a merchant's wife, she was exempt from paying the $500 head tax. In Canada, she would be known also as Stella Thom Lung.

By 1924, Stella was living at 2032 Main Street in Vancouver and was housewife over 6 children: a son named Fred and five daughters (Dolly, Olive, Esther, Mae and Bessie).

She died in October 1956 at the age of 79.

TOM Wing Down was born in Canton, China on June 5, 1902. Before journeying to Canada, he married Kim Gee and they had four children: son Eddy, and daughters Fronie, Joyce and June.

Wing arrived in St. John’s, Newfoundland in 1925, when he was 22 years old. He arrived as a laundryman hailing from 開平 Hoiping / Kaiping county in the 廣東 Guangdong province of China. He settled in St. John’s, joining a friend who was already established in the city.

Wing started a Chinese laundry on Water Street. He then ran Paradise Cafe on Bell Island for four years, and later, Tom’s Snack Bar back in St. John's. He retired at the age of 76.

His daughters, Joyce and June Tom, shared: “He never spoke of the details but mentioned how the “white folks” were not nice to our family and mumbled his annoyance in Chinese of the discrimination. He did speak of the head tax that was imposed on Chinese immigrants entering Canada; many of his friends had to pay as well. Not being able to articulate or defend the words or behaviours subjected to him brings back painful memories… Dad gave us an upbringing the best he could with humble beginnings and a lot of hard work to raise a growing family. Stress was a big part of his day-to-day that he dealt with silently. Life was very challenging in a foreign country, not being able to speak the English language added to his struggles. The hardships that my parents bore were not on our radar as kids, and only felt much later in our adult lives.”

He ordered Chinese dry goods and moon cakes to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, and Chinese vegetables from Vancouver for his family to enjoy as these could not be purchased locally. Additionally, he crafted batter for delicious fish and chips and amazing apple and lemon pies for the snack bar, as attested by his daughters and his many customers.

His daughters’ fondest memory of him was “his love to cook the Chinese food he grew up with. He perfected the Peking duck and crispy slow-roasted pork belly recipe which he prepared for every special occasion. We can still ‘smell’ the lovely aroma coming from the kitchen and we so miss it… Our dad was a very kind, generous and caring human being. He would give the shirt off his back to put a smile on someone’s face. He was very protective of his kids and wanted the best for us; oftentimes that meant strict rules to follow at home, school and at play. We miss dad dearly.”

Wing passed away in December 1978.

TOM Wing Shung was born in China on July 12, 1902. He arrived in Canada in 1918 as a 15-year-old student.

By 1924, he was working as a laundryman at Fraser Mills. His father, TAM Fook, died in 1945.

Shung and his wife lived at 1152 East Georgia Street in the Strathcona neighbourhood.

He eventually left the hand laundry industry. By 1965, he owned a hotel, but later, in 1968, he was a labourer. His grandson, Fulton Tom, recalls that Shung operated a newsstand in Chinatown at one point.

Shung passed away on August 30, 1976.

Humphrey Toms was a plant pathologist at the Agricultural Research Centre at the University of British Columbia. He was also a genealogist who conducted research in the United Kingdom and the United States.

Coral Wesley Topping was born in Fitzroy Harbour, Ontario, in 1889. He was educated at the Perth Collegiate Institute, Perth, Ontario, and then at Queen's University, Kingston (BA, 1912), Columbia University (MA, 1921, Ph.D., 1929), the University of Washington, the University of Southern California, and the Union Seminary and Wesleyan Theological College (STD, 1925). He served as Governor of Kingston Jail (1917-1919) and taught sociology and history at the College of Puget Sound (1923-1925) before coming to UBC in 1929. From 1929 to 1954, Topping taught sociology in the University of British Columbia's Department of Economics, Political Science and Sociology and directed the Social Work program from 1929 to 1943. After retiring from UBC in 1954, he accepted an appointment at Union College (later part of Vancouver School of Theology). Topping was also a prolific writer of scholarly articles, fiction, and poetry.