Paul Tiessen was born in 1944. He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He has published widely in the fields of modernism, cultural theory, and film theory. Tiessen retains special interest in the works of Malcolm Lowry: he was editor of the Malcolm Lowry Newsletter (1977-1984); founding editor of The Malcolm Lowry Review (1984 to 2002); and editor and co-editor of works by Lowry and scholarly volumes about Lowry. Significant critical volumes on Lowry that Tiessen has edited or co-edited include The Letters of Malcolm Lowry and Gerald Noxon, 1940-1952 (1988), Apparently Incongruous Parts: The Worlds of Malcolm Lowry (1990), The Cinema of Malcolm Lowry: A Scholarly Edition of Lowry’s ‘Tender is the Night’ (1990), Joyce/Lowry: Critical Perspectives (1997), and A Darkness that Murmured: Essays on Malcolm Lowry and the Twentieth Century (2000). In collaboration with five other academics and the Editing Modernism in Canada (EMiC) project, Tiessen has created a series of new scholarly editions of Lowry’s works, including Swinging the Maelstrom (2013), In Ballast to the White Sea (2014), and The 1940 Under the Volcano (2015). Additionally, Tiessen wrote the introduction to Notes on a Screenplay for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘Tender is the Night’ by Malcolm Lowry and Margerie Bonner Lowry (1976).

James E. Thornton (b. 1927) received his MA (1967) and Ph.D. (1972) in Adult Education from the University of Michigan. From 1969 until his retirement in 1992, Thornton taught in the Administrative, Adult and Higher Education Department at the University of British Columbia. His research interests concern the impact of educational, social and economic programs on the development and well-being of older adults. Current research interests are education for the third age: second careers, retirement, leisure activity, ageing in the workforce, and life-span learning and education. At UBC, Thornton introduced a graduate course in educational gerontology and ageing themes. From 1980 to 1990, he served as co-ordinator for the Faculty of Graduate Studies Committee on Gerontology. The Committee encouraged teaching and research programs in faculties, schools and departments.

Watson Thomson was born in Glasgow, Scotland, graduated from Glasgow University with an MA in 1923 and tutored in Jamaica for three years. One year after his return to Scotland, where he taught high school and teacher training, he travelled to Nigeria to become a Superintendent of Education. After this job, he returned to London and worked on publicity for the European Federation. During 1931-37, he was actively involved as the co-editor of the important English weekly, New Britain.
Thomson travelled across Canada in 1937, lecturing and founding the Workers Education Association in Calgary. He soon became a staff member of the University of Alberta Extension (continuing education) and a regular commentator for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation until 1944. In 1941, he was appointed Director of Adult Education at the University of Manitoba. Three years later, he held the same post for the Province of Saskatchewan. During the War, Thomson was a firm spokesman for those suffering. He published a pamphlet urging Canada to open its doors to people persecuted by the Nazis. After the War, he became interested in the concept of intentional community. He began organizing one while writing Pioneer in Community. He lived on a co-op farm from 1948 to 1950 and lectured at the University of British Columbia. He continued teaching at UBC from 1950 to 1960. He was internationally known for the specialized English courses for Engineering and Forestry students. In 1960, he retired as Associate Professor because of illness and was awarded Associate Professor Emeritus in 1964. Still writing, he published Turning Into Tomorrow in 1966. He died in Vancouver in 1969.

Peggy Thompson graduated from Point Grey Secondary School in 1972 before attending the University of British Columbia. Later, she became a screenwriting professor in the Creative Writing department at UBC. In addition, she has worked as a writer, producer, and director for film, television, radio, and stage.
Thompson is the screenwriter of Better Than Chocolate and The Lotus Eaters. Better Than Chocolate premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and won numerous international awards. At the same time, The Lotus Eaters was nominated for 11 Genie Awards and won three. She also won a Genie for the short film In Search Of The Last Good Man. Her short documentary film Broken Images – The Photography Of Michelle Normoyle has played festivals worldwide. It's A Party!, another short film, was nominated for a Genie. Peggy Thompson has also written for series television including Da Vinci's Inquest, Big Sound, *PR,* The Beachcombers, and Weird Homes. Her radio play Calamity Jane And The Fat Buffalo Moon was published by Blizzard Press and was staged in New York. Her stage work has been nominated for both Chalmers and Jessie Awards. She was one of four producers on the feature film Saint Monica, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, won the Cultural Expressions Award for Best Narrative Feature at the Sarasota Film Festival and was nominated for two Genie Awards. Saint Monica received its European premiere at the Berlin Film Festival. She has recently produced the animated short Chanterelle Rain was the Executive Producer of the Crazy 8 short drama Sacrifice. She also co-authored, with Saeko Usukawa, the books Hard-Boiled: Great Lines from Classic Movies (1995) and Tall in the Saddle: Great Lines from Classic Westerns (1998).
As of 2017, Thompson is a Professor Emerita of UBC's Creative Writing Program and has served on the Women's Board of Directors in Film and Television Vancouver and Out On Screen. She is currently on the From Our Dark Side Screenplay Genre Competition's Steering Committee, a national competition for genre screenwriters run by Women in Film and Television Vancouver.

Mark Thompson received his undergraduate education in economics at Notre Dame University, graduating with a BA in 1961. He completed graduate work at Cornell University, earning an MS (1963) and Ph.D. (1966), specializing in collective bargaining, labour law, and labour movements. Thompson joined the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration in 1971 and served as director of the University of British Columbia's Institute of Industrial Relations from 1974 to 1977. In addition, he has served as an arbitrator in several labour disputes in British Columbia.

Margaret Jill Thompson was born in Saskatoon on February 24, 1937. In 1960, she received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Saskatchewan. After graduation, she held various nursing and instructor positions at Kelowna General Hospital, Vancouver General Hospital School of Nursing, and Guys Hospital in London, England. From 1970-1971, she completed a public health nursing course as well as other coursework in health care and epidemiology at the UBC School of Nursing. From 1971-1977, she was a public health nurse for the South Okanagan Health Unit in Kelowna, BC. In 1984, Thompson received her Master of Education from UBC.

Margaret was a nursing instructor for the Diploma Nursing Program at Okanagan College as well as the University College of Fraser Valley. Upon retirement from teaching, she joined the BC History of Nursing Society and held various positions of Chair, Oral History Committee, Membership chair, Newsletter guest editor with husband, Bruce Beaudreau, and coordinator of BCHNS' historical displays at the Registered Nurses Association of British Columbia (RNABC). She also submitted articles for the society's newsletter and was recognized by the society for her knowledge of nursing history and her research into the life of Florence Nightingale. Thompson died in 2001.

George Lister Thornton Sharp was born in 1880 in London, England and educated at Haileybury. In 1908 he came to Vancouver and formed a business partnership with Charles Joseph Thompson. Thompson was also born in London in 1878. From 1906 to 1908, he was assistant chief architect for the CPR before joining Sharp to form the architectural firm of Sharp & Thompson. The firm was responsible for the design of such significant buildings in Vancouver as the BC Electric Building. Over the years, it played an essential role in developing the built environment of Greater Vancouver. Importantly for UBC's history, Sharp & Thompson won the competition in 1912 to design the Point Grey campus for the University. The firm built the first four original campus buildings and became the official architectural firm of the University, a position which it held until late into the 1950s. The company changed its name to Sharp & Thompson, Berwick, Pratt in 1945, when two new partners joined. When Sharp resigned in 1955, the name was changed again to Thompson, Berwick & Pratt. When the firm merged with two engineering companies who had worked with Thompson, Berwick & Pratt on past projects, the name was changed again to Thompson, Berwick, Pratt & Partners. Finally, the firm was re-organized and re-named Hemingway Nelson Architects in 1990.

Philip James Thomas was born on March 26, 1921 in Victoria, British Columbia. Through his life he was a folksong collector, composer, singer, and art teacher. Thomas was interested in sound from a young age when he tinkered with ham radios, which led to him being part of the secret development of radar technology during World War Two. After five years of service, he returned from war to earn his Bachelor of Arts degree and Teaching certificate at the University of British Columbia. He then became a visual art teacher. Although he mostly worked in elementary schools, he also gave courses at the University of British Columbia Summer School and at the Vancouver Art Gallery. While he was teaching at Pender Harbour Elementary School in the early 1950s, he became interested in the folk music of British Columbia as a way to connect the students with what he was teaching.
This interest led to a lifelong devotion to finding lost folk songs of British Columbia. Through his collecting he uncovered other songs in diaries, archival papers, newspapers, and books. He also co-founded the Vancouver Folk Song Circle, later the Vancouver Folk Song Society, in 1959 with his wife Hilda Thomas.
In 1979 he published his book Songs of the Pacific Northwest. Of the 49 songs included in this publication, 19 made their way onto his record Where the Fraser River Flows. In 1981 he retired from teaching to pursue his folk singing aspirations full time. During this period Thomas participated in many folk song festivals and societies.
Thomas died at Vancouver General Hospital on January 26, 2007.

Hilda Louise Thomas (nee Halpin) was born June 23, 1928 in Kimberley, BC. Thomas attended the University of British Columbia, where she received a B.A. in 1948 and an MA in 1965. She went on to become a Senior Instructor in the Department of English, where she taught for 30 years.
Thomas was an active member of the New Democratic Party and its predecessor, the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) from 1951 until the end of her life. She ran for city council in 1970, and for the provincial NDP in 1972, 1975, 1979 and 1983. She also ran for nomination in the Federal NDP. Among other party activities, she served on the executive of the Vancouver Point Grey, and on the executive and council of both the provincial and federal parties. She was a chair of the Federal Participation of Women Committee, and active member of the BC Womens Rights Committee (WRC).
Thomas was also an active community activist. She was a socialist, feminist, environmentalist and anti-war activist. She was heavily involved in protesting the Vietnam War, and was Chair of the Vietnam Action Committee. Later she was active in protesting the Gulf War and Iraqi sanctions, as well as on behalf of Palestinians. In 1988 she helped found Everywomans Health Clinic, the first freestanding abortion clinic in British Columbia. She was also a founding member of the Endowment Lands Regional Park Committee, which worked to preserve Pacific Spirit Park as a Regional Park.
She died in Vancouver in 2005, survived by her husband, Philip J. Thomas, and three children.