The Wartime Information Board was established in 1942 to co-ordinate existing public information services of the government and to supervise the release of information in or to any country outside of Canada. The Board wound up operations in September 1945.

Harry V. Warren was born in Anacortes, Washington, in 1904. He completed his B.A. (1926) and B.Sc. in geological engineering (1927) at British Columbia. In 1927 he went to Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and earned his doctorate in natural science in 1929. After completing post-graduate work at the California Institute of Technology, Warren returned to UBC as a lecturer in the Department of Geology and Geography in 1932. By 1945 he had been promoted to professor. Amongst his numerous outstanding contributions, Warren pioneered the study of biogeochemistry, in which plant life is used to help detect the presence of trace elements. He also studied the link between geology and medicine, particularly the impact of trace elements on health. Throughout his career, Warren received numerous honours as a scholar, teacher and amateur sportsman. Although he retired from the University in 1973, he remained active in multiple organizations and published a wide range of articles.

Falkland George Edgeworth Warren was born in Ireland in 1834. He graduated from the Royal Military Academy in 1852, served in the field during the Indian Mutiny in 1857, the North-West Frontier in 1863, and Bhutan in 1865. In India, in 1860, he married Annie Matilda Victor, and they had eight children. They emigrated to British Columbia before 1901 and are recorded in the 1901 Canadian Census.

The history of the Warren family dates back to the 1700s in England. Harry Warren accumulated extensive documentation of the history of the Warren
family. Harry V. Warren was born in Anacortes, Washington, in 1904. He completed his B.A. (1926) and B.Sc. in geological engineering (1927) at UBC. In 1927 he went to Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and earned his doctorate in natural science in 1929. After completing post-graduate work at the California Institute of Technology, Warren returned to UBC as a lecturer in the Dept. of Geology and Geography in 1932. By 1945 he had been promoted to professor. Amongst his numerous outstanding contributions, Warren pioneered the study of biogeochemistry, in which plant life is used to help detect the presence of trace elements. He also studied the link between geology and medicine, particularly the impact of trace elements on health. Throughout his career, Warren received numerous honours as a scholar, teacher and amateur sportsman. Although he retired from the University in 1973, he remained active in multiple organizations and published a wide range of articles.

W. Peter Ward was born in Edmonton in 1943. He obtained a BA in English Literature from the University of Alberta in 1964 and an MA in History from the same university in 1966. He was awarded a PhD in History from Queen’s University in Kingston in 1973. He taught high school for the Edmonton Public School Board in 1968-69 and held part time or sessional teaching appointments at the University of Alberta, the University of Saskatchewan, and Queen’s University between 1967 and 1973.

Ward’s research interests include: the history of the family in Canada, the history of immigration in Canada, the history of population health and the history of human physical growth. His major books are: White Canada Forever: Popular Attitudes and Public Policy Toward Orientals in British Columbia (1978, 1990, 2002), Courtship, Love and Marriage in 19th Century English Canada (1990), Birth Weight and Economic Growth: Women’s Living Standards in the Industrializing West (1993), A History of Domestic Space: Privacy and the Canadian Home (1999) and The Clean Body: A Modern History (2019). He has published articles in leading national and international journals, including the Canadian Historical Review, the American Historical Review, the Journal of Interdisciplinary History, and Economics and Human Biology.

Peter Ward joined the UBC Department of History in 1973 as an Assistant Professor. He was granted tenure in 1978, promoted to Associate Professor in 1979, and was granted full professorial status in 1990. He went on to serve as Head of the UBC History Department (1991-1996) and later as Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives in the Faculty of Arts (2002-2005). In addition he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Augsburg in 1995, as well as at the University of Bologna in 2009-10 and 2011-12.

In 2005 Ward joined the UBC Library as Deputy University Librarian. He served as University Librarian pro tem from 2007-2009. During this period he helped oversee the completion of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and, additionally, he launched a planning process that led to the establishment of UBC’s institutional repository, cIRcle.

Ward has been the recipient of numerous research grants from the Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada and the Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine as well as from UBC. He has also received a number of distinctions for scholarship in his career, including leave fellowships from the Canada Council and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. In 1990 the Social Science Federation of Canada cited his book White Canada Forever as one of the 20 most important books in English supported by the Council over the previous 50 years. He also received a UBC Killam Fellowship in 1990-91 and a UBC Killam Research Prize in 1998. In 2012 he was ranked 2nd among Canada’s historians in the first HiBAR survey (Hirsch-Index Benchmarking of Academic Research) that identified the most influential scholarly researchers in their respective fields.

Location: 6081 University Blvd.
Date: Original construction: 1949-50 Outdoor swimming pool: 1954
Architect: 1949-50: Ned Pratt of Sharp & Thompson, Berwick, Pratt, and Frederic Lasserre
1954: Sharp & Thompson, Berwick, Pratt
Cost: $746,207
Sources of funds: Students, private donations, and $200,000 from the B.C. government.
Architectural features: Reinforced concrete walls, steel Pratt-type trusses over the main gymnasium, reinforced concrete beams and slabs over the hall. Reinforced concrete stairs cantilevered from the building.
Notes: Won a Massey Silver Medal for architectural design.
Sources: Thompson, Berwick, Pratt; Senate Funds; Ceremonies Office.

Marie Louise Wanamaker Munn was a friend and former client of Hanne Wassermann Walker, whom she helped immigrate to the U.S. in 1939.

Anthony Walsh taught school at the Inkameep Indian Day School at Oliver, B.C. (1936-1941).

George Wallich, son of the Danish biologist Nathaniel Wallich (1786-1854), was a naturalist and physician (M.D. Edinburgh, 1836) who served as an army surgeon in India from 1838 to 1856. He is the author of two works on marine biology, including The North Atlantic Seabed (1862).

Wallace Bakfu Chung was born in Victoria on November 1, 1925. After graduating from Victoria High School in 1945, Dr. Chung attended Victoria College and the University of British Columbia, before being accepted to McGill University’s School of Medicine in 1949. After graduating from McGill University in 1953, Dr. Chung moved to Vancouver to complete a medical residency at Vancouver General Hospital. In 1958, he was appointed Chief Resident at Vancouver General Hospital, and in 1959 entered medical practice, where he specialised in vascular surgery. Soon thereafter, Dr. Wallace Chung began teaching at the University of British Columbia, and became a full Professor of Surgery in 1972. Dr. Chung was appointed Head of the Department of Surgery at the University of British Columbia Hospital in 1980, a post he held for nearly 10 years before retiring in 1991.

Dr. Madeline Chung (née Huang) was born in Shanghai, China, and was raised in Hong Kong. She graduated from Yale Medical Mission in Hunan, China in 1948, before immigrating to North America for a medical internship at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Victoria. Her next internship was at St. Mary’s Hospital in Montreal, where she met Dr. Wallace Chung in October 1949. The two were married on June 7, 1953 in Seattle, Washington, where Dr. Madeline Chung’s grandmother lived. Dr. Madeline Chung then returned to Rochester, Minnesota to complete a medical residency in obstetrics and gynaecology at the Mayo Clinic. She then moved to Vancouver to join her husband in 1954, where she worked as a pathologist before opening her own medical practice in 1956. She became a Clinical Instructor at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine in 1964, was promoted to Clinical Assistant Professor in 1979, and became Clinical Associate Professor in 1990. For a time the only Chinese-speaking obstetrician in Vancouver, she delivered over 7,200 babies before her retirement in 1995.

Drs. Wallace and Madeline Chung were among the first Chinese-Canadians to pursue careers in medicine. When Dr. Wallace Chung arrived in 1953, there were only 7 doctors of Chinese ancestry practising in Vancouver, while Dr. Madeline Chung was the first Chinese-Canadian and the first female obstetrician in British Columbia. Together they had two children, Maria and Stephen, both of whom followed their parents into medicine.

Drs. Wallace and Madeline Chung have both contributed extensively to their community. Dr. Wallace Chung was a member of numerous cultural boards, including the Vancouver Chinese Cultural Centre, the International Dragon Boat Society, the British Columbia Heritage Trust, the Vancouver Maritime Museum, and the Canadian Multiculturalism Council, where he helped draft the 1988 Multiculturalism Act. He also served as Governor of the American College of Surgeons, President of the Canadian Society for Vascular Surgery, and Director of the B.C. Cancer Society. He was awarded a 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal (1992), a UBC Honorary Alumnus Award (2002), the Order of Canada (2005) and the Order of British Columbia (2006). Dr. Madeline Chung was a founding member of the True Light Chinese School in Vancouver, where she served as superintendent for 21 years and as treasurer for 27. She was made an honorary Life Member of the British Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons (1999).

Dr. Wallace Chung began collecting the items in the Chung Collection as a child, inspired by a poster of the Canadian Pacific steamship Empress of Asia that hung in his father’s tailor shop in Victoria. He began collecting newspaper clippings and Canadian Pacific Railway pamphlets in 1931, although he soon set aside this hobby to focus on his education. He rekindled his interest in Canadian Pacific Railway materials in the 1960s, once he had finished school and begun working. He soon became known among booksellers and dealers as a serious collector. Thanks to these established relationships, Dr. Chung was frequently contacted by dealers about items that would fit into his collection. His interest in the Canadian Pacific Railway grew to include Chinese Canadian immigration and British Columbia history, as he became interested in tracing his father’s and grandfather’s journeys from China to Canada. Dr. Chung donated this extensive collection to the University of British Columbia Library in 1999, saying, “We are giving the collection to UBC so as many people as possible can have the opportunity to understand and appreciate the struggles and joys of those who have come before them.” Other parts of Dr. Chung’s collection may be found at the Vancouver Maritime Museum.

George Dickson Walker was born July 19th, 1889 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. His parents were William John Walker (2 January 1842 - ?) and Rachel Walker née Dickson (28 February 1852 - ?). George studied psychology at the University of Belfast and later theology at Magee College and the Assembly’s College. In 1914 George moved from Northern Ireland to England where he in Lancashire, Northumberland, and Stafford before moving to the Jersey in the Channel Islands in 1936. During this period he married a woman named Sophia Elizabeth Graham with whom he had one child, a daughter named Norah. During the First World War, George provided service through the YMCA between March and July 1917 for special non-combatant duty to the Indian Cavalry in France without rank. During his service, he sustained injuries from a burn. In an early 1940s newspaper interview in San Diego, George describes working for an ambulance service in London during the war.

From 1919 to 1936, George worked as a psychotherapist for the Presbyterian Church of England. He moved with his family to Channel Islands to work as a minister. Shortly after arriving there his marriage ended due, according to his U.S. immigration paperwork, to desertion on the part Elizabeth. Two years earlier was when George met Hanne Wassermann, although the details of their meeting and the early years of their relationship are unclear. It is possible they met in England during one of Hanne’s trips there or while George was visiting Vienna or Brioni, Italy, which are all places Hanne taught fitness classes at various times over the years.

Together with Hanne and her mother, George immigrated to the United States in 1940. He was arrested in Reno, Nevada, for allegedly skipping out on a hotel bill; however, the charge was eventually dropped. He and Hanne travelled across the country, eventually settling in La Jolla, California, until 1942 when he was hired by St. Andrew’s United Church in North Vancouver to serve as a minister in Squamish. George moved to British Columbia first, and the next year, after they were married in Los Angeles, California, Hanne joined him.

George enjoyed the outdoors and boating, and was very fond of the pet dogs he and his wife owned. Little information is available about his relationship with his daughter, who survived the war and was living in the United Kingdom; she is mentioned in some of the correspondence he received from Northern Ireland.

George died on July 11th, 1981.

Doreen Elizabeth Walker was born in Vancouver in 1920. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from The University of British Columbia in 1942 and, upon returning to school, was awarded a Master of Arts degree by the University in 1969. The title of her Graduate thesis was "The Treatment of Nature in Canadian Art Since the Time of the Group of Seven." She subsequently became a senior instructor in the Fine Arts Department at UBC and worked there until her retirement in 1985. In addition, Walker compiled and edited over 200 letters between the triumvirate of Nan Cheney, Humphrey Toms, and the noted Canadian artist Emily Carr, producing the book Dear Nan: Letters to Emily Carr, Nan Cheney, and Humphrey Toms in 1990. Her relationship with Cheney, dating back to 1980, was certainly more than professional, and correspondence and photographs illustrate the shared friendship.

David C. Walker earned his two bachelor's degrees at the University of California Santa Barbara, one in zoology in 1968 and one in botany in 1970. He then completed a MA in botany at UCSB in 1972 and his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in botany in 1980. In 1979 he became a research assistant with the Pulmonary Research Lab, and in 1983 Walker became an assistant professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at UBC. In 1996 he was promoted to associate professor. During his career with UBC, Walker supervised the Electron Microscopy Laboratory of the Pulmonary Research Laboratory at St. Paul's Hospital (later the James C. Hogg iCAPTURE Centre for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research) and continued to perform his research in the areas of mechanisms of airway epithelial permeability (especially following cigarette smoke exposure), the morphological aspects of the process of leukocyte migration from pulmonary blood vessels into the airspaces in response to types of pneumonia. He also taught several classes and served as a graduate advisor.