Alice Lillian Wright was born August 22, 1894, in Charlottetown, P.E.I., and died in March 15, 2000 (age 105) in Vancouver, British Columbia. After graduation from the Vancouver General Hospital School of Nursing in 1918, she first worked as a pediatric head nurse and pediatrics instructor at Vancouver General Hospital, then in hospitals in California and New York. She received her Bachelor of Science from Teacher's College, Columbia University, New York, in 1941. She also took a post-graduate course in pediatrics at New York Nursery and Children's Hospital, as well as a special course at the Kenny Institute, University of Minnesota.

She was Registrar and Executive Secretary of the Registered Nurses Association of B.C. from 1943 to her retirement in 1960. During that portion of her career, she initiated trail-blazing efforts to establish collective bargaining for nurses in B.C. and in Canada. She was named an Honorary Life Member of the Registered Nurses Association of B.C. in 1952 as a tribute to her pioneering work in labour relations for B.C. nurses and her efforts to improve standards of nursing education in the province. She was named an Honorary Life Member of the Canadian Nurses Association in 1962 for her pioneering labour relations work and for her many professional contributions nationally and internationally through the International Council of Nurses.

She started collecting antique infant feeding devices during the 1930s and amassed a valuable collection of fifteen items, which she donated to UBC Woodward Library Special Collections in 1966. This collection has been added to by other serious collectors and now contains more than forty items.

Gladys Wright (née Jack) was a member of the UBC Arts Class of 1923 and later became a teacher.

Harold Wright was born in Winnipeg. He received an M.A. in geology from the University of B.C. (1933) and an M.Sc from the University of Utah (1936). He returned to Vancouver, where he established Wright Engineering Limited, a mining and metallurgy firm. Wright was also very active in athletics. He represented Canada in the 1932 Olympic Games and later, as a businessman, played a major role in Canada's successful bid for the 1976 Summer Games. Wright became president of the Canadian Olympic Association. He also served as director of the Commonwealth Games Association of Canada and the British Columbia Sports Federation.

Rudolph “Rudy” Wurlitzer was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1937. He is married to photographer Lynn Davis, and they split their time between homes in New York state and Nova Scotia, Canada. Wurlitzer is an author and screenwriter. His first novel, Nog, was published in 1968 and his most recent, The Drop Edge of Yonder, in 2008. His first screenplay, Glen and Randa, was produced in 1969, and his most recent, Little Buddha, in 1993.

Walker Gill Wylie, who also went by Walter Gill Wylie, was an abdominal surgeon and gynecologist from the United States of America. He was born in Chester Couth Carolina in 1848 and enlisted in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War as a lieutenant at the age of 16. He graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1868 with what would be equivalent to a civil engineering degree today. In 1871 he received an MD from Bellvue Medical College in New York City. He married Henrietta Frances Damon in Northampton Massachusetts on June 13, 1877, with whom he had five children.

He had a distinguished medical career which included forming and becoming a member of the State Charities Aid Association. As a member of the association, he was given the opportunity to observe medical and nursing practices in England, including those implemented by Florence Nightingale with whom he had correspondence. After visiting England, he helped establish the Training School for Nurses connected to Bellvue Hospital, the first of its kind in the United States. In 1876, he wrote Hospitals, their organizations and construction which set the standards for hospital management in the United States for several years.

He also continued to work in the field of engineering, as is evident by his founding of the Duke Power Company with his business partner James Buchanan Duke. He was also involved in the construction of a hydroelectric power plant in South Carolina in 1896. He later also became president of the Catabawa Power Company, which was organized under the laws of South Carolina.

He died on March 13, 1923 in New York City.

(Taken from an obituary notice in the American Medical Association Journal 80 (12) 856, 1923. and from The University South Caroliniana Society Newsletter, Spring 2008 Supplement, http://library.sc.edu/file/703)

A Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia since 1976, Graeme Wynn was born in 1946 in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. He studied a BA at Sheffield University and his MA and Ph.D. at the University of Toronto. His area of expertise is in Historical Geography. He served as Associate Dean of Arts at UBC between 1991 and 1996. At the end of his term as Associate Dean of Arts, Wynn became head of the Department of Geography. For eight years before his retirement in 2016, he was editor of BC Studies.

Born in Japan, Yasutaro Yamaga came to British Columbia in 1908. After working as a labourer, he purchased ten acres of land near Haney, B.C. Yamaga led the Japanese Farmer's Union in the Fraser Valley. After World War II, he moved to Ontario, where at Beamsville he established the first home for Japanese Canadian senior citizens (Nipponia Home) in Canada.

YEE Mei Ngu was born in China in 1884 in the village of Lin Joon in the district of [新寧 Sunning / Xinning (later 台山 Toisan / Taishan)]. In 1901, she married 17-year old WONG Dang Kee. They had a daughter, Kim, who was born in 1903.

WONG Dang Kee journeyed to Canada in 1903, and settled in Winnipeg, Manitoba, finding work at a hand laundry business. Eighteen years later, Yee Mei Ngu arrived in Canada to join him, entering the country as YEE Shee and the wife of Wong Dang Kee. Their daughter, Kim, now married with her own family, remained in China. The couple would never see their daughter again.

Yee Shee arrived in Vancouver, on October 31, 1921 and paid the $500 head tax. She was reunited with her husband in Winnipeg where she helped him run his laundry business for eight years. The couple had five more children together in Canada.

In 1930, the family moved to Springhill, Nova Scotia, and became restauranteurs. Yee Shee primarily worked as a homemaker and a mother, taking care of the children and the home while her husband ran the restaurant. The family moved once more in 1940 to New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, where they settled permanently.

Yee Shee's daughter, Lily Yee, remembered her as a dedicated mother and grandmother: “Yee Shee was a cheerful person who enjoyed socializing with her friends who spoke a common Chinese dialect at church and various social events. Despite her limited knowledge of the English language, she was a courageous traveler and visited friends and family in the United States and Canada. Yee Mei Ngu with her warm smile will forever be remembered as a loving and caring mother.”

Yee Mei Ngu passed away in Toronto, Ontario, in 1973.

YEE Chung Yin was also known as Harry Chung in Canada.

By 1924, he was living in Vancouver at 192 East Pender Street and working as a labourer. Around 1940, he was employed as a shingle mill worker.

At some point, Harry left the west coast and moved to Edmonton, Alberta where he became a farmer. Later in life, he wrote articles for a Chinese newspaper, likely The Chinese Times.

He had a first wife and son in China, but something tragic happened to them. Harry never spoke of this with May, his Canadian-born daughter from wife #2. The only hint that something terrible happened to Harry's family in China was his refusal to allow anything into the house that was made in Japan.

Harry passed away in 1974.

Little is known about YEE Goke Chung. Yee is a common family name from the [台山 Toisan / Taishan] district of China's 廣東 Guangdong province.

He came to Canada as a student.

Gerry Yee remembers Chung as a much older man that regularly (daily) came to his father's store on East Hastings Street, Vancouver. "He was the typical Chinese bachelor although he may have had a family in China."

His certificate, which ended up with the Yee family, indicates he never went back to China.