Dorothy Burnett graduated from the Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts with a diploma in 1930, took post graduate studies at the California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, and, later studied with the outstanding artists and bookbinders, Herbert and Peter Fahey, in their private studio in San Francisco. Returning from California, she set up her own studio “three flights up” over the old Dunsmuir Street Imperial Bank Building with a friend, the potter, Frances Gatewood. Subsequently she worked out of her family home on Angus Drive, accepting special orders for the fine binding of family bibles, commemorative books, albums, old volumes and first editions – such books were cherished, loved and honoured by their owners.

Miss Burnett’s work has been shown many times. Among the earliest exhibitions, dating back to the 1930’s, were those annual displays put on by the Graduates’ Association of the Vancouver School of Art. She was also included in “20th Century Bookbinding,” held at the Art Gallery of Hamilton in 1982.

Frank Burnett was born in Scotland in 1852 and was apprenticed to the Merchant Sailing Service at a young age. In 1870, he emigrated to Canada and made a fortune in grain on the Prairies and real estate in Vancouver. Frank Burnett retired to South Seas, where he wrote travel books and collected ethnological specimens. In 1927, Burnett presented his 1,200 item collection to UBC, housed in the Library. The collection formed the core around which the Museum of Anthropology was established twenty years later. UBC's first anthropologist, Harry Hawthorn, and his wife, Audrey, the first curator of the Museum, were given responsibility for the care, use and expansion of Burnett's assemblage.

William Brenton Burnett was born on June 13, 1870 in Sussex Corners, New Brunswick. In 1891 he received a B.A. from Acadia University. He went on to teach in Alberta and British Columbia before attending McGill University where he graduated with an M.D. From 1900 to 1914 he operated a private practice in general medicine in Vancouver, British Columbia. Leaving his private practice, Dr. Burnett focused on gynaecology and obstetrics until 1938. During this time he was also awarded the Fellow of American College of Surgeons degree.

He participated in several medical associations including the Vancouver Medical Association and the Canadian Medical Association. Additionally, Dr. Burnett was extremely interested in mining communities as indicated by his membership and executive roles in groups such as the Cariboo Gold Quartz Mining Co., B.C. and Yukon Chamber of Mines, and the Mining Association of B.C.

He died quietly on May 20, 1964.

Lawrence (Laurie) Johnstone Burpee was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia on 5 March 1873. In 1899, he married Maud Hanington and together they had five children: Lawrence, Ruth, Margaret, Edward and Arthur. Burpee is remembered for his contributions to Canadiana as a historian, a librarian, and a writer. He served as chief librarian of the Carnegie Public Library in Ottawa, from 1905 to 1912. During his tenure he strove to improve services, and he was an ardent proponent in the building of the National Library. Burpee was a founding member of both the Canadian Historical Association and the Board of Directors of the Canadian Writers Foundation. He received the Medaille de Vermeil award from the Academie Francaise for his work in Canadian history, as well as the Tyrrel Gold Medal from the Royal Society of Canada. After his tenure as chief librarian, Burpee was appointed Canadian Secretary of the International Joint Commission and held this position until his death in Oxford, England, on 13 October 1947.

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Kenelm Oswald Lancelot Burridge was born in Malta in 1922. After spending his childhood in Lucknow, India, he was educated in England, and in 1939 he joined the Royal Navy. Burridge served on the battleships HMS Ramillies and Royal Sovereign in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic and Indian Oceans until 1942. After that, Burridge transferred to the submarine service. He served aboard HMS Splendid when she was sunk off Naples in 1943, and he was captured. Later that year, he escaped to service in the Far East, retiring as a lieutenant in 1946. Burridge entered Exeter College, Oxford, that year and completed his B.A. in 1948, a diploma in Social Anthropology, the following year, and later his B.Litt. (1950) and M.A. (1952) in Anthropology. He then obtained a Ph.D. in that field from Australian National University in 1954. Burridge has conducted fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, Malaya (a research fellow at the University of Malaya), Australia, New Hebrides, and India. In addition, he held teaching posts in anthropology and ethnology at Baghdad University and Oxford before joining UBC as an anthropology professor in 1968.
Burridge's main interests were anthropological history and theory, religion, myth, museology, and missiology. In 1988, Burridge served as a visiting lecturer or professor at the University of Western Australia, Princeton University, and International Christian University in Tokyo until his retirement. He received Killam, Guggenheim, and Canada Council, fellowships. In addition, he was named honorary life fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute, the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, and the Royal Society of Canada.

Arthur Harvey Burt, born in 1920, and wife Dorothy were part-time neighbours of the Lowrys at Dollarton. Burt was a schoolteacher, and he and Dorothy stayed at their Dollarton shack on weekends and in the summer months. They met and became close friends with the Lowrys in the early 1950s, frequently spending their Dollarton excursions in their company. By the time the Lowrys relocated to England in 1954, the couples were close enough that Burt was entrusted with the Lowrys’ shack, the boat with it, and the papers and books left inside. Burt would later donate many of the books to the UBC Library (the bulk of the Malcolm Lowry Personal Library Collection).

Burt was active with the North Shore Historical Society and a font of anecdotal information on Lowry and Margerie much sought after by Lowry scholars. Burt and Dorothy lived in Deep Cove, North Vancouver, until Burt’s death in 2003.

Jean Burton was born in Saskatchewan and majored in history at the University of British Columbia, completing her B.A. in 1924 at the age of nineteen. In 1928 she took her M.A. in economics at the University of Alberta. From an early age Burton was interested in writing, at first short stories in magazines, then later two plays, Left Turn and Prelude (1933). In 1941, Burton wrote her first biography, "Sir Richard Burton's Wife", started her upon her non-fiction writing career.

George William Trayton (W.T.) Bush was born in Camberwell (London), England in 1889. In 1910, George immigrated to Winnipeg, Canada, where he was soon employed by the Dominion Express Company (later called the Canadian Pacific Express Company) as a traffic solicitor. He fought in the First World War, serving in the Canadian 1st Division for three and a half years. On January 19, 1922, George married Pearl Mee and settled in Vancouver. The couple’s son, Patrick George Seymour Bush, was born in 1932. George continued working at Canadian Pacific Express, retiring in 1949. At the time of his retirement, he owned two apartment blocks in Vancouver.

Pearl Mee was born in 1898. Pearl was the second child of Charles Mee and Annie Mee (née Seymour), early settlers in North Vancouver. After her marriage, Pearl did not work outside of her home.

Patrick George Seymour Bush studied at the University of British Columbia, graduating with a Bachelor of Laws degree in May 1958.
George, Pearl, and Patrick Bush are now deceased, dying in May of 1965, March of 1996, and August of 2015, respectively.

Richard Butler was a Master of Arts candidate in the Department of English at the University of Victoria in the mid-1970’s. His Master’s thesis proposal was a bibliography of Roderick Haig-Brown’s works. After his thesis proposal was rejected by the Department of English, Butler intended to pursue the publication of the bibliography outside his M.A. program. He later directed his efforts towards the preparation of a biography of Haig-Brown. Butler was in correspondence with both Ann and Valerie Haig-Brown through the mid-late 1970’s and received their active assistance in the accumulation of material for the biography. There is no indication that Butler published either the biography or bibliography.

Dean Dorothy Mawdsley established Buttercup Enterprises Ltd. in 1941 and its headquarters was in Mawdsley's office.This agency aimed to find female students babysitting work to aid in the war effort and make students some money. Students were paid 0.50c up to midnight and 0.25c after that. A rival agency was set up by two male students in early 1942 called Buttercup Enterprises (Male) Incorporated. This was setup as an exclusively male operation.

Rita Butterfield joined the staff of the Library at the University of British Columbia in 1961. She became head of the Acquisitions/Accounting Department in 1966 and then head of the Circulation Division the following year. Butterfield retired from UBC Library in 1985.

John Buttle was born in London, England. He came to Canada in 1858 as a naturalist with the Royal Engineers under Sir William Cooker to help settle the boundary dispute between Canada and the United States. With the boundary line established by 1862, the men were discharged. In 1862 Buttle joined the party that surveyed a wagon road from Bute Lake toward the Cariboo. In 1864 Buttle became part of the Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition whose primary goal was to discover a paying gold field, and incidently to explore the Island.

Northcote H. Caesar emigrated from England in 1883 and became a fruit farmer and rancher in Vernon, B.C.

Alan Cairns was born on March 2, 1930, in Galt, Ontario. He studied at the University of Toronto, receiving a Bachelor of Political Science in 1953 and a Masters in Political Science in 1957. He continued his political science study and received a Doctor of Philosophy at Oxford University in 1965. The title of his dissertation was Prelude to Imperialism. It was about the British reaction to African society from 1840-1890. He joined the Department of Political Science at UBC in 1960 and remained there until 1995. He also held visiting professorships at the UBC Faculty of Law, Memorial University, Harvard University, the University of Edinburgh, and the University of Waterloo at different times in his career.
Cairns was also the recipient of several honours and awards. He was awarded the Molson Prize of the Canada Council in 1982 and the Killam award for 1989-1991. He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada, an Officer of the Order of Canada. He has Honorary Degrees from British Columbia, University of Saskatchewan, University of Toronto, and Carleton University. Cairns' research interests included Canadian politics and Indigenous peoples. His most celebrated publications are the articles: Constitution, Government and Society in Canada (1988), Disruptions (1991), and Reconfigurations (1995), and the book Citizens Plus (2000). In 2001, a conference entitled "Rethinking Citizenship in the Canadian Federation: A Conference in Honour of Alan C. Cairns" was held at UBC.

Frank Arthur Calder of the Nisga'a Nation was born in 1915 in Nass Harbour, British Columbia. Dr. Calder went to the Coqualeetza Residential School, Chilliwack High School, and was the first known Indigenous student to attend the University of British Columbia. Dr. Calder studied theology at the Anglican Theological College at UBC and graduated in 1946. He became the first Indigenous person elected to the BC legislature in 1949. Shortly after his election, Calder began working towards reopening his people's land claim dispute. The "Calder Case" went to the Supreme Court of Canada in 1973. Even though the Nisga'a lost on a technicality, it opened the door for recognizing Aboriginal People's land rights in Canadian law. In February 1975, Dr. Calder married Tamiki Koshibe, a Japanese immigrant. Dr. Calder died in November 2006.