Bea Wood was born in Vancouver but spent two years in Fiji before returning to Vancouver in 1907. Wood trained in nursing at UBC Fairview, graduating in 1923 with a Bachelor of Applied Science in Nursing. She was a member of UBC's Players Club, and this is where she met her future husband, Frederic Wood. Wood was the first Head Nurse at the Vancouver General Hospital Emergency Department.

Born in Victoria, B.C., Frederic Gordon Campbell Wood enrolled in the first class established in that city by McGill University and, in 1910, graduated from McGill itself. After teaching high school in Victoria for four years and earning an MA from Harvard University (1915), Wood joined the newly-established University of British Columbia faculty as one of the two original members of the Department of English. He founded and directed the Players' Club, which staged theatrical performances throughout the province. The Frederic Wood Theatre stands as a tribute to his significant contribution to theatre development in BC. In 1950, he retired from UBC after thirty-five years of service to the university and became the longest-serving original staff member. Even after his retirement, Wood continued to assume an active interest in the theatre.

Susan Joan Wood was born in Ottawa, Ontario, in 1948 and earned a B.A. (1969) and an M.A. (1970) from Carleton University and a Ph.D. (1975) from the University of Toronto. She joined the English department at UBC in 1975 and taught Canadian literature, science fiction and children's literature. She received two Science Fiction Achievement Awards ("Hugo" awards) for critical writing in that genre (1974, 1977). She was the Vancouver editor of the "Pacific Northwest Review of Books" (Jan.-Oct. 1978) and also edited the special science fiction/fantasy issue of "Room of One's Own." She wrote numerous articles and book reviews that were subsequently published in books and journals.

George Woodcock was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He was raised and educated in England, where, in the late 1930s, he met many members of London's literary circle, including Dylan Thomas, Roy Campbell, Herbert Read and George Orwell. Woodcock returned to Canada in 1949 and joined UBC's Department of English seven years later. He became editor of the newly-formed journal Canadian Literature and served until his retirement in 1977. In Canada, Woodcock is best known as a poet, critic, dramatist and social commentator, while in England, he is recognized as an author of travel books, political commentator and biographer. Throughout his career, Woodcock has received numerous awards and honorary degrees.

Authur Sutherland Piggott Woodhouse was born in Port Hope, Ontario. He spent five years at the Department of English at the University of Manitoba, where he taught eighteenth-century literature. He specialized in the work of English poet John Milton.

Leonard Woods was born in 1919 in Stonewall, Manitoba, taught at the Vancouver School of Art, 1945-1969, and co-founded the Langley Community Music School in 1970.

Bruce Woodsworth was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba on November 24, 1914 to Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) pioneer J.S. Woodsworth and Lucy L. (Lillian) Staples Woodsworth. In 1936, Mr. Woodsworth graduated from UBC with a Bachelor of Arts (Hon.) in Geology. From 1936 to 1939, the Anglo-American Exploration Company employed Mr. Woodsworth to work in Northern Rhodesia for the purpose of prospecting, surveying and mapping the area. While in Northern Rhodesia, Mr. Woodsworth engaged in big game shooting which he later wrote of in several articles. In 1939, Mr. Woodsworth began graduate work in both economic and political science at McGill University, and returned to British Columbia in 1940 to take a teachers' training course at UBC, from which he earned an academic certificate. Mr. Woodsworth married Fannie E. J. Williams in Toronto in 1944.
An ardent CCF supporter, Bruce Woodsworth first became involved with the party through his father. At the age of 16, before the CCF was even formally founded, Mr. Woodsworth delivered campaign literature for J.S. Woodsworth in Winnipeg North Centre. In 1939, he became a member of the CCF and canvassed for many candidates, took part in CCF clubs, and attended various speeches and conferences that the party promoted.

Eugene S. Woodward came to Victoria, B.C., from England in 1908. He became President of the Victoria Trades and Labour Council and elected to City Council in 1921. A self-educated economist, he served briefly as an advisor to the Social Credit government in Alberta in 1936 before turning to a career in journalism as an editorial writer and columnist.

Born in Golden, B.C., Frances Woodward completed university degrees at the University of British Columbia (B.A., 1960) and McGill University (B.L.S., 1961). After working at the Provincial Archives of British Columbia from 1961 to 1966, she joined the Special Collections Division of the Library in 1966. Woodward's areas of particular interest include British Columbia history and historical cartography.

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J. Howard Woolmer was born in Montreal. As a professional bookseller in New York, he developed an interest in the works of Malcolm Lowry and began a collection of books and periodicals with material by or about Lowry. In 1969, Woolmer published "A Malcolm Lowry Catalogue" which included two previously unpublished Lowry poems introduced by Earle Birney. In 1983, Woolmer published "Malcolm Lowry: A Bibliography".

Allen Shakespeare Wootton was born in Brackley, England and immigrated to Vancouver in 1910. He served as Vancouver Parks Board Superintendent from 1913 to 1943. He was also a hobbyist lyricist.
Source: "Crimson Sunset," British Columbia Sheet Music. Accessed August 24, 2012 http://www.library.ubc.ca/music/bcmusic/htmpages/crimsonsunset.html

Marion Wootton immigrated to Vancouver with husband Allen Wootton in 1910.

John Work (originally "Wark") was born in Cork, Ireland and joined the Hudson's Bay Company in 1814. He served first at York Factory and then in the Severn River district. In 1823 he was sent to the Pacific coast, for which region he became chief trader in 1830, and was stationed at Fort Simpson from 1832-1852. He was appointed chief factor in 1846 and was frequently in charge of trading missions, including one to Sacramento, California. From 1853 until his death he lived at Victoria and was a member of the Vancouver Island House of Assembly.

The Worker's Party of Canada was founded in January 1922 at a convention of labour representatives in Toronto.

WOU Chow Sha was born in China around 1892 in the [新會 Sunwui / Xinhui] county of [廣東 Guangdong] province.

He arrived in Victoria, BC, in 1913, and paid the $500 head tax. By 1924, he was living in Vancouver at 359 East Pender Street and working as a labourer. He had no family either in Canada or China. However, he made several trips back to China in the 1920s and 1930s.

In 1913, at the age of 24, WOU Young Wing left his home in 中山 Zhongshan, 廣東 Guangdong, China and boarded the Awa Maru in Hong Kong. After a month-long journey, he arrived in Canada at Victoria, B.C.

By 1923, he was living in Lethbridge, Alberta, working as a market gardener and residing on the farm of J. Brodie located about 5 miles SE of Lethbridge. He had a wife and child in China that he would travel back to visit.

By 1926, Wing was residing in New Westminster, B.C. where he owned and operated a successful grocery business in the downtown core for over 20 years. Subsequently, he moved to the Sapperton area of the city, where he operated another grocery store that he passed on to his family when he retired.

Some 60 years after he first set foot in Canada, Wing died on August 26, 1974 in Vancouver, B.C., leaving behind a loving family, the lasting legacy of a young man who left his birthplace to pursue his dreams in a new land.