Ströndin Internet Radio aired online from 2004 – 2008 on the Icelandic National League of North America website. Ströndin Internet Radio aired programs on a variety of topics concerning Icelandic history and Icelandic cultural activities in the greater Vancouver area. In Icelandic, “ströndin” means beach or shoreline.

Margaret Mary Street (1907-1993) was born in Toronto and received a BA from the University of Manitoba in 1928. In 1936, she graduated from the Royal Victoria Hospital School. In 1942, she earned her Master's degree in Nursing from McGill University. She then taught nursing in Montreal, Winnipeg and Victoria before coming to UBC in 1952 for one year. After eight years as associate director of nursing in Calgary, Street earned an MSc in Nursing Service Administration from Boston University. In 1960, she returned to UBC, where she remained until her retirement in 1972.
As a personal commitment to help mark the golden jubilee of UBC's School of Nursing, Street undertook a project to write a biography of Ethel Johns. Published in 1973, Watch-Fires on the Mountains: The Life and Writings of Ethel Johns recounted the career of Johns (1879-1968), one of Canada's pioneer nurses who influenced the development of the profession and also served as the first director of nursing at UBC.

Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) was one of the most widely performed and influential composers of the 20th century. Stravinsky was a Russian composer, later of French and American nationality. The body of his work reflects some of the most important 20th century musical compositional movements, from neo-nationalism, experimental nationalism, and neo-classicism, as well as Stravinsky’s personal interpretation of serial method.

Stravinsky visited Vancouver several times throughout his life, conducting the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra in once in 1952 and again in 1965 during the Vancouver International Festival.

David William Strangway was born in Angola in 1934 to Missionary parents and later moved to Canada. He studied a Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Toronto. NASA recruited him to work on lunar samples and later became head of the NASA geophysics department. Strangway also taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and U of T. In 1983; he became President of the University of Toronto. From 1985 to 1997, Strangway served as the tenth President of UBC. After leaving UBC, in 1998 he became the President and CEO of the Canada Foundation for Innovation and is the Founder and President of Quest University Canada in Squamish, BC.

Born in New York City in 1942, Stephen Straker became a landed immigrant in 1972. Before teaching at UBC, Straker obtained his Ph.D. degree in the history of science from Indiana University in 1971: his thesis was entitled Keplers Optics: A Study in the Development of 17th-Century Natural Philosophy. As a professor in the UBC History Department, Straker was regarded as an interdisciplinarian, collectively weaving together strands of history, philosophy, and science. He was a founding member of the Arts One program and the Science and Society Group at UBC, and in 2002, Straker was a recipient of the Killam Teaching Prize. In addition, Straker, along with Edward Levy and Catherine Crawford, became heavily involved in writing a biography about an internationally acclaimed biochemist, Juda Hirsch Quastel, who came to UBC as the first professor of neurochemistry in 1965. Straker died on July 24, 2004.

Lee Straight was born in 1915 and passed away in 2004. He spent much of his career as an outdoors journalist for the Vancouver Sun. Born and raised in Vancouver, Straight was an avid, award-winning angler and hunter. His passion for outdoors activities led to his life-long commitment to the conservation of BCs natural environment. As a writer and activist, Straight worked closely with other anglers and outdoors enthusiasts to protest against irresponsible logging and resource practices. In the course of this work, Straight developed a long-term relationship with the famous Vancouver Island angler and writer Roderick Haig-Brown.

Roy Bishop Stokes received his M.A. and M. Phil. From Nottingham University. After heading the School of Librarianship at Loughborough Technical College, he came to British Columbia in 1970. He succeeded Sam Rothstein as director of the Library School. He continued in this position until his retirement in 1982. Throughout his career, Stokes was interested in bibliography, and he published several books on the subject.

Jack Stickney was born in the United States and moved to Canada in 1913. He worked in the Fraser River Canyon area. He joined the 101st Edmonton Fusiliers in 1914, and trained at Aldershot on Salisbury Plain in England as part of the first Canadian contingent. He served in France and was killed in action in Belgium in 1915.

Neil Stewart (April 1793-May 1881) was born in Carbost on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, the son of Ranald Stewart and Isabella McLeod, daughter of Roderick McLeod. Neil Stewart came to Canada on the ship “Mary Anne” in 1816 with his mother and her nine other children, his father having died in 1814. The family settled on two lots that were part of the 4th concession of Lancaster in Glengarry County, Ontario. In 1824 or 1825, he moved from Glengarry County to Vankleek Hill, Ontario, where he purchased a farm. During this time, Stewart was a store clerk and later a merchant. Stewart was also the first postmaster of Vankleek Hill, a justice of the peace, county treasurer, and a Crown land agent. Stewart was also a member of the local militia, reaching the rank of lieutenant colonel. During the Rebellions of 1837, he was active in rallying local support for the Crown. From 1844 to 1847, Stewart was a member of the House of Assembly for the Province of Canada, representing Prescott County, before he was defeated in the 1847 election. In 1878, Stewart established two prizes awarded annually to students studying biblical Hebrew language and literature in the Faculty of Religious Studies at McGill University. Stewart married his first wife, Alice McCann, on 15 March 1828. Together the couple had four or five children (according to different sources) before Alice died on 15 December 1834. Stewart married his second wife, Anne MacLeod, in 1840, but the couple had no children.

Bill Stewart, a social and political activist committed to worker’s rights, was born in Hamilton, Ontario. He served in the Canadian Army during World War II as a radio operator in the tank corps, having previously joined the Canadian Branch of the League Against War and Fascism to prevent the outbreak of war. He was an honoured and decorated veteran of the Italian Campaign, wherein he was seriously wounded in action. He returned to Ontario and met his spouse Dora, with whom he had five children.

In addition to his advocacy around environmental, peace and socialist causes, he held various elected positions in the trade union movement, including the International Association of Machinists and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. He ran several times for political office and served as the Ontario leader of the Communist Party of Canada (CPC). Following his retirement, he and Dora moved to Peachland in the Okanagan Valley, where he was active in the CPC’s Central Okanagan Club and an activist in various people’s movements in the area.

Homer Stevens was born on August 2, 1923, at Port Guichon, near Ladner, British Columbia. He began fishing on the Fraser River as early as 1936, at 13 years old. He began work as a full-time union organizer for the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union in 1946, and was elected secretary-treasurer of that organization two years later, a position he held until 1970. Stevens was known for his steadfast role in this union, as well as for his affiliation with the Communist Party of Canada, and he was heavily involved in the fisheries on both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts. In 1967 he was prosecuted for criminal contempt of court while involved in a labour dispute in Prince Rupert, and subsequently spent a year incarcerated at the Mt. Thurston Prison Camp in Chilliwack, alongside UFAWU president Steve Stavenes. Stevens was later elected president himself, although he stepped down from that position in 1977, and returned to the life of a fisherman. Homer Stevens married Grace, his wife of 54 years, in 1948 and together they had four children, a daughter named Barbara and three sons named Bruce, John and Nick. Homer died in October 2002 at the age of 79.