John St. Clarke was the chief officer of S.S. Empress of Canada when it was sunk by an Italian submarine in 1943. Not able to find a place in a lifeboat, he stayed in water for 13 hours until he was picked up by a British Warship. About 400 lives were lost that day due to shark attacks. Before Empress of Canada, he was a deck officer on the Empress of Russia and the Empress of Japan. After surviving the attack on the Empress of Canada, John Clarke became a general manager of Western Canada Steamship until it was sold in 1963. He then became the director of the Shipping Federation of B.C. for eight years. He later settled in Nanaimo and became a member of Nanaimo Rotary Club. After he passed away, his wife Gladys Clarke received a medal from the Canadian government on his behalf for recognition of his services during the World Ward II.

Member of the UBC Alumni Association. Records collected by Clarke are included in the Alumni association fonds.

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Wilbert Amie Clemens was born in Millbank, Ontario, in 1887. He attended the University of Toronto between 1908 and 1913, receiving a B.A. in Biology, with honours, in 1912 and an M.A. the following year. In 1915, Clemens received his Ph.D. from Cornell University. He was an instructor in the Department of Zoology at the University of Maine, 1915-1916. Later Clemens became a lecturer and Assistant Professor in Biology and Limnobiology at the University of Toronto between 1916 and 1924. As part of his educational training, Clemens conducted investigations for the Biological Board of Canada at Georgian Bay (1912), the New York State Conservation Commission (1916), the Atlantic Biological Station, St. Andrews, New Brunswick (1918), the Biological Board of Canada at Lake Erie (1920), and Lake Nipigon (1921-1923). In 1924 Clemens became the Director of the Pacific Biological Station of the Biological Board of Canada. He remained in that position until 1940, when he became Head of the Department of Zoology at the University of British Columbia. Between 1935 and 1948, Clemens was in charge of investigations at Okanagan Lake, Teslin Lake, and Paul Lake. Retiring in 1952, Clemens remained at UBC as a Professor Emeritus until he died in 1964. He continued as a Special Lecturer in the Department of Zoology until 1959 and served as Director of UBC's Institutes of Oceanography and Fisheries between 1954 and 1957. Between 1959 and 1964, he had various appointments as a Special Research Associate for the Department of Zoology and the Institute of Fisheries. Clemens was a member of numerous professional societies in North America, including the Royal Society of Canada (fellow and section President), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (fellow and member of the Executive Committee of the Western Division 1949-1952), the Fisheries Research Board of Canada (executive member), the Canadian Committee Freshwater Fisheries Research (President), and the Royal Commission on Fisheries, Saskatchewan (Chairman). A founding member of the Vancouver Public Aquarium, Clemens was also Vice-President of its association. Clemens received a Coronation Medal in 1953 in recognition of his scientific achievements.

Catherine Brita Clement was born in New Westminster, British Columbia as Catherine Rose Kinsey West to a Chinese mother and a Swedish father. She was adopted into the Clement family at age 12 and raised in Vernon, B.C.

Clement enjoyed a successful career in corporate communications and graphic design. In her retirement, she developed a distinguished practice as a community curator and exhibition designer within Vancouver’s Chinatown, working to uncover and share the lesser-known stories of its marginalized community.

She first volunteered with the Chinese Canadian Military Museum in 2009. Under the mentorship of Larry Wong, the museum’s historian and first curator, Catherine helped capture and tell the stories of Chinese Canadian veterans of the Second World War. Her curatorial and exhibition design credits include Brothers in Arms (2015), Rumble in the Jungle: The Story of Force 136 (2016), and On a Wing and a Prayer (2017).

Catherine also pursued special projects in the wider Vancouver Chinatown community. In 2017, she art directed the Chinatown History Windows project for Canada’s 150th anniversary that was shortlisted for a Governor General’s History Award for Excellence in Community Programming.

Her work over a decade (2010-2020) to uncover the hidden works of Yucho Chow, Vancouver’s first and most prolific Chinese photographer, resulted in the 2019 exhibition “Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow,” 2020 book of the same name that received the B.C. Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing and Vancouver Book Award, and community archive collection of the photographer's work donated to the City of Vancouver Archives in 2021.

Catherine was bestowed with an Honorary Doctorate from Simon Fraser University in 2021. She continues to serve as a director of the Chinese Canadian Military Museum, and on the board of the Chinese Canadian Historical Society of British Columbia. Her current project is The Paper Trail to the 1923 Chinese Exclusion Act, a national exhibition and community archive commemorating the 100th-anniversary of this dark period in Canadian history.

Born in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Frederick Moore Clement took degrees in agriculture at the Ontario Agricultural College (1911) and the University of Wisconsin (1922). After serving two years as a lecturer in Horticulture at Macdonald College and two years as director of the Vineland Experimental Station, he came to the University of British Columbia as Professor of Horticulture in 1916. Clement became Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture in 1919. He led the faculty for thirty years before retiring in 1949. In recognition of his accomplishments and special interests, he was, in 1940, appointed Professor and Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics. Clement's outstanding contributions to this institution make him one of its most notable pioneers.

Florence (“Flossie”) Bartlett Clements was the daughter of James H. and Mary Clements, who arrived in Peachland from Ontario in 1908. In Peachland, they built and ran a general store for the community. James also worked as the Canadian Pacific Railway Express Agent and served as a town councilor. The family ran their general store up until the beginning of the Second World War, when it was closed.

J.D. Whitham married Florence Bartlett Clements in June 1928. Together they had a son, James Gordon, and a daughter, Dorothy Jean.

Joseph Thomas Clover was born at Aylsham, Norfolk on 28 February, 1825. At the age of 16, he was apprenticed to Charles Mends Gibson, a surgeon and apothecary of the city of Norwich. As a pupil of Gibson, Clover was allowed to attend the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, a mid-eighteenth century foundation with a first-class reputation. Before he became articled, Clover had already attended operations by Dr. Lubbock and Mr. Crosse of Norwich. From 1841-1845, he attended the Norwich Hospital, then from 30 September 1844 to 17 May 1845 he was at University College Hospital, London, attending upon Robert Liston, Richard Quain and other notable surgeons.

He became Resident Medical Officer at University College Hospital in 1848, and was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1850. Initially, Clover was drawn to the field of urology. He practiced as a surgeon, inventing two instruments for the crushing and removal of bladder stones. Ill health caused him to give up in 1853 and he turned to general practice. He set up his practice at 3 Cavendish Place, London, which became his home until his death in 1882. After several years in general practice he devoted his practice to anesthetics, and became "chloroformist" to the University College Hospital, the Westminster Hospital and the London Dental Hospital. Clover's choice of speciality helped to fill the vacancy created by the death of John Snow in 1858.

Considered an expert in anesthesia, Clover was sought out when important figures required surgery, administering chloroform to Napoleon III of France, on several occasions, Alexandra of Denmark, her husband Edward VII, Sir Robert Peel, Florence Nightingale and Sir Erasmus Wilson. Clover also invented and improved a myriad of anesthesia medical apparatus, including a chloroform apparatus and a portable regulating ether inhaler.

Clovert died of uraemia in 1882 and is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London, 200 yards away from John Snow.

Carol Coates was born in Tokyo, and she returned there for seven years from 1930 to 1937. Her work Fancy Free shows the influence of her Japanese experiences. Coates' works, one of which was a play entitled The Jade Heart, were privately printed during World War II. Her wartime poetry was printed in 1941, and her last published work was Invitation to Mood (1949).

Cobblestone Press was a British Columbia private press established by Gerald Giampa in 1964. Giampa was born in 1950 in a Jones Tent & Awning work-camp tent in Duncan, British Columbia. His career as a typographer and a fine book printer began at age thirteen when he purchased a hand-fed platen press from George Kuthan, a famous Czechoslovakian Canadian lino-cut artist. At that time Giampa mentored under Wil Hudson, printer and publisher. Wil had come from San Francisco to set up shop in Vancouver. In 1964, at age 14, Giampa left home and founded Cobblestone Press, book publishers. For a brief period afterwards he ran away to sea without a passport and was set ashore in San Francisco where he met Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and spent some time with Janis Joplin. While in San Francisco, Giampa bought the Lanston type company from Mackenzie and Harris of San Francisco, and manufactured matrices, type and other equipment to keep old monotype machines working. Giampa returned to Vancouver, set up shop, and lived off his printing skills for the rest of his life. Giampa passed away in June 2009.
The Cobblestone Press Society with its journal, The Fount, developed from the Press.

Angela Codina, a Canadian lawyer, was residing in Macau at the time of the Tiananmen Square incident in Beijing in 1989. The Tiananmen Square incident, also called June Fourth incident or 6/4, was a culmination of a series of protests and demonstrations in China in the spring of 1989 that culminated on the night of June 3–4 with a government crackdown on the demonstrators in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Although the demonstrations and their subsequent repression occurred in cities throughout the country, the events in Beijing—and especially in Tiananmen Square, historically linked to such other protests as the May Fourth Movement (1919)—came to symbolize the entire incident. In the midst of this unrest, Codina traveled to Beijing to conduct a series of interviews with the leaders of the uprising. Codina also participated in the Tiananmen Square uprising as a speaker at the gathering there, bringing greetings of solidarity as a Canadian to those who were present.

Born on May 13, 1926, in Findlater, Saskatchewan, Joy Coghill spent most of her childhood in Scotland before returning to Canada in 1939. She and her mother settled in Vancouver, where Joy attended Kitsilano High School. Coghill taught elocution in Vancouver while completing her BA in Social Work at British Columbia. Coghill first appeared on stage at 15 in a Vancouver Little Theatre production of Bunty Pulls the Strings. While attending UBC, she became deeply involved with the UBC Players Club and summer school theatre, acting, directing, and teaching under drama teacher Dr. Dorothy Somerset's guidance. She studied at the Goodman Theatre at The Art Institute of Chicago from 1947 to 1950, where she acted in and directed several productions, and earned her Master of Fine Arts from Goodman in 1950.
After graduating, Coghill worked in Vancouver, Kingston, Ontario, and Chicago, directing, acting and teaching at UBC, the Everyman Theatre, the International Players, and Goodman Theatre. While at Goodman, she was invited to help start Holiday Theatre in Vancouver. Holiday Theatre would present over one hundred plays, most of the original Canadian works geared to children. In 1967 Holiday Theatre became associated with the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Co. when Coghill became its Artistic Director. As Artistic Director of the Playhouse, Coghill brought many new and innovative projects to Vancouver. Then, in 1971, Coghill was appointed the first female Artistic Director, English Acting Section, of the National Theatre School in Montreal. Still, after two years at the National Theatre School, she began to pursue acting full time.
Joy Coghill has appeared in films, television, and theatre productions across Canada. She is, perhaps, best known for her roles in the critically-acclaimed Da Vinci's Inquest and Ma, a CBC adaptation of her previous stage appearances as Margaret "Ma" Murray, the outspoken journalist and British Columbia's first female newspaper publisher. Her theatre work includes co-producing Noye's Fludde, her prize-winning performances as Sarah Bernhardt in John Murrell's Memoir, Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream (opera) and Miss Helen in The Road to Mecca. As a published playwright in both Canada and Israel, in 1987, Coghill wrote and produced Song of This Place based on Emily Carr's life. In addition, she created The Alzheimer Project in 1998, one of the productions of Western Gold Theatre, which she founded in 1994 to showcase senior talent and fight ageism in the marketplace. The staging of A Midsummer Night's Dream, with all over 60 actors, became the CBC documentary The Courage to Dream. Coghill was also the company's Artistic Director until 1999.
Coghill received the Order of Canada in 1991. Among many awards and accolades, she received a Governor General's Performing Arts Award, the Confederation Medal, the Gascon Thomas Award, and the Herbert Whittaker Critics' Association Award for Outstanding Contribution to Canadian Theatre. Upon retiring, Coghill collaborated with director Jane Heyman to found the Performing Arts Lodge in Vancouver in 2001 and created a building to house and support ageing people in the performing arts. The Performing Arts Lodge (PAL), Vancouver, opened its 111 rental units in May 2006.
Joy Coghill was married to John (Jack) Thorne, a former TV producer at the CBC, from 1955 until he died in 2013, and they had three children: Debra, Gordon, and David. She died on January 20, 2017.

Werner Cohn was born in Berlin; he later received his BSS in Sociology from City College, New York, in 1951. He completed his MA (1954) and Ph.D. (1956) at the New School for Social Research. He joined the University of British Columbia's Department of Anthropology and Sociology in 1960 and remained there until taking early retirement in 1986. Cohn's research focused on the sociology of Jewish people and small political movements. In particular, Cohn developed an interest in researching Roma. He began his research on this topic in 1966/67 during a sabbatical in France. Cohn continued his culture and language studies and returned to Europe, meeting with Roma and many well-known Roma scholars. Over the years, Cohn wrote numerous articles in various scholarly journals. In 1973, he wrote The Gypsies, which summarized his findings in the field.