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The Carnegie Community Action Project (CCAP) was started by the Carnegie Community Centre Association and operated from 2005-2019. The CCAP was an advocacy group for issues of housing, gentrification, land use, raising welfare rates and supporting the low-income community of the Downtown Eastside (DTES). The CCAP also worked closely with Raise the Rates and the Chinatown Concern Group that also ran out of the Carnegie Centre. Since 2008, the CCAP produced an annual hotel survey and housing report that looked at low income affordability for living in the DTES including numbers of affordable housing units, rental costs, and updates on development projects in the neighbourhood. The CCAP dissolved in 2019.

Sydney Morgan Eveleigh was a prominent architect in Vancouver. Born in Bedford, England on September 24, 1870, Eveleigh came to Vancouver in 1888. He was first employed as an assistant to the architect Noble S. Hoffar, followed by a period of travel and study. Returning to Vancouver he worked for different architects from the mid to late 1890s. During this time, he completed several downtown buildings for English businessman Harvey Hadden: the Arcade (1895), Pender Chambers (ca. 1898), and the Hadden Block (1901), as well as his residence in West Vancouver, known as Hadden Hall (currently the Capilano Golf & Country Club, 1903). Eveleigh went on to partner with William Dalton and run a successful firm producing well-known buildings around the city. Projects by Dalton & Eveleigh include the City of Vancouver Police Court and Jail, Alcazar Hotel, Masonic Temple along with other commercial spaces, banks, schools, and churches. They were also the supervising architects for the Provincial Court House site in downtown Vancouver. The firm also completed projects in other parts of the lower mainland and around the province, such as the Buntzen Power House No. 1. Dalton retired in 1923 and Eveleigh continued to practice into the 1930s. He was also president of the Architectural Institute of British Columbia from 1922-1924, and, upon retiring from the council, was made a life member in 1940.

In his personal life, Eveleigh was married to Florence Mary Southcott (1877-1939) and had three children. He was a founding member of the Burrard Literary Society in the 1890s. He was also an original member of the Vancouver Library Board and helped facilitate the donated funds from Andrew Carnegie to build the public library at Main and Hastings, which opened in 1903 (now Carnegie Community Centre). Eveleigh died in Vancouver on November 29, 1947.

Desmond Muirhead & Associates was a landscape architecture firm operating in Vancouver, B.C. The firm's offices were located at multiple locations in Kerrisdale.

The firm was created after the dissolution of the firm Muirhead and Fisher in the spring of 1952. It ended with the formation of the partnership Muirhead and Justice, Landscape Architects at the beginning of 1960.

Charles T. Hamilton, Consulting Engineer was the professional practice of Vancouver structural engineer Charles Hamilton.

Hamilton began his career in Vancouver on the staff of A.E. Henderson, Architect. In 1929 or 1930, Hamilton opened his own office and practiced independently until his retirement in 1966 or 1967.

William Frederick Gardiner was an English-trained architect who practiced in Vancouver from 1908 to 1951. Between 1909 and 1911, Gardiner had practiced in partnership with his brother Frank L. Gardiner and Alndrew L. Mercer. In 1912, William Gardiner returned to a solo practice until his retirement just before his death in 1951.

L.H. Ratner Construction was a Vancouver general contracting and construction company founded by Leon Harvey Ratner in 1955. Ratner had previously been employed as Secretary-Treasurer of J.R. Bezanson Fixtures, another Vancouver general contractor.

The firm continues, with Leon Ratner as President, until his retirement in 1980, at which time it appears that the firm was wound up.

J.D. Kern & Co. was a Vancouver consulting mechanical engineering firm founded by J. Don Kern, a mechanical engineer previously employed at R.J. Cave & Co.

Kern founded his firm in 1962 or 1963, with offices at 1535 West 4th Avenue. In the 1970s the firm moved its offices to 202-3026 Arbutus Street, then in the late 1980s to 149 Riverside Drive in North Vancouver. Kern was President of the firm until just before his death in 1995. The firm appears to have been wound up at that time.