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John Davidson worked in the Botany Museum at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland from 1893 to 1911. He came to Vancouver in 1911 and shortly thereafter was appointed Provincial Botanist and established botanical gardens at Essondale and later at the University of British Columbia. Davidson joined the faculty of UBC in 1916 and retired in 1948. He was involved with the B.C. Mountaineering Society and was a founder of the Vancouver Natural History Society. Davidson's work also led him to be active in the Arbor Day and City Beautiful movements of the 1920s.

Thompson was born in Bailieboro, Ontario, May 27, 1864. He had offices in many locations in New Westminster and Vancouver.

Born in Northampton, England, Charles Bradbury immigrated to Canada in 1915. He worked as a photographer in Vancouver. He was married to Dorothy Allison in 1907.

Born in Manchester, England July 27, 1865, Devine worked in Brandon, Manitoba as a photographer starting in 1884. There he became partners with J.A. Brock and came to Vancouver together in 1886. The partnership dissolved in November 1887; Devine continued work as a photograph until 1889. Devine resumed work as a photographer in 1895 but had retired by 1897. He died Dec. 17, 1938.

Worked as a photographer for the Vancouver Sun.

Caspar Phair emigrated from Ireland and settled in Lillooet in 1877. He was Lillooet's first Gold Commissioner. He was the husband of Cerise Phair and father of Arthur William Armit Phair and Herbert Lewis Phair of Lillooet. he built a large residence in Lilliooet that he named Longford House.

Joseph Davis was a portrait and landscape photographer who worked out of New Westminster, B.C. he worked as a photographer 1869-1890.

Frederick Schwarze was a German-born photographer who moved to Nanaimo, B.C. in 1910 or 1911 and founded a studio there. As of 1913, his work still bore the signature "F. Schwarze" rather than the later "Schwarze" for Schwarze Studio. Two of Schwarze's children (Henry and Hilda) worked for him at his studio. Another son, Norbert, founded his own studio in Courtenay, B.C. in the late 1920s. Frederick Schwarze died in 1936 in Nanaimo, at 59 years of age.

Ken Oakes was a press photographer working in Vancouver, B.C. The majority of his career was spent at the Vancouver Sun.

Ken Oakes began his career as a freelancer in 1956. His work appeared in the Vancouver Sun, The Province, and The Columbian (New Westminster) before he was hired by the Vancouver Sun ca. 1958. Oakes retired in 1992.

Born in England, Chapman did much of his work in Victoria, B.C.

Lenggenhager immigrated to the United States from Switzerland. He worked in Seattle for Boeing.

Cerise Phair was born in England and immigrated to Canada, settling in Lillooet. She was the wife of Caspar Phair and the mother of of Arthur William Armit Phair and Herbert Lewis Phair of Lillooet.

Hart was first elected to the B.C. Legislature in 1916. He served as Premier of B.C. in the 1940s.

Born Feb. 5, 1855 in New Brunswick, DeForest studied in London, Paris, Edinburgh and Italy. He worked as a curator for the Vancouver Museum. He painted landscapes. he moved to Banff in 1921 and died in Calgary March, 1924.

Len Norris was born in England and emigrated to Canada with his family in 1926. He worked as an art director in Toronto before moving to Vancouver in 1950 to become a political cartoonist for the Vancouver Sun. He retired in 1988. Norris died in 1997.

Mary Lewina Henley was born in Montreal, Quebec, on January 21st, 1901, to parents Stanley McNab Henderson and Charlotte Lewina Henderson (nee Batchelor). On June 10th, 1926, she married George Augustus Henley, a financial broker, at St. Paul's Church, Vancouver, B.C. Prior to her marriage, Mrs. Henley resided at 1933 Robson St., Vancouver, B.C. Mrs. Henley died in Victoria, B.C., on October 28th, 1969.

Janet Bingham has done research on local architectural history; the papers "Aberthau" and "Shannon", prepared for the Vancouver Board of Parks and Public Recreation in 1972, are two of the products of her work. "Aberthau" examines a home located at the intersection of Trimble and 2nd Avenue in Point Grey. "Aberthau" was built in 1909 for J.S. Rear, a prominent local businessman, and is of historical interest because it was designed by the noted architect Samuel Maclure. "Shannon" examines a home located at Granville and 57th Avenue. The home, built over a decade spanning the First World War, is on a palatial scale and is surrounded by formal gardens and wooded paths. The home was built by B.T. Rogers and sold to Austin Taylor in 1936. In 1966 it was purchased by the B.C. Teachers' Federation; within a year, however, it had been sold to the firm Wall and Redekop, which redeveloped the property as a townhouse estate.

Edward Moore Jackson Burwash (1873-1951) was a geologist, educator and Methodist minister. The son of Nathanael Burwash, he was born in Cobourg, Ontario and received his B.A. from Victoria University, his M.A. (Geology) from the University of Toronto, and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1915. He studied the sciences and law, worked as a field geologist for government and business, served as a Methodist minister in the late 1890s, taught at Columbian College (which became the University of British Columbia) from 1905 to 1910, served as chaplain overseas during World War I, and taught at the Universities of Manitoba and British Columbia during the 1920s. He worked for the Ontario Department of Mines in the 1930s, and retired in 1938. He died in 1951.

Born in the United States May 15, 1905, Borden was a professor of archaeology at the University of British Columbia. He excavated material from the Marpole Midden. Borden died December 25, 1978.

Born in Massachusetts August 21, 1895, Wills worked as an architect in Boston. He died January 10, 1962.

Kathleen Mann was the daughter of Alexander R. Mann and Jeane or Jane (known as Jennie) Quinn Malcolm. She attended St. Margaret's School in Victoria, B.C., from 1932-1943; Bishop Strachan School in Toronto, Ontario, in 1934; the University of Toronto from 1934-1935; and the University of British Columbia from 1936-1937. In addition, Mann toured Europe, attending the coronation of King George VI in 1937, and she travelled to Hawaii on the Empress of Canada, accompanied by her father and brother. In 1939 she married Gordon W. Head; the couple was divorced in 1947.

George Devlin was an American employee of Remington Rand Ltd. He shot 8mm film during his travels across North America in the 1930's and 40's.

Leopold Bloch Bauer was born in Vienna, Austria in 1905. Bloch Bauer married Antoinette Ruth Pick and they had a son (Peter Bentley) in 1930. They, along with other family members, fled to Vancouver from Austria in 1938. When they arrived in Vancouver they changed their last name from Bloch Bauer to Bentley. Leopold Bentley (along with John Prentice) founded the Pacific Veneer company, which later became Canfor Corporation.

Alex Mitchell was born near Bayfield, Huron County, Ontario. His early life was spent on the family farm. In 1889 he moved to Vancouver where he was initially employed by Thomas Dunn & Co., a wholesale and retail hardware business. From 1898 to 1916 he was proprietor of Stanley Park Stables Ltd. and, from 1916 to 1935, manager of Ice Delivery Co. In 1895 he married Louisa Richardson of Vancouver. A member of the Vancouver Pioneers' Association, Alex Mitchell served as president of the association in 1928 and later as secretary. Their daughter, Marion (Dan), was one of six children.

Jacqueline Feldman was born in Toronto on May 29, 1947. She lived and worked in Vancouver as a professional photographer. Feldman also acted as Chair of the Entertainment Media Arts Society.