Alexander J. Stuart (obt. 1932) was a graduate of the Medical Faculty of the University of Aberdeen in 1885. He came to Canada and practiced in Ontario from 1888 to 1901. In 1901 he began his practice in Mission City, where he was subsequently appointed Provincial Medical Officer. Dr. Stuart died in December 1932.
Alexander Philip was a real estate agent, barrister and notary public who worked in Vancouver at the turn of the century. He had come from Glasgow, Scotland. Philip had several real estate companies between 1898 and 1904. He also served as the Clerk of the Municipality of North Vancouver from 1902, the Business manager of the B.C. Presbyterian and the B.C. Trade Budget and was Secretary for the Richmond Farmers' Institute.
In 1892 the Women's Christian Temperance Union opened a home for motherless children in Vancouver. The organization was incorporated as "The Alexandra Non-Sectarian Orphanage and Home for Children" and moved to Alexandra House in Kitsilano. The orphanage was closed in 1938 and the building became Vancouver's first neighbourhood house offering a variety of recreational and social services activities for the Kitsilano area. In 1944, the Alexandra Non-Sectarian Orphanage was re-incorporated as Alexandra Community Activities to include Alexandra House, Gordon House, and Alexandra Fresh Air Camp. With the establishment of the Community Chest and Councils of the Greater Vancouver Area in 1944, these agencies became members. In 1955, the Joint Family Services Project was initiated from Alexandra House and Gordon House. In 1966, Alexandra Community Activities was reorganized as the Alexandra Neighbourhood Services Association, which then became Neighbourhood Services Association of Greater Vancouver in 1969. In the summer of 1971 and 1972 Alexandra House was used as a hostel for travelling youth. Shortly thereafter, Alexandra House was destroyed in a fire.
Alfred Birch contracted the building of his residence in Burquitlam by Sloan & Harrison of New Westminster. The house was designed by Joseph F. Watson of New Westminster.
Alfred Long was a Vancouver solicitor who was instrumental in the establishment of the Archives of Aviation of the Art, Historical and Scientific Association.
Alfred Marmaduke Wastell was born in Haliburton, Dysart County, Ontario, in 1872 and came to British Columbia in 1897. In 1909, he went to Alert Bay to take charge of lumbering and box-making for the B.C. Fishing and Packing Company. Wastell was active in the Victory Loan Drive for both world wars, and later served in several public offices, including Justice of the Peace, Stipendiary Magistrate, Small Debts Court Magistrate and Juvenile Court Judge. Wastell established the small community of Telegraph Cove on his Vancouver Island land holdings. He passed away at the age of 90.
Amy Leigh was a social worker in Vancouver who was Commandant of the Women's Ambulance Corps, Vancouver Unit, during the Second World War. Ms. Leigh later became Director of the City of Vancouver's Social Services Department and then Assistant Director of the provincial Social Welfare Department. She died in September, 2001.
Annie Chiffence was born in Vancouver. She served in the Salvation Army 1928-1944, attaining the rank of Captain. She was a Centenary Crusader, 1928-1929 and again in 1944. In 1945 she married Neil Kirkbride. They were active members of the Alliance Tabernacle in Vancouver. Mrs. Kirkbride was also a member of the Canadian British Israel Association.
Annie McKinnon was a school teacher who taught in the Vancouver School System. She retired from teaching in April 1959. At that time, she was teaching at Strathcona School.
Annie Yates came to Vancouver from London, England, with her parents in 1887. All the family were members of St. James' Church and her mother was housekeeper at St. Luke's home. Her husband, a railroad man, died in 1936. They had no children.
John Morton lived in Yorkshire in the late eighteenth century. Sam Brighouse and John Morton, descendant of John Morton, and William Hailstone, came to the Cariboo and eventually to Vancouver. At one time they owned much of the district west of Burrard Street. Joseph Morton, son of John Morton, was a Vancouver real estate broker.
Aubrey Roberts was a reporter and editor for the Vancouver Daily Province before becoming editor of The News Herald in 1942. Later, he worked as a business consultant and a public relations counsel. In 1962, he joined the Board of Directors of the Vancouver Times. Roberts worked as Assistant to the Publisher and remained on the board until December 1964.
Benjamin Codville was a lighthouse keeper at Pointer Island light. He acquired these ribbons as a boy.
Born in Vancouver, Bernard (Barney) Leitch Johnson was the son of Captain Barney Leitch Johnson. He began serving on deep sea vessels at age 18. He obtained his foreign going masters certificate in 1928. For the next ten years, he worked for several B.C. maritime companies as a Master and Manager, primarily with Standard Oil of B.C. In 1939, Johnson joined the Royal Canadian Navy, serving on a variety of armed ships doing convoy duty. He was discharged in 1945 as a Commander. Following his discharge, he acted as Marine Superintendent for Johnson Walton Steamships and Westward Shipping. In 1955 he was appointed Manager for the Port of Vancouver and he remained in that capacity until his retirement in 1969.
Brian Wilson, a professor at Simon Fraser University, was elected President of the Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association and Chairman of its Board of Trustees in the spring of 1975.
Dr. C. Edward McDonnell published a twelve-part series of articles on Vancouver's early medical history in the "British Columbia Medical Journal" from September 1977 to August 1978.
C.B. Boardman was a member of the Vancouver Vagabonds Club which flourished in Vancouver from 1915 until 1927. He owned and managed Western Advertising Service Ltd., an advertising agency in Vancouver.
C.T.W. Piper was a building contractor originally from England who settled in Vancouver in 1898.
Cecil N. Gore was a draftsman in Vancouver during the 1940s and 1950s under the name Home Planning Service. He drew plans for homes at his office located at 601 Howe Street.
Charles Thompson was a Vancouver businessman and politician. Born in Grey County, Ontario, he moved to Vancouver in 1924 and eventually established Vancouver Motors Limited. He managed the mayoralty campaign of G.G. McGeer in 1934. He was elected alderman for the term 1945 1946, and re-elected for 1947-1948. He was elected mayor for 1949-1950.
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The Reverend Charles Montgomery Tate (1832-1933) was a Methodist minister who was involved in work with the First Nations of the Fraser Valley and Vancouver Island.
He was born in Northumberland, and arrived in Victoria, intending to go to the Cariboo gold fields. Instead, he went to Nanaimo and taught English to the Native Indians of the area. In 1879 he was ordained at the first Methodist Conference in Victoria. He went on to publish portions of the Scriptures in Chinook, and established the Coqualeetza Residential School in Sardis. He retired in Victoria in 1910.
Charles Marega (originally Carlos Marega) was one of Vancouver's most prolific sculptors. Born in 1871 in Lucinico, now part of Italy, Marega worked under Herman Panitz in Zurich, marrying Panitz's widow Berta in 1899. The Maregas immigrated to Vancouver in 1909, and shortly thereafter Marega won a commission to build the David Oppenheimer memorial gate at the entrance to Stanley Park. Marega's subsequent work included the Harding memorial in Stanley Park, the Joe Fortes memorial at English Bay, the lions at the entrance to Lions Gate Bridge, and the statue of George Vancouver at City Hall. Marega was also a teacher of sculpture at the Vancouver School of Art (later the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design). Marega died on March 27, 1939. Known holdings of his sculpture include the Vancouver Museum, the Italian Cultural Centre in Vancouver, the Vancouver Art Gallery and the North Vancouver Museum and Archives. Some of his sculptures may also be seen outside the Legislative Buildings in Victoria.
Charles Jones arrived in Vancouver from England in 1906 and joined City Hall staff in 1907. He became License Inspector in 1910 and City Clerk in 1931. He was elected Alderman during the years 1940-1946, and served as Acting Mayor for the final third of 1947. He became Mayor in 1948, but died in office on 1 September 1948.
Charles J. Christopherson, a Vancouver resident, was born in 1920. He was involved with the New School when it first began in 1962 and where his daughter was a student for two years. Beginning in the 1970s Christopherson was a member of the William Morris Society. He was also active in the Mount Pleasant community participating as a chairman in the Mount Pleasant Area Council, the Mount Pleasant Citizens' Committee, and the Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood Association. He was later to become president of the Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood Association.
The aim of the Vancouver's Heritage Tree Inventory was to identify special city trees, both native species and the introduced "exotics". The study was sponsored by the British Columbia Society of Landscape Architects and British Columbia Heritage Trust.
Cpl. W.E. Roonie served in the first World War and apparently was wounded in 1918. No further information on Cpl. Roonie is available.
Daniel Gilbert was a veteran of the battle of Vimy Ridge and he was a participant in an official pilgrimage that the Canadian Legion organized to Vimy and the battlefields in 1936, when the Canadian War Memorial on Vimy Ridge was unveiled.
David Davies was a member of the Canadian Railroad Historical Association. He was interested in investigating the suggestion that the CPR English Bay Branch (or Kitsilano Branch) was built as the final piece of the main line section of the transcontinental railway.
David Mackenzie lived in Coupargrange, Scotland and travelled to Quebec in 1833.
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David Mitchell was an architect in Vancouver who worked on the old Vancouver Courthouse. He left Vancouver in 1893 to go prospecting.
Donald J. Henfrey was a court-appointed receiver who managed the final affairs of Vancouver Safety Deposit Vaults, a firm which had gone bankrupt following a robbery.
Donald Gutstein is a graduate architect, a teacher and an author on Vancouver politics.
Dr. Frank Cornwall McTavish was born in Palmrya, Ontario, in 1872, and came to Vancouver in 1903 after serving in the Boer War, 1899-1902. In 1905, he was appointed surgeon-lieutenant in the 6th Regiment, The Duke of Connaught's Own Rifles. In 1906, Dr. McTavish raised the 18th Field Ambulance, Canadian Army Medical Corps. After World War One, he became Provincial Secretary of the St. John Ambulance Association. Dr. McTavish was a well known orthopaedic surgeon and was on staff at the Vancouver General Hospital for many years. He was instrumental in organizing the Crippled Children's Hospital, where he served as chief surgeon until his death in 1936.
E. H. Lukin Johnston was a reporter for the Vancouver Province. In 1923, he was assigned, as the only non-American reporter, to report on the tour of Alaska by U.S. President, Warren G. Harding, who visited Vancouver en route.
Edward Alexander Wilson was born August 27, 1906, in Liverpool England. He came to Canada in 1931 at the age of 25, and after making short stays in Montreal, Winnipeg, Toronto, and the Yukon, eventually made his way to B.C. After travelling across Canada by train in 1935, Wilson worked at a variety of temporary labouring jobs, including fruit picking in the Okanagan, before eventually settling in Vancouver. During the 1930's, he supported himself by doing a wide variety of odd jobs and casual labour, including gardening, painting, wood cutting, hauling, etc., and secured temporary lodgings wherever he could afford. During the 1940's he did some work for Sun Directories, and starting about 1950 was employed by Canada Permanent Trust, retiring around 1972. Wilson never married, but in his later years, was active as a volunteer grandfather with the Volunteer Grandparents Association of Vancouver. Mr. Wilson died July 18, 1985.