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Tim Louis is a lawyer and municipal politician in Vancouver. Louis was born in 1958 and he graduated from the South Delta Secondary School (class of 1976), and went on to attend Langara College (class of 1979) and the University of British Columbia (UBC) where he graduated from law school in 1983. After he graduated from UBC, Louis founded his own law firm to provide affordable legal services to the community. In 2022, Louis was awarded the Harry Rankin QC Pro Bono Award by the Canadian Bar Association, to acknowledge his commitment to pro bono service.

Louis was elected to the Vancouver Park Board in 1990 and 1993, and later to Vancouver City Council as a member of the Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE) in 1999. Louis was re-elected in 2002 and served as a councillor until 2005. During this time, he participated on various Council Standing Committees and chaired the Standing Committee on City Services and Budget.

Besides municipal politics, Louis has served on a number of community boards and civic organizations including:

• co-founder of the BC Coalition of the Disabled
• co-founder of HandyDART, a custom transit service for people who have difficulty using the public transit system
• Director of the Board of the Vancouver Public Library
• Chair of Vancouver City Community Foundation
• Director of the Board of Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD)

Don Lee was born in China and immigrated to Canada in 1949. He obtained a B.Sc. Degree from U.B.C. (1960) majoring in mathematics and physics and a Teaching Certificate from the Ontario College of Education (1962). He taught mathematics and science for 31 years, the last 26 years at Templetion Secondary School in Vancouver, and took early retirement in 1992. Don Lee was very active in community work. Before becoming City Councillor (under Non-Partisan Association - N.P.A.) in November, 1996, he served many major organizations, including the Chinese Cultural Centre, National Congress of Chinese Canadians, World Association of the Lee Family and Kensington Community Centre Association. Don Lee was re-elected as City Councillor in 2002.

Term of office: 1999-2005

The Office of the Building Inspector of the Municipality of South Vancouver was created in 1912, pursuant to Building By-law No. 1 (1911/167), s.1.1. with the amalgamation of the municipalities effective January 1, 1929.

The office was amalgamated with the Vancouver Building Department at the time of the amalgamation of the Municipality with the City of Vancouver effective January 1, 1929.

The position of Building Inspector was created by means of passage of the Municipality of Point Grey by-law No. 10, 1912. The office was, with the rest of the Point Grey administration, incorporated into the administration of the City of Vancouver January 1, 1929.

Harry Rankin was born in Vancouver on May 8, 1920. The son of garment worker George Rankin, Harry Rankin grew up in East Vancouver's Mount Pleasant district, and was apprenticed to be a baker at age 14 1/2. In 1939, the 19 year old Rankin enlisted with the Seaforth Highlanders Infantry and departed for England in December of the same year. He served overseas until late 1944 and participated in the invasion of Sicily. As a war veteran Rankin was able to obtain a B.A. and a law degree from the University of British Columbia. He was called to the bar and opened his own law practice in 1950. Harry Rankin's involvement with civic politics began in the early 1950s when he joined the Grandview Ratepayers' Association. The first of many unsuccessful bids for election began in 1953 when he ran as an independent candidate for the School Board. In 1957 he decided City Council was a more appropriate arena for his ambitions. He contested aldermanic elections unsuccessfully every year until 1966, when he was finally elected. Rankin attributed his early electoral failures in part to the lack of the kind of organized support that an organized party could provide. In 1968 however, on the initiative of the Vancouver & District Labour Council, the Committee of Progressive Electors (C.O.P.E.) was formed. Rankin ran on the C.O.P.E. aldermanic slate in every election thereafter, and remained on City Council until November 1986. In 1986, he stood as C.O.P.E.'s mayoral candidate and lost to Gordon Campbell of the Non-Partisan Association (N.P.A.).

Besides the role of a lawyer and politician, Rankin was a social activist. Rankin advocated for tenant rights, the working class, Indigenous, Vancouver's downtown eastside, and many disadvantaged groups and individuals.

Harry Rankin passed away in 2002. Further biographical information, particularly about Rankin's career as a lawyer, is available in his autobiography, Rankin's Law: Recollections of a Radical, published by November House, Vancouver, 1975. In 2018, a documentary film, The Rankin File: Legacy of a Radical, was produced by Teresa Alfeld, which traces the life and career of Harry Rankin.

Kennerly Bryan was an architect working in Vancouver in the early years of the 20th century. As of 1913, his office was located at 710-711 North-West Trust Building, Richards Street.