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Bernard Cuddon Palmer was a Vancouver-based architect who designed, on his own and in conjunction with a number of firms, a number of homes in Greater Vancouver.

Palmer was born and trained in England in Southend, London and Lewes. He arrived in Vancouver in 1912 and worked for Cecil Croker Fox in the Maclure & Fox office. In April 1916, with Fox enlisted in the Army, Palmer opened his own office. In 1930, he went into partnership with William Bow to form Palmer and Bow, which continued after Palmer's death in 1936.

Archibald Campbell Hope was born in Bradford, England in 1872, the son of a prominent local architect, Thomas Campbell Hope.

A.C. Hope apprenticed to his father in 1888 and became a partner in the firm in 1901. In 1906 he set up a practice in San Francisco; after two years he moved on to Vancouver, where he set up a partnership with John S. Pearce. The firm designed a number of school in the city, and Hope became the School Board's consulting architect. During World War I, Hope worked for the Department of Munitions in Toronto, returning to Vancouver in 1918. The remainder of his career took place in Greater Vancouver, where he designed public buildings and homes for a number of prominent businessman and was the building inspector for the Municipality of Point Grey, working in Kerrisdale in the 1920s.

Edward (Ted) Lloyd Affleck was born on April 5, 1924 in Nelson, BC and died in Vancouver in 2003. He was married to Jean Galbraith in 1963, remaining married until her death in 1989. They had two children, Carolyn and David. He grew up in Nelson, moved to Vancouver to attend the University of British Columbia, where he graduated with honours in Chemistry. He established the Alexander Nicholls Press. At university he developed an interest in acting and amateur theatre. During the 1990's he worked on a history of the Knox Operatic Group and the Dunbar Musical Theatre.

George Puil is a graduate of the University of British Columbia, where he acquired Bachelor degrees in Arts and in Education. Puil was a 11-term City of Vancouver Councillor (1976-2002). Puil was initially elected to public office as Vancouver Parks Board Commissioner in 1962 and served on the board for 12 years, three of them as Chair. During Puil’s 26 years as an elected Councillor, he served on the City’s Property Endowment Fund Board, the Standing Committees of City Services and Budgets, and Planning and Environment, and represents Council on the Vancouver Athletic Commission and Vancouver Civic Theatres Board. Puil was the founding chair of the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority and also served as the Chair of the Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD)

In June, 2002, Puil was named Transit Advocate of the Year by the Canadian Urban Transit Association which recognized his contribution on public transit. In November, 2002, Puil received the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal in recognition of his public service.

Paul Yee, a Canadian writer and historian, was born in Spalding, Saskatchewan, in 1956. His father, Gordon Yee (1905-1957), emigrated from China to Canada in 1922. In 1951, four years after the Government of Canada repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act, Yee’s mother, Gum May Yee (1914-1958), immigrated to Canada to join Gordon Yee in Naicam, Saskatchewan, where he ran a café.

Following the deaths of Paul Yee’s parents, Yee’s mother’s brother Foon Wong (1894-1969) and Wong’s wife Lillian Ho Wong (1895-1985) adopted Yee and his elder brother Vernon and brought them up in Vancouver, British Columbia.

As a child and young adult, Yee attended Lord Strathcona Elementary School and Britannia Secondary School, from which he graduated in 1974. Yee also attend Mon Keang Chinese School, where he studied Cantonese. In 1974, Yee matriculated at the University of British Columbia (UBC), where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history (1978) followed by a Master of Arts degree in Canadian history (1983). While at UBC, Yee took courses in Mandarin and Japanese. In the early 1980s, Yee completed coursework in archival administration from the University of Alberta. In 1983, he completed the archives course offered by the Public Archives of Canada (now Library and Archives Canada).

Yee’s work as a cultural and social activist began when one of his teachers at Britannia Secondary School encouraged him to join the organizing committee for a conference on identity and awareness for Chinese Canadian youth. Yee worked on two more such conferences while an undergraduate at UBC.

In 1976, inspired by a suggestion made at one of these conferences, Yee and several other young Chinese Canadians established the Pender Guy Radio Collective, which produced a weekly program on Vancouver Co-operative Radio until 1981.

From 1974 to 1988, Yee was active with several other Vancouver-based cultural organizations, including the Chinese Cultural Centre of Vancouver, Katari Taiko, and the Asian Canadian Writers Workshop. As a member of the latter group, Yee co-edited and published essays, poetry, and short stories in the Inalienable Rice anthology (1979) and the Vancouver edition of Asianadian magazine (1980).

Yee worked for the City of Vancouver Archives beginning in 1979, first as a summer student and later as a full-time archivist, writing poetry and prose in his spare time.

In 1981, publisher James Lorimer & Company asked Yee to write a book of stories about children living in Vancouver Chinatown. These stories were published as the book Teach Me to Fly, Skyfighter and Other Stories. In 1986, Lorimer published Yee’s second book, a historical novel for children titled The Curses of Third Uncle. Yee has gone on to publish many more works of fiction for children, including short story collections such as Tales from Gold Mountain (1989) and What Happened This Summer (2006); novels such as Breakaway (1994); and picture books such as Ghost Train (1996). ) Ghost Train won the Governor General’s Award for English-language children’s literature (text) in 1996 and was produced as a play by Toronto-based Young People’s Theatre in 2001. In addition, two of Yee’s stories have been into animated films by the National Film Board of Canada.

From 1985 to 1987, Yee served as chair of the committee that mounted a major exhibit at the Chinese Cultural Centre in celebration of Vancouver’s centennial. Titled Saltwater City, the exhibit was the first to assemble and display artifacts, photographs, oral histories, and written records of immigrant and native-born Chinese Canadians living in Vancouver in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Yee’s book based on the exhibit, Saltwater City: an Illustrated History of the Chinese in Vancouver, was published in 1988, winning the Vancouver Book Award in 1989. Yee's updated version of the book was published in 2006. He has written two more history books, Struggle and Hope (1996), about the Chinese living across Canada, and Chinatown (2005), about Chinese communities in Victoria, Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, and Halifax.

Yee moved to Toronto in 1988 to work as the multicultural coordinator for the Archives of Ontario. In 1992, he joined Ontario’s Ministry of Citizenship as a policy analyst, and in 1997 he left public service to write full-time. He continues to live and work in Toronto.

Joe Quan was born in Vancouver on May 18, 1931, the youngest son of the Gow Quan family who ran Parkview Produce on Robson Street. After graduating from King Edward High School, Quan continued his education at the University of British Columbia (UBC), earning a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1955. While at UBC, he took photographs for the Ubyssey newspaper and Totem yearbooks. Following graduation he founded Customcolor Labs and later on he went into real estate. In 1968 he became a Notary Public and subsequently founded the Associated Notaries business with George Tanco at Robson and Thurlow. Quan was active in many associations, including the Grand Chapter of the Royal Arch Masons of B.C. and the Yukon, and was a founder of the Keystone of Life Foundation. In 1999 he chaired the organizing committee for the 50th reunion of the 1949 King Edward High School graduating class.

Quan met his wife Hilda Lei Ching in 1960, while on a trip to Hawaii, and the couple had three sons, Walter, Tom and Andy. He died on January 30, 2010.

Born in Canada, Adelstein was a chemist who worked for Eastman Kodak and, later, the Image Permanence Institute at the Rochester Institute for Technology.

Ken Hiebert was born in Chilliwack, B.C. in 1946. He lived in Vancouver from 1963 to 1976, and from 1987 to 2007. Mr. Hiebert took up political and social justice activism in 1966, in response to the Vietnam War. He remained active on a variety of causes, including women's rights, minority rights, peace, anti-war, economic justice, labour, the environment, and international solidarity.

Forrest Rogers was the fourth son and youngest child of Benjamin Tingley (B.T.) Rogers and Isabella Angus. He was the last of the four Rogers sons to serve as President of BC Sugar (1953-1973), after which he serves as Director Emeritus. Rogers was also a member of the Board of the Bank of Montreal and Weldwood Canada.

Worked as a photographer for the Vancouver Sun.

John Pain Cappac was a commercial photographer operating in Prince Rupert, B.C.

Pat O'Brien was a commercial photographer working in Ladysmith, B.C. under the business name Free Lance Photography.

Erik Lund was a commercial photographer working in Surrey, B.C. In 1975 his studio was locate at 2485 - 168th Street, Surrey.

A full biography of and list of known works by S.H. Maw may be found at the Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada: http://www.dictionaryofarchitectsincanada.org/architects/view/2069.

Worked for Vancouver Sun and Province, as well as for CBC in Vancouver.

Worked for the Vancouver Sun from 1955-1990.

Married to Simma Holt. Worked as a photographer for Pacific Press.

Martin Johansen Grinhem was a cartographic draftsman who worked for McGill-Warner Co., a publisher of maps. It is believed that he dies in 1969.

Art photographer and Portrait painter. Photography studio located at 32 River Street, Truro (U.K.).

Thomas Melville Christopherson was a photographer who worked for the Department of National Defence. He was born Oct. 30, 1920 in Prince Rupert, B.C. and died Apr. 20, 1992 in North Vancouver, B.C.

Worked as a bookbinder.

Photographer in Oregon and California.

Norman Smith was a timber cruiser; he worked at his father's firm, Eustace Smith Ltd.

Born in Edgerton, Alberta November 7, 1929, Dempsey is a Canadian historian who also worked as a curator at the Glenbow Museum. He became a member of the Order of Canada in 1975.

Born April 28, 1941, in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. First president of the Association of Canadian Archivists. Records manager, then provincial archivist at the Archives of Manitoba. Died June 19, 2010 in Comox, B.C.

John Schreiner moved to Vancouver in 1973 after studying towards an undergraduate degree at the University of Saskatchewan. He worked as western editor of the Financial Post from the Vancouver office. As well as a keen interest in the history and business development of British Columbia and the Prairie provinces Schreiner is an oenologist. He maintains a wine blog and has written many books and articles on wine appreciation and wine-tasting.

Chow Wong worked as a photographer from 2607 William Street, Vancouver.