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Monk, John L.

John Monk worked as a Personnel Technician in the Recruitment, Testing and Selection Division of the Personnel Department of the City of Vancouver.

Browning, John S.

John Browning, born in 1892 to a clergyman, was raised on Norfolk Island in the South Pacific. Later, he went to Alberta, where he homesteaded and worked on railway construction projects and in sawmills. After the Second World War, Browning and his family moved to British Columbia, settling in the Wilson Creek area near Gibsons.

Koenig, Karl

Karl Koenig, born about 1910 in Germany, was a Vancouver boatbuilder who wrote poetry during his travels around B.C. during the depression in the 1930s.

Ferrie, Katherine

  • Person
  • ?-1911

Katherine Ferrie (nee Katherine Fergus Turner) was the wife of Walter B. Ferrie.
The couple were married in 1893, then later moved from Hamilton, Ontario to Vancouver, where Walter Ferrie served as the B.C. manager of the Canada Life Assurance Company.

Caple, Kenneth Percy

Kenneth Percy Caple (1903- ) is a native of Vancouver, B.C. He holds a B.A. and M.S.A. from the University of British Columbia and has done post-graduate studies at Cornell, Stanford and London. He served as principal of Summerland High School (1927-1938) and was director of school broadcasts for the British Columbia Ministry of Education from 1940 to 1944. In 1947 he was made regional director of the C.B.C., a position he held until 1968. After his retirement from the C.B.C., Caple served as Chancellor and Chairman of the Board of Governors of Simon Fraser University. He was married on the 6 April 1931 to E. Beatrix Clegg and has three children.

King Edward Alumni Association (Vancouver, B.C.)

King Edward High School in Vancouver, at the corner of Cambie and Dunsmuir, operated from 1890 to 1962. The King Edward Alumni Association represented students who attended the high school during these years.

Kiwanis Club of West Point

Kiwanis Club of West Point was founded in 1947 and disbanded sometime in the late 1960s, early 1970s.

Ladies' Orange Benevolent Association

  • Corporate body
  • 1892-

The Ladies' Orange Benevolent Association was first instituted in British America in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1892. By 1913 there were three L.O.B.A. lodges in Vancouver. The object of the society is to give Protestant women an opportunity to assist the work of the Orange Association.

Leavy, Leo

  • Person
  • March 23, 1923-January 6, 1982

Leo Francis Leavy was born in Vancouver and worked as a meat inspector for the government. He was well known for holding the Guinness record title, with his twin brother Jack, for being the world's largest identical twins. His mother was Helene Rafuse Leavy and his father was Leo Michael Leavy.

Ladner, Leon Johnson

  • Person
  • 1884-1978

Leon Johnson Ladner was born in Ladner, B.C. on November 29, 1884. After articling with Sir Charles Tupper in Vancouver he was admitted to the Bar in 1910. Active in the Conservative Party he was elected to the House of Commons in 1921 and served as MP for Vancouver South until he was defeated in the 1930 election. He returned to the practice of law and formed his own firm, Ladner, Carmichael, & Downs although he remained deeply involved with the Conservative Party both provincially and federally. He was appointed to the Senate of the University of British Columbia for two terms, 1957-1963, and served on the Board of Governors. He also lectured on income tax for nine years at the UBC Law School. In 1972 his book, The Ladners of Ladner: By Covered Wagon to the Welfare State, was published. Ladner died in 1978.

Popham, Lewis G.

  • Person
  • 1885 or 1886 - 1974

Lewis Popham worked at Imperial Oil in Ioco, where he was also a Justice of the Peace.

Greig, Lillian Cope

  • Person
  • ?-1975

Lillian Cope Greig was a Vancouver writer who prepared this material on the history of Kitsilano during the 1930s and 1940s. She had planned to publish the manuscript during the city's Diamond Jubilee year in 1946.

Malkin family

  • Family

The Malkin family resided in England during the last half of the nineteenth century. James Malkin (1828-1894) was in the pottery business, Burslem. In 1884, two of his younger sons, James Frederic (1864-1950) and William Harold (1868-1959) emigrated to Canada and came to Grenfell Sask, where they attempted farming until 1889. Their elder sister, ‘Belle” Mary Isabella (1858-1926) joined them from 1886-1889 then returned to England. Fred and Harold remained in Canada with return visits to England. In June 1894 Harold and his youngest brother John Philip Davy ‘Phil’ (1878-1952) travelled to Grenfell where they worked at the Osmund Skrine general store. Fred was in Vancouver touting the greater future there. Skrine moved half his operations and the two Malkin brothers to Vancouver in January-February 1895. They were joined by their mother, Ann Elizabeth Malkin (1832-1919) and sister Mary Isabella in late March 1895. The family remained firmly in Vancouver from that date.

The brothers became deeply involved in the wholesale food business, and in 1897 W. H. Malkin et al. purchased Osmund Skrine and Company. The brothers expanded the company, W. H. Malkin & Company Ltd. into a leading BC commercial enterprise, dominating the wholesale tea, coffee and grocery trade, across British Columbia and Alberta until 1938, when in their 60s and 70s, the brothers sold out to Western Grocers Limited. The family was also active in community affairs. W. H. Malkin served as the Mayor of Vancouver from 1928 to 1930, gave the Malkin Bowl band stand in Stanley Park, was a Founder of the Vancouver Foundation and of the Vancouver Art Gallery. J. P. D. Malkin and his wife, Georgina, helped establish and support the Vancouver Symphony, and later he acted as the Director of the War Assets Corporation during World War II. J.F Malkin’s community contributions are not yet documented.

Walters, Maraquita

Maraquita Walters was the daughter of Walter C. Nichol, a Vancouver businessman and one-time lieutenant-governor of British Columbia.

Pooley, Margaret A.

  • Person
  • 1914-

Margaret Pooley was born in Seattle, Washington January 4, 1914. Her family moved to Dollarton in 1924. When her father was killed at the Dollarton Mill in 1930, the family moved to Point Grey where they lived with her grandmother. She has lived in Vancouver ever since.

Mitchell, Margaret A.

Margaret A. Mitchell was born in Ontario and came to Vancouver in the mid-1950s. During the 1970s and 1980s she was was employed as a community development worker with the Neighbourhood Services Association and was also active in a number of other organizations, including the Strathcona Property Owners and Tenants Association, Adanac Co-operative Association, Britannia Community Services Centre and the Unemployed Citizens' Welfare Improvement Council. From 1979 to 1993 Ms. Mitchell was the New Democratic Party MP for Vancouver East.

Rushton, Margaret E.

  • Person
  • 1907-1977

Margaret Rushton was a native of Wigan, Lancashire. She was active in PTA work in Vancouver during the early 1950s.

Wade, Margery

  • Person
  • 1888-1960

Emily Margery Wade (1888-1960) was the daughter of Frederick Coate Wade (1860-1924).

Marpole Baptist Church

In 1910, the Convention of Baptists of British Columbia were engaged in establishing churches in various new districts of the rapidly growing city of Vancouver. On 7 June 1911, a group of Baptist believers in the Eburne district met and formed the first Eburne Baptist Church.

Gruchy, Mary J.

Mary Gruchy was born in Nova Scotia. She began an association with John Davidson, the British Columbia Provincial Botanist, who started the office in 1912, at night school, and maintained a personal friendship with his family for many years. He hired her as stenographer when he opened the Provincial Botanical Office and Gardens, but she soon became the Herbarium Assistant. The offices were located in downtown Vancouver, then later at the Fairview Campus of the University of British Columbia, while the garden was located at Essondale. Mary Gruchy remained Mr. Davidson's Herbarium Assistant until her retirement in 1957.

Pack, Mary

Doris Mary Pack was born 8 October, 1904, in Ampthill, Bedfordshire, England, where she completed her early education. In 1922, at the age of 18, she emigrated to Canada with her family. She completed an undergraduate degree at the University of British Columbia and received a teaching certificate from Provincial Normal School. She began her teaching career in Vancouver in 1936 and in 1940 was appointed to the Vancouver School Board as teacher to students whose physical disabilities made travel to school an impossibility. It was during this period that Miss Pack became interested in the plight of those affected by diseases such as arthritis and rheumatism. Between 1943 and 1947 she began actively researching these afflictions, determining that little was known about or being done to develop treatments, cures, or awareness in the public at large. She organized a letter-writing campaign, targetting newspapers, universities, medical groups, and governments. As a result, the Canadian Arthritis and Rheumatism Society (C.A.R.S.) was formed in 1947. Mary Pack quit teaching to take on the full-time position as Executive Director of the B.C. Division of C.A.R.S., a post she held from 1948-1969. After retiring from the position, she remained active as a volunteer with the organization for many years. For her humanitarian achievements, Mary Pack has been awarded an impressive list of honours, including the Queen Elizabeth medal, 1953; the Order of Canada, 1974; Vancouver's Freedom of the City award, 1979; and was the first women to receive the Royal Bank award in 1976 for her outstanding contribution to humanity and common good. She was granted an honorary Doctor of Law degree from the University of British Columbia in 1973. Pack has also authored an autobiography entitled "Never Surrender", which was published in 1974 by Mitchell Press. Mary Pack died in 1992.

McCleery family

  • Family

Fitzgerald McCleery and his brother, Samuel, came to B.C. to join their uncle, Hugh McRoberts, who in 1862 transferred 160 acres of land on the north side of the north arm of the Fraser River (District Lot 315) to Fitzgerald. Samuel McCleery also bought property in the area (District Lot 316). The McCleerys were the first settlers in the area that eventually became the City of Vancouver.

McFarlane family

  • Family

The McFarlane family lived in Vancouver.

McGeer family

  • Family

Gerald Gratton McGeer (1888-1947) was born in Winnipeg in 1888. He moved with his family to B.C. four years later, where he attended public schools and, later, Dalhousie Law School. He was called to the Bar of B.C. in 1915. After four years as an MLA in the B.C. Legislature (1916-1920), McGeer resigned. In 1925, he was elected as MP to the House of Commons. In 1933, he returned to the west and was reelected to the B.C. Legislature. The following year he became Mayor of Vancouver (full dates as mayor are 1935-1936, 1947). In 1940, he was reelected to the House of Commons. Upon his retirement five years later, he was appointed to the Senate. He died in 1947 within months of being reelected Mayor of Vancouver. In 1917, he married Charlotte Emma Spencer of Victoria. They had two children, Patricia (b. 1921) and Michael (b. 1922).

McQueen family

  • Family

James McQueen and his family came to Vancouver from Dundas, Ontario, in 1891. McQueen, a businessman, served as alderman on City Council, 1897-1900 and 1902-03. His brother-in-law, Dr. James Wetham, built Wetham Block at the northeast corner of Cambie and Cordova Streets. He also established one of the first private boys' schools in B.C., in 1891, but it was unsuccessful and closed in 1893. McQueen's son, George, was a barrister and served for several years as a police magistrate and member of the Police Commission until his death in 1944. McQueen's daughter, Kate (1884-1982), graduated from McGill University (B.C. branch) in 1908 and taught English at King Edward High School until her retirement in 1944. She was active in many women's groups, serving as President of the University Women's Club, 1912-13. Miss McQueen was also an avid hiker.

Huculak, Michael

  • Person
  • 1894-1976

Michael Huculak was born in Western Ukraine. In 1916 he was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian Army, in which he served for over two years. While in the ranks of the Ukrainian Galician Army, he fought for the establishment of a Ukrainian Government in Western Ukrainian territories. He came to Canada in 1948. In addition to being a collector of the arts and crafts of the Hutsuls, he promoted Ukrainian history and culture.

Rolph, Nathaniel

  • Person
  • ?-1933

Nathaniel Rolph enlisted in the 102nd Battalion North British Columbians at Port Alberni in 1915, holding the rank of Company Quarter Master Sergeant. He attempted unsuccessfully to obtain land in the Cariboo under the soldier settlement scheme on his return from the War.

Nightingale family, John P.

  • Family

John Preston Nightingale (d. 1938) and Ida Burritt were married in Vancouver in 1896. Nightingale was a wholesale and retail grocer who operated in Vancouver. He and his wife were both residents of Mount Pleasant, later moving to South Vancouver and then Burnaby.

Oppenheimer family

  • Family

The Oppenheimer brothers, Godfrey, Charles, David (1834-1897) and Isaac (d. 1922), were born in Frankfurt, moving to Victoria, B.C., ca. 1858. They then moved to Yale and established a firm that outfitted and supplied miners and mining camps. In 1862 Charles joined Moberly and Lewis to build a section of the Cariboo road. By 1863, the Oppenheimers had returned to Victoria. In 1885 David and Isaac moved to Vancouver and played a part in the incorporation of the city. They also established the first wholesale grocery operation on the mainland of B.C., in a warehouse located on the Southeast corner of Powell St. and Columbia Ave. Both were elected aldermen for Ward Five in the City's second Council; in 1888 David was elected mayor and Isaac re-elected an alderman. David was re-elected three times, resigning in 1891. In 1889, the brothers formed a company with Ben Douglas, J.R. Webster and H.V. Edmonds that secured a provincial charter to build an electric railway, a work which was completed in 1892.

Smith, Phoebe

Phoebe Smith (1890-1981) was well known in B.C. as an actress, director and adjudicator. She worked in the Little Theatre, the Totem Theatre, and with the Frederick Wood Theatre and the University of British Columbia Players. She also published plays, and worked in both radio and television.

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