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The Carnegie Community Action Project (CCAP) was started by the Carnegie Community Centre Association and operated from 2005-2019. The CCAP was an advocacy group for issues of housing, gentrification, land use, raising welfare rates and supporting the low-income community of the Downtown Eastside (DTES). The CCAP also worked closely with Raise the Rates and the Chinatown Concern Group that also ran out of the Carnegie Centre. Since 2008, the CCAP produced an annual hotel survey and housing report that looked at low income affordability for living in the DTES including numbers of affordable housing units, rental costs, and updates on development projects in the neighbourhood. The CCAP dissolved in 2019.

Sydney Morgan Eveleigh was a prominent architect in Vancouver. Born in Bedford, England on September 24, 1870, Eveleigh came to Vancouver in 1888. He was first employed as an assistant to the architect Noble S. Hoffar, followed by a period of travel and study. Returning to Vancouver he worked for different architects from the mid to late 1890s. During this time, he completed several downtown buildings for English businessman Harvey Hadden: the Arcade (1895), Pender Chambers (ca. 1898), and the Hadden Block (1901), as well as his residence in West Vancouver, known as Hadden Hall (currently the Capilano Golf & Country Club, 1903). Eveleigh went on to partner with William Dalton and run a successful firm producing well-known buildings around the city. Projects by Dalton & Eveleigh include the City of Vancouver Police Court and Jail, Alcazar Hotel, Masonic Temple along with other commercial spaces, banks, schools, and churches. They were also the supervising architects for the Provincial Court House site in downtown Vancouver. The firm also completed projects in other parts of the lower mainland and around the province, such as the Buntzen Power House No. 1. Dalton retired in 1923 and Eveleigh continued to practice into the 1930s. He was also president of the Architectural Institute of British Columbia from 1922-1924, and, upon retiring from the council, was made a life member in 1940.

In his personal life, Eveleigh was married to Florence Mary Southcott (1877-1939) and had three children. He was a founding member of the Burrard Literary Society in the 1890s. He was also an original member of the Vancouver Library Board and helped facilitate the donated funds from Andrew Carnegie to build the public library at Main and Hastings, which opened in 1903 (now Carnegie Community Centre). Eveleigh died in Vancouver on November 29, 1947.

Desmond Muirhead & Associates was a landscape architecture firm operating in Vancouver, B.C. The firm's offices were located at multiple locations in Kerrisdale.

The firm was created after the dissolution of the firm Muirhead and Fisher in the spring of 1952. It ended with the formation of the partnership Muirhead and Justice, Landscape Architects at the beginning of 1960.

Charles T. Hamilton, Consulting Engineer was the professional practice of Vancouver structural engineer Charles Hamilton.

Hamilton began his career in Vancouver on the staff of A.E. Henderson, Architect. In 1929 or 1930, Hamilton opened his own office and practiced independently until his retirement in 1966 or 1967.

William Frederick Gardiner was an English-trained architect who practiced in Vancouver from 1908 to 1951. Between 1909 and 1911, Gardiner had practiced in partnership with his brother Frank L. Gardiner and Alndrew L. Mercer. In 1912, William Gardiner returned to a solo practice until his retirement just before his death in 1951.

L.H. Ratner Construction was a Vancouver general contracting and construction company founded by Leon Harvey Ratner in 1955. Ratner had previously been employed as Secretary-Treasurer of J.R. Bezanson Fixtures, another Vancouver general contractor.

The firm continues, with Leon Ratner as President, until his retirement in 1980, at which time it appears that the firm was wound up.

J.D. Kern & Co. was a Vancouver consulting mechanical engineering firm founded by J. Don Kern, a mechanical engineer previously employed at R.J. Cave & Co.

Kern founded his firm in 1962 or 1963, with offices at 1535 West 4th Avenue. In the 1970s the firm moved its offices to 202-3026 Arbutus Street, then in the late 1980s to 149 Riverside Drive in North Vancouver. Kern was President of the firm until just before his death in 1995. The firm appears to have been wound up at that time.

The Vancouver architectural firm C.B.K. Van Norman, Architect was founded by its principal, C.B.K. Van Norman, in 1930. The firm expanded to include further partners in 1955, at the time that it was renamed C.B.K. Van Norman and Associates. The firm operated until Van Norman's death in 1975.

Charles Van Norman graduated from the architecture program at the University of Manitoba in 1928, the year that he came to Vancouver. He worked briefly at Townley and Matheson before starting his own architectural practice in 1930. Over the course of the 1930s, Van Norman's work increasingly was of the West Coast Modern style, and consisted of residential, commercial and small light industrial buildings.

In the late 1930s, Van Norman became interested in the potential of prefabrication as a means of facilitating quicker and more economical construction. In the early 1940s he designed a series of modest homes, dormitories and mill site buildings, the company store and the Bridge River Pump House for the Powell River Company, many of which entailed use of prefabricated components to some degree. He designed a variety of prefabricated buildings using the "Loxtave" hexagonal unit system for Prefabricated Buildings Ltd., a Burnaby manufacturer, and for Precision Housing Company Ltd., owned by Van Norman himself. Clients included departments of the Canadian government, predominantly the Indian Affairs Branch, Foreign Affairs and the Veterans Land Act administration. He also designed buildings for a number of overseas projects in Scotland, Ireland, England and Israel.

In the years after World War II, Van Norman focused on residential and commercial projects, including a number of houses for British Pacific Properties Ltd. (the developer of the British Properties neighbourhood in West Vancouver) and the BPPL-developed Park Royal Shopping Centre, including more than two dozen stores in the interior.

Van Norman's most prominent Greater Vancouver buildings were the residences for Walter Koerner (Matthews Avenue), M. McLeod (Newton Wynd, West Vancouver), Cecil Budd (Belmont Street), and for himself (West 61st Avenue); the B.C. Electric substation (King Edward Avenue @ Maple Street); Canada Customs Building (West Pender Street), Burrard Building (Burrard at West Georgia Streets) and the Beach Towers residential complex on English Bay.

J. Muirhead & Associates, Electrical Engineers was a firm that grew out of the consulting practice of Scottish-born electrical engineer James Muirhead.

Muirhead's early years in Vancouver were as an electrical engineer at the BC Electric Railway Company (1912-1914), and as inspector with the BC Provincial government (1914-1925)

In 1925 or 1925, Muirhead opened his consulting engineer firm, which operated until 1961 or 1962. The firm appears to have either closed or changed its name shortly after Muirhead's retirement in 1961.