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Jack Wasserman (1927-1977) was a nightlife and celebrity columnist for the Vancouver Sun. He was born on February 17, 1927 in Winnipeg, Manitoba and moved to Vancouver with his parents in 1935. He graduated from King Edward High School in 1945 and attended law school at the University of British Columbia in 1949 until he left to take a reporter's job with the Ubyssey. He was hired in 1949 by the Vancouver Sun as a reporter, but soon became a regular columnist with his "After Dark" column in 1952, his "About Now" column in 1954, and his "Jack Wasserman" column circa 1959 that continued until his death. Wasserman also had a talk-radio show on CJOR in 1969, a show called Wasserman's World on CKNW in 1970, and hosted CBC TV's Hourglass in 1972. Jack Wasserman died of a heart attack at age 50 while speaking at the Hotel Vancouver during a roast for Gordon Gibson Sr. on April 7, 1977.

James A. Moody was the owner of General Engine Sales & Service Ltd. in 1971. He had spent most of his working life involved in the Coal Harbour marine industry. In 1971 he wrote a letter disputing an article in the Vancouver Province about the development of Coal Harbour.

James J. Sutherland, Barrister and Solicitor, practiced law in Vancouver.

James Hamilton was secretary of the Vancouver Merchants' Exchange from its inception in 1921 until his retirement in 1944. He was considered an expert on British Columbia's marine history. His books included "Western Shores" (1932) and "The All-Red Route" (1960) and he contributed to "Harbour and Shipping" for many years under the name of "Captain Kettle". Hamilton passed away in 1964 at the age of 85.

Joshua Attwood Reynolds Homer was the maternal grandfather of Dr. John Walker. Homer arrived in British Columbia as a gold seeker in the spring of 1858. He eventually settled in New Westminster and worked in the lumber and milling business. In 1863 he was elected to the first legislative council of British Columbia. Three years later, as High Sheriff, he read the proclamation which united the Colony of Vancouver Island with the mainland. In 1882 he was elected as a member of the Canadian House of Commons, a position he held until his death in the fall of 1886. Homer was the first Member of Parliament to represent the City of Vancouver after incorporation.

Jessie Parkes was a parishioner of St. James' Church, a teacher at the Church's All Hallow's School and at public schools in Vancouver, and was the author of a history of St. James' Church.

James Thomas Hughes was born in Wales in 1872 and came to Canada in 1908. With his family, he lived in Saskatchewan and Alberta and came to Vancouver in 1923. He was a member of the Society of Friends and a leader in Vancouver's Welsh community. He was president of the Cambrian Society and secretary-treasurer of the Burrard Liberal Association. Mr. Hughes died in 1948.

James Pilkington was a resident of Auckland, New Zealand. In 1906 he corresponded with his nephew, Alf J. Pilkington, who had recently taken up residence in Vancouver and been employed as an accountant to the City.

Francis Mollison Black was born in Scotland in 1871. In 1891 he was appointed to the Vancouver branch of the Bank of B.C. He subsequently moved to Calgary, where he was appointed a public utilities commissioner for Alberta. In 1918 he became treasurer of the United Grain Growers, with headquarters in Winnipeg, and from 1922 to 1935 he was treasurer of the Manitoba Government. From 1927 to 1932 he was chair of the fruit and vegetable commission set up under B.C.'s Produce Marketing Act. In 1932 he took over the management of Kootenay Belle Gold Mines.

Jonathan Miller (1834-1914) was born in Melbourne, Ontario, and married Margaret Springer in 1855. In 1862 he came to British Columbia with his brother-in-law, Benjamin Springer as part of the Cariboo gold rush. His wife, Margaret, and children joined him in 1864. During that same year, he became a member of the New Westminster City Council. Between 1866 and 1869 he was involved in the lumber trade. In 1871 he was appointed Granville townsite's first constable and government agent and collector for Burrard Inlet district. He was on the committee which drafted the charter of Vancouver and was the returning officer at the first mayoralty election. In 1886, Miller became Vancouver's first postmaster, a position he held until 1909, when he retired at the age of 75. He died in 1914.

Archibald F. Murchie was the son of the Vancouver tea and coffee merchant John Murchie. Shortly after beginning his studies at the Chicago Art Academy, he was shot during a drugstore robbery and died March 8, 1925 at the age of 23.

Len Norris was born in England and emigrated to Canada with his family in 1926. He worked as an art director in Toronto before moving to Vancouver in 1950 to become a political cartoonist for the Vancouver Sun. He retired in 1988. Norris died in 1997.

Frank Everett Woodside was born in Prince Edward Island in 1875 and moved as a youth to the silver mines of Colorado in 1894. Two years later, he followed the trek to the boomtown of Rossland, B.C., where he mined for seven years. As secretary of the Western Federation of Miners, he was instrumental in influencing the eight-hour work day in B.C. mines. He came to Vancouver in 1903, where he was one of the principal advocates of the annexation of the Hastings Townsite. In 1911, Woodside was elected an alderman for the City of Vancouver, representing the ward of Hastings Townsite, following the merger of Hastings with Vancouver. Woodside's successful lobbying for amalgamation resulted in the first election in B.C. which gave women the right to vote. He held his aldermanic seat from 1911 to 1928, excepting the years 1920 and 1923. As alderman, Woodside was very active in labour and transportation issues. On the founding of the B.C. Chamber of Mines in 1912, Woodside became a charter member and was elected President in 1920. In 1928, he became the Chamber's first paid manager and held that post until retirement in 1955. Woodside died in Vancouver on October 15, 1964, after a prominent career as a miner, public servant and community figure.

Term of office:
1911-1919
1924-1929

Samuel Shelby (Sam) Magoffin was the owner and president of S.S. Magoffin & Co. Limited Railway Contractors, an earth-moving company which he established around 1920. Between approximately 1920 and 1924, the company did filling, stabilization and clean-up work for the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (Canadian National Railway) near Prince Rupert; during this time, the company’s head office was located in Prince George, British Columbia. Magoffin may also have been a sub-contractor in the building of the CNR through the Fraser Canyon. From 1925 to 1927, Magoffin’s company was in charge of levelling and filling along the waterfront of the North Vancouver harbour and, from 1925 to 1928, the company was contracted by the CNR to fill the Lyon Creek embankment.

Beginning in 1927, the location of the S.S. Magoffin & Co. Limited office is listed as the North Vancouver waterfront and in subsequent years is listed at various other addresses in that city, the last being at 1227 East 3rd Street, North Vancouver in 1958.

Sam and his wife Margaret (nee Margaret Plumer Boalt, b. 1892) first appear in Vancouver in the 1927 directory, as residents of the Devonshire Hotel at 849 West Georgia; in 1929 they are listed as residents at 855 West Georgia. Circa 1929, the Magoffins built a home “Rockhaven” at 3612 Marine Drive in West Vancouver.

Magoffin is also recognized as the founder and first president of the Golden Retriever Club of America. The Magoffins acquired their first champion golden retriever Speedwell Pluto in 1930, and established two kennels in Vancouver, “Rockhaven” and “Gilnockie”.

Sam died in Winona, MInnesota in 1959 and Margaret passed away in Colorado in 1972.

George Goold is listed in the 1967 directory as living with his wife Joan at 1138 Balfour Avenue, Vancouver; it appears that the family had lived at this address since about 1956. George was a partner in the firm Rudd, Goold & Elliot, Chartered Accountants at 814 and 718 Granville Street.

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 Calgary, Marianne Linnell graduated from the University of Alberta in home economics. In 1945 she came to Vancouver and became a home economist with the Sun's Edith Adams Cottage. She later established a real estate business, Triangle Realty, and was elected to City Council under the Non-Partisan Association (N.P.A.) slate in 1960. In 1964 she ran for Mayor, but was defeated by Mayor Rathie. She was re-elected in 1966 and continued to serve as Alderman until 1974. Alderman Linnell served on numerous committees and was the only female member of Canada's Centennial Commission. She proposed a downtown coliseum, and re-development of False Creek into apartments.

Terms of office:
1961-1964
1967-1974

Born in 1905, George Thompson came to Vancouver from Saskatchewan in 1926. Thompson began working in photography circa 1920; the B.C. directory of 1928 lists him as a finisher for the Eastman Kodak Company and in 1930 he is listed as a salesman for the company, residing at 1016 Nelson Street. In 1932, he established and became President of the Vancouver Photo Supply Limited company and by 1938 he had also founded the Victoria Photo Supply Limited company. By 1941, he had produced two colour motion pictures of Vancouver used by the British Columbia Government Travel Bureau.

In 1938, Thompson was elected President of the Kitsilano Chamber of Commerce, and in 1940 and 1941 he was the President of the Kitsilano Ratepayers Association. He ran unsuccessfully for the Board of Parks Commissioners as an independent in 1941, but was elected for three consecutive terms as an NPA candidate beginning in 1943. He also served on the 1952 West Vancouver Council. Thompson was a member of the Lions' Club, the Reserve Battalion of the 2nd Seaforth Highlanders of Canada, the Associated Property Owners' Association and the City Archives Committee. He began showing horses in the 1940s, including the champion stallion Goldheart.

In 1930, Thompson married Ruby Florence Wood, daughter of Vancouver jeweller Arthur Wood, and the couple had two daughters. The family lived at the following addresses in Vancouver: 3426 West 27th Avenue (1930 to 1934), 2805 West 34th Avenue (1934-1940) and 2154 West 33rd Avenue (1939), before moving to West Vancouver in the early 1950s, eventually to a house at 865 Wildwood Lane.

Kathleen Mann was the daughter of Alexander R. Mann and Jeane or Jane (known as Jennie) Quinn Malcolm. She attended St. Margaret's School in Victoria, B.C., from 1932-1943; Bishop Strachan School in Toronto, Ontario, in 1934; the University of Toronto from 1934-1935; and the University of British Columbia from 1936-1937. In addition, Mann toured Europe, attending the coronation of King George VI in 1937, and she travelled to Hawaii on the Empress of Canada, accompanied by her father and brother. In 1939 she married Gordon W. Head; the couple was divorced in 1947.

John William D. (Jack) Boothe (1910-1973) was a cartoonist and writer for various Canadian newspapers. He was born in Winnipeg, and began drawing cartoons at the age of six. From 1930 to 1943 he worked as a cartoonist for The Province newspaper. He later worked for the Toronto Globe and Mail and the Hamilton Spectator, and then returned to The Province to do freelance work. While working for the Province, he illustrated local and provincial political events, and was the co-writer of the column "There and back with Monty and Jack." He received the national newspaper award in 1949, and received it again in 1953 for his coverage of the Korean War. During the Second World War, a booklet of his cartoons was published as a fundraiser for British relief.

C.H. Edmond was a Chilcotin explorer and landowner pre-WWI (Edmond Creek, a Chilko Lake tributary; Edmond Glacier); later natural resource promoter and logging operator on the B.C. coast (Bute Development Ltd., Blunden Harbour Logging, etc.).

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.

Robert Eldridge Malkin was the son of James Frederic Malkin and Julia May Malkin (nee Eldridge). He was born in Vancouver, B.C., on May 27, 1913, and died in Vancouver on June 18, 1975. He was married to Rosemary Elisabeth Rogers. In 1932, he matriculated as a first-year student in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the University of British Columbia, but he does not appear to have returned to UBC for a second year of studies. By 1934 he was working as a clerk for Home Oil. In 1937, he travelled for eight months in Europe. After his return to Vancouver in late 1937, he worked as a salesman for his family's wholesale grocery business, W.H. Malkin Co., Ltd., and later for Alaska Pine. By 1951 he had established and become president of the R.E. Malkin Lumber Company.

Fraser Wilson was born in Vancouver. He contributed cartoons to The Commonwealth and from 1937 to 1947 he was the regular cartoonist for The Sun. His cartoons appeared across eight columns of the front page every Saturday and featured an affable old fellow, "The Man-In-Vancouver's Streets".

Eleanore Jane Rittenhouse (generally called Jane) was born November 28, 1912, in East Orange, New Jersey. Her mother, Florence Susan (Spragg), had been a schoolteacher and her father, Thomas Earl, was an accountant. She also had a younger brother, Richard, who died in 1916 at the age of fifteen months. (His intended Christmas present that year, a stuffed dog, is now at the Vancouver Museum.) The family relocated briefly to California, but while travelling back to New Jersey in October 1918, Thomas Rittenhouse died of Spanish influenza. After his death, mother and daughter first lived upstairs in Florence's half-sister Jean's house. They later moved into their own apartment, but never again lived in the family home.

From her early teen years, Jane and her mother (whom Jane later called Fahnie or Susie ) spent large parts of each summer in the Toronto area, where Florence's younger sister Gertrude lived. When Jane graduated from high school, she moved to Canada and enrolled in the Ontario Ladies College in Whitby for a one-year program in dietetics. In 1932 her mother moved to Toronto and both remained in Canada thereafter. Throughout the Depression years Jane struggled both to earn a living for herself and to help her mother. She sold children's books door-to-door across eastern Canada, opened and ran (with a partner) a dining room in Toronto, and used her dietetics background to secure a job with Heinz, in Toronto.

After the dependants allowance was instituted for servicewomen and she had become a Canadian in 1944, Jane joined the WRENS. Most of her service time was spent as a supply clerk in Halifax. She was discharged in February 1946, at which time she returned to Heinz. In 1952, she stayed at home for some months to care for her mother, who had breast cancer. After her mother's death, she lived alone. Three years later, she left Heinz and went on to a variety of jobs: supervisor of volunteers at the Metropolitan Toronto Children's Aid Society, chair of the Canadian Mental Health Society in Ottawa, and Assistance Director of Education for the Alcohol Research Foundation in Toronto.

Jane moved to Vancouver in 1968, but in 1972 was forced to return to Toronto for economic reasons. She was back in Vancouver within a year. In 1974 she began an active volunteer career and for many years thereafter she was engaged in community work in the Kitsilano area. She worked on volunteer activities with organizations such as the Kitsilano Neighbourhood Association. She served on the Local Area Planning Committee, the Community Resources Board, and the Parents Book Committee, among others, bringing her expertise to numerous projects such as the development of local day care centres, seniors activities, and the production of a Rogers Cable documentary. Poor health in her later years curtailed these activities.

Richard Hart Dopson was born 22 October, 1945, in Winnipeg. He moved to Vancouver in 1975, and was hired as a school psychologist by the Vancouver School Board (VSB). He remained with the VSB for the duration of his professional career. After practising as a school psychologist for six years, he became a teacher and counsellor in a program for street youth in Downtown Vancouver for fourteen years. He then became a teacher in Distance Education, coaching teenagers on how to complete courses online, until his retirement. In addition to his work as a psychologist and educator, Dopson was also active within the community of professional psychologists. He was on the executive of the British Columbia Psychological Association (BCPA) for many years, and was also chair of the BCPA’s Promotion of the Profession (POP)/Marketing committee in 1999. From 2000 to 2001, he was president of the BCPA, as well as a member of the POP media subcommittee and chair of the BCPA Legislative Committee.

Outside of his psychology career, Dopson was an active member of the community. He was a past chair of the Family Court/Youth Justice committee and was also involved in politics, serving as the communications chair on the Vancouver Centre Liberal Executive from 2006 to 2007 for MP Hedy Fry. Despite these contributions, Dopson is perhaps most recognized within the gay and lesbian community. He played an integral part in developing gay and lesbian sports in Vancouver: Dopson helped found the Metropolitan Vancouver Athletic and Arts Association (MVAAA), which was established to bring the Gay Games to Vancouver and outside of San Francisco for the first time. Through the MVAAA, and in preparation for the Vancouver bid to host Gay Games III in 1990, Dopson was a leader in the organization of the Vancouver Gay and Lesbian Summer Games from 1983 to 1986. Following the announcement that Vancouver had won the right to host Gay Games III, Dopson became co-chair of the Celebration ’90 Gay Games III and Cultural Festival.

Dopson remained affiliated with the Gay Games after Celebration ’90, becoming a board member of Team Vancouver, Vancouver’s delegation to the Gay Games, and also the Vancouver representative to the International Federation of Gay Games. His contributions to Vancouver gay and lesbian athletics extend beyond the MVAAA and the Gay Games, however: he was chair of the Vancouver Gay Volleyball Association (VGVA) between the years of 1982 and 1984, and was also chair of the Vancouver Gay and Lesbian Centre for a period of time. His interest in the gay athletic community also led to his involvement in the Vancouver Pride Parade and Festival, as well as the police/gay-lesbian liaison committee.

David Engleman is a Vancouver-based musician, active from the 1970s onwards. He was a member of the bands Brain Damage 1971-2006 and Ridgerunner 1975-1976s, as bassist and vocalist.