Eustace Smith was a timber cruiser and businessman. He had various offices in Vancouver over the years, and was the founder and owner of Eustace Smith Ltd., a firm that provided timber cruising services to forestry companies operating in British Columbia.
Arthur Gordon Smith was born in Cape Town, South Africa. His father, Marcus, came to British Columbia in 1868 as engineer in charge of surveys for the CPR. Arthur Smith was educated at Upper Canada College and in 1891 he opened the first law office in Nelson, B.C. He moved to Victoria in 1892 and was appointed acting deputy attorney-general, a position he held until 1898 when he went to the Yukon to practice law. In 1905, he returned to Vancouver and in 1910 he was appointed District Registrar of Titles. Smith drafted a new Land Registry Act which was passed in 1921 and was chairman of the Town Planning Commission from 1926 to 1933. Smith retired in 1934 and died in 1944.
George Small was born in Southampton, England in 1850. He emigrated to Ithaca, New York before moving to Canada. He married Delphine and had two children Edith and Arthur. Small was involved in the lumber industry in New York State until retirement in 1926. In British Columbia he was president of the McGuire Lumber and Timber Company of New Westminster. He served on the Board of Directors of the Royal Columbian Hospital as President and Finance Chairman. The Small family lived at 691 - 3rd Avenue, New Westminster. George Small died on October 10 1936 at the age of 86.
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.
Born in Canterbury, England, Skipsey served in the Royal Army Service Corps. He opened a studio in Vancouver in the late 1940s, specializing in portrait and fashion photography. In 1956, he moved to Los Angeles and became well known for his portraits of celebrities. He later moved to Santa Barbara, California.
Sinclair, Marjorie Gordon, Baroness Pentland
Lady Marjorie Adeline Gordon was the daughter of Sir John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair and Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair. She married John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland on 12 July 1904; they had two children. She died on 26 July 1970, aged 89 from natural causes.
The aim of the Vancouver's Heritage Tree Inventory was to identify special city trees, both native species and the introduced "exotics". The study was sponsored by the British Columbia Society of Landscape Architects and British Columbia Heritage Trust.
In 1991, Alan Shiveral was the owner of a bicycle shop near Oppenheimer Park (Vancouver, B.C.). He was interested in creating a television program about cycling, as he believed cycling to have a positive transformational effect on peoples’ lives. He approached Ron Carver of the community station Vancouver East NTV, who in turn connected him with Vancouver television producer and writer Gordon Inglis. Together, Alan Shiveral and Gordon Inglis created “Free Wheelin’ with Alan Shiveral” as business partners (under no formal legal name). The arrangement of this business partnership continued 1991 to 1993, while the program aired on Vancouver East NTV.
In 1993, Shiveral and Inglis formalised their business partnership with the creation of Around the Bend Productions Ltd., with television producer and writer Jayne Akizuki.
Leslie Frederick Sheraton (Nov. 16, 1906 - July 6,1978) was a Vancouver photographer. He was born in Hull, England and immigrated to Canada in 1910.
After arriving in Canada the Sheraton family settled near Calgary, Alberta. Sheraton served with the Royal Canadian Navy from July 1942 to November 1945. He married Eileen Margaret Wood of Edmonton, Alberta, on April 15, 1944 in Vancouver, British Columbia. The young couple moved to Vancouver shortly after and had one son, Donald Frederick Sheraton on August 29, 1946.
Leslie's professional life was in sales and he was co-owner of a photographic supply shop in Vancouver. He was an avid and accomplished photographer and photographed sites in British Columbia, Alberta, California, Nevada, and Hawaii on regular travels with his family. Sheraton was also an experienced carpenter and boating enthusiast.
William Curtis Shelly was born in Ontario and moved to Vancouver in 1910 to expand his bakery business. He became involved in politics and was elected to the legislative assembly in 1928, serving as Minister of Finance in the Tolmie government.
S.G. Davenport was an architect employed by the Royal Bank of Canada, based in Montreal.
Harold Sewell was born in Toronto on November 20th, 1891 to Stephen and Clara Sewell. Harold worked as a commercial artist. He moved to Vancouver sometime in the late 1930s . He died in Vernon on August 16th, 1976 at 84 years of age.
Thomas Frederick Sentell was a Vancouver resident and the son of Frederick W. Sentell.
Gordon W. Scott was a Vancouver city prosecutor, court magistrate and advocate for improved juvenile court systems and the legalization of drugs. He was born in Saint John, New Brunswick and as a child moved to Vancouver, where his father operated the News Advertiser. Scott served in the 29th Battalion during World War 1, after which he studied at the University of British Columbia, graduating in 1919. Upon graduation, he served as Assistant City Prosecutor from 1923 to 1937. He worked as City Prosecutor from 1940 to 1953. In 1953 he became a police court magistrate and in 1962 was elevated to the position of senior magistrate.
Douglas Stewart Scott was born to “the colonel” John Thomas Scott (mayor of New Westminster, B.C. in 1900 and 1901) and Elizabeth Ann Williams on December 22, 1892. As an adult, Scott may have lived in Victoria, B.C. before travelling to Hong Kong in the late 1920s. He decided to stay, and while there he is known to have worked for the Texas Company (Texaco), and is believed to have had other business activities there as well.
In Hong Kong, Douglas met his wife Margaret at a prize fight. They married and built a house together in Hong Kong, where their daughter Margaret was born. The Scott family moved to Victoria, B.C. in 1937 or 1938 and would remain there until Douglas and Margaret Scott separated. Scott owned a photography supply business on Douglas Street in Victoria, B.C. After re-marrying, Douglas Scott briefly moved to Kamloops, B.C with his wife Barbara E. Player, in 1946 or 1947. He died in Saanich, B.C. in 1961 at 68 years of age.
A graduate of the University of British Columbia (B.A. 1916), Radcliffe and Columbia, Dr. Gladys Schwesinger was chiefly known for her writing and work in the area of clinical psychology.
Frederick Schwarze was a German-born photographer who moved to Nanaimo, B.C. in 1910 or 1911 and founded a studio there. As of 1913, his work still bore the signature "F. Schwarze" rather than the later "Schwarze" for Schwarze Studio. Two of Schwarze's children (Henry and Hilda) worked for him at his studio. Another son, Norbert, founded his own studio in Courtenay, B.C. in the late 1920s. Frederick Schwarze died in 1936 in Nanaimo, at 59 years of age.
Eberhard Schwartz was born in Germany and died in Vancouver. During World War II he was with the Intelligence Corps, and was stationed at the German Prisoner of War Camp at Farnham, Quebec between 1943 and 1945.
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.
Photographer. Owned and operated Schiffer Studio on Seymour Street.
Sandy Sanderson was born Arthur Eric Sanderson on June 24, 1914 in Winnipeg, Manitoba to parents Arthur Edward Sanderson and Clara Louise Sanderson. Sanderson moved as an infant to Pitt Meadows, BC where he attended primary education, Burnaby South High School, and Vancouver College. He started his career in high school working as a carrier for the Vancouver Province. Upon graduation, he joined the Canadian Press (CP) and worked across Canada (Edmonton, Winnipeg and Toronto) as editor and writer for CP for fourteen years. He then joined the Vancouver Daily Province news staff in 1947, and then went on to hold major editorial positions with several BC newspapers: Victoria Colonist; Vancouver Sun; Vancouver News Herald (1950-1952); and Prince Rupert Daily News (1952-1954). Sanderson returned to Vancouver as provincial editor of the Canadian Press in 1955 and in the same year was appointed Director of News and Special Events for CKWX Radio, Vancouver (1955-1959), where he remained for four years. Sandy took a brief respite from the media field in 1959, but after two years working for Great West Life Insurance, he joined the Vancouver Times in 1961 as executive editor. After the Times short, but illustrious history as the West's first daily offset colour newspaper, Sandy was appointed Instructor of Journalism at Vancouver City College (1965-1966), where he remained for one year. Later, he was appointed Managing Editor of the Financial Record and, in 1967, took over as Editor of the Lions Gate Times, a weekly newspaper in West Vancouver. In 1969 Sanderson joined the Surrey Herald as editor. Then in June 1971, in partnership with Theresa Evans (owner of Four Star Graphics, a typesetting and graphics company, Theresa became the co-publisher, advertising director, and business manager of Sanderson Publications), he purchased Dogwood Trails, which later became known as Hospitality Canada. Hospitality Canada became one of Sanderson Publications most important and widely read publications. Hospitality Canada was a privately owned tabloid newspaper, published monthly in Vancouver, which was directed to every segment of the hospitality industry in Western Canada. Sanderson Publications also took over publication of the B.C. Hotelman magazine, the official publication of the B.C. Hotels Association, and the thirty year old B.C. Municipal Year Book, a reference book for civic and municipal officials, from Mitchell Press Ltd. Sandy and Theresa continued publishing Hospitality Canada for thirteen years, when it ceased publication. Sandy and Theresa quickly began publishing a new magazine titled Canadian Hospitality in the 1980s. Sanderson Publications also published the official newsletter of the British Columbia Chefs' Association.
Sandy won many awards as a writer for Canadian Press and won a Columbia University award for news coverage while at CKWX. At the Lions Gate Times, Sandy won the top awards in Canada for best all-round weekly with a circulation of over 6000, best editorial page, best front page, best make-up, and the Community Service Award. In 1972, he was presented the Scribe award by the Canadian Federation of Chefs de Cuisine for outstanding achievement rendered to the chefs of Canada. Sandy was also named Media Man of the Year by the Canadian Restaurant Association, B.C.-Yukon Region, for unbiased, timely and factual reporting.
Sandy was a founder of the Toronto Press Club, a founder and past president of the Newsmen's Club of B.C., and an honourary member of the B.C. Chefs Association and the B.C. branch of the Food Service Executives Association.
Sandy married the former Claudea McMullen of Calgary, and they had three children, Patricia, Rick, and Theresa. Sandy Sanderson died on August 20, 1988. Sandy was still working and publishing Canadian Hospitality and the British Columbia Chefs' Association Newsletter until his death, after which his partner Theresa continued their work with Sanderson Publications and the hospitality industry.
Phyllis Salter was the daughter of Evelyn Salter (nee Morley) and Percy John ("P.J.") Salter. Her siblings were Muriel and Audrey Salter. At the age of seven, she won a scholarship offered by the Canadian Academy of Music. After several years of intensive study, she was taken under the wing of the celebrated pianist Jan Cherniavsky. She later won a scholarship that enabled her to study under the pianist Sigismund Stojowski. Salter took part in numerous recitals in both Canada and the United States, appeared as a soloist with distinguished conductors, and in 1960 made an extensive tour through Europe, which included a performance at Wigmore Hall in London, England. She was an Associate of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, as well as a Licentiate of the Associated Board of the Royal Academy and the Royal College of Music in London. The Trinity College of Music in London awarded her a fellowship. As a teacher, she was known for showing the same dedication to her students as that which marked her career as a performer.
Operated a photography studio in Burslem in Staffordshire, England.
Victor Calhoun Russell was a commercial photographer in Vancouver and operated the Circle Studio located at 1245 Kingsway.
Margaret Rushton was a native of Wigan, Lancashire. She was active in PTA work in Vancouver during the early 1950s.
Phyllis Marie Gregory was born in 1903 in Rossland, British Columbia, the daughter of a Nova Scotia miner. She graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1925 with a BA, first class honours, in Economics and Political Science. During that year she won the Susan B. Anthony Fellowship to Bryn Mawr and completed her master's degree. Under another scholarship award, she continued to study at the London School of Economics. In 1928, she married Leonard Hugh Turner in England, but returned to Canada with her two children after her husband's death in 1932. She joined the Canadian Tariff Board in 1934 in Ottawa, and at the outbreak of war was seconded to the Wartime Prices and Trade Board, where she became Economic Advisor, and later Oils and Fats Administrator, the most senior woman in the Canadian public service. In 1945, she married Frank Mackenzie Ross, a Scottish-born Vancouver industrialist, who in 1955 was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of B.C. A member of the U.B.C. Senate since 1951, Phyllis Ross was elected Chancellor in 1961. She was extremely active for over 30 years in a variety of cultural, medical and church organizations in B.C. As a result of her work and dedication, she was the recipient of many awards, including the Service Medal of the Order of Canada in 1967. Phyllis Ross died in 1988 and was survived by her son, the Rt. Hon. John N. Turner, and daughter, Brenda Norris.
The architectural firm Ross A. Lort Architect grew out of the firm Maclure and Lort (which itself was a descendant of the firm Maclure & Fox). With the death of Samuel Maclure in 1929, Ross Lort assumed the Vancouver office of the firm in his own name, changing the name of the practice to reflect this.
The firm's principal work was residential: homes and apartment buildings in a variety of styles. In the later years of his practice, he expanded into smaller commercial, arts and medical facilities, and churches.
In 1959, Ross Lort's son, William Lort, joined the firm. Ross Lort continued to practice until just 1967.