Susan Walsh received a Master's degree from SFU in 1984 for her thesis entitled "Equality, Emancipation and a More Just World: Leading Women in the British Columbia Cooperative Commonwealth Federation." In the abstract to her thesis, Walsh writes, "In the wake of suffrage victories, many early twentieth century Canadian women worked hard to make that equality meaningful and to extend it to all areas of women's lives. For those who predicted great changes, however, too few took their hard-earned rights further than the polling station. Most expressed their concerns and goals within the more familiar world of women's organizations. Helena Gutteridge, Laura Jamieson, Dorothy Steeves and Grace MacInnis were among the notable exceptions. While maintaining important ties with women's groups, they sought and won public office, pioneering important paths for generations of Canadian women to follow. These political trail blazers stand out for another important reason. They chose to establish their careers and test their political rights in a socialist party -- the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation -- pledged to sexual emancipation and equal opportunities for women. They were, in short, dual rebels -- as feminists and socialists -- in a sex and class-ordered world."

Judge Carl Ian Walker worked as a lawyer, magistrate and provincial court judge in Squamish, B.C. from 1958 until his retirement in 1997. He was a bagpiper and a prominent member of the B.C. Pipers' Association.

Anne Waldman, born April 2, 1945, in Millville, New Jersey, graduated from Bennington College in 1966. In 1966 she founded Angel Hair Magazine, with Lewis Warsh. Later that same year, she began working for the Poetry Project in New York City. She was a founding member of the Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, a section of the Naropa Institute at Boulder, Colorado, where she taught and directed the Summer Writing Program. Waldman is the author of over 40 publications of poetry. She is a recipient of the Shelley Memorial Award for Poetry and has been deemed a “counter-cultural” giant by Publisher’s Weekly. She is recipient of the 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship.