Emily Pauline Johnson (also known in Mohawk as Tekahionwake ), commonly known as E. Pauline Johnson or Pauline Johnson, was a Canadian writer and performer who became popular in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. She was born on 10 March, 1861, at her family's home at the Six Nations reserve outside of Brantford, Ontario. Her father was a Mohawk hereditary clan chief and her mother a native of England who immigrated to the United States as a child. Johnson and her siblings were all encouraged to learn about both sides of their heritage; it is said that the stories and influence of her paternal grandfather, Chief John Smoke Johnson, inspired her work as a poet and performer. She was also encouraged to read widely and became familiar with many classic and contemporary literary works.

Johnson began composing, performing and publishing prolifically at an early age. She was notable for poems and performances that celebrated her Indigenous heritage, developing a stage persona that, in the first act, incorporated many of her family's traditional Mohawk cultural artifacts. For the second act she would change into modern dress and recite her works of Victorian themes. Throughout the 1880's and 1890's she toured extensively throughout Canada, the United States and Great Britain, becoming known as a contributor to the Canadian literary identity. While her notoriety and influence waned for a time following her death, there has been a recent resurgence of interest in her works and she is now acknowledged as a key player in both the oral and written cultural traditions of Canadian and Indigenous history.

Johnson retired from performing in 1909 and relocated from Winnipeg to Vancouver, British Columbia. She continued to write and publish, primarily stories told to her by local First Nations friends. Already a lover of nature, she came to love the city's expansive Stanley Park, which featured in some of her writings.

E. Pauline Johnson died of breast cancer on 07 March, 1913. Her ashes were buried in Stanley Park. In 1922, a monument was erected at her burial site. In 1961 a Canadian stamp was issued on the centennial of her birth, which is commonly credited with the revival of interest in her works. She has since been named a Person of National Historic Significance, likewise, her ancestral home has been designated a National Historic Site and is now a public museum.

John Andrew Forin (July 20, 1861-September 14, 1957) was prominent British Columbia judge directly involved in some of the legal battles fought by Doukhobors in British Columbia during the 1920. Originally from Ontario, he practiced law in New Westminster from 1891-1895 and in 1886 was appointed Country Court judge for the Kootenay/West Kootenay District. He presided as a judge until his retirement from the bench in 1928. Fortin and his wife Mary Dunn has three daughters and two sons, Isabel, jean Mollie, Douglas and Peter.

Judith Rose Margolick was born in Montréal, Québec in 1947. She studied with Elsie Salomons, Seda Zaré and Sonia Chamberlain, and completed intensive summer training at the American School of Ballet, the Banff Centre, and the National Ballet School. From 1962 to 1965, she attended the Royal Ballet School in London. Twenty-five years of performing with dance companies followed, including with the Sadler’s Well’s Royal Ballet touring company; Les Grands Ballets Canadiens; Ballets de Génève; Bat-Dor Dance Company of Israel; Festival Ballet of Canada; and Ballet Rambert in London.
Judith began choreographing professionally in 1974, when she created Fusion for the Oakland Ballet where she was guesting as a soloist. Her 1976 Four Working Songs performed by members of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens led to her Chalmers Award for Excellence in Choreography. In 1976, after moving from London to Vancouver, BC, she began an extensive period of freelance performing and choreographing. She created over a hundred new works for dance, theatre, film and opera across the country and abroad, including works for Dancemakers, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Pacific Ballet Theatre, Goh Ballet, Vancouver Opera, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Les Ballet Jazz, the Shaw Festival, Stratford Festivals, the Banff Centre, Nederlands Dans Theater, and the National Ballet of Portugal. In 1978, Judith was awarded Canada’s other major choreographic award, the Clifford E. Lee.
In 1979 Judith created the Judith Marcuse Dance Projects Society, the organization that would serve as the administrative structure for her work over the coming decades. In 1984 Judith and her colleagues launched The Repertory Dance Company of Canada, a more permanent touring ensemble, which toured nationally and aboard over the following 17 years. Choreography was by Judith and many others, including choreographers such as Lar Lubavitch, Mark Morris, Ohad Naharin, Robert North, Christopher House, Danny Grossman, Grant Strate, Michael Trent and Serge Bennethan.
During the 1990s, Judith began to experiment with new structures and expanded her interest in producing festivals, cross-discipline arts production, and community-engaged creation. She produced the KISS Project, a multi-arts outreach and education project that was presented over several seasons, and collaborated with teenagers to reflect their worlds through their own sensibilities: the ICE, FIRE and EARTH projects. JMP received hundreds of letters from youth, parents and professional youth workers commending the collaborative projects. Expanding upon her socially engaged artwork, Judith spearheaded The Earth Project International Symposium in 2004 and the EARTH: The World Urban Festival in 2006, as well as publishing case studies on socially engaged art, and co-directing a video documentary called Dancing through Pain. She has also taught, presented and consulted overseas (eventually including Pakistan, India, Vietnam, Colombia, Ecuador, Japan, Finland, Holland, Ireland, South and West Africa and in the USA), mentored and taught hundreds of artists and students, and sat on many boards.
In 2000, Judith received an honorary doctor of laws degree from Simon Fraser University for her contributions to the arts. In 2009, she was recipient of the Jacqueline Lemieux Prize given by the Canada Council and, in 2011, she was elected a Senior Fellow of Ashoka International. In 2008, JMP entered into a partnership with Simon Fraser University (SFU) to create the International Centre of Art for Social Change (ICASC), a global hub for professional development and research on art for social change. In 2013, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada awarded ICASC a grant of $2.5 million for the five-year research initiative. In 2016, she launched a unique, two-year Master’s of Education program in Art for Social Change at Simon Fraser University.

Kate Braid is a Vancouver poet, carpenter, trade unionist and educator. Born in Calgary, Alberta and raised in Montreal, Que, Braid received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and history from Mount Allison University in 1967.

In 1979 she earned her Master of Arts degree in the Communications Department at Simon Fraser University with a thesis entitled Invisible Women: Women in Non-Traditional Occupations in B.C. Meanwhile, she had begun working in the construction industry herself, and in 1983 received her Interprovincial Trades Qualification and Apprenticeship Certificate (Red Seal) for carpentry construction from the Pacific Vocational Institute (later renamed the British Columbia Institute of Technology or BCIT). She was the first woman member of the Vancouver local of the International Carpenters' Union (Local 452, later 1995). In 1997 she earned her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia.

She continued to work in trades until 1989, forming her own company, Sisters Construction (1983-1987). Kate Braid was a founding member of the Vancouver Women in Trades Association, an advocacy and support organization that existed from 1979 to 1987.

Braid has written extensively on women and trades, including two booklets profiling Canadian tradeswomen for the Women's Bureau of Labour Canada. In addition, she prepared radio documentaries for the CBC's Ideas radio program. She has taught numerous courses and workshops since 1980, and in 1989 became the first full-time woman instructor in construction carpentry at BCIT. From 1991 to 1995, as Director of Labour Programs at SFU, she served as a liaison between academia and labour. Braid has also taught creative writing at Malaspina College (now Vancouver Island University), SFU and UBC.

Her poems and other writings have appeared in many journals and anthologies, and have been broadcast on radio and television. Her first collection of her poetry, Covering Rough Ground, won the Pat Lowther Memorial Prize in 1991. Her next collection, To this Cedar Fountain, was shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 1995. Her other publications include: Red Bait: Struggles of a Mine Local (1998), Inward to the Bones: Georgia O'Keeffe's Journey with Emily Carr (1998), Emily Carr: Rebel Artist (2000), In Fine Form: The Canadian Book of Form Poetry (2005), A Well-Mannered Storm: the Glenn Gould poems (2008), Turning Left to the Ladies (2009), and her prose memoir "Journeywoman: Swinging a Hammer in a Man's World" (2012).

She and her partner live in Vancouver, BC.

The Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony is a scholarly research and archival project directed by Dr. Ele Chenier of Simon Fraser University. Founded in 2010, the project aims to collect, preserve, and provide access to materials that bear witness to the histories and lives of lesbians. The project received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research council in 2013.

John Mills is a British-born, Vancouver-based novelist. He taught in the English Department at Simon Fraser University from the mid-1960s through 1990s. His major published works include "Runner in the Dark", "land of is", and "Thank You Mother for the Rabbits".

Irving Layton, OC (March 12, 1912 January 4, 2006) was an award-winning Montreal-based Canadian poet, author of more than forty books. Raymond Jennings is with the Philosophy Department at Simon Fraser University. As an undergraduate student at Queen's University, Jennings studied the work of Irving Layton.

Frankland Wilmot Davey (born April 19, 1940) is a Canadian poet and scholar/critic and an important figure in the countrys post-modern literary scene. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, he attended the University of British Columbia where he was one of the founding editors of the poetry journal TISH and also edited the journal OPEN LETTER. In 1968, he received a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. He then became a professor at York University in Toronto. He currently lives in Strathroy, Ontario. He has published numerous volumes of poetry, as well as monographs on Margaret Atwood and Earle Birney and other non-fiction works.