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Haig-Brown, Roderick Langmere, 1908-1976

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  • 1908-1976

Roderick Langmere Haig-Brown was born 21 February 1908 in Lancing, Sussex to Alan Haig-Brown and Violet Mary Pope. In 1918 Alan, an officer in the British Army, was killed in action in France. Beginning in 1921 Haig-Brown attended Charterhouse School in Godalming, Surrey where his grandfather had been headmaster. Haig-Brown was later expelled, and in 1926 his parents sent him to Seattle to work at a logging camp. The following year, with his visa having expired, he moved to Vancouver Island and for three years worked at a logging camp at Nimpkish Lake. In 1931 he returned to London for and published his first book, Silver: The Life of an Atlantic Salmon. The following year he returned to British Columbia and in 1934 married Ann Elmore of Seattle. The couple settled in Campbell River and had four children, Valerie, Mary, Alan, and Celia. Throughout the rest of his life Haig-Brown wrote extensively on topics related to nature, fishing, and conservation, publishing 23 books. In 1953 the University of British Columbia granted him an honorary Doctor of Laws, and from 1970 to 1973 he served as the Chancellor of the University of Victoria. Haig-Brown died 9 October 1976 at age 68.

Phillips, Paul, 1933-2012

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  • 1933-2012

Paul Gwyn Phillips was born 14 January 1933 in Cheltenham, Wales and grew up in Builth. Phillips’s parents were market gardeners and also operated a small hotel. In 1958 he moved to Toronto, shortly thereafter to Vancouver, to London, England for a time, and then to the United States. Having become a banjoist and folk musician, Phillips performed at the Century 21 Exhibition in Seattle in 1962. During this time he also performed with Pete Seeger and Phil Ochs. After speaking at an anti-Vietnam War rally in Joliet, Indiana in 1967, he was arrested at his home in California by the FBI, charged with sedition, and forced to return to Canada. After living in Vancouver for a short while, Phillips moved to Victoria and in 1970 founded the Amor de Cosmos Food Cooperative. During the 1970s Phillips devoted much of his time to protecting heritage buildings and fighting new development in Fernwood. At various times he served as the director of the Fernwood Community Association and the Neighbourhood Improvement Program. In the 1980s he also helped to develop the Fernwood Solar Farm.

Phillips was married for a time in the 1960s to Cheryl _____, with whom he had one daughter, Olwen. He died 17 May 2012 at age 79. The main hall at the Fernwood Community Association is now called Paul Phillips Hall in his honour.

Wade, John Howard, 1914-1997

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  • 1914-1997

John Howard Wade was born 23 March 1914 in Singapore (then part of the Straits Settlements). Educated at Bedford School in England, Wade graduated from the Architectural Association in 1936, shortly thereafter began work with Connell Ward and Lucas in London, and in 1938 became a junior partner with Guy Morgan and Partners. While at Morgan, Wade was responsible for designing a factory for Phillips and Powis Aircraft. In 1939 Wade immigrated to Canada, settling in Vancouver where he got a job with Edmund Dewitt King (1885-1969). On 25 November 1939 Wade married Margaret Towle Taylor (1916-2003), the daughter of Alfred James Towle Taylor (1887-1945), the engineer and businessman responsible for building Vancouver's Lion's Gate Bridge. For two months in the summer of 1939 Wade worked in California for Richard Neutra. After War broke out in September 1939, Wade left his job as an architect and enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy. Wade served five years as a Lieutenant-Commander, R.C.N.R., including three afloat aboard destroyers, minesweepers, and corvettes. While in the Navy Wade met Studley Patrick Birley who was also an architect. Following the War Wade had intended to return to Guy Morgan and Partners in London, however, Lord Beaverbrook (William Aitken) suggested he remain in Canada due to conditions in England. Wade was then approached by Birley about forming a new practice, which they did, naming it Birley and Wade. A few months later Charles Dexter Stockdill – a 1938 graduate of the University of Manitoba – joined the firm, which became Birley Wade and Stockdill. In 1950 Birley left the firm. Wade and Stockdill subsequently added two partners: John W. Armour (1927-1986) in 1953, and Peter Blewett (1932-1999) in 1964. In 1974 Wade Stockdill Armour and Blewett split into separate Victoria and Vancouver branches. The Victoria branch became known as Wade Williams, adding as a partner British-born architect Terence John Williams, who had joined the firm in 1971.

John and Margaret had four children: sons Matthew, Simon, and Andrew, and daughter Margo. The Wades lived in a 1922 house at 1538 Beach Drive in Oak Bay, named Bide-a-Wee, which was designed by Samuel Maclure. John Wade retired in 1991 and died in Victoria on 3 November 1997 at age 83.

Griffin, Edward

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  • 1935-

Edward “Ted” Griffin is the founder and former owner of Seattle Marine Aquarium who launched the orca capture industry in the Pacific Northwest in the 1960s. In 1965, Griffin purchased and transported “Namu,” an orca caught in fishing nets in British Columbia, to Seattle Aquarium where Griffin trained the animal to perform and swim with humans. Following Namu’s capture, Griffin and his business partner, Don Goldsberry, went on to pioneer orca capture methods and supply oceanariums around the world with the whales. In 1972, Griffin retired from orca captures but remains heavily involved and interested in various marine mammal research projects.

Food Not Bombs (Organization)

  • Entidade coletiva
  • 1980-

Food Not Bombs is a loose-knit group of independent collectives, sharing free vegan and vegetarian food with others.

Thorson, Helga

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Dr. Helga Thorson is an Associate Professor at the University of Victoria (UVic) and Chair of Germanic and Slavic Studies department. She is a co-founder of the I-witness Holocaust Field School at UVic, which takes students to different sites across Central Europe to explore how the Holocaust is memorialized at various historical sites, monuments, and museums.
Thorson initiated the Local Stories of the Holocaust project alongside Andrea van Noord and Jason Michaud (two former field school participants), and Dr. Richard Kool (Royal Roads University; former president of the Victoria Holocaust Remembrance and Education Society). She has led the collection of materials since the project's inception.

Maslovat, Julius

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  • 1942 -

Julius Maslovat was born in Poland to parents David and Sarah Henechowicz, a Jewish couple who named him Yidele. Both of his parents were killed in the Holocaust. As an infant and toddler, he was held in the concentration camps of Buchenwald and subsequently Bergen-Belsen. After World War II ended, he was adopted by a Swedish family and was renamed Julius Maslovat. He originally trained as a professional engineer in Europe before he established himself in Victoria, B.C. in 1998, where he pursued sculpture and became very involved in the local arts community.

Kool, Richard

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Dr. Richard Kool is a professor at Royal Roads University in the school of Environment and Sustainability and has published works in the domains of natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities. He is the son of a Holocaust survivor, and is an active member and a past-president of the Victoria Holocaust Remembrance and Education Society.

Charles, Carl

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  • 1916 -

Carl Charles (birth name Karl Chain Feingold) was a Jewish man born on June 10th, 1916 in Prambachkirchen, Upper Austria. His family moved to Vienna around 1919. Carl had physical altercations with some Nazis in 1936, putting his life in danger and causing him to flee to Czechoslovakia before Hitler arrived in Vienna. He had to travel to Bruno and then to Poland before he was able to secure a Visa and go to England. He was able to work in England for a time, but he was later interned. While in the camps, he had the opportunity to join the British Army. His name was Anglicized to Carl Charles when he entered the army in order to add a level of protection against the Nazis.

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