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Maria W. Tippett was a Canadian historian born December 9, 1944 in Victoria, British Columbia. Tippett graduated from Victoria High School in 1962. Following this she traveled in Europe and the Middle East from 1964 to 1966 and for a time worked in Berlin for the American government as a translator. When she returned to Canada she began her bachelor’s degree at Simon Fraser University, graduating in 1972. She later completed her master’s degree at the University of Cambridge, and in 1982 earned her Ph.D. from the University of London. Her thesis was published in 1984 as Art at the Service of War: Canada, Art, and the Great War. From 1977 to 1986 she lectured at the University of Victoria, University of British Columbia, and Emily Carr Institute, and for the 1986-87 academic year served as the Robarts Professor of Canadian Studies at York University. Between 1995 and 2004 she was a Senior Research Fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge. Dr. Tippett wrote extensively on British Colombian and Canadian art, culture, and history. She is perhaps best-known for her 1979 work Emily Carr, A Biography, for which she received the Governor General’s Award. Additionally, she has written biographies of Frederick Varley, Bill Reid, and Yousuf Karsh.

Tippett was also a consultant and television presenter for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the British Broadcasting Corporation. In 1998, Tippett was appointed to The Canadian Memorial Foundation, Canada House in London, where she was a member of the board until 2005. In 2010 she was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. From 2012 to 2019, she was a member of the Craigdarroch Research Awards Committee at the University of Victoria and also a member of the President's Advisory Committee and the Dean of Fine and Performing Arts' Advisory Committee at the same institution. In 2021 Tippett became a member of the Advisory Board of The British Columbia Review and in 2023 joined the board of the British Columbia and Yukon Book Prizes.

Tippett married the American-born historian and professor Douglas Lowell Cole (1938-1997) in 1971, with whom she co-authored a book in 1977 about paintings of the B.C landscape. The couple divorced in 1978. In 1991 she married the English historian Peter Frederick Clarke (1942-) whom she met while at Cambridge. Maria lived with Peter on Pender Island, British Columbia and also near Cambridge, UK. Maria died on August 8, 2024, following a cancer diagnosis two months prior.

Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge (born Margot Elena Gertrude Taylor; 8 March 1887 – 24 September 1963) was a British sculptor and translator.

Marion Cumming was an Oak Bay artist, environmentalist and activist.

Frank Cassidy (1946-2007) was a professor in the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria, and specialized in the history of First Nations self-government. Among his works are Proud Past: A History of the Wet'suwet'en of Moricetown, B.C. (1980), On the Inherent Jurisdiction of Indian Governments (1987), After Native Claims? The Implications of Comprehensive Claims Settlements for Natural Resources in British Columbia (1988), Indian Government: Its Meaning in Practice (1989), and The Spirit of Sparrow: Aboriginal Rights and the Constitution (1990). In 1969 Cassidy married Maureen Kulbaitis (1944-1996), with whom he was a member of the April Third Movement while at Stanford University. The couple had two children, Amy and Megan. Following Maureen’s death he married a second time, to Carol. Cassidy died on 30 September 2007, after having suffered a stroke in 2004.

Leonhard Epp (1932-2018) was a ceramicist who spent most of his career in Falkland, B.C., with his wife, artist Ann Kipling. He was born near Heidelberg, Germany, and took a stonework certification before arriving in Canada in 1951. He attended the Vancouver School of Art (now Emily Carr University of Art and Design) from 1956 to 1960 and later taught sculpture and ceramics there, from 1962 to 1972. Leonhard and Ann moved to Falkland in 1973, where he remained until his death. He exhibited at the Vernon, Kelowna, and Kamloops Art Galleries. His last exhibition before his death was in 2008 at the Vernon Art Gallery.

Ann Kipling was a Canadian artist best known for her impressionistic portraits and landscapes. Kipling was born in Victoria, B.C., and studied at the Vancouver School of Art (now Emily Carr University of Art and Design) from 1955 to 1960. Kipling lived in Falkland, B.C., for 45 years with her husband, ceramicist Leonhard Epp, and much of her famous landscape work drew on their home’s natural scenery. Her work has been featured in galleries and museums across Canada and overseas, including the West Vancouver Art Gallery, and the British Museum. She was awarded numerous grants from Canadian institutions, was the first recipient of the prestigious Audain Prize for the Visual Arts in 2004, and received an honorary doctorate from Emily Carr University in 2008.