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Harold Wilkins researched and gathered material relating to the history of television in Great Britain.

Harvey Southam was born the son of Gordon Thomas and Gertrude Jean (nee MacMillan) Southam. Southam worked as a journalist at the Winnipeg Tribune, Vancouver Province, and Vancouver Sun before serving as a director of a number of Southam companies, including Southam Inc., Southam Printing Ltd., and Coles Book Stores Ltd.

Born in Paterson, New Jersey, Henry Doyle moved with his family to San Francisco in 1875 where his father established the fish supply firm of Henry Doyle and Company. In 1890 the younger Doyle was sent to British Columbia on a mission for his father's firm. In 1895 he became manager of the new Doyle Fishing Company (Canadian Division) in Vancouver. After the death of his father in 1898, Doyle became general manager of the entire company. He was appointed as the first manager of the British Columbia Packers' Association in 1902. Doyle's career in the industry spanned over sixty years, and included positions such as President and General Manager of Skeena River Commercial Company, Limited (beginning 1904), Managing Director of the Fort Nelson Canning and Salting Company (1905), co-operator of the Lighthouse Cannery at Steveston and the Royal Packing Company (beginning 1906), owner of the Mill Bay Cannery and the Namu and Kimsquit canneries (1908-1916), part-owner of Draney Fisheries Ltd. (beginning 1912), and part-owner of the Winch-Doyle Northern B.C. Fisheries (1916-1923). Doyle was also involved with fisheries committees, including the Select Standing Committee on Marine and Fisheries and the Parliamentary Fisheries Committee in the early 1920s. In 1948 Doyle developed an interest in the incursion of hydro-electric dams into sockeye spawning areas. He completed his manuscript Rise and Decline of the Pacific Salmon Fisheries in 1957.

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Hoffmeister Electric Company was founded in 1898 by Reinhart Hoffmeister, an electrical engineer from Wellington County, Ontario. The company, one of the first electric businesses in Vancouver, was originally located at the southwest corner of Davie Street and Howe Street. In 1912, it moved to a new location at 1271 Granville Street.

Hoffmeister Electric specialized in the design, construction, and installation of electric generators. Significant clients of the company included Canadian General Electric, B.C. Sugar Refinery, Vancouver General Hospital in Fairview, Canadian Pacific Railway Company, and more. The company employed roughly half a dozen individuals throughout its lifespan.

Following Reinhart Hoffmeister’s death in 1948, Hoffmeister Electric Company was taken over by Reinhart’s son, Frank Cameron Hoffmeister, and his brother, Jacob Hoffmeister. The business was closed in 1960.

Lodge Linnea No. 76 Lodge No. 76 was organized in Vancouver under the auspices of the Independent Order of Good Templars in 1908. The Scandinavian Canadians were the only ethnic group in Vancouver to organize under the IOGT. Founded in New York State in 1851, the IOGT promoted abstinence and world peace. The movement soon spread to England and Scandinavian countries. In the beginning, the Lodge was primarily concerned itself with the temperance movement. The obligation to abstain from alcohol was a strict condition of membership and those guilty of drinking or having anything to do with alcohol were expelled. The Lodge also organized social functions including literary, musical and cultural programs before disbanding in 1940.

Established in Chicago in 1905, the Industrial Workers of the World sought to unionize industrial workers. The Vancouver branch was founded ca. 1911. After the Branch's demise in the early 1970s, it became active in the 1980s under new leadership.

The American Institute of Electrical Engineers - Vancouver Section, was established in 1911. The Institute, however, was founded in New York City on 13 May 1884 and was incorporated in the State of New York in 1896. The object of the Institute, as stated in the Institute Constitution, Article I, was "the advancement of the theory and practice of Electrical Engineering and of the allied Arts and Sciences and the maintenance of a high professional standing among its members." In the '80s, an international Electrical Exhibition held by the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia at the presence of twenty-five of America's most prominent electrical engineers, including Thomas Edison, Elihu Thomson, and Edwin Houston had raised a call for the formation of a society to promote engineering.

For the purpose of the administration, the membership in the United States and Canada was divided into ten districts. In order to make the members meet and discuss technical matters and to advance the engineering profession through closer cooperation with other engineering societies, a number of local Sections were organized in the leading industrial cities of the United States, Canada and Mexico. The Vancouver section is one of these. In particular, the Vancouver Section aims to provide for electrical engineers in British Columbia and all others interested, a meeting place and forum for the exchange of views. At the beginning the Vancouver Section was part of District 10 (Canada); then, in 1948 the Section decided to be part of the District 9, which embraced sections in the Northwest States. The transfer was opposed by District 10 executives on various counts and caused a second vote on the question that finally was resolved for the transfer from District 10 to District 9. The Sections reported to the Board of Directors, through the Secretary of the Institute. All matters pertaining to membership, appropriations, prizes, etc. were handled between the Section and the Institute Headquarters. Section activities were headed by a chairman and a secretary treasurer and were governed by an executive committee elected by the local membership. These officers were assisted in their administrative duties by Standing Committees. The Executive Meeting was the governing body of the Section and directed the management of its affairs. The Committee consisted of the effective officers including the Chairman, Vice Chairman, Secretary, Treasurer, and any other officers of the Section. Sometimes it included one or more recent Past Chairmen. The Chairman of the Section is the Chairman of the Executive Committee, as well as the Secretary of the Section is the Secretary of the Executive Committee. This committee was responsible for the operations ad progress of the Section and for the expenditure and accounting of all funds. The Chairman was elected for a term of one year as well as the Secretary. It was the Secretary's responsibility to attend all Section meetings and to record the minutes of each meeting. He had then to forward the report of each Section Meeting to the Secretary of the Institute. He was also responsible for securing a copy of the minutes of other meetings from the Secretary of Subsections, Technical Groups, etc. and for forwarding a report of such meetings to the Secretary of the Institute. These reports of meetings were made on special form No. 41, furnished by the Institute. All meetings had to be reported promptly since the money rebated from Headquarters to the Section depended partly on the number of meetings. The Secretary, amongst many other duties, was also responsible for the maintenance of the Section mailing lists and was the custodian of all records of the Section including copies of reports to Headquarters, annual reports of Secretary, Treasurer, etc. The Treasurer was responsible for the payments of all bills and had to prepare an annual report on the finances of the Section. This role was often combined with that of Secretary into Secretary-Treasurer. The Section was responsible for conducting monthly meetings devoted to the presentation and discussion of technical papers, as well as demonstration, inspections or social activities. The Section had also to organise inspection trips occasionally, as well as general social events; basically it coordinated the local activities with the national and international administration. Sections could establish Subsections and Student Branches.

The society merged with the IRE officially in 1 January 1963, to constitute the IEEE.

The Pacific Region of the Insurers' Advisory Organization traces its roots in British Columbia back to 1890 with the formation of B.C. Fire Underwriters' Association and the Vancouver Board of Fire Underwriters. In 1899 the fire insurance companies voted to reorganize their associations and this gave rise to the Mainland Fire Underwriters' Association and the Vancouver Island Fire Underwriters' Association. These two organizations merged in 1920 to form the B.C. Fire Underwriters' Association. In 1927 the BCFUA amalgamated with the B.C. Automobile Underwriters' Association to form the B.C. Underwriters' Association. In 1959 the BCUA became part of the Canadian Underwriters' Association which after a reorganization in 1974 became the Insurers' Advisory Organization.

The International Association of Machinists was organized in the American South and Midwest in the 1880s. The name, IAM, was adopted at a Cleveland convention in 1891. In 1964 IAM incorporated the aerospace workers into an expanding union.