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Corporate body · 1952-

The Air Pollution Control Society (originally the Vancouver Klenair Society) was incorporated in 1952 to promote cleaner atmospheric conditions.

Aitken (family)
Family

The Aitken family has lived in Nanaimo since the late 1800s. As a young man, Thomas Morrison Aitken was a baker's assistant but later became a coal miner. Thomas married Mary Margaret Greenwell on October 1, 1902. Their son, Isaac, was also a miner. Thomas died in Nanaimo on November 19, 1952 at the age of 73. Mary died on January 21, 1966 at the age of 80.

Aitken, George, 1885-1955
Person · 1885-1955

George Aitken was Chief Geographer of the Survey Branch, Department of Lands.

Corporate body · 1909-

A.J. King and Company, Butcher, also known as the Hedley Meat Market, was originally opened in Hedley, B.C., in 1909. It was later owned by R.J. Edmond.

Akatsuka, Shokichi
Person · 1870-1951

Shokichi Akatsuka was born December 25, 1870 in Japan, arriving in Canada in 1907. Places that he lived included Hawaii and Vancouver. Akatsuka lived in Vancouver at 453 Powell Street above the "Hori Store". During the Internment era, he moved to Lillooet, B.C. Akatsuka graduated from a school of photography, and was a professional photographer. He was also a manager of a bowling alley. Akatsuka was married to Kuma Nakamura and cared for his foster son and grand nephew, George Kurokawa. Shokichi Akatsuka passed away April 19, 1951.

University of British Columbia Archives · Person · 1913-2001

Born in Calgary in 1913, George Philip Vernon Akrigg received a B.A. (1937) and M.A. (1940) from the University of British Columbia and his Ph.D. from the University of California (1944). He began his UBC teaching career in the Dept. of English in 1941. The author of many scholarly articles and books, Akrigg continued his research in British Columbia history after his retirement in 1978. He died in 2001.

Akrigg, Helen B., 1921-
University of British Columbia Archives · Person · 1921-

Helen Manning was born in Prince Rupert in 1921, grew up in Victoria and attended UBC in Vancouver for her third and fourth years. She earned a B.A in 1943. At UBC she met and married Philip Akrigg [1913-2001] who taught in the English Department. Akrigg wrote her Master's Thesis on the History and Economic Development of the Shuswap Area in 1964. The couple had three children, Marian, Daphne and Mark. They owned a lakeshore lot on Shuswap Lake at Celista and spent summers there.

The Akriggs co-authored 1001 British Columbia Place Names, British Columbia Place Names and two volumes of British Columbia Chronicle.

Akroyd, Jack, 1921-1996
Person · 1921-1996

Jack Akroyd (Born Halifax, Yorks, UK, 1921; died Vancouver, BC, Canada, March 4, 1996) began working as a railroad engineering apprentice in England in the 1930s. Soon after the start of World War II he joined the Royal Air Force and spent six years as an aircraft mechanic. He volunteered for overseas service and was sent to Canada.

At wars end, and once again a civilian, Akroyd tried to enrol in art school. All the places were taken by other ex-servicemen, so Akroyd went back to work in the Locomotive works of the Great Western Railway and took evening art classes at a local college.

In the years following the war, governments of Commonwealth countries such as Australia, New Zealand and Canada advertised in the United Kingdom for immigrants with suitable trades. Akroyd arrived in Ontario in the depths of winter and began work as a machinist in the CNR roundhouse at Capreol. After eighteen months in the job, Akroyd quit to enrol in the Ontario College of Art in Toronto in 1949. In 1953, upon graduation, he moved to the West Coast where he worked at many things, including caretaker at a Jasper resort hotel. In his spare time and between labouring jobs, Akroyd sketched and painted. Stability came with a fulltime job as a draftsman with a Vancouver consulting engineering firm.

Akroyd is quoted as saying The most exciting thing I did in those years was to visit Japan, a country that I knew very little about. It was during his time in Japan that Akroyd took up photography.

In 1961, Akroyd decided to declare himself a freelance artist and quit the business world. He supported himself by helping local sculptures in their work: casting plaster molds and manufacturing fibreglass figurines; constructing armatures and building scale models. It was during this time that Akroyd supplemented his income by inspecting and repairing Kilns in the art classrooms of Vancouver.

Eventually, he began to support himself through his art works. His work is sought after throughout Canada.

Jack Akroyd died in Vancouver, B.C. on March 4, 1996.

Corporate body · 1978-

Enderby Public School was built in 1902 to accommodate elementary and high school students. In 1913 a brick two-storey building, named Fortune School, was built to replace the small public school. It was known variously as Enderby High School, Enderby Junior Secondary, A.L. Fortune Junior Secondary, and M.V. Beattie Elementary School. In 1978, following a devastating fire, A.L. Fortune Secondary School was built for students grades 8 through 12. The high school served Enderby and District, including the communities of Springbend, Grindrod, Mara, North Enderby, Ashton Creek and Kingfisher.

Alabama Mining Company
Corporate body

The Alabama Mining Company had mining interests in the Cariboo.