Theodore Francis Adams was born April 7, 1899 in Winnipeg Manitoba. He moved with his family to North Enderby in 1912, where he stayed with his relatives, the William Jones family. In 1912 his father Frank purchased a house on Granville St. in Enderby. Theodore Adams married Georgina Broom in 1921 and they had 3 daughters: Kathleen, Marjorie, and Francis. He was the manager/owner of the Enderby Opera House, 1921-1922. He was on the Enderby hockey team in 1922 when they won the Coy Cup; his nickname became "Mosie". After working in Vancouver and Alberta, he returned to Enderby to manage the Enderby Creamery, 1924 to 1928. The family moved to Vernon, where he worked as a car salesman for Vernon Garage. Theodore Adams returned to the Enderby area when he owned Hupel Store and Garage, 1947-1954.
The Most Reverend Walter Robert Adams was born in London, England, on September 1, 1877. A first class Honours mathematical scholar at University College, Durham, he was ordained deacon in 1901 and priest in 1905. After parish work in England, he answered a call to Canada and served as a missionary in the Diocese of Qu' Appelle, Saskatchewan (1907-1912). He returned to England and was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Archbishop of Canterbury. This was followed by an academic career. In 1925, Reverend. W.R. Adams returned to Canada as the first Bishop of Cariboo (1925-1934). In 1933 he was elected Bishop of Kootenay (1934-1947) and for two years, 1933-1934, he looked after both dioceses - Cariboo and Kootenay. He guided the diocese of Kootenay during the difficult years of the depression and World War II when he had also the responsibility of ministering to the large number of Japanese displaced from the coastal areas of British Columbia. In 1942 he became the third Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia (1942-1951) while continuing his diocesan duties. In 1947 he became Archbishop of Yukon (1947-1952) just after that diocese was transferred from Rupert's Land to British Columbia. While in this position, he was also Acting Primate of the whole Canadian Church (1950-1951). He relinquished his duties in 1952 and retired in Vernon, B.C. where he lived until 1957. His funeral service was held in Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver, and he was buried in Lambeth Parish Church, England. The Most Reverend Walter Robert Adams had an active episcopal career, as well as the unusual distinction of serving three dioceses in the province of British Columbia, as Metropolitan for eight years, and as Acting Primate for one year.
Dorothea Larsen Adaskin was married to Murray Adaskin (1906-2002), noted Canadian violinist and composer. From 1952 to 1966 Adaskin was Head of of Music at the University of Saskatchewan. In 1959, Adaskin was instrumental in arranging for the purchase by the University of a rare Amati quartet of instruments, made in Italy from 1606 to 1690, from Stephen Kolbinson, an internationally known collector. The instruments include two violins, one viola, and one cello. In 1993, Dorothea Adaskin collected copies of letters, news items and programmes from Murray Adaskin's files documenting the story of the transaction, and sent copies of the "notebook of file material" to the University of Saskatchewan, the University of Victoria, the Lafayette String Quartet, and the National Library of Canada.
Born in 1900 at Ridgetown, Ontario, the daughter of Dr. Del and Eunice Marr, Frances was the eldest of three siblings. Although the family was shaken by the death of her younger brother Charles at the age of three, and despite an early problem with stuttering, Frances Marr remained a positive and optimistic person, devoted to her father and fascinated with the piano. Frances began playing the piano at an early age under the tutelage of Whitney Scherer. Later she would study with Thomas Martin at Alma College in St. Thomas. Eventually, Frances moved to Toronto to study at the Conservatory of Music under Paul Wells. Although she felt her study under Wells was unproductive, it was at this time that she had the opportunity to play her first professional accompanist engagement. At this engagement, she was to meet her future husband, Harry Adaskin, whom she would marry in 1926. Initially, Frances would accompany her new husband and his band, the Hart House String Quartet, on their many tours throughout North America and Europe. In 1938, Harry Adaskin quit the quartet, and he and Frances began to tour, with Frances' piano the sole accompaniment to Harry's violin. During this period, she would strike out on her own, appearing in the ensemble music and comedy act "The Town Tonics".
In 1946 the couple, along with Harry's younger half-brother Gordon, whom the couple raised as a son, moved to Vancouver. Harry was offered a job with the new Music Department at The University of British Columbia, and Frances was to accompany him to every class until his retirement in 1973. Interestingly, Frances Adaskin played her first solo recital at the age of 75 and continued to play until shortly before her 90th birthday.
Frances Adaskin's accomplishments in music are many. However, she was an entertaining writer writing humorous anecdotes and stories. Many of which were published by Saturday Night Magazine in the 1940s. She also wrote her memoirs, entitled "Fran's Scrapbook: A Talking Dream," " in book form, which, as of 2002, remains unpublished. The crowning achievement of a lifetime of artistic achievement occurred in 1976 when Frances was awarded the Order of Canada. Frances Adaskin died in 2001.
Born the brother of musician Harry Adaskin, Gordon was adopted by Harry and his wife Frances at the age of five, after his father's death. Although Gordon's birth mother, Rifle, was still alive, she allowed the Adaskins to adopt Gordon, following the elder Adaskin's dying wish. Gordon moved to Vancouver in 1946 and attended University Hill Junior School. He would forego his final year at University Hill in order to attend the Vancouver Art School. Subsequently, Gordon toured Europe, paying particular attention to the museums and galleries of Italy. Upon his return to Canada, Adaskin went to the Alberta College of Art and was soon hired to teach at the University of Manitoba in the Faculty of Architecture, where he remained for over twenty-five years. His artwork was regularly exhibited at the university, as well as in touring shows, two of which visited Vancouver, the home of his parents.
Adaskin, a visual artist, was also an interviewer and commentator on art and artists. He interviewed many of the leading Canadian artists of the mid-twentieth century, including B.C. Binning and Jack Shadbolt. In the early 1990s, Gordon moved to Gibsons, British Columbia and married Jan Busch, his second wife, in April 1997. Gordon Adaskin died in December 2001.
Harry Adaskin was born in Riga, Latvia, in 1901, and later emigrated with his family to Toronto. As a child, he learned to play the violin, and at the age of twelve, he entered the Toronto Conservatory of Music. In 1923 he and three colleagues formed the Hart House String Quartet, in which Adaskin played the second violin. Sponsored by Vincent and Alice Massey, it was the first Canadian musical quartet to make an international reputation. The quartet made many concert tours of North America and Europe, and in 1928 played at Maurice Ravel's New York debut. In 1938 he resigned from the quartet, and as a freelance musician, combined musical performance with a broadcasting career. He and his wife, pianist Frances Marr Adaskin, undertook several concert tours throughout Canada and the United States. For several seasons in the 1940's Adaskin was an intermission commentator for the New York Philharmonic Orchestra's Sunday afternoon concerts, heard throughout Canada. He also hosted several CBC Radio programmes, including Musically Speaking and, later, Tuesday Night. In 1946 he became head of the new Department of Music at UBC, a post which he held until 1958 – he continued as a professor until his retirement in 1973. His circle of friends and acquaintances included Emily Carr, members of the "Group of Seven," Vincent Massey, and Frank Lloyd Wright, as well as other prominent artists. Adaskin received the Order of Canada in 1974, and honorary doctorates from Simon Fraser University in 1979 and UBC in 1980. He died in 1994.
Caroline Adderson was born in Edmonton, Alberta in 1963. After finishing high school, she entered Katimavik, a Canadian youth volunteer-service program, and travelled across Canada, partaking in such activities as working on a sheep farm and building log cabins on a reservation. Adderson completed an education degree at UBC in 1986, and a year later she settled in Vancouver and started teaching ESL. She has spent most of her adult life in Vancouver, B.C., but has also lived for brief periods in New Orleans and Toronto. Her first book of short fiction, <i>Bad Imaginings</i> (1993) won the 1994 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, was shortlisted for the 1993 Governor Generals Award and Commonwealth Book Prize, and in audio format the CNIB (Canadian National Institute for the Blind) Talking Book of the Year. These stories have since appeared in many anthologies and have been broadcast and adapted for radio.
Her first novel, <i>A History of Forgetting</i> (1999) was nominated for the 2000 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the 2000 Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize.
Her second novel, <i>Sitting Practice</i> (2003) was shortlisted for the VanCity Book Prize for best book pertaining to women's issues by a B.C. author as well as the City of Vancouver Book Award. It won the 2004 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.
Her works of fiction and non-fiction have been widely published in literary magazines and newspapers. One story, "Oil and Dread", was selected by the <i>Journey Prize Anthology 5</i>. She has three times won prizes in the CBC literary competition. She has had radio plays broadcast on CBC Radio's <i>Morningside</i> and <i>Sunday Showcase</i>, amongst other radio broadcasts.
Her feature-length screenplay <i>Tokyo Cowboy</i> (1994) was the co-winner of the Federal Express Award for Most Popular Canadian Film at the 1994 Vancouver International Film Festival.
Adderson's recent publication <i>Pleased to Meet You</i> (2006), a collection of short fiction, was longlisted for the Giller Prize.
Some of the themes Adderson poignantly illuminates in her work include the endurement of grief and pain in different forms and contexts, the construction and power of memory and its connection to history and freedom, essences, physical movement through time and space, interconnectedness, sexuality, love, and longing.
She is married to film director Bruce Sweeney, and has one son, Patrick
Herbert Addington was a well known photographer and a parishioner of St. Philip's Parish, Vancouver, B.C. He documented important celebrations at Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver, such as: installation of Douglas Hambidge as Bishop of the Diocese of New Westminster (1980) and Metropolitan (1981); Diocesan ordinations held at Christ Church Cathedral (1985-1987); portrait of Archbishop David Somerville taken in 1981 in the same church.
George and Jane Addison (b. 1888) were born in Scotland. Married in 1912, the Addisons came to Nanaimo in 1913 and George initially worked in the coal mines although he was trained as a plumber in Scotland. George eventually set up his own plumbing business in Nanaimo. The Addisons had three children. George Addison was very active in civic affairs and served as a school trustee from 1936 to 1953 and as an alderman from 1941 to 1953. Jane was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star and George was longtime member of the Kiwanis Club, the Grand Lodge AF and AM of Scotland (Freemasons) and on the board at St. Andrew's United Church. George and Jane represented the City of Nanaimo at Queen Elizabeth's coronation in England in 1953.
Al Addison had the undersurface rights to and operated the Big Flame Mine in the Cinnabar Valley from 1955 to 1957. Addison subsequently sold the rights to Doug Webber.
Dr. Lionel Adey was a former professor of English at the University of Victoria and is the author of several books and articles. His writings include: C. S. Lewis's "Great War" with Owen Barfield (1978), Hymns and the Christian "Myth" (1986) Class and idol in the English Hymn (1988), Affirmations (1989) and C. S. Lewis, Writer, Dreamer, and Mentor (1998).
Tamara Adilman was a researcher associated with Simon Fraser University.
Val Adolph was a researcher who actively used oral history techniques.
Adventure Bay was built as an exclusive luxury resort on the shore of Okanagan Lake by Albrecht and Christa von Gadenstedt, who had emigrated to Canada from Germany in 1951. Guests were accomodated in hillside beach houses overlooking the lake, and gourmet meals were served in the resort dining room. Adventure Bay Resort was sold in 1969, and the von Gadenstedt's moved on to other ventures in the Vernon area.
The Advisory Board of Women's Institutes of British Columbia was established in 1911. The board advised the Superintendent of Institutes on issues relating to women and women's institutes.
Albert Edward Hetherington was born in 1867 near Smith’s Falls, Ontario. He grew up in rural Manitoba and attended Wesley College – a Methodist College in Winnipeg – graduating in 1893 with a Bachelor of Arts. He undertook theological studies at Victoria College and, upon graduating with a Bachelor of Divinity, was ordained in 1898. The Methodist Church stationed him as assistant to the Rev. James Turner as a missionary to gold miners in Dawson City (then part of BC Conference). After three years in the north, he held several pastorates within BC, including one in Kamloops and three in Vancouver: Mount Pleasant, Trinity, and Chown. He served also as Superintendent of Central City Mission, and for two years was acting principal of Columbia College in New Westminster. He pursued further studies in Hebrew and religious education at the University of Chicago and at Harvard, earning a Master of Sacred Theology from Harvard. In 1919, he returned to Manitoba to become Secretary of Young People’s Work, and lecturer in religious education at Wesley College. By 1921, he had become a full professor and was also teaching Hebrew. The College awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1925. After Church Union, he served on the United Church’s Board of Religious Education. In his final year of life, he traveled to Egypt and Palestine. Hetherington married twice: first to Stella Alberta Swan, who died in 1903, and to Ethel Mae Sim in 1911. A.E. Hetherington died on December 18, 1928 in Winnipeg.
Edward (Ted) Lloyd Affleck was born on April 5, 1924 in Nelson, BC and died in Vancouver in 2003. He was married to Jean Galbraith in 1963, remaining married until her death in 1989. They had two children, Carolyn and David. He grew up in Nelson, moved to Vancouver to attend the University of British Columbia, where he graduated with honours in Chemistry. He established the Alexander Nicholls Press.
At university he developed an interest in acting and amateur theatre.