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Louis Zukofsky (January 23, 1904 May 12, 1978) was one of the most important second-generation American modernist poets. He was co-founder and primary theorist of the Objectivist group and was to be an important influence on subsequent generations of poets in America and abroad. New York-born, of Lithuanian Jewish parents, he studied English at Columbia, graduating with a Master's degree in 1924. He began writing at university and joined the college literary society as well as publishing poems in student magazines. One early poem was published in Poetry but never reprinted. In 1934, Zukofsky got a research job with the Works Projects Administration (WPA), a position he held until 1942, working on a history of American handicrafts. In 1933 He met Celia Thaew and they were married six years later. The Zukofskys had one child, Paul, born in 1943, who went on to become a prominent violinist and conductor. In 1943 Zukofsky left the WPA to work as a substitute public school teacher and a technical writer. In 1947, he took a job as an instructor in the English Department of the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, and he taught there until his retirement in 1966. Although Zukofsky lived in New York City for most of his life, in 1972 the Zukofskys moved to Port Jefferson, New York, on Long Island. Zukofsky died there in 1978. In his early years, Zukofsky was a committed Marxist. While he associated with Party members and published in Party-associated magazines, his poetry, which while strongly political was resolutely avant-garde and difficult, found little favor in Party circles. Though Zukofsky considered himself a Marxist at least through the end of the 1930s, the focus of his work after 1940 turned from the political to the domestic. Ezra Pound, who Zukofsky considered the most important living poet, promoted Zukofsky's work, putting him in contact with other like-minded poets, including William Carlos Williams. Zukofsky was one of the founders of the Objectivist group of poets and of To Publishers, later the Objectivist Press, along with Charles Reznikoff and George Oppen. (Other poets associated with this group included Williams, Basil Bunting, Lorine Niedecker, Carl Rakosi, Charles Reznikoff and Kenneth Rexroth.) Having suffered critical neglect for most of his career, Zukofsky, along with the other Objectivists, was rediscovered by the Black Mountain and Beat poets in the 1960s. In the 1970s, Zukofsky was a major influence on many of the Language poets, particularly in their formalism.

Holocaust survivor Pichos Zozulya (b. 1913; d. 1976) was a Ukrainian Jew and among the first Jewish people to return to his hometown of Chudnov, Ukraine after the war. He married Miriam (née Kaliko); they emigrated from Ukraine in 1984. After 1944, Zozulya wrote letters to his children and grandchildren explaining what had happened to him and what the fate of their relatives had been.

Carolyn Zonailo was born January 21, 1947, in Vancouver, British Columbia. Zonailos paternal great-grandparents were among the 7,500 Doukhobors who came to Canada from Georgia, Russia, in 1899. She is the daughter of Matt Zonailo, a builder and electrician from Castlegar, British Columbia, and Anne Gibb, who immigrated to Canada from Scotland as a young child. Zonailo attended primary and secondary school in Vancouver, B.C. She attended Scripps College in Claremont, California, as well as the University of Rochester in New York. In 1971, Zonailo received a Bachelor of Arts in literature from the University of British Columbia. From the mid 1970s, Zonailo published her poetry in literary magazines, periodicals and anthologies. In 1975, she began studies at Simon Fraser University at Burnaby, British Columbia, and completed a Master of Arts degree in 1980. Zonailo founded Caitlin Press in 1977 and published books of poetry and fiction until 1990. During this period, Caitlin Press published several other west coast poets including Elizabeth Gourlay, David West, Cathy Ford, Beth Jankola, Carole Itter, Norm Sibum, David Conn, Ajmer Rode, and Mona Fertig. In April, 1991, Caitlin Press was sold to Cynthia Wilson and Ken Carling, who relocated the press to Prince George, British Columbia, and changed its scope to fiction, non-fiction, and poetry primarily related to the interior region of British Columbia. In 1991, Zonailo began collaborating with graphic artist and poet Ed Varney to publish poetry broadsides, pamphlets, chapbooks and two anthologies under the imprint the Poem Factory/Usine de Poeme. Their collaboration continued through 1999. Zonailo has served on the board of several writers organizations including the Federation of British Columbia Writers, the League of Canadian Poets, and the Writers Union of Canada. In 1995, Zonailo married poet and teacher Stephen Morrissey and in 2000, they founded Coracle Press. Zonailos interest in mythology, archetypal studies, and Jungian psychology has been incorporated into her writing. Zonailo also writes and lectures in mythology and astrology under the name Carolyn Joyce. Carolyn Zonailo lives in Montreal, Quebec, with her husband, Stephen Morrissey.

Leon M. Zolbrod was a pioneer scholar of traditional Japanese literature who first came into contact with Japan during his service with the American military in 1948 and later taught English there. Zolbrod earned his MA and PhD degrees in Japanese literature from Columbia after which he taught at the Universities of Indiana and then Kansas before moving to the University of British Columbia in 1967 where he taught Japanese language and literature for twenty three years. Much of Zolbrod’s research and publication activities focussed on making the literature of Edo Japan more accessible to Western audiences. His first book was "Takizawa Bakin" (1967) and he later edited and translated "Ugetsu Monogatari" (1975). Zolbrod completed a major study tentatively entitled "Reluctant Genius: The Life and Work of Buson, a Japanese Master of Haiku and Painting" which was not published. Leon Zolbrod passed away in Vancouver on April 16, 1991.

Zion United Church had its roots in the American Presbyterian Church. In 1892, a church building was opened at Princess St. and Jackson Avenue. In 1898, the congregation merged with First Presbyterian Church at Gore and Hastings (now First United). Former Zion members left and re-organized as Knox Independent Presbyterian Church, and bought the old First Presbyterian Church building at Main and Cordova Streets. In 1902, the church members entered the Congregational Church of Canada and became Knox Congregational Church. A new building was opened in 1915 at Broadway and Woodland, and the congregation changed its name to Grandview Congregational Church. The congregation entered Church Union in 1925, as Zion United Church. The Rev. Charles E. Batzold served for 23 years as its first minister. In 1958, Zion and Trinity United Church amalgamated to form Trinity-Zion United Church. The Trinity building was used until a new church could be erected, at which point the name of the congregation was changed to Lakeview United Church.

Silverton was visited by both Methodist and Presbyterian missionaries in the early 1890s. In 1897 Zion Community Church was erected in Silverton for use by all denominations. In 1903, Sandon, Silverton and New Denver were united to form one charge called the New Denver Pastoral Charge. In 1925 after Church Union, Zion Community Church became known as Zion United Church. From 1925 until 1941 Silverton, Sandon and New Denver were part of the New Denver Pastoral Charge. Silverton was part of the Nakusp-New Denver Pastoral Charge from 1942 to 1964. From 1965 to 1984 Silverton was part of the Arrow Lakes-Slocan Pastoral Charge which included Arrow Park, Burton, Edgewood, Nakusp and New Denver. In 1985 Silverton became part of the Kootenay-Slocan Pastoral Charge with New Denver, Kaslo and Procter. Zion United Church continues today to serve the people of Silverton.

Zion United Church was established in 1925 with the union of Zion Presbyterian Church (founded 1892) and Ashcroft Methodist Church (founded 1897). From 1954 to 1958, the Charge included St. Andrew's United Church (Lillooet, B.C.) and was known as the Ashcroft-Lillooet Pastoral Charge. Congregations which are now closed, but which formerly were part of the Charge, are St. John's (Clinton, B.C., 1925-2011); Spences Bridge (1926-1977); Walhachin (1929-1959); and Cache Creek (1958-1973). Keefers, Savona, and North Bend were also points of the original Ashcroft Pastoral Charge. Since 2011, Ashcroft has been a single point charge.

Methodist Church services began in the Armstrong area as early as 1883. By 1891, the Shuswap and Okanagan Highway reached into the valley, and the population of the area grew, as did the Methodist church membership. An increase in church membership resulted in the building of the Armstrong Methodist church. The church was dedicated on December 11, 1892. The Armstrong Methodist congregation was originally part of the Spallumcheen Pastoral Charge which included Enderby, Landsdowne, Schuberts (or Round Prairie), Pleasant Valley, Vernon (then known as Priests' Valley), Mission and Grand Prairie. By 1896 the mission field of Spallumcheen was divided into two parts. Armstrong, Enderby and North as one point and the southern portion from Vernon southward, as the second point. In 1911 Armstrong Methodist Church became a separate charge. Presbyterian services in the Armstrong area date back to 1886. Services were originally held in the Armstrong Methodist church until the Zion Presbyterian Church was opened on January 5, 1902. The Methodist and Presbyterian congregations entered church union in 1925, with services being held in the former Presbyterian church building.

Professor Jacob Zilber taught creative writing at the University of British Columbia from 1957 to 1989. He served as chairman of the University of British Columbia’s Creative Writing Committee prior to the establishment of UBC’s Department of Creative Writing in 1965. Zilber was also one of the founders of UBC’s "Prism" magazine and served as its editor from 1966 to 1973.
Jacob Zilber was born on May 15, 1924 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. He completed his undergraduate education at the University of Wisconsin in 1948 where he earned Honors in General Scholarship. He went on to earn a Masters of Arts from the University of Washington in 1957. Zilber joined UBC’s Department of English in 1957 as a Lecturer until 1962 when he became an Assistant Professor. In 1965 he held the position of Associate Professor and become a full Professor by 1975.
Zilber held memberships in various professional and learned societies such as CAUT and the UBC Faculty Association. He was also a member of the Industrial Workers of the World, the first director of the B.C. Writers Service and served as a judge for the ACTRA awards.
As a prolific writer, Zilber’s literary work has appeared in various Canadian and American magazines while his plays have been presented in Vancouver and off-Broadway in New York. A co-written screenplay, "The Inbreaker" (1974), became a feature film produced by the Bob Elliott Film Company of Vancouver.
Professor Jacob Zilber retired from teaching in 1989 and remains active in the field of creative writing.

Ernest Zemke was a US Army soldier stationed in Fort St. John and involved in the construction of the Alaska Highway, 1942-1943. Zemke and other US Army personnel were sent to Dawson Creek from Fort St. John to assist in fighting the Dawson Creek fire of March, 1943.

Dr. Ludmila Zeldowicz (1905–1991) was a Polish Holocaust survivor and refugee who emigrated to Canada in 1947. She and her husband, Henry Zeldowicz (1906–1986), were separated during the war and each believed the other dead but were reunited when Ludmila's friend found a note on a Red Cross bulletin stating Henry Zeldowicz had been seen in Palestine with the British Army.

After her arrival in Canada, Ludmila worked as a clinical assistant professor of neurology at UBC. Ludmila died in 1991.

Victor A. Zanadvoraff (1902-1981) was an engineer on the Jordan River hydroelectric project on Vancouver Island.

Joseph Zabudney was born in Zelenchi in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire on 1 January, 1896. He arrived in Prince Rupert in 1926 and his wife Anna Sysac, born in Ukraine on 5 September 1908, arrived previously in 1923. The couple had one daughter, Olga, who was born in July 1927. Joseph and Anna became naturalized citizens on 21 January, 1929. Joseph worked for the Canadian Pacific Railway in the Bridge and Building Department and Anna worked as a shoreworker in the fishing industry. The Zabudneys lived at 212 5th Avenue West and later moved to 1009 2nd Avenue West. After high school, Olga enrolled in business courses at St. Joseph's Academy and graduated in 1946. After this, she worked for the Ministry of Forests. In the 1960s she married Ray Giordano and throughout her life taught piano lessons, participated in the Prince Rupert Garden Club, and was active in the local Canadian Arthritis and Rheumatism Society. Joseph died on 9 July, 1979 at age 83, Olga died on 12 January, 1988 at age 60, and Anna died on 21 July, 1992 at age 83. Ray Giordano died on 12 August, 1998 at age 71.