Simon Fraser University (SFU) is a public research university in British Columbia,Canada,with three campuses,all in Greater Vancouver:Burnaby,Surrey,and Vancouver. The 170-hectare (420-acre) main Burnaby campus on Burnaby Mountain,located 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from downtown Vancouver,was established in 1965 and comprises more than 30,000 students and 160,000 alumni. The university was created in an effort to expand higher education across Canada.
Rosemary Brown was a Canadian politician. She was the first black woman elected to the provincial government of British Columbia.
Iona Victoria Campagnolo,is a Canadian politician who served as the 27th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia from 2001 to 2007;Campagnolo was the first woman to hold that office. Prior to becoming Lieutenant Governor,she was a Cabinet member in the Liberal government of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
Richard Marvin Hansen is a Canadian track and field athlete,activist,and philanthropist for people with disabilities. Following a pickup truck crash at the age of 15,Hansen sustained a spinal cord injury and became a paraplegic. Hansen is most famous for his Man in Motion World Tour,in which he circled the globe in a wheelchair to raise funds for charity. He was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 2006. He was one of the final torchbearers in the 1988 Winter Olympics and the 2010 Winter Olympics. He was profiled and spoke during the 2010 Winter Paralympics opening ceremony.
Albert Cheng Jing-Han is a Hong Kong Canadian radio host,businessman,politician and a Fellow of The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers,past chairman and present Director of the Aircraft Division. He is now residing in Canada.
Mary Collins,is a Canadian former politician.
Pietro Attilio Calendino is a Canadian provincial and municipal politician currently serving as a city councillor for Burnaby City Council.
Mobina S. B. Jaffer is a Canadian Senator representing British Columbia.
Penny Priddy is a politician from British Columbia (BC),Canada. She served as member of Parliament (MP) from 2006 to 2008,representing the electoral district of Surrey North in the House of Commons of Canada. Prior to that,she was a Surrey city councillor (2002-2005),a member of the BC legislature representing Surrey-Newton (1991-2001),and a trustee with the Surrey School District (1986-1991). She is the only woman in Canadian history to be elected to school board,city council,a provincial legislature and the House of Commons.
Donald Blake Rix,was a Canadian pathologist,philanthropist,community volunteer,and businessman. He was the founder and chair of MDS Metro Laboratory Services,the largest private medical laboratory in Western Canada.
Andrew J. Petter is a former academic and provincial politician in British Columbia,Canada. He represented the electoral district of Saanich South in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1991 to 2001. A member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party caucus,he served in various cabinet posts under premiers Mike Harcourt,Glen Clark,Dan Miller and Ujjal Dosanjh,including as Attorney General of British Columbia from February to November 2000.
Rudy Buttignol is a Canadian television network executive and entrepreneur. Buttignol was the president and CEO of British Columbia's Knowledge Network,BC's public broadcaster,from 2007 until June 2022. He was also president of Canadian subscription television channel BBC Kids from 2011 until it ceased operations in 2018.
Jane Jae Kyung Shin is a Canadian academic and former politician who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the 2013 provincial election. She is currently the Vice-President,Students &Community Development at Vancouver Community College.
Maria W. Tippett D.C.L. LL. D. DLitt is a Canadian historian specialising in Canadian art history. Her 1979 biography of Emily Carr won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction.
The Society for Canadian Women in Science and Technology (SCWIST),founded in Vancouver,BC in 1981,is a not-for-profit organization that promotes,encourages and empowers women and girls in science,engineering and technology.
Terry Beech is a Canadian politician who has served as Member of Parliament for the federal electoral district of Burnaby North—Seymour in the House of Commons of Canada since 2015. Beech serves as minister for the newly created portfolio of citizen services since 2023. Prior,he served as Parliamentary Secretary to a number of Liberal cabinet ministers,including Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland since 2021.
Peter M. Brown,is a Canadian businessman. He founded Canaccord Financial,which has become the largest independent investment dealer in Canada. He retired in 2014.
Anne Kang is a Canadian politician who has represented the electoral district of Burnaby-Deer Lake in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia since 2017. A member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party caucus,she has served in the cabinet of British Columbia since 2020,currently as Minister of Municipal Affairs. Prior to her election as Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA),Kang served as a city councillor in Burnaby for three terms.
Zainub Verjee CM,DFA LL. D. DFA DFA is a Kenya-born Canadian video artist,curator,writer,arts administrator and public intellectual. She began her career in the Vancouver arts community of the 1970s,which was steeped in interdisciplinary,intermedia,and intercultural practices. Having made her mark as an emerging artist,she shifted the emphasis of her work to curatorial,administrative and policy arenas. Applying the insight,creativity and criticality of an artist,she has brought “institutional critique”into the workings of the institution itself. Deeply engaged with the UK’s British Black Arts,Tactical Video Movement,Third Cinema and the post-Bandung Conference decolonization,Verjee has been embedded in the history of women’s labour in British Columbia. In February 2020 she was awarded the 2020 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts for “outstanding contribution to the arts”. In 2021 she was conferred an honorary doctorate by the OCAD University recognizing her outstanding contribution to arts,racial and gender equity She was elected as a Senior Fellow of the Massey College at University of Toronto in the fall of 2021. Earlier she was appointed as McLaughlin College Fellow at the York University. In 2022 she was conferred Doctor of Fine Arts,honoris causa,by Nova Scotia College of Art and Design NSCAD University,Halifax She was the recipient of the honorary degree of Doctor of Fine Arts given by Simon Fraser University,Burnaby in the Spring Convocation of 2023.Her contribution to the pioneering prison theatre program in Canada and for integral role in the formation of the British Columbia Arts Council was recognized by University of Victoria by conferring her with an honorary degree of Doctor of Fine Arts in Spring Convocation in 2023.
Doris Shadbolt,née Meisel LL. D. D.F.A. was an art historian,author,curator,cultural bureaucrat,educator and philanthropist who had an important impact on the development of Canadian art and culture.
