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 20 kilometres (12 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.
Haida Gwaii is an archipelago located between 55–125 km (34–78 mi) off the northern Pacific coast of Canada. The islands are separated from the mainland to the east by the shallow Hecate Strait. Queen Charlotte Sound lies to the south,with Vancouver Island beyond. To the north,the disputed Dixon Entrance separates Haida Gwaii from the Alexander Archipelago in the U.S. state of Alaska.
Robert Charles Davidson LL. D. D.F.A.,is a Canadian artist of Haida heritage. Davidson's Haida name is G̲uud San Glans,which means "Eagle of the Dawn". He is a leading figure in the renaissance of Haida art and culture. He lives in White Rock,British Columbia.
Charles Edenshaw was a Haida artist from Haida Gwaii,British Columbia. He is known for his woodcarving,argillite carving,jewellery,and painting. His style was known for its originality and innovative narrative forms,created while adhering to the principles of formline art characteristic of Haida art. In 1902,the ethnographer and collector Charles F. Newcombe called Edenshaw “the best carver in wood and stone now living.”
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas is a visual artist,author,and public speaker. His work has been seen in public spaces,museums,galleries and private collections across globe. Institutional collections include the British Museum,Metropolitan Museum of Art,Seattle Art Museum and Vancouver Art Gallery.
Jim Hart is a Canadian and Haida artist and a chief of the Haida Nation.
Bernard Joseph Crespi is an American professor of evolutionary biology at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia,Canada. His research focuses on social evolution across multiple scales,using genetic and ecological approaches. He is one of the initiators of the imprinted brain hypothesis.
Yuezhi Zhao is a Canadian sociologist. She is a Canada Research Chair in Communication and Media Studies and the founder of the Global Media Monitoring Laboratory at Simon Fraser University. Her research takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the relationship between communication and policy in US-China relations,which she regularly publishes research in both English and Chinese,and she is a noted commentator on the policies pursued by the People's Republic of China.
Dadens (daa.adans),also referred to as Tartenee and Tatense by some early European settlers and Tatense Reserve 16 under the Indian Act is village on the southern coast of Langara Island belonging to the Haida Nation on the archipelago Haida Gwaii,British Columbia,Canada. Dadens was once a popular trading post for the North Pacific fur trade among European traders in the late 18th century,due to its size and accessibility. Dadens no longer continues to be used by families year round,but it was used as a fishing village during the summer months by many Haida up until the 1950s and 1960s,and is still used to a limited extent today. There have been multiple migrations of families from Dadens to South East Alaska and these people are now known as the Kiagani Haida.
Edge of the Knife is a 2018 Canadian drama film co-directed by Gwaai Edenshaw and Helen Haig-Brown. It is the first feature film spoken only in the Haida language. Set in 19th-century Haida Gwaii,it tells the classic Haida story of a traumatized and stranded man transformed into Gaagiixiid,the wildman.
Anne Katherine Salomon is a Canadian applied marine ecologist. She is an associate professor with the School of Resource and Environmental Management in the Faculty of Environment at Simon Fraser University. In 2019,Salomon was elected a Member of the College of New Scholars,Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada.
Tania Marjorie Bubela is a professor and dean in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University.
Martin Ester is a Canadian-German Full Professor of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University. His research focuses on researcher data mining and machine learning.
Nicholas K. Blomley is a British-Canadian legal geographer. He is a Professor and former Chair of Geography at Simon Fraser University.
Thelma Finlayson was a Canadian entomologist. She was one of the first female scientists to work at a federal government's research branch and was Simon Fraser University's first professor emerita upon her retirement in 1979.
Patricia May Mooney is a Professor Emerita of Physics at Simon Fraser University. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada,Materials Research Society,the American Association for the Advancement of Science,and the American Physical Society.
Susan A. O'Neill is a Professor in Music Education and Equity Studies and Dean in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University (SFU).
Claire Georgina Cupples is a Canadian microbiologist. She is a Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Simon Fraser University. Her research focuses on the causes,consequences and prevention of mutations in microbes and in humans.
Lara Beth Aknin is a Canadian social psychologist. She is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Simon Fraser University and a Distinguished University Professor.
Marianne Boelscher Ignace is a Canadian linguist and anthropologist. Married into the Shuswap people,she is a Full professor in the departments of Linguistics and Indigenous Studies at Simon Fraser University (SFU),and Director of SFU's Indigenous Languages Program and First Nations Language Centre. In 2020,Ignace was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada for her work in revitalizing and preserving indigenous languages.
