Category: Inductees

Walter Daroshin is the President of Troika Productions Inc., Chair of The Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Foundation of BC, Founder and President of the Leo Awards, a Director of the Hands in Peace Society (Canada), a Trustee on the Board of the Vancouver Waldorf School and a Member of the Vancouver International Film Festival…
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Website Doug Cox is an extremely talented six-stringer. As a young bluesman, this devotee of bottleneck slide guitar had a life-transforming moment nearly 30 years ago when he first picked up the dobro. That eerie, slightly plangent music resonated deep in his soul and changed everything. Doug is deeply embedded in the entire world of…
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Since arriving in Vancouver as a member of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra in 1953, George Zukerman has successfully maintained two entertainment careers – as a solo bassoonist on the international touring circuit, and as Impresario for Canada’s smaller cities. He was awarded the order of Canada in 1993 and the Order of British Columbia in…
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Norman Young is a legendary figure in the British Columbia entertainment world. He is a renowned local theatre historian and teacher. After graduating from UBC, Young worked as an actor, production manager and design director for various theatre companies and the CBC in Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver and London, England. He returned to UBC as technical director of the new theatre department…
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Ernest Vanderpoel (Eevee) Young  (1879-1955) was born in Florence, Italy of Scottish parents, and began his career on the stage in London in 1906. By 1911, he had relocated to Canada to establish a business career. At the time he commissioned his house, he was an agent for the North Pacific Lumber Company. By the…
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