Category: Inductees

John Francis “Jack” Cullen was born in 1922. Jack Cullen enrolled in the Sprott-Shaw School of Commerce and Radio in Vancouver in 1945 after a tour of duty as a radio operator in the Canadian Navy. He began as a news announcer and then deejay at CJAV in Port Alberni, B.C. in November 1946. In…
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Bernard Cuffling has been a part of Vancouver’s theatre scene for almost 50 years.

Wayne Cox has been a broadcaster since 1968. He was a deejay and radio talk host in Quesnel for CKCQ from 1968 to 69, Kelowna CHNL 1970-71 and many other Vancouver radio and television stations. He hosted the afternoon slot on CKNW from 1971 to 1978, as well as host of Wednesday Night Hockey telecasts 1977-78. He was also a…
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Jane (Austin) Coop. Pianist, teacher, b Saint John, NB, 18 Apr 1950.  She won the CBC Talent Festival in 1970, the W.O. Forsyth Memorial Scholarship (for study in Europe) in 1971, and the Baldwin Prize in the Maryland International Piano Competition in 1972. She made her debut at the St Lawrence Centre in 1973. Between…
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Born on June 16th. 1928 in Bucharest, Rumania, Sergiu Comissiona was a conductor and violinist, who was Music Director for the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, from 1991 to 2000.  He began studying the violin at the age of five and was subsequently hired by the Romanian State Ensemble in his teens, making his debut at 17.…
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