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Director and actor Sydney Risk was born in Vancouver in 1908 and died in 1985. He studied at the University of British Columbia, and acted in the Players Club, succeeding Frederic Wood as director in 1930. In 1933 he went to London to study acting at the Old Vic, under the direction of Sir William…
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Jessie Richardson was an extraordinary individual whose supportive involvement in Vancouver theatre spanned over four decades. She began in the 1930s, in the Vancouver Little Theatre Association, where she acted, directed, and designed costumes. In the mid-50s, she helped to form the children’s touring company Holiday Theatre with Joy Coghill and Myra Benson, which later…
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Bill Richardson was born in Winnipeg in 1955. In 1976, Bill received his B.A. from the University of Winnipeg. He graduated with a Master of Library Sciences at UBC in 1980. He then worked as a children’s librarian for six years, before turning to writing and broadcasting. He has written more than a dozen books including “Bachelor Brother’s Bed &…
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A Vancouver native, Dal Richards established his musical home in Vancouver before graduating from Magee High School where he formed a band in the late 1930s. By 1941 he was leading his band at Vancouver’s most popular dance venue, the Panorama Roof at the Hotel Vancouver. The Roof and the band became the centre of…
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Country music trio formed in 1946 in New Westminster, BC, by the accordionist and baritone Marc Wald (born in North Dakota (1922), the bass player and tenor Mike Ferbey (born in Saskatoon (1926), and the guitarist and tenor Jack Jensen (born in  Prince Rupert, BC, (1925).  Patterning their style after the Sons of the Pioneers,…
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