Tag: Deceased

Vancouver freelance writer Chuck Davis is a remarkable generator of lists. No wonder his favourite sport is a game driven by statistics – baseball. His lists quickly develop into book ideas. The lists are then added to the stacks and rows of written material in the large workspace of his home. He has a youthful…
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Kenny Colman’s unique talents as a jazz vocalist have been widely praised by everyone from the New Yorker to the late dean of American jazz critics, Leonard Feather. His list of admirers include the Grammy-winning producer David Foster, producer/composer Johnny Mandel and his long-time friend and mentor, the late Frank Sinatra. Kenny was a fixture…
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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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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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Founder (and leader, until 1929) of the University of British Columbia Players’ Club, the longest running dramatic society in the nation. He was born in Victoria in 1887, and died in 1976. He graduated from McGill University in 1910, taught high school in Victoria for four years, and earned an M.A. from Harvard University in…
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