Arthur Erickson: Immigration

Jade Peony Dept: Syd Thompson union man : When Syd talked, people listened. They had no choice. Mr. Thompson’s booming voice could make babies cry. When he spoke at a podium, he turned the mike away from him. Head of IWA Local 217 and the Vancouver Labour Council for many years, he was a union leader of the old school. I remember Syd’s voice thundering out of a closed door meeting with forest company negotiators at the Hotel Vancouver. “I’m a simple man,” he bellowed. “And there’s only one way to resolve this thing, and that’s to put your goddamned money on the table!” They did, according to Globe And Mail. Arthur Erickson architect : Whenever I notice a leak in the courthouse, curse the oddball elevator system there or get lost in the maze of corridors at Simon Fraser University, I think of Arthur Erickson. But he was our most renowned architect, and, near the end of his life, he set his mind to, of all things, designing a 10-storey building in the heart of the Downtown Eastside to house the difficult. Far more interesting than building condominiums for the wealthy, Mr. Erickson observed and pavel Bure hockey player : Say what you will about his short stay and the kind of guy he was, the Russian Rocket was by far the most exciting player ever to lace up skates for the Vancouver Canucks. In the Canucks’ heart-stopping drive for the Stanley Cup in 1994, Mr. Bure recorded 31 points in 24 games, including his memorable breakaway goal to eliminate the Calgary Flames in sudden-death overtime. Wayson Choy novelist : No one has depicted life in Chinatown and adjacent Strathcona during the Depression better than Mr. Choy in his evocative novel The Jade Peony . I know. My mother told me so. She was there, as a recent immigrant from Finland, living with her parents, who ran a boarding house on Heatley Avenue. When Mr. Choy wrote about the legendary “Miss Doyle” of Strathcona Public School, my mother could relate. She had Miss Doyle, too. “It brought back a lot of memories,” my mother said. Good memories. As reported in the news.
@t simon fraser university, pavel bure