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Jan Krijff was born in the Netherlands and emigrated to Canada in 1968. He has a BA in Economics from the University of Calgary, and a master’s degree in history, from Leiden University in the Netherlands. Jan has previously published 100 Years Ago: Dutch Immigration to Manitoba in 1893; Een Aangename Vriendschap (An Amicable Friendship); Dutch Gentlemen Adventurers in Canada (with Herman Ganzevoort), and Greetings from Canada: Postcards from Dutch Immigrants to the Netherlands 1884–1915. The latter received an honourable mention for history in the Indie Fab awards.
Karen Green was born in southern Alberta. She has a BA and an LL.B from the University of Alberta, having practiced law in Edmonton and, more recently, in Vancouver where she worked in human resources and labour relations for various organizations. For twelve years, she also served as a part-time chair of review panels under the B.C. Mental Health Act. She is the co-author of Greetings from Canada and contributed to Dutch Gentlemen Adventurers.
Johnny May was born in London, Ontario. There, his love of music blossomed into a successful song-writing career that he balances with his love of telling stories, his work as a physician in Guelph and his volunteer service at medical outreach clinics in Guatemala. He recently released an album entitled Alone In This Together, which is available on iTunes and at www.johnnymaymusic.ca.
His quirky animal characters, inspired by friends and family and influenced by his earlier career as a biologist studying small creatures, were invented to entertain his two young sons. These yarns eventually became the Magnath Chronicles.
Living in the coastal village of Bamfield, B.C., Canada, Louis Druehl is the editor of The New Bamfielder, and is best known for his passion for seaweeds. A professor of marine botany at Simon Fraser University for 36 years, Louis conducted kelp research at the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre, which he was instrumental in establishing in 1968. His immense contributions to kelp research earned him the honour of having a diatom genus and a kelp species named after him. The revised issue (with Bridgette Clarkson) of his best-selling book Pacific Seaweeds Updated and Expanded has won numerous awards.
A Professor Emeritus from SFU, he is continuing to support kelp research as well as harvesting and exporting seaweed products globally with his wife Rae Hopkins.
Louis turned to serious, non-scientific writing after his retirement in 2000. His first novel, Cedar, Salmon and Weed, has earned a place on BC Book’s Map of Literary Fiction.
Jim Elliot was born in a coal-mining town. He attended eleven different schools as his family moved from mining camp to mining camp. Following six years at the University of Alberta, Jim graduated and was ordained as a United Church minister. The next forty years were split between Alberta and British Columbia as he worked in rural areas, suburbs, First Nations communities and finally as head of a large inner-city mission in the downtown eastside of Vancouver. On retirement he moved to the Sunshine Coast, spent some time volunteering with the local hospice community and then joined a writing group. He and his wife, Geniene, have five children and eight delightful grandchildren.
Susan Hyatt has enjoyed making things beautiful since she was a child growing up in the Bahamas, where she was influenced by bright, bold colours and aesthetics. Susan spent more than two decades custom-designing dream weddings in Hawaii, Mexico, the Bahamas and Vancouver.
Her love for design and entertaining sparked the beginning of Tabletops by Susan. It all started with putting together beautiful tables at home for family and friends, but now Susan hopes to inspire everyone to be more creative with how they set their tables. Susan enjoys working with clients at their homes, creating just the right tables for their special occasions or family gatherings. She also loves travelling with her husband Martin and spending time with her amazing children and grandchildren.
For more images of her stunning work, visit her website: www.tabletopsbysusan.com or on her Facebook page.
Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, Michael Frimer attended medical school at the University of Toronto before accepting an internship in general surgery at Vancouver General Hospital, where he became the youngest surgeon in Canada at the time, at age 29. Frimer is an award-winning dark room and large format photographer, with an avid curiosity and desire to tell stories through the process of creativity, often using his images to explore moments captured in time and to observe life as a series of overlapping dimensions that one must look beyond to see life’s bigger picture. He has sung with the University of Toronto choir, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the Cantata singers in Vancouver. A respected surgeon for over 50 years, Frimer retired from practice in 2018.
Bogi Bjarnason was born of Icelandic parents in North Dakota in 1888. Between 1913 and 1927 he owned three Saskatchewan newspapers. During that time he saw action in WWI with the US Army and was gassed twice. Between 1927 and 1945 he lived in Manitoba, where he published two Icelandic papers and the Treherne Times. In 1933 he bought and flew a Pietenpol aircraft. He lived and wrote in Vancouver from 1945 until his death in 1977.
Conrad Romuld was born in 1926 on his parents’ farm in west-central Saskatchewan. The ninth of ten children born to Norwegian immigrant parents, he was young enough to be aware of the hardships and uncertainties that beset his elders during the “dirty thirties,” but was still old enough to enjoy the vibrant community life of rural Saskatchewan. He obtained his Grade Twelve standing largely through independent home study and went on to study English Literature at the University in Saskatchewan and at Leeds University in England. After University, Romuld enjoyed a long and varied career in public education. He and his wife Rita have three daughters and three granddaughters. They currently live in Saskatoon.
Louis Druehl is a splitter of firewood and whacker of brush. He is also the editor of The New Bamfielder newspaper and author of Pacific Seaweeds (Harbour Publishing). As a marine botanist, Dr. Druehl was involved in establishing the Bamfield Marine Station, where he also taught and conducted research.
He created Cedar, Salmon and Weed in his office located in a small shed on the waterfront, looking up each morning to see a young First Nation worker boat by. They would wave to each other and slowly the young man became the novel’s character, Ben.
Gary’s relationship with animals began when he was seven, and soon he was connecting with other like-minded souls around the world. It was many years until he finally established Cinemazoo, a refuge for animals located in Surrey, outside Vancouver. From the 30 years since Cinemazoo was established, the number of exotic animals in his care has risen to over 300.
Eric Wickham was born in the small BC coastal fishing village of Bamfield in 1942. For fifty years he was active in BC’s fishing industry as a commercial fisherman and as an advocate for commercial fishermen in their struggle with big government. He is past president of the Pacific Blackcod Association, the Fishermen’s Abalone Association and the Halibut Fishermen’s Association, and is a past member of the Ministry of Fisheries Advisory Council. He is now retired and lives in Western Australia but returns to British Columbia regularly.
