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George Gilbert was an employee of the federal Department of Transport from 1919 to 1952, and was responsible for servicing the wireless and radar equipment at lighthouses and on D.O.T. vessels.

Adam Gillespie was a telegrapher.

Willem Bakhuys Roozeboom (Bill Roozeboom) was born in 1921 in the Netherlands. His father emigrated to Canada in 1923 as a homesteader in Alberta, and was followed in 1925 by his wife and three children, including Bill. 1942, as a Dutch citizen, Bill joined the Netherlands’ military and served in the Air Force. He met Marguerite Goulding following WWII and they were married in 1947. In 1955, Bill was hired as a camera man for Parry Films, and through that role began to develop skills in editing, cinematography, and directing. He started his own business, Bill Roozeboom Productions Ltd., in 1958.

"July 16, 1928 - November 21, 2009." (Victoria Times-Colonist obit.)

James M. Bogyo was a public information officer for the British Columbia Power Commission and Rayonier Canada.

Llewelyn Maddock Parry (1905-1993), known as Lew M. Parry, was British Columbia's most prolific film maker. He was particularly renowned for his industrial films. Born in Lethbridge, Alberta, on October 5th 1905 to Welsh immigrant Henry Miller Parry and his English wife Elsie Ann (nee Brook), Parry became fascinated with motion pictures at an early age. In 1909 his family moved to Nelson B.C. where he watched his father at work as a film projectionist. When the family moved again to Revelstoke in 1910 the boy was a regular at the silent movie showings at the local Star and Empress Theatres. After another move to Vancouver in 1917, Parry began to build the knowledge and skills he would eventually apply to film making. He took private art classes and later, night courses, at the Vancouver School of Art. He also took voice training and tap dancing lessons, and developed a short-lived vaudeville act. While still at school he was allowed to experiment with the equipment of the Daily Sheet Metal Works. He later completed a four year program at the Vancouver Technical School, apprenticed as a tinsmith and worked in the sheet-metal trade for four or five years. On Sept 27th 1930 he married Queenie Lofting in Vancouver. In about 1930 Parry joined Neon Products of Western Canada Ltd. as a designer of neon signs, and two years later became art director. He remained with the company for about sixteen years, devoting his spare time to further developing his knowledge and skills in drama and film with the aim of becoming a film maker. In the early 1930s he joined the Vancouver Little Theatre Association and served as art director and set designer from about 1933 to about 1947. In the mid 1930s he designed for, wrote and directed a few “screen ads” for Motion Screenadz Ltd. owned by Leon C. Shelly, a former associate from Neon Products. In 1936 he married Evelyn Hood Parry in Vancouver. During the Second World War Neon Products secured large contracts to produce specialized equipment for the war effort and Parry developed training films to instruct the large numbers of workers required for these projects. In May 1944 he left Neon Products to begin his career in film, joining Vancouver Motion Pictures as production manager but choosing to remain in Vancouver when the company relocated to Toronto. In 1945 he purchased a film studio at 1685 W. First Ave in Vancouver and on October 9th 1945 incorporated Trans-Canada Films Ltd. In 1946 he completed the film Vancouver Diamond Jubilee with the support of the B.C. Electric Company. This was the first of more than 70 films Parry would produce for the company and its successor, B.C. Hydro. This association launched his career as an industrial film maker and led to work for other prominent clients such as Alcan, MacMillan Bloedel, Marwell Construction, Trans-Canada Airlines and the National Film Board, as well as other companies based in Alberta and Quebec. Trans-Canada Films Ltd. was taken over in 1948 by Don Coltman and Wally Hamilton and eventually turned into a film-processing laboratory. That year Parry bought out North American Productions Ltd. on 2nd Ave in Vancouver, and operated as Lew Parry Film Productions. The studios were later relocated to larger premises on Broadway Avenue. On April 7th 1954 he incorporated a production company called Parry Films Limited (BC Company incorporation number 31697) and in 1956 constructed a film studio on Capilano Road in North Vancouver. On April 29th 1954 Parry, with Homer Powell and CKWZ sound engineer Dave Pomeroy, incorporated a sync-sound film recording, dubbing and editing company called Telesound Film Recordings Limited (BC incorporation number 31806, dissolved September 26th, 1988). With the advent of television Parry started North of 53 TV Limited (BC Company incorporation number 44942, dissolved October 15th 1970), which filmed a pilot episode for a half-hour television series North of 53 in 1959. In 1963 Parry was co-producer and location manager for several episodes of the television program The Littlest Hobo that were shot at his studio by Canamac Pictures. He sold Parry Films Limited in 1963 but continued to make films into the 1970s as a freelance producer under the name Lew Parry Film Productions Ltd. (BC Company incorporation number 63563; incorporated February 25th 1965; dissolved August 17th 1981). When B.C. Hydro started its own internal film unit, Parry was brought on staff, running the department from 1975 to 1978. Lew M. Parry died on May 13th, 1993.

James Gilley was a labourer, drayman, and coal merchant in New Westminster, B.C.

Marjorie Gimse lived in Pemberton, B.C., and was the daughter of G.M. Downton.

Deborah Glassford (nee Leighton) was a resident of Vancouver, B.C.

Jim Ryan was born in Regina, Saskatchewan on December 25, 1920. At the age of fourteen, he left school and took a job as delivery boy for Chicago Photo Supply in downtown Regina. He worked there for six years and learned photographic developing and printing. In 1940 he joined the Royal Canadian Naval Reserve and was assigned to HMCS Naden in Esquimalt, British Columbia. He was active in the United Services lacrosse and hockey teams and soon became a Navy photographer. In 1942 he married Patricia (Patsy) Webster and over the next few years was based variously in Halifax, Victoria and Montreal. Between 1943 and 1948, Jim and Patsy had four children, Donna, Judy, Terry and Jamie. After the war, the family settled in Victoria and Jim transferred from the Naval Reserve to the Royal Canadian Navy. As well as working for the Navy, he worked as a photographer for the Victoria Daily Colonist newspaper. In 1949 he received an honourable discharge from the Navy and joined the Daily Colonist as a full-time newspaper photographer. He worked as a staff photographer until late 1953 when he was fired as a staff member but given a freelance position. He received a weekly retainer from the Colonist in exchange for giving them first choice to use his photographs in the paper. He also did freelance work and had his photographs published in Life Magazine, the Vancouver Sun, the Province, Liberty Magazine, the Toronto Star Weekly and Maclean's Magazine. He separated from Patsy and became involved with Hazel Martin whom he later married. In 1955, Jim became friend and official photographer to Premier W.A.C. Bennett. He took thousands of photographs of Bennett and in 1980 he published a book of them entitled "My Friend, W.A.C. Bennett." His freelance business was very successful throughout the 1950's and eventually Jim formed "Ryan Bros. Photo with his brother, Don Ryan. They handled wedding and portrait work as well as news assignments and political work. They also branched out into film production and made films about Victoria's centennial celebrations in 1962 and BC's centennial celebrations in 1971. In 1973, Jim joined the Victorian, a small Victoria paper which had a brief boom when a printing strike shut down the main Victoria papers. He stayed with the paper until it closed in November 1977. He continued to freelance for other papers and magazines and worked on various books of photographs. He died of cancer on July 4th 1998 in a Victoria hospice.

Joan Goddard was a researcher.

Leon C. Shelly was a Canadian motion picture producer who operated in Vancouver and Toronto. In 1936-37, he assumed control of two Vancouver film companies, Motion Skreenadz and Vancouver Motion Pictures Ltd. Shelly introduced professional colour film production to B.C. in the form of Cinecolor, a bi-pack subtractive colour process. Shelly’s Vancouver companies produced sponsored films for B.C. Packers, the B.C. Government Travel Bureau, B.C. Tree Fruits, Kelly Douglas, and the National Film Board of Canada. The companies also provided service functions such as film processing, titling and sound work, and produced “coming attractions” trailers. Shelly drew on the expertise of local technicians and filmmakers, including Oscar Burritt, Marguerite Goulding (later Roozeboom), Wally Hamilton, Ernie Kirkpatrick, Don Lytle, Lew Parry, and Ed Taylor. In 1945, Shelly opened a “branch plant” in Toronto, and in October 1946 he announced that the entire operation would re-locate there, where it operated as Shelly Films. In 1956, he discontinued most film production to concentrate on the film lab business, including release printing of Hollywood films.

Percy Francis Godenrath was born in Shanghai, China in October 1874. He lived in Victoria for a time working for the Board of Trade. In 1914 he enlisted with the Canadian Expeditionary Force. In 1915, he reenlisted from New Brunswick, along with his wife Eva, who served as a nurse. Godenrath served overseas with various battalions including the Canadian Record Office in London and was promoted to Captain. He was demobilized in December 1919 and was the Officer in charge of the Canadian War Memorials Exhibition. He died in March 1944 and is buried in Mount Royal Cemetery.

Alfred Edmund Booth was an enterprising man who tried several careers before he became a filmmaker. He emigrated from England to British Columbia in 1912 and got his first job surveying for a fruit irrigation company in Kamloops. Shortly after that he worked for several logging operations on the coast. In 1915 he moved to Vancouver where he was employed as head mechanic for a brewery company, a job that he stayed at for over three years. During this time he married Grace Ellen Greer, began a family, and settled in Vancouver. Because of Booth's experience in the automobile business he was asked to organize chapters of the Vancouver Club, forerunner of the B.C. Automobile Association. He was successful and, in the process, learned about road conditions and services for motorists. This knowledge, combined with his enthusiasm for B.C.'s outdoors, led him, in 1928, to found the "B.C. Sportsman Club". The purpose of the club was to promote the development of facilities for fishermen, hunters and other outdoor enthusiasts. To publicize B.C.'s outdoors Booth photographed wildlife and scenery and this led, by happenstance, to motion pictures. In 1929 he entered a contest sponsored by a Minneapolis sports magazine that offered a motion picture camera for the best outdoor photograph. He sent in some photographs and won the prize, a German made 16mm Agfa Ansco camera. From then until the 1950s, when he retired, taking motion pictures and exhibiting them was his main occupation. Booth initially shot film as a hobby, for example, bringing the camera along on his travels to capture scenery and resorts. By the mid 30s he recognized the commercial possibilities of motion picture film. In particular, he thought motion pictures would be a good way to promote British Columbia as a place for tourism, recreation, settlement and investment. Coming from England he was impressed by the natural resources and undeveloped state of his adopted land and identified a need to publicize this potential. In about 1937 Booth formed a company, Travel Films, and set about to market his films. He sought financial support from businessmen and government and was successful in 1939 and 1940 in getting contracts from the British Columbia government. The contracts payed him to take his films on the road and exhibit them across B.C., the prairie provinces and parts of the United States. The government also acquired copies of Booth's films for its promotional library. Booth also shot films for sponsors. This may have been his biggest source of income, but no records survive to show how much. Known sponsors include the Anglican Church's Columbia Coast Mission which contracted him to film its medical and religious services for isolated coastal communities. Other sponsors were, reportedly, the B.C. Tree Fruit Board, Pacific Petroleum of Alberta, Frasea Farms, B.C. Natural Gas, Canadian Scottish Regiment, Canadian Pacific Airlines and the Canadian government. Mining concerns and companies associated with the 1955-56 Ripple Rock project may also have supported some filming. Of the completed sponsored films, only those of Columbia Coast Mission are known with certainty to have survived. Along with the surviving out-takes of other productions, they provide the only confirmation of this kind of filming work. Booth's last known filming was about 1957. After 1957 Booth attempted to get some of his films exhibited, but not with much success. Undoubtedly the availability of films about British Columbia with sound tracks had long undercut his filmmaking. During his retirement he moved to Lillooett for several years, then returned to the coast and lived in a retirement manor until his death in 1977. Both in Lillooet and at the retirement manor he tape recorded reminiscences of his life in British Columbia. The reminiscences reveal his fascination with the history and geography of British Columbia, but they give little detailed explanation of his film work. When he moved to Lillooet his films were taken and cared for by various family members. By then the films were in a very fragmented state, and they were stored unused except for perhaps a few ad hoc family viewings.

John Christie Goodfellow served as Presbyterian minister at Port Moody and Ioco, 1923-1925, and then as United Church minister at Victoria, 1925-1927, and Princeton, 1927-1948. He remained at Princeton until his death. He published several works on the history of the Similkameen area and the history of the United Church in British Columbia. In the 1930s, Goodfellow was secretary of the B.C. Conference Historical Society.

Alice Gordon was a resident of Victoria, B.C., and had friends at the Red Cross outpost at Cecil Lake.

Anne (McQueen) Gordon taught school in Nicola before her marriage. In Victoria, she was involved with community and women's organizations.

George J. Alexander (1891-1980) served in the Provincial Dept. of Fisheries as Assistant Commissioner, and later Deputy Minister, from 1934 until his retirement in 1956. He was also an amateur photographer and filmmaker. Working from his home, he produced at least three completed films for the department, showing various aspects of the commercial salmon fishing industry in B.C. Prior to his public service appointment, Alexander was employed by the Canadian Fishing Company.

William Gordon was charged in connection with the disappearance of his partner, Isaac Jones.

William Sinclair Gore was a land surveyor.

R. Edward Gosnell was the Census Commissioner for the New Westminster District.

John T.E. Gowlland was a sailor who served as assistant master on the Ganges and the Plumper.

Arthur Wellington Clah was a Tsimshian chief, diarist, transporter, prospector, and fishery worker, based at Fort Simpson (later Port Simpson) B.C.