RCMP CORRUPTION AND THE HIGH COMMISSION STAFF
Below will give you a grand scale of the corruption. W-5 Exposes the inside workings of what the RCMP has been up to. While Canadian authorities are supposed to keep those criminal drug lords out of Canada, but one such immigrant was Lee Chau Ping, a notorious drug trafficker who is known as the Ice Queen.
In 1992, after police raided her labs and one of her safe houses, the Ice Queen got on a plane headed for Canada. It was puzzling as to how known criminals were able to get into Canada, but a little bit of digging by W-5 turned up connections between the Triad members and government officials working inside the Canadian embassy. In fact, according to a person named McAdam, the High Commission staff was on the receiving end of expensive gifts, cocktail parties, yacht trips and visits to the casinos in Macau.
But according to W-5 CBC program goes, the RCMP have been up to other things like, Corruption and cover up
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1080323626556_1/?hub=WFive
And believe this, they the RCMP sure as hell drop the ball on this one aright when high ranking officials are known to be bought off. See W-5's video on the story and were it began.
Video Passport scandal and the RCMP 1
Video Passport scandal and the RCMP 2
Video Passport scandal and the RCMP 3
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http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=960fae93-4b1e-4c59-8c11-72258df2e2d5
OTTAWA -- Members of Parliament are highly critical of the RCMP commissioner, asking if Giuliano Zaccardelli has made the right decisions on border security. Conservative MP Peter MacKay says he's stunned and alarmed to hear that 1,600 vehicles ran the border last year. He notes the border guards' union blames a cutback on RCMP officers at the border for the increasing number of people simply not stopping for inspections. Zaccardelli defended his decisions at the Commons justice committee, saying he has re-deployed officers from detachments he has closed. He says the border is safer. MacKay says the top Mountie's assessment doesn't square with the facts. He says the RCMP is cutting its presence at the border at a time when the U.S. is increasing the number of police at the border.
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According to one of the RCMP's websites, they claim to strive to provide enforcement of offenses pertaining to illegal immigration and misuse of Canadian passports and citizenship documents, but W-5 an CBC program dug up corruption and cover-up.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2005/04/12/993276-sun.html
MacKay wants Mounties off probe
By Bill Rodgers - SUN MEDIA
Canada's national police force can't be trusted to conduct a wide-ranging investigation into new criminal allegations made at the AdScam inquiry, Conservative Deputy Leader Peter MacKay suggested yesterday. He points to RCMP Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli's "perceived" cozy relationship with the government of Jean Chretien and the fact the force was itself tangled up in the sponsorship scandal. "There's already been significant examples of where the RCMP have been too -- and I emphasize too -- closely linked to the Prime Minister's Office," MacKay said, recommending the Quebec or Ontario provincial police conduct a probe instead. Zaccardelli, however, hinted yesterday the Mounties could broaden their investigation into AdScam.
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This is what their website say's, while not doing their jobs, and where corruption is at the highest levels.
What the RCMP are to be doing as law enforcement officials.
Combined Forces Special Enforcement Units (CFSEU)
This unit is made up of officers from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Toronto Police Service (TPS), York Regional Police, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Peel Regional Police working in correlation with Citizen and Immigration Canada, Canada Customs and Revenue Agency (CCRA), Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), the Federal Department of Justice and the Criminal Intelligence Service Ontario (CISO).
The CFSEU investigates, prosecutes, exposes and dismantles organized criminal enterprises. Also, they share intelligence with their partners and cooperate and assist other organized crime units at the national and international levels.
CFSEU is operated out of Cornwall, the GTA and the Golden Horseshoe areas.
For more information on the unit visit their web site www.cfseu.org
Immigration and Passport Sections
The RCMP in partnership with domestic and foreign agencies and the community will strive to provide enforcement of offenses pertaining to illegal immigration and misuse of Canadian passports and citizenship documents.
The following legislation is enforced by the Immigration and Passport Sections:
Immigration Act
Citizenship Act
Passport Offenses Sec 57 Criminal Code
Various Offenses under the Criminal Code, Fraud, Forgery and Uttering
The Toronto West Detachment (Milton) has an Immigration Task Force that assists Citizenship and Immigration in the arrest of individuals and has been very successful in arresting dangerous offenders who are subject to a Deportation Order. These individuals are wanted for or have been convicted of serious crimes. The Toronto West Detachment is also home to an Alien Anti-smuggling Unit.
Undercover Operations
This area is in all avenues of enforcement, conducted towards organized crime and illegal activities
‘O’ Division Drug Enforcement Programs
The aim of the ‘O’ Division Drug Enforcement Program is to prevent the importation, production, traffic and use of illicit drugs. To achieve this objective, investigative resources will focus on high level criminal organizations and individuals involved in the importation of large scale trafficking of drugs, on proceeds of crime and drug prevention. To this end the directorate has maintained a Minimum Priority Enforcement Level (MPEL) that is applicable to all units/sections in the drug program.
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RCMP CORRUPTION AND THE HIGH COMMISSION STAFF
Below will give you a grand scale of the corruption. W-5 Exposes the inside workings of what the RCMP has been up to. While Canadian authorities are supposed to keep those criminal drug lords out of Canada, but one such immigrant was Lee Chau Ping, a notorious drug trafficker who is known as the Ice Queen.
In 1992, after police raided her labs and one of her safe houses, the Ice Queen got on a plane headed for Canada. It was puzzling as to how known criminals were able to get into Canada, but a little bit of digging by W-5 turned up connections between the Triad members and government officials working inside the Canadian embassy. In fact, according to a person named McAdam, the High Commission staff was on the receiving end of expensive gifts, cocktail parties, yacht trips and visits to the casinos in Macau.
But according to W-5 CBC program goes, the RCMP have been up to other things like, Corruption and cover up
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1080323626556_1/?hub=WFive
And believe this, they the RCMP sure as hell drop the ball on this one aright when high ranking officials are known to be bought off. See W-5's video on the story and were it began.
Video Passport scandal and the RCMP 1
Video Passport scandal and the RCMP 2
Video Passport scandal and the RCMP 3
MPs criticize border security - "New World Order coming in place for Police state Thugs"
Broadcast News
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=960fae93-4b1e-4c59-8c11-72258df2e2d5
OTTAWA -- Members of Parliament are highly critical of the RCMP commissioner, asking if Giuliano Zaccardelli has made the right decisions on border security. Conservative MP Peter MacKay says he's stunned and alarmed to hear that 1,600 vehicles ran the border last year. He notes the border guards' union blames a cutback on RCMP officers at the border for the increasing number of people simply not stopping for inspections. Zaccardelli defended his decisions at the Commons justice committee, saying he has re-deployed officers from detachments he has closed. He says the border is safer. MacKay says the top Mountie's assessment doesn't square with the facts. He says the RCMP is cutting its presence at the border at a time when the U.S. is increasing the number of police at the border.
© Broadcast News 2005
Case summary of RCMP External Review Committee's decision on Corporal Robert Read
PDF- U.S. Library of Congress report on Asian organized crime and terrorist activity in Canada (.pdf)
Lineups at the Canadian High Commission in Hong Kong
Lee Chau Ping, a.k.a. the Ice Queen
Brian McAdam
Garry Clement
Happy Valley race track, where Triad members allegedly took staff from the Canadian High Commission
W-FIVE's source who explained the link between organized crime and the Canadian mission
Corruption and cover up
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1080323626556_1/?hub=WFive
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In the 1990s, before Hong Kong was reverted from British to Chinese control, millions of residents were looking to relocate on the chance that things went bad after the handover. Canada, with its huge expat communities in Vancouver and Toronto, quickly became a desirable destination.
Day after day, people lined up at the Canadian High Commission in Hong Kong, waiting to apply for visas. Many of those seeking landed immigrant status were people looking to come to Canada for the right reasons, but according to former Royal Hong Kong Police Chief Detective Inspector Sandy Boucher, Canada was also gaining a reputation in organized crime circles as a haven for those mixed up in shady dealings.
“We knew that many of our organized crime figures -- people with records, people without records but serious criminals – were looking to move to Canada,” says Boucher.
But while Canadian authorities are supposed to keep those kinds of people out, in Hong Kong, something appeared to be going very wrong. “Some applied (for visas) and were turned back, some applied and got in,” says Boucher. “It was no secret.”
One such immigrant was Lee Chau Ping, a notorious drug trafficker who is known as the Ice Queen. In 1992, after police raided her labs and one of her safe houses, the Ice Queen got on a plane headed for Canada. Not thinking that the Canadian government would let her stay, Boucher assumed the Ice Queen had headed oversees to wait for the heat on her gang to die down a little. So he was shocked when an RCMP officer told him she had been granted landed immigrant status.
“I said, ‘It can’t be – she’s got a criminal record. I know she’s known to Canadian authorities.’”
But apparently, Lee Chau Ping – who posed as a businesswoman ready to invest $170,000 in a Chicken Delight franchise in a tiny town in northern Saskatchewan – had slipped under the radar. And Brian McAdam, the immigration control officer at the High Commission in Hong Kong, soon learned that other criminals had too.
“I discovered that these Triad people (members of secret Chinese organized crime fraternities that have ties to members of the Hong Kong business community) were regulars at getting visas to visit their families or go on holidays as the case may be, and yet clearly on the file was intelligence information identifying who they were.”
McAdam was puzzled as to how known criminals were able to get into Canada, but a little bit of digging turned up connections between the Triad members and officials working inside the Canadian embassy. In fact, according to McAdam, High Commission staff was on the receiving end of expensive gifts, cocktail parties, yacht trips and visits to the casinos in Macau.
According to Garry Clement, who worked at the time as an RCMP officer stationed at the High Commission, the freebies even included cash for betting on the horses at Hong Kong’s Happy Valley racetrack. But he was suspicious that those perks would come with a price.
“At what point do you draw the line? And you’ve got to ask yourself who are the people that are giving, and what do you owe in return? It was a Chinese gentleman that I had met … (who) told me very early on nobody in Chinese culture does anything for nothing. And I never forgot that. And I think that’s where you have to look at – why was the Canadian mission being targeted? Why was the Canadian mission being invited out to all these events?”
McAdam and Clement set out for the answers. Immediately, they found obvious signs of corruption: complaints from a Chinese couple that someone at the embassy had offered to expedite their visa application in exchange for $10,000; fake immigration stamps and a fake visa receipt. In one incident, McAdam actually saw the criminal records of Triad members literally drop off their files after he pulled them up on the computer.
W-FIVE found a man who knows firsthand of the links between Hong Kong’s organized crime circles and the Canadian High Commission. He agreed to be interviewed, but, fearing for his life, only under the condition that his identity be protected.
The man told W-FIVE that the corruption at the High Commission was a “fairly open secret” among Hong Kong’s middle class. He said Triad members, including “famous businessmen, solicitors, legislators (and) accountants” used to invite embassy staff to the races and lavish parties.
“Some money change hands, some handshake and problem solved,” he said. “They give you a Rolex, fancy car, then when you get hooked, they ask you to do a favour.”
The source told W-FIVE he was never aware of the exact price for a Canadian visa, but he estimated the entry cost for a Triad member’s family would be in the neighbourhood of $500,000 HK. And he said the corruption was far and wide within the embassy. “Without help from insiders it won’t work. … It takes more than one person in the High Commission to get the job done, not just one single person – there must be big, big scandal behind it all.”
In 1992, the Department of Foreign Affairs sent over a computer expert from Ottawa to probe the lapses. The top-secret report prepared by that expert, David Balser, confirmed the existence of some alarming security breaches at the mission, including the fact that unauthorized staff had access to the computer system where visas could be approved with a check mark and criminal records could be scrubbed clean.
But though the report revealed some major problems, it went virtually unnoticed. In 1995, Liberal MP David Kilgour wrote a letter to then-prime minister Jean Chretien warning of the “highly irresponsible and/or illegal practices” at the High Commission and asking for a full public inquiry. It was never acknowledged.
Then, in 1996, RCMP Corporal Robert Read was assigned to review the Hong Kong file. And while he too thought there were clear problems that needed to be investigated, he says he was urged by his superiors to turn a blind eye.
“This is water under the bridge, why go over this again,” Read says he was told. After he encountered more and more roadblocks thrown up by his bosses and government bureaucrats, he says he “arrived at the opinion that the progress I was making was not that pleasing to my superiors.”
And Read wasn’t the only member of the RCMP to be shut down by the force. In 1993, Staff Sergeant Jim Puchniak requested permission to go to Hong Kong to conduct a full investigation, but he was told by the RCMP liason officer at the mission, Inspector Gary Lagamodiere, that doing so would upset the High Commissioner.
“Why would anybody who is the head of a mission fear the RCMP coming in to conduct an investigation if everything is above board?” he recalls wondering. “My instinct then, and still is, if there was nothing to hide, you would welcome a police investigation, so obviously there was something going on.”
But unlike Puchniak, Read wasn’t willing to accept the roadblocks he encountered. In 1999, he made an unthinkable move for a police officer, breaking his oath of secrecy and going public about the scandal. The RCMP reacted quickly, firing the 24-year veteran after finding him guilty of professional misconduct.
But Read appealed his dismissal, and in 2003, the RCMP’s External Review Committee issued a scathing indictment over the handling of the Hong Kong affair. In its decision the committee wrote the “the RCMP was walking on eggshells whenever it conducted an investigation into activities at a Canadian mission abroad and basically restricted to what the Department of Foreign Affairs was willing to allow it to investigate.
“What is at issue was a deliberate choice made by the RCMP not to pursue an investigation into possible wrongdoing even though the numerous examples had been drawn to its attention of incidents that suggested an immigration fraud ring was operating within the very premises of the mission and possibly involved employees of the Government of Canada.”
Scott Newark, the former head of the Canadian Police Association, said the decision makes clear the proper relationship between police and government agencies.
“For me, the larger issue here, the thing that is most problematic is not even all of the clear wrong-doing going on in Hong Kong and the after-effects of that. It’s the fact that the institution and the people involved who we give guns and badges to and swear public oaths and that have the obligation to investigate and enforce the law decided that their duty was not to do that.”
While the report clearly vindicated Read, the RCMP has refused to reinstate him – a decision he is fighting in Federal Court. But because he never got the investigation he wanted into the Canadian High Commission in Hong Kong, questions about the depth of the corruption and political interference there will probably never be answered. Both John Higgenbotham, the Canadian High Commissioner in Hong Kong from 1989 to 1994, and RCMP Superintendent Giuliano Zaccardelli – people who may be able to lend some perspective to the unanswered questions -- refused to be interviewed by W-FIVE.
But regardless of who was responsible, for retired RCMP superintendent Garry Clement, it all comes down to one thing.
“Did we drop the ball? I have to take as much credit – I was a senior officer in the RCMP. … I don’t think we should try to defend it. The bottom line is, we dropped the ball in this investigation.”
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Corruption and cover up
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In the 1990s, before Hong Kong was reverted from British to Chinese control, millions of residents were looking to relocate on the chance that things went bad after the handover. Canada, with its huge expat communities in Vancouver and Toronto, quickly became a desirable destination.
Day after day, people lined up at the Canadian High Commission in Hong Kong, waiting to apply for visas. Many of those seeking landed immigrant status were people looking to come to Canada for the right reasons, but according to former Royal Hong Kong Police Chief Detective Inspector Sandy Boucher, Canada was also gaining a reputation in organized crime circles as a haven for those mixed up in shady dealings.
“We knew that many of our organized crime figures -- people with records, people without records but serious criminals – were looking to move to Canada,” says Boucher.
But while Canadian authorities are supposed to keep those kinds of people out, in Hong Kong, something appeared to be going very wrong. “Some applied (for visas) and were turned back, some applied and got in,” says Boucher. “It was no secret.”
One such immigrant was Lee Chau Ping, a notorious drug trafficker who is known as the Ice Queen. In 1992, after police raided her labs and one of her safe houses, the Ice Queen got on a plane headed for Canada. Not thinking that the Canadian government would let her stay, Boucher assumed the Ice Queen had headed oversees to wait for the heat on her gang to die down a little. So he was shocked when an RCMP officer told him she had been granted landed immigrant status.
“I said, ‘It can’t be – she’s got a criminal record. I know she’s known to Canadian authorities.’”
But apparently, Lee Chau Ping – who posed as a businesswoman ready to invest $170,000 in a Chicken Delight franchise in a tiny town in northern Saskatchewan – had slipped under the radar. And Brian McAdam, the immigration control officer at the High Commission in Hong Kong, soon learned that other criminals had too.
“I discovered that these Triad people (members of secret Chinese organized crime fraternities that have ties to members of the Hong Kong business community) were regulars at getting visas to visit their families or go on holidays as the case may be, and yet clearly on the file was intelligence information identifying who they were.”
McAdam was puzzled as to how known criminals were able to get into Canada, but a little bit of digging turned up connections between the Triad members and officials working inside the Canadian embassy. In fact, according to McAdam, High Commission staff was on the receiving end of expensive gifts, cocktail parties, yacht trips and visits to the casinos in Macau.
According to Garry Clement, who worked at the time as an RCMP officer stationed at the High Commission, the freebies even included cash for betting on the horses at Hong Kong’s Happy Valley racetrack. But he was suspicious that those perks would come with a price.
“At what point do you draw the line? And you’ve got to ask yourself who are the people that are giving, and what do you owe in return? It was a Chinese gentleman that I had met … (who) told me very early on nobody in Chinese culture does anything for nothing. And I never forgot that. And I think that’s where you have to look at – why was the Canadian mission being targeted? Why was the Canadian mission being invited out to all these events?”
McAdam and Clement set out for the answers. Immediately, they found obvious signs of corruption: complaints from a Chinese couple that someone at the embassy had offered to expedite their visa application in exchange for $10,000; fake immigration stamps and a fake visa receipt. In one incident, McAdam actually saw the criminal records of Triad members literally drop off their files after he pulled them up on the computer.
W-FIVE found a man who knows firsthand of the links between Hong Kong’s organized crime circles and the Canadian High Commission. He agreed to be interviewed, but, fearing for his life, only under the condition that his identity be protected.
The man told W-FIVE that the corruption at the High Commission was a “fairly open secret” among Hong Kong’s middle class. He said Triad members, including “famous businessmen, solicitors, legislators (and) accountants” used to invite embassy staff to the races and lavish parties.
“Some money change hands, some handshake and problem solved,” he said. “They give you a Rolex, fancy car, then when you get hooked, they ask you to do a favour.”
The source told W-FIVE he was never aware of the exact price for a Canadian visa, but he estimated the entry cost for a Triad member’s family would be in the neighbourhood of $500,000 HK. And he said the corruption was far and wide within the embassy. “Without help from insiders it won’t work. … It takes more than one person in the High Commission to get the job done, not just one single person – there must be big, big scandal behind it all.”
In 1992, the Department of Foreign Affairs sent over a computer expert from Ottawa to probe the lapses. The top-secret report prepared by that expert, David Balser, confirmed the existence of some alarming security breaches at the mission, including the fact that unauthorized staff had access to the computer system where visas could be approved with a check mark and criminal records could be scrubbed clean.
But though the report revealed some major problems, it went virtually unnoticed. In 1995, Liberal MP David Kilgour wrote a letter to then-prime minister Jean Chretien warning of the “highly irresponsible and/or illegal practices” at the High Commission and asking for a full public inquiry. It was never acknowledged.
Then, in 1996, RCMP Corporal Robert Read was assigned to review the Hong Kong file. And while he too thought there were clear problems that needed to be investigated, he says he was urged by his superiors to turn a blind eye.
“This is water under the bridge, why go over this again,” Read says he was told. After he encountered more and more roadblocks thrown up by his bosses and government bureaucrats, he says he “arrived at the opinion that the progress I was making was not that pleasing to my superiors.”
And Read wasn’t the only member of the RCMP to be shut down by the force. In 1993, Staff Sergeant Jim Puchniak requested permission to go to Hong Kong to conduct a full investigation, but he was told by the RCMP liason officer at the mission, Inspector Gary Lagamodiere, that doing so would upset the High Commissioner.
“Why would anybody who is the head of a mission fear the RCMP coming in to conduct an investigation if everything is above board?” he recalls wondering. “My instinct then, and still is, if there was nothing to hide, you would welcome a police investigation, so obviously there was something going on.”
But unlike Puchniak, Read wasn’t willing to accept the roadblocks he encountered. In 1999, he made an unthinkable move for a police officer, breaking his oath of secrecy and going public about the scandal. The RCMP reacted quickly, firing the 24-year veteran after finding him guilty of professional misconduct.
But Read appealed his dismissal, and in 2003, the RCMP’s External Review Committee issued a scathing indictment over the handling of the Hong Kong affair. In its decision the committee wrote the “the RCMP was walking on eggshells whenever it conducted an investigation into activities at a Canadian mission abroad and basically restricted to what the Department of Foreign Affairs was willing to allow it to investigate.
“What is at issue was a deliberate choice made by the RCMP not to pursue an investigation into possible wrongdoing even though the numerous examples had been drawn to its attention of incidents that suggested an immigration fraud ring was operating within the very premises of the mission and possibly involved employees of the Government of Canada.”
Scott Newark, the former head of the Canadian Police Association, said the decision makes clear the proper relationship between police and government agencies.
“For me, the larger issue here, the thing that is most problematic is not even all of the clear wrong-doing going on in Hong Kong and the after-effects of that. It’s the fact that the institution and the people involved who we give guns and badges to and swear public oaths and that have the obligation to investigate and enforce the law decided that their duty was not to do that.”
While the report clearly vindicated Read, the RCMP has refused to reinstate him – a decision he is fighting in Federal Court. But because he never got the investigation he wanted into the Canadian High Commission in Hong Kong, questions about the depth of the corruption and political interference there will probably never be answered. Both John Higgenbotham, the Canadian High Commissioner in Hong Kong from 1989 to 1994, and RCMP Superintendent Giuliano Zaccardelli – people who may be able to lend some perspective to the unanswered questions -- refused to be interviewed by W-FIVE.
But regardless of who was responsible, for retired RCMP superintendent Garry Clement, it all comes down to one thing.
“Did we drop the ball? I have to take as much credit – I was a senior officer in the RCMP. … I don’t think we should try to defend it. The bottom line is, we dropped the ball in this investigation.”
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In 1903, however, there was a great awakening of interest in American Masonry in China. The acquisition of the Philippine Islands, the declaration of the famous "open door policy" by John Hay, and the general renewal of interest in the Orient on the part of Europe and America caused a rapid increase of American population in China and a desire for American Freemasonry. English Freemasonry was solidly established in China, but the English lodges did not offer precisely what the Americans desired. Naturally, there was a tendency to turn to Massachusetts, as the American Grand Lodge with missionary experience and with an existing establishment in China.
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C.W. Mayo, founder of Mayo Clinic.
William James Mayo (1861-1939), surgeon.
Charles Horace Mayo (1865-1939), surgeon.
Jacques and Joseph Montgolfier, inventors of the hot air balloon.
Jacob Perkins (1766-1849), mechanical engineer and inventor; printed first penny postage stamp in 1840.
James F. Smathers, inventor of the electric typewriter, Gate City Lodge No 522, Kansas City.
James Smithson, founder of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC.
Sports
Arnold "Red" Auerbach
George Brent
Avery Bundage
Ty Cobb
Jack Dempsey
Jake Gaudaur
Tim HortonJack Johnston
Willie Mays
Arnold Palmer
Branch Rickey
Sugar Ray Robinson
Cy Young
Canadian Freemasons
Prime Ministers
John A. MacDonald
John Abbott
MacKenzie Bowell
Robert Borden
Richard B. Bennett
John G. Diefenbaker
Provincial Premiers
Joseph Smallwood
Duff Roblin
Tommy Douglas
William Davis
Peter Lougheed
John Buchanan
W. Ross Thatcher
Noted Canadians
Chief Joseph Brant
Chief Tecumseh
General James Wolfe
Sam Steele, N.W.M.P.
Henry Larsen, R.C.M.P.
W.R. "Wop" May, bush pilot
Lord Thompson of Fleet, publisher
Samuel Bronfman, businessman
John D. Eaton, Eaton's stores
Oscar Peterson, musician
John Molson, founder Molson Breweries
Sir Sanford Fleming, creator of first Canadian stamp and standard time
Lord Stanley, Governor General
Earl de Gray, Governor General
Charles Mair, poet
Robert Service, poet
Glenn Ford, actor
Tim Horton, hockey star
Gordon Sinclair, broadcaster
James A. Naismith, inventor of basketball
Wipper Billy Watson, Canadian wrestling legend
John B. MacLean, founder MacLeans magazine
Hart Massey, Massey-Ferguson farm equipment
E. B. Eddy, founder of the E.B. Eddy Match Company
Palmer Cox, creator of The Brownie stories
Noted British Columbian Freemasons
Lieutenant-Governors
Thomas McInnes
Sir Francis S. Barnard
Edward Prior
Walter C. Nichol
Robert R. Bruce
W.C. Woodward
Clarance Wallace
John Nicholson
Walter S. Owen
Premiers
John F. McCreight, first premier of B.C.
Amor de Cosmos
George A. Walkem
Robert Bevan
Alexander Davie
John H. Turner
Edward Prior
Sir Richard McBride
William J. Bowser
Harland C. Brewster
John D. MacLean
Byron "Boss" Johnson
W.A.C. Bennett
Business & Politics, etc.
Robert Butchart, owner of Butchart Gardens, Victoria
Sir Arthur Currie, Commander Canadian Forces W.W.I
Robert Cromie, founder Vancouver Sun newspaper
Hewitt Bostock, founder Vancouver Province newspaper
Gordon Gibson Sr., lumberman
J.H. Bloedell, partner in British Columbia forestry giant Mac-Blo
Alfred Wallace, founder Burrard shipyards
Major James S. Matthews, City of Vancouver Archivist
Bishop A.W. Sillitoe, first Bishop of New Westminster
Charles Woodward, founder of Woodward stores
Ernie Winch, politician, labour activist
Austin C. Taylor, sportsman, businessman
Gerald G. McGeer, senator, mayor of Vancouver
Fred "Cyclone" Taylor, Hockey Hall of Fame
Arthur Delamont, musician
Thomas G. Norris, Supreme Court judge
Victor Dryer, Supreme Court Judge
Victoria Cross holders
Alexander Dunn
Sir Richard Turner
Cyrus W. Peck
Robert Shankland
Robert MacBeath
Robert Hanna