obituary

She had the rare gift of being able to bring people out of their shells

Since childhood, he’d loved adventures. After he retired in December, he and his wife set off on another one.

He was a lung cancer survivor and hometown hero for pulling a man from a burning building. ‘It was almost like smoke wanted him.’

He patched up injuries to his hands with duct tape, and once put out a house fire on his own

He wanted to build an empire through his music. But unlike many other rappers, he was stridently against firearms.

After the death of her first-born, she found solace and healing with her native neighbours. She especially loved the sweat lodge.

Newsmakers 2010

He brought his young family to Canada in the 1950s, looking for a better life. He and his wife of almost 65 years were inseparable.

Hard-working since childhood, and always mature beyond his years, he was finally ready for his first-ever beach holiday

He escaped the repression of Soviet-era Czechoslovakia, and became a paramedic saving lives on the British Columbia coast