Patricia Owen completed a master’s degree in the arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas at the University of East Anglia, United Kingdom, in 2005. She took a lead role in the New Westminster Museum and Archives’ project to research the city’s Chinese-Canadian community. In 2008 she began working on contract with the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia.
Jim Wolf, a long-time resident of New Westminster, BC, is well known in the province’s heritage community as a heritage planner and a historian. He has been committed to preserving New Westminster’s heritage for the past 20 years: at the New Westminster Museum and Archives; as president of the Heritage Preservation Society and former member of the city’s Community Heritage Commission; and as a founding director of the New Westminster Heritage Foundation. Jim is currently the heritage planner for the City of Burnaby and an active heritage consultant. He lives with his wife and son in New Westminster’s Queen’s Park neighbourhood, where they are restoring the 1907 Herbert and Ellen Harrison house.
