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Paul Ramsey was born in the United States in 1944. His father was an engineer and a Democrat, who served as a council member for 16 years in the suburb where Paul grew up. Paul aspired to be an academic and in 1971 he moved to British Columbia with his family to pursue doctorate work at the University of British Columbia. In 1975, after he had completed his studies, he accepted a job at the College of New Caledonia in Prince George, having been attracted to the philosophy of community-based…

Harold Steves was born in Vancouver in 1937 and grew up on his family's farm in Steveston. It was a diverse farming and fishing community of Japanese, Chinese, Ukrainian, and First Nations families. An early memory of Harold's just before his fifth birthday is of his childhood friend giving him her teddy bear when the government's internment of people of Japanese origin forced her family to leave their home.

After finishing high school, Harold attended the University of British…