Alan Twigg

From ABC BookWorld website, "He is a fifth-generation Vancouverite and builder of B.C. Relatives of both his mother and father lived in British Columbia in the 1800s. Major-General John Twigge and his brother Samuel Knox Twigge, came to Canada in 1887 and to Vancouver before 1890. Twigg Island at the mouth of the Fraser River was named after their nephew, Conley, who had a dairy farm there. In the 1930s, Harold Despard Twigg, a provincial MLA, tried to organize a political movement to have Vancouver Island secede from British Columbia. A relative on the maternal side, lumber baron William Tait, built the turn-of-the-century Glen Brae mansion in Shaughnessy that became better known as Canuck Place."

He presented at the Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts, Sechelt in 2005.