British Columbians we remember: the obituaries of 2007

Amanpreet Kaur Bahia, 33, mother

James Barber, 84, writer, broadcaster, and food lover

Master Cpl. Colin Bason, 28, reservist, Royal Westminster Regiment

Barry Beyerstein, 60, SFU psychology professor and president of the BC Society for Skeptical Enquiry

George Birnie, 85, Vancouver firefighter and advocate of mandatory sprinkler systems

Keith Bradbury, 66, former BCTV news director and assignment editor

Ernie Brown, 93, known as Mr. Golf, member of BC Sports Hall of Fame

Ray Chapman, 88, retired land surveyor and heritage advocate

Paul Cheema, 34, husband of murdered principal Shemina Hirji

James Po Ho Cheung, 45, president of 777 Sports Entertainment Group

Jagjit Singh Chohan, 80, former self-declared president of the movement for an independent Khalistan

Paul Chwelos, 36, assistant professor, UBC Sauder School of Business

Dan Closkey, born in 1919, former Surrey city manager

Ian Davidson, 82, architect and patron of the arts

Quon Chung Shee Der, 101, head-tax redress activist

Herb Doman, 75, forestry pioneer and founder of Doman Industries

Ian Dyck, 52, SFU history professor

Robert Dziekanski, 40, immigrant

Penelope Estacio, 31, president of WE-CARE, an advocacy program for live-in caregivers

Sam Eves, 16, student

Larisa Fayad, 31, technical and lighting director of Flamenco Rosario

John Fearing, 78, musician, teacher, and environmental activist

Joachim Foikus, 82, "Town Fool"

Denis Fontaine, 40, adventurer

John Ford, 71, former actor and UBC bookstore employee

Brett Gannon, 47, president and CEO of Xillix Technologies Inc.

Alex Grant, 66, writer and film critic

Michael Haider, 56, RCMP officer

Laurine Harrison, 51, SFU student ombudsman

Strachan Hartley, 30, captain of the 1997 Vanier Cup–winning UBC Thunderbirds football team

Shemina Hirji, 40, Surrey elementary-school principal

Kirk Robert Holifield, 35, father

V.K. Eddie Hsu, 101, retired shipping magnate and philanthropist

E.J. Hughes, 93, landscape artist

Gloria Hunt, 85, former president of the Nimpkish Community Club

Richard Juryn, 50, director of the North Shore Mountain Bike Association

Philip Keatley, 85, retired actor and retired CBC director and producer

Anne Kramer, 64, former chair and CEO of Current Technology Corp.

Roy Mah, 89, retired publisher, journalist, soldier, and labour organizer

Theodore Maiman, 79, retired physicist who built the first working laser

Ian Gordon Mann, 47, fisheries officer, sports coach, and scout leader

Colleen McCrory, 57, conservationist

Chris Mohan, 22, student

George Mussallem, 99, retired four-term Social Credit MLA

Alisa Noda, 50, lawyer and president of the National Nikkei Museum and Heritage Centre

Myfanwy Pavelic, 91, portrait artist

Lewis Perinbam, 82, humanitarian

John Pifer, 61, broadcaster and political journalist

Tom Potter, 52, lawyer

Jeani Read, 60, journalist

Bill Richards, 68, retired SFU communications professor

Sydney Rothery, 40, mother, style maven, and former sales executive

Jane Rule, 76, author, essayist, writing teacher, and lesbian icon

William Sauder, 81, forestry pioneer and former UBC chancellor

Peter Paul Saunders, 78, retired business executive, cofounder of BCTV, and patron of the arts

Edward Schellenberg, 55, gas-fireplace repairman

Ellen Schrodt, 72, founder of the B.C. Operating Nurses Group

Bruce Serafin, born in 1940, writer and a founder of Vancouver Review

Richard Shutler, 85, Pacific archaeologist and SFU professor emeritus

Linda Sperling, 67, union negotiator and former college instructor

Jess St. Eloi, 82, retired building-trades labour organizer

John Stevenson, 86, former president of the Canadian Association of Radiologists and former president of the B.C. Radiological Society

Wanda Stepien, 82, extraordinary mother and grandmother, a woman of courage and indomitable spirit who survived the Warsaw uprising, and long-time Straight supporter

Barry Wild, 92, mezzo soprano

Norman Wong, 66, businessman who helped Ming Wo succeed.