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Irving (Ike) Barber, O.C., O.B.C.
Mr. Barber, best-known for this twenty-three year stewardship of
Slocan Forest Products Ltd., had been involved in all levels of British
Columbia’s forestry industry for nearly sixty years. He founded Slocan
in 1978, and by the time he retired in Februrary, 2002, it had become
one of the leading lumber producers in North America.
Mr. Barber’s commitment to the people of British Columbia is marked by
his
endowment of a forestry research chair and forestry laboratory at the
University
of Northern British Columbia, the establishment of a diabetes research
chair
at the University of British Columbia, the Ike Barber Human Islet
Transplant
Laboratory at Vancouver Hospital (in partnership with the University of
British
Columbia), and most recently he was the principal donor for the new
Learning Centre at the University of British Columbia and a donor at UBC
Okanagan. Irving K. Barber was inducted into the Canadian Business Hall
of Fame in 2003. |
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