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Doug and the Slugs

  • CA-BC-DOU-001
  • Personne
  • 1977-

Doug and the Slugs are a Canadian pop music group formed in 1977 in Vancouver by Toronto-born Doug Bennett, who had been a graphic designer in his home town before moving to British Columbia in the mid-1970s. Bennett served as the band's chief songwriter, frontman, and lead singer. After some turnover amongst Slugs in the early months, the lineup stabilized by 1978, and for the entirety of their recording career (1978–1992), Doug and the Slugs consisted of lead vocalist Doug Bennett, guitarists Richard Baker and John Burton, keyboardist Simon Kendall, bassist Steve Bosley, and drummer John "Wally" Watson. Doug and the Slugs also put on an annual outdoor dance festival known as "Slugfest." The band founded their own record label, Ritdong Records, and worked out a distribution deal with RCA Records for their recordings. The band enjoyed a number of Canadian top 40 hits in the 1980s, most notably "Too Bad" (1980), "Who Knows How To Make Love Stay" (1982), "Making It Work" (1983), and "Tomcat Prowl" (1988). The song "Too Bad" served as the theme song for the 1999-2001 ABC sitcom The Norm Show, starring Norm Macdonald. Most of the Slugs left the band after 1992, although Kendall stayed until 1994, but namesake Doug Bennett continued touring with different musicians under the same name until his death from liver cirrhosis in 2004. After a gap of several years, the original Slugs (Baker, Bosley, Burton, Kendall, and Watson) reunited in 2009 and invited singer Ted Okos to be their new frontman. The group still performs live dates as Doug & The Slugs.

Boyd, Rob

  • CA-BC-BR017
  • Personne
  • February 15, 1966 -

Rob Boyd was born February 15, 1966 to parents Sandy and Molly Boyd. His father owned a skihill in Vernon, BC, before selling it and moving his family to Whistler in 1982 when Rob was 16 years old, which had him skiing at Whistler Mountain. He is a Canadian former alpine skier who competed in the 1988 Winter Olympics. In 1989, he was the first Canadian alpine skier to win a downhill on home soil in Creekside, at Whistler Mountain. Boyd's own career with the national ski team spanned 13 seasons, followed by three seasons racing professionally. He had six career podiums including three wins, and placed in the top 15 on the World Cup circuit 28 times. He got married and had two children, both boys. He began coaching the Whistler Mountain Ski Club (WMSC) racing team in 2002, but was called up several years later to coach the women's national ski team. Under his guidance, the team posted some of its top results, with Britt Janyk, Emily Brydon and Kelly VanderBeek finding the podium. In 2003, he was inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame, and also married Sherry Newstead. As of 2010, he came back to the WMSC as Head Coach and Sport Development Manager. In recent years he has shifted his focus to working in real estate with the Thornhill Real Estate Group. He currently lives in Whistler with his family.

Müller, Peter

  • CH-MP001
  • Personne
  • b. October 6, 1957

Peter Müller is a Swiss former alpine ski racer. He won the World Cup downhill season title in 1979, 1980, and 1982, and was a silver medalist in the 1984 and 1988 Winter Olympic Games.

Murray, Bruce

  • CA-BC
  • Personne
  • fl. [c. 1970]

Ezzy, David

  • CA-BC-ED007
  • Personne
  • fl. 1970s-

David Ezzy is a pioneer of windsurfing and founder of Ezzy Sails. David grew up in Vancouver and was most passionate about ski racing, until he found windsurfing as a teenager. He was ski racing in Whistler in the summer of 1973, and his ski coach prompted him to try windsurfing, a sport he had never heard of up until that point. They went to Alta Lake, and Dave got on a windsurfer, claiming from that day, he was addicted. He strapped his windsurfer on top of his car and drove down to California, stopping anywhere along the way he found water. He spent most of his time in San Francisco windsurfing in the bay. Shortly after that, he saw a picture of windsurfing on Oahu, and decided to fly there in 1977. He got a ride to Kailua, right to the beach, where he got a job cleaning carpets. He didn’t have a car, but lived right on the beach and would windsurf to work. Dave was on Oahu in 1978, and decided he should go back to university and study chemistry back in Canada. When he went back to Oahu a couple years later, he began living in a house with a lot of people, making custom boards behind the house. He moved to Maui in 1981, and has lived there ever since. When he first moved to Maui, he lived with Malte Simmer in a house with other young windsurfers. Simmer had been working for Maui Sails, and he had just left to start his own sail company, Simmer. Ezzy, intrigued with sail-making, made a deal with Malte that he would work for him for a year without getting paid if I could learn and then start his own sail business. Dave started Ezzy Sails in 1983 in an old chicken coop in Haiku, Maui. He renovated the building and started sewing sails, having only just enough money to buy one sewing machine and 3 rolls of cloth – white, red, and blue. He made his first sail for the guy who helped him renovate the building, and then started selling sails. By 1984, he sold 3500 sails in Japan alone. When North Sails started to make windsurfing sails, Ken Winner recommended Dave to design their wave sails, and Eckart Wagner hired him in 1985, while Dave put Ezzy Sails on the backburner. Ezzy became a Board member of North Sails Windsurfing in 1991. When Eckart Wagner left North Sails, he urged Dave to start up Ezzy Sails and open a factory. In 1992, North Sails had been under new management and human rights issues began to arise at the North Sails factory in Sri Lanka, with toxic spray glue fumes filling the lungs of workers. Ezzy resigned in protest, and decided it was time to open his own factory instead. Thirty of the workers from North Sails came with him, angering his former management, and they set up a factory in Sri Lanka. They started a their venture with a shared ownership model called Ezzy Sails Lanka. These top North Sails Winsurfing Sri Lankan managers and supervisors all became Ezzy Sails’ employees and part-owners. Ezzy Sails has been making windsurfers ever since. Dave Ezzy has a son named Graham Ezzy.

White, Matt

  • CA-BC
  • Personne
  • fl. [c. 1970]
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