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Joe Fortes standing on the beach at English Bay, Vancouver, Canada. This portrait was part of a collage in a Canada Post Stamp that honoured him. Joseph Seraphim Fortes [1] (9 February 1863 – 4 February 1922) was a British-Canadian lifeguard. He was a prominent figure in the early history of Vancouver, and the city's first official lifeguard.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, English Bay Beach was home to Vancouver's first official lifeguard, the legendary Joe Fortes, who taught hundreds of the city's early residents how to swim, and patrolled the beach from his cabin on its shore.
Over the years, several notable people had their funeral requiem mass said at the cathedral, including beloved local lifeguard and swim instructor Joe Fortes (1922), [28] Chief Dan George of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation (1981), [29] and former Vancouver police commissioner William Cameron Murphy in 1961. [30]
The Vancouver Club: 915 West Hastings 1912–1914 Sharp & Thompson, architects Alexandra Park Haywood Bandstand: 1755 Beach Avenue The Alexandra Park Bandstand is situated in a triangular-shaped park bordered by Beach Avenue, Burnaby Street and Bidwell Street in Vancouver's West End, overlooking English Bay. 1915 First Baptist Church: 969 ...
February 4 – Joe Fortes, lifeguard (b. 1863) April 12 – Robert Boston, politician (b. 1836) May 23 – Robert Franklin Sutherland, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (b. 1859) July 22 – Sara Jeannette Duncan, author and journalist (b. 1861)
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While promoting Heartstopper, the Netflix show that put Joe Locke on the map, the actor from Northern Europe's Isle of Man told SoHo House magazine in 2022, "I'd love to play the first queer ...