Credits & Sources

A retired graphic designer who ran Tangent Design. Two earlier projects share a thread with this one — Barbed Wire, a beloved 1990s Vancouver webzine, and Raising the Dead (2002), a Canada Council–funded interactive memorial for his brother Richard — whose files, decades later, turned out to hold the box of letters this whole project is built from. On this project: supplied the letters and family testimony, reviews and approves every reading, holds final editorial authority, and personally designed this entire site.

A Vancouver-based creative technologist, roughly twenty-five years into building the systems behind creative work — a decade at Radical Entertainment, then directing the art of Glitch for the studio that became Slack, then founding studios of his own. On this project: created the architecture and machinery that turns a box of fragile, half-legible pages into a structured, searchable archive; the rules that keep that archive honest; and the system that gives the material shape and meaning, then narrative — and ultimately an engaging, living account. One rule is built into its bones: it can never present a guess as a fact.