The "Documenting Dunbar" project was carried out under the leadership of community activists and former Dunbar Residents’ Association President Peggy Schofield. Schofield grew up in California and earned two degrees in music. In 1960 she settled with her husband in Vancouver, BC where they raised three daughters She became interested in textile arts, joining the Canadian Crafts Council and traveled to many parts of the world to study different traditions of textile production. When she became an activist for the Dunbar neighbourhood she would hold meetings and post community information at her textile arts studio Dunbar Street. After Peggy’s untimely death in 2005, the Dunbar history group she had formed pulled together to complete the project in her memory. Contributing writers, all residents, are Pam Chambers, Vivien Clarke, Shelagh Lindsey, Beryl March, Angus McIntyre, Larry Moore, Margaret Campbell More, Peggy Schofield, Helen Spiegelman and Joan Tyldesley.