Wallace Gilby Craig Author - Judge Advocate for Change Born March 4, 1931 at 7443 Clarendon Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, youngest of three sons of Robert Frederick Craig and Eleanor Whittaker. 1937 to 1954: educated in Vancouver at Sir James Douglas Elementary School, John Oliver High School and the University of British Columbia (Faculty of Law). 1955 to 1975: independent lawyer (general practice) – downtown Vancouver. 1975 to 2001: Judge – Vancouver Criminal Division – Provincial Court of BC. Born in 1931 in Fraserview, a sparsely populated area in the southeast corner of Vancouver, Craig was brought up and educated in the bleak times of the Great Depression, the uncertain times of the Second World War and the optimism of the dawn of world peace.  In 1954 Craig graduated from the Faculty of Law at UBC and, over the next 20 years, practiced law in downtown Vancouver. On his appointment in 1975 to the Vancouver Criminal Division of the Provincial Court of British Columbia Craig was assigned exclusively to the criminal courts at 222 Main Street in Skid Road Vancouver and remained there until retirement in 2001 at age 70. Released from the judicial constraint against engaging in public discussion and political comment Craig put pen to paper and in 2003 published Short Pants to Striped Trousers, The life and times of a Judge in Skid Road Vancouver. It has been described by Ian Mulgrew of The Vancouver Sun as “Part memoir, part local history and part polemic . . . (and he made the observation that) Craig thinks Vancouver’s future is in jeopardy because too many judges have gone soft on crime and too many politicians have gone soft in the head . . .”     In his preface Judge Craig said: "My values and beliefs were shaped by my experiences as I grew up, and these values and beliefs became entwined with my experience as an ordinary lawyer in Vancouver. I did not shed them when I became a judge at age forty-four. On the contrary, I took them with me each day I went into court to judge a fellow citizen. During my twenty-six years in court I sensed that the criminal justice system, and particularly the judiciary, was dispensing justice without any real sense of law and order, leaving our fair city at risk of being Canada’s drug capital, a place where property crime is rampant and perpetrators of violence receive only notional punishment."