Larry Grant

Elder Larry Grant (; born September 1, 1936, to a Chinese father, Hong Tim Hing, and a Musqueam matriarch, Agnes Grant, on a hop field in Agassiz, British Columbia. Grant was the second of four children born to the couple, alongside Gordon Grant, Helen Callbreath and Howard E. Grant.

Hong Tim Hing was from Sei Moon, a village in Zhongshan, Guangdong Province. He immigrated in 1920 and was part of a group of Chinese migrants who had farmed on the Lin On Farm on Musqueam Reserve 2, one of 20 vegetable farms on the Musqueam reserve. Hong procured illegal documents which presented him as a relative of another settled Chinese worker, and was made to pay the Chinese head tax to enter the country. Within Musqueam, Grant served as a band counselor from 1993 to 1998. Grant is a Faculty Fellow at St. John's College, the inaugural Life Fellow for Green College.

During the 2010 Winter Olympics held in Vancouver, Grant aided in the formation of the cecəw stəlqayeʔ (Coastal Wolf Pack, Tsatsu Stalqayu) group of Coast Salish singers and dancers. Grant was additionally consulted in the renaming of Sir Matthew Begbie Elementary School, named after Matthew Baillie Begbie, to wək̓ʷan̓əs tə syaqʷəm.

Work within the University of British Columbia

Grant has served as the Elder-in-Residence for the University of British Columbia's First Nations House of Learning since 2001. In his duties as Elder-in-Residence, Grant serves as an ambassador for Musqueam, as well as an elder figure for Indigenous students looking for a home away from home. Grant additionally provided the names of the tə šxʷhəleləm̓s tə k̓ʷaƛ̓kʷəʔaʔɬ residence area and the individual buildings təməs leləm̓ (Sea Otter House), sqimək̓ʷ leləm̓ (Octopus House), sɬewət̕ leləm̓ (Herring House), q̓əlɬaləməcən leləm̓ (Orca House) and qʷta:yθən leləm̓ (Sturgeon House). In 2011, as the lead representative for the Naming Advisory Committee for the Totem Park Infill Buildings, Grant provided Musqueam language names for two dormitory buildings. He is a descendant of Musqueam warriors qiyəplenəxʷ (Capilano) and xʷəlciməltxʷ. Gina's artwork includes Out of the Silence, which is displayed at the Vancouver International Airport.

In 2010 Grant received Vancouver Community College's Alumni Award of Distinction. In 2014, Grant became an honorary graduate of the University of British Columbia's Native Indian Teacher Education Program (NITEP).

Grant's early life was profiled in the film All Our Father's Relations, which documented the Grant siblings retracing their father's journey from Guangdong to Musqueam, returning to their father's home community of Sei Moon, and highlighting the historical ties between Vancouver's Chinese Canadian community and the Musqueam. Grant was the subject of the 2007 documentary Writing the Land, produced by Kevin Lee Burton for the National Film Board of Canada, which documented his journey towards learning the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ language.