• In a 1958 Globe and Mail profile, Toronto tattoo artist Sailor Joe Simmons said there were only three tattoo artists then working in Canada: himself, Charlie Snow in Halifax and "Doc" Forbes Hendry, "out near the navy base on Vancouver Island."



• Hendry moved to Vancouver the same year this profile aired, setting up shop on Davie Street and tattooing there until 1977.



• "No ordinary tattooist, "Doc" Forbes has been called upon by medical authorities to assist in plastic surgery by re-colouring discoloured areas of skin with a carefully matched pigment, tattooing eyebrows on a fire victim, or introducing natural colour to lips left colourless by skin-grafting." -- CBC Times program schedule, May 2-8, 1964.