Dr. Lionel Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1922 and received his Ph.D from the University of California in 1925. He received a Bachelor of Literature from Oxford University in 1935. He taught English at the University of California at Berkeley from 1925-1930, at Arizona State College from 1937-1941. From there he moved to the University of Southern California as a professor in English and head of the Department. He joined the Duke University, teaching there from 1955-1972. He was a visiting professor of English at the University of British Columbia at the time of his death in December of 1973.
Dr. Stevenson had been a visiting professor at New York University and visiting lecturer at Oxford University, among other universities. He held a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1960 to study symbolic elements in English fiction from Meredith to Conrad.

Dr. Lloyd G. Stevenson taught at the University of Western Ontario before accepting the position of Associate Professor of the History of Medicine at McGill on July 1, 1954., as of 1 July 1954. He was also the Honorary Librarian of the McGill Medical Library and served as Assistant Librarian of the Osier Library. In 1957 he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. He was on the Board of Editors of the "Journal of the History of Medicine". Dr. Stevenson was the William H. Welch professor of History of Medicine and Director of the Institute of History of Medicine at John Hopkins University in 1978.

Herbert Leslie Stewart was born in County Antrim, Ireland on March 31, 1882. He moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1913 taking up a position teaching philosophy.
He founded the Dalhousie Review in 1921 and served as its editor for 26 years. Stewart published his first book "Questions of the Day in Philosophy and Psychology" in 1912. He also appeared in CBC Public Affairs broadcasts. Stewart passed away September 19, 1953.

Arthur G. Storey won The Ryerson Fiction Award for his book "Prairie Harvest", published in 1959.

Carman Edmund Stothers was born June 11, 1896. He enlisted in the Canadian Armed Forces during WWI. He was an Inspector of Schools in Picton, Ontario.

Arthur John Arbuthnott Stringer was born Chatham, Ontario on February 26, 1874. He grew up in the London and Chatham areas of South-Western Ontario. He attended University College at The University of Toronto between 1892-1894, and would go on to study at Oxford. In 1903 he purchased a farm in Cedar Springs, Ontario. He lived in New York, writing for the "Atlantic Monthly" and "Harper's Magazine". In 1921 he sold his Cedar Springs property, moving permanently to the U.S., settling in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey. Over the course of his career, Stringer published 15 poetry volumes, 22 screenplays, and 40 novels. He died in Mountain Lakes on September 13, 1950. In 1969 the Thames Valley District School Board in London, Ontario named a public after him - Arthur Stringer Public School.

Ruth Siegel Turofsky was the wife of Toronto Photographer Lou Turofsky.

Mary Edith Carey was born September 11, 1870. She married Joseph Burr Tyrrell in 1894. They had three children, Mary (1896), George (1900), and Thomas (1906). Mary Edith was founder and first president in 1921 of the Women's Association of the Mining Industry of Canada. She authored two books "Furry and Fluffy" and "I Was There". She died October 14, 1945.

Ray Sonin was born in London on June 23, 1907, he became a reporter at the age of 17. He wrote several mystery novels prior to World War II, and joined the BBC as a writer in 1940, producing scripts for such personalities as Edward G. Robinson and Noël Coward during the war years. A substantial pools win allowed Sonin to retire after World War II and work on writing two further mystery novels, and one young adult science fiction novel. Sonin was also a respected composer whose work was recorded by Vera Lynn and Mantovani. In 1952, Sonin was lured back into journalism with an offer to become the editor of The Musical Express - a weekly publication of four pages which contained the Top Twenty list of the sales of sheet music. Ray Sonin emigrated to Canada from London in 1957. Shortly thereafter, he put his life savings into a Canadian equivalent of The Musical Express called Music World. In 1984, Sonin was made a member of the Order of the British Empire at Buckingham Palace by Queen Elizabeth II. He died on August 20, 1991.

Sara Veffer was married to Joseph Veffer. They lived in Toronto and ran a flower shop. During World War II, Sara, Joseph and their 6 children were hidden in a small room in a house in Amsterdam from the Nazis.

Harriet Jean Percival was born on March 15, 1867 in Kemptville, Ontario. She married John Bell Waddell in 1891.. Under her married name she published 3 books of prose "Down the Aisles of Calm", "A Harp in the Wind", and "Candled by Stars". She won award for her poetry as well including 1st Place for "Last Night," Short Poem Competition, Montreal Poetry Contest (Canadian Authors Association, 1929); Award for “Intimations,” Best Poem from Montreal Competition, Montreal Poetry Contest (Canadian Authors Association, 1930); Bradford Award for “Wonder-Eyes” Montreal Poetry Contest (Canadian Authors Association, 1937).

Swann came to Canada from England. In 1966 he was appointed the Director of the Royal Ontario Museum and the first Executive Director
of the Samuel & Saidye Bronfman Family Foundation in 1972.

William Walker Swanson was a professor at the University of Saskatchewan. He was head of the Deparment of Economics and Politic Science between 1916-1945.

Dr. George Edward Tait was a teacher in London, Ontario. He was a school inspector and school director in Bogota Columbia and a Professor of Education at the University of Toronto. For three generations, school children in Ontario and other provinces studied from George Tait's History Textbooks, grades 3 to 9. With his children's books, one produced as a CBC film, he wrote over 20 books. In his world travels for research, Mexico was a favourite. He was a landscape artist and book illustrator, in 1974 he was given an award by Design Canada for his book The Unknown People: Indians of North America. In 1971 he was presented to Her Majesty The Queen at Buckingham Palace and St. James' Palace. One of his Canadian awards was the McGraw Hill Ryerson Special Book Award for Canada marking the outstanding contribution his books have made to Canadian education. During the Second WW, George Tait was loaned for three years by Ontario Education and under the Federal Government to establish an English-speaking school in Bogota, Colombia, now a large outstanding school in South America. His two exploration trips throughout the Canadian High Arctic under the Commissioner of the N. W. T., Dr. Stuart Hodgson, resulted in notable reports. He died January 11, 2000

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Dr. Mior graduated from CMCC with a Doctor of Chiropractic in 1980 and received his Fellowship in the College of Chiropractic Sciences in 1984. In 2010, he completed a PhD from the Department of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. Dr. Mior is currently a Professor in the Division of Research, while running a private practice in Markham. He is the former Dean of Graduate Studies and Research, and Vice President Research, Development and External Relations. He has served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of the Canadian Chiropractor Association, the Journal of Neuromusculoskeletal System, The Journal of Sports Chiropractic and Rehabilitation and other chiropractic journals. He has authored numerous articles and book chapters in areas related to clinical chiropractic practice and outcomes. He has participated in international and national committees establishing guidelines for quality assurance and standards of chiropractic practice, as well as setting research agendas.

Mr. Bordin is registered as a Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario and is an active member of The Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada and the American Institute of Mining Engineers.
Mr. Bordin worked on northern Labrador iron ore projects with the Iron Ore Company of Canada dealing with development and logistics of mining in a remote sensitive area. With the discovery of the renowned Kidd Creek deposit by TexasGulf near Timmins, Ontario he worked for TexasGulf on the open-pit and underground transformation. Later with Falconbridge Limited, he focused on environmental issues affecting the operation of large metallurgical complexes, in particular, in the control of sulphur dioxide emission control and acid plants in Canada.
He served as Chairman for the International Cadmium Council (Washington D.C.) and served on numerous mining committees dealing with closure, environment, health and sensitive mining areas.
In 2011, he was appointed to the Board of Directors for Apella Resources Inc.

Anwar Shah was a principal evaluation officer in the Operations Evaluation Department of the World Bank.

Diane Dollard worked in the School of Nutrition, Consumer, and Family Studies at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute.

Alison Smiley worked at Human Factors North Inc. in Toronto, Ontario.

Jiao Ma worked at the University of Buffalo.

Wanda Neill Tolboom was born in Kelwood, Manitoba. She attended Neepawa High School and then trained as a teacher at the Winnipeg, Normal School. She taught was Beaver Dam, Cartwright, and Roskeen schools. In 1941 she met her husband Wulf Tolboom. They were engaged in 1944, and in 1946 she travelled on the RMS Nascopie to the Canadian Arctic to marry Wulf, who worked for the Hudson's Bay Company. They lived in the Arctic for 5 years. Wanda started writing about life in the area, ultimately having 6 books published including "Arctic Bride" and "People of the Snow". They moved back to Winnipeg in the early 1950s.
Wanda Tolboom had a deep connection to Winnipeg’s Jewish community, though was not Jewish herself. She taught English for 30 years at Ramah Hebrew School and at Talmud Torah.
Wanda Tolboom passed away on September 4, 2007.

Gerard Tougas was born in Edmonton, Alberta in 1921. He joined the faculty of the University of British Columbia (UBC) in 1953 as a professor in the French Department. He taught language and literature courses. He specialized in francophone literature with his specific areas of interest was French literature in countries other than France. His first publish work "Checklist of Printed Materials relating to French-Canadian Literature" was published in 1958. He retired from UBC in 1993, but remained an active researcher. His final published work ""C. G. Jung: de l'helvetisme a l'universalisme" was published in 1996. Gerard Tougas died October 3, 1996.

L. W. Shaw was a professor at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick.

P. H. Sheffield lived in Nelson, British Columbia.

Francis Joseph Sherman was born February 3, 1871 in Fredericton, New Brunswick. The eldest son of Louis Walsh Sherman, lumberman and liquor merchant, and Alice Maxwell Myshrall, grand-daughter of James Maxwell, a Connecticut Loyalist. In 1886, Sherman entered the University of New Brunswick for the Arts course. He stayed in university for one year, but because of financial reasons he left school and fournd a junior post in the Merchants’ Bank of Halifax. In 1898 Sherman became the Manager of the Merchants’ Bank in Fredericton, the youngest man in Canada to hold such an office. A year later he was appointed assistant manager of the Montreal office and then was transferred to Havana, Cuba, becoming the Bank’s first agent there in November 1899. Sherman left Cuba in 1912 for the bank’s Montreal head office. In 1915 he went overseas with the McGill OTC, sent as reinforcements for the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry. A year after the war ended he retired from the Bank and took up residence in Atlantic City.
In 1896 Sherman visited Boston with a small sheaf of sonnets entitled “Matins”. This collection was accepted by publisher, Copeland and Day, who also released Sherman’s "In Memorabilia Mortis" later that same year. The latter title was a collection of sonnets in memory of William Morris, a life-long influence on Sherman’s thought and style. In 1900, the Atlantic Monthly published his “An Acadian Easter”. His last collection of poems was privately printed in Havana, entitled "A Canadian Calendar: XII Lyrics" The poems related to losing the love of Miss May Whelpley of Fredericton, with whom he was engaged. She either contracted a disease and passed or would not leave Fredericton to go with him when he was posted to Havana. No poetry by Francis Sherman is known after 1901. However, Sherman remained an eager bibliophile, retaining his interest in William Morris, Rossetti and the pre-Raphaelite poets, as well as an enthusiasm for the works of Stevenson, Kipling, Conrad and Hardy, among others.
Sherman met Ruth Ann Sullivan of Philadelphia, and they in 1921. They had two sons, Francis and Jerry. Francis Joseph Sherman died there on June 15, 1926. He is buried in Forest Hill Cemetery in Fredericton. In 1930, H.G. Wade of Winnipeg issued “An Acadian Singer. Francis Sherman” which Francis Joseph Sherman included numerous tributes to Sherman’s literary talent. The first complete edition of Sherman’s poems was prepared by Lorne Pierce, editor of the Ryerson Press, and published in 1935.

Norma Sluman was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario. Her involvement with Canadian Aboriginal issues began when she moved to Calgary with her husband Ken.
She studied Canadian history, the prairie aboriginal bands, modern writers and their works. The family moved back to Toronto where Norma began to arrange masses of research materials into her first historical fiction novel, "Blackfoot Crossing", followed by her second novel, "Poundmaker", both published by Ryerson Press. Moving again from Toronto to Winnipeg, Norma met Jean Cuthand Goodwill, while working at the Winnipeg Friendship Centre. Over the period of six years, Norma and Jean set about to co-write John Tootoosis, a Biography of a Cree Leader. John Tootoosis was Jean’s father and his history was taped in Cree — Jean translated, and Norma wrote. First published by Golden Dog Press; three reprints were published by Pemmican Publications, Inc. The unpublished manuscript for "The Amulet" had been sent to daughter Marnie Sluman Somers for transcription into digital format as traditional publishing houses were no longer considering manually-typed manuscripts. Unfortunately Norma passed away before that happened, so Norma’s manuscript sat on a shelf for years. Finally heeding its plea to be published, Marnie embarked on a journey to transcribe it and self-publish the book, to honour her mother’s writing talent. In the process, Marnie decided, with the original publisher’s permission, to turn Norma’s previous two novels into digital format so that Norma’s legacy works would also be available to current fans of Canadian historical fiction.

Reginald George Hampden Smails was born in England, and studied at Manchester University, University of Chicago and the London School of Economics. He served with the British Army in France and Belgium, and he was awarded the gold medal from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales in 1920. Smails was appointed to the faculty of Queen's University in 1922, and developed the final year of material of the new Chartered Accountants course of instruction with Professor Walker. He also wrote two textbooks which were the principle accounting textbooks in Canada for over 15 years: "Accounting Principles", and "Auditing". Smails was Director of the School of Business at Queen's from 1951-1958, and retired in 1962. Queen's University awarded him an honorary degree LL.D in 1973. R.G.H Smails passed away on March 12 1975.

Stanley Thompson Spicer was born on April 12, 1924 in Canning, Nova Scotia. He was educated at King's County Academy, University of New Brunswick (B.Sc.), Acadia University (B.Ed.), and Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts (M. Phys. Ed.). During the Second World War he served with the Merchant Marine in 1941 and the Canadian Army in 1945. In 1947, Stanley Spicer was appointed New Brunswick's first provincial Director of Physical Education. In 1961, he founded the Legion Athletic Leadership Training Program for High School Students, a program that continues to be offered each summer throughout New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. In 1966, he joined the Fitness and Amateur Sport Program of Health and Welfare Canada. During the 1950s, he wrote three books on sports and later published numerous historical books focused on Maritime marine history. Stanley Spicer wrote numerous scripts and was a narrator for the CBC on historical topics. He contributed articles to magazines such as the Atlantic Advocate, Toronto Star Weekly and Canadian Geographic. He died in Halifax, Nova Scotia on June 2, 2007.

R. O. Staples was a Public School Inspector in Huron County South.

Ian Kenneth Steele was a professor of History at Western University.

Florence Bertha Steiner was born November 18, 1877 in Toronto, Ontario. She attended Dufferin School, Jarvis Collegiate. She attended the Toronto Normal School, receiving her teaching certificate. She, along with her sister, ran a private school of many years. Florence moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba where she wrote a weekly fashion article for the Winnipeg Free Press. She also worked as the music and drama reporter for Winnipeg in the Saturday Evening Post and the T. Eaton Company. She had a free-lance career writing brochures and advertising jingles. At the same time she was also producing works for fiction which she published in various newspapers in Western Canada. Steiner published three books. She also belonged to the Canadian Women's Press Club. She died in Toronto on September 26, 1946.

Peter Stevens was an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan.

Phyllis Mary Clarke married Jeffrey Farnol on May 20, 1938. She had one daughter from a previous relationship - Charmian Jane.

David Morice Leigh Farr was born in Vancouver, British Columbia on December 19, 1922. He attended the University of British Columbia in 1940 and graduated in 1944 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree, First Class Honours in History and Economics. Immediately after graduation, Dr. Farr entered the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve for one year after which time he relocated to Toronto and enrolled in the Masters Program (Canadian History, 1945-1946) at the University of Toronto. In 1946 Dr. Farr married Joan R. Fisher and joined Dalhousie University (1946-1947) as a lecturer in Canadian history. One year later, he was appointed lecturer at Carleton College (changed to Carleton University in 1957). During this time, Dr. Farr worked towards a Doctorate in Modern History, at Oxford University (New College and Nuffield College, 1950-1952). In addition, during the fifties Dr. Farr was employed as a Research Officer for the Defense Research Board (Summer 1955 and 1956), and Associate Examiner (1954-1955) and Examiner- in-Chief (1957-1959) for Department of Education, Toronto.
At Carleton University Farr held many roles - lecturer (1947-1952); Assistant Professor (1952-1957); Associate Professor (1957-1961); Professor (1961-1987); Professor Emeritus (1987); Chairman, Department of History (1952-1963); Dean of Arts (1963-1969); Chairman, Council of Arts and Science of Ontario Universities (1967-1968); Member (1974-1976) and Chairman (1977-1985), Senate Committee on Honourary Degrees; and Director, Paterson Centre for International Programs (1979-1985).
Other academic appointments were Visiting Lecturer, University of British Columbia (Summer 1953) and Visiting Associate Professor (1957-1958), and Visiting Associate Professor for the Commonwealth Studies Centre, Duke University (1960).
Dr. Farr has received honours and awards which include the John and Annie Southcott Memorial Scholarship (1943); University Graduate Historical Society Prize (1944); Research Fellowship from the Canadian Social Science Research Council (1950-1951); Studentship (1951-1952); Short-Term Research Grant, Canada Council (1964, 1969-1970, 1976-1977); Research Grant, Canadian Institute of International Affairs (1975-1978); Research Grant, Carleton University (1976-1977, 1985-1986); Professor Emeritus (1987) .

Aegidius Fauteux was born September 27, 1876 in Sainte-Cunégonde, Montreal, Quebec. He studied at the Collège de Montréal and his theological studies at the Grand Seminaire de Montréal. He studied at the Faculty of Law at Laval University in Montreal. He was admitted to the Bar in July 1903, but never pleaded. While at Laval University he won the French Literature Contest in 1900, 1901, and 1902. In 1902, he founded the newspaper "Le Rappel", the youth organization of the Conservative Party, which he continued to publish until In 1905. He became a parliamentary correspondent for "La Patrie" newspaper in Quebec City. From 1909 to 1912, he was editor in the newspaper "La Presse". In 1912, he accepted the position of librarian at the Saint-Sulpice Library.
He received the Violet Officer Ribbon of the French Academy in 1930 and received the Lorne Pierce Medal for History. When the Bibliothèque Saint-Sulpice closed in 1931, his services were retained at the Bibliothèque municipale de Montréal. In 1936, the University of Montreal awarded him an honorary doctorate of arts. He was co-founder and director of the School of Librarianship at the University of Montreal in 1937. The same year, he received the Tyrrell Medal from the Royal Society of Canada. In 1941, the Montreal Historical Society awarded him the Society's Medal for Best Historical Work of the Year. Aegidius Fauteux was a founding member of the Society of Ten, a member of the Montreal Historical Society, the Royal Society of Canada, the Numismatic and Archeology Society, the La Rosse Philanthropic Association and the Commission Historic sites and monuments of Canada. He died April 22, 1941 in Montreal.

Frank Hawkins Underhill was born in Stouffville, Ontario, in 1889. He completed degrees at the University of Toronto and Oxford University. After serving in WW I he returned to a teaching position at the University of Saskatchewan. In 1927, he began teaching at the University of Toronto. taught their for 27 years. An inspiring teacher, Underhill was one of this country’s earliest intellectual historians. He was also a strident social critic, and many of his writings were devoted to political commentary in the pages of the Canadian Forum and other periodicals. Throughout his career, Underhill’s socialist politics raised the ire of both politicians and administrators. As co-founder of the League for Social Reconstruction and one of the architects of the Regina Manifesto, he often found himself fending off charges of “anti-British” behaviour. His perseverance in his political activities led to what was widely regarded as a victory for the preservation of academic freedom in Canadian universities. In 1955, Underhill arrived in Ottawa as the curator of Laurier House. He soon became involved with Carleton University, serving in its Senate and as a professor of political science. Underhill willed his personal library to Carleton, and upon his death in 1971, the Underhill Reading Room was established within the Department of History. In co-operation with Dr. Blair Neatby, an endowment was inaugurated in memory of Dr. Underhill (the Underhill Reading Room Fund) for the purchase of new books for the Reading Room and for the support of special projects, including this annual graduate student colloquium.

Canadian Poet who co-founded "Contemporary Verse" with Dorothy Livesay, Floris McLaren, Anne Marriott, and Alan Crawley in 1941.

Harold A. Freeman was born in Edmonton, Alberta. He received his B. A. in 1922 from the University of Saskatchewan. He earned his M. A. in French Language and literature from the University of Toronto. He joined the staff at McMaster University. Between 1948-1950 Freeman taught while pursuing his Ph.D from the University of Chicago. He was appointed a professor of French at McMaster in 1950 and was director of the language laboratory starting in 1960.

Born August 3, 1888 in Dumbarton, Scotland. Charles Taylor Fyfe earned his M. A. From the University of Glasgow in 1910. He emigrated to Canada, settling in Saskatchewan. He taught English at Central Collegiate Institute in Regina for 29 years, joining the staff in 1930. He served as Editor of Hansard for the Saskatchewan
Legislature for five years. He was also a member of the Regina Public Library Board and was a member of the Sons of Scotland benevolent association Camp Balmoral #177

Hugh Garner was born in Batley, England on February 22, 1913. He emigrated to Canada with his family in 1919. His father left the family soon after they emigrated. He grew up in Toronto. He became a copyboy with one of the newspapers. During the depression he rode the rails. He also fought in the Spanish Civil War and World War II. He became a writer - focusing on working-class Ontario and his preferred genre, the realistic novel. In the span of his career he wrote 100 short stories, 17 books, hundreds of articles and radio and TV scripts. In 1963 Hugh Garner's Best Stories, a collection of his short stories won the Governor General's Award.

John Murray Gibbon was born April 12, 1875 in Udeweller, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) to Scottish parents. He was sent as child to live in Aberdeen, Scotland with a Presbyterian minister. He attended the University of Aberdeen, while there he received a scholarship to study at Oxford where he graduated from with a B. A. in Literature. He also studied at the University of Gottingen in Germany, and received musical training in England where he started his writing career for the "Black and White" newspaper. He left the newspaper in 1907, taking a position with the Canadian Pacific Railway as a European Advertising agent. He stayed in that role until 1913 when he moved to Montreal, Quebec to be the General Publicity Agent. He initiated CPR's sponsorship of literary, artistic, and musical presentations. During the 1920s and 1930s he organized festivals and celebrations for the CPR utilizing Canadian musicians.
Gibbon was also a prolific writer. In 1921 Gibbon was the founding president of the Canadian Authors Association, co-founding it with Stephen Leacock, Pelham Edgar, and B. K. Sandwell. The association established the Governor General's Literacy Awards in 1936 - with Gibbon winning the award in 1938 for "Canadian Mosaic: The Making of a Northern Nation". He was also a member of the Canadian Music Council. His musical writings include the libretto for the ballad opera Prince Charlie and Flora (1928) and Melody and the Lyric, which won a Prix David from the Québec government in 1931. He also provided English translations for many French-Canadian folksongs, including Le Jeu de Robin et Marion and L'Ordre de Bon Temps for the Canadian Folksong and Handicraft Festivals in Québec (1927, 1928), which he organized.
John Murray Gibbon died on July 2, 1952 in Montreal, Quebec.

William Sidney Gilchrist was a United Church medical missionary to Angola. He was born in Pictou County, Nova Scotia in 1901. He studied at Pictou Academy and Dalhousie University. He specialized in public health and preventative medicine and eventually earned the honours and degrees of M.D., M.B.E., C.M., D.P.H., D.T.M., LL.D., and D.D. He worked in the County Health Unit in Alabama for a year, and was appointed medical missionary to Angola by the United Church in 1928. He studied Portuguese, and went to West Africa in 1930, ultimately working among the Ovimbundo people for 37 years. During World War II, he was a member of the Canadian Medical Corps in Europe. He was barred from Angola in 1966, thus worked in the Congo. Sydney Gilchrist died in a car accident in Canada.

J. Royden Gilley worked at the University of Toronto. He was the director of University Extension and was acting warden of Hart House in the 1940s.

Alexander Young Jackson was born on October 3, 1882 in Montreal, Quebec. Jackson began work at age twelve for a Montreal lithography company to help his mother feed the family. Working at the lithography company, his interest in art began to develop and he took evening classes to train as an artist. By 1905, Jackson worked his way to Europe where he spent some time studying art. Later that year, he came back across the pond, where he studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1907, he traveled to Paris to study impressionism with Jean-Paul Laurens at the ‘Academie Julien’. Jackson remained in Paris until 1912; he returned to Montreal to spend time working on his art. It was in Paris – 1910 – that he produced one of his first major pieces entitled “The Edge of Maple Wood”. In 1914 he enlisted in the Canadian Army. He served for two years until he was wounded in June of 1917. He was transferred to the records department as a war artist. Jackson became very discouraged with the Canadian art scene and considered a move to the United States. It was then that he received a letter from two members of the Original 7 asking him to move to Toronto – both MacDonald and Harris were interested in his work. He spent some of this time on art excursions to the St. Lawrence, the Arctic and British Columbia art. In 1919, he formally joined the Group of Seven and exhibited with them throughout the next decade. In 1920, he was elected president of the newly-formed Beaver Hall Group in Montreal; a group which included several influential female artists in an art world where women weren’t considered very influential. By 1924, he began to teach at the Ontario College of Art but resigned after one year to continue his outdoor sketches. After the original sevens last exhibition in 1931, a new group – The Canadian Group of Painters, was formed with Jackson and Lismer as the two mentors. Jackson continued to travel and paint and mentor other young artists in his later years. Visiting Europe again in 1936, and often traveling around Canada on art expeditions. By 1941 he received an honorary doctorate from Queens University in Kingston, Ontario. Jackson traveled to Banff in 1943 where he spent six years teaching at the Banff School of Fine Arts. During this time he was also the art columnist for the Toronto news. By 1953, he returned to Ontario where he received another Honorary doctorate from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. In the 1960’s, he received another two honorary doctorates both from the University of Saskatchewan and from the University of British Columbia. In 1967 he was made a companion of the Order of Canada – the highest honor bestowed on civilians for outstanding achievements and excellence. Jackson was incapacitated by a stroke in 1968, and spent his last six years living at the home of Robert and Signe McMichael – now the McMichael Collection art gallery in Kleinburg. He finally passed away on April 5, 1974 and was put to rest at a small cemetery on the McMichael property.

Bernard (Bere) Joseph Ginsburg was 1894 in Bobroiske, Russia to Joseph Benjamin Ginsburg and Esther (Bassin) Ginsburg. In Russia he attended, but did not complete technical schooling and published a small number of short stories. He immigrated to Canada in 1914 and lived for a time in Fort William, Ontario (now Thunder Bay) before moving to Winnipeg. He attended the University of Manitoba, first in engineering before switching to medicine. After graduation he spent two years in the Canadian army, where he began his specialization in venereal diseases. He campaigned for the creation of a Jewish hospital and was one of the founders of Mount Carmel Clinic, also serving there as President. Ginsburg also served as President of the Jewish Medical Society. An advocate for Jewish education, Ginsburg was one of the founders of the Jewish Radical School (renamed I.L. Peretz School after one year) and served on the school’s board. Other Jewish organizations he was involved with include his presidencies of the Jewish Music and Drama Club and the Montefiore Club and serving as a board member of the Jewish Immigrant Aid Society. Ginsburg also headed the Scotia District Flood Sufferers Association. His writing career continued throughout his life, publishing Yiddish essays and short fiction in Jewish newspapers and magazines. He published the novel "Generation Passeth, Generation Cometh" in Yiddish and his wife, Mary, translated into English. He also started a Yiddish radio program for the Israelite Press. Ginsburg died in Winnipeg in 1962.

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Dr. Michael Gnarowski is a Professor Emeritus in Carleton University’s English Department. His areas of particular interest include Canadian literature, modernist writing and Canadian poetry (19th century and modern). His work has been published widely by McGraw-Hill Ryerson, McClelland and Stewart, University of Toronto Press and Oxford University Press. Dr. Gnarowski has contributed to the Canadian Encyclopedia, McGraw-Hill Dictionary of World Biography and Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry among others. Formerly Director of Carleton University Press, he is presently Series Editor of Voyageur Canadian Classics with the Dundurn Group and General Editor of The Fiction of Hugh MacLennan with McGill-Queen’s University Press.

James G. Frank received his B.Ed from the University of Alberta in 1969 and his M.A. - Economics from the University of Calgary in 1972. He lectured in Industrial Relations and Economics at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario before joining The Conference Board in Canada in 1976.

Marie-Josee Drouin was the Director of the Hudson Institute in Canada. She was an economist and futurist. She authored "Canada has a Future". Before working at Hudson, she worked as a financial analyst with Power Corporation, and was then the special assistant to the Minister of Supply and Services in Ottawa.

Carl E. Beigie received his Ph.D from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) focusing on the Canada-US Automotive Agreement. He was the President of the C. D. Howe Institute in Montreal, Quebec and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Management at McGill University.

Susan (Sue) Wieczorek worked in Student Services at Ryerson University. At one time she held the role of co-ordinator of student services.

Reginald Shepherd was born in Portugal Cove, Newfoundland, in 1924, and spent his formative years in the picturesque communities of Port de Grave and Bishops Cove in Conception Bay. Both of his parents were teachers. As a young boy, he accompanied the local artist A.E. Harris, on sketching trips around the Conception Bay area. Upon graduation from high school in 1941, Shepherd found work as a sign painter at the American Naval Base at Argentia. In 1942, he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force and served as a paramedic. He was posted at Gander, Newfoundland in 1943, where he took evening art lessons from a British serviceman who was also a graduate of the Glasgow School of Art. One of Shepherd's paintings from this period, For Freedom, was exhibited in a group show of servicemen's art at the National Gallery of Canada in 1944. After the war, Shepherd enrolled in the Ontario College of Art, where he met fellow Newfoundlander, Helen Parsons. They married in 1948. The couple moved back to St. John's in 1949 and established the Newfoundland Academy of Art (NAA), the first art school in the province. Initially, the NAA was a house in downtown St. John's renovated to accommodate the school, the Shepherds' own private studios, and their living quarters. During the 1950s, Shepherd also lectured in art at Memorial University of Newfoundland and began an art therapy program at the Waterford Hospital. He was awarded a Royal Society of Canada Fellowship in 1956, which allowed him to study for a year in Europe, primarily in Holland. After the NAA's closure in 1961, Shepherd taught art for 18 years at Prince of Wales Collegiate, a St. John's high school. He also worked on his studio art, chiefly serigraphs and watercolours of the Conception Bay area. He received much critical acclaim. He was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1976 and received an honorary degree from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1988.

Nellie Lyle Pattinson was born October 24, 1878, in Bowmanville, Ontario. Pattinson graduated from the University of Toronto’s household science course in 1907. She was a “physiological chemistry” instructor there until 1915, when she was hired to teach at Toronto’s new Central Technical School, one of Canada’s first technical schools. With Annie Laird, the first household science principal at U of T, Pattinson authored a 1917 book of recipes developed at Central Tech. In 1920 she became the school’s director of domestic science. She was asked by The Ryerson Press to edit a new Canadian book of recipes.

Norman Penlington was born in England in 1908. He earned his B.A. (1933) and M.A. (1937) from the University of Toronto and his Ph.D. (1946) from the University of California. Penlington joined the faculty at Michigan State College (now Michigan State University) in 1949 to teach humanities in the Basic College. He retired as professor emeritus in 1979. He died August 12, 1999 at the age of 90.

Martha Eugenie Perry was born in Ontario in 1881. She was able to pursue her literary career due to a modest inheritance from her father. After her schooling at the Lindsay Collegiate Institute, Perry took up journalism, in 1909 contributing to the Dauphin Herald in Dauphin, Manitoba under the name "Guinevere." By 1920 she was steadily selling fiction and articles to many Canadian newspapers and periodicals, eventually expanding to outlets in the United States, Britain, and Ireland. Her "Kanady Kids" column first appeared in the Toronto Evening Telegram in 1926 and was later syndicated in 6 papers, with illustrations by Peggy Harvey. A member of the Canadian Women's Press Club, Perry was also very active in the Victoria branch of the Canadian Authors Association and was on the editorial board of The Crucible. She self-published a collection of short stories, wrote a number of plays, and in 1934 won the British Columbia Drama Festival Award for a children's play. Poetry was her most loved medium, resulting in five volumes of verse. Although she spent several decades in Victoria, when Martha died in 1958 she was buried alongside her family at All Saint's Anglican Cemetery in Cannington, Ontario.

William Rothwell Plewman was born in Bristol, England on August 3, 1880. He emigrated to Canada in 1888. He left school at the age of 13 and was a messenger boy and typesetter for Toronto’s Methodist Book Room. He joined ‘The Toronto News’ as a reporter in 1889 and stayed with the paper until it changed ownership in 1903. He then joined the ‘Toronto Star’ and became the only Conservative reporter on a Liberal newspaper. In 1912 Plewman left the ‘Star’ to become the editor of ‘The Sentinel’ but this only lasted for fifteen months as he quit the Sentinel over a matter of principle. Back at ‘The Star’ in 1914 he became the lead writer on Canada’s war effort during W.W. 1. He was elected as an alderman for Ward 5 in 1918, 1919, and 1922. Plewman was once again to be the lead reporter for ‘The Star’ on Canada’s war effort in World War 2. He wrote a daily column titled “The War Reviewed”. Plewman was the author of four books; “My Diary of the Great War”’ – 1918, “The People’s War Book” – 1919, “Pictorial History of the Great War” – 1919 and Adam Beck and the Ontario Hydro” – 1947. He retired from ‘The Star’ in 1955 after fifty years on its staff. He died on September 24, 1963.

Edwin John Dove Pratt was born February 4, 1882 in Western Bay, Newfoundland. He received his education at St. John's Methodist College 1888-1901 (3 year interuption); earned his B. A. from Victoria College in 1911; his M. A. From the University of Toronto in 1912; and his B. D. from Victoria University in 1913. That same year he was ordained as a Methodist Minister. He earned his Ph.D from the University of Toronto in 1917.
He was appointed a demonstrator-lecturer in Psychology, University of Toronto between 1913-1920; He joined the faculty of Department of English, Victoria College, at the invitation of Pelham Edgar in 1920 and was promoted to professor in 1930, and senior professor in 1938. He retired and was appointed Professor Emeritus in 1953. Pratt served as Literary Adviser to Editorial Board of Acta Victoriana and was a founder and the first editor of Canadian Poetry Magazine. He belonged to the Royal Society of Canada (elected a Fellow in 1930); was on the editorial board of Saturday Night magazine (1952-58); Canadian Authors' Association (Honorary President, 1955); Empire Club of Canada (Honorary Member, 1963); Arts and Letters Club (first Honorary Member to be elected, 1963). Pratt was awarded: Governor-General's medal, for The fable of the goats and other poems (1937); Lorne Pierce Gold Medal, for distinguished services to Canadian literature, Royal Society (1940); Governor-General's medal in 1940; Governor-General's medal, for Towards the last spike (1952); Gold Medal, for distinguished service to Canadian literature (1952); Canada Council award (1957); Civic Award of Merit, City of Toronto (1959); and Canada Council medal, for distinction in literature (1961).
E.J. Pratt died April 26, 1964

Jonathan D. Springer attended Columbia University, graduating in 1932. He lived in China for a year as a Pulitzer traveling fellow. He was an assistant public relation officer for Rockefeller Center, managing director of Religious Book Club, Omnibook magazine publisher and owner of Book Club Guild, Inc. He died July 30, 1972.

Helen Mary Greenwood Reynolds (nee Campbell) was born on September 15, 1884 in Regina, Saskatchewan. She grew up in Assiniboia and the Moose Mountain Indian Reserve. In 1897 her family moved to Nelson, British Columbia. She married Godwin Dickson in 1911, and was widowed 5 years later. She later married a teacher Herbert Reynolds. Widowed for a second time she supported her family as a freelance writer. During her career she published 22 novels and a travelogue. Her books published for boys were done under the pseudonym Dickson Reynolds. She died in Vancouver, British Columbia on January 22, 1969.

Matthew Seddon received his honours B. A. and Masters in Public Policy from the University of Toronto. He has worked in a variety of jobs including as an intergovernmental affairs officer in cabinet office with the Government of Ontario. He currently works as a policy advisor at Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship.

Charles Donnell Oberdorf was born in Sunbury, Snyder County, Pennsylvania, to Don and Helen Oberdorf, née Potteiger on February 25th 1941. Oberdorf graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) with a BFA. Oberdorf’s first job after university was with CBS owned and operated WCAU-TV in Philadelphia for TV Ten Around Town, a local public affairs program, which set the tone for his life-long career as a writer/editor/author/producer and some-time on-air host. In 1966 Oberdorf was hired as a junior producer for the CBC’s This Hour has Seven Days show, and subsequently succeeded in carving out a distinguished career in Canada as a freelance journalist, who won numerous writing recognitions, including the U.S. Lowell Thomas Award and several Canadian National Magazine Awards. In 2008 he received the Canadian magazine industry award for “Outstanding Lifetime Achievement,” in recognition of a 30-year writing and editing career, that included the coordinating of a continuing education program comprised of 14 courses on various aspects of Magazine and Web Publishing for Ryerson University. During his freelance writing career, Oberdorf authored countless articles, edited three magazines, and published three commissioned books on the then-fledgling world of Microfinance. Oberdorf passed away on September 16th 2011.

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Evelyn May Richardson was the daughter of Hattie (Larkin) and Arthur Douglas Fox. She graduated from Halifax Academy, attended Dalhousie University, and taught in various schools in Nova Scotia. In 1926 she married Morrill Richardson and moved to Massachusetts. In 1929 the Richardson's moved to Bon Portage Island as lighthouse keepers. They had three children and resided on the island for thirty-five years, retiring to Doane's Point near Barrington, N.S. Evelyn Richardson wrote and published works both of fiction and non-fiction, winning a number of awards and commendations including the Governor General Award in 1945 for "We Keep a Light". She held offices in the Shelburne Historical Society and the Cape Sable Historical Society.

Geoffrey Blundell Riddehough was born on March 18, 1900, in Bramhall, Cheshire, England. Educated in Penticton, B.C., he went on to become a UBC Fairview graduate, earning a first class honours B.A. (1924) in Latin and English in addition to being awarded the Governor Generalʹs gold medal as head of his graduating class. Riddehough obtained his M.A. in English from the University of California, Berkeley (1925). After teaching in the English Department at the University of Alberta for several years on a contract basis, the Nichol Scholarship enabled Riddehough to pursue his studies and research interests in London and at La Sorbonne in Paris (1929‐1932). Returning to Canada in the autumn of 1932, he set aside his PhD. studies at the University of Toronto to become a classics instructor at UBC. Riddehough joined the UBC faculty in 1933 and remained a member of the Department of Classics for the next thirty‐eight years. While at UBC, he continued to pursue his education, obtaining a M.A. (1939) in classics and a Ph.D. from Harvard (1951) with a thesis on the medieval poet Joseph of Exeter. While studying at Harvard, his dissertation essay ʺDe Medeae In Iasonem Odioʺ won the Bowdoin Latin Prize (1950). At UBC, Riddehough specialized in Medieval Latin and was noted for his satirical verse. He died on April 6, 1978.

Philip Henry Godsell, 1889-1961, was born in Wolverhampton, England. He joined the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) and arrived at York Factory, Manitoba in 1906. He worked for the HBC until 1929, during which time he worked in the Keewatin, Lake Superior, Mackenzie River and Western Arctic districts. He worked as an auditor in Winnipeg, 1929-1936, then full time as a writer and journalist, 1936-1941. He was an auditor for the government during the Second World War, and later for Canadian Pacific Airlines. He joined the Glenbow Foundation in 1956 as a historical researcher. For much of his life he was a prolific writer, and he produced many books, short stories, radio broadcasts and articles, predominantly about his experiences as a fur trader and Arctic traveller, and about Indians, Inuit, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), and pioneering. His published books include Arctic Trader, Red Hunters of the Snows, and They Got Their Man. His outdoor, adventure and detective short stories were published in a wide variety of journals and newspapers. In 1920 he married Jean Walker, 1896- , who also an author.

Paul Goetsch worked at Universitat Koln in Koln, West Germany.

William Charles Good was born on February 24, 1976 near Brantford, Ontario. He was a farmer, co-operative and agrarian leader. A student of social and religious issues and a member of a family long involved in farm organizations, Good was on the executive of the Farmers' Association in 1904. In 1907 he helped amalgamate the association with the Dominion Grange and became president of the new organization in 1912. A proponent of the need for farmer unity, Good, with E. A. Partridge and E. C. Drury, drafted the constitution of the Canadian Council of Agriculture in 1909. In 1914 he helped organize the United Farmers of Ontario and the United Farmers' Co-operative. Good was a leader of the Progressive Party and sat as an Independent-Progressive in the Commons 1921-25, where he advocated electoral reform, banking reform, temperance and tariff reform. Elected president of the Co-operative Union of Canada in 1921, he held that post until 1945.

William Ferguson Gregory was born in Collingwood, Ontario 2 May 1891. Prior to enlisting he was a member of the 35th Simcoe Foresters for 2 years and spent one summer as a missionary in Saskatchewan. He enlisted with the 4th University Company 13 October 1915 and was taken on strength with the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry 28 April 1916. He played violin with the Base Depot Orchestra and the Princess Pat's Comedy Company. Wounded at Sanctuary Wood, 2 June 1916 he was struck off strength 12 July 1916. After 3 months convalescing in England, Gregory sailed for Canada 28 October 1916 and spent a year in hospital in Canada. He was eventually discharged 31 October 1917 as medically unfit. After returning to Canada in 1917 he finished a BA at Toronto University and taught business at the Western Technical-Commercial School in Toronto until his retirement in 1956. He passed away 25 July 1969 in San Diego, California.

Janet Lauder was Edmonton’s first telephone operator. Fearless and fiercely attached to her husband, she joined his unit oversees during World War I, serving as a nurse, and had a long record of distinguished public service after the war.

Cy Groves lived in Calgary, Alberta and was possibly a high school English teacher.