The University of Waterloo was founded in 1957. For more information see https://uwaterloo.ca/about/who-we-are/history

Sydney (Sam) George Ure Smith established the fine art publishing company Ure Smith Pty Ltd in 1939.

Studio was located in Eureka, California.

Vandyke & Brown was a photography studio located in Liverpool, England during the second half of the nineteenth century.

Victor Gollancz established his publishing company, Victor Gollancz Ltd in 1928. The company was based in offices in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London. It was to become one of the most profitable and successful firms in British publishing history. Gollancz had a flair for marketing and the company quickly made an impression with its bright yellow book jackets and London literary parties. Gollancz angered his rivals with his large scale advertising campaigns and whole-page newspaper advertisements, which were unusual for the time. When Gollancz died, in 1967, his daughter Livia Gollancz took over the company. She sold it to Houghton Mifflin, a Boston based independent publishing company in 1989, in preparation for her retirement. By that time the company was publishing a wide range of both fiction and non fiction books including science fiction, thrillers and children's books. Houghton Mifflin sold Victor Gollancz to rival publisher Cassell plc in October 1992. The Covent Garden offices in Henrietta Street were vacated and the Gollancz operation moved to Cassell's offices in the Strand, London. It was at this time that the company archives were deposited in the Modern Records Centre. Victor Gollancz Ltd was incorporated into Orion Books in 1998 and is now the science fiction and fantasy imprint of Orion Publishing Group Ltd.

The Alumni Association for Victoria College in the University of Toronto.

Voigtländer was founded in Vienna, Archduchy of Austria, in 1797, by Johann Christoph Voigtländer. Voigtländer produced mathematical instruments, precision mechanical products, optical instruments, including optical measuring instruments and opera glasses, and is the oldest name in cameras.

Voigtländer was a significant long-established company within the optics and photographic industry, headquartered in Braunschweig, Germany, and today continues as a trademark for a range of photographic products.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voigtl%C3%A4nder

William James Gage was born in Toronto. He was was educated in Brampton and at the Toronto Normal School. Gage taught for three years and then briefly studied medicine. He was hired as a bookkeeper by publisher Adam Miller & Company. After Miller's death in 1875, Gage became a partner in the business. In 1879, the firm was renamed W. J. Gage & Company. The company specialized in textbooks, but also printed writing paper and envelopes. It was renamed Gage Educational and is now part of Nelson Publishing.

W. W. Norton & Company was founded by William Warder Norton and his wife Mary Dows Herter Norton, hired a stenographer and began transcribing and publishing the lectures delivered at the People’s Institute, the adult division of Cooper Union in New York City in 1923. Norton and his wife used their living room table to assemble these lectures into pamphlets, which they then boxed in sets of twenty to sell as a whole. As Mrs. Norton later remembered, “Warder would carry the results by taxi in an old Drew suitcase that had accompanied my parents on their wedding journey.” The Nortons soon expanded their program beyond the People’s Institute, acquiring manuscripts by celebrated academics from America and abroad and entering the fields of philosophy, music, and psychology, in which they published acclaimed works by Bertrand Russell, Paul Henry Lang, and Sigmund Freud (as his primary American publisher). William Warder Norton died shortly after WW II. Within a few years, Mrs. Norton, who had been so instrumental in the firm’s development, decided that the company should be entrusted to the next generation of employees, and she offered most of her stock to its leading editors and managers. The Joint Stockholders Agreement that was subsequently signed gave the ownership of the firm to its active employees; that agreement remains in force to this day, the number of shareholders greatly expanded to include nearly all current Norton employees. document printed with record speed, a significant portion of its profits going to charity.

Wadsworth Publishing Company, Inc. operates as a provider of higher educational materials for the humanities, social sciences, and behavioral sciences and mathematics, science, and statistics. The company operates under the brands Brooks/Cole, Duxbury, Heinle & Heinle, Schirmer, and Wadsworth and West. Wadsworth Publishing Company, Inc. was formerly known as Walsworth Brothers Company and changed the name to Wadsworth Publishing Company, Inc. in 1956. The company was founded in 1937 and is based in Belmont, California. Wadsworth Publishing Company, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Cengage Learning, Inc.

Walker Publishing Company, Inc. publishes and markets adult non-fiction and children's books. The company was founded in 1959 and is based in New York City. As of 12/31/2004, Walker Publishing Company, Inc. is a subsidiary of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

The Wartime Information Board was established on September 9, 1942, replacing the Bureau of Public Information which had formed at the start of WWII. By 1942 the government believed that its troubles over conscription derived from inadequate publicity. In August of 1942, The Cabinet approved the creation of a largely autonomous information board. Charles Vining was the chairman until January 1943, when educator Norman A.M. MacKenzie succeeded him. The real power on the board was held by its general manager, John Grierson, who promoted the war as a vehicle for social change. The approach naturally created some political controversy. In 1944 Grierson was succeeded by A. Davidson Dunton, who followed Grierson's general direction until the end of the war. The board influenced the public's interpretation of the war, and pioneered systematic public-opinion polling in Canada.

Founded in 1949 by George Weidenfeld and Nigel Nicolson in London, England. Weidenfeld & Nicolson acquired the publisher Arthur Baker Ltd in 1959 and ran it as an imprint into the 1990s. It also acquired J. M. Dent and Sons in 1988. In the early 1990's Weidenfeld and Nicolson was bought by Orion Publishing Group, one of its first acquisitions after the group's founding in 1991. Founders Nigel Nicolson died in 2004 and George Weidenfeld died in 2016 at the age of 96.

The Wendaban Stewardship Authority (WSA) was created through a Memorandum of Understanding of April, 1990 and an Addendum of May 23, 1991 in which the Ontario and Teme-Augama Anishnabai governments agreed to form a “Stewardship Council” with co-management jurisdiction over four geographic townships in the Sudbury/Nipissing district of northern Ontario: Acadia; Shelburne; Canton; and Delhi. The total land area is approximately 400 square kilometres. The area is located northwest of Lake Temagami and includes the shores of Lakes Wakimika, Diamond, and the northern part of Obabika.

F.J. Westlake operated a photography studio under his own name, that was located in Chatham, Ontario.

Westlake Brothers operated a photography studio that was located in Chatham, Ontario

The White Oak Pottery, owned by John and Sharon Secord. The company originally started as White Oak Pottery (owned by Ottelie Book) which was a pottery studio/curio shop from Oakville, Ontario, Canada. Sharon and John Secord purchased the company (Ottelie Book was Sharon’s mother) and they began to design and manufacture ceramic products in the early 70’s out of their farm in Acton, Ontario, Canada. They supplied ceramic products to the Canadian Brewing Company, Molsons/Labatt’s Canada, Hudson Bay Company, Le Chateau, Bowrings, Birks, Eatons, Simpsons, Sears, Shendly Distillery, Seagrams, and The World Fair in Japan 1970 to name a few of their clients. They also expanded into the United States and manufactured ceramics under the White Oak Pottery label until the early 80’s when they decided to focus more on ceramic product design and manufaturing molds to make ceramic products as the market changed. They opened the new company as John Secord’s Masterline Molds. They designed ceramic products and sold molds primarily to allow others to manufacture ceramics. They have worked with many companies / film studios/ artisans internationally through the years creating products/molds and custom product/s molds.

William Kimber & Company Limited was a British publishing company.

William Morrow and Company is an American publishing company founded by William Morrow in 1926. The company was acquired by Scott Foresman in 1967, sold to Hearst Corporation in 1981, and sold to News Corporation (now News Corp) in 1999. The company is now an imprint of HarperCollins.

In 1882 William Notman partnered with his son and the photography studio was re-named "William Notman and Son" (often written Wm Notman and Son), which it remained until the studio closed in 1993.

Williams & Williams was a photography studio that began operating during the late 1800s located in Cardiff, Wales.

A photography studio located in Woodstock, Ontario that was operated by Willis & Bryant in 1869.

William B. Eerdmans Sr. emigrated to Grand Rapids from the Netherlands in 1902 and became a book peddler while attending Calvin Theological Seminary. In 1911 he quit the seminary and formed Eerdmans-Sevensma Company with Brant Sevensma. They specialized in theological texts. In 1922 Eerdmans was the sole owner of the company, renamed William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. Much Eerdmans' initial success was predicated on theological and reference works, the company also concerned itself with other genres. William B. Eerdmans, Sr., died in 1966 and was succeeded by his son, William B. Eerdmans, Jr.

Wm. R. Whittaker, Ltd. was a maker of aircraft parts based in Hollywood (Los Angeles, California/USA). It was founded by William and Robert Whittaker. From 1947 to the mid-1950s they produced subminiature viewfinder cameras for 16mm film.

World Wildlife Fund has worked to protect the future of nature. WWF-Canada is the country’s largest international conservation organization, with the active support of hundreds of thousands of Canadians. We connect the power of a strong global network to on-the-ground conservation efforts across the nation, with offices in Victoria, Vancouver, Smithers, B.C., Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Halifax, St. John's, Iqaluit and Inuvik. Our mission: To reverse the decline of wildlife by working toward:

All freshwater ecosystems and the wildlife that depend on them in good condition.
Healthy marine ecosystems on all three coasts.
A vibrant and ecologically sound future for the Arctic.
Resilient communities across the country that enhance nature.

For more information visit www.wwf.ca

The Wrigley Printing Company Limited was located at 1112 Seymour Street in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Wynne S. Smith was a photography studio that operated in Painesville, Ohio during the late nineteenth century.

Yale University Press was founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day. He would act as director until the mid-1940s when he became Chairman of the Board. For the next 15 years there was succession of directors that included Edgar Furniss, Norman Donaldson, and, in 1959, Chester Kerr, who oversaw the Press for the next twenty years. Also in 1959, the Press moved its headquarters from 143 Elm Street to 149 York Street. The year 1961 brought two major changes. The Press formally became a department of Yale, further enhancing its ties to the University (though it remained, and still remains, financially and operationally autonomous), and in the same year it established a London branch—then called Yale University Press, Limited—to sell books abroad. Nearly a decade later the role of the London branch began to expand, in part due to Yale University’s commitment to assist in the publishing efforts of the Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, established in London in 1970. In 1973, John Nicoll was hired to oversee the Press’s London office, which he did for the next thirty years, developing it into a full-fledged editorial division with its own acquisitions strategy and identity, its own reputation for excellence, and its own specialties—not least among them the publishing of extremely high quality, critically acclaimed art books and distinguished works of social history. The name of the division was changed to Yale University Press, London, in 1984, and today the London office, overseen by its present director, Robert Baldock, is responsible for nearly one third of Yale University Press’s titles
In 2001 Yale partnered with Harvard University Press and MIT Press to create TriLiteral LLC, a limited liability partnership to manage distribution of all three presses’ publications, and together built a 155,000-square-foot warehouse and distribution center in Rhode Island.

Matthew Stankiewicz was born in Wilno, Poland on January 3, 1926. In 1949 he graduated from the School of Architecture,University of Liverpool, England. He later immigrated to Canada to work with the Department of Public Works and the Canadian Government Exhibition Commission.In 1958 he began a private architectural practice in Ottawa. His buildings appear primarily in Ontario and New Brunswick. He became the Ottawa editor for the Canadian Architect magazinein 1959. In 1965 he won a national award for his design of a house. Along with architects R. Robbie and P.Schoeler, Stankiewicz designed the Canadian Government Pavilion for Expo '67 and was Chairman of the jury which selected the design for the Canadian Pavilion at Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan. He died in 1979.

Zeiss Ikon was formed in Germany in 1926 by the merger of camera manufacturers Contessa-Nettel, Ernemann, Goerz and Ica.

The company formed one part of the Carl Zeiss Foundation, another part being the optical company Carl Zeiss. Logically, most of the Zeiss Ikon cameras were equipped with Carl Zeiss lenses; and the formerly independent companies, in particular Goerz, had to shut down their own lens manufacture.

The merged company was also obliged to use Compur shutters for 80% of its cameras. Thus only the simplest cameras could get cheaper shutters like the Klio. Soon AG Hahn für Optik und Mechanik, Kassel, and Goerz Photochemisches Werk GmbH, Berlin, joined the Zeiss Ikon syndicate. Both companies, Zeiss Ikon and Hahn, were also in the business of producing keys, latches an lock cylinders. This business was more and more concentrated in the former optical factories of Goerz in Berlin.

The group became one of the big companies in the photo technology capital Dresden, with plants in Stuttgart and Berlin. It continued several products of its constituents for a while, but also created new ones like the quality folder Ikonta and the medium format rangefinder camera Super Ikonta. Until WWII Zeiss Ikon was the world's market leading maker of 8mm movie cameras. In addition to cameras and lenses, Zeiss Ikon also produced some optics for medical applications.

Source: http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Zeiss_Ikon