In 1995 the Clerk of the Privy Council established nine Task Forces led by Deputy Ministers. The intent was to explore a variety of issues, identified in the wake of Program Review. The nine task forces and their mandates were:
Service Delivery Models - to examine service delivery issues from a citizen's point of view

Overhead Services - to identify ways to improve management of overhead services on a government-wide level, with an emphasis on cost savings

Federal Presence - to develop an on-going database on federal presence across Canada, examine how that presence may change over time, and identify issues from a geographical or regional perspective

Federal Presence Abroad - to report on programs and Canadian government representation outside Canada, and to determine how Federal government representation overseas could be made more cost-effective

Strengthening Policy Capacity - to review current policy development capacity and to recommend improvements

Policy Planning - to provide an assessment of the policy agenda to date, survey the environment, and provide strategic advice on key policy issues

Managing Horizontal Policy Issues - to develop practical recommendations no the management of horizontal issues focusing on improved coherence, and improved collaboration

Values and Ethics - to examine the relationship between existing and evolving values in the public service, and to consider ways to align values with current challenges

A Planning Tool for Thinking about the future of the Public Service - to identify long-term trends which influence the Public Service, and develop a strategic planning tool

Paul F. Widdows was a professor in Modern Languages and Literature at Concordia University.

Author

John William Coulter was born in Belfast, Ireland February 12, 1888. He is best known for his historical trilogy Riel (written and produced 1950), The Crime of Louis Riel (1968) and The Trial of Louis Riel (1968). Most of his other plays are on Irish subjects. Among them, The House in the Quiet Glen (1937) won the Dominion Drama Festival Bessborough Trophy and The Drums Are Out was premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Ireland, in 1948. With composer Healey Willan he created the first 2 operas commissioned and broadcast by the CBC: Transit through Fire (1942) and Deirdre of the Sorrows (1944). His nondramatic works include a biography of Winston Churchill and a record of his courtship, Prelude to a Marriage (1979).

Founded in the aftermath of the Second World War, the Council of Europe is Europe’s oldest political organisation. The idea of convening a European assembly first arose at the Congress of Europe, held in The Hague on 10 May 1948 by the International Committee of the Movements for European Unity. In the years immediately following the Second World War, many pro-European movements actively promoted the establishment of an organisation that would prevent a return to totalitarian regimes and would defend fundamental freedoms, peace and democracy. The Congress closed with the participants adopting a political resolution calling for the convening of a European assembly, the drafting of a charter of human rights and the setting up of a court of justice responsible for ensuring compliance with that charter. The Council was signed into being August, 3, 1949.

William Cranston was born on May 1st, 1914 in Toronto, Ontario, the son of James Herbert Cranston and Eva Wilkins. He received his early education in Toronto schools before attending McMaster University from 1932 to 1935, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree.

From 1929 to 1932, Cranston was a reporter with the Toronto Star. During the Second World War, he worked in Ottawa with the Wartime Prices and Trade Board. At the same time, he was one of the owners of the Midland Free Press and printed the R.A. News, which was the newsletter of the Ottawa Civil Service Recreational Association. He served as Manager of the Midland Free Press Ltd. from 1935 to 1940, and President from 1947 to 1955. He also served as Vice-President and President of the Shoe Corporation of Canada Ltd.

In addition to his career, Cranston was active in numerous community and journalistic associations. He was President of the Class A Newspapers of Canada (1955-1956) and Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association (1951-1956). Cranston also served as President of the Midland Chamber of Commerce (1951- 1952); Secretary Treasurer of the Georgian Bay Development Association (1957-1964); and President of the Huronia Historic Sites Association. In addition, Cranston was the Trent Area representative of the Canada Ontario Rideau Trent Severn Agreement Board and Advisory Committee. Moreover, Cranston chaired the Ontario Economic Council as well as the Ontario Archaeological and Historic Sites Board. While with the Economic Council, he became involved in the Ontario Centennial Project, the Ontario Science Centre (1963- 1969) and the Ontario Heritage Foundation (1966-1974).

He married Viola Wheeler on May 11, 1937, and their had one son, John.

Married Laura Harvie, after completing degrees in arts at Victoria College in Cobourg and in theology after the institution moved to Toronto. For a few years William held charges in rural Ontario, but in 1900, after laryngitis threatened his career as a preacher, he obtained the position of assistant editor of the Christian Guardian (Toronto), the Methodist Church of Canada’s weekly paper.

Archibald Joseph Cronin was born July 19, 1896 in Cardross, Dumbartonshire, Scotland. He died January 6, 1981 in Montreux, Switzerland.
Cronin was educated at the University of Glasgow and served as a surgeon in the Royal Navy during World War I. He practiced in South Wales (1921–24) and then, as medical inspector of mines, investigated occupational diseases in the coal industry. He opened medical practice in London in 1926 but quit because of ill health, using his leisure to write his first novel, Hatter’s Castle (1931; filmed 1941), the story of a Scottish hatmaker obsessed with the idea of the possibility of his noble birth. This book was an immediate success in Britain. Cronin’s fourth novel, The Stars Look Down (1935; filmed 1939), which chronicles various social injustices in a North England mining community from 1903 to 1933, gained him an international readership. It was followed by The Citadel (1937; filmed 1938), which showed how private physicians’ greed can distort good medical practice. The Keys of the Kingdom (1942; filmed 1944), about a Roman Catholic missionary in China, was one of his most popular books. Cronin’s subsequent novels include The Green Years (1944; filmed 1946), Shannon’s Way (1948), The Judas Tree (1961), and A Song of Sixpence (1964). One of his more interesting late works is A Thing of Beauty (1956), a study of a gifted young painter who must break free of middle-class conventions to realize his potential.

Born March 10, 1910, in Holbrook, MA, Dr. Croteau was educated in Worcester, MA, earning his BA (1931) at Holy Cross College and his Master's (1932) and Doctorate (1935) in Economics from Clark University. He began his career in 1933 at Prince of Wales College and St. Dunstan's courtesy of the philanthropic Carnegie Corporation of New York who gave funding to set up a regional library and endow the Carnegie Chair of Economics and Sociology to be shared between the two institutions. Over the next 12 years he also served as Director of Adult Education Programs, Manager of the Credit Union League and the PEI Cooperative Union, and Executive Secretary of the Adult Education League. For his tireless labor on behalf of working families, he became known in Canada as "The Apostle of the Co-operative Movement."
While in PEI, he and fellow co-operative organizer Bram Chandler were the main proponents of the Antigonish Movement, a co-operative movement founded by Father Moses Coady St. F X's Extension Department.
Dr. Croteau left Prince Edward Island around 1946 to take up teaching positions at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Catholic University in Washington, DC, before settling at Notre Dame in 1953. At various times he was a consultant to the US Bureau of Federal Credit Unions, the Social Security Administration, Director of the Canadian Political Science Association as well as Director of the Credit Union National Association. In addition to these national positions, between 1960 and 1969 he was President of the Board of Directors of the Notre Dame Federal Credit Union.
In 1955 he testified before the powerful Ways and Means Committee of the U.S. Congress to advocate retention of the federal income tax-exempt status of credit unions, a concession they still enjoy today.
He wrote four major books and produced over 20 monographs on credit union topics, 30 articles in professional journals as well as numerous book reviews. He was awarded two other honorary doctorates besides UPEI's(1976): from St. Joseph's University (1956) and the University of Moncton (1976).

Thomas Oliver (1776-1853), apprentice compositor to James Robertson, printer, Horsewynd; in 1801 he took George Boyd (died 1843) into partnership. Catalogues (1811-1841) for juvenile books. Also printed and sold abridged histories in fancy covers and songbooks. Apprentices: Hugh Sinclair, printer, Burgess 28 August 1828; John Thomson, printer, of Elbe Street, Leith, apprenticed 12 October 1812, Burgess 15 September 1840.
The business gained a reputation in medical publishing and educational text-books and was particularly strong in overseas markets; it was taken over by George and James Thin and John Grant in 1896; acquired by the Financial Times organisation in 1962; the publishing arm was later sold to Longman's (which became Longman Pearson); ceased operations in Edinburgh in 1990.
The archives of Oliver and Boyd are on deposit in the National Library of Scotland.

Married Thelma Bernice Holmes and was an author.

Charles Trick Currelly was born at Exeter, Ontario in 1876. Although trained as a Methodist minister, following his graduation from the University of Toronto, he devoted himself to archaeological work, first in Egypt, and later in Crete and Asia Minor. It was in Egypt that Currelly discovered he had a talent for collecting: a nose for bargains and an ability to distinguish the genuine article from the fake. He began collecting for people in Britain and Canada, including Sir Edmund Walker, the father of a classmate and a prominent Torontonian who wished to establish a major museum in the city. With money provided by private donors, the University of Toronto and the Government of Ontario, Currelly began collecting for the future museum. He was appointed director of the Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology in 1914 and held this position until his retirement in 1946. Currelly’s energy and audacity helped advance the new Museum’s interests. In 1907 while in Egypt, he was visited on site by a group of Torontonians. He was making a cast of a temple wall for the Museum but explained he lacked the money to colour it. Sir Edmund Osler and Harry Warren offered the needed funds and later became lifelong supporters of the ROM. Currelly never ceased looking for acquisitions and the collections grew enormously through the late 1910s and the 1920s. A visionary museum-builder, Currelly dedicated his life to the ROM. He believed museums had an educational purpose: to display the material achievements of humanity through all time, so as to inspire the present-day. When he finally retired, the ROM re-named the old Armour Court as the Currelly Gallery (now Samuel Hall Samuel Hall Currelly Gallery Currelly Gallery). Shortly before his death, he published his autobiography, I Brought the Ages Home. The book is filled with tales of the adventures and people he encountered in his travels and museum work.

Author

Thompson Ahern is a customs broker company started in 1912. It is still in existence today under the name "Thompson Ahern International".

N. Israel was located in Amsterdam

Henri d' Arles (born Henri Beaudet) was born September 9, 1870 in Princeville, County of Arthabaska, son of Athanase Beaudet, postal worker, and Marie-Elisabeth-Esther Prince. After studying at the Brothers of the Sacred Heart and the Brothers of the Christian Schools, he did his classical course at the Petit Séminaire de Québec, then entered the Dominicans in Saint-Hyacinthe, in 1889. In 1890, he pronounced his vows under the name of Brother Athanasius and is ordained in Saint-Hyacinthe, on March 25, 1895, by Bishop Decelles. He practiced the holy ministry successively in Saint-Hyacinthe, New York, Lewiston, Maine, and Fall River, Massachusetts, between 1895 and 1902. In 1902, Beaudé asked his exclostation to the authorities of the Order of Saint Dominic to pass to the secular clergy, but will only get his secularization brief in 1912. In 1906, he made a trip to the Holy Land and enrolled in the Bible School of Jerusalem. Later, he visits France. It was then that he chose his pseudonym, Henri d'Arles, as an admiration for this Provençal city and for his great poet, Frédéric Mistral. Agregated in the diocese of Manchester, New Hampshire, by Bishop Georges-Albert Guertin, the first Franco-American bishop, in 1912, he was appointed chaplain of the convent of the Ladies Augustine, in the suburbs of Manchester, in 1918. Henri d'Arles is Assistant chaplain of the Canadian-American Association until January 1925, when Bishop Guertin withdraws his chaplains from the Association, considering it too radical. In January 1919, d'Arles participated in the founding of the militant but ephemeral French Rally League in America. In 1921, he made a second trip to Paris, where he studied literature and history at the Sorbonne, the College de France and the Catholic Institute. Laureate of the French Academy, recipient of the Palmes académiques of the French government, member of the Corporation of the Christian publicists of Paris and the Union of the French writers, the career and the intellectual radiance of Arles reaches then its summit. In 1924, he became a naturalized American citizen. Ill, Henri d'Arles is resting in California in 1927-1928. Wishing to write a life of Jesus, he went to Rome in 1930, where he served as an attache to Cardinal Vanutelli. Henri d'Arles died in Rome, at the Franciscan convent of Villa San Francisco, on July 9, 1930. His remains were buried in the Sulpician's cellar at the Campo Verano cemetery in Rome.

Raymond Arthur Davies, born Rudolph Shohan, was born in 1908. He was a journalist, an author and a public speaker. As a freelance journalist, he covered the Spanish Civil War and as a Moscow correspondent covered World War II. At end of war, he helped Jewish survivors to immigrate to Canada. He died in 1985.

Founded in 1920 by Charlotte Whitton, the organization was initially known as the Canadian Council on Child Welfare. Ten years later, when its mandate was broadened to include families, it became the Canadian Council on Child and Family Welfare. From this organization evolved the Canadian Welfare Council in 1935 and the Canadian Council on Social Development (CCSD) in 1971. These name changes reflected the ever-expanding scope of issues addressed by the Council. From a singular emphasis on children and the well-being of families, the focus shifted to the broader purview reflected by the terms "welfare" and "social development."

Co-authored a book on mammals

John Gibbard grew up in Cedar Valley, British Columbia. He was the head of Social Studies at Magee High School and a member of the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia as an associate professor and assistant director of the Secondary Division. For his masters degree he wrote an early history of the Fraser Valley 1808-1885.

Herman DeVry founded the DeForest Training School in Chicago in 1931. DeVry was an engineer and inventor who had, among other things, developed a motion picture projector and become involved in the production of educational and training films. He set up the school to offer training in the repair of movie and radio equipment and the curriculum eventually expanded to include training in the repair of televisions and other electronics. In 1953 the school changed its name to DeVry Technical Institute, and four years later it was granted accreditation to bestow associate's degrees in electronics. DeVry eventually branched out into computers and accounting, and built more campuses in the Chicago and Toronto areas. In 1967, the Bell & Howell Company, best known perhaps for its role in inventing movie cameras, completed its acquisition of the school, and a fast-paced, nationwide expansion program ensued. The following year, the school underwent another name change, to DeVry Institute of Technology. In 1969 DeVry was authorized to award bachelor's degrees in electronics.

T

Percy William Diebel was born in Saskatchewan.

Bert Case Diltz was born on February 10, 1894, the son of Charles E. Diltz, a telegraph operator of Port Credit, and his wife, Martha Case. After leaving school he worked as a CN signalman. Bert enlisted at Toronto on February 18, 1916. He was then a student at Trinity College, University of Toronto. He stated that he had spent eight months in the Canadian Officer Training Corps. Bert was given regimental number 503162 and assigned to the 4th Division 10th Brigade Signals Company. The 4th Canadian Division was created in April 1916 from units already in the field or expected to arrive. Because of a lack of space at Shorncliffe, Kent, new units arriving in England were sent to Bramshott, Hampshire, England. The Division entered the line in France in August 1916. The 10th Infantry Brigade saw action at Ypres, Somme, Vimy, Passchendaele, Amiens and Mons.
After the war Bert received his B.A. from Trinity College and an honours B.A. from Queen’s University. In 1922 he graduated from Columbia University with an M.A. in English. Bert became a teacher at the high school in Lindsay, Ontario. He married Agnes Marcella Henrietta Brown at Knox Church in Toronto, on August 7, 1926. He then began teaching at the University of Toronto and in 1930 at the Ontario College of Education, now known as OISE, the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, where he served as Dean from 1958 to 1963.
He wrote several definitive books on English literature, grammar and composition, including Sense and Nonsense: Contemporary Education at the Crossroads, as well as a memoir, Stranger than Fiction, describing his youth and service in the army in World War I.
Bert Case Diltz died at the age of 98 on July 12, 1992.

Dino Dottori was a Math teacher at Glendale Secondary School in Hamilton.

Underwood and Underwood was established in 1882 by Bert and Elmer Underwood in Ottawa, Kansas. Originally they distributed stereographs made by eastern photographers in the Western United States. In 1884, they had expanded their franchise across North America and by 1889 opened offices in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and Liverpool, England. By 1890 Underwood & Underwood began publishing original stereographs taken by Bert Underwood. Underwood & Underwood was considered one of the most successful stereoscope publishers in North America in 1901.Underwood & Underwood began producing 25,000 views per day and 300,000 stereoscopes annually. It is suggested that in the earlier years of the company, Underwood & Underwood used H.C. White Company’s stereoscope model until developing their own. The principle stereoscope design by Underwood & Underwood included aluminum hoods, cardholders, and a folding handle. An easy identifiable feature of Underwood & Underwood stereoscopes is the friction joint built to fold the handle.

In 1910 the firm began specialising in news photography, ultimately stopping production of stereographs in 1920. Between 1912 and 1925 the company would sell the entirety of their glass stereo collection to competitor Keystone View Co.. By 1925 both brothers retired, leading to the reorganization of the company into four independent organisations all staying beneath the title of "Underwood & Underwood." These four branches included Underwood & Underwood Illustration Studios of New York, Chicago and Detroit; Underwood & Underwood Portraits, Inc., New York, Philadelphia and Cleveland; Underwood & Underwood, Washington and Chicago; Underwood & Underwood News Photos, Inc., New York.

André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (1819-1889) patented the carte-de-visite in 1854. He manufactured images by dividing a single glass plate negative to make 10 different exposures. Next, the exposures were printed collectively to produce a series of pocket sized photographs. Carte-de-visites were popular until the end of the 1860s when they were replaced by cabinet cards. Following 1877 Disdéri moved to Nice running several photography studios until the late 1880s when he returned to Paris.

G.W. Wilson is a Scottish photographer (1823-1893). He began his career photographing war ships in 1857. Following 1859 Wilson photographed various Scottish landscapes. In 1863, Wilson helped establish the Liverpool Amateur Photographic Association. By 1880 he had created "G.W Wilson & Co." the largest publishing company of topographic views in Britain.

Norman Parkinson (1913-1990) is a British photographer

Geoffrey Drayton was born on the island of Barbados on February 13, 1924, near Bridgetown. Drayton graduated from Harrison College at the age of 19. He taught for a year at Lodge School before leaving Barbados for England, where he attended Cambridge and studied Economics, attaining both undergraduate and graduate degrees in that discipline. He returned to Barbados once his studies were completed and after another teaching stint he left for Ottawa. While he was there. Ryerson Press in Toronto published, in 1950, Three Meridians, a collection of his poetry.
Drayton found his way back to England where he began a career as a writer for the Petroleum Times, a trade publication for the oil industry, where he assumed the role of editor a few years later. In that capacity he traveled the world, principally the Middle East, during which time he also acted as an advisor to many governments on matters concerning the petroleum industry. This was his job, but his first love was writing and that passion never waned. Through the late 1940’s and 1950’s, various pieces of Drayton’s work appeared in Bim, a West Indies literary journal. In 1958, Coles Printery produced an excerpt of Drayton’s unpublished novel, reprinted from Bim, Vol. vii, no. 26, entitled “Christopher.” In 1959, Collins in England published Drayton’s first novel, Christopher, which was followed two years later by Zohara, published by Secker & Warburg, also in the United Kingdom. He wrote at least five novels, yet Christopher and Zohara are the only published novels Drayton has to his credit. He produced a number of memorable poems and short stories, one of which may be the most anthologized story yet written by a Barbadian, “Mr. Dombey the Zombie,” a whimsical supernatural tale that has appeared in numerous collections of ghost and horror stories over the years.

​County Council is composed of the mayors and deputy mayors of each of the sixteen towns and townships located within Simcoe County in Ontario. Council meeting processes are set out in the County's Procedure By-law.

Dorothy Dumbrille was born in 1897 in Chrysler, Ontario. At the age of 11, she moved with her family to Kemptville, Ontario. She attended Kemptville School, then Kemptville High School. After graduation she moved to Ottawa to work in the Militia and Defence Department. She married a school teacher James Travis Smith in 1924, moving with him to Alexandria, Ontario.
Her first book "We Come! We Come!" a collection of poems, was published in 1941. Her first novel "Deep Doorways" was published in 1947. Her other publications include the novel "All This Difference" (1963), and non-fiction titles such as "Up and Down the Glen (1954), and "Braggart in my Step" (1956). Dumbrille also contributed poems, stories, and articles to numerous periodicals and anthologies, including "Flying Colours" (1942), edited by Charles G.D. Roberts and was known for her her radio plays, on wartime topics, her poetry published in The New York Times, The Ottawa Citizen and The Montreal Star. Her final book "Memories of My Father - reminiscences of the life of Revered Rupert John Dumbrille"

Dr. Berardi is an Associate Professor at Ryerson University, in Toronto (Ontario, Canada). His main research interests are related to the study of building systems that incorporate new materials for improved performance. In the first years of his career, Dr. Berardi often worked on natural materials for acoustic applications and on sustainable design through natural materials. Recently, he has been focusing on integrating innovative materials, or nanotechnologies into building systems. He has mainly focused on organic PCMs, such as paraffin and bio-PCM, and on granular and monolithic aerogel.

Dr. Berardi has an extensive publication record for his career stage, including over 70 peer-reviewed journals, 70 international conference papers, and four books. Notable highlights include 3 articles in Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews (2016 Impact Factor: 8.050 ); 3 in Applied Energy (IF: 7.182); 1 in Journal of Cleaner Production (IF: 5.715); 1 in Energy Policy (IF: 4.140 ); 10 in Energy and Buildings (IF: 4.067); 3 in Building and Environment (IF: 4.053).

In terms of research outcome, Dr. Berardi’s publications have received over 2500 citations in Google Scholar, where he has an h-index of 22, while Scopus database already counts over 1500 citations and an h-index of 20. He is the author of the most read paper ever in Architectural Science Review; the most cited and most read paper in the International Journal of Sustainable Building Technology and Urban Development; the most cited paper in Sustainable Development; the second most cited paper in the journal Sustainable Cities and Society; one of the ten most downloaded articles in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews in 2014. At the International Conference on Applied Energy in 2016 in China, he was awarded as the author of one of the ten most cited papers in the journal Applied Energy.

Dr. Berardi is the Chair of IAQVEC 2019. Moreover, he was the International Committee Chair of the International Conference on Sustainable Design, Engineering and Construction - ICSDEC 2016 - in Tempe-Arizona, and the Technical Program and Leadership Committee co-Chair of ICSDEC 2015 in Chicago. He has been a member of the scientific committee of over 20 international congresses held in 15 countries and has often organized and chaired special sessions. He has also given keynotes at over twenty conferences.

Dr. Berardi contributes to several academic and scientific communities. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Canadian Acoustics, and he has been the editor of several special issues for journals such as Buildings, Sustainability, and Advances in Mechanical Engineering. He is also a member of the editorial board of the following journals: Sustainable Development (Wiley), Intelligent Building International (Taylor), Buildings (MDPI), Sustainability (MDPI), and Energy and Policy Research (Taylor). He has acted as a reviewer for over 70 journals and has been recognized as an Outstanding Reviewer for journals such as Building and Environment, Energy and Buildings, and Sustainable Cities and Society.

Awards include: Early Research Career Excellence Award, Ryerson University, 2018, Dean's Scholarly, Research and Creative Award of the Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science at Ryerson in March 2016; the Best Italian Engineer in North America award by the ISSNAF (Italian Scientists and Scholars in North America Foundation) in Washington in October 2016; the Best Technical Award in the NESEA competition for the Zero Energy Repeatable Apartments Project in Boston in March 2014.

Dr. Berardi has a body of funded research comprising over $1.5M in government and private sector sponsored research. In the last two years, he has been awarded a CFI-JELF; NSERC Discovery Grant; Early Research Award from the MRI - Ontario; Building Excellence Research and Education Grants from the BC Housing - Homeowner Protection Office; OCE-VIP projects; a Ryerson University Innovation Equipment grant; Ryerson Dean’s Research Fund for Tools and for Undergraduate Research Experience and several NSERC Engages. [information taken from https://sites.google.com/site/umbertoberardihomepage/short-bio-1?authuser=0 2018]

Murrary and Heath manufactured Brewster style polyorama stereoscopes attached to a base. These stereoscopes were designed to adjust to a convenient gazing height. Many of their stereoscopes came in a variety of shapes, sizes and materials.

The American Stereoscopic Company produced several high-quality scenic steroviews including the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Many photos produced by American Stereoscopic Company are credited to R.Y. Young. Typically negatives were purchased by American Stereoscopic Company directly from the photographers. Following the end of the firm's operation, Keystone View Company purchased the entirety of the American Stereoscopic Company collection of negatives.

Miriam Waddington, nee Dworkin, was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba on December 3, 1917. She attended the University of Toronto receiving her Bachelor of Arts in 1939 and Masters of Arts in 1968. She also achieved her Masters of Social Work in 1945 from the University of Pennsylvania.
In 1945 she moved to Montreal and worked as a caseworker and teacher of social work in the 1940's and 1950's. In 1964 she became a professor at York University in Toronto in the Department of English. She worked there until her retirement in 1983.
Her first poetry published was "Green World" in 1945. In 1958 "The Season's Lovers" was published. She was also written fiction, "Summer at Lonely Beach and Other Stories" (1982), a critical study of A.M. KLEIN (1970), and numerous essays and reviews; and edited John Sutherland: Essays, Controversies and Poems (1972), Klein's Collected Poems (1974) and Canadian Jewish Short Stories (1990).

William Cyril Desmond Pacey was born May 1, 1917 in Dunedin, New Zealand to William and Mary Pacey. After his father was killed in the First World War, he and his mother emigrated to England. There, Pacey entered the Magnus Grammar School in Newark in 1928. In 1931, he and his mother moved to Glenford Station, Ontario, where his mother remarried. Pacey entered Caledonia High School the same year and graduated in 1934. He received three entrance scholarships to the University of Toronto, in addition to the first Carter Scholarship for Wentworth County, Ontario. The following year, he enrolled at Victoria College, University of Toronto, where he studied philosophy, English, and history. There, he was also a member and president of the University Soccer Club, served as editor of Acta Victoriana, and acted as speaker of the debating parliament. It is at the University of Toronto that he met Roy Daniells, who would later become a close friend and collaborator. Pacey received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1938 with first class honours in philosophy and English. Pacey went on to attend Trinity College at Cambridge University on a Massey fellowship and received his doctorate in English literature in 1941. He wrote his dissertation on “The Reception and Influence of French Realist Fiction in Victorian England.”
In 1939, Pacey married Mary E. Carson. The couple had seven children: Philip, Mary Ann, Patricia, Peter, Margaret, Michael, and Penelope. Pacey began his career in education as a professor of English at Brandon College, Manitoba, one year prior to graduating from Cambridge. After spending one year as executive officer and editor of the Wartime Information Board, he left Brandon College and became professor and head of the department of English at the University of New Brunswick.
In addition to writing numerous articles and books on the history and criticism of literature in Canada, Pacey authored a number of creative works. In 1952, he published two collections of verse for children: The Cow with the Musical Moo and Other Verses for Children and Hippity Hobo and the Bee and Other Verses for Children. The Cat, the Cow, and the Kangaroo: The Collected Children's Verse of Desmond Pacey (1967) brought together the two previous collections, along with seventeen new stories in verse. Pacey also published two other collections of short stories, The Picnic and Other Stories (1958) and Waken, Lords and Ladies Gay: The Selected Short Stories of Desmond Pacey (1974), both of which met with moderate success.
At the University of New Brunswick he helped establish the first PhD program in English and Canadian literature outside of the University of Toronto. Pacey generally worked to further expand graduate studies at UNB as dean of graduate studies from 1960 to 1970. From 1964 to 1966, he served as secretary to the Canadian Association of Graduate Schools and subsequently served as the association’s president from 1966 to 1968. Pacey became the vice-president academic of UNB in 1970 and served as acting president from 1972 to 1973.
Over the course of his career, Pacey received numerous awards and honours for his contribution to Canadian literature and academia. In 1955, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and he received the Lorne Pierce Medal from the Royal Society of Canada in 1972 for his distinguished contribution to Canadian literary history and criticism. From 1962 to 1963, he served as the Canada Council Senior Research Fellow at Cambridge University. In 1973, he received an honorary doctorate of literature from Mount Allison University, as well as an honorary doctorate of letters from the University of New Brunswick.
Pacey died on 4 July 1975 from cancer. In 1980, UNB launched its first annual W.C. Pacey Memorial Lecture. Fittingly, Northrop Frye, Canada’s greatest literary critic and a close friend of Pacey, was the guest lecturer

J. A. G. Easton worked for the Ontario Department of Education as a Technical Advisor.

Evelyn Sybil Mary Eaton was born in Montreux, Switzerland on December 22, 1902 to Canadian parents. She attended Netherwood School in Rothesay, New Brunswick. Her first poem was published in the Montreal Star when she was 8 years old. Her father Lieutenant Daniel Isaac Vernon Eaton was killed during the battle of Vimy Ridge. After his death, the family relocated to England. Evelyn attended the Heathfield School in Ascot, later studying at the Sorbonne in Paris. She married Ernst Paul Richard Viedt - moving to France during the beginning of World War II. The film rights to QUIETLY MY CAPTAIN WAITS (1940) were purchased for $40,000 with the intention of creating a vehicle for Bette Davis. Although the film was never completed, the money allowed Evelyn to build "Fundy Tide," a summer home on the Bay of Fundy, where her literary friends included Martha Banning Thomas. Evelyn wrote book reviews for THE SATURDAY REVIEW, became a regular contributor to the NEW YORKER and, at the end of World War II, was selected to tour Europe, Burma, India, and China as a correspondent reporting on the theatres of war. In 1945, she became an American citizen. She was vice-president of the Canadian Author's Association in 1940-41 and president of the Pen and Brush Club of New York from 1946-50. After the war, she began a new career as a visiting lecturer in Creative Writing and English, with posts at Columbia University in New York (1949-51), and at Sweet Briar College in Virginia (1951-60). She worked in radio and television broadcasting, and held a position as a Writer in Residence with the Huntingdon Hartford Foundation in 1960 and 1962. Her extended family included at least four poets and authors: her daughter Terry, son-in-law Richard Brengle, granddaughter Marte Brengle, and cousin Charles Edward Eaton. During the 1960s and 1970s she became interested in exploring the meaning of her possible part-First Nations descent. THE TREES AND FIELDS WENT THE OTHER WAY (1974) is her final autobiographical account of her adventurous and colourful life. Evelyn died July 18, 1983 in Independence, California.

Founded in 1917 as the Canadian School of Missions. In 1962 it was renamed the Canadian School of Missions and Ecumenical Institute. The reorganized school continued to carry on the programs of the Canadian School of Missions but added to its mandate other study interests and concerns of the ecumenical effort. In 1965, the Canadian School of Mission and Ecumenical Institute underwent another major reorganization. The phoenix arising from the ashes was renamed the Ecumenical Institute of Canada and offered programs under four major headings: Academic, Consultative, Research and Reference. A visiting professor program was established to bring world scholars to the Institute. In 1969 it changed names again to the Ecumenical Forum of Canada. It changed names again after a massive re-organization to Canadian Churches Forum for Global Ministries.

Hyman Edelstein was born in Dublin Ireland, 1889. He attended Trinity College before he emigrated to Ottawa in 1912. He married Elsie Hornstein in 1914. They had two sons, Nat and Ray. In 1916, his Canadian lyrics and other poems was the first book of verse published in English by a Canadian Jewish poet. He was an editor for The Canadian Jewish Chronicle from 1914 – 1917 and The Jewish Standard in 1931. He was active in numerous organizations. He founded the Jewish Literary and Dramatic Society in Ottawa in 1913, and the Jewish People’s Institute in 1923. He was also an officer of the Ottawa branch of the Canadian Author’s Association. During both World Wars he worked as a code breaker and interpreter for the Canadian government. He wrote eleven books of poetry including Spirit of Israel which won an award from the Canadian Jewish Congress in 1950. He also had six other works published including the 1957 English translation of Leon Glazer’s From Moscow to Jerusalem. Hyman Edelstein died of a heart attack in December 1957. At the time of his death he was working on an anthology of writings of Jewish interest by non-Jewish poets and authors.

Maud C. Edgar received her Bachelor of Arts Degree From Victoria College. She went on to teach at Havergal College - an all girls school in Toronto.

Dona Waller married Pelham Edgar in 1935. They had one child together - Katherine Jane Edgar.

Author

Edwards was born in 1917 and died in Kingston, Ontario on March 22, 2006.

Dr. E. Stuart MacDonald, born October 17, 1915, was the youngest son of Ewen MacDonald and well-known Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. He graduated in medicine from the University of Toronto in 1940 and became an obstetrician in Toronto after serving in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. He was also an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Toronto. He and his wife, Ruth, had three children: Alan Gordon, Roderick James and Kate.

Frank Henry Ellis was born October 13, 1893 in Nottingham, England. He immigrated to Canada in 1912. In 1920 he flew as a mechanic on the first airplane flight north of the 53rd parallel. He became a bus driver in 1925, an occupation he pursued until his retirement. In 1954 he published Canada’s Flying Heritage, a pioneer history of Canadian aviation, and in 1959 he produced In Canadian Skies. In 1970, he was awarded a Manitoba Centennial Medal by the Manitoba Historical Society. He died at North Vancouver, British Columbia on 4 July 1979.

Lady Sophie Falconer was the head of the University Women's Hospital Supply Association at the University of Toronto. Her husband Sir Robert Falconer was the President of the University between 1907-1932.

Thomas Ernest Hilary Farley joined the RCAF in 1941 (Service #R.96410) where he served as a flying instructor with the The British Commonwealth Training Plan. In 1942 he was commissioned as a Flying Officer (J.10748). He re-enlisted in Ottawa in 1943 and went to serve in Europe. In 1944 he was awarded the Air Force medal.

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.

Alice Palmer Walsh was born in New York, New York, USA on October 1, 1907. She married Henry Horace Walsh and they had two children - Elin Paterson and George Walsh. She passed away in Halifax, Nova Scotia on October 29, 1973.