Saxon & Lindstroms Forlags was a Swedish publishing house founded in 1928.

A. McKim Ltd. was founded in 1889 in Montreal, Quebec. The offices are now located in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Morang was a publishing house based in the City of Toronto.

Founded in 1866 in Nurenberg, the Ernst Plank Company produced tin toys, including magic lanterns, steamboats, and mechanical trains. The company was the second largest toy manufacturer in Nurenberg at the end of the 19th century, a city that was the largest center of toy-making in Europe at the time. Most lanterns projectors they produced bore a stamp of the company's initials: E.P. The factory was sold in 1930 to Hans and Fritz Schaller, and moved more towards the production of home motion picture projectors. The name of the company changed to Noris Projektion GmbH after the Second World War, remaining in business until 1965.

The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) was established by Order in Council on August 26, 1991, and it submitted in October 1996 the Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. The RCAP was mandated to investigate and propose solutions to the challenges affecting the relationship between Aboriginal peoples (First Nations, Inuit, Métis), the Canadian government and Canadian society as a whole

Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN), known as Grand Council Treaty No. 9 until 1983, was established in 1973. It represents the legitimate, socioeconomic, and political aspirations of its First Nation members of Northern Ontario to all levels of government in order to allow local self-determination while establishing spiritual, cultural, social, and economic independence. In 1977, Grand Council Treaty No. 9 made a public declaration of the rights and principles of Nishnawbe Aski. NAN encompasses James Bay Treaty No. 9 and Ontario’s portion of Treaty No. 5, and has a total land-mass covering two-thirds of the province of Ontario spanning 210,000 square miles. The people traditionally speak four languages: OjiCree in the west, Ojibway in the central-south area, and Cree and Algonquin in the east.

On July 15, 2019, legislation dissolving Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada and formally establishing the mandates of 2 new departments, Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs (CIRNAC) and Indigenous Services Canada (ISC), came into effect.

The Treaties and Historical Research Centre was under the former Department of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada.

The Nunavut Implementation Commission was a federally appointed body of nine political figures and community leaders appointed from across Northwest Territories, Canada to establish and implement policy towards the division of Northwest Territories and the creation of Nunavut.

The United Church Publishing House is still in existence today.

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Founded by WIlliam Weld in 1866.

It was first published by the Grain Growers Grain Company (G.G.G.C.) under the editorial leadership of E.A. Partridge, one of the founders of the farming cooperative
In [1936], merges with The Nor'west farmer to form The country guide and Nor-west farmer.

The Electric Light Photo Gallery operated in Toronto, Ontario from 1876 to 1896. It was owned by Samuel J. Dixon.

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.

The Ontario Dominion-Provincial War Emergency Training Program was headquartered in the old Normal School buildings. Howard Hillen Kerr was its director.

The National Trust Company was incorporated on August 12, 1898 under the name of The National Trust Company of Ontario Limited. In 1899, with the opening of an office in Montreal, the name was changed to The National Trust Company, Limited. In 1984, National Trust amalgamated with The Victoria & Grey Trust Company and the company once again changed its name, this time to The National Victoria & Grey Trust Company. Because the name was deemed too cumbersome, however, it was subsequently changed to the National Trust Company on June 3, 1985. On August 14, 1997, Scotiabank purchased the National Trust Company.

While Kaska Dena view themselves as one Nation, due to borders that were imposed by Canada, the Kaska Nation is a transboundary Nation, with traditional territory in British Columbia, Yukon, and Northwest Territories. The Kaska Nation was further divided by Canada into four Indian Act bands: Ross River Dena Council in Yukon, Liard First Nation in Yukon/BC, and Dease River First Nation and Kwadacha First Nation in British Columbia. As the Yukon/BC border divides the Liard First Nation, the Liard #3 Reserve at Lower Post in BC has its own election process to elect a Deputy Chief and council members for its own Council – Daylu Dena Council. The Kaska Nation is represented in negotiation of agreements by three bodies: the Kaska Dena Council representing Kaska Dena Council members; the Liard First Nation; and the Ross River Dena Council.

Good Hope Lake is home to the Dease River First Nation (DRFN) and is located on Highway 37, in northern BC, approximately 120 kilometers south of Watson Lake, YT, and 115 kilometers north of Dease Lake, BC. Dease River First Nation has 186 Band Members, 38 of whom live on Reserve in Good Hope Lake.

From 1981 to 1985, indigenous issues were mainly the responsibilities of the Attorney General and the Provincial Secretary for Resources Development (as Chair of the Cabinet Committee on Native Affairs). In June 1985, Premier David Peterson designated a minister responsible for "native affairs" for the first time in Ontario history.
In 1987, the Ontario Native Affairs Directorate was established. It was renamed the Ontario Native Affairs Secretariat in 1991. The entity acted as a support for the Minister Responsible for Native Affairs, and was headed by an Executive Director and later a Secretary, who for the most part held the rank of Assistant Deputy Attorney General. In 2006, the Secretariat's name was changed to the Ontario Aboriginal Affairs Secretariat. In June 2007, the standalone Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs replaced the Secretariat. In June 2016, the ministry was renamed the Ministry of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation as part of Ontario's response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada's 2015 Report. In June 2018, the ministry was renamed the Ministry of Indigenous Affairs

The Centre for Urban Energy (CUE) at Ryerson University is an academic-industry partnership that is exploring and developing sustainable solutions to urban energy challenges such as the advancement of smart grid technologies, energy policy and regulatory issues, storage, electric vehicles, net-zero homes and renewables.
The Centre for Urban Energy was created on September 1, 2010. Ryerson's Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science, founding, and sponsors Hydro One, Ontario Power Authority, and Toronto Hydro, created the centre as a research and technology demonstration centre for the creation and commercialization of innovative and practical solutions to urban energy issues. (Annual Report, 2011).

Representing 9 schools, 15 programs, and over 5,500 students The Ryerson Communication and Design Society (RCDS) is a student-led society that represents all full-time undergraduate students within the Faculty of Communication and Design (FCAD) at Ryerson University in the heart of downtown Toronto. The RCDS was started for students, by students, with the goal of uniting all programs in FCAD. The RCDS provides collaborative programming and networking opportunities that allow students to forge new relationships, gain industry contacts and learn new skills that will last a lifetime.

The department of Capital Projects and Real Estate was created by splitting the Campus Planning and Facilities department in two. The second department is the department of Campus Planning and Sustainability (RG 945). The split occurred effective April 15, 2011.

Toronto's Training and Re-establishment Institute was located in the vacated Department of Education buildings on Gould Street (RCAF Training School during the War). TRIT, as it became known, offered technical, matriculation, and commercial training courses. They included architectural drafting, mechanical drafting, plastering, bricklaying, plumbing, steam fitting, sheet metal, painting and decorating, Sign painting, carpentry, mill work, cabinet making, upholstery, wood finishing, electrical construction, electrical maintenance, radio broadcast technicians, industrial electronic technicians, radio servicing technicians, radio announcing and broadcasting, radio commercial operators, radio and electrical appliance servicing, chefs, bakery, horology, gem setting, graphic arts, machinist, tool making, welding, forging, women's tailoring, dressmaking, homemaking, practical nursing, photography, motor winding, stationary engineering, barbering, hairdressing and beauty culture, telegraphy, refrigeration and air conditioning, piano tuning and repair, and printing trades. The School of Photography and the School of Graphic Arts were singular to Toronto.
The training ended in 1947, with many of the courses being rolled over into the new Ryerson Institute of Technology, which opened in 1948.

The vocational and matriculation rehabilitation of Canada's war veterans was undertaken by Canadian Vocational Training - a Dominion-provincial organization under the direction of the Dominion Department of Labour. Every province had some degree of program for the training of returning veterans.
Ontario offered technical training, matriculation, commercial, agriculture, and mining training with centre is Toronto, London, Hamilton, Kitchener, Windsor, Fort William, Brockville, Prescott, Kingston, North Bay, Ottawa, Guelph, Kemptville, and Haileybury.

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

Franke & Heidecke was a German manufacturer of optical instruments founded in 1920 by Paul Franke (de) and Reinhold Heidecke (de) in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, and maker of the Rolleiflex and Rolleicord series of cameras. Later products included specialty and nostalgic type films for the photo hobbyist market. Originally named Werkstatt für Feinmechanik und Optik, Franke & Heidecke, the company renamed into Rollei-Werke Franke & Heidecke GmbH in 1972, Rollei-Werke Franke & Heidecke GmbH & Co. KG, in 1979, and Rollei Fototechnic GmbH & Co. KG in 1981. After being purchased in 1995 by Samsung Techwin, part of the South Korean Samsung Group, it was sold back to its internal management in 1999. In 2002, it was bought by a Danish investment group, and renamed Rollei GmbH in 2004. In 2005/2006, the company headquarters moved to Berlin and the company was split into two different companies: Rollei GmbH in Berlin, owner of the Rollei brand and selling various OEM equipment, and Rollei Produktion GmbH in Braunschweig, an equipment factory which became Franke & Heidecke GmbH, Feinmechanik und Optik. Following another restructuring in 2007, Rollei was split into three companies. Franke & Heidecke GmbH, Feinmechanik und Optik focused on the production of professional medium format cameras and slide projectors, while RCP-Technik GmbH & Co. KG in Hamburg was responsible for Rollei consumer products like re-branded compact digital cameras in the European market, and with the RCP Technik Verwaltungs GmbH owning the rights to the "Rollei" and "Rolleiflex" brands. Finally, Rollei Metric GmbH took over the photogrammetry business.
In early 2009, Franke & Heidecke GmbH, Feinmechanik und Optik declared itself insolvent. Since 2009 Rolleiflex medium format cameras, Rollei 35 and Rolleivision slide projectors were being produced by the DHW Fototechnik GmbH - a company founded by Rolf Daus, Hans Hartje and Frank Will, former Franke & Heidecke employees.DHW Fototechnik presented two new Rolleiflex cameras and a new electronic shutter at photokina 2012. DHW itself filed for insolvency on 2014-08-15 and was dissolved in April 2015 thereby ending any further production of cameras, lenses and accessories.
As of 2015 the brands "Rollei" and "Rolleiflex" continue to be owned by the RCP Technik Verwaltungs GmbH. On 2015-01-01, the RCP-Technik GmbH & Co. KG refirmed as Rollei GmbH & Co. KG to market digital consumer cameras and accessories under the "Rollei" label in Europe.

The Hewlett-Packard Company (commonly referred to as HP) or shortened to Hewlett-Packard was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. It developed and provided a wide variety of hardware components as well as software and related services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and large enterprises, including customers in the government, health and education sectors. Former type: Public; Traded as NYSE: HPQ; Industry: Computer hardware; Computer software; IT services; IT consulting; Fate: Split into two companies; renamed as HP Inc., successor: HP Inc.; Hewlett Packard Enterprise .

Founded: Jan. 1, 1939 by co-founders William Redington Hewlett and David Packard. The main company was defunct in Nov. 1, 2015 (Hewlett Packard Enterprise), it is now operating as HP Inc. with its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, U.S

source: https://lccn.loc.gov/n80090459

Nishika Optical Systems is based in Hong Kong. It makes cameras for Nishika Corporation in Henderson, Nevada, U.S.A., a company that bought parts and patents of the Nimslo Corp. in the 1990s. It continued the series of the Nimslo 3-D cameras under the name Nishika.

October 2, 2006: Fujifilm Corporation operates the imaging and information businesses previously operated by Fuji Photo Film. Co. Ltd. (founded 1934), which became Fujifilm Holdings Corporation in 2006.

Source: https://global.fujifilm.com/en/about/corporate/overview

Belyea Bros. Heating, Cooling & Electrical stated in 1908 as a plumbing and heating company, and to this day remain independently owned as a family business. They hold the first plumbing and heating license issued in the City of Toronto, PH1.

Plenum Publishing Corporation, based out of New York, New York was purchased by Wolters Kluwer N.V in 1998.

Stereo-Travel Co. was founded ca. 1904 specializing in the production of boxed stereograph sets. By 1913, the company had put together 26 tours each containing 100 cards of various visits. This included images of New York City, Cuba, France, Italy, Japan, and England. Stereo-Travel Co. also published custom stereographs for private organizations. By 1913, Stereo-Travel Co. had reached its height in production but unfortunately was discontinued in 1916.

In 1838 George Palmer Putnam, who began his career at a small New York bookstore, moved to London to establish the first American publishing branch of Wiley and Putnam in England. Ten years later, Putnam returned to the United States and the company became known as “George P. Putnam.” In 1849, Putnam published the revised works of his close friend, American author and historian Washington Irving. One year later, the house published Susan Warner’s The Wide, Wide World, which became known as America’s first bestseller, selling forty thousand copies in the first few months, and eventually more than one million over its life. Over the next century and a half, Putnam published works by President Theodore Roosevelt (who worked for a year at the house before turning to politics), William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, Norman Mailer’s Deer Park, Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, and Mario Puzo’s The Godfather.
Putnam's is a part of the Penguin Publishing Group, which is the largest division of Penguin Random House, Inc.

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.

American company that manufactured three-dimensional view masters, three-dimensional reels and projectors.

Jonathan W. Cadwell patented his series of table top revolving viewers made by him and his son in 1874 with revolving axles meant to rotate stereographs. This style of stereoscope was different than the previous Beckers type tabletop which used a revolving belt.

Guardian Associates Limited was a publishing company and publishing representative.

The Anglo Canadian Leather Company was established in 1891 in Huntsville, Ontario. It was run by members of the Shaw famity 1891 until 1962. At its peak it employed 200 men and was the primary supplier of boot leather for the British Armed forces in World War One. The Tannery used local soft-water and hemlock tannins to dye the leather that came in from all over North and South America.

The United Church Press was located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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.

The Shute Institute for Clinical and Laboratory Medicine was founded by brothers Dr. Evan Vere Shute and Dr. Wilfred Chute. Was located in London, Ontario.

Robert Simpson arrived in Canada, at the age of 21, from Scotland in 1855. He settled in Newmarket, Ontario, working in the dry goods business for two years before feeling confident enough to launch himself in business. Along with a partner, Robert Simpson, at 32, ca. 1866. Simpson opened Simpson & Trent, a store selling groceries, boots, shoes, and dry goods. The partnership was dissolved after four years of good business, and Simpson continued to operate the store independently. It was only a few months before he sought a new partner and the business was renamed Simpson & Bogart. Simpson & Bogart gradually developed a strong wholesale business with small stores in adjacent communities. Simpson had been building a good and reputable trade for almost ten years when disaster struck. On October 29, 1870, a raging fire destroyed both the store and all the company’s stock. Undeterred, he re-opened for business in time for Christmas. The losses were severe, however, and Simpson declared bankruptcy in early 1871. It was this disaster that pushed him to move to Toronto, where opportunities were more plentiful. Move to Toronto
After a brief stint in the King Street shopping district, Simpson moved and re-opened as R. Simpson, Dry Goods in 1872. The store’s new location at 184 Yonge Street was a few doors north of Queen Street. The store re-located from its original Yonge Street location to the corner of Queen and Yonge, and expanded several times. In fact, business was so brisk that the store soon needed more substantial enlargement. A brand-new six-storey brick building opened its doors on December 4, 1894 at the corner of Queen and Yonge streets. On March 3, 1895, less than three months after its opening, the new Simpsons store burned to the ground, falling victim to the third major fire in Toronto in less than two months. Undaunted and defiant, Robert Simpson resolved to re-open for business as soon as possible, and to rebuild his store. Exactly six days after the fire, Simpsons was once again welcoming customers, albeit in rented premises. The store would move back into a new and improved building at the Queen and Yonge location in just over ten months. The architecture firm Burke & Horwood resolved to make this second building the best in its class. Robert Simpson died in 1897.
The company would be purchased by Canadian investors who continued to expand the business. Simpsons would eventually go into business with Sears Roebuck, opening stores under the Simpsons-Sears name. Simpsons would eventually be purchased by the Hudson's Bay Company, with its flagship Toronto store opening in the Queen Street location.
For more information about The Robert Simpson Company - visit http://www.hbcheritage.ca/history/acquisitions/robert-simpson-company

The word was formed by combining Coke and Asbury, the names of the first two general superintendents of The Methodist Episcopal Church in America. The primary use of the word Cokesbury today is that of The United Methodist Publishing House as the name for its retail bookstores and mail order service. Prior to 1939 Cokesbury Press was the trade name of the publishing house of The Methodist Episcopal Church, South. At union in 1939, the names of the publishing houses were combined to form Abingdon-Cokesbury. Subsequently, the name Abingdon was used as the trade name for the publishing house and Cokesbury for the bookstores.

The Portage and District Old Timers' Association was located in the town of Portage la Prairie in Manitoba.

Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal (PSBGM, French: Commission des écoles protestantes du Grand Montréal, CEPGM) was a Protestant and predominantly English-language school district in Montreal, Quebec. It was was founded in 1951 as a replacement for the Montreal Protestant Central Board. The Government of Quebec reorganized the province's public school boards in the mid-1990s and PSBGM ceased operations in 1998, with most of its assets transferred to the new English Montreal School Board.

Dwight Lyman Moody, a youth evangelist in Chicago, visited Great Britain for the first time in 1867, hoping to learn from evangelicals there. On his return, Moody established his own publication, "Everybody's Paper", primarily for use in Sunday schools. By 1869 he convinced his brother-in-law, Fleming H. Revell, to take over the paper. In the following year Fleming founded the company that would become the most significant publisher of evangelical books in North America.
In 1978 Revell was purchased by Scott, Foresman and Company. In the earlier 1980's it was bought by Zondervan Corporation and then purchased again by Bakers Book House in 1992 of which it is still a part of as of 2018.

Methuen & Co, Ltd. was founded by Algernon Methuen Marshall Steadman, a teacher and headmaster, in 1889. He believed in books that were helpful and published mostly non-fiction academic works in the early years branching out to encourage female authors and later translated works. Methuen was subsumed into the general publishing division of Associated Book Publishers, part of International Thomson, and the general list later sold to Reed International in December 1987. The academic list stayed with Routledge in ABP. It came into the Random House Group on the purchase of the Reed Consumer list in 1997. Methuen Drama bought itself out from Random House in 1998 and moved into its own offices on Vauxhall Bridge Road as Methuen Publishing Limited on 4th January 1999. They then acquired the imprint of Politico’s, which specialises in political books, in April 2003. Methuen then moved to Buckingham Gate on 13th June 2005 and have since moved to Artillery Row. Subsequently Methuen Publishing has sold on its drama list to Bloomsbury in May 2006.

Penguin Books is a British publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Sir Allen Lane, his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers The Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the following year. Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its inexpensive paperbacks, sold through Woolworths and other high street stores for sixpence, bringing high-quality paperback fiction and non-fiction to the mass market. Penguin's success demonstrated that large audiences existed for serious books. Penguin also had a significant impact on public debate in Britain, through its books on British culture, politics, the arts, and science.
Penguin Books is now an imprint of the worldwide Penguin Random House, an emerging conglomerate which was formed in 2013 by the merger with American publisher Random House. Formerly, Penguin Group was wholly owned by British Pearson PLC, the global media company which also owned the Financial Times, but in the new umbrella company it retains only a minority holding of 25% of the stock against Random House owner, German media company Bertelsmann, which controls the majority stake.

The Macrae Smith Company was established in Philadelphia in 1925 by Durant L. Macrae and Allan M. Smith as the successor firm to the George W. Jacobs Company (q.v.). Durant L. Macrae died in 1968 and was succeeded as president by Donald P. Macrae. The firm went out of business in 1977.

Barnes & Noble's beginnings can be traced to 1873, when Charles M. Barnes started a book business from his home in Wheaton, Illinois. In 1917, his son, William, went to New York to join G. Clifford Noble in establishing Barnes & Noble. During the height of the Great Depression, what later became the Barnes & Noble flagship store was opened on Fifth Avenue at 18th Street in New York City.

Chas. A. Bennett Co., Inc [formerly The Manual Arts Press] was founded by Charles Alpheus Bennett, a former professor in Manual Arts at Bradley Polytechnic Institute. He founded The Manual Arts Press in 1899. In 1949 it changed its name to Chas. A. Bennett Publishing Co.
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William Kimber & Company Limited was a British publishing company.

Founded in 1898, Gerald Duckworth & Co. is Britain’s oldest active independent trade publisher. Its wide-ranging list has included Henry James, John Galsworthy, August Strindberg, L. Frank Baum, Virginia Woolf, Evelyn Waugh, D. H. Lawrence, Hilaire Belloc, Anthony Powell, Heath Robinson and Beryl Bainbridge, as well as a highly regarded academic division which was acquired by Bloomsbury in 2010. Owned by Peter Mayer for more than a decade and sold to the trade by Bloomsbury, we are continuing this tradition by publishing a broad range of high-quality writing. Duckworth is associated with The Overlook Press in New York.

Nor'West Farmer was published by the Nor-West Farmer Limited Publishers. In 1936 it merged with the Grain Growers Guide to form a new magazine The country guide and Nor-west farmer. This was published between 1936 and 1942.

Established officially in 1937, the Toronto Welfare Council was the earliest incarnation of the Community Social Planning Council of Toronto, with its roots in community service agencies dating even further back to 1918. The Welfare Council provided staff assistance on matters of social planning to the Community Chest, and in 1944, joined the Chest in order to establish a stable funding base. Causing controversy at the time, The Council was responsible for the publication of the famed "Red Book" or The Cost of Living Study, a publication that outlined shortfalls in levels of relief and working wages. This groundbreaking work helped to establish a ‘market basket’ approach to research methodology in the field of income security.

Responding to growing concerns related to housing, single mothers and adoption, The Welfare Council pushed for independence from the Community Chest, and sought to build a new organization under the stewardship of the United Community Fund. On May 7, 1957, at a dinner meeting in the Dinner Hall at Hart House, the Social Planning Council of Metropolitan Toronto was formally established. Florence Philpott was named its first Executive Director.

New social movements of the late 60s pushed the Council to refocus on pressing issues within Toronto, and include more representation of grassroots community groups as well as people living in poverty on the Board of Directors. By 1972 the Council had successfully restructured itself to begin work on a wider social development agenda with community organizations and activists. This broader interpretation of social planning manifested itself effectively throughout the 70's, and the values of social development and empowerment still inform the work of the Council today.

As the provincial government moved to amalgamate Toronto in 1997, the Social Planning Council of Metropolitan Toronto and its local planning organization partners, started discussions about their own transformation for the new Toronto. They merged into a unified structure under the new name of Community Social Planning Council of Toronto, which was officially incorporated on January 1, 1998, the same date as the new City of Toronto itself.

In recent years Social Planning Toronto has renewed its commitment to action-based research and policy analysis, focusing on the social service sector in Toronto, the changing nature of work and income in the city, and the social and economic inclusion of newcomers and racialized commnunities.

Pagurian began as Interpublishing Limited and Pagurian Press Ltd., which was founded by Philip Christopher Ondaatje. It was incorporated in Ontario in 1975 and changed its name to The Pagurian Corporation Limited in 1977. Ondaatje sold it to Hees International in 1988 and became vice-chairman of Hees. Pagurian was controlled by Hees Bancorp's Jack Cockwell and the senior Edper ( Edper Investments Ltd. was the primary holding company and investment vehicle for brothers Edward Bronfman and Peter Bronfman) In 1997, what began as a subsidiary of a subsidiary of Edper's, took over Edper and adopted its former corporate grandparent's name; Pagurian was renamed The Edper Group Ltd.

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.

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

Firm started in 1982 by George Baird and Barry Sampson. In 1998 it became Baird, Sampson Neuert Architects Inc.