Elsie Kathleen Jones was born in Mount Hope, Ontario and attended school in Hamilton. She graduated from the Wellesley Hospital School of Nursing in 1925. In 1928 she joined the staff at Wellesley becoming the Director of Nursing in 1937. She held this role until her retirement in 1964. After her retirement she married Cye A. LaVenture.
He was an anesthesiologist who created controversy as an early advocate of requiring prescription drugs to be sold under generic names, instead of brand names, to reduce costs for consumers. He became a national figure for a brief period in 1969 when he was offered the job of director of the Bureau of Medicine in the United States Food and Drug Administration, only to have the appointment withdrawn after pressure from the pharmaceutical industry. At the time, he was associate director of Charity Hospital in New Orleans and a professor at Tulane and Louisiana State Universities, where he taught surgery, oral surgery and pharmacology, as well as anesthesiology. He graduated from Columbia College and was a member of Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons. He practiced several disciplines and was for several years director of the Council on Drugs of the American Medical Association.
He was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 1928, and graduated from the Faculty of Architecture from the University of Manitoba in 1950. He began his career by moving to Toronto to take a position with John B. Parkin & Associates and eventually established the firm Akitt & Swanson with Herb Swanson. He was a sports enthusiast, enjoying skiing, curling and tennis and golf. He also enjoyed travelling with his wife.
Oscar Emmanuel Peterson was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer, born in Montreal, Quebec.
Walter Noah Malby (c1858-1892) was a professional photographer who operated a portrait studio at 68 East Street, Chichester, England.
Jas. A. Ross operated a portrait photography studio that was located at 161 Barrington St., Halifax Nova Scotia.
John W. Boyce operated a photography studio located that was located in Belleville, Ontario.
William Crooke was one of the best known British professional photographers of his time. He opened a studio at 103 Princes Street in Edinburgh in the early 1890s that was considered to be as beautiful as the photographs he made there.
Hugh H. Ritchie operated a photography studio in Edinburgh, Scotland from 1856 to 1870.
Samuel J. Dixon was a photographer located in Toronto, Ontario and operated the Electric Light Photo Gallery from 1876 to 1896.
J.A. Brush operated a photography studio during the late nineteenth century that was located in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Robert Watson Sellar, politician (b at Huntingdon, Qué 6 Aug 1894; d at Ottawa 4 Jan 1965). Born into a prominent publishing family, Sellar tried various careers before securing a berth in Ottawa as private secretary. He became assistant deputy minister of finance in 1930 and then was treasury comptroller 1932-40. Appointed auditor general in 1940, Sellar reorganized the office, employing a system of personal cajolery and private reproaches. Retiring in 1959, Sellar became royal commissioner examining problems of government organization.
Sir Henry Norman Rae was born January 20, 1860. He was an English wool merchant and a Liberal Party politician. He died December 31, 1928.
Ernest Isbell Barott (1884-1966) was born in Canastota, NY, and studied architecture from 1902 to 1905 at Syracuse University. Later he apprenticed at the New York office of McKim, Mead and White and worked there between 1905-1911. Barott went to Montreal to supervise the buildings for his firm. He later formed a partnership with fellow McKim employee Gordon Blackader and Daniel Webster. The firm of Barott and Blackader was in business until 1935.
Wolfman Jack was born on January 21, 1938 in Brooklyn, New York, USA as Robert Weston Smith. He was an actor, known for American Graffiti (1973), Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978) and Motel Hell (1980). He was married to Lucy Lamb. He died on July 1, 1995 in Belvedere, North Carolina, USA.
Dr. Michael J. Doucet was a member of the Ryerson faculty in the Department of Geography from 1977 - 2010 when he retired to Emeritus status. Doucet received his PHD from the University of Toronto in 1977. During his academic career, his research interests included Immigration & Settlement Studies, Urban Land Development and the geography of Toronto. Doucet also served as President of the Ryerson Faculty Association (RFA) between 1998-2002 and as President of the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) between 2003-2007.
He was raised in a diplomatic family and spent some of his early years in South Africa. Unable to return home when Yugoslavia was invaded by Nazi Germany 1941, the family settled in Great Britain. He studied at Cambridge and London before proceeding to Oxford University, where he received his doctorate in 1958, before moving to Canada. After teaching for a few years in Manitoba, he joined the UBC faculty in 1963 – initially as a member of the Department of Political Science and then from 1969 on as a member of the Department of History, in which he served until his retirement in 1991.
He was a prolific historian of political movements in Europe and North America from the late nineteenth century to the present and read a wide range of European languages. While still a student, he co-authored with George Woodcock a study of one of the founders of anarchism: The Anarchist Prince: A Biographical Study of Peter Kropotkin (London, 1950) and a study of a Russian sect: The Doukhobors. On his own, he published History of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, The Communist Party in Canada: A History, and Socialism in Canada: A Study of the CCF-NDP in Federal and Provincial Politics. He also wrote many articles, entries in reference works and document collection.
He was an American social psychologist best known for his research into electoral systems and for co-writing The American Voter with Philip Converse, Warren Miller, and Donald Stokes. Campbell published his work under the name Angus Campbell. He was a professor at the University of Michigan. He died in Ann Arbor, Michigan on December 15, 1980.
Bruce Campbell is the former Executive Director (1994-2015) of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), one of Canada’s leading policy research institutes. Bruce has authored or edited five books and numerous reports on public policy issues. His commentaries have appeared in major newspapers and online news sites across Canada. He has appeared before parliamentary committees, and interviewed on radio and TV in Canada and abroad. He authored three major reports on the Lac-Mégantic oil train disaster, for which he was awarded the 2015 Law Foundation of Ontario, Community Leadership in Justice Fellowship, and spent 2016 as, Visiting Fellow, University of Ottawa Law Faculty. He is Adjunct Professor at York University, Faculty of Environmental Studies and Senior Fellow, Ryerson University Centre for Free Expression.
She is an award winning doctor, and received a grant to focus on Generating P450RAI knockout mice and F9 cell lines. She worked as a pathologist at the Kingston General Hospital from 2012-2013.
She was an activist who devoted herself to an array of groups: the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, the Toronto Disaster Relief Committee, the ODSP Action Coalition, Parkdale NDP, United Tenants of Ontario and ACORN and started a Tiny Houses Committee. She was a PARC ambassador, as well. She was also a published author, a poet and drummer.
Francis St. George Spendlove was born in Montréal on April 23, 1897. He was educated privately by tutors and showed particular interest in art history. At the age of 19, he enlisted in the military during World War I and served in Europe, suffering a severe concussion that injured the nerves in his ears, leaving him with a hearing impairment . In 1919, he returned to Montréal but was unable to work for two years. It was during the latter part of this period that he read a book on comparative religion and became interested in the teachings of the Bahá’í Faith. After working as a fine arts dealer for several years, he sold his business and spent a year travelling across Palestine, India and the Far East. Between 1932 and 1933 Mr. Spendlove made the first of his two pilgrimages to Haifa. The year following his trip, he went to London to study Chinese archaeology at the Courtauld Institute of the University of London. On completion of this course, he was granted a post-graduate diploma in archaeology and was recommended to the Royal Academy to assist it in preparing its catalogue for the great International Exhibition of Chinese Art, shown at Burlington House in 1935. In November 1936, Spendlove returned to Canada to join the staff of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, overseeing the Japanese and East Indian collections. After several years, he became the curator of the modern European collections and was appointed a special lecturer in the Department of Art and Archaeology at the University of Toronto. His remarkable memory enabled him to recall details of Chinese art, European furniture, Indian art, Japanese ceramics and lacquer, timepieces, glass, silver and Canadiana. His final appointment at the Royal Ontario Museum came in 1952, as curator of the Canadiana collection. Mr. Spendlove’s first book, The Face of Early Canada, published in 1958, is illustrated with pieces from this collection. A second book, Collectors’ Luck, followed in 1960. He died in 1962.
He was a Senior Fellow for Environmental Affairs at Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies and a leader at the Hudson Riverkeeper organization, a New York-based environmental advocacy group, who battle against polluters of America's waterways
George McRobie was born in 1925 in Moscow and grew up in Northern Scotland and worked in London, England for most of his career. He received his B.Sc (Economics) in 1952 from the London School of Economics.
George McRobie is best know through his association with British economist E.F. Schumacher and their “Small Is Beautiful” movement. Together they founded the Intermediate Technology Development Group (ITDG) in 1966, a UK-based NGO specializing in creating small-scale technology for developing countries. In 2005, the ITDG changed its name to Practical Action. He also acted as the President of the Soil Association, the main British organization promoting the use of organic agriculture.
In 1981 he published his book Small Is Possible – a “factual account about who is doing what, where, to put into practice the ideas expressed in E.F. Schumacher’s SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL.”
George McRobie had close ties with Prince Edward Island, working with the Institute of Island Studies. In 1990 when he was tasked by them to write a report outlining a vision for the Sir Andrew MacPhail Homestead in the demonstration and promotion of sustainable farming and forestry.
George McRobie died July 2, 2016 in Prince Edward Island.
John Griffin is an alumnus of the Radio and Television Arts (RTA) program at Ryerson. He is a cinematographer.
Timothy Escott Reid was born on February 21, 1936 in Toronto. He attended the University of Toronto and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1959. He was a star athlete for the University of Toronto in athletics and football. He received an M.A. in economics from Yale University in 1960 and was selected as a Rhodes scholar that year to attend Oxford University. He returned to Canada from Oxford in 1962, and completed his Oxford M.Litt thesis studying the policies of James Coyne in 1965. Upon returning to Canada, he was selected by the Hamilton Tiger Cats in the Canadian Football League and played in the infamous 1962 50th Grey Cup game known as the "Fog Bowl". In the fall of 1962, he was hired by the University of Toronto as an instructor in Canadian economic history. In 1963, he became the Assistant to the President of York University and an assistant professor of Economics at York University. During his time as a faculty member at York University, he was editor of the books Contemporary Canada: Readings in Economics (1969) and, with his wife Julyan Reid, Student Power and the Canadian Campus (1969).
In 1965 he ran as the Federal Liberal candidate in the Toronto riding of Danforth in 1965. He then successfully campaigned in the 1967 provincial election winning the riding of Scarborough East. He served as a member of five Standing Committees during the 28th Legislative Assembly of Ontario and as the Critic for Education and University Affairs. He held that post until 1971. After his election defeat Tim Reid took a position with the OECD in Paris as a Principal Administrator in the Manpower and Social Affairs Directorate. In 1974, he returned to Canada and took a position in the federal civil service as the Director of the Treasury Board's Planning Branch. Reid held increasing senior positions, in a variety of federal Departments, culminating in terms as Assistant Deputy Minister at the Departments of Regional Economic Expansion, Industry and Tourism.
In 1985, Reid was appointed as Dean of the School of Business Management at Ryerson Polytechnic Institute in Toronto, a position he held until 1988. While in that position, he was also served as a Member of the Executive Committee of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC) and he served, for one term, as a part-time Commissioner of the Ontario Securities Commission.
From 1989-1998, Reid was the President of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. Reid served on many boards of directors, including VIA Rail Canada from 2000–2006, and as an Alumni Governor on the Governing Council of the University of Toronto from 2002 to 2011.
Annie Isobel Bussell was born November 29, 1916 on the family farm in Hornby, Ontario to Marcus James Bussell and Annie Alfaretta (nee Anderson) Bussell. She was the middle child. Her older sister Margaret Bussell married George Gilbert and had 3 children. Her younger brother was John Bussell.
Isobel studied nursing at the Wellesley Hospital School of Nursing, graduating in 1938. After graduation she enlisted and went overseas to serve during World War II. When she returned to Ontario after the war she continued working in convalescent hospitals for wounded air crewmen. She worked for Bell Canada head office in Toronto until her passing June 4, 1962.
Barry Cooper was educated at Shawnigan Lake School, the University of British Columbia and Duke University, where he received his doctorate in 1969. He taught at Bishop's University, McGill, and York University before moving to the University of Calgary in 1981.
One area of was Canadian politics and public policy, bringing the insights of political philosophers to bear on contemporary issues, including the place of technology and the media in Canada, the on-going debate over the constitutional status of Quebec, and the precarious status of Canadian defence and security.
He was the author, editor, or translator of 30 books and has published over 150 papers and book chapters. He wrote a regular column in the Calgary Herald.
William D. Stainton was a professor in the Department of Architectural Science at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute. He taught in the Building Science section of the Department.
Peter Meridew was a professor in the Architectural Technology Department at Ryerson.
James C. Cruess was a research associate with Ryerson's Energy Centre.
Ms. Whittaker spent much of her early business career as director and partner with The Canada Consulting Group, now Boston Consulting Group. From 1989 she was president and chief executive officer of Canadian Satellite Communications (Cancom). She served as the President and Chief Executive Officer at Electronic Data Systems Canada from 1993 to 2001. In 1993, Ms. Whittaker joined Electronic Data Systems of Plano, Texas. She served as Executive Vice-President in Asia Pacific at Electronic Data Systems. Ms. Whittaker then undertook other senior roles globally for Electronic Data Systems, ultimately serving as Managing Director, United Kingdom, Africa and Middle East, until her retirement from EDS in November of 2005. Ms. Whittaker has been an Independent Director of Imperial Oil Ltd. since April 19, 1996; and The Standard Life Assurance Company of Canada since June 2013. She has been an Independent Trustee of CanWest Mediaworks Income Fund since October 13, 2005. She serves as a Director of Canwest Mediaworks (Canada) Inc, General Partner of CanWest Mediaworks Income Fund. She served as a Non-Executive Director of Standard Life plc from September, 2009 to May 14, 2013. She served as Director of The Canada Consulting Group. Ms. Whittaker served as a Director of Canwest Global Communications Corp. since July 1999.
Born in 1929, in England, he moved to Canada in 1952 and practiced his profession in Toronto and Montreal before being elected president of the Quebec order of architects in 1968. As an architect and as a teacher at McGill and Université Laval, Joseph Baker lived and spread the conviction that architecture must be done "in the street," closest to the people whose lives it can transform. He favoured conservation and rehabilitation of neglected, working-class Montreal neighbourhoods that were being threatened with wholesale demolition. His work to save Griffintown was documented in the 1972 National Film Board film, Griffintown. While Baker was director of Université Laval’s architecture school, he initiated the idea of moving the school from its modern building in a Quebec City suburb to a historically-significant but vacant former seminary in Quebec’s old quarter.
Besides being a world traveller, a cyclist and marathon runner, Baker also had a flare for writing. Bumbaru noted that Baker penned many well-written letters in local French- and English-language newspapers, including the Montreal Gazette, about different causes.
Paul F. Widdows was a professor in Modern Languages and Literature at Concordia University.
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).
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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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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]
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.
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.
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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.
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.
John Webster Grant was born in Truro, Nova Scotia on June 27, 1919. He attended Dalhousie, Princeton, and Oxford Universities (Rhodes Scholar 1941). He graduated in Theology from the Pine Hill Divinity Hall in Halifax, serving as a wartime chaplain in the Royal Canadian Navy. He taught church history at Union College in Vancouver, British Columbia between 1949-1959 - serving one of those years as a visiting professor in India. In 1959 he joined The Ryerson Press, becoming its Editor in Chief a year later. In 1963 he began teaching church history at Emmanuel College, a post he held until his retirement in 1984. Besides numerous scholarly articles, he has written more than a dozen books on church history, particularly Canadian. He has been active in several academic and religious organizations, including the United Church's commission on union with the Anglicans, where he was chairman of the executive committee 1967-71. He is the recipient of several honorary degrees and numerous other awards.