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American Stereoscopic Company

  • Corporate body
  • [between ca.1890 and ca.1915]

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.

Amin, Samir

  • Person
  • 1931-2018

He was born in Egypt and later studied in Paris, including under the radical structuralist economist Francois Perroux. His 1957 dissertation dissected and anatomized then-modish theories of development and economics, from modernization theory to marginalism. He substituted for such social science fiction an inherently hierarchical and inherently global world-system. After his schooling, he worked for the Egyptian government from 1957-1960 and the Mali government from 1960-1963. From 1963-1970 he was in Dakar, at the Institut Africain de Développement Économique et de Planification (IDEP). He left IDEP and founded the Third World Forum in 1973. His masterwork, eventually published as Accumulation on a World Scale, was a revision of his doctoral thesis and was a forerunner and a parallel founder of dependency theory, suggesting the radical notion of delinking. In later years, his focus became the ecological destruction wrought by monopoly capitalism, its inability to resolve the climate crisis, becoming a proponent of food sovereignty.

Amin, Tahir

  • Person
  • [1974-2015]

He is an author of several books and his primary area of study is the Middle East.

Amirault, Ernest J.

  • Person
  • [1919-present]

Ernest J. Amirault, born in 1919, was a professor of Business and Business Law at Ryerson University from 1967-1986.

Amoss, Harold Edwin

  • Person
  • 1880-1964

He was an author and also co-authored works with Charles J. Stogdill and Donald M. Solandt.

Ampro Corporation

  • Corporate body
  • [1913]-1956

The Ampro Corporation was founded in 1913? by Axel A. Monson in Chicago, Illinois. Its industry was projectors and film and its headquarters remained in Chicago, Illinois. In 1944, it was acquired by the General Precision Equipment Corporation. Production moved to Rochester, New York in 1956. It is possible the products were dropped shortly after since there is no evidence of Ampro past 1957.

Ancillary Services

  • University Name

c1980: The Administrative Services Department becomes the Institute Services Department. Viggo Jensen is appointed Director, to replace David Roe. 1994: Department name changed to Ancillary Services. 1997: It appeared as if the Department's name was changed to University Business Services (see the Ryerson Internal Directory). However, Elizabeth Yousif, Administrative Assistant, advised that the Computing and Communication Services Department had incorrectly changed the Department's name in the Directory and that its name had, in actual fact, remained Ancillary Services. (5Jan99) 2002: the internal telephone directory, issued in September, no longer lists General Services as a separate entity but lists the areas which formerly fell under its umbrella, under Ancillary Services. The areas listed under Ancillary Services include the following: Director's Office; Campus Parking; Campus Bookstore; Conference Services - Pitman Hall; Conference and Food Services - ILLC; Duplicating and Printing Services; Food Services; Receiving/Shipping/Mailroom/Stationery Stores; "Ryerson One Card" System (One Card Office has its own RG 907); and Theatre/Facilities Rental. Ancillary Services changed names to Ryerson Business Services in March of 2011.

Anderson, Clara Rothwell

  • Person
  • 1871-1958

Clara Emily Rothwell was born in Listowel, Ontario in 1971. Clara studied at the Toronto Conservatory and became a soloist at the Trinity Methodist Church. In 1899 she married Reverend Peter William Anderson (1870-1936), with whom she had three children. The vocation of clergyman's wife led to Clara's discovery of her own creativity through the writing of more than a dozen light-hearted plays that were produced as fund-raising events for the Ladies' Aid Societies of her husband's Presbyterian congregations. Her first skit, AN OLD TIME LADIES' AID BUSINESS MEETING AT MOHAWK CROSSROADS (1912) was whipped up in a mere two days. Fearing that the conservative citizens of Shelburne, Ontario, might object to stage costumes, her amateur actors performed the piece in their street clothes. A great success, the play was staged throughout rural Ontario and eventually across Canada. Her plays struck a responsive chord with their audiences because they dramatised the preoccupations and daily life of small rural communities. Her novel, JOHN MATHESON: A WHOLESOME HUMAN STORY OF CANADIAN RURAL LIFE (1923), held a similar appeal. Clara died in 1958 and was buried in Beechwood Cemetery in Ottawa.

Anderson, Des

  • Person
  • [ca. 1985]

He was an architect who helped build Masonville Place (Masonville Mall), in London, Ontario.

Anderson, James M.

  • Person
  • [ca. 1959]

Graduated from Ryerson in Business in 1959. He was the President and CEO of McKim Baker Lovick/BBDO advertising. He was a former member of Ryerson's Board of Governors.

Anderson, James Watt

  • Person
  • 1893-1962

James Watt Anderson was born in Newhill, Scotland in 1893. He began working for the Hudson's Bay Company at the age of 17 and immigrated to Canada. His first job was as a clerk in Moose Factory James Bay. His work history is as follows:
1910 - 1912 Clerk Moose Factory James Bay
1912 - 1913 Clerk Rupert's House James Bay
1913 - 1918 Clerk in charge Mistassini James Bay
1918 - 1919 Clerk Rupert's House James Bay
1919 - 1920 Clerk in charge Attawapiskat James Bay
1920 - 1922 Clerk Attawapiskat James Bay
1922 - 1927 Post Manager Albany James Bay
1927 - 1929 Inspector/Auditor North Bay Superior-Huron
1929, 22 January Chief Trader North Bay Superior-Huron
1929 - 1931 Chief Trader North Bay Superior-Huron
1929 - 1931 Chief Trader North Bay Superior-Huron
1931 - 1934 District Manager (Chief Trader) Moose Factory James Bay
1934, 27 November Factor
1934 - 1937 District Manager (Factor) Hudson's Bay House James Bay
1937 - 1952 District Manager (Factor) Winnipeg Ungava (E. Arctic)
1952 - 1958 special assignment Hudson's Bay House, Winnipeg
1958 retired Moccasin Telegraph

James married Annie Margaret McLeod of Moose Factory at Rupert's House on July 22, 1912, and together they had 4 children. He died June 21, 1962 in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Anderson, Lisa

  • Person
  • [ca. 1990]

Lisa Anderson completed her Bachelor of Applied Science Degree (Mechanical Engineering) at Queen's University, Kingston, ON, in 1990. She joined Ryerson in 2001 as the co-ordinator of the Women in Engineering Office. In this role she provided support for current female engineering students and oversaw Ryerson's Discover Engineering outreach programs. She worked in this role until 2006 when she to Campus Planning and Facilities. In her role as Supervisor she oversees the operation of mechanical systems at the university. She is the Past-Chair for the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers Women in Engineering Advocacy Committee (WEAC) and the Past-Chair for Engineers Canada Women in Engineering Advisory Group (WIEAG).

Anderson, Mary Antoinette

  • Person
  • 1859-1940

She was educated at the Ursuline Convent in Louisville, Kentucky and at age 13, began to study for the theater. On November 25, 1875, at 16, she made her first appearance on the American stage as Juliet in an amateur production at Macauley's Theater in Louisville, Kentucky, and scored an immediate success. During the following ten years, she played in all the principal cities of the United States and was immensely popular.
From 1885 to 1989, Anderson appeared in England, where she repeated her American triumphs. In 1883, Anderson opened as Parthenia in Maria Anne Lovell 's Ingomar at the Lyceum and was later accepted in any part she chose. Her most notable portrayals were Perdita, Hermione, Galatea, Rosalind, Lady Macbeth, Bianca, Pauline, Meg Merrilees, and Juliet.
Illness in 1889 forced her to retire. The following year, she married Antonio de Navarro and together the pair had one son. After World War I broke out, she frequently appeared at special performances for the benefit of wounded soldiers and in support of the poor. She wrote two autobiographies, including A Few Memories (1896), and co-authored, with Robert Hichens, the long-running play The Garden of Allah.

Anderson, Patrick

  • Person
  • 1915-1979

Patrick Anderson, poet, writer, educator, was born in Surrey, England August 4, 1915. He attended and graduated from Oxford and Columbia Universities before coming ot Canada in 1940. He taught at a Montréal private school 1940-46, during which time he made probably his foremost contribution to Canadian arts by co-founding Preview (1942) and NORTHERN REVIEW (1945), both literary magazines. Anderson was an assistant professor at McGill for 2 years until he left Canada in 1950, not to revisit until 1971. During his Montréal years he wrote 3 poetry collections: A Tent for April (1945), The White Centre (1946) and The Colour as Naked (1953). In subsequent years, when working primarily in teaching positions in Malaysia and Britain, he wrote numerous travel books and biographies and 2 autobiographical works. A revival of Canadian interest in his work sparked 2 further volumes of a Canadian context: A Visiting Distance (1976) and Return to Canada: Selected Poems (1977).
Patrick Anderson died in Essex, England in 1979.

Anderson, Scott

  • Person
  • [ca. 1983]

Scott Anderson received his undergraduate degree from Wilfrid Laurier in 1983, and received his Bachelor of Laws from Osgoode Hall Law School. He completed his MBA in Finance at Queens University in 1986, and his Ph.D in Finance at York University in 1999. Before entering the field of teaching Scott Anderson worked in the legal department of Toronto Dominion Bank first as an Articling Student from 1986-1987, and then as solicitor from 1988-1990. In 1992 he began teaching courses at York University and continued to do so until 1998. In 1998 he joined the faculty of the Business at Ryerson as an Associate Professor where he is currently teaching. In 2003 he won Barclays Global Investors Canada Research Award for best research paper for a paper he co-wrote with Dr. Yisong Tian of York University.

Anderson, Walter

  • Person
  • 1918-1981

Walter Anderson was born in 1918 and became a Ham Radio Operator at the age of 16. Between 1938 and 1948 Walter worked for American Airlines and later Air Canada as a radio operator, a station manager, a ground station technician and a senior engineer. He began work at Ryerson as a Teacher in Electrical Technology in 1949 and retired in 1980/81 school year as a Senior Lecturer. Upon his retirement one of the department's communications laboratories was named the "Walter Anderson Laboratory". These labs are no longer in existence. Walter was a member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario and on the Executive Committee of the Institute of Electronics & Electrical Engineers, serving as the Chairman for one term. Walter Anderson died in 1981.

Andrew Melrose Ltd.

  • Corporate body

Andrew Melrose was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Much of his early career was spent at the London Ludgate Hill offices of the Sunday School Union, where from 1893 he published the Sunday School Chronicle. He began publishing under his own name around 1899 in York Street, Covent Garden, finally moving to an address next door to Macmillan in St. Martin Street, Leicester Square. Between 1900 and 1903 Melrose published and contributed to a weekly paper Boys of the Empire, the official organ of the Boys Empire League. Under the pseudonym of A.E.Macdonald, Melrose wrote popular biographies. In 1927 Melrose's publishing business was taken over by the Hutchinson group and became known as Andrew Melrose Limited. It published religious and general titles and the imprint lasted until the mid-1950s. Melrose's son Douglas Melrose, who was associated with his father's business, founded the publishing firm of Melrose and Co. of St Martin's Lane.

Andrews, John Hamilton

  • Person
  • 1933-present

John Hamilton Andrews was born in Sydney, New South Wales Australia October 29, 1933. He received his B. Arch from the University of Sydney in 1956 and the Masters of Architecture from Harvard University in 1958. He moved to Toronto, after submitting a proposal to the international competition for Toronto City Hall where he was selected as a finalist. He lost but joined the Toronto firm John B. Parkin Associates and worked on the city hall project. In 1962 he left that firm in 1962 to become the chairman of the University of Toronto's architecture program, a position he held until 1967. In 1962 he also established John Andrews Architects.
He has worked on the design of the University of Toronto's Scarborough campus. In 1967 he designed Africa Place as part of Expo 67 in Montreal. In 968 Andrews won the commission to design Gund Hall, a new building at Harvard University. His firm served as design architects on the multidisciplinary team that designed Toronto's CN Tower from 1976 to 2007.
In 1973 Andrews expanded his practice into his native Australia, where it was transformed into John Andrews International Pty Ltd.
He has received many honours including: a Centennial Medal (Canada); a Massey Medal (Canada); the Arnold Brunner Award, National Institute of Arts and Letters (U.S.); and an Ontario Association of Architects 25 Year Award for Scarborough College. He is a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA), and a recipient of the RAIA Gold Medal and of an Honor Award from the American Institute of Architects.

Anglo Canadian Leather Company

  • Corporate body

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.

Angus & Robertson Limited

  • Corporate body
  • 1884-

Angus & Robertson (A&R) was a major Australian bookseller, book publisher and book printer. As book publishers, A&R has contributed substantially to the promotion and development of Australian literature. This well known Australian brand currently exists in an online shop and a reduced form as part of online bookseller Booktopia. The Angus & Robertson imprint is still seen in books published by HarperCollins, a News Corporation company.

Angus, Charlie

  • Person
  • 1962-present

He is an author and the federal MP for the riding of Timmins-James Bay, ON.

Anishinabek Nation

  • Corporate body

The Anishinabek Nation established the Union of Ontario Indians (UOI) as its secretariat in 1949. The UOI was established because the Anishinabek Nation did not legally exist and a legal entity was required to enter into legally-binding agreements. The Anishinabek Nation is a political advocate for 40 member First Nations across Ontario. The Anishinabek Nation is the oldest political organization in Ontario and can trace its roots back to the Confederacy of Three Fires, which existed long before European contact.

The Anishinabek Nation represents 40 First Nations throughout the province of Ontario from Golden Lake in the east, Sarnia in the south, Thunder Bay and Lake Nipigon in the north. The 40 First Nations have an approximate combined population of 65,000 citizens, one third of the province of Ontario’s First Nation population. The Anishinabek Nation has four strategic regional areas: Southwest, Southeast, Lake Huron and Northern Superior. Each region is represented by a Regional Deputy Grand Council Chief.

Ansco Company

  • Corporate body
  • 1907-1928

Founded in 1802 on Silver Street in Waterbury, CT, Abel Porter & Co. began by producing brass and copper items and sewing hardware. Under the new partnership of Leavenworth, Hayden & Scovill of 1811, the company continued to produce brass buttons, including a military contract to produce civil war artillery buttons.

Having been already set up for the production of metal items, J.M.L Scovill and W.H. Scovill began manufacturing silvered plates in 1839, shortly after the presentation of Daguerreotype photography. In about a year, Scovill plates were of equal quality to plates manufactured in Paris.

The Scovills became notable suppliers of photographic supplies after opening a New York storefront in 1846, which carried a full line of cameras, photographic equipment and supplies.

The Scovill company continued to grow; it was incorporated as Scovill Manufacturing Company in 1850 and acquired the American Optical Company in 1867. This broadened their manufacturing line to include the box cameras and stereoscopes produced by American Optical.

Some organizational change followed when, in 1889, an officer took over the company, changing the name to Scovill & Adam's. The company's name changed again, to The Scovill & Anthony Company, when it merged with the E. & H.T. Anthony Company in 1902.

In 1907, this handle was abbreviated to "ANSCO". The company continued to produce photographic equipment under that brand name until 1928, when they merged with the German manufacturer, Agfa.

Antique and Classic Car Club of Canada

  • Person
  • 1956-

The Antique and Classic Car Club of Canada (A.C.C.C.C.) began in 1956 as the Ontario Region of The Antique Automobile Club of America. The A.C.C.C.C. name was adopted in 1958, and the Club was incorporated on May 15, 1963. The Club's purpose is to further the interest in and the knowledge of historic, antique and classic vehicles 20 years and older and associated materials. We enthusiastically encourage the ownership, restoration, and preservation of these vehicles. Ownership of an antique or classic vehicle is not necessary for membership. Active Image. The A.C.C.C.C. is organized as 13 regional clubs located throughout Ontario operating under the stewardship of a national executive and board of directors.

Antoft, Kell

  • Person
  • 1923-2002

At the age of seven he immigrated to Canada with his parents settling in Winnipeg and later Lakeville, King's County, Nova Scotia. He received his early education in Kentville at the King's County Academy and later at Sir George Williams College in Montreal and Dalhousie University. From an early age, Antoft was interested in hostelling and, while still in his teens, founded the Nova Scotia branch of the Canadian Hostelling Association (1938). He served as a Royal Canadian Air Force navigator from 1943 to 1946 and settled in Montreal after the war, where he founded two successful businesses: Viking Air Service and Nordic Biochemicals Ltd. After twenty years in corporate administration, Antoft sold his businesses and moved to Toronto (1966) where he became the Assistant Executive Director of the National Cancer Institute of Canada. In 1969 Antoft moved back to Nova Scotia after Guy Henson, Director of the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA), recruited him to assume the Assistant Directorship of the IPA. In 1977, Antoft succeeded Guy Henson as Director. At the end of this term in 1984, he became a professor (research) at the IPA (which later merged into Henson College of Public Affairs and Continuing Education) and a professor in the School of Public Administration at Dalhousie University. In Nova Scotia, he continued his involvement with the CCS, and for more than twenty years served as a member of its Nova Scotia Division, with a two-year term as President from 1980 to 1982.

He worked in various capacities with ski clubs and programs in Canada and was involved in the Katimavik program for youth, later becoming president. He was also involved in politics. He was inducted into the Nova Scotia Sport Heritage Hall of Fame (2000) and became a Member of the Order of Canada (2001).

Aoyama, Kay

  • Person
  • [ca. 1964]

Kayoko (Kay) Aoyama began her teaching career in Brandon, Manitoba before moving to Toronto and teaching at Ryerson's Nursing School beginning in 1964. She was part of the Nursing Faculty until 1981. During this time she was also teaching classes for the Theatre School (1973-78), and for Home Economics. Her courses included Physiology, and pathology. During her time at Ryerson Kay became involved with Ryerson's Fencing Club. For over 30 years she acted as a coach, a supervisor, and an instructor until 1995. She is currently (2008) acting as the assistant coach for the team. She became the Ontario Women's Intercollegiate Athletic Association's first woman coach. Kay also fenced competitively. She was a Canadian Fencing Champion, a Commonwealth games bronze medalist, and competed in the Pan American games. She attempted to compete at the Olympics, but was denied competition because of her age. Although for the 1976 Games in Montreal she acted as the Chief of the Fencing Area - acting as an official. The Ontario University Athletics Association named their overall Women's Team Champion Trophy after her - the Kay Aoyoma Women's Championship Team Trophy.

Appelt, Dieter

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  • Person
  • 1935-present

He is a is a German artist known for black and white photographs, which depict performances and sculptures of his own construction. He studied singing and music at the Mendelssohn Bartholdy Akademie in Leipzig, before taking photography courses under Heinz Hajek-Halke at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin. During his early years in Berlin, he continued to be involved in music and performed in the choir of the city’s Opera. After a trip to Italy in 1976, Appelt started to focus his photographic attentions on his own body. Today, Appelt’s works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, among others.

Apple Inc.

  • Corporate body
  • 1976-

"Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, Inc., American manufacturer of personal computers, smartphones, tablet computers, computer peripherals, and computer software. It was the first successful personal computer company and the popularizer of the graphical user interface. Headquarters are located in Cupertino, California."

Source: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Apple-Inc

Arcan

  • Corporate body

Arcand, Bernard

  • Person
  • 1945-2009

He was a French-Canadian anthropologist and author, who was employed by Laval University.

Archer, Maurice

  • Person
  • [ca. 1964]

Maurice Archer received his B.Sc in Economics and his M.A. in Economics. He joined the Ryerson Business Department in 1964 and was on staff until 1983 serving as a course co-ordinator during the 1972-73 school year. Over the course of his career Maurice Archer authored/co-authored 21 books on business and consumer law several of which have been reprinted in 2nd and 3rd editions.

Archibald, Rosamond Madison DeWolfe

  • Person
  • 1882-1953

Rosamond DeWolfe Archibald was born November 7, 1882 in Truro, Nova Scotia. She was educated at Windsor Academy and went on to attend Acadia University, achieving a B.A. in 1904 and a M.A. in 1905. She then attended Smith College, achieving a B.A. in 1907, and a M.A. in 1909.
She became a teacher, teaching English at Terry Hall, in connection with Lake Forest University (1907-1908). For a time she conducted a private school if Wolfville, Nova Scotia and was a teacher at the Acadia Ladies Seminary (1914-1926). From there she taught at the Horton Academy (1926-1947) and also taught at the Nova Scotia Summer School (1925-1950).
Rosamond also travelled, guest lecturing on "Better English", in Canada, The U.S. and England. She was a member of the Canadian Author's Association - producing "The King's English Drill" (six editions), "Better English Grammar", and a playlet "During the Tea House".
Rosamond Archibald died in Wolfville, Nova Scotia May 19, 1953.

Architecture Alumni Association

  • University Name

1958: Name according to the Constitution: Association of Architectural And Construction Technologists 1960-1975: In 1960 name changed to Association of Architectural Technologists. Newsletters in collection up to 1975. 1994: Term Association of Architectural Technologists has been abbreviated to ATA in collection records. 1994: Landscape Architecture forms the Landscape Architecture Alumni Association.

Argus Camera Company

  • 1936-

Argus was an American maker of cameras and photographic products, founded in 1936 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Argus originated as a subsidiary of the International Radio Corporation (IRC), founded by Charles Verschoor. Its best-known product was the C3 rangefinder camera, which enjoyed a 27-year production run and became one of the top-selling cameras in history. The company's Model A was the first low-cost 35 mm camera in the United States. Sylvania acquired Argus in 1959 and sold it in 1969, by which time it had ceased camera production (some rebadged cameras continued to be sold under the Argus name through the 1970s). More recently, the Argus brand has been reestablished and is used on a variety of inexpensive digital cameras made by Argus Camera Company, LLC., located in Inverness, Illinois.

Source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argus_(camera_company)

Arless, G. C.

  • Corporate body

G. C. Arless was a Montreal-based photographer who operated his own studio during the late nineteenth century.

Armando, Armando

  • Person
  • [ca. 1953]

He was a translator, fluent in Italian and English.

Armatage, Kay

  • Person
  • [ca. 1969]

Kay Armatage joined Ryerson as an English Instructor in 1969 and left Ryerson sometime after 1971 and became a professor at the University of Toronto. She is cross appointed to Cinema Studies, Innis College, and The Women and Gender Studies Institute. She is also a member for the Graduate Centre for the Study of Drama. Kay has authored several books and articles as well as producing/directing narrative films. She was part of the Toronto International Film Festival, the Vice-Chair of the Ontario Arts Council, the Director of the Undergraduate Women's Studies Program at the University of Toronto as well as the founding Director of the Graduate Collaborative Program in Women's Studies.

Arnaud, Odette

  • Person

Odette Arnaud was a literary agent based in Paris, France.

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