Tom Bochsler is a well-known industrial photographer who has spent more than five decades as a professional photographer. He was the official photographer for McMaster University, CHCH-TV, CHML radio and other local businesses. He also was a portrait photographer. His specialty, however, is industrial photography, and he has won many awards for his work in this field.
Tom Bottomore earned his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Sociology at the London School of Economics, where he launched his academic career, holding the position of Lecturer of Sociology from 1954 to 1964. The chancellor of Simon Fraser University(SFU) recruited Bottomore as the first chair of the Political Science, Sociology and Anthropology (PSA) Department in 1964. Bottomore was internationally renowned amongst his colleagues as one of Britain’s best sociologists, and had edited an acclaimed translation of Karl Marx’s early writings, as well as the sociology textbook that was the standard introductory text at the University of British Columbia. Bottomore also published Marxist masterpieces such as Elites and Society (1964) and Classes in Modern Society (1965).
While at SFU, Bottomore was responsible for assembling a PSA Department that was methodologically and theoretically diverse and concerned with the developing world. In 1967, Bottomore took up a permanent position at the University of Sussex, where he stayed for the remainder of his career until his retirement in 1985. Bottomore died in 1992 at age 72.
Micheline Bouchard is a professional engineer and corporate director. She previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of ART Advanced Research Technologies, a biomedical company, from 2002 until July 2006. Prior to that, Micheline was Global Corporate Vice-President of Motorola Inc. in the U.S. after serving as President and Chief Executive Officer of Motorola Canada Inc. She holds a Bachelor’s in Applied Sciences (Engineering Physics) and a Master’s in Applied Sciences (Electrical Engineering) from École Polytechnique, Montreal, Quebec and numerous Honorary Doctorates. Micheline is a Member of the Order of Canada, a Member of the National Order of Quebec, and a certified member of the Institute of Corporate Directors and a recipient of the Gold Medal Award from Engineers Canada.
Thelma Wells Bogart Boucher was born June 18, 1904. She attended Queen's University, receiving her B.A. in 1927. She received an honourary doctorate from Queen's in 1973. She was an author. She passed away November 25, 1992.
Arthur Stanley Bourinot, son of Sir John George and Lady Isabelle Bourinot, was born in Ottawa, Ontario in 1893. He served in the Canadian army and Royal Air Force during the First World War (from 1915 to 1919), the last two years as a prisoner of war. He completed his legal training at Osgoode Hall, Toronto and was called to the bar in 1920. He practised law in Ottawa until he retired in 1959. Bourinot began publishing his poems while still an undergraduate and continued to write and publish poetry throughout his life. He received the Governor General's Literary award in 1939 for Under the Sun (1939), poems about the Depression and the coming of the Second World War. He edited the Canadian Poetry Magazine from 1948 to 1954 and from 1966 to 1968; also he was associate editor of Canadian Author and Bookman (1953-60). His carefully researched historical and biographical books and articles on Canadian poets, such as Duncan Campbell Scott, Archibald Lampman, George Frederick Cameron, William E. Marshall and Charles Sangster, have made a valuable contribution to the field of literary criticism in Canada.
She studied at Harvard University(1976-1981) and is owner of Julia Bourke Architecture Inc. in Montreal, Quebec.
Audrey Bowes was hired by Ryerson's Civil Engineering department in 1958. She worked at Ryerson until her retirement in 1994. She passed away June 15, 2022.
Walter Bowles was born in Toronto and educated at: Ryerson University, Harbord Collegiate, Victoria College and the University of Toronto. He was the first Warden of Hart House 1919-1921 and then became a teacher in Oakville and then a professor for eight years with Oxford University. He then became a newscaster for The Toronto Daily Star and stayed there for 10 years, before moving to CBC.
Soharn Randy Boyagoda’s parents immigrated to Canada from Sri Lanka in 1967 and settled in Oshawa, Ontario where Randy was born in 1976. He completed a B.A. at the University of Toronto in 1999, and both an M.A. (2001) and Ph.D (2005) at Boston University. His doctoral thesis is entitled Imagining Nations and Imaginary Americans: Race, Immigration and American Identity in the Fiction of Salman Rushdie, Ralph Ellison, and William Faulkner. Boyagoda joined the English Dept. of Ryerson University in 2006. He is a frequent contributor to local magazines such as The Walrus and newspapers including The Globe and Mail and National Post.
Eleanor Boyce was educated at the New Brunswick Normal School then, in 1919, took up her first teaching position, of a one-room high school at Ethelbert, working there until 1922. From Ethelbert, she was Principal at Wingham School (1922-1925), Elm Creek School (1925-1935), and Roland School (1935-1941). From there, she went to the Central Normal School in Winnipeg, where she instructed during the 1940s and also gave radio addresses on a variety of educational topics.
She served as President of the Manitoba Teachers’ Society (1941) and Manitoba Educational Association (1941-1942). In 1950, she received a doctoral degree from the University of Manitoba based on research about the historical use of readers in Canadian schools and authored several readers.
Boyce was one of the first female School Inspectors in Manitoba, serving from 1948 to 1956. She joined the Faculty of Education at the University of Manitoba in 1956 and remained there until 1967. She was Superintendent of Ramah Hebrew School until 1971.
In recognition of her community service, Boyce received an honorary doctorate from St. Francis Xavier University (Antigonish, Nova Scotia) in 1953. In 1966, she was given the Benemerenti Medal by Pope John II. In 1977, she received the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal and was inducted into the Order of Canada “in recognition of more than half a century devoted to education, during which several generations of Manitoba pupils, teachers, families and friends were inspired by her leadership and selfless dedication”.
Frank P. Boyce lived in Toronto, Ontario. He was a Canadian Distributor of AMPRO products.
Eleanor Boyes, nee Fisher, graduated from The Wellesley Hospital School of Nursing in 1938. She worked at the Wellesley Hospital.
Jim Bradley was born February 19, 1945 in Sudbury, Ontario. Before entering politics, Bradley was a teacher with the Lincoln County Board of Education. He was elected as a city councillor to the St. Catharines city council in 1970, but also remained in the classroom until 1977. He ran for election under the Liberal Party in the St. Catherines riding. He has served many roles during his time in office including Minister of the Environment, Deputy Government House Leader, Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, Minister of Transportation, Minister Responsible for Seniors, Minister of Tourism, Commissioner, Board of Internal Economy, Government House Leader, Minister of Tourism and Recreation, Opposition House Leader, and Interim Leader of the Official Opposition.
Thecla Mary Jean Harris Robbins was born in Toronto to Harry and Pearl (Miller) Robbins. She married her husband Harry Bradshaw in 1940. In 1946, Harry and Thecla moved to Winnipeg with their children, eventually settling in Wildwood Park. Thecla was a strong swimmer, a practitioner of yoga, an avid outdoorswoman, an advocate for Native rights, a supporter of the arts, a rugged individualist, a musician, an animal lover, a journalist and a poet. During the 1950s, Thecla spent much of each summer travelling by canoe to remote areas of Northern Manitoba, pitching her tent in areas wherever she decided to stop and write. She published many articles on her observations in the Winnipeg Free Press and other publications. After the death of her husband in 1960, she briefly worked as a writer for the National Film Board in Montreal. In 1964, she left Canada for an extended period, often travelling on freighters, spending time in Singapore and South Africa, the West Indies and Chile. Upon returning to Canada in 1966, she settled in Saskatoon, where she edited the Northian Magazine for educators of Native and Inuit children, via the auspices of the U of Sask. Thecla also lived for a time in Souris, Manitoba, while preparing her book, A Cree Life: The Art of Allen Sapp. In the early 1980s, Thecla moved to Fredericton. She passed away December 25, 2005.
Dr. Barron Brainerd was born in New York City in 1928. He completed his B.Sc. in Mathematics at M.I.T. and then an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Michigan, graduating in 1954. Barron moved to Toronto in 1957 and became a Canadian Citizen in 1959. Barron was a professor of Linguistics and Mathematics at the University of Toronto, retiring in 1989 after more than 25 years as faculty. He passed away Tuesday May 19, 2015.
He was raised in Prince Albert and Saskatoon, and educated at the University of Saskatchewan. He taught in rural and continuation schools from 1933 to 1940 when he joined the navy and was sent to Toronto with the Royal Canadian Volunteer Services. Discharged in 1945, he remained in Ontario and worked as a freelance writer.
During his 40-year career as one of Canada's best humorists, he wrote plays for radio and television, scripts for theatre and film, contributed articles to major Canadian magazines and produced over 25 books. He is best known for Why Shoot the Teacher? (1965), an autobiographical novel which tells, with humour and compassion, of his fledgling teaching experiences in a Saskatchewan one-room school during the Great Depression. Braithwaite was the recipient of honorary degrees from numerous schools, including the University of Calgary.
Kenneth Brambleby worked at the British Institute of Technology.
Marianne Brandis was born in Holland in 1938, came to Canada at age eight, and lived in British Columbia and Nova Scotia before moving to Ontario. She began writing in her teens, and continued while working as a copywriter at private radio stations and the CBC, and teaching English at Ryerson University. Since 1989 she has been a full-time writer. She has written historical fiction set in Canadian and British history, and novels set in modern-day Canada.
He was Director of Physical Education for Vancouver, British Columbia and took part in the 1953 Commonwealth Youth Movement. He was also an author.
Daniel Bratton is a former instructor of Canadian Literature in the Department of English at Ryerson University. Bratton earned his PhD in English Literature and Language from the University of Toronto (1983). After leaving Ryerson, Bratton taught English at the Youngdong Technical Institute in South Korea, and became a professor at Miyazaki International College, Kiyotake, Japan (1999 - 2005) and then at Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan (2005 - 2010). While at Doshisha, he received two Japanese Monkasho grants, a fellowship from the Lilly Library of Indiana University, and funding from the Canadian government to write a book on Cid Corman and Origin Magazine, which published many modern poets. He is the author of Thirty-Two Short Views of Mazo de la Roche, a biographical essay on the Canadian author of the Whiteoks Jalna novels, and founder of the Elora Poetry Centre in Elora, Ontario.
Marta Braun is a professor in the school of Image Arts at Ryerson University and the director of the FPPCM program. She holds an honours B.A. in Art History from the University of Toronto and an M.A. (magna cum laude), in Media Study from the State University of New York. Marta’s area of research is chronophotography, particularly the work of E.J. Marey and Eadweard Muybridge. In 1994, her book Picturing Time: The Work of Etienne Jules Marey, was short listed for Britain’s Kraszna-Krausz award, given bi-annually for the best internationally published book in photography. She went on to win this award in 1999, along with four other authors, for the collection of essays Beauty of Another Order: Photography in Science. In 1996 Marta was made a Knight of the Order of Academic Palms by the Government of France in recognition of her contribution to the cause of French knowledge, culture, scientific progress and education. In the Fall 2008 she served as a fellow at the Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie in Weimar, Germany where she developed an exhibition of Muybridge’s Animal Locomotion.
Michael Brecher was born March 14, 1925. His undergraduate degree was obtained from McGill University and his PhD in International Relations from Yale University in 1953 and became a professor at McGill University in 1954 where he is currently the R.B. Angus professor at McGill University and a member of the Royal Society of Canada.
He was an editor and served as vice-principal at St John’s-Ravenscourt School, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Manfred H. Breede was born in Hamburg, Germany, where he worked as an apprentice pressman. Breede emigrated to Montreal in 1967 and taught printing for many years in the Quebec High School System. In 1987, Breede began teaching printing technology at Ryerson University, eventually becoming a professor in the School of Graphic Communications Management. He is the author of the first and second editions of Handbook of Graphic Arts Equations and contributed a chapter to The Future of the Book in the Digital Age. Breede consults widely on printing quality and efficiency, as well as the development of software related to printing. In 2002, he was recognized by the readers of the Canadian journal PRINTACTION as one of the 50 most influential people in the Graphic Arts in Canada.
One of the pioneers of Vancouver culture, Alice Brewer was a founder of the Vancouver Little Theatre and of the Vancouver Arts and Letters Club. Alice and William John Brewer, first Reeve of South Vancouver, married in 1912. When William died at the age of ninety-one in 1931, Alice moved to Vancouver's West End where she held a monthly salon for the city'ssmall literary and artistic community. As an amateur actress and singer she was a well-informed critic of the dramatic arts and occasionally contributed reviews of musical performances to the local press. Her only book is a chapbook of verse, SPRING IN SAVARY (1926).
Sir David Brewster was a British scientist, inventor, author, and academic administrator. In science, he is principally remembered for his experimental work in physical optics, mostly concerned with the study of the polarization of light and including the discovery of Brewster's angle. He studied the birefringence of crystals under compression and discovered photoelasticity, thereby creating the field of optical mineralogy.
A pioneer in photography, Brewster invented an improved stereoscope, which he called "lenticular stereoscope" and which became the first portable 3D-viewing device. He also invented the binocular camera, two types of polarimeters, the polyzonal lens, the lighthouse illuminator, and the kaleidoscope.
Brewster was a Presbyterian and walked arm in arm with his brother on the Disruption procession which formed the Free Church of Scotland. As a historian of science, Brewster focused on the life and work of his hero, Isaac Newton. Brewster published a detailed biography of Newton in 1831 and later became the first scientific historian to examine many of the papers in Newton's Nachlass. Brewster also wrote numerous works of popular science, and was one of the founders of the British Science Association, of which he was elected President in 1849. He became the public face of higher education in Scotland, serving as Principal of the University of St Andrews (1837–59) and later of the University of Edinburgh (1859–68). Brewster also edited the 18-volume Edinburgh Encyclopædia.
Elizabeth Winifred Brewster was born in Chipman, New Brunswick on August 26, 1922. She grew up in a small New Brunswick lumber town. She won scholarships that allowed her to attend and earn a BA at the University of New Brunswick, an MA at Radcliffe College, a BLSci at the University of Toronto and a PhD at Indiana University. Before she joined the University of Saskatchewan's Department of English in 1972, Brewster was a librarian and cataloguer in New Brunswick, Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia. Elizabeth Brewster has published more than 20 books, most of them poetry collections. She remembers rural eastern Canada and contemplates western Canada, the Old Testament, and the universe in her poetry and prose.
Elizabeth Brewster was one of a handful of modernist female poets published in Canadian magazines in the 1940s. Her first book of poetry was East Coast (1951). The two-volume Selected Poems of Elizabeth Brewster: 1944-1984 was published in 1985. Her collection Footnotes to the Book of Job (1995) was short-listed for the Governor General's Award. Collected Poems of Elizabeth Brewster, in two volumes, appeared in 2003 and 2004.
Elizabeth Brewster's prose works include the short-story collections It's Easy to Fall on the Ice (1977), A House Full of Women (1983) and Visitations (1987). Her novels, The Sisters (1974) and Junction (1983), are set in her home province of New Brunswick. The autobiographical works, The Invention of Truth (1991) and Away from Home (1995), are a mix of poetry and prose.
Elizabeth Brewster was a founding member of the important Canadian literary magazine The Fiddlehead. She was a recipient of the Lifetime Award for Excellence in the Arts from the Saskatchewan Arts Board and a Member of the Order of Canada.
She died 26 December 2012
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.
Joanne Briggs was a professor in Ryerson's Early Childhood Education program.
Born in Gun Plains Michigan in 1862, Brigham became a photographer in Plainwell Michigan in 1882, moving his studio to 3 South Ave. Point Place, Battle Creek Michigan in 1898 and again to 110 Main Street East in the same city in 1906, until its sale in 1911.
R. F. Brillinger was associated with Cedarbrae Secondary School (now Cedarbrae Collegiate Institute) in Scarborough, Ontario. He was an author
William (Bill) Brimley completed a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Waterloo in 1974 and worked at Atomic Energy of Canada. Bill pursued his post-graduate studies part-time and obtained a PH.D in 1982. Bill has worked continuously as a P. Eng. in the high-tech Engineering profession, working at, AECL, SPAR Aerospace, Ryerson University, and Mohawk College. Bill has taught part-time at Universities across Ontario (Windsor, Western, York, U of T, Ryerson, Queen’s and RMC) and Colleges (Sheridan, Seneca). Bill’s experience ranges from engineering laboratory testing, nuclear and aerospace engineering, project management, and post-secondary education. He has been the Associate Dean at Mohawk College since 2004. Bill has received awards for papers and websites in education, served as a NSERC referee, on Boards of Directors, and was twice a finalist for the Canadian Astronaut Program.
British North America Philatelic Society
The British North America Philatelic Society Ltd. - BNAPS - is an international organization (founded 1943) devoted to the collecting and study of the stamps, markings, and postal history of Canada and the pre-confederation colonies of British North America (British Columbia, Canada, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island).
Judy Britnell completed earned her Bachelor of Science from the University of Toronto, her Masters' degree at Columbia University in Psychiatric and Community Mental Health Nursing, and her Masters in Education at OISE/University of Toronto. She continued her studies at OISE towards her PhD. She worked as a School Nurse for 4 years at Selsen International School in Tokyo, Japan and she worked as a mental health consultant at West Park Hospital in Toronto before coming to Ryerson's School of Nursing in 1986. Between 1993-1999 she served as the Associate Director of the Basic Nursing Degree program. She also served on the Executive of the Ryerson Faculty Association. In 1999 she was seconded to the Learning and Teaching Office, becoming its director in 2001 - a role she held until 2011. She retired from Ryerson in 2013.
Horace Leslie Brittain received his teaching license from the provincial Normal School in New Brunswick in 1896.
Ed Broadbent was born March 21, 1936 in Oshawa, Ontario. He received his PhD from the University of Toronto in 1966 and studied at the London School of Economics. He joined the Politics Department at York University in 1965 and was elected to the House of Commons in 1968 as a member of the New Democratic Party in the Whitby-Oshawa district. In 1975 he was made party leader, a position he held until 1989. In 1989 he resigned as leader and was replaced by Audrey McLaughlin. Broadbent served as president of the International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development from 1990 to 1996. In 1993, Broadbent was named an Officer of the Order of Canada, and was promoted to Companion of the Order in 2001. In 2004, federal NDP leader Jack Layton persuaded Broadbent to return to politics and run for a seat in the federal election. Broadbent defeated the Liberal candidate and close ally of Paul Martin, Richard Mahoney, for the riding of Ottawa Centre. As a member of the NDP shadow cabinet, he was the critic for democracy (parliamentary and electoral reform, corporate accountability and child poverty). In 2005, he announced that he would not seek re-election.
Edmund Kemper Broadus was born August 27, 1876 in Alexandria, Virginia to Thomas Andrew Broadus and Sarah Jane Botts. As a young man, Edmund Kemper Broadus attended Columbian College in Washington, D.C., earning his B.A. in 1897. He received an M.A. from the University of Chicago in 1900. That same year he married Eleanor Hammond on August 15th. He received his Ph.D from Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., in 1908. During these years, he taught English at Stetson University in Florida, the University of South Dakota, and Harvard.
In June 1908 he was offered a job by the President of the University of Alberta, and began lecturing there in the fall of that same year - one of only four faculty members among 45 students in the fledgling institution. He would remain at the University of Alberta, as professor of English language and literature and head of the department, until his death in 1936.
Broadus’s academic publications included "The Laureateship: a study of the office of poet laureate in England" … (Oxford, Eng., 1921), the definitive work on the subject for many years; The story of English literature (New York, 1931; Toronto, 1936); English prose from Bacon to Hardy (London and Toronto, 1918), edited with Robert Kay Gordon, a member of the English department; and the influential volume for which he is chiefly remembered today, A book of Canadian prose and verse (Toronto, 1923, 1934), co-edited with his wife, Eleanor Hammond Broadus, a noted scholar and translator.
E. K. Broadus held visiting lectureships over the years at the University of California in Berkeley and Los Angeles, the University of Oxford, Haverford College in Pennsylvania, and the University of Chicago. At the University of Alberta he served several terms on the senate as a faculty representative. In 1933, on the 25th anniversary of the university and his arrival there, he delivered one of the celebratory public lectures and received an honorary lld. A year later he was elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Edmund Broadus died December 17, 1936 in Edmonton, Alberta.
Alumnus Ted Brock was involved in O'Keefe House at Ryerson for more than 37 years, first as a resident and then as a staff member, passing away in 2006.
Anne Sutherland Brooks was born and educated in Guelph, Ontario, where, although Presbyterian, she attended the Loretto Convent as well as the Collegiate Institute. At the London Normal School, she qualified to teach. By her mid-twenties Brooks was beginning to attract attention as a poet and reciter as well as for verses in periodicals ranging from the NEW YORK TIMES to WOMEN'S WORLD. Her associates in the Toronto branch of the Canadian Authors Association awarded her the members' division poetry prize in 1932 and 1933, just a couple of years before she married Canon Edward Arnold Brooks in 1935. With her friend and fellow poet Charlotte McCoy, Anne wrote SING A SONG OF CANADA (1937) which was set to music. I MET SOME LITTLE PEOPLE (1941), the last of her seven volumes of poetry, shows some indebtedness to A.A. Milne. In addition to caring for her own children, John Edward Arnold and Anne Elizabeth, Anne enchanted young listeners with recitals of her poetry and radio broadcasts of children's stories. She died in 1996.
Charlotte Broom was a library technician in the Ryerson library for more than twenty-five years. She was inducted into the Ryerson 25-Year Club in May 2007.
Rene Brougham worked at Ryerson for 15 years, retiring as the supervisor of the Information Centre - Admissions/Liaison.
A. R. Brown was a teacher at the Normal School in Saskatoon Saskatchewan and was also an author.
Audrey Alexandra Brown was born in Nanaimo, British Columbia in 1904 to an amateur historian and watchmaker, Joseph Miller Brown (1867-1942), and his wife, Rosa Elizabeth Rumming (1872-1960). The fifth child in a family of eight, Brown was first educated at St. Ann's Convent from April 1912 to September 1913 and at Nanaimo Public School from March 1915 to February 1917. A keen reader, she wrote her first verse at the age of six. At the age of twenty-three, she was struck by rheumatic fever; for most of the next decade, she was either bedridden or in a wheelchair, crippled by arthritic pains. She undertook treatment at the Queen Alexandra Solarium (Mill Bay) beginning in November 1934, where surgery restored her ability to walk. Although she published her first piece locally at the age of 16, her writing career took off in 1928, when she was "discovered" by Professor Pelham Edgar of Victoria College (University of Toronto), who was responsible for promoting her career from 1928 to 1939. Her first book of poetry, A DRYAD IN NANAIMO (1931), led to four more volumes of poetry as well as one prose work, THE LOG OF A LAME DUCK (1937). She also published her poetry and prose in various newspapers and journals. A freelance journalist from 1926 onwards, she often used the pseudonym "the Khoji" in the NANAIMO FREE PRESS. Prominent admirers of her work included former Prime Minister Robert Borden (with whom she corresponded from 1934 until his death in 1936) and Lorne Pierce. She received the first tangible reward for her work with the Members Memorial Medal of the Canadian Women's Press Club in 1936. This was followed by the Lorne Pierce Medal from the Royal Society of Canada (1944), the Order of Canada (1968), and the Centennial Silver Medal (1967). During her later years, she received support from the Canadian Writers' Foundation. She was involved with various organizations, including the Canadian Authors Association and visited England (from June to December of 1950) as a guest of PEN. Audrey Alexandra Brown died in Victoria in 1998.
Dr. Charles B. Brown graduated from the University of Toronto Medical School in 1939 in Internal Medicine. He was a former staff member at Toronto General Hospital and an assistant professor at the University of Toronto. He died Aug. 26, 1999, aged 84.
Edward Killoran Brown was born in Toronto on August 15, 1905. He attended the University of Toronto and University of Paris, and he taught at University of Toronto, University of Manitoba, Cornell and University of Chicago. His most important contributions to Canadian criticism were his well-known study On Canadian Poetry (1943, rev ed 1944); his annual surveys of Canadian poetry in the University of Toronto Quarterly 1936-50; and his edition of Duncan Campbell Scott's poems (1951).
He passed away at the age of 45 on April 11, 1951.
Jane Brown graduated from the University of Vermont. Between 1991 and 1994 she was a Residence Life Facilitator with the Department of Housing at Ryerson University. She left Ryerson for her alma mater, the University of Vermont, to work as the Manager, Academic Programs in the Division of Continuing Education. She worked there from 1995-1997. From there she worked at Western University as the director of Student Services and Ancillary Enterprises - Huron College - University of Western Ontario (1997-1998).
From Western, she went to York University where she worked as the Assistant Director International Relations - Schulich School of Business (1998-2000) and then the Assistant Director English Language Institute (2000-2001). Jane returned to Ryerson in 2002 as the Manager, Marketing and Communications in Sports and Recreation (2002-2006) and then the Manager Marketing and Special Programs in Sports and Recreation (2006-2007). In 2008 she became began work in the Office of the Registrar at Sheridan College in the Assessment Centre Compartive Review (2008-2011). In 2011, she started as an Education Management professional at CJB Consulting, and in 2016 she became a district manager for Arbonne International Canada.
Margaret H. Brown was born in 1887 near Tiverton in Kincardine Township, Ontario, Canada. She worked as a teacher for about four years before travelling to Henan, China in 1916 under the auspices of the Women’s Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church in Canada.
In 1925 the WMS had twenty-nine missionaries working in the province. In 1929 Brown was appointed to the staff of the Christian Literature Society in Shanghai and worked there as an editor. While there she published a number of books in Chinese, including "Stories of Jesus", "Mrs. Wang’s Diary" which was published in English in 1936. In 1941 she was supported by a fellowship from Union Theological Seminary, New York.1 Brown retired in 1956, after which she devoted her time to researching and writing, publishing an account of the life and work of the Canadian Presbyterian missionary Donald MacGillivray in 1968. She died in 1978 and is buried in Tiverton, Ontario.
Rosemary Brown née Wedderburn, OC, OBC was born June 17, 1930 in Kingston, Jamaica and died April 26, 2003 in Vancouver, British Columbia.
She immigrated to Canada in 1951 to attend McGill University and study social work. She received her BA from McGill and studied at the University of British Columbia, receiving her Masters degree. Following graduation, Brown became involved with two social groups the British Columbia Association for the Advancement of Coloured People, and Voice of Women. She worked briefly with the Children's Aid Society and as a counsellor at Simon Fraser University. She was the founding member of the Vancouver Status of Women Council (VSW).
She was Canada's first black female member of the provincial legislature with the New Democratic Party in 1972, a position she held for 14 years. In 1975 she ran for leadership of the federal NDP party - the first woman ever to do so. She came in second to Ed Broadbent.
Rosemary Brown retired from the provincial legislature in 1988. She became the CEO of the advocacy group MATCH International Women's Fund, serving for three years and holding additional positions thereafter. In 1993, Brown was named chief commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission, a position she held until 1996, all the while continuing her work with MATCH.
She received many national and international awards including a total of 15 honorary doctorates from Canadian universities (she received a fellowship from Ryerson in 1990), the Order of British Columbia (1995), the Order of Canada (Officer, 1996), and in 1973 the United Nations' Human Rights Fellowship. On February 2 2009, Canada Post Corporation issued a commemorative stamp that depicts Brown standing before the B.C. Legislative Building.
Charles Bruce was born in Port Shoreham, Nova Scotia, in 1906. His parents, William Henry and Sarah Tory Bruce, were descended from a long line of Nova Scotia residents as far back as the American Revolution in the late 1700s. During his college years in Sackville, New Brunswick, Bruce was editor of the Argosy, a campus publication. Upon graduation in 1927 he privately published his first book of poems and sonnets, Wild Apples. That same year he joined the staff of a newspaper in Halifax, transferring soon thereafter to the Canadian Press news bureau where he would spend the remainder of his career. Bruce worked as a journalist in Halifax until 1933, then relocated to the Toronto office, where he served for the next 30 years as editor, war correspondent, and, ultimately, as general superintendent. He was married in 1929 to Agnes King; the couple had four children, one of whom, Harry, became a successful nonfiction writer.
The onset of World War II was to have a profound effect on Bruce’s personal life, as well as on his subsequent poetry. Sent to the front as a war correspondent in 1944, Bruce survived a crash-landing in Belgium and was listed for 24 hours as missing in action. Both Personal Note, and Grey Ship Moving consist of poetic meditations on lives interrupted by war. In the title poem of Grey Ship Moving, the narration follows a discussion between four Canadian officers on their way from Halifax to England aboard the troopship Sappho. Wainright noted that the volume is also significant because “the essential aspect ... is that in it Bruce includes those poems he began to write in the late 1930s, poems in which he broke away from his traditional manner of writing verse.”
Although most often recognized for his poetry, Bruce also wrote a successful novel, The Channel Shore (1954). Set in a farming-fishing town, the story follows events from 1919 through 1946 in a family linked to the land through time and change. The main character, Alan Marshall, discovers the secret of his birth, and thereby finds his loyalties challenged. Winding throughout the narrative is the everpresent Channel Shore—the region and the people—reflecting and inspiring Alan’s devotion to both land and family. The exploration of relationships, is central to the story, as Wainwright observed: “The influence of individual experience is tempered by the heritage of community. ... with the universal theme of human kinship.”
Bruce’s last book, News and the Southams, is an historical account of the Southam Press, written during the author’s retirement from the Canadian Press. Bruce died in 1971 in Toronto, Ontario. Several of his works have been republished posthumously, including 1980s editions of The Channel Shore and The Township of Time.
Jean Bruchési was born in Montreal in 1901. He studied at Collège Sainte-Marie, the Université de Montréal (law degree) and Paris (Free School of Political Science, School of Charters, literature studies at the Sorbonne) ). He taught history and political science at the Université de Montréal, from 1927 to 1937, before being appointed under-secretary of the province of Quebec. He left this post in 1959 to begin a new career as Canada's ambassador: first in Spain, then in Morocco, then in Argentina (with accreditation in Uruguay and Paraguay). Some extraordinary missions to the Vatican, Ivory Coast, Upper Volta and Niger were added to his regular diplomatic activities. Jean Bruchési was a member of the Royal Society of Canada (1940), of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences, Canadian Institute of International Affairs, Canadian League for the League of Nations, Society of Ten, Canadian Writers' Society; he was also president of the Institut canadien de Québec. Jean Bruchési died in 1979, ending a long career as a journalist, historian, professor, literary critic and diplomat.
Fred Bruemmer (born Friedrich Karl von Bruemmer) was born in Riga, Latvia on June 26, 1929. In 1939 when Hitler invaded Poland, Latvia was to be ceded to the Soviet Union and the Bruemmer family fled with other Baltic Germans to the relative safety of German-controlled Poland. For five years, the family lived comfortably on a large agricultural estate near Gdansk until the Soviet army swept through Poland in January, 1945. When he was 15, Mr. Bruemmer's parents were summarily executed on a roadside; he and his 19-year-old sister, Hella, were sent to slave-labour camps. After 21 months, he was released as a child orphan and shipped from Ukraine to Berlin via freight car. In late 1947, Mr. Bruemmer escaped East Germany and reunited with all three of his siblings before making his way to the gold mines of Kirkland Lake, Ontario in 1951. He learned photography at the local newspaper, gave up mining to become a writer-photographer, and wandered through Europe and the Middle East for seven years. He met his wife Maud through his sister. She was the daughter of his eldest sister's best friend and had spent part of her childhood in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in Indonesia. The married in 1962.
The young photographer first discovered the Arctic and its people during an assignment for Weekend magazine; his editor had been vague, telling him to "do a story about Eskimos." Until then, he was uncertain about a special focus for his work, but was enthralled by the people, animals and landscape of the harsh northern wilderness. When northern travel became too onerous late in life, Mr. Bruemmer switched to warmer assignments with Mrs. Bruemmer as his editorial assistant. Their last trip was three months in the jungles of Borneo photographing wild orangutans. Upon his return in mid-2012, he was diagnosed with colon and liver cancer. He died Dec. 17 2013.
During the course of his life, Fred Bruemmer was made a Member of the Order of Canada, 1983; Recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee medal, 1993; Fellow of the Arctic Institute of North America; Member of the Travel Journalist Guild; North American Nature Photography Association Lifetime Award, 2003; Royal Canadian Institute Sanford Fleming medal, 1989; Honorary Doctoral Degree, Dr.h.c. University of New Brunswick, 1989.
Paul Bruer was an instructor in Ryerson's School of Urban and Regional Planning.
J.A. Brush operated a photography studio during the late nineteenth century that was located in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Dr. Ingrid Bryan was a professor in the Department of Economics at Ryerson University. In her time at Ryerson she acted as the Dean of Arts, and was the Chair of the Department of Economics until her retirement in 2005.
He is a is a British architectural photographer based in the United Kingdom. He has a BA in architecture from the University of Kingston, London. He was the Director and Founder of Arcaid Images (1985-2017) and is a professional photographer.
He was born in Paisley, Scotland and came to Upper Canada with his parents in 1821. In 1835, he moved to the area near Fort-Coulonge in Lower Canada, where he entered the timber trade. In 1845, he married Robina Cobb. Bryson was mayor of Mansfield-et-Pontefract from 1855 to 1857 and from 1862 to 1867. He also served as justice of the peace, postmaster for Fort Coulonge and warden for Pontiac County. In 1857, he was elected to represent Pontiac in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada in a by-election held after the death of John Egan, but the assembly was dissolved before he took his seat. Bryson was defeated in the general election that followed in 1858. In 1867, he was named to the province's Legislative Council for Inkerman division. He helped establish the Bank of Ottawa, later serving as a director, and promoted the development of railway links in the region. Bryson retired from politics in 1887 and died in Fort-Coulonge at the age of 86.
Tom Brzustowski graduated with a B.A.Sc. in Engineering Physics from the University of Toronto in 1958, and a Ph.D. in Aeronautical Engineering from Princeton in 1963. He was a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Waterloo from 1962 to 1987, teaching and carrying out research in thermodynamics and combustion. He served as Chair of Mechanical Engineering from 1967 to 1970 and as Vice-President, Academic of the University from 1975 to 1987. After that he served as deputy minister in the Government of Ontario from 1987 to 1995, first in the Ministry of Colleges and Universities, and later in the Premier's Council. He was appointed President of NSERC in October 1995, and reappointed in 2000. Tom Brzustowski holds honorary doctorates from several institutions, namely, Alberta, Concordia, école Polytechnique de Montréal, Guelph, McMaster, Ottawa, Royal Military College of Canada, Ryerson, and Waterloo, and received the Engineering Alumni Medal from the University of Toronto. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada and a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and of the Royal Society of Canada. He is currently a board member at the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo.
Donald William Buchanan was born in Lethbridge Alberta April 9, 1908. He was the son of Senator W.A. Buchanan, publisher of the Lethbridge Herald, and received a degree in modern history from University of Toronto as well as an Oxford fellowship. Serious illness caused severe hearing loss, which perhaps increased his interest in visual communication. In the 1930s, he was one of the founders of the Ottawa Times. He played a key role in founding the National Film Board of Canada and he was founder of the National Film Society (1935; now the Canadian Film Institute), director of talks and public affairs for the Canadian Radio Commission (now CBC) from 1937 to 1940. In 1940 he joined the NFB as director of special projects, where he built the most extensive nontheatrical distribution among allied nations.
He was director of photo and graphics division, NFB; member of the Wartime Information Board staff; 1942 editor of Canadian Art Magazine (1942); joined the National Gallery staff (1947); and founded the Industrial Design Council.
In 1960 he retired as associate director of the National Gallery and took up photography, holding successful shows in Canada and abroad. His photographs showed gentle humour and strong dramatic sense. He was killed in a car accident while arranging for the international art exhibit for Expo 67 in Ottawa on February 28, 1966.
The Honourable J. Judd Buchanan was born July 25, 1927 in Edmonton, Alberta. He received Bachelor of Arts (Economics) from the University of Alberta and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Western Ontario.
He served as a member of the Federal Liberal Party from 1968-1980 for the Ontario riding of London West. During his time in office he acted as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance (1972); Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (1970-1972); the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (1974-1976); the Minister of Public Works (1976-1978); the Minister of State / Secretary of State (1977-1978); and the President of the Treasury Board (1978-1979). He resigned from the Liberal Party in 1980 and became President and Chief Executive Officer of CNG Fuels Ltd., Calgary, Alberta.
Following his political career, Buchanan entered the tourism industry, leading Silver Star Mountain Resorts Ltd. In 1995, he helped create the Canadian Tourism Commission which works with government to promote Canada as a tourist destination. He served as its chairman until his retirement in 2002.
In 1997 he awarded an honourary doctorate from Ryerson University. In 2001 he was awarded an Order of Canada.
Kejo Kameke Buchanan is a Librarian at the Toronto Reference Library Arts Department that curates folk acoustic sound through Jali Journey on a community radio station, CJRU 1280AM. Also Executive Producer of FolkRecovery.org an oral history project celebrating and archiving BIPOC Canadian folk storytellers available in various accessible formats.
As an Afro-Canadian knowledge sharer and creative of Jamaican heritage her credentials include over 6 years experience in non-profit database management, BA in Humanities, Library Tech diploma and MLIS degree. Travelling between areas of community, creativity, information and nature. Her consistent goal is to merge her information skills and artistry within collectives of community builders, seed planters and those honouring and benefiting from collective healing and change.
William Ashbury Buchanan was born July 2, 1876 in South Monaghan, Ontario. He began pursuing his career in journalism in Ontario before moving to Alberta. There, he bought half interest in the Lethbridge Weekly Herald in 1905, becoming its sole owner within a year.
William Buchanan entered provincial politics when he contested the riding of Lethbridge City on behalf of the Alberta Liberal Party in the 1909 provincial election and won a seat in the Alberta Legislature. He switched to federal politics in the 1911 federal election and was elected for the seat of Medicine Hat as a federal Liberal. As a result of the Conscription Crisis of 1917, Buchanan crossed the floor to support the government of Sir Robert Laird Borden. He was re-elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a Unionist for the new riding of Lethbridge in the 1917 general election. He did not run in the 1921 election. Buchanan was named to the Canadian Senate at the age of 49 in 1925 and served until his death in 1954 for the Liberal Party of Canada. He continued as owner of the Lethbridge Herald until his death on July 12, 1954.
He immigrated to Canada in 1910 and was soon immersed in radical working-class politics in Toronto. Buck later claimed to have been a founding member of the COMMUNIST PARTY OF CANADA, organized in a secret 1921 meeting in a barn near Guelph, and soon became a leading architect of its trade-union policy. After struggles against a party leader who supported Trotsky's critique of developments in the international communist movement in 1928, and alleged supporters of Nikolai Bukharin in 1929, Buck emerged as the party's general secretary, a post he held for 32 years. He published many articles, pamphlets and books. He spent over 2 years in jail 1932-34 and 3 years underground during WWII when his party was banned. In 1971 he received the Order of the Great October Revolution from the USSR.
Ron Buliung studied at McMaster University between 1990-2004. He received his honour B.A. in 1993, his M.A. in 1997, and his Ph.D in 2004.
He is a professor in the University of Toronto Mississauga's Department of Geography and Programs in Environment. He is a member of the international editorial board of the Journal of Transport Geography, the capstone journal of his discipline. His research has been funded by NSERC, SSHRC, CIHR, Metrolinx, and the NEPTIS foundation.
James R. Bullock served two consecutive three-year terms on the Ryerson Board of Governors, including two years as chair. He was named a Ryerson Fellow in 1991. Mr. Bullock is a former President and Chief Executive Officer of Cadillac Fairview Corporation and of Laidlaw Inc. From 1987 to 1988 he served as Chairman of the International Council of Shopping Centers. He has actively managed and directed his family-owned investment company, Glengate Holdings Inc. 2000. He is also a member of the Real Estate Advisory Committee of OP Trust. Mr. Bullock has been a Board Member of several other Canadian public companies including Imasco Inc., Dylex Limited, Telemedia Inc, and Revenue Properties Corp. He was also a Governor of McMaster University and served as a Director of McMaster Innovation Park. Mr. Bullock was a founding member of the Board of the Greater Toronto Airport Authority and was a Director of the Woodbine Entertainment Group. He has also served on the Board of the Royal Ontario Museum Foundation, the Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation, the Shaw Festival, and the Board of Ontario Hydro.
.Jim Burke is a former professor in the Faculty of Hospitality and Tourism Managment at Ryerson University. Burke earned his BA from Dartmouth College (1970), his MEd from Temple University (1975), his MS from Utah State (1977), and his PhD from the University of Minnesota (1986). He was a member of the faculty at Ryerson from 1993 to 1998, acting as its Director from 1993 to 1996. After leaving Ryerson, Burke took a position as Director of the Tourism Destination Management Program and the Accelerated Masters of Tourism Administration at George Washington University and as the Dean of The Collins College of Hospitality Management at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (1998 - 2004). He has worked in the advertising industry on hospitality accounts and as a consultant. The second edition of his book, Marketing and Selling the Travel Product (Delmar Publishers), co-authored with Barry Resnick, was released in 1999. He was awarded lifetime achievement awards by the Society of Travel and Tourism Educators (1997) and the International Travel and Tourism Research Association (2010).
Mike Burke is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and School of Public Administration at Ryerson. Burke earned his BA and MA from the University of Windsor and his PhD in Political Science from York University. Before coming to Ryerson in 1994, he worked as a union organizer and held sessional appointments at the University of Victoria, Simon Fraser University and York University. He is active in a number of associations, including the Institute for Social Research, the Canadian Political Science Association, the Society for Socialist Studies and the Ryerson Health Research Network. His research and teaching interests include research methods; political economy of communications; culture and identity; and discourse theory.
Paul Burke received his MSc in Econometrics from the London School of Economics in 1976. Paul Burke worked with the Ontario Royal Commission on Electrical Power Planning. He has worked in planning and forecasting in both the private sector and the Government of Ontario.
Helmut (Ken) Burkhardt received his Ph.D from the University of Stuttgart in 1964 and was a refugee during World War II. In 1967, he moved to Toronto with his wife. After doing research in thermonuclear fusion and magneto hydrodynamic energy conversion, he became a pioneer in renewable energy. He started working at Ryerson in the Department of Mathematics and Physics in 1974. He also worked in Ryerson's Energy Centre and as director, organized many conferences with the International Society for Systems Sciences and Science for Peace. He retired from Ryerson in 1996, becoming a proferssor emeritus. He is a member of the Canadian Pugwash Group, serving as President of its Council on Global Issues (2002-2009). In 2011 he became the President of Solar Energy Technology Inc.
Robert Burley is a photographer and Associate Professor at Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario. Born in 1957 in Picton, Ontario he obtained a bachelor of arts in Media Studies at Ryerson University in 1980 and went on to complete a Master of Fine Arts, with a specialization in photography at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1986.
Burley established an architectural photography firm, Design Archive, in 1987 and acted as president and principal photographer for the company until 2000. He began teaching at Ryerson University in 1998 and by 2003, he became full time faculty. Here, he helped develop a new graduate program in Photographic Preservation and Collections Management and served as director of the program from 2003-2008 after which he served as director of Photography Studies from 2009 until 2012.
Burley's book, "The Disappearance of Darkness: Photography at the end of the analog era", released by Princeton Architectural Press in 2012 explored the dwindling analog photography industry. The corresponding travelling exhibition, curated by Dr. Gaëlle Morel, was exhibited at the Ryerson Image Centre, The National Galley of Canada, le Musée Nicéphore Niépce and other venues internationally. Burley was also instrumental in the Ryerson University Library and Archives acquisition of the Kodak Canada Corporate Archives and Heritage Collection when photographing Kodak Canada's Mount Denis factory closure in 2005.
Burley’s photographic work is collected and exhibited internationally and he has been the recipient of numerous awards including a Senior Mellon Fellowship in at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in 2010. As an artist his work explores the relationship between nature and cities, architecture and the urban landscape. He is represented by the Stephen Bulger Gallery.
Robert Burley was names a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada's Academy of the Arts and Humanities in 2018. Established in 1883, the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) recognizes the country’s leading scholars, artists and scientists through a competitive, peer-juried process.