James Wreford Watson was born February 8, 1915 in Shensi, China, and educated at George Watson's College, Edinburgh, the University of Edinburgh, and the University of Toronto. He became a naturalized Canadian citizen in 1953. He joined the McMaster University faculty as the first regular appointment in geography in 1939. He left for Ottawa in 1949, becoming chief geographer for the Government of Canada and holding a concurrent appointment at Carleton University, 1951-1954. He returned to Scotland and the University of Edinburgh in 1954 and held a number of appointments there, including Dean of the Faculty of Social Science and Director of the Centre of Canadian Studies. He returned to Canada over the years, serving as a Visiting Professor at Queen's University, University of Manitoba, University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, and the University of Calgary. Elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1954 and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1957, he received the Canadian Association of Geographers’ award for service to the profession in 1978. In addition to writing books about geography, he was also a published poet, beginning with Of Time and the Lover (1952). Watson died in September 1990 in Scotland.

Henry Willis Wells was an educator, museum curator, and author. He was a Columbia University professor where he taught poetry and drama for many years. As Curator of the Brander Matthew Dramatic Museum, he became interested in and wrote on the plays of China, India, and Japan.

Paul West was born on February 23, 1930 in Derbyshire, England. He received his B. A. from the the University of Birminham in 1950, attended Oxford University between 1950-1952, and achieved his M.A. from Columbia University in New York in 1953. He was enlisted in the British Royal Airforce between 1954-1957. Between 1957-1962 he was an assistant Professor and then an associate professor at Memorial University in Newfoundland. In 1961 he moved to the United States and from 1968-1994 he was a professor of English and Comparitive Literature at the Institute for Arts and Humanistic Studies at Pennsylvania State University. In 1971 he became a U. S. citizen. He held many other roles during his career - Visiting professor of comparative literature, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1965-66; Pratt Lecturer, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1970; Crawshaw Professor of Literature, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, Fall 1972; Virginia Woolf Lecturer, University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1973; Melvin Hill Visiting Professor, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York, Fall 1974; writer-in-residence, Wichita State University, Kansas, 1982, and University of Arizona, Tucson, 1984; and visiting professor, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1986.
He was an avid writer and won many awards - contributing to New Statesman, London, 1954-62. Since 1962 regular contributor to New York Times Book Review and Washington Post Book World. Awards: Canada Council Senior fellowship, 1960; Guggenheim fellowship, 1962; Aga Khan prize (Paris Review), 1974; National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, 1980, 1985; Hazlett Memorial award, 1981; American Academy award, 1985; Pushcart prize, 1987, 1991; New York Public Library Literary Lion award, 1987; Best American Essays award, 1990; Outstanding Achievement medal, Pennsylvania State University, 1991; Grand Prix Halpérine-Kaminsky for Best Foreign Book, 1992; Lannan prize, for fiction, 1993; Distinguished Teaching award, Joint Graduate Schools of the Northeast, 1993.
He died October 18, 2015 in Ithaca, New York.

Timeline created by Algoma University's George Whalley website http://archives.algomau.ca/gwp/

1915 Arthur George Cuthbert Whalley was born July 25 in Kingston, Ontario; son of Reverend Arthur Frances Cecil Whalley and Dorothy (nee Quirk) Whalley
1919 The Whalley family moved to Brockville
1922 began attending St Alban's School, a boarding school for boys, in Brockville, graduating in 1930
1932 began studies at Bishop's University in Classics, graduating in 1935
1932-1935 served in Canadian Officer Training Corps (COTC) and earned “B” Certificate (Army)
1935-1936 served as schoolmaster, assistant house-master, organist, and choir-master at Rothesay College School in New Brunswick
1936 attended Oriel College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar and read for a second bachelor's degree in Greats and Theology, receiving his B. A. in 1939.
1939-1940 returned to teach at Rothesay College School
1940 July 1, enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve; from October 1940 to February 1941, served on HMS Cutty Sark as a Sub-Lieutenant
1941 served on HMS Tartar as a Sub-Lieutenant and was awarded a Royal Humane Society Bronze Medal for saving a life at sea; promoted to Lieutenant
1941-1943 served in Royal Navy Admiralty (Naval Intelligence Division or NID)
1943-1944 served on the staff of Admiral Ramsay in the Middle East (including time in Malta and Sicily)
1944 served on HMS Ceres (as an Assistant to the Executive Officer) from April to September and participated in the Normandy landing; married Elizabeth Cecilia
Muriel Watts on July 25 at Battersea Church, London; promoted to Lieutenant Commander; returned to Canada on November 17
1945 served as the First Lieutenant on HMCS Chaudiére from April to June and on HMCS Saskatchewan from June to August; received an M.A. from Oriel College,
Oxford; returned to Bishop's University and taught as Lecturer (1945-47) and Assistant Professor (1947-48)
1946 published Poems: 1939-1944; in May, received recognitions of his wartime service, including the 1939-45 Star, the Africa Star, the Italy Star, the France and
Germany Star, and the Defence Medal
1947 daughter, Katharine Cecilia, born on January 11
1948 published a second book of poems entitled No Man an Island; received an M.A. in English Literature from Bishop's University. returned to London, England to
begin Ph.D. studies at King's College, Oxford, achieving degree in 1950
1949 son, Christopher Gilbert, born July 29
1952-1956 served as commanding officer of the HMCS Cataraqui in Kingston and promoted to Commander in 1953
1953 daughter, Emily Elizabeth, born June 1; published Poetic Process; wrote “Death in the Barren Ground,” a radio play based on the diary of Edgar Christian,
Unflinching (1937), which he read before World War II; promoted to Associate Professor
1955 published Coleridge and Sara Hutchinson and the Asra Poems.
1956 his mother, Dorothy, died in Nova Scotia; retired from Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve and awarded the Clasp to the Canadian Forces Decoration
1956-1957 held a Nuffield Travelling Fellowship; lived and worked in Cookham Dean, England
1958 narrated The Living Stone, an award-winning film produced by the National Film Board; gave a radio talk on Henri Bergson for the third series of “Architects of
Modern Thought,” broadcast on the CBC; promoted to Professor
1958-1959 served as Chair of the Association of Canadian University Teachers of English
1959 elected to the Royal Society of Canada
1960 published the article “The Sinking of the Bismarck: An Eye-Witness Report” (based on a letter written on June 11, 1941) in the Atlantic Monthly
1962-1967 became the Head of the Department of English and James Cappon Chair of English Language and Literature ; member of the Canadian Service Colleges
and Ontario Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee
1962 published The Legend of John Hornby; Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin - Madison
1963 became the President of the Kingston Symphony Association and continued in the position until 1970
1964 edited A Place of Liberty: Essays on the Government of Canadian Universities; read Archibald Lampman's “Morning on the Lievre” for a short film produced by
the National Film Board
1967-1968 held a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship; lived and worked in London; helped establish a Film Studies program at Queen's University
1973-1975 held a Killam Senior Research Scholarship; lived in London and worked in British Museum
1977-1980 served second term as Head of the Department of English and reappointed to the James Cappon Chair of English Language and Literature
1977 received a D.Litt. from Carleton University
1979 received a D.Litt. from University of Saskatchewan and D.C.L. from Bishop's University
1979-1980 served as member of the board of directors for the Canadian Federation of the Humanities
1980 retired from Queen's University; publication of the first volume of Coleridge's Marginalia; edited Death in the Barren Ground: The Diary of Edgar Christian
1983 died May 27 at home in Hartington, north of Kingston, Ontario; the funeral, with a full military escort, held at St. George's Cathedral in Kingston

Bishop William Charles White was a missionary in Fukien, China, 1897-1909 and Bishop of the Canadian missionary Diocese of Honan, China, 1909-1934. He returned to Toronto as Professor of Chinese Studies and as Keeper of the East Asiatic Collection at the Royal Ontario Museum, a collection enhanced by his connections. He was also a biographer of the Rev. Canon H.J. Cody.

Leolyn Dana Wilgress was born in Vancouver on October 20, 1892. He entered the Trade Commissioner Service in 1914, he served in Russia, Romania, England, and Germany between 1916 and 1932. In 1932 he was appointed the Director of the Commercial Intelligence Service in Ottawa. He became the Deputy Minister of Trade and Commerce in 1940. He returned to work in Russia, becoming the Ambassador for 1944-1946. Among other postings he was chairman and one of the principal architects of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trades for the periods 1948-51 and 1953-56; high commissioner to the UK between 1949-1952; undersecretary of state for external affairs between 1952-1953 and permanent representative to NATO between 1953-1955. He died in Ottawa July 21, 1969.

Bertram Francis Willcox was born in 1895. He received his B.A. from Cornell University in 1917 and his LL.B from Harvard University in 1922. He practiced law at Hughes, Rounds, Schurman & Dwight. He was a partner in Schurman, Wiley & Willcox and its successor firms between 1923-1943. Between 1944-1945 he served as a public member of the Appeals Board of the US War Labor Board and as a independent arbitrator. He began his teaching career at Cornell University in 1946, a position he held until 1967. He was the McRoberts Professor in the Administration of Law between 1954-1967.

Walter Sainsbury Woods was the Associate Deputy Minister in the Department of Pensions and National Health between 1941-1944 and Deputy Minister in the Department of Veterans Affairs 1944-1950. Woods died on November 11, 1955

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John P. Zubek was born in Trnovec, Czechoslovakia on March 10, 1925. He immigrated to Canada at the age of five with his parents. After his early education in Grand Forks, British Columbia. Zubek completed his B.A.in Psychology in 1946 graduating with first class honours from the University of British Columbia. In 1948 he received a Masters in Social Psychology from the University of Toronto. From 1948-1950 Zubek was an instructor in Psychology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore from where he received his Ph.D. in 1950 graduating Phi Betta Kappa. Zubek then joined the Psychology Department at McGill University in the fall of 1950. During his three years at McGill as assistant professor, Zubek published eight articles on such widely divergent topics as the cerebral cortex and locomotor activity in rats to a genetic of Doukhobors' attitudes. In 1953 Zubek joined the faculty of the University of Manitoba as a full professor and chairman of the Department of Psychology. a post he held for the next eight years. In 1959 he added Directorship of the Sensory Deprivation Laboratory to his workload. Dr. Zubek did not limit his activities to the University of Manitoba. He served two terms as a member of the Associate Committee on Experimental Psychology for the National Research Council of Canada from 1955 to 1961. He also served two terms, from 1958 to 1964 as a member of the Human Resources Scientific Advisory Committee for the Defence Research Board of Canada. Zubek was a member of Directors of the Canadian Psychological Association from 1956 to 1958. In 1961 Dr. Zubek turned his attention solely to research. His new position as Research Professor reduced his teaching load to only one class. Dr. Zubek was made a Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association in 1967. He was the recipient of the Clifford J. Robson Distinguished Psychologist in Manitoba Award bestowed by the Manitoba Psychological Society in 1973. The same year, Manitoba's research in sensory deprivation was listed among the 30 major achievements in Canadian science and technology. He died on August 22, 1974 at the age of 49.

Lieutenant Colonel Cyril G. F. Stone was the principal chaplain in the Department of National Defense of Canada. He attended the University of Toronto - Trinity College.

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John Cannon Stothers was born May 9, 1887 in Ashfield, Ontario. He enlisted in the Canadian Armed Forces on January 22, 1916.
After being injured, he remained in England as a musketry instructor. He was a teacher before enlisting. His letters home have been published into a book "Somewhere in France : the letters of John Cannon Stothers 1916-1919".

Duncan Stuart was a lawyer with "K. C." designation - King's Counsel.

Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper was born in Amherst, Nova Scotia on August 3, 1855. He attended King's College in Windsor, Nova Scotia and then McGill University in Quebec where he was a Governor General's Scholar. He achieved his law degree from Harvard University in 1876. In 1871 he joined the Halifax, Nova Scotia law firm of John Sparrow David Thompson and Wallace Nesbit Graham. In 1882 he was elected to the House of Commons for Pictou. In 1888 he was made the Minister of Marine and Fisheries, a position he held until 1894. He was Minister of Justice and Attorney General from 1894 to 1896, and Solicitor General of Canada for a period in 1896. He was a member of the Bering Sea Claims Commission of 1896-1897. He retired from politics in 1904. From 1898 he practiced law in Vancouver, serving as a bencher of the Law Society of British Columbia. In 1923, he was involved in the creation of the short-lived Provincial Party of British Columbia. Tupper was knighted in recognition for his service as a representative of the British Government, at that time responsible for Canadian foreign affairs, during the Bering Sea Arbitration in 1893 while he was Minister of Marine and Fisheries. He died in Vancouver on March 20, 1927.

James Vipond was born July 11, 1911 in England. He joined the staff of the Globe and Mail in 1938. He served in WWII with the Royal Canadian Air Force, later being awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. Vipond was the sports columnist for the Globe and Mail, retiring in 1979. After retirement he became the Ontario Athletics Commissioner. He won the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award in 1984. He died in 1989.

Died April 7, 1967.

Founder and first chair in the Department of English at Carleton University

John Swettenham, public servant, historian, was born and educated in England, and served in World War II with the Royal Engineers. Immigrating to Canada in 1952, he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Engineers in 1954 and in 1958 was seconded to the Army Historical Section where he served until his retirement from the Army in 1966. In 1969, he became senior military historian at the Canadian War Museum.

Warren Tallman was born November 7, 1921 is Seattle, Washington. He attended the University of California Berkeley on the G. I. Bill. There he met Ellen King; they married in 1951. In 1956, the Tallman's accepted teaching jobs in the English department at the University of British Columbia, where they helped Earle Birney and Roy Daniells to organize the creative writing department. In 1963, they hosted a poetry conference attended by Denise Levertov, Charles Olson, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan, Margaret Avison, and Philip Whalen. The Tallman home itself also served as a poetry enclave of sorts. It was there that Jack Spicer gave some of his now legendary lectures. Two years later, they held another poetry conference in Berkeley, California. Sometimes criticized by Canadian literary nationalists for turning the Vancouver poetry circle into a California branch plant, Tallman embraced the Black Mountain school approach to poetry, and also was influenced from the Beats and other New American Poets. He died July 1, 1994.

Gladys Taylor Tall wsa born in Swan River, Manitoba in 1917. She trained as a teacher and taught for several years in her hometown. She married Lorne Taylor in 1940. During WWII Lorne served in the Armed Forces and Gladys served in the Canadian Women's Army Corps. After the war they moved to Thetford Mines, Quebec. Gladys began writing as a hobby and in 1956 she won her first Ryerson Fiction Award for the book "Pine Roots". She would win again in 1958 for the book "The King Tree". She also worked as the editor for the Canadian Bookman and Quarterly, put out by the Canadian Authors Association.
Gladys and Lorne divorced in 1967 and Gladys moved to Alberta. There she became the editor and an investor in the new magazine "Western Leisure" eventually buying out her partner and becoming the magazines publisher. She expanded her business acquiring community newspapers including "The Wheel and Deal", "The Rocky View Five Village Weekly", "The Carstairs Courier", and the "Airdrie Advance". In 1977 she took a driving tour in Australia, publishing a memoir "Alone in the Australian Outback" in 1984, and in 1987 published "Alone in the Boardroom" a memoir of her experience as a women in business. Her 5th and final book "Valinda, Our Daughter" in 1993.
Gladys Taylor died on May 31, 2015 in Airdrie, Alberta.

Melville William Thistle was born in St. Johns Newfoundland on April 22, 1914. He attended North Sydney Elementary and High Schools, Methodist College in St. Johns and graduated with a BSC in Chemistry from Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick. He married Lauretta Jean Finlayson on September 27, 1941. He worked as a biochemist with Canada`s National Research Council for more than 30 years. He was the manager of their public relation office in 1966. He joined the faculty of Carleton University, teaching creative writing for over 10 year. He retired in 1979. Melville Thistle died May 7, 1994 in Ottawa, Ontario.

Owen J. Thomas was an Inspector of Elementary Schools in Vancouver, British Columbia.

She studied at Harvard University(1976-1981) and is owner of Julia Bourke Architecture Inc. in Montreal, Quebec.

F. I. Lorant was the Chief Water Resources Engineer with M. M. Dillon Limited, Toronto.

S. L. Borden was a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan.

James Sutherland Thomson was born in Stirling, Scotland. He was educated in philosophy at the University of Glasgow, studied theology at Trinity College, Glasgow, and was ordained in 1920. He came to Canada in 1930 as a professor of systematic theology and philosophy of religion at Pine Hill Divinity Hall, a United Church theological college in Halifax. He was appointed as the second President of the University of Saskatchewan in 1937. He served until 1949, taking a leave of absence in 1942-43 to become general manager of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (described by Acting President W.P. Thompson as Thomson's "call-up for war service"). In 1949 he became McGill University's first Dean of the Faculty of Divinity and Professor of Religious Studies. He was moderator of the United Church of Canada from 1956 to 1958. He retired as Dean in 1957, and died in Montreal in 1972 at the age of 80.

Ethel Burnett was born in Walter's Falls, Ontario. She moved with her family to Pomeroy, Manitoba. They moved to Nanton, Alberta. A Reporter for the "The Province" Ethel Burnett moved to Richmond, British Columbia and married Orland Delos Tibbits on December 25, 1926. She began working for the "Richmond Review" in 1932. Within a year she purchased the paper and wrote most of its content. Her husband was the circulation editor and she ran the newspaper out of his general store Blundell Grocery. She stayed with the newspaper until 1948. Orland died in 1946, and Ethel remarried in 1956 to John Woolstone. She died in 1960.

J. Cselenyi worked at the University of Heavy Industry Department of Mechanical Engineering in Hungary.

HPCVL - Sun Microsystems Chair in Computational Science and Engineering

Cross-appointed, Department of Physics

Following doctoral studies and a research appointment at The Johns Hopkins University, Professor Tavoularis has, since 1980, been a member of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Ottawa, where he served terms as Department Chair and Director of the Ottawa-Carleton Institute for Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He is also the HPCVL -Sun Microsystems Chair in Computational Science and Engineering and is currently cross-appointed to the Department of Physics. He is Director of the uOttawa Fluid Mechanics Laboratory. He has served as a consultant to government and industry. Professor Tavoularis has been elected as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering and a Fellow of the American Physical Society and is a recipient of the George S. Glinski Award for Excellence in Research. He is the author of the graduate textbook Measurement in Fluid Mechanics, published by Cambridge University Press, and numerous research articles and reports. He is also the HPCVL -Sun Microsystems Chair in Computational Science and Engineering and is currently cross-appointed to the Department of Physics.

Sharon Yan Zarrabi worked in the School of Nutrition, Consumer, and Family Studies at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute.

Carol Moorhead graduated from The Wellesley Hospital School of Nursing in 1946.

Mrs. Catherine Moorhead, nee Elliot graduated from the Wellesley Hospital School of Nursing in 1945. She worked at the Wellesley, retiring in 1982 as the Staffing Advisor.

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.

Allen taught at Western Technical School in Toronto, Ontario.

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.

Michael John O'Brien, railway builder, industrialist, philanthropist (b at Lochaber, NS 19 Sept 1851; d at Renfrew, Ont 26 Nov 1940). O'Brien left school while he was in grade 8 to work as a water boy on a railway construction site. He loved his work and eventually became a labourer, foreman, sub-contractor and contractor, venturing to wherever there was railway construction to be done. This brought him to RENFREW, Ont, in 1879 where he and 2 partners won the contract to build the Kingston and Pembroke Railway. In 1891, shortly after building a branch for the Canadian Atlantic Railway, he lost everything. He slowly reasserted his presence, winning numerous railway-building and concrete-bridge contracts in Nova Scotia, a section of the Welland Canal, docks and slips at Ojibway, Ont, and grain terminals at Fort William and Port Arthur, Ont. From 1902 to 1905 he was commissioner of the fledgling Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway (now ONTARIO NORTHLAND).

His scope was not limited to the railways and construction. He acquired the O'Brien mine, one of the richest silver deposits in the world, at COBALT, Ont, in 1903. He helped to form the National Hockey Association (NHA) in 1909, the forerunner of the NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE. He funded 4 of the 5 teams in the NHA league, including his own Renfrew Creamery Kings, to be later known as the Renfrew Millionaires, and the MONTREAL CANADIENS, possibly the most storied franchise in Canadian sport. He recruited and outfitted railway battalions, sending 1018 men to the World War I effort. He acquired vast sections of timber rights, power rights, and farms in the east and large tracts of land in the west as well as properties in the United States and Mexico. His influence in Renfrew and the surrounding area was everywhere, including a dairy, woollens and knit factories, and saw and planing mills. O'Brien's philanthropic acts were equally numerous and diverse.

He was educated in Kingston, ON and received a BA from Queen's University. He completed a teacher training course in pedagogy in Hamilton, ON and taught for several years in Ontario. He went west in 1911 and taught at Nutana Collegiate, before becoming principal of the Albert Public School in Saskatoon. In 1913, he was appointed inspector of schools in the Rosetown area, until he joined the staff at the Moose Jaw Public School in 1927. He was principal there from 1929-1930, later being transferred to the Saskatoon Normal School and serving as president there from 1930-1934, when he was retired.

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Harry Lutz Symons was a Canadian writer, who won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour in 1947 for Ojibway Melody, a volume of humorous essays about summer recreational life on Ontario's Georgian Bay. His other works included Friendship (1943), Three Ships West (1949), The Bored Meeting (1951) and Orange Belt Special (1956), and the non-fiction works Fences (1958) and Playthings of Yesterday: Harry Symons introduces the Percy C. Band Collection (1963).
Symons, the son of architect William Limberry Symons, was an ace fighter pilot in World War I and later worked in insurance and real estate.
His son Thomas Symons, a noted academic, founding president of Trent University, and former chair of the Ontario Human Rights Commission, credits the values expressed in Ojibway Melody with framing his career and contributing to Trent's decision to establish Canada's first university department in Indigenous Studies. Another son, Scott Symons, was a writer whose 1967 novel Place d'Armes was the first gay-themed novel published in Canada.

Percy Carruthers Band was born on 27 November 1892 in Toronto, Ontario to Charles Walter Band, a grain merchant and Jessie Camp Shaw Band.

He graduated from Upper Canada College and became a broker. He worked at the Dominion Bank and then at Maple Leaf Milling Company. He was stationed at Port Colborne for a while. Before leaving for the front, he was with Bankers Bond Company of Toronto and is also listed as working with the firm of Bailey, Wood and Cross. Lieutenant Band received a Certificate of Military Qualifications on Dec. 24th, 1914. He received his Certificate of Military Instruction on Nov. 30, 1915. He received these certificates while with the 48th Regiment (Highlanders). He enlisted in 1914 and went overseas in August of 1915 as an officer in the 35th Battalion. By August 26, 1915, he is listed as being with the 23rd Reserve Battalion. A year later, in August of 1916 Lieutenant Band arrived in France and was posted to the 2nd Battalion – “The Second Iron”. In 1916, Band was the victim of shell shock received during a charge. He was wounded in April 1917 at Vimy Ridge yet he remained on duty. At this time he received a gunshot wound to his right jaw. He earned a promotion to Captain 0n September 16th, 1917. He was wounded again in November 1917 at Passchendaele where he suffered a gunshot wound to the ear. For his courage and determination Percy Band received the Military Cross on February 18, 1918. He was awarded a bar to the Military Cross for gallantry during a successful attack on two villages on December 2nd, 1918. During this attack he led his company against enemy machine guns. It is said that he displayed exceptional leadership qualities and skill during this time. On August 30 in 1918, he made a daring reconnaissance to the front under heavy fire in an attack on Upton Wood. He was also commended on his gallantry during attacks on Cagnicourt and the Canal du Nord in September 1918. He was awarded the second bar to the Military Cross on February 1, 1919. The award of the Croix de Guerre was conferred on Captain Percy Carruthers Band by the President of the French Republic on December 15th, 1918 for distinguished service rendered during the course of the campaign. His general demobilization took place on April 25, 1919.

Percy Band married Margaret Julia Woodruff on November 25, 1919, and they had three children: Charles Woodruff Band (1921), Margaret Elizabeth Band (1924) and Robert DeVeaux Woodruff Band (1927). After the war, Mr. Band was a manager at Geo. Weston Bread and Cakes Limited, St. Catharines. Percy Band was also an avid collector. His collections included antique toys and art. He died suddenly on May 19, 1961.

George Peel Gilmour was born in the city of Hamilton, Ontario in 1900. He took up the chair of Church History at McMaster in 1929 and held the position for 27 years. He was appointed Chancellor of McMaster University in 1941. When the position was renamed in 1950, he was appointed President and Vice Chancellor, a position which he held until his retirement in 1961.
He received three degrees from McMaster University and completed post-graduate work at Oxford and Yale. Dr. Gilmour was named "Man of the Year" in 1950 and his tenure as president saw the re-organization of the university as a private foundation and broadened from its religious background to an all-embracing institution. He also held positions in the Baptist Convention in Ontario and Quebec and was president of the Canadian Council of Churches from 1946 to 1948. He was named citizen of the year by the City Council of Hamilton in 1950 and received eight honorary degrees.

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He was a mathematician and co-authored the book, A High School Arithmetic, with Batstone, A. T. and Chown, J. Harold

Irene Chapman Benson was born in Waterloo,Ontario in 1892. She was a poet. She died in Victoria, British Columbia in 1981.

Nathaniel Anketell Benson was born October 11, 1903 in Toronto, Ontario to parents Thomas and Catherine (Sheehan). He attended University College, University of Toronto and received an honours B.A. in modern languages in 1927, received his M. A. in 1928 and graduated from the Ontario College of Education, University of Toronto in 1932.
He married Emma Wright on October 4, 1930. Together they had children Julian David Thomas, and Charles William Michael.
His career started in 1928 as a contributor to the Mail and Empire publication. From there he went on to be the co-ordinator of the Evening Telegram in Toronto (1929); Junior Editor at the Manitoba Free Press in Winnipeg (1929); Freelance journalist (1930-1931); Teacher Weston Vocational School (1932-1933); Teacher Danforth Technical School (1933-1937); Canadian Poetry Magazine managing editor (1937-1943); worked for a variety of advertising companies in New York (1940-1948); Saturday night drama critic (1946-1949); Teacher at R. H. King Collegiate Institute (1955).
Benson was a member of the Canadian Literary Club (past president 1936-1938); Canadian Authors Association (national vice-president, and president Toronto branch 1941-1943 and founder of New York branch 1943-1944); Poetry Society of America (1944).
Benson died in Detroit, Michigan in 1966.

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William Richard Bird was born at East Mapleton, Nova Scotia May 11, 1891. Bird had a diverse career while at the same time publishing almost annually for 4 decades. He homesteaded in Alberta, served with the 42nd Royal Highlanders in the First World War, and was a touring lecturer before settling into a Nova Scotia bureau of information position from 1933 to 1950.
He first published in 1928 with the nonfiction "A Century at Chignecto". Other nonfiction works include books about the Maritimes. Two of his most popular novels, "Here Stays Good Yorkshire" (1945) and "Judgement Glen" (1947) which won the Ryerson fiction award.
From 1949 to 1950 Bird served as president of the Canadian Authors Association. During his long career he was awarded the Queen's Coronation medal, a DLitt from Mount Allison U (1949), a Canada Council Fellowship (1961-62) and a national award in letters from U of Alberta (1965).
He died at Sackville, New Brunswick on January 28, 1984.

Alfred Earle Birney was born May 13, 1904 in Calgary, Alberta. He spent his childhood in Alberta, first on a farm near Ponoka and later in Banff. He was educated at the University of British Columbia, the University of Toronto, Berkeley and the University of London, where his primary interests were in Old and Middle English, culminating in a dissertation on Chaucer. Throughout his career he was an experimental poet, publishing over 20 books of verse that vary as widely in form and voice as they do in subject. His poems reveal his constant concern to render his encyclopedic experience - be it of Canada's geographical or cultural reaches, of nature, of travels or of the trials of love by time - into a language marvellously dexterous and supple, always seriously at play.
Birney also had an important career as a teacher of creative writing and literature, and as a playwright, novelist and editor. He taught at several universities, most notably at UBC (1946-65), where he founded and directed the first Canadian creative writing programme. His work led to the establishment at UBC of Canada's first Department of Creative Writing in 1965. In this same year, Birney was appointed as the first writer-in-residence at the University of Toronto. But his greatest contribution has been to 20th century Canadian poetry.
Birney won the Governor General's Award for poetry twice (for David, 1942, and for Now Is Time, 1945). His darkly comic WWII novel Turvey won the Stephen Leacock Medal in 1949. He received the Lorne Pierce Medal for Literature in 1953. Later works includeCopernican Fix (1985), Words on Waves: Selected Radio Plays (1985) and Essays on Chaucerian Irony (1985). His memoir is titled Spreading Time: Remarks on Canadian Writing and Writers 1904-1949 (1989). His final collection, Last Markings (1991), was published after a disabling heart attack in 1987.
Earle Birney died in Toronto September 3, 1995.

He was an author of literature on World War I.

Victoria Grace Blackburn was born in Quebec City April 17, 1865. She attended Hellmuth Ladies' College in London, Ontario. After graduation she worked as a teacher in Faribault, Minnesota and as principal at the Diocesan School of Northern Indiana in Indianapolis. Following her work in education, Blackburn moved to New York to study journalism, theatre and dramatic criticism. In 1896 she returned to London, Ontario and worked for the London Free Press, a newspaper owned by her father, as a literary and dramatic critic. Blackburn became an assistant managing editor in 1918, and worked at the Free Press until her death in 1928.
In addition to her work as a journalist, Victoria Grace Blackburn wrote numerous poems, 2 single-act plays and a novel. Her poetry explores themes such as ill-fated love, varies in form from satire to tragedy, and shows Blackburn's interest in foreign locations for her settings. Blackburn's plays evidence her interest in both personal and social matters. Seal of Confession explores ideas of self-sacrifice through the perspective of a French priest, and The Little Gray shows Blackburn's reflective side as it mocks her own social class and its fascination with fashion and aesthetics. Neither play was officially published, but Blackburn's hand-written scripts are currently held at the Archives and Research Collection Centre at the UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO.
Blackburn's most critically acclaimed work, The Man Child (1930), takes a much more serious tone than her previous works. Published 2 years after her death, the novel follows Jack Winchester, a Canadian boy who leaves London for the trenches of France during WORLD WAR I. The novel extols the virtues of the war volunteers and the Allied armies. It is not a novel praising war, however. Instead, The Man Child celebrates the soldiers and their dedication to the cause. Blackburn plays with form throughout her novel, switching from a traditional narrative structure to an epistolary one as the story moves from London to France. This change in form not only demonstrates Blackburn's skill as a writer, but also mirrors the change in her protagonist as war becomes a personal experience and not just something read about, thousands of miles away.
Victoria Grace Blackburn was one of the founders of London's Women's Canadian Club, and served as its president from 1918-1919. She also served as president of the London Women's Press Club (1921-1923).Victoria Grace Blackburn, journalist, poet, playwright, novelist (b at Quebec City, 17 Apr 1865; d at London, Ont 4 Mar 1928)

Lillian Grace Bollert was a teacher at the Provincial Normal School in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Born in Worcester, England, he was educated at the Worcester Royal Grammar School, University College (Reading), the University of London, and the University of Manitoba. He taught for some years at the Tamworth Grammar School in England then, in 1921 he joined St. John’s College in Winnipeg, where he served as registrar and as lecturer in chemistry from 1928 to 1940. He was ordained a priest in 1937 and served parishes in Alberta and Winnipeg. From 1947 to 1960 he was provincial archivist of the Ecclesiastical Diocese of Rupert’s Land. He wrote many works of church history, including The Anglican Church from the Bay to the Rockies, From the Bay to the Rockies and These Men Went Out. He wrote “An Anglican Viewpoint” for the Winnipeg Free Press. In 1970, he was awarded a Manitoba Centennial Medal by the Manitoba Historical Society.
He died at Selkirk, Manitoba on 1 December 1979. There are extensive papers at the Rupert’s Land Archives.

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.

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.

Co-authored a book on mathematics.

Morris Liebovitz was born January 17, 1936 in Hamilton Ontario. He attended Westdale High School. He attended McMaster University, earning two degrees went on to get his teaching certificate and in 1961 took a job at Galt Collegiate Institute in Galt, Ontario. By 24, he was head of the math department, the youngest-ever at an Ontario high school, and eventually wrote seven high-school mathematics texts. In 1968, he changed careers, joining the Ontario government as an executive assistant to the minister of education. Over time, he served under all three major political parties, all the while helping to define the shape of education in the province. He retired in 1984 to become a business consultant. He died December 14, 2004.

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.

C. A. Brown was an Inspector of School in St. Catherines.

She was a poet.

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Sir Hubert Butterfield was born in Oxenhope, Yorkshire, England on October 7, 1900. He received his early education at the Trade and Grammar School in Keighley. In 1919 he won a scholarship to study at Peterhouse Cambridge, a constituent College of the University of Cambridge. He graduated in 1922 with a Bachelor of Arts. Four years later he attained his M. A.
Butterfield was a fellow at Cambridge from 1928-1979, a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton University in the 1950s. He was Master of Peterhouse from 1955-1968, Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University, 1959-1961, and Regius Professor of Modern History, 1963-1968. Hubert Butterfield served as the editor of the Cambridge Historical Journal between 1938 and 1955. In 1968 he was knighted.

Frank Oliver Cal was born in West Brome, Quebec on April 11, 1878. A life-long academic, Call received his BA with first class honours in French and English (1905) and his MA (1908) from Bishop's University. He later attended the university's of Paris and Marburg, earning his DCL (Doctor of Civil Law), and conducting his post-graduate studies at McGill University in Quebec. From 1908 until his retirement, Call served as a professor of modern languages at McGill and Bishop's University. He is considered a key transitional figure in the evolution of Canadian poetry.
Call is most noted, however, for his numerous poetry publications, including In A Belgian Garden (1916), Acanthus and Wild Grape (1920), Blue Homespun (1924), and Sonnets for Youth (1944). In addition to writing poetry, Frank Oliver Call published two travelogues: The Spell of French Canada (1926) and The Spell of Acadia (1930).
Frank Oliver Call won the Quebec Literary Competition Award in 1924, for his sonnet collection Blue Homespun. He served as president of the Eastern Townships Art Association (1942-43), and was a member of the advisory council on awards for Canadian Poetry Magazine (1936-45), the Canadian Authors Association and PEN Club
Frank Oliver Call died in Knowlton, Quebec in 1956.

Robert A. Calladine was an employee of Richmond Hill High School.

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Charles Camsell was born in Fort Liard, Northwest Territories in 1876, son of a trading post manager. He attended school and university in Winnipeg, Charles Camsell moved back to Fort Simpson. In 1900 during a trip Fort Providence h met James MacIntosh Bell of the Geological Survey, who was on his way to explore around Great Bear Lake and south to Great Slave Lake. Bell asked Camsell to join his expedition because of his knowledge of and languages spoken in the area. During the next two years, Camsell continued prospecting usually with Bell. He explored the James Bay region for iron, prospected for gypsum in Manitoba, and found quartz with a gold-coloured vein in northern Ontario. Early in June 1904, Camsell was appointed to the Geological Survey of Canada, and a career of over 40 years in the Civil Service began. Early surveys included the Severn River area of Ontario and the Peel River, the latter involving 2500 miles of river travel in the Yukon and Northwest Territories. Then for. two years he conducted geological work in British Columbia. In January 1914 Camsell was given a new appointment Geologist in Charge of Explorations, with the task of exploring all unsurveyed parts of Canada. By the time he had completed his first exploration World War I had broken out. He enlisted in the Engineers but was soon removed from the army to search for minerals vital to the war effort - tungsten, mercury, potash, manganese, chromite, and magnesite.
In 1920 Camsell was promoted to Deputy Minister of Mines and later, when several departments were merged, Deputy Minister of Mines and Resources. He was also
appointed to the National Research Council, the International Niagara Board, and later to the post of Commissioner of the Northwest- Territories. He retired in 1945 and died in Ottawa in 1958.

Wolfgang Gaston Friendmann was born in Berlin on 25th January 1907. As a result of the rise of the nazi's in Germany, he emigrated to England in the
summer of 1933, where he was naturalized as a United Kingdom citizen inMarch 1939. He received the degree of Master of Laws in 1936 and the Doctor
of Laws degree in 1947 from the University of London. After various other functions and assignments, partly due to the extraordinary circumstances prevailing during the war period, his career made a turn to the academic world. He held a lectureship at University College. London and had appointments as a Professor of Public Law at the Universities of Melbourne in Australia, and the University of Toronto. In 1955 he was appointed by Columbia University as a law professor and director of International Legal Research. He continued his career at Columbia University until his death in 1972.

James Cappon was born in 1855. He graduated with a M. A. from the University of Glasgow in 1879. He taught in Britain and other parts of Europe before being appointed the first Chair of English at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. In 1906 he was appointed the Dean of Arts. He retired from the University in 1919.

Elaine Maud Catley was born November 14, 1889 in Bath, England. She married Sidney Charles William Catley on December 29, 1915 and moved with him to Calgary, Alberta in 1920. She contributed poems and articles to Canadian and British periodicals as well as to supplementary school textbooks and verse anthologies, and had six books of verse published: Greater Love and Other Poems, [n.d.]; Star Dust and Other Poems, 1926; Ecstasy and Other Poems, 1927; Canada Calling, 1938; Light and Other Poems, 1960 and At the End of the Road, 1974. The Calgary Daily Herald published many of her pieces between 1921 and 1942. A member of the Canadian Authors Association for 25 years, she served in all offices up to President, and for three years was also a member of the Canadian Women's Press Club. She died in 1984.

Jane Catterson was a professor at the University of Saskatchewan's Faculty of Education.

Margaret Ella Chaffey (nee English) was born in Toronto October 29, 1860. She died in the U. S. in 1942. She met and married Charles Chaffey, having 6 children together. They lived in Australia for a time. Margaret Chaffey authored many books for children.

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Marcel Chaput was born in Hull, Quebec on October 14, 1918. He did his primary schooling at Ecole Lecomte, entering College Notre-Dame du Hull. In 1933 he left there - enrolling at the High School of the University of Ottawa. In 1935 he left there to attend the Ecole Technique de Hull, graduating in 1939. He married in 1945, having 4 children. In 1952 received his Ph.D in Biochemistry from McGill University.
Marcel Chaput was a founding member of the Rassemblement pour l'Indépendance Nationale (RIN). founded in 1960. After a falling out with a fellow member, he left RIN and nationale in the 1966 elections. He died in Montreal on January 19, 1991, at the age of 72