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Philip Albert Child was born in Hamilton, Ontario January 19, 1898, son of William Addison Child and Elizabeth Helen (Harvey) Child graduated from Ridley College, St. Catharines in 1915 and then studied at Trinity College where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree after serving during World War I. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Christ's College, Cambridge in 1921 and received a Master of Arts and Ph.D. from Harvard University. He was a journalist and taught for a time at the University of British Columbia while writing several novels. In 1942, he became a professor at Trinity College eventually becoming Chancellor's Professor of English. He won the Ryerson Fiction Award twice, in 1945 for Day of Wrath and in 1949 for Mr. Ames Against Time. He also won the 1949 Governor General's Award for Mr. Ames Against Time.
Philip Child died February 6, 1978.

Andrew D. Clarke was first a newspaperman and then a radio broadcaster. He was born July 13, 1882 in Grimsby, Ontario. Clarke got his start in journalism at the age of 22 following a conversation with Lou Marsh, legendary sports reporter for the Toronto Star. Marsh helped land Clarke an interview with one of the seven Toronto dailies of the day, The World. After nine years at The World, Andy took a job at the London Advertiser. Four years later, Clarke got a call from the Toronto Globe where he remained for 16 years until The Globe was amalgamated with The Mail and Empire to become the Globe and Mail.
While at The Globe, Clarke initiated “The Southeast Corner”, a short two-column feature that appeared in the same spot on The Globe’s front page. This column contained humourous stories from small towns across Ontario and Quebec. Stories about “Barrel-bellied pumpkins, two-headed calves, a dog that could play the piano, raspberries in November, a boy who could sing bass, a pike that had swallowed an alarm clock, a school teacher who crocheted, a parsnip that looked like a person.” There was an endless supply of content for The Southeast Corner which provided a measure of relief during the dark days of the Depression.
When radio arrived in Canada in the early 1920s, Andy Clarke began broadcasting the news every night from the newsroom of The Globe. He had a down-home approach and a friendly neighbourly voice that appealed to a wide audience. Clarke’s love of picking out stories from the local newspaper feeds also filled his nightly broadcasts with stories and anecdotes along with the news of the day.
When The Globe was bought by The Mail and Empire in November 1936, Clarke soon found himself out of a job. But not for long. The CBC had been “thinking about a weekly news broadcast of a different sort, that would deal with the homely happenings of everyday life in Ontario, the things that were never touched on in news bulletins that dealt with the daily grist of disaster, crime and international worries.” Andy Clarke’s name came to the fore and on Sunday, January 7, 1940, the first broadcast of Andy Clarke and his Neighbourly News hit the airwaves. Clarke also travelled to small towns and would broadcast to live audiences.

Journalist, author and publisher, Charles Clay was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1906. He received his B.A. in 1935 from Wesley College, University of Manitoba. He worked his way through university by reporting for the Winnipeg Tribune, and later by editorial writing for the Winnipeg Free Press where he was literary editor from 1931 to 1941. During these ten years, Clay also wrote adventure and historical novels for boys. His first published volume, Swampy Cree Legends (1938), is a translation of tales in the oral tradition of the Swampy Cree northern Manitoba Native people. Unable to join the Canadian Air Force in 1940, he undertook various publicity assignments for the federal government, free-lanced on war topics for numerous Canadian and American journals and published a weekly syndicated column called the Listening Post which kept readers informed of Canada's war work. Clay was Secretary of the Canadian Authors Association and editor of the periodical the Canadian Author, from 1942 to 1946. From 1952 to 1956, Clay produced Teen-age Book Parade, a weekly radio program intended to stimulate interest in reading among teens.

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Mary Elizabeth Colman was born in Victoria, British Columbia on August 14, 1895. She moved to Vancouver shortly after her birth. olman, Mary Elizabeth. Mary and her family moved to Rolle, Switzerland where she attended the College Rolle. The family moved back to Canada, settling in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Mary enrolled at Central Collegiate. She attended the Victoria Normal School in British Columbia, attaining her teaching certificate. In the 1920s, Mary took a position teaching at Lord Strathcona in Vancouver. Throughout her life, Mary also traveled extensively in Europe and northern British Columbia. Her work as a teacher and school librarian in Vancouver left her time to contribute poems, stories, and several hundred articles to periodicals, writing variously as "Marie Zibeth Colman," "Mary Zibeth Colman," and "Mary Zibeth." She also produced two volumes of verse. Colman was an active member of the Vancouver Poetry Society and also served as president of the BC branch of the Canadian Authors Association (CAA) and on the CAA national executive. She wrote plays for the CBC. In chronic ill health during her last years, she was assisted by the Canadian Writers' Foundation before her death in 1958. She died June 23, 1958 in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Gregory Cook was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia in 1942. He has worked variously as a newspaper reporter, university lecturer, freelance journalist and executive director of the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia. He served as writer-in-residence at the University of Waterloo (1990-92) and at Berton House Writers’ Retreat (2006). He has lived in Toronto, Thailand, Fredericton, Australia, Dawson City and Saint John, New Brunswick, where he is completing a biography of TWUC’s first Honorary Life Member – and novelist (The Mountain and the Valley, 1952) – Ernest Buckler (1908-1984). Cook has performed public readings in various public venues, libraries, schools and universities in all Canadian provinces and the Yukon, including at founding, or inaugural, meetings of several provincial writers' organizations, as well as in Maine and Georgia, USA; England, the Netherlands, and Germany.

Mark Edgar Nichols was born near Bronte, Ontario in 1873. He began a career in journalism as proofreader for the Toronto Telegram. He became a reporter for the paper then, in 1897, its parliamentary correspondent at Ottawa. He served as Editor-Writer for the Toronto World; President and Editor of the Winnipeg Telegram; and President of the Montreal Daily Mail and The Daily News. He was head of the Department of Public Information at Ottawa during the last two years of the First World War. After retiring from that post, he joined the Southam publishing organization as Vice-President and Managing Director of the Winnipeg Tribune, a position he held for 15 years.
In 1907, he was among a group of journalists who formed the Western Associated Press, the first new cooperative in Canada, and was its first President. Ten years later, he was a founder of The Canadian Press, uniting four regional news association throughout Canada, and served for 15 years as one of its Directors. He also served as President (1931-1932) and Honorary President (1936-1939). On leaving Winnipeg, he was Publisher of the Vancouver Province. He retired from active involvement in journalism in 1945 but remained a Director of the Southam Company. He died in Vancouver on May 1, 1961.

Betty Nickerson was born in Kansas in 1922. She earned her BA in sociology and agriculture and did postgraduate work in Interdisciplinary Communications at McGill University in Quebec. She raised three children, and spent seven years writing, producing and hosting youth TV shows in Winnipeg. She has been awarded a British Council Fellowship, an India Arts Council Fellowship and the Queen's Jubilee Medal. She is the author of three other books and co-author of a fourth. She is founder of the Amazing Greys, a gathering of older women. Nickerson makes her home on Vancouver Island.

James Ernest Nix was born in August 10, 1920 in Edmonton, Alberta. Ernie graduated from the University of Alberta in 1946 and from St. Stephen's College at the University of Alberta in 1947. He was ordained by the Alberta Conference of the United Church of Canada in 1947. He served in Barrhead, Alberta (1947-1950), Lamont, Alberta (1951-1955), Winnipeg, Manitoba (1956-1957), Calgary, Alberta (1958-1967), and Westmount, Quebec (1970-1977). He completed a Master’s in Arts at McGill University in Montreal in 1978; his thesis was entitled “John Maclean’s Mission to the Blood Indians, 1880-1889.” He worked as Deputy Archivist at the United Church Archives in Toronto, Ontario from 1978 to 1980. Ernie authored Missions Among the Buffalo: The Labours of the Reverends George M. and John C. McDougall in the Canadian Northwest, 1860-1876. He also edited Hillhurst's First Sixty Years, 1907-1967. Ernie Nix died in Kitchener, Ontario January 21, 2013.

Harry King Fisher was born on September 23, 1930. He obtained a Teaching Certificate at the Stratford Normal School (renamed Stratford Teacher's College in 1953) in 1949. His first teaching assignment was at SS#3 Logan Township in Perth County (1949-1951). He then taught at Danesbury Public School (1951-1954) and Dublin Public School (1954-1956) before serving as Vice-Principal of Maple Leaf Public School (1956-1957) and Principal of Highview Public School (1958), all with the North York Board of Education. In 1958, Fisher became Inspector of Public Schools for Muskoka No. 1, Parry Sound No. 2 and Nipissing No. 3 (1958-1961) and filled the same position as well as that of Superintendent of Public Schools with the Welland Board of Education (1961-1966). In 1966, he returned to Toronto and began working for the Ontario Ministry of Education as Assistant Superintendent, Supervisory Services Branch. In 1969, Fisher became Superintendent of the Special Education Branch and between 1972 and 1973 served as Director of the Supervisory Services Branch. In 1974, Fisher was appointed Assistant Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Education, a post he would occupy until 1979, when he was appointed Deputy Minister of Education and Deputy Minister of Colleges and Universities for Ontario. It was during this time that Fisher chaired the Committee on the Future Role of Universities in Ontario (often referred to as the 'Fisher Committee') and addressed such issues as curriculum development, declining school enrolment, special education, computer use in Ontario schools, Canada's first credit course in Native Studies and language rights for francophone students.
After leaving public service, Fisher was appointed Director General of the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada in 1984 and served as Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Western Ontario between 1989 and 1991. Additionally, he was Canada's representative on the Governing Council of the International Bureau of Education at the United Nations (1986-1989). Fisher completed his career as an independent education consultant, retiring in 1997. During his career Fisher was the recipient of the following awards: the Centennial Medal (1967); the Queen's 25th Anniversary Medal (1977); an honourary Doctor of Laws degree from Lakehead University (1983); the Annual Award for Leadership in Education (1985); and Honourary Life Membership in the Canadian Education Association (1989).

Andrew (Andy) W. O'Brien was born in Renfrew, Ontario in 1910. While working as a hat salesman at Eaton's in the early 1930s, Andy O'Brien approached Jimmy McDonagh, sports editor of the Montreal Standard, about a job in sports writing. O'Brien was already well versed in the world of athletics, being the son of a hockey and baseball coach, and having worked himself as a trainer for the Montreal Maroons Professional Lacrosse Club before it folded in 1932. Over the next 42 years, O'Brien wrote for the Standard, the Montreal Star, and eventually became Sports Editor of Weekend Magazine. Writing about a wide array of sports, O'Brien covered 12 Olympics, six Commonwealth Games, 45 Stanley Cups, and 31 Grey Cups over the course of his brilliant career. A most prolific hockey writer, O'Brien published numerous books on the sport over the course of his life. He was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame and the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1980 and the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1985. Andy O'Brien died on April 19, 1987.

John Daniel Robins was born in 1884 in Windsor, Ontario. He attended Albert College in Belleville. He earned his B. A. (1913) and M. A. (1922) from Victoria University - University of Toronto. He earned his Ph.D from the University of Chicago (1927). He began his teaching career at Victoria University as a Lecturer in German in 1910, went on to become a Professor of English and Head of the Department, 1941–1952, while also serving as the Librarian, 1945–1952. In addition to his academic endeavors, he edited the highly regarded “A Pocketful of Canada” (1946), and wrote the popular non-fiction book “The Incomplete Anglers” (1944), as well as the novel “Cottage Cheese” (1951), and was also recognized for his knowledge of folklore. John D. Robins died suddenly in 1952.

Margaret Violet Ray was Librarian at Victoria University, University of Toronto between 1952 and 1963.

V. McNabb was the principal of Grace Street School in Toronto.

The University of Chicago Press was one of three original divisions of the University when it was founded in 1890, functioning as a printer for its first two years. In 1892 the Press began publishing scholarly books and journals, making it one of the oldest continuously operating university presses in the United States. In its second century, the University of Chicago Press grew in size and prestige. Now considered America’s largest university press, Chicago has three operating divisions—Books, Journals, and Distribution Services.

Percy James Robinson was born in Whitby, Ontario in 1873. He was educated at Whitby Collegiate Institute, Jarvis Collegiate Institute, Toronto, and at the University of Toronto where he held a classics scholarship. He taught for two years at Rothesay, New Brunswick, before joining the staff of St. Andrew's College in Toronto. Robinson taught at St. Andrew's School in Toronto and Aurora for forty-seven years. In 1941 he was elected to the Royal Society of Canada and granted an LL.D. degree from the University of Toronto. After his retirement in 1946, Robinson moved to Toronto to continue advanced studies in history and the Huron language. During the course of his career, Robinson formed connections with the foremost scholars in North America interested in research in early Ontario History. Robinson published "Toronto During the French Regime" (1922) and a translation of Du Creux's "Historia Canadensis". He died on June 20, 1953.

Kenneth H. Rogers earned his Ph.D from the University of Toronto in 1933. He also served as the General Secretary for the Big Brother Movement.

Huia Gwendoline Ryder was born in Invercargill, New Zealand in 1905. In 1921, at the age of 16, she became a resident of Saint John, New Brunswick. She became a well known New Brunswick historian, collector, and writer. Huia became a member of the first art supervisory committee in 1952, and was was very active in the identification, and classifying of antiques, and art objects for the public. She also made an extensive study of New Brunswick materials in the fields of china, glass, and furniture. In 1953, she wrote a book entitled "Edward John Russell; Marine Artist." In 1957, she became the Art Curator at the New Brunswick Museum, and continued the position until 1964 when she choose to retire. She was later commissioned to furnish, and organize the old Barbour's General Store. Huia also wrote a regular column on collecting for the Fredericton Gleanor. In 1965, she wrote another book, titled "Antique Furniture." In 1966, she was honored by the American Association for State and Local History because of the book. At the time of her death, Huia was working on a history of the Canadian Military through their distinctive buttons beginning in the early 18th century through to WWII, with the assistance of the Canada Council.

George Herbert Sallans was a a Canadian writer and journalist, whose novel "Little Man" won the Governor General's Award for English language fiction and the Ryerson Fiction Award in 1942. He was born and raised in Dufferin County, Ontario, he worked as a journalist for newspapers in Winnipeg, Saskatoon and Vancouver, and as a Canadian correspondent for British United Press before publishing Little Man.

Robert Balgarnie Young Scott was born on July 16, 1899 in Toronto, Ontario. After serving in the Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve in WWI, he studied Greek and Hebrew at the University of Toronto (PhD 1928). He spent a year studying in Britain and Palestine, and was appointed professor of Old Testament studies at Union College in Vancouver, in 1928 and at United Theological College in Montréal, in 1931, becoming in 1948 first dean of the McGill Faculty of Divinity. From 1955 until retirement in 1968 he taught at Princeton, being annual professor at the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem in 1962-1963. A prolific writer, Scott published 5 books on the Old Testament, innumerable articles, book chapters and reference works, as well as lyrics for 10 hymns. He was a founder and first secretary-treasurer of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies and its president in 1972. He received 5 honorary degrees for his biblical scholarship.

Archibald Adam Herriot was born near Waterloo, Ontario on October 16, 1881. The family moved to Manitoba in 1882 and settled on a farm near Souris. An active athlete, he played lacrosse, soccer and baseball, later taking up golf and curling. He graduated from Souris High School, Brandon Collegiate, and University of Manitoba. He served for three years during the Boer War in South Africa then, in 1902, began working as a school teacher at Elkhorn, Virden, and Holland (1906-1911). While at Holland, he also was Editor of the Holland Observer. In 1911 he became a School Inspector at Gladstone, covering a large area of western Manitoba. He moved to St. Boniface in 1925 where he continued working as a school inspector until his retirement in 1947. He came out of retirement in April 1952. Herriot was a President (1929-1930) and Life Member of the Manitoba Education Association, President of the Winnipeg Schoolmasters Association, a Life Member of the Canadian Education Association and the Canadian Army, Navy and Air Force Veterans, a President of the South African War Veterans and the Mentors’ Club, and a member of the executive of the Southwood Golf Club. He held the Queen Victoria Medal for service in South Africa and the Queen Elizabeth Coronation Medal. He wrote articles on education and harness racing as well as poetry. He died in Winnipeg on December 3, 1956.

John David Higinbotham was born in Guelph, Ontario in 1864. In 1883 he graduated from the Ontario College of Pharmacy and the following year came to Fort Macleod, lberta and opened a drug store. He moved to Lethbridge in 1885 where he opened the Higinbotham Drug Store. He also played an active part in the community. Between 1885 and 1910 he served as the postmaster, was one of the founders of the Alberta Pharmaceutical Association, organized the Sunday school of Knox Presbyterian Church, served as chairman of the Lethbridge School Board, held high Masonic offices, was appointed coroner in 1892, and was affiliated with many local organizations. In 1928 he made a trip down the Mackenzie River with Dr. Frank H. Mewburn. He had a particular interest in western Canadian history and wrote extensively about it. In 1933 he wrote "When the West was Young", which was published by Toronto's Ryerson Press. He died in 1961.

Hugh John Blagdon Hood was born in Toronto, Ontario on April 30, 1928. He attended De La Salle College and St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto between 1947-1955, earning his B. A. in 1950, his M. A. in 1952, and his Ph.D in 1955. He was a teaching fellow at The University of Toronto between 1951-1955, an associate professor at St. Joseph College in Connecticut between 1955-1961, and a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Montreal starting in 1961.
During his career he wrote 32 books: 17 novels including the 12-volume New Age novel sequence (influenced by Marcel Proust and Anthony Powell), several volumes of short fiction, and 5 of nonfiction. He received many awards in his career and was made an Officer in the Order of Canada in 1988. Hood died in Montreal, Quebec on August 1, 2000.

R. Brian Holmes is the son of Laurence Sealewyn Holmes. Brian was a doctor in the radiology department at Toronto General Hospital.

Dorothy Haines Hoover was born in Toronto in 1904. She studied art under her father Frederick S. Haines, a skilled painter and engraver. In 1924 she received a B.A. in Modern History from the University of Toronto, and after graduating began working as a guide at the Royal Ontario Museum. In 1947, she gave lectures in the post-war programme of Museum Research Studies at the Ontario College of Arts. From 1952 to 1968 she doubled as lecturer and head librarian at the college, and was also editor of the alumni newsletter. In 1987 the library at OCAD was renamed The Dorothy. H. Hoover Library in honor of her years of service with the school. Although Hoover studied art with her father as a young woman it was only after her marriage to G.L.J. Hoover in the 1930s that she began to pursue her own practice more seriously. During her career she exhibited with the Ontario Society of Artists and the Royal Canadian Academy (1933-1937). Hoover is known for her floral still life paintings, landscapes and coastal scenes, rendered in watercolour and oil paint.

Mary Quayle Innis was born in St. Mary's, Ohio on April 13, 1899. From 1915-1919 she attended the University of Chicago, graduating with a PhB in English. It was there she met her husband Harold Adams Innis. They married on May 10, 1921, and she moved to Toronto where he had started teaching in the Political Economy Department at the University of Toronto, and where he remained for the rest of his life. Quayle accompanied her husband on research tours until their children were born: Donald Quayle (April 21, 1924), Mary Ellen (Sept. 5, 1927), Hugh Roderick (Nov. 17, 1930), and Anne Christine (Jan. 25, 1933). Innis continued writing while at home with her family and published a number of stories in the Canadian Forum. She also wrote An Economic History of Canada (1935; revised and enlarged, 1943) which became a standard university text, followed by two other history texts for use in the schools: Changing Canada (2 volumes, Fish, Fur and Exploration and New France and the Loyalists, 1951-1952) and Living in Canada (1954), written in collaboration with Alex A. Cameron and Arnold Boggs. In the 1940s most of her short stories appeared in Saturday Night (forty-five stories between 1938 and 1947). Several of these were rewritten for inclusion in Stand on a Rainbow (1943), an autobiographical "novel". For ten years Innis was editor of the YWCA Quarterly, and in 1949 she wrote a history of that organization, Unfold the Years, a survey of the growth of the Young Women's Christian Association in Canada from its inception in 1873. After her husband's death in 1952 Mary Quayle Innis entered a more public life. In 1955 she became Dean of Women at University College, where she served for nine years. She was a Canadian delegate to the Commonwealth Conference on Education held in Oxford in 1959. After her retirement she became vice-chairman of the Committee on Religious Education in the Public Schools of the Province of Ontario. Innis received LL.D.'s from Queen's University in 1958 and from the University of Waterloo in 1965 in recognition of her literary and academic achievements. During these years, Innis continued to write and publish stories and also worked as an editor. Travellers West appeared in 1956 as well as a selection of her husband's articles and addresses, Essays in Canadian Economic History, followed by Mrs. Simcoe's Diary in 1965. Innis also worked with two university groups to edit commemorative anthologies, The Clear Spirit (1966), the centennial project of the Canadian Federation of University Women, and Nursing Education in a Changing Society (1970), for the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the School of Nursing at the University of Toronto. Mary Quayle Innis died on January 10, 1972.

Isabella M. D. Stevenson (Isa Grindlay Jackson) was born in 1881 is Stirlingshire, Scotland. She lodged with her family at the Limerigg School House where her father was School Master. By sixteen, she completed her studies there, and in 1910, the twenty-five year old arrived in Canada. At her boarding house in Calgary, where she lodged while working as a bookkeeper at a real estate company, Isa met and married a fellow tenant, carpenter Charles Grindlay (1887-1916). After Charles's death overseas during the First World War, Isa married again, this time to farmer Leon Lester Jackson (1890-1955). The Jacksons lived in Lonira, Alberta for several years, during which time Isa sent many of her verses to prairie publications like The Farm and Ranch Review and the daily newspapers of Edmonton, Calgary, and Winnipeg. During the Second World War she moved to Vancouver where she remained until her death. Her only published book was "Ballades and Bits" (1937). She died July 30, 1981.

Thomas Wesley McLean was an oil painter. He collaborated with C. W. Jeffreys on "The Picture Gallery of Canadian History".

T. Ainslie Kerr was a graduate of St. Francis University and was a reporter with the Ottawa Journal.

John Raymond Knister was born in Essex County, Ontario. He attended Victoria College, University of Toronto between 1919-1920 and took courses at Iowa State University between 1923-1924. He became association editor of The Midland in 1923. He contributed stories to The Midland, This Quarter, and Transition along with other American and Canadian magazines. He was also the editor of Canadian Short Stories (1928). He was the author of "White Narcissus" (1929) and two books published after his death - "My Star Predominant" (1934) and "Collected Poems of Raymond Knister" (1949). Knister died in 1932.

George Alfred Christian Knudson was born June 28, 1937 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He learned to play golf at St. Charles Country Club. In 1954 and 1955 he won the Manitoba Junior Championship and the 1955 Canadian Junior Championship. In 1958 he moved to Toronto and worked at Oakdale Golf Club. He turned professional - playing on the PGA tour, winning the Manitoba Open in 1958, 1959, and 1960 and the Ontario Open in 1960, 1961, 1971, 1976, and 1978. He left the tour in the late 1970s, retiring in 1980, and starting teaching golf. He was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1969. In 1988 he was inducted into the Royal Canadian Golf Association Hall of Fame, the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame, and was made a member of the Order of Canada. In 1996 he was inducted into the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 1996.
Knudson died in 1989 after being diagnosed with cancer the year before.

Roderick George MacBeth was born in Kildonan, Manitoba in 1858. He graduated from the University of Manitoba (BA 1882, MA 1885) and was called to the Manitoba Bar in 1886. He subsequently studied for the ministry at Manitoba College and Princeton Seminary, and was ordained in the Presbyterian Church in 1891. Most of his ministry was conducted in Vancouver, although he also ministered at Winnipeg, Carman, and Paris (Ontario). He wrote extensively about his ancestors in a series of autobiographical books on the early development of the Canadian West: "The Selkirk Settlers in Real Life" (1897), "The Making of the Canadian West" (1898), "The Romance of Western Canada" (1918), "Policing the Plains" (1922), and "The Romance of the Canadian Pacific Railway" (1924). He also wrote on church subjects, including "Our Task in Canada" (1912) and "The Burning Bush and Canada" (no date). He was awarded honorary degrees by the University of Winnipeg (1885) and the University of Manitoba (1929). He died suddenly at Vancouver, British Columbia on February 28, 1934.

Archibald Lampman was born on November 17, 1861. In 1866 the family moved to Perrytown (near Port Hope), moving again in 1867 to Gore's Landing. In 1868 he contracted rheumatic fever, that would eventually contribute to his death at the age of 38. The family moved to Cobourg in 1874. In 1876 Lampman enrolled at Trinity College School, graduating in 1879. He enrolled at Trinity College (University of Toronto) in 1879. He joined the school's literary institute and began contributing to the school's newspaper. He graduated in 1882. After graduation he taught briefly before taking a clerk position in the Post Office Department in Ottawa.
He was a prolific author of poetry - writing more than 300 poems in the last period of his life. Some of them were published in literary magazines in Canada and the U. S.
He was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1895. He died in Ottawa on February 10, 1899.
Archibald Lampman is known as one of Canada's Confederation Poets, a group which also includes Charles G.D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, and Duncan Campbell Scott.

Frances Elsie Emily Fry was born on April 26, 1892 in England. She attended Milton Mount College in Kent. She acted as governess to two families in Russia, where she wrote her first novel "Half a Gipsy" (1916). She emigrated to Canada with her siblings and widowed mother. She met John Laurence in South Fort George, British Columbia and they married in 1915. She had 7 children, moving with them to various towns in British Columbia and Alberta. During this time she wrote radio scripts, poems, and short stories. Her poetry and short stories were published in Canadian and American magazines and she won several awards for her poetry. Her second novel "Bright Wings" was published in 1964. She died March 4, 1982 in Victoria, British Columbia. She is the mother-in-law to Margaret Laurence.

Gary Lautens was born in Fort William, Ontario in 1928. His family moved to Hamilton where his father had accepted a position at the Hamilton Spectator. Gary Lautens graduated from Hamilton Central Collegiate Institute and then went on to McMaster University, obtaining a bachelor's degree in history in 1950, while writing for the campus newspaper, the Silhouette. After graduation Lautens joined the Hamilton Spectator and within a few years began to write a sports column, "The Gab Bag". In 1962 he joined the Toronto Star, quickly becoming a columnist. He won a National Newspaper Award in the Sports Writing category in 1965.Then, branching out from sports, he began to write a humorous, general-interest column, often relating the problems and delights of his family. He had married Jackie Lane in 1957 and the couple had three children. He published several collections of his columns in book form during his lifetime, twice winning the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. In 1982 he was appointed Executive Managing Editor of the Toronto Star, a position he held until 1984 when he became editor emeritus. He died in 1992.

Clifford Austin Curtis was born in Smith Fall's Ontario in November 1899. He earned his Honours B. A. from the University of Toronto in 1922 and his Ph.D from the University of Chicago in 1926. After graduating he taught in Iowa and at the University of Florida. In 1927 he joined the faculty of Economics at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He was head of the department between 1956-1964. Curtis served on the University's senate from 1944-1946, 1956-1959 and 1964-1968. In 1970 the Canadian Institute of Guided Ground Transport was established at Queen's - which he helped plan.

Edith Grace Coombs was born in Hamilton, Ontario in 1890. She studied at the Ontario College of Art between 1913 to 1918, and at the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts in 1929. She taught art at Edgehill College, Windsor, Nova Scotia for one year (c.1918); Havergal College, Toronto for three years (1919-1921); and at the Ontario College of Art, (1921-1956). She was a member of the Ontario Society of Artists (1928); the Canadian Society of Graphic Art; the Federation of Canadian Artists; the Ontario College of Art Alumni Association; Victoria University Faculty Womens Association; the Three Arts Club (New York); the Heliconian Club; and the Lyceum Womens Art Association. She painted many images of flowers, most done at her summer home near Parry Sound. She also painted landscapes, figure studies, and abstract work. She painted two murals based on Wyandotte creation myths now owned by the Museum of Civilization. She designed the stained glass windows for Chalmers United Church in Guelph, Ontario, and she illustrated several books, including "The Rambles of a Canadian Naturalist" by T.S. Woods and "The Brave Little People" by Dorothy Campbell. Coombs exhibited with the Ontario Society of Artists, at the National Gallery, the Canadian National Exhibition, with the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour, the Montreal Art Association, and many other smaller exhibitions.

Donat Marc LeBourdais was born in 1887 in Clinton, British Columbia. He was raised in Barkerville. He worked for the Yukon Telegraph Service. He moved to Ottawa in 1919, founding a short lived "Canadian Nation" journal and working for a press syndicate. He moved to Toronto in 1926 and began writing for "Canadian Geographic", "Macleans", "Empire Review", "Saturday Night", and "The Beaver". During World War II he worked with the Wartime Prices and Trade Board. He was also the founding executive secretary of the National Railway League, an organization formed to defend public ownership of the Canadian National Railway and served on the boards of the National Committee on Mental Hygiene and the Mental Patients Welfare Association. He ran for election to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1935 federal election as a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation candidate in the electoral district of High Park, but lost.

Was a high school English teacher in Montreal, Quebec. He published poetry.

Gladys Lewis was born in Ontario in 1905. She earned a degree from the University of Saskatchewan.

Frances Parkinson Keyes was born in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1885. She was raised in New Hampshire. She published her first novel in 1919. She married New Hampshire governor, and eventually Senator, Henry Wilder. Her writing career remained secondary to her role as a mother and political wife. For 14 years she wrote a monthly column for Good Housekeeping called "Letters from a Senator's Wife" and from 1923 to 1936 was a contributing editor. In 1937 she became editor of the National Historical Magazine, resigning the position in 1938 after the death of her husband. After his death, Keyes's career as a writer took hold. She authored a number of novels, including: "All That Glitters" (1941); "Crescent Carnival" (1942); "Dinner At Antoine's" (1948); and "Joy Street" (1950). Between 1919 and her death in 1970 she penned over 50 titles that included novels, memoirs, short story collections, and travelogues. She died in 1970.

Arthur Reginald Marsden Lower was born in Barrie, Ontario on August 12, 1889. He attended both the University of Toronto and Harvard University. He was a Professor at Wesley College, Winnipeg (1929-47), and Douglas Professor of Canadian History at Queen's University, Kingston (1947-59). He authored many books including "The Trade in Square Timber" (1932); "Settlement and the Forest Frontier in Eastern Canada" (1936); "The North American Assault on the Canadian Forest" (1938); and "In Colony to Nation" (1946). He was awarded the Governor General's Award twice (1946, 1954), the Tyrrell Medal of the Royal Society of Canada (1947), and was made a Companion of the Order of Canada (1968).

Finley Eldon MacDiarmid was born on March 31, 1899. He was educated at the Chatham Grammar School and the Provincial Normal School. He earned his B. A. from Mount Allison University in 1930 and his M. A. from the University of New Brunswick in 1934. His worked as the principal of a school in Devon, New Brunswick in 1920. He was later a principal of the grammar school at Woodstock. In 1933 he was named science master at the Provincial Normal School, and in 1949 he was appointed as chief superintendent of education for New Brunswick. He was the Deputy Minister of Education between 1957-1963. He died on November 24, 1980.

Gordon MacDonald was born on May 27, 1888 in Wales. He left school at the age of 13 to work in the mines until the start of World War I. During this period he was also a student at Ruskin College, Oxford. In 1920 he was elected a member of the Wigan Board of Guardians of which he was chairman in 1929, and he became president of Bryn Gates Co-operative Society, 1922-1924. In 1924 he was elected Miners' Agent for Lancashire and Cheshire in the Mineworkers Federation of Great Britain, a post which he held until he was elected M.P. (L) for Ince, Lancs., in 1929. He became a whip of the Labour Party. He was also Chairman of Committees in the House of Commons, 1934-1941. In 1942 he resigned from Parliament on his appointment as manager for the Lancashire, Cheshire and North Wales region of the Ministry of Fuel and Power. In 1946 he received a knighthood and was nominated Governor of Newfoundland. He steered the state to independence within the dominion of Canada and on the day of confederation in 1949 he returned to Britain and was elevated Baron of Gwaenysgor. Though he held the post of Paymaster General during 1949-51, Commonwealth and international affairs interested him most. In 1950 he attended a meeting of the United Nations, and he was active in the preparations for an important conference in Australia on economic aid to countries of south-east Asia. From 1952-1959 he was a member of the Colonial Development Corporation. After the fall of the Labour government in 1951 Lord Macdonald returned to Wales. He was the first chairman of the National Broadcasting Council for Wales throughout the 1950s. He published speeches and radio addresses he had made in Newfoundland in "Newfoundland at the Cross Roads" (1949), and his parliamentary impressions, "Atgofion seneddol" (1953).

James Brown MacDougall was born in 1871 near Stirling, Scotland. His family emigrated to Canada - Ramsay Township in Ontario - when MacDougall was 2 years old. He attended Almonte High School, graduating in 1892 with the Prince of Wales Scholarship in Classics, English and Mathematics. He attended Queen's University and
graduated in 1896 with honours in Classics and English, and in 1897 became principal of the North Bay Model School. Dr. MacDougall made a major contribution to the
advancement of schools in Ontario during his period of professional service. In 1904, the Department of Education appointed him as the first resident inspector of schools in the North. In 1909, the North Bay Normal School was built and in 1911 Dr. MacDougall became the Master in English and the Science of Education. This position he held until 1919, when the Minister of Education appointed him the Chief Inspector of Public and Separate Schools. In 1918 Dr. MacDougall received his doctorate degree in Pedagogy from the University of Toronto. Dr. MacDougall advocated correspondence courses and railway school cars. As early as 1922 thirteen rural Consolidated Schools and Township Boards of Trustees were established in northern Ontario under the guidance of Dr. MacDougall. In 1925 Dr. MacDougall was transferred to the Department of Education where as Chief Inspector of Public and Separate Schools, he took charge of the general supervision of the elementary schools in Eastern and North-Eastern Ontario. Dr. MacDougall retired in 1942 after more than forty eight years as teacher, principal, inspector, and official of the Department of Education.

H. H. MacKenzie was a school inspector in Vancouver, British Columbia

Kenneth Alexander MacKirdy was born in 1920. He was one of the founding professors of the University of Waterloo's Department of History. He died in 1968 while on sabbatical in Australia.

Harold Gordon Skilling was born in Toronto on February 12, 1912. He attended Harbord Collegiate Institute and then University College at the University of Toronto. During his time at University his interest in politics grew, he became increasingly interested in and committed to Marxism. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1934. He went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and studied at Christ Church College, receiving his Masters degree in 1936. He moved to London to pursue a doctorate under the guidance of R.W. Seton-Watson at the University of London’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies. Skilling focused on studying the Czech language and researching Czech history, and began work on his doctoral thesis in May, 1938. Skilling’s doctoral thesis was completed and approved in 1940. He secured work at the Czechoslovak Broadcasting Corporation in May, 1938, which allowed him to witness firsthand the troubling events in Czechoslovakia in 1938-1939. After further travels throughout Europe, Skilling and his wife returned to England only one month before war broke out. In July 1940, Skilling and Sally returned to Canada, and Skilling took up an assistant position at the United College in Winnipeg, followed by a position as assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin in 1941, and, in 1947, a position at Dartmouth College, where he and his family remained for the next twelve years. In 1958, he accepted a position of head of the Department of Political Science and Economics and a full professorship at the University of Toronto, and in 1962 became the Director of the Centre for Russian and East European Studies (CREES)—a position that he held until 1974. Through his involvement with CREES, Professor Skilling worked to develop exchange programs with the Soviet Union. In 1981, Skilling stopped teaching and was awarded the rank of professor emeritus. Several other honours soon followed: in 1981, Skilling was awarded the Innis-Gérin medal from the Royal Society of Canada and was made a life member of the Canadian Association of Slavists (CAS) and of the Czechoslovak Society of Science and Art (SVU); in 1982, the University of Toronto awarded Skilling with an honorary LL.D; in 1985 he was awarded the Masaryk Award from the Czechoslovak Association of Canada; in 1987 the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies honoured Skilling for his distinguished contributions to Slavic studies (he had also been elected to the board in 1981); and in 1992, on Skilling’s 80th birthday, President Havel awarded him with the Order of the White Lion—the highest honour for non-citizens. Harold Skilling passed away on March 2, 2001 at his home in Toronto at the age of 89.

Murdoch Maxwell MacOdrum was born om Nova Scotia on May 30, 1901. He earned his B. A. from Dalhousie University in 1923, his M. A. from McGill University, and his Ph.D from the University of Edinburgh. He was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in Sydney, Nova Scotia in 1935, where he ministered for 4 years. He later worked for Dominion Coal and Steel Company in Sydney. He moved to Ottawa in 1944, selling war bonds. He was recruited by Carleton College (Carleton University) founder and President Harry Marshall Tory to act as his executive assistant. In 1947 he succeeded Tory as the President of Carleton in 1947. He successfully lobbied the Ontario government to give Carleton a charter and degree-granting powers, which it got in 1952. He also oversaw many of the land deals that would eventually lead to Carleton's move to a new Rideau River campus in 1958, though he died three years before that move actually took place. In his honour, the second building on the new campus was named the Maxwell MacOdrum Library. He died of a heart attack in 1955.

Zella M. Manning was a student at the Provincial Normal School in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1917.

Charles Vincent Massey was born on February 20, 1887 in Toronto, Ontario, son of Chester D. Massey and Anna Vincent, and grandson of Hart Massey. He attended St. Andrew's College in Aurora, Ontario. He graduated from the University of Toronto and went on to Balliol College, University of Oxford, earning his M. A. in History. He was a lecturer at Victoria College, University of Toronto between 1913-1915. He was commissioned as an officer for Military District No. 12 in Regina, Saskatchewan at the outbreak of World War I, but did not serve overseas. He worked with the Officers Training Corps and in 1918 for the war committee of the federal cabinet. With money from his grandfather's legacy, Massey helped finance Hart House — the student center at the University of Toronto, named for Massey's grandfather — and after the war Massey was active as an actor and director at Hart House Theatre. In 1918, along with family members he established the Massey Foundation, which amassed a large collection of artwork, and was the first trust of its kind in Canada, supporting new artistic and architectural projects. Vincent Massey was president of his family’s company Massey-Harris from 1921 until 1925. That year he joined Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King’s Cabinet as minister without portfolio, but he failed to win a seat in Parliament in the October 1925 election. In 1926, King made Massey Canada's first minister to the United States — which also made him Canada's first ever envoy with full diplomatic credentials to a foreign capital. He served until 1930. In 1935, King named Massey high commissioner to Britain, a post he held until 1946. He was also the Canadian delegate to the League of Nations in 1936, trustee of the National Gallery and the Tate Gallery from 1941 to 1945, and chair of the Tate from 1943 to 1945. To honour Massey’s contributions in Britain, King George VI made him a Companion of Honour in 1946 — an order limited to the king and 65 others.
Back in Canada, Massey served as chancellor of the University of Toronto from 1947 to 1953, and chairman of the National Gallery of Canada from 1948 to 1952. In 1949, Prime Minister Louis St-Laurent named him chair of the influential Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters, and Sciences (informally known as the Massey Commission). His report in 1951 recommended the formation of a Canada Council, which was established in 1957, and set the groundwork for establishing the National Library of Canada. Massey’s promotion of a national festival of the arts eventually led to the founding of the National Arts Centre. On 1 February 1952, the official announcement was made that Massey would become governor general. This made him the first Canadian-born governor general, and every governor general since has been a Canadian citizen. His term as governor general was extended twice — by St-Laurent and by Prime Minister John Diefenbaker. During his time in office, Massey promoted Canadian unity and identity and praised the country’s cultural diversity. He also stressed the importance of learning both English and French, decades before bilingualism became an official federal government policy. In 1953, Massey established the Governor General's Awards for Architecture, and in 1959 he created the Massey Medal to recognize national exploration, development, and description of geography for the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. On 15 September 1959 Massey retired and moved to Batterwood House. He continued to chair the Massey Foundation as he had since 1926. Today, he is commemorated by the University of Toronto’s Massey College, which is named after him, and by the influential Massey Lectures, a public lecture series established in his memory in 1961. He died on 30 December 1967 while visiting London. Following a state funeral, he was buried in an Anglican cemetery near his Port Hope home.

William S. McCartney founded Regal Stationary Company Ltd. in 1928. It initially printed cards and envelopes is now called Regal Home and Gifts Inc. and sells a wide variety of products.

Reverend Benjamin H. Spence was born in 1867. He became known as “Mr. Prohibition of Canada,” was a prohibitionist who was actively involved in the temperance movement in Toronto. His father, Jacob Spence, was involved in the abstinence movement in Ireland before he came to Upper Canada in 1861 where he continued his work. Jacob Spence was secretary of the Ontario Temperance and Prohibitory League and printed pamphlets at home. In January 1907 Ben Spence took on the role of secretary of the Ontario branch of the Dominion Alliance when his brother stepped down from the position. He was general Secretary for the Dominion Alliance for the Suppression of the Liquor Traffic and Managing Director of the Canadian Prohibition Bureau. He authored several books on alcohol, prohibition and liquor control, focusing on the Canadian context.

Harold Lobb was the Executive Director of the Ontario Society for Retarded Children.

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

Ruth Johnston was the Chairman of the Children's Work Committee of the Women's Baptist Missionary Societies of Canada. She was married to Reverend Minton Johnston.