John William Coulter was born in Belfast, Ireland February 12, 1888. He is best known for his historical trilogy Riel (written and produced 1950), The Crime of Louis Riel (1968) and The Trial of Louis Riel (1968). Most of his other plays are on Irish subjects. Among them, The House in the Quiet Glen (1937) won the Dominion Drama Festival Bessborough Trophy and The Drums Are Out was premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Ireland, in 1948. With composer Healey Willan he created the first 2 operas commissioned and broadcast by the CBC: Transit through Fire (1942) and Deirdre of the Sorrows (1944). His nondramatic works include a biography of Winston Churchill and a record of his courtship, Prelude to a Marriage (1979).

Philip E. Coulter graduated with a diploma in Mechanical Engineering from Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in 1952. While at Ryerson, Coulter played as a defensive end for the Ryerson Rams football team. After graduating, Coulter received an offer to play with the Toronto Argonauts, which he declined in order to pursue a career in engineering. To this end, he moved to the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, where he built landing strips with the US Army Corps of Engineers, before returning to Canada to earn his Bachelor of Engineering from McGill University (1956). In addition to this degree, he earned a Graduate Diploma in Business Administration (1961), a Bachelor's Degree in Education (1966), and a Master's degree in Adult Education (1968) from the University of Toronto. Coulter has spent his career as a professional engineer and educator in private industry and government, including posts with the Governments of Canada and Ontario, the Toronto District School Board, Goodyear Canada, Sun Life Co. of Canada, Scrap Tires Inc. of Ontario, Walters Forensic Engineering, and others. His professional specializations include: heating, ventilating, and air conditioning; system design and analysis; mechanical systems failure analysis; air quality assessment; and expert witnessing.

Ph.D., Contemporary History (University of Paris-Sorbonne), M.A., Urban History (University of Paris-Sorbonne)

Dr. Olivier Courteaux joined the Department of History at Ryerson University in 2007 after teaching at York University, including Glendon College. His fields of research include Franco-Canadian relations during the Second World War and in the 1960s, as well as Canada’s foreign policies in the 20th and 21st centuries. Dr. Courteaux has published Les relations oubliées, les relations franco-canadiennes entre 1940 et 1946 (2003); The War on Terror, The Canadian Dilemma (2009.) Dr. Courteaux left Ryerson in 2011.

Harold Cevell was professor at the College of Education at the University of British Columbia.

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Kirsten Cowan is a Toronto-based fashion designer and former part-time instructor of knitwear design in the School of Fashion at Ryerson University. Cowan is the designer of a line of hand-knits marketed under her own name and her work is often featured in Vogue Knitting, Family Circle Easy Knitting, and other national magazines. She has created hand-knitting designs for many major yarn companies and was briefly the chief designer at Canada's largest ready-to-wear fashion knitwear manufacturer.

Canadian author. Born in London, England

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R. Cecil Cragg attended the University of Toronto achieving his B. A., Masters and Ph.D degrees. He was a professor of English at the University of British Columbia between 1960 and 1971.

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James Herbert Cranston was the editor at the Toronto Star Weekly between 1911. He purchased The Midland Free Press Herald in 1933. Cranston published the newspaper until his death in 1952.

William Cranston was born on May 1st, 1914 in Toronto, Ontario, the son of James Herbert Cranston and Eva Wilkins. He received his early education in Toronto schools before attending McMaster University from 1932 to 1935, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree.

From 1929 to 1932, Cranston was a reporter with the Toronto Star. During the Second World War, he worked in Ottawa with the Wartime Prices and Trade Board. At the same time, he was one of the owners of the Midland Free Press and printed the R.A. News, which was the newsletter of the Ottawa Civil Service Recreational Association. He served as Manager of the Midland Free Press Ltd. from 1935 to 1940, and President from 1947 to 1955. He also served as Vice-President and President of the Shoe Corporation of Canada Ltd.

In addition to his career, Cranston was active in numerous community and journalistic associations. He was President of the Class A Newspapers of Canada (1955-1956) and Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association (1951-1956). Cranston also served as President of the Midland Chamber of Commerce (1951- 1952); Secretary Treasurer of the Georgian Bay Development Association (1957-1964); and President of the Huronia Historic Sites Association. In addition, Cranston was the Trent Area representative of the Canada Ontario Rideau Trent Severn Agreement Board and Advisory Committee. Moreover, Cranston chaired the Ontario Economic Council as well as the Ontario Archaeological and Historic Sites Board. While with the Economic Council, he became involved in the Ontario Centennial Project, the Ontario Science Centre (1963- 1969) and the Ontario Heritage Foundation (1966-1974).

He married Viola Wheeler on May 11, 1937, and their had one son, John.

Marion Creery was the director of Student Services at Ryerson University from 1988-2009. She had a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Guelph, a BA in Political Theory and an MA in Political Science.

Helen Creighton, born Mary Helen Creighton, was born on September 5, 1899 in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. She was the daughter of Charles and Alice (nee Terry) Creighton. She graduated from Halifax Ladies College in 1916, was a driver with the Royal Flying Corps in Toronto, 1918 and an ambulance driver for the Red Cross Caravan in Nova Scotia, 1920. She trained in social work at the University of Toronto until 1923, when she traveled to Mexico and taught school in Guadalajara. Her broadcasting career began in 1926 as 'Aunt Helen' on CHNS Radio. She began collecting folklore in 1928. Her first publication based on her findings was "Songs and Ballads from Nova Scotia". In all, she authored 13 books of folk songs, ballads, and stories. She served as Dean of Women at King's College, 1939 to 1941, and attended the Institute of Folklore at the University of Indiana, 1942. She compiled Maritime folklore and folk music for the National Museum of Canada, 1947-1965. Her final publication was "Fleur de Rosier". Her works have been the source for symphonies, operas, musical theatre productions, films, a ballet, and many recordings by professional artists. She received numerous awards for her achievements, including Distinguished Folklorist of 1981, six honorary doctorates, Fellow of the American Folklore Society, Honorary Life President of the Canadian Authors' Association, Order of Canada, and the Queen's Medal. She died in Dartmouth in 1989.

Married Laura Harvie, after completing degrees in arts at Victoria College in Cobourg and in theology after the institution moved to Toronto. For a few years William held charges in rural Ontario, but in 1900, after laryngitis threatened his career as a preacher, he obtained the position of assistant editor of the Christian Guardian (Toronto), the Methodist Church of Canada’s weekly paper.

James Cremer (1821-1893) is an English and American photographer and publisher of James Cremer & Co. (1861-1866) and Cremer & Dillon (1868)

Provided film slides/illustrations of birds for several books

Helen Crichton was the head of the Domestic Arts Department at Central Technical Institute.

John Crispo was a Canadian economist, author and educator. He was educated at Upper Canada College, Trinity College - University of Toronto (B. Comm), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (Ph.D in philosophy). He was a professor of Industrial Relations in the Faculty of Management Studies and Department of Political Economy at the University of Toronto and was designated Professor Emeritus. He was also an associate of the Centre for Industrial Relations.
In 2006, he became a municipal politician, the Ward 3 councillor for Clearview Township. He became a noted supporter of the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement.

The Honourable David Crombie, P.C. was born in Toronto in 1936. He was educated at Western University and the University of Toronto, earning his BA and LLD (Hons.). He worked at Ryerson as a lecturer in Politics and Urban Affairs and as Director of Student Services from 1962 to 1971. In 1969, Crombie was elected as an Alderman for the City of Toronto and, from 1972 to 1978, served as the City's mayor and as Commissioner of Toronto Hydro (1973-1978). As Mayor, Crombie upheld and advocated for a philosophy of community-based urban development pioneered by Urban Studies scholar and activist Jane Jacobs. In 1978, Crombie was elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a Member for Rosedale and was re-elected in 1979, 1980, and 1984. He served as Minister of National Health and Welfare (1979-1984), Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (1984-1986), and Secretary of State and Minister of Multiculturalism (1986-1988). He resigned from Parliament on May 31, 1988 and was appointed Commissioner of the Royal Commission of the Future on the Toronto Waterfront. In 1992, he was appointed Commissioner of the Waterfront Regeneration Trust Agency. He received a fellowship from Ryerson in 1993. In 1994, Crombie returned to Ryerson as its first Chancellor after the Institute was granted university status. He held the position of Chancellor until 1999. In addition to his political duties, Crombie served as CEO of the Canadian Urban Institute, Director of the Laidlaw Foundation, Board Member of Pollution Probe, Chair of the Terry Fox Hall of Fame, and Board Member of the Canadian Merit Scholarship Trust Fund. In 2012, he was inducted into the Order of Ontario and, in 2014, into the Order of Canada.

Archibald Joseph Cronin was born July 19, 1896 in Cardross, Dumbartonshire, Scotland. He died January 6, 1981 in Montreux, Switzerland.
Cronin was educated at the University of Glasgow and served as a surgeon in the Royal Navy during World War I. He practiced in South Wales (1921–24) and then, as medical inspector of mines, investigated occupational diseases in the coal industry. He opened medical practice in London in 1926 but quit because of ill health, using his leisure to write his first novel, Hatter’s Castle (1931; filmed 1941), the story of a Scottish hatmaker obsessed with the idea of the possibility of his noble birth. This book was an immediate success in Britain. Cronin’s fourth novel, The Stars Look Down (1935; filmed 1939), which chronicles various social injustices in a North England mining community from 1903 to 1933, gained him an international readership. It was followed by The Citadel (1937; filmed 1938), which showed how private physicians’ greed can distort good medical practice. The Keys of the Kingdom (1942; filmed 1944), about a Roman Catholic missionary in China, was one of his most popular books. Cronin’s subsequent novels include The Green Years (1944; filmed 1946), Shannon’s Way (1948), The Judas Tree (1961), and A Song of Sixpence (1964). One of his more interesting late works is A Thing of Beauty (1956), a study of a gifted young painter who must break free of middle-class conventions to realize his potential.

He was a Senior Fellow for Environmental Affairs at Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies and a leader at the Hudson Riverkeeper organization, a New York-based environmental advocacy group, who battle against polluters of America's waterways

William Crooke was one of the best known British professional photographers of his time. He opened a studio at 103 Princes Street in Edinburgh in the early 1890s that was considered to be as beautiful as the photographs he made there.

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Eric William Blake Cross was a Provincial Magistrate, Chairman of the Ontario Municipal Board, Minister of Municipal Affairs, Attorney General, and a County Court Judge.
He was born at Madoc, Ontario, and was educated at Madoc High School, Queen's University, and the Osgoode Hall Law School. He began a law practice at Simcoe, Ontario, in 1927, and in 1929 married Annetta Jean Nichol. In 1934 he became a Provincial Magistrate, was Chairman of the Ontario Municipal Board from 1935 to 1937. In 1937, he was elected to the Legislature for the riding of Haldimand-Norfolk, and was appointed Minister of Municipal Affairs and of Public Welfare. In 1940, he resigned from Cabinet and returned to his law practise in Simcoe. From May to August of 1943, he became a member of the Ontario provincial Cabinet again, as Minister of Municipal Affairs and Attorney General. In 1944, he was appointed County Court Judge, Surrogate court Judge, and Local Master of the Supreme Court for the County of Oxford. Around the same time, Cross moved his residence to Woodstock, where he was the first president of the Woodstock Little Theatre when it was founded in 1946. He was a playwright and actor, and two of his plays, "The Nightwind," and "The Patriots" received national exposure and were staged locally several times.

Born March 10, 1910, in Holbrook, MA, Dr. Croteau was educated in Worcester, MA, earning his BA (1931) at Holy Cross College and his Master's (1932) and Doctorate (1935) in Economics from Clark University. He began his career in 1933 at Prince of Wales College and St. Dunstan's courtesy of the philanthropic Carnegie Corporation of New York who gave funding to set up a regional library and endow the Carnegie Chair of Economics and Sociology to be shared between the two institutions. Over the next 12 years he also served as Director of Adult Education Programs, Manager of the Credit Union League and the PEI Cooperative Union, and Executive Secretary of the Adult Education League. For his tireless labor on behalf of working families, he became known in Canada as "The Apostle of the Co-operative Movement."
While in PEI, he and fellow co-operative organizer Bram Chandler were the main proponents of the Antigonish Movement, a co-operative movement founded by Father Moses Coady St. F X's Extension Department.
Dr. Croteau left Prince Edward Island around 1946 to take up teaching positions at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Catholic University in Washington, DC, before settling at Notre Dame in 1953. At various times he was a consultant to the US Bureau of Federal Credit Unions, the Social Security Administration, Director of the Canadian Political Science Association as well as Director of the Credit Union National Association. In addition to these national positions, between 1960 and 1969 he was President of the Board of Directors of the Notre Dame Federal Credit Union.
In 1955 he testified before the powerful Ways and Means Committee of the U.S. Congress to advocate retention of the federal income tax-exempt status of credit unions, a concession they still enjoy today.
He wrote four major books and produced over 20 monographs on credit union topics, 30 articles in professional journals as well as numerous book reviews. He was awarded two other honorary doctorates besides UPEI's(1976): from St. Joseph's University (1956) and the University of Moncton (1976).

Cathy Crowe is a long-time Street Nurse in Toronto. She has worked in the area of homelessness since 1988.
Cathy obtained her diploma in nursing from Toronto General Hospital in 1972, her Bachelor of Applied Arts in Nursing from Ryerson in 1985, and her Masters of Education (Sociology) from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in 1992. In 1998 she co-founded the Toronto Disaster Relief Committee (TDRC) which declared homelessness a National Disaster. The disaster campaign is a three level campaign targeting federal, provincial and municipal solutions to the homeless disaster and housing crisis. Its signature 1% slogan refers to the demand that all levels of government commit an additional 1% of their budgets to affordable housing.
Cathy has received a number of awards including an International Human Rights Award in Nursing in Amsterdam from the International Centre for Nursing Ethics in 2003 and in 2018 Cathy received the Order of Canada. She has also been the recipient of many honourary degrees: in June 2001 an Honourary Doctor of Science in Nursing from the University of Victoria in British Columbia; in June, 2005 an Honourary Doctor of Laws from McMaster University in Hamilton; in 2008 an Honourary Doctorate of the University from the University of Ottawa; in June 2010, an Honourary Doctorate of Laws from York University (Canada); in June 2015, an Honourary Doctor of Laws from the University of Windsor; and in 2021 an Honourary Doctor of Laws from the Law Union of Ontario.
From 2004-2009 she was the recipient of the Atkinson Charitable Foundation’s Economic Justice Award and worked both locally and nationally on issues related to homelessness. During her fellowship she authored Dying for a Home: Homeless Activists Speak Out (Between the Lines, 2007). She was the Executive Producer of Home Safe Calgary and Home Safe Toronto, a national documentary film and community development project on homeless families and children, with filmmaker Laura Sky. Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University) appointed Cathy Crowe Distinguished Visiting Practitioner in 2013 and she is currently situated in the Faculty of Arts, Politics and Public Administration Department.
At Toronto Metropolitan University Cathy collaborated with the Jack Layton Chair to launch the Jack Layton School for Youth Leadership, and launched Community Health and Social Justice Walks for students from across the University.
Her most recent books include "A Knapsack Full of Dreams. Memoirs of a Street Nurse" (Friesen Press, 2019) and "Displacement City. Fighting for Health and Homes in a Pandemic" (UofT Press with Greg Cook).
More info is available on her website www.cathycrowe.ca

Married Hilda Hockin and buried in Nova Scotia. Author, teacher, accountant & farmer.

James C. Cruess was a research associate with Ryerson's Energy Centre.

After graduating from the University of Toronto with degrees in History and English and in Theology from Emmanuel College, he was awarded the Watt Travelling Scholarship in Divinity for post-graduate work at the University of Cambridge, England. Then, he served in the Ministry of the United Church of Canada in Leader, Saskatchewan and at Calvin United Church in Pembroke, Ontario. Leaving the parish ministry, he entered public education earning a Master of Education degree (O.I.S.E.).
With his colleague and best friend W. Douglas Wilson, he co-authored widely-used History texts.
He was the first Protestant Minister to welcome a Roman Catholic priest to preach from his United Church pulpit and in return, became the first Protestant pastor ever invited to preach in a Roman Catholic Church in the diocese of Pembroke.

Married Thelma Bernice Holmes and was an author.

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

Rick Csiernik earned his BA, BSW, and BSc in Psychology from McMaster University, his MSW from the University of Toronto, his Graduate Diploma in Social Administration from Wilfrid Laurier University, and his PhD in Social Work from the University of Toronto.
His research interests include addiction, Employee Assistance Programming and workplace wellness, social work field practice, spirituality, mental health, housing and homeless, poverty and social inclusion, school-based social work, and social worker retention.
Ciernik is the author of over 140 peer-reviewed articles and 8 books, including "Substance Use and Abuse: Everything Matters," "Responding to the Oppression of Addiction: Canadian Social Work Approaches," and "Wellness and Work: EAP in Canada." After leaving Ryerson, Csiernik taught for over 25 years at McMaster University, where he co-developed the McMaster University Addiction Studies Program and was the inaugural recipient of the McMaster University Instructor Appreciation award.
Csiernik is currently a professor in the School of Social Work at King's University College at Western University, Canada.

Manuel Alvarez Cuenca is a Professor of Chemical Engineering and Head of the Laboratory of Membrane Bioreactors at Ryerson University. He holds a B.Eng in Chemical Engineering from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Physics and Chemical Engineering, respectively, from the University of Western Ontario. He has over 15 years of industrial experience with multinational corporations in the areas of fluidized bed reactors, bioreactor design, water treatment and clean power generation. In 2002, he founded Ecotechnos Inc., a company devoted to the design and construction of advanced bioreactors for the treatment of industrial wastewater. He is an active consultant for governments and the private sector in Canada, Spain and Iberoamerica in the areas of water treatment, and energy. His academic record spans over two decades with universities in Europe, Canada, and South America, including Ryerson University, U. of Western Ontario, U of Waterloo, U. of Guelph, U of Windsor ), U.Politécnica de Madrid ( Spain),) Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Colombia), U de Cartagena de Indias (Colombia), Corporacion Universitaria de la Costa(Colombia ). He holds four patents on the design of compact bioreactors, has authored over fifty papers and one book on Pressurized Fluid Beds Combustion, and has chaired and participated in the organization of numerous international conferences and congresses including the 5th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, San Diego California,1996. Cuenca has taught numerous courses and seminars on Water/wastewater Treatment, Solid Waste Management, Design of Wastewater Treatment Plants and has won several awards as Academic Adviser in Plant Design Competitions with Water Environmental Federation, and Water Environment Association of Ontario (Ottawa 2012, New Orleans 2010, London 2010).

Wendy Cukier joined Ryerson in 1986 as a professor at Ryerson University in Information Technology Management, an associate Dean of that School between 2004-2010 and Interim Director of the MBA-MTI/MMSC graduate program. In 1999 she founded the Diversity Institute at Ryerson and in 2011 she became Vice-President of Research and Innovation, a post she held until 2016. Dr. Cukier spearheaded Ryerson’s social innovation strategy to help engage faculty and students from across the university in all disciplines in the innovation agenda. This included leading the bid to become Canada’s first Ashoka Changemaker Campus. She also created innovative programs to support student learning, experiential learning and applied research (iSTEM, ADaPT, Summer Company, RECODE, RBC) with particular focus on leveling the playing field between Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM), and Social Science and Humanities (SSH) funding and opportunities. Dr. Cukier holds a PhD in management science; an MBA in marketing and information systems and an MA in social and cultural history; and an Honours BA in English and history. She also has been awarded an honorary Docteur d'Universite from Laval University and an honorary Doctor of Laws from Concordia University. An active volunteer, working with non-profit and industry organizations including the International Women's Forum and the Diversity Forum at Toronto Region Board of Trade, she is on the Board of Directors of the Environics Institute, Women’s College Hospital and several hi-tech start-ups. She is a recipient of the Governor General's Meritorious Cross, one of Canada’s highest civilian honours. She was also named one of the University of Toronto's 100 Alumni Who Shaped the Century, and in 2010 was selected as one of 25 Transformational Canadians by The Globe and Mail, La Presse and CTV. Dr. Cukier was awarded the YWCA Women of Distinction Award and named a 2013 Top 25 Women of Influence.

Lynn Cunningham is an associate professor in the School of Journalism at Ryerson University. Cunningham joined the faculty full time in 1997. She has held senior editorial positions at such magazines as Canadian Business, Quest and Toronto Life and has been active in the magazine industry as a volunteer board member of industry organizations, a judge, a consultant and a leader of professional development programs. Cunningham served as a member of the 1993-94 Tasse-O'Callaghan federal task force on magazines and is a freelance book and magazine editor. In 1999, she won the National Magazine Awards' Lifetime Achievement award. Her 2001 master's thesis, entitled "Culture Wars: How Canada Lost the Battle to Protect Its Magazines," explored the federal government's failed attempts to construct cultural measures to foster Canadian magazines.

Charles Trick Currelly was born at Exeter, Ontario in 1876. Although trained as a Methodist minister, following his graduation from the University of Toronto, he devoted himself to archaeological work, first in Egypt, and later in Crete and Asia Minor. It was in Egypt that Currelly discovered he had a talent for collecting: a nose for bargains and an ability to distinguish the genuine article from the fake. He began collecting for people in Britain and Canada, including Sir Edmund Walker, the father of a classmate and a prominent Torontonian who wished to establish a major museum in the city. With money provided by private donors, the University of Toronto and the Government of Ontario, Currelly began collecting for the future museum. He was appointed director of the Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology in 1914 and held this position until his retirement in 1946. Currelly’s energy and audacity helped advance the new Museum’s interests. In 1907 while in Egypt, he was visited on site by a group of Torontonians. He was making a cast of a temple wall for the Museum but explained he lacked the money to colour it. Sir Edmund Osler and Harry Warren offered the needed funds and later became lifelong supporters of the ROM. Currelly never ceased looking for acquisitions and the collections grew enormously through the late 1910s and the 1920s. A visionary museum-builder, Currelly dedicated his life to the ROM. He believed museums had an educational purpose: to display the material achievements of humanity through all time, so as to inspire the present-day. When he finally retired, the ROM re-named the old Armour Court as the Currelly Gallery (now Samuel Hall Samuel Hall Currelly Gallery Currelly Gallery). Shortly before his death, he published his autobiography, I Brought the Ages Home. The book is filled with tales of the adventures and people he encountered in his travels and museum work.

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Had a BA and MA from the University of Saskatchewan(1947-1954) and a doctorate in organic chemistry from McGill(1954-1958). Professor at Ryerson from 1961-1993 and
member of the CURAC Steering Committee(2002-2003).

Elected vice president and general manager of Kodak Canada in 1945. Previously was assistant general manager and secretary.

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Co-authored a book on mammals

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.

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Owtram was born in Uganda, studied at the Architectural Association in London(1942), was in the war from 1942-1946, and continued his education at the School of Architecture, Liverpool University(1946-1951). He moved to Canada in 1954, and was in private practice in Vancouver from 1954 to 1961. Became a member of the Architectural Institute of British Columbia (MAIBC) in 1954. In 1955, he received a special recommendation and $200 for his design of the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. He changed his last name to Cyoni in 1960. In 1961 he moved to Scottsdale, Arizona, where he set up a practice. In 1967 he changed his name again, this time to Cyaioni.

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Isolde Daiski earned her Bachelor of Science - Nursing from Ryerson University in 1989, her Masters of Education from OISE/University of Toronto in 1994 and her Doctor of Education from OISE/University of Toronto in 2001. Her doctoral work focused on nurses’ experiences in the context of restructuring of healthcare. She conducted research on the impact of poverty and homelessness on health and quality of life. Isolde also volunteered as a nurse with an outreach program for homeless people, called the ‘health bus’. Before attending Ryerson, Daiski was a hospital staff nurse. After graduating Ryerson she began teaching in the School of Nursing as an instructor. In 2001 she became a full-time faculty member at the School of Nursing at York University. She taught Undergraduate as well as the Graduate Programs in the School of Nursing, including supervising several MRP and Theses students in the MScN Program.

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LGen Dallaire was born in Denekamp, Holland, on 25 June 1946. He was raised and educated in Canada, joining le Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean in 1964 (later assuming command of this institution as Brigadier-General in 1989), and graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree from the Royal Military College in 1969. He also attended the Canadian Land Forces Command and Staff College, the United States Marine Corps Command and Staff College in Virginia, and the United Kingdom Higher Command & Staff Course.
He has served in staff, training, and command positions through North America, Europe, and Africa, rising in rank from Army Cadet in 1960 to Lieutenant-General in 1998. Most notably he was appointed Force Commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Rwanda (UNAMIR) prior to and during the 1994 genocide.
Upon being medically released from the Canadian Army in 2000, LGen Dallaire has served on the UN Advisory Committee on Genocide Prevention, as Special Advisor to the Minister of Veterans Affairs Canada, as Advisor to the Minister of National Defense, and as Special Advisor to the Minister responsible for the Canadian International Development Agency on matters relating to War Affected Children.
Lieutenant-Dallaire is an Officer of the Order of Canada, a Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec, and a Commander of the Order of Military Merit. He is the recipient of the United Nations Association of Canada’s Pearson Peace Medal, the Arthur Kroeger College Award for Ethics in Public Affairs from Carleton University, the Laureate of Excellence from the Manitoba Health Sciences Centre, and the Harvard University Humanist Award. He was awarded a fellowship from Ryerson in 1995.
He is also the author of two books - "Shake Hands with the Devil – the Failure of Humanity in Rwanda", and "They Fight Like Soldiers; They Die Like Children – the Global Quest to Eradicate the Use of Child Soldiers".

Annie Charlotte Armitage was born December 9, 1865, at Birkby, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England. She married Willie Dalton in 1891 and the couple moved to Vancouver in 1904. With the support of the British critic Stopford Brooke, Dalton published her first collection of verse, The Marriage of Music, in 1910. Her 1924 collection, Flame and Adventure, which featured two long poems, was followed in quick succession by The Silent Zone (1926), The Ear Trumpet (1926), The Amber Riders and Other Poems (1929), The Neighing North (1931), and Lilies and Leopards (1935). She died in 1938.

He was born Vito Rocco Farinola in Brooklyn, New York, one of five children, and the only son, of Mamie (nee Damone) and Rocco Farinola, who lived in Bensonhurst, a predominantly Italian neighbourhood. When Mamie was hospitalized with pneumonia in 1931, Rocco taught his son to sing "You’re Driving Me Crazy" at her bedside. Although Rocco expected Vito to follow him in becoming an electrician, the young boy was more interested in his mother’s skills as a pianist.
Vito attended Lafayette high school in Brooklyn and also worked delivering groceries from the age of 12. On leaving school, he became an usher at the Paramount theatre in New York. When the up-and-coming Perry Como performed at the Paramount, Vito stopped the lift between floors and asked Como to hear his voice. Como told him to stick with it, so he took his mother’s maiden name to attempt a singing career as Vic Damone.
In 1946 Damone had success on a radio talent show hosted by Arthur Godfrey. He had his first US hit the following year, with I Have But One Heart, which he sang in Italian and English, and he followed it with "Say Something Sweet to Your Sweetheart," a duet with Patti Page. He released a couple more hit songs, topping the charts in 1949. In 1951, Damone appeared in the film musicals Rich, Young and Pretty with Jane Powell and The Strip with Mickey Rooney and Louis Armstrong. He served for two years in the US army during the Korean war, entertaining the troops in Germany and appearing on the forces’ station AFN. In 1955 Damone co-starred in the lavish Hollywood musicals Hit the Deck and Kismet. The next year he recorded On the Street Where You Live, a song from the new Broadway success, My Fair Lady. His beautifully controlled vocal resulted in a US Top 10 hit and he also released a successful album, That Towering Feeling!, inspired by the song.
Damone had a stroke in 2000 but recovered sufficiently to undertake a farewell tour which included Carnegie Hall and the Hollywood Bowl. He retired to Miami and his final performance was at West Palm Beach in 2011.
He was divorced four times. His fifth wife, Rena Rowan, whom he married in 1998, died in 2016.

Brian Damude has pursued a career as a filmmaker, screenwriter, media educator and, more recently, a photographer with a focus on abstract landscapes. In 1995 he was appointed Chair of the School of Image Arts (Film-Photography-New Media) at Ryerson University, a position he held for 10 years. During his sabbatical in 2005/06 he traveled in Europe and South America to photograph and develop several new photo-based expositions. As of 2014, Brian is working full-time as a professor of film studies and media production at Ryerson University’s School of Image Arts, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Ken Danby was born March 6, 1940. He attended the Ontarion College of Art, enrolling in 1958. He quit the college two years later because of the college's emphasis on abstract art. He spent the following three years experimenting with his art before settling on photorealism, inspired by the work of Andrew Wyeth, an American photorealist.
His first one man show in 1964 sold out. Danby was recognized as one of the world's foremost photorealist painters. Danby's work has been the subject of several books ranging from reference publications to biographies.
He died September 23, 2007.

Author of chemistry books.

Guy Dauncey is founder of the BC Sustainable Energy Association, co-founder of the national organization Prevent Cancer Now, and co-founder of the Victoria Car Share Co-operative.
He is also the author or co-author of ten books, including the award-winning books The Climate Challenge: 101 Solutions to Global Warming and Cancer: 101 Solutions to a Preventable Epidemic.
In February 2010 he held The John J. Rhodes Chair in Public Policy and American Institutions in Barrett, The Honors College at Arizona State University.
He is an Honorary Member of the Planning Institute of BC, and a Fellow of the Findhorn Foundation in Scotland.

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Bryan Davey was a lighting applications specialist with Energy Conservation and Utilization Department at Ontario Hydro.

Jerry Davey was an employee of Ryerson University in the School of Journalism. He took many photographs for the University.

David J. Bishop was a Photographic Arts student at Ryerson Institute of Technology. He is the former Director of Corporate Sales with Kodak Canada Inc.

Valerie J. Davidson is a professor at the University Guelph's School of Engineering. She was the NSERC/HP Chair for Women in Science and Engineering between 2003-2008).

Blodwen Davies was born in Longueuil, Quebec in 1897. Her career in journalism began at the Fort William Newspaper. She moved to Toronto in 1921 to meet with the Group of Seven artists. She would eventually write a book about one of the members - Tom Thompson. Davies' texts exploring Canadian social history, regions and cities reflect her interest in many of the same subjects as the Group of Seven. Though her love for the Canadian art scene and environment is obvious in the quantity of her work on the subjects, Davies briefly lived and worked in the United States. In 1946 she returned to her native country, settling in Markham, Ontario. She would spend the last 15 years of her life living and writing in nearby Cedar Grove. She died there in 1966. Her work included Storied Streets of Quebec (1927), Old Father Forest (1930), Daniel Du Lhut (1930), Ruffles and Rapiers (1930), Saguenay and Gaspe (1932), Romantic Quebec (1932), The Charm of Ottawa (1932), Youth, Marriage and the Family (1948), Quebec: Portrait of a Province (1952) and Ottawa: Portrait of a Capital (1954). The majority of Davies' work was historical, but in the years leading up to her death she developed an interest in folklore and Mennonite history in Canada. Published posthumously, A String of Amber: The Heritage of the Mennonites (1973) is an authoritative text on Mennonite history.

Raymond Arthur Davies, born Rudolph Shohan, was born in 1908. He was a journalist, an author and a public speaker. As a freelance journalist, he covered the Spanish Civil War and as a Moscow correspondent covered World War II. At end of war, he helped Jewish survivors to immigrate to Canada. He died in 1985.

James M. Davis was born in North Carolina in 1853, and began selling stereocards for the Kilburn Brothers 1872, prior to finishing school. He acted as distributor for the stereograph company, as well as photographer. The Kilburn Company closed in 1909, selling it's negatives to the Keystone View Company. Davis was also an Underwood & Underwood salesman and began selling H.C. White made stereoscopes for resale.

American cartoonist most well known for creating the character, "Garfield."

Lindsay Davis, M.S. was an instructor in the Ryerson University School of Occupational and Public Health.

R. E. G. Davis was the executive director of The Canadian Welfare Council

David M. Day is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Ryerson University. Day earned his BA (Hons.) in Psychology at York University, and his MA and PhD in Applied Social Psychology at the University of Windsor. Day is a registered Psychologist in Ontario, Canada. He joined the faculty at Ryerson in 1998 as an Assistant Professor, becoming an Associate Professor in 2004. In 1997, Day was a staff psychologist at the Ontario Correctional Institute in Brampton, Ontario. In 1989, he became Director of Research and Evaluation at Earlscourt Child and Family Centre (now the Child Development Institute) in Toronto. His teaching and research interests include Social Psychology, Developmental Psychopathology, Community Psychology

Ethel A DeMings was member of the faculty of Institutional Management program at Ryerson Institute of Technology. The program would eventually evolve in the Ted Rogers School of Hospitality and Tourism Management. DeMings retired in 1972 as the director of Home Economics and passed away in 1998.

William Arthur Deacon was born in Pembroke, Ontario on April 6, 1890. He trained as a lawyer in Winnipeg. He worked as a book review editor at the Manitoba Free Press (1921), Saturday Night (1922-28), the Toronto Mail and Empire (1928-36) and the Mail and Empire's successor, the Globe and Mail (1936-61). . He wrote several books - "Pens and Pirates" (1923), "Poteen and Other Essays" (1926) and especially "The Four Jameses" (1927).

Ruth Dean graduated from the University of Toronto in 1920 with a B. A. After graduation she worked at St. Luke's Hospital in New York City, and then the Psychiatric Hospital in Morristown, New Jersey. In May of 1923 Dean took a job as a dietitian at a hospital in Cochrane, Ontario. Between 1925-1928 she taught at Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate Institute, moving to Central Technical School in Toronto. In 1931 she enrolled at Teacher's College at Columbia University, graduating with her M. A. degree in 1934. In 1939 Dean helped found the Canadian Home Economics Association. In 1942 Dean became an associate professor of Home Economics at the Ontario College of Education, making full professor in 1950.

Henry Hoshel Dean was born in Brant County, Ontario in 1865. He attended the Ontario Agricultural College, graduating with his Bachelor of Science and Arts in 1890. Following graduation he spent a year at the New York Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, New York. He returned to the College as head of the Travelling Dairy - which carried equipment in a horse-drawn buggy to farms to demonstrate the manufacture of butter. In 1891 he became head of the school's Dairy Department in 1891. In 1893 he established a 12 week dairy school, adding a two week course in commercial ice cream manufacturing in 1914. He constructed a classroom at the college dedicated solely to dairy education where pasteurization of cream for the manufacture of butter was done for the first time in Canada and the dairy option was added to the existing degree program, its first cohort graduating in 1900. Henry Dean was a founding member of the National Association of Dairy Instructors in 1906.
Henry Dean died February 4, 1946.

Merrill Denison was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1893. He graduated from the University of Toronto, and then studied Architecture in the US. In 1921 he was invited to Hart House Theatre at the University of Toronto as a stage designer and art director. His one-act play, Brothers in Arms was produced at Hart House Theatre in 1921, and went on to become one of the most often produced English-Canadian dramas. Set in the Ontario bush, it comprises a satiric debate between a pompous Major and an uneducated backwoodsman on war, industry and responsibility. It was published in the anthology The Unheroic North (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1923), which also included one of his most important works, Marsh Hay. The latter was produced in 1974 and professionally at the Shaw Festival in 1996.
In 1932, Denison returned to the US to work for CBS and NBC in radio drama, and wrote stage and radio plays with an historical focus. His works for "The Romance of Canada" series, commissioned in 1929 by Canadian National Railways, were directed by Tyrone Guthrie. Six of these plays were published in the anthology, Henry Hudson and Other Plays (1931). For US networks, he wrote a forty-week series called "Great Moments in History" (1932-33), "America's Hour" (1936) and other programs which examined freedom and democracy. After the death of his first wife, he returned to Canada in 1954, living in Montreal and on his estate with his second wife in eastern Ontario. He died in San Diego, California in 1975.

Ellen Desjardin worked in the Department of Public Health for the City of Toronto.

Johnny Desmond, born Giovanni Alfredo De Simone, was an American popular music singer.

Esther Deutsch is a Professor Emeritus of Accounting and Computers in the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University. She received an MBA with a major in accounting from Concordia University and has a CMA designation. Prior joining Ryerson, Esther worked as a controller for a manufacturing company and was the consolidation accountant for a large real estate corporation. She has written several introductory and intermediate accounting texts and study guides, including Intermediate Accounting (Wiley, 1989) and ACCPAC Plus User's Guide (Windcrest, 1990).

Liz Devine attended Ryerson University in the Hospitality and Tourism Management program. While attending Ryerson she was elected to the Students' Union (RyeSAC) as the Vice-President Internal Operations. She graduated in 1985, returning in 1989 to manage RyeSAC operations. In 1995 she worked for Student Services. She stayed with that department until 2005 in various roles. In 2005 she became the Manager, Student Alumni partnerships until 2008. Over this period she acted as the Board Secretary and committee chair for the Palin Foundation (1995-2007) and with Ryerson Centre (1996-2009).

Selwyn Hannington Dewdney was born October 22, 1909 in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. He and his family moved to Kenora, Ontario. Selwyn received his primary and secondary education in Prince Albert and Kenora. He enrolled at the University of Toronto, earning his B. A. in 1931. In 1932 he received a High School Assistant’s Certificate, Science and Mathematics, and an Art Specialist’s Certificate from the Ontario College of Education in 1932. From 1934 to 1936, Dewdney attended the Ontario College of Art, and was named an Associate, OCA, with Honours. He spent several summers travelling thousands of miles, often by canoe, in northern Canada, accompanying his father on visits to northern missions as a student missionary and as a member of a Geological Survey of Canada crew. He moved to London, Ontario in 1936 to take a position as High School Assistant and Art Specialist at Sir Adam Beck Collegiate Institute. He held that position until 1945. Dewdney published his first novel, Wind Without Rain, in 1946. One of the first London artists to paint abstracts in the 1940s and early 1950s, Dewdney painted a number of murals on commission for several clients, including Sir Adam Beck Collegiate and Victorian Hospital. He had virtually stopped painting by the end of the 1950s to devote his time to other interests, but remained active in the local art community. Dewdney served as president of the Western Art League in 1957 and 1960, and from 1960 to 1962 was Executive Director of the short-lived Artists’ Workshop in London. In 1953, Selwyn Dewdney was appointed psychiatric art therapist at Westminster (now Parkwood) Hospital and began using art to help in the treatment of psychiatric patients. He was soon joined in this work by his wife Irene. Selwyn published a number of journal articles and lectured on their art therapy approach. Together, the Dewdney’s pioneered an objective, client-oriented technique that developed into the first art therapy program in Canada. While Irene continued with art therapy work, Selwyn began to devote more of his time to his pioneering studies of Canadian native rock art. Conducting extensive field work for a number of museums, foundations, government departments and the Canada Council, Dewdney recorded 290 rock art sites in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, the Northwest Territories, Michigan and Minnesota, and conducted studies of selected sites. He lecture on native art at various museums, universities and conferences; submitted a number of reports and articles for journals and museum and government department publications. Dewdney co-founded and was elected Senior Associate of Canadian Rock Art Associates. His continuing interest in Canadian native art extended to publishing a number of journal articles, lecturing at the Ontario College of Art, writing Sacred Scrolls of the Southern Ojibway (1975), and serving on the boards of N’Amerind, the Ontario division of the Indian-Eskimo Association, and Indian Crafts of Canada. Dewdney married Irene Maude Donner in 1936. The Dewdneys had four sons: Donner, Keewatin, Peter and Christopher. Selwyn Dewdney died following heart surgery on November 18, 1979.

Peter Di Gangi is a land rights researcher and analyst with Sicani Research. He has worked with Indigenous communities across Canada with a focus on historical, legal and cultural research. His experience includes working on the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, the Assembly of First Nations, and a variety of associations, tribal councils and First Nations in Atlantic Canada, Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia. He was the Director of Policy and Research, Algonquin Nation Secretariat and an Advisory Board Member at Yellowhead Institute (2018-2020).

Abel Joseph Diamond, "Jack," architect, educator (born at Piet Retief, South Africa, 8 Nov 1932). Jack Diamond was educated at the University of Cape Town (B Arch 1956), Oxford University (MA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, 1958), and the University of Pennsylvania (M Arch 1962), where he studied with Louis Kahn. Diamond arrived in Canada in 1964 as founding director of the new Master of Architecture program at the University of Toronto. He became associated with the city's reform movement, and by the late 1960s had established what would become one of its defining practices.
In addition to his position at the University of Toronto, Diamond has held academic appointments at York University and at the universities of Pennsylvania and Texas. In partnership with Barton Myers (1969-75), his important projects include York Square, Toronto; the Housing Union Building (HUB) at the University of Alberta, Edmonton; and Sherbourne Lanes Housing and the Ontario Medical Association Building, Toronto.
In 1975, Diamond established A.J. Diamond Architects, which, by 1989, had evolved into the partnership of A.J. Diamond, Donald Schmitt and Company, now known as Diamond Schmitt Architects.
A.J. Diamond has been a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) since 1980, and in 1994 was made an honorary fellow of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). He received the 1989 Toronto Arts Award for Architecture and Design, and was granted a Doctor of Engineering (Honoris Causa) from Dalhousie University in Halifax in 1995. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1995, was named to the Order of Ontario in 1997, and was awarded the 2001 RAIC Gold Medal. Insight and On Site is a monograph of the firm's work and design philosophy, written by A.J. Diamond, Donald Schmitt and Don Gillmor in 2008, and in 2010 A.J. Diamond published a collection of his architectural paintings in the book Sketches from Here and There.

Billy Diamond was the Grand Chief of the Grand Council of the Crees.