Howard Hillen Kerr (December 25, 1900 - June 16, 1984) was the first principal of what was then Ryerson Polytechnical Institute. Kerr was born on a farm near Seaforth, Ontario. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1926 with degrees in education and engineering and became an administrator in the public school system. During World War II he was in charge of training personnel for overseas duty. Following the war, Kerr was appointed Director of the Training and Re-Establishment Institute which was located in Toronto at the site of Egerton Ryerson's Normal School (a nineteenth-century training facility for teachers). The purpose of TRIT was to provide 32,000 veterans with vocational training to allow them to establish themselves in civilian trades and careers. Prior to TRIT's scheduled closure, Kerr convinced the Ontario government to transform it into a permanent post-secondary institution focused on practical education, apprenticeships, vocations and career training. The Ryerson Institute of Technology was established in 1948 on the former TRIT campus with Kerr as its principal until 1966 when he became Chair of the Council of Regents for Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology. In this capacity Kerr helped establish Ontario's community college system with the creation of twenty colleges modelled after Ryerson.

October 2, 2006: Fujifilm Corporation operates the imaging and information businesses previously operated by Fuji Photo Film. Co. Ltd. (founded 1934), which became Fujifilm Holdings Corporation in 2006.

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Founded by Victor Philip Belcourt and D. L. Blair in 1948.

Victor Philip Belcourt (1908-1965) was born in Ottawa on 26 May 1908 and educated at the University of Ottawa (in 1918-25) and at Mount St. Louis College in Montreal (in 1925-27). He later worked as a draftsman for Noffke & Sylvester in 1927-28. After completing his formal education in architecture at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Montreal in 1928-34 he traveled to London, England where he worked as assistant to Sir John J. Burnet. On returning to Ottawa he was briefly in partnership with Roper & Morin (in 1939-40), then served with the Canadian Navy during WWII. In 1948 he formed a new partnership with D.L. Blair (as Belcourt & Blair) and remained active in this Ottawa firm until his death on 7 April 1965.

He was an artist, who created posters of Vladimir Illyich Lenin.

She co-authored a book on the political life of Lenin.

The company was founded in 1953 in Montréal. A partnership between three McGill University School of Architecture graduates - Raymond Tait Affleck (1922-1989), Guy Desbarats (1925-2003) and Jean Michaud (1919-1995) - and two McGill architecture professors - Fred David Lebensold (1917-1985) and, joining in 1954, Hazen Edward Sise (1906-1974). and Dimitri Dimakopoulos (1929-1995), another McGill School of Architecture graduate, began working with the group. D. Dimakopoulos became a full partner in 1957. Following the departure of Jean Michaud in 1959, the firm became Affleck, Desbarats, Dimakopoulos, Lebensold, Sise (ADDLS) for the next decade. In 1968, Hazen Sise retired, Dimitri Dimakopoulos left to open his own office, and Guy Desbarats departed to found and head the University of Montréal's Faculté de l'aménagement. In 1970, Ray Affleck, Fred Lebensold and Arthur Boyd Nichol (who had been an associate in the previous firm since 1956) regrouped and founded ARCOP Associates; designed churches, municipal and provincial government buildings, exhibition pavilions, multiple-dwelling residential buildings, cultural buildings, commercial and industrial buildings, and educational buildings.

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Founded Sharp and Thompson in 1908 with G. L. T. Sharpe. When the University of British Columbia was created by the Provincial Legislature as the province's first public institution for higher education in 1908, Sharp & Thompson won an international competition for the Point Grey campus. They produced a master plan in 1913 and building was begun, only to be interrupted by the outbreak of World War I. Not until 1922 was building resumed and the central part of the Library completed. The firm based their early designs on medieval and classically inspired commercial, institutional, and residential buildings. Then, in 1937, recent University of Toronto graduates Robert A.D. Berwick and Charles Edward Pratt joined the firm, and its design focus became based on the principles of European modernism the firm was renamed Thompson, Berwick, Pratt and Partners, architects. The firm closed in 1990.

Prince Alfred was the fourth child and second son of Queen Victoria and Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the Prince Consort. He joined the navy in August 1858, and was appointed as midshipman on HMS Euryalus at the age of fourteen. Upon the abdication of King Otto of Greece, in 1862, Prince Alfred was selected to succeed him, but the British government blocked plans for him to ascend the Greek throne, largely due to the fact that the Queen strongly opposed the idea. He therefore remained in the navy, and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant on 24 February 1863, serving under Count Gleichen on HMS Racoon, and captain on 23 February 1866, being then appointed to the command of the frigate HMS Galatea. On 24 May 1866, Alfred was created Duke of Edinburgh and Earl of Ulster and Earl of Kent by his mother, Queen Victoria. He was the first member of the British royal family to visit Australia and liked to travel.
On 12 March 1868, he survived an attempted assasination was carried out by Henry James O'Farrell, but was shot in the back by a revolver, which wounded him just to the right of his spine.
In 1874, he married the Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia. They had 6 children: Prince Alfred of Edinburgh, Princess Marie Alexandra Victoria, Princess Victoria Melita, Princess Alexandra, a stillborn son and Princess Beatrice.
On the death without an heir of his uncle, Prince Albert's elder brother, Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha on 22 August 1893, Alfred inherited the duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, after his older brother renounced the right.

Airhart retired in 2017 from his position as Director of Philanthropy at Tafelmusik Baroque Orchesta, in Toronto, ON. Previously he held several different positions, including Senior Director of Development, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at Ryerson University (2000-20014).

An optical instrument and lens manufacurer, founded 1850 by John Henry Dallmayer and continued after his death in 1883 by his son Thomas Rudolphus Dallmeyer (who patented the telephoto lens in 1891). The company was under the auspices of several coprorations, including Watsham's Electro-Optics Limited (1987-1988), Omitec Electro-Optics Limited (1988-1997) & Avimo Optical Imaging Limited (1997-2001) and is currently part of Thales Optical Imaging Limited - Thales Optics Group «

Took photographs used to promote Ryerson in the 1950s and 1960s