Rosemarie Volpe began working in the Centre for Student Development and Counselling at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in 1979.

Canadian businesswoman and retired politician.

Trudy Johnson was born October 2, 1947, the eldest of four children of Harry and Vi Johnson. She grew up in Thornhill, Ontario. She attended Thornhill Secondary School and was an active member of Thornhill United Church. She spent many summers at Camp Illahee (originally a Y. W. C. A. camp for children with diabetes) in Cobourg, first as a counsellor and then as a nurse in the infirmary. She would later work as a Nurse at Camp Huronda (located in Huntsville, Ontario) another camp for children with diabetes. This is where her affinity for caring for children became evident.
Trudy enrolled in the Wellesley Hospital School of Nursing in 1967, graduating in 1970 and was the class valedictorian. After graduation she headed to California with a friend and had some unforgettable experiences (including the San Fernando earthquake of 1971.)
She spent her nursing career at the Hospital for Sick Children, where her true love was bedside nursing. A physician she worked with commented “she had the ability to put herself in the shoes of the children for whom she cared, and really communicate with them. This helped ease a child’s pain, when undergoing a scary experience, such as being in hospital.’
Trudy passed away on February 3, 2015.

William W. Kilborn (B.A.A, A.R.I.D.O., I.D.C., I.F.M.A) was a professor at Ryerson's School of Interior Design starting in the 1960's. He also owned and operated his own interior design consulting firm "William Kilborn Associates" starting in 1966.
William Kilborn has served on the Board of Management for the "Interior Designers of Ontario" in the 1970's, and worked on the membership services committee of ARIDO.
He passed away January 13, 2022.

Ronald Conrad was a Professor Emeritus of English at Ryerson Polytechnic University. While at Ryerson he taught in many areas including Canadian literature, Victorian literature, composition, and creative writing. His focus on teaching effective writing skills resulted in the publication of many well-received composition textbooks. Ronald Conrad passed away August 23, 2022.

Harold Grant Collingwood was born on August 4, 1909, in Exeter, South Huron, Ontario and died at the age of 87 in May 1996. As a commercial photographer, Collingwood was commissioned by numerous companies namely the Mclean Hunter newsletter and Chatelaine magazine.

George Swede was a member of the Department of Psychology at Ryerson from 1968 to 2006 (and Chair from 1998 to 2003). He is now Professor Emeritus. During his career at Ryerson, as well as after, he pursued his interests as a creative writer, editor and arts administrator. Some highlights include :

• Co-founder, Haiku Canada in 1977 ;
• Editor, the Canadian Haiku Anthology (Three Trees Press, 1979) ;
• Co-editor, Global Haiku (Brooks Books, 2000) and Erotic Haiku (Black Moss Press, 2017) ;
• Honorary Curator of the American Haiku Archives for 2008-2009 ;
• Elected editor of Frogpond : Journal of the Haiku Society of America, for issues between 2008 and 2012. He and Anita Krumins, a retired Ryerson Communications Professor).were the first Canadian Editors.

George Swede has also published more than 40 collections of poetry, one, Helices (Red Moon Press, 2016), won the 2017 Leroy & Mildred Kanterman Memorial Book Award, First Place for the best collection of haiku ; and a Portuguese/English chapbook, "um mosquito no meu braço" (Francisco Carvalho, translator for Eufeme, 2017).

For more information about George's life, awards, publications and positions go to Wikipedia or to his website at georgeswede.com.

C. Julian Smith attend Ryerson Institute of Technology, graduation in 1952 with a diploma in Printing Management. He served as coach of the Ryerson Rams hockey team in 1950-51 and, the following year, captained the team to the championship of the Minor College Hockey League. Julian also played for the Regina Pats and Quebec Aces and attained a Level 4 ranking in the National Coaching Certification Program.

Barbara Villy Cormack was born in England in 1903. She emigrated to Calgary, Alberta in 1914. She graduated from the University of Alberta in 1924 and later worked as a school teacher and journalist. She and her husband had a farm in Alix, Alberta where they lived between 1925-1950. They moved to Edmonton where her husband taught at the University. Cormack died in 1991.

Provider of film slides

John McGechaen was born in Glasgow Scotland December 12, 1909. He was a professor at the College of Education, University of British Columbia. He died May 16, 1992 in British Columbia.

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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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Provided film slides/illustrations of birds for several books

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

Born in London, Ontario in 1867, Frederick Howay moved to British Columbia as a child. He attended school in New Westminster and in 1884 he went to Victoria to write his Provincial Teachers' examinations. He then taught at Canoe Pass and Boundary Bay schools. In 1887 Howay entered Dalhousie University in Halifax to study law. While in Halifax, Howay wrote articles on law, politics, temperance, and B.C. personalities, which were published in various B.C. papers. Howay graduated with his LL.B. in 1890 and was admitted to the B.C. bar in 1891. In 1907 he became Judge of County Court of New Westminster. Howay had a great interest in history and was a member and president of many historical associations in B.C and Canada such as the Historic Sites and Monuments Board, Champlain Society and the Royal Society of Canada. He passed away in 1943.

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Arnold Webster was born in Vancouver and raised in Agassiz, B .C. He obtained his M.A. from the University of British Columbia . Webster became a teacher and principal in the Vancouver School Division . He joined the CCF in 1932 and became its B .C . provincial president . He also served on Vancouver Parks Board and as a member of the UBC Senate . In 1953 he succeeded Harold Winch as leader of the provincial CCF and was elected MLA for Vancouver East. He served one term as Leader of the Opposition and then retired briefly from politics . his return after the organization of the NDP, he was elected MP for Vancouver Kingsway and served from 1962-1965 .

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Ira Dilworth was born in High Bluff, Manitoba March 25, 1894. He moved with his family to the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia. He did his undergraduate study at McGill University in Quebec, receiving his B. A. in 1915. He did his Masters degree at Harvard (1920). He returned to British Columbia. He was a teacher of English Literature between 1915-1938. After that he was an administrator with the CBC, the literary executor of the writings of the painter Emily Carr, and the first president (1946) of the Community Arts Council of Vancouver. He worked especially during the 1920s and 1930s for the recognition of music in the province's schools. Besides teaching English (1934-1938) at the University of British Columbia, he taught music appreciation, lectured on music throughout the province, was responsible for the university's collection of scores and records, and established its Carnegie Foundation Recorded Library. Between 1930-1934 he conducted the Ladies' Choir of Victoria and between 1935-1940 the Vancouver Bach Choir. In 1938 he joined the CBC, working first (1938-1947) in Vancouver as British Columbia regional representative and manager of station CBR, where he encouraged the development of the CBC Vancouver Chamber Orchestra, then between 1947-1951 in Montreal as director of the International Service, and finally in Toronto as director of program production between 1951-1953 and director of radio for the province of Ontario 1953-1956. In 1956 he assumed responsibility for the CBC's English network and in 1958 he became director of program evaluation. Ira Dilworth passed away in Vancouver, British Columbia November 23, 1962.

John P. Soule (1827-1904) founded Soule Photograph Co., in Boston Massachusetts in 1882.

American Photographer (1819-1903)

Francis Bedford is a founding member of the Royal Photographic Society. From 1850 to 1853 he had a studio located in London, however, in 1854 Bedford was commissioned by Queen Victoria to photograph the Royal Collection. Bedford joined Edward VII on a tour of Palestine, Syria, Constantinople, and Athens in 1862. He is considered one of the best landscape photographers from this era.

Ernest Charles Drury, former Premier of Ontario (1919-1923), was born at Crown Hill, Ontario on January 22, 1878. The son of Charles Drury, Ontario's first minister of agriculture, and a graduate of Ontario Agricultural College, Drury was active in the farm movement, serving as secretary of the Canadian Council of Agriculture and master of the Dominion Grange and Farmers' Alliance. He was a co-founder and first president of the United Farmers of Ontario (UFO), formed in 1914 to promote agrarian interests in the province. After WWI the UFO became a political force, but Drury was not a candidate when it challenged the Conservative government in the Ontario general election of 1919. With the support of labour it won enough seats to form a government, and it called on Drury to lead it. He became the province's 8th premier and won a seat in Halton in February 1920. Following the defeat of his government in 1923, Drury retired from provincial politics and ventured unsuccessfully into the federal field as an independent Liberal. In 1934 he was appointed sheriff and registrar of Simcoe County and devoted considerable time to writing on public affairs and preparing local histories - Forts of Folly (1932), an attack on the tariff, and All for a Beaver Hat (1959), a history of early Simcoe County. His memoirs, Farmer Premier, were published shortly before his death. He died in Barrie, Ontario on February 17, 1968.

Daphne du Maurier was born in 1907 in Regent’s Park, London, to actress, Muriel du Maurier (née Beaumont) and the highly successful actor-manager, Sir Gerald Hubert Edward Busson du Maurier. Her first novel, The Loving Spirit, was published in 1931 to critical acclaim. She married Major Frederick Arthur Montague ('Boy') Browning in 1932 and had her first daughter, Tessa, in 1933. Her frank biography of her father, Gerald: A Portrait (1934) shocked some of her father’s admirers but also gained her recognition as a talented writer. In 1936, publication of Jamaica Inn propelled her to the top of the best-seller lists. An unhappy period in Egypt as an army wife gave rise to Daphne du Maurier’s best-known novel, Rebecca (1938). An intense study of female jealousy, Rebecca was made into a successful film in 1940, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Frenchman’s Creek (1941) and Hungry Hill (1943) followed, both of which were also made into successful films. She had another daughter, Flavia, in 1937, and a son, Christian, in 1940, and while her husband was away at war, she moved back to Cornwall with the children to live in 'Menabilly', a house which she had loved since her early 20s. During and after the war, the du Mauriers’ marriage became strained. This prompted her to write a play, The Years Between (performed in 1944), which explored the effects of war on marriage. My Cousin Rachel (1951) was followed by two collections of short stories, The Apple Tree (1952) and The Breaking Point (1959); the latter was also influenced by her psychological stress. The Scapegoat (1957), a novel exploring themes of stolen identity and the self, is appreciated by critics as a more serious work, though at the time it was pigeonholed as another of her romantic thrillers. In 1963, Alfred Hitchcock’s film version of her short story The Birds, was released and became a cult classic. The death of her husband, in 1965, affected Daphne du Maurier profoundly and her unease was compounded by a growing sense that her imaginative talent was waning. Unable to renew the lease on her treasured home, Menabilly, she moved to Kilmarth, in Par, where she wrote the well-received The House on the Strand in 1969, the same year that she was made a DBE. She subsequently entered into a period of creative and personal decline, culminating with a nervous breakdown in 1981. She died at home in Cornwall in 1989 at the age of 81.

Alice F. Du Vernet was born on March 16, 1888 in Toronto, Ontario to parents Frederick Herbert Du Vernet and Stella Yates.

Louis Dudek was born on February 6, 1918 in Montreal, Quebec. He started McGill University in 1936 and became a reporter and associate editor of the "McGill Daily". After graduation he worked as a freelance journalist for "The Montrealer" and other newspapers. He was also involved with the literary magazine "First Statement", founded by John Sutherland. On September 16, 1941 he married Stephanie Zuperko and they both moved to New York. He joined Columbia University as a postgraduate student in history and journalism, but he soon changed his major from history to literature. During these years, he kept in close contact with the Canadian literary scene and published articles and poems in First Statement. In 1944 some of his poems were published in Unit of Five, which also contained poems by P. K. Page, Ronald Hambleton, Raymond Souster and James Wreford. Two years later the Ryerson Press issued East of the City, his first separate collection of poems. On completion of his Doctoral Thesis he was offered an English appointment at City College in New York. In 1951 he joined McGill University where he lectured in modern poetry. He spent most of his life in this city and was a professor emeritus at McGill at the time of his death on March 23, 2001.

Pierre J. Dupuy worked for what is now know as Global Affairs Canada. He was the "charge d'affaires ad interim" in a number of countries during World War II including France, Netherlands, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Norway, Poland, Belgium, and Yugoslavia between 1940 and 1944. He was the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Netherlands between 1945 and 1947 and then the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary between 1947-1952. He held the same role in Italy between 1952 and 1958, and then finally then finally in France between 1958 and 1963.

Carlo Poni was an Italian photographer and optician. He was born in Switzerland in approximately 1823 before moving to France. During his time in Paris, France he worked with the optician, Chauchois, studying photography. In ca. 1852 he moved to Venice Italy where he photographed and published an album of 160 photographs of Venetian architecture between 1854 and 1855, which were sold in his shop. He also sold a variety of optical equipment and reproductions of works of art, as well as inventing optical instruments designed to allow a greater experience of three-dimensionality in two-dimensional photographs, including the megalethoscope, the graphoscope, and the alethoscope, which was variously called a dioramascope or pontioscope. From 1860 to 1865 Ponti photographed Rome, Italy. Between 1857 and 1868 Ponti published and edited Carlo Naya's photographs, until a dispute which ended their relationship. In 1866 Ponti was also appointed optician and photographer to the King of Italy. Ponti died blind at age seventy-three.

Sold to Underwood and Underwood in 1910.

Photographer, active about 1869 to 1890's. Photographed under various business names, including: Smith & Edy, Edy & McMichael, Edy & Co., James N Edy & Co., Edy & Perry, and Edy Brothers.

Born in Gun Plains Michigan in 1862, Brigham became a photographer in Plainwell Michigan in 1882, moving his studio to 3 South Ave. Point Place, Battle Creek Michigan in 1898 and again to 110 Main Street East in the same city in 1906, until its sale in 1911.

Ivaan Kotulsky was born to Ukrainian parents interned in a Nazi slave labour camp in Koln (Cologne) Germany in 1944. After the liberation , lvaan and his family lived in Germany as refugees for four years. The family was sponsored to Canada in 1949 by a blacksmith and his family who lived in Smoky Lake, in Northern Alberta. In 1951, the Kotulsky family settled in the Cabbagetown area of Toronto. Ivaan was a Canadian Tom Sawyer, playing on the banks of the Don River. The family relocated to downtown Toronto, where lvaan attended Harbord Collegiate. He joined the Camera Club, quickly becoming an award-winning photographer. lvaan attended Ryerson Polytechnical Institute , where he studied Photographic Arts. After graduation, he went to work at Maclean Hunter Publishing, first as Staff Photographer and later as Chief Photographer. During his days at Maclean Hunter , he photographed such luminaries as Pierre Trudeau , Queen Elizabeth II, The Beatles, Janis Joplin, The Rolling Stones , Jimi Hendrix , and legendary photographer Yousuf Karsh. In 1970, Ivaan was sent on assignment by Chatelaine magazine to Alberta. He revisited the blacksmith in Smoky Lake, Alberta, and became so fascinated by the properties of molten metal that he began to experiment with metalsmithing himself. Although he continued to enjoy photography as a hobby , lvaan dedicated his life to metal art and in 1973 left Maclean Hunter to pursue his passion full time. In 1979, lvaan found a mentor in the legendary Carol Rapp, a driving force on the contemporary collection committee at the Art Gallery of Ontario, who recognized his extraordinary talent and creative eye. Ivaan created a body of work especially for the AGO 's Tutankhamun exhibit in 1979, followed by a highly successful solo exhibition at the Ontario Crafts Council. Ivaan continued to work in metal arts, making jewellery and sculpture, designing and creating a series of star-shaped brooches for the lToronto International Film Festival, and a gryphon sculpture, which was commissioned by The Advocates' Society as their A ward of Justice. In 1996, lvaan won two National Magazine Awards, a Gold and a Silver , for his photojournalism essay, No Fixed Address, published by Toronto Life magazine.

[biographical sketch provided by Ivaan's family 2010]

American photographer most known for his production of stereoviews.

Helen M. Edgar lived in Toronto, Ontario.

Annie Weber was the wife of teacher and author Ephraim Weber. Ephraim Weber corresponded with L. M. Montgomery and Wilfred Eggleston.

Russell Ivor Elman was born in England in 1933, immigrating to Canada in 1940. He returned to England in 1945, attending Brighton College, and then Oxford University at the age of 17. After graduation he returned to Canada, going to school at Columbia University in the U. S. and attaining a second degree in Journalism. Russell traveled extensively as a reporter in the 1960s, meeting his future wife Clara Graham while overseas. They settled in Hamilton, Ontario. Russell became a professor of Media Law, Ethics, Issues in the Media Studies Department at Mohawk College until his retirement. He was a published author of three books, "Asian Experiment" (1961), "The Durand Chronicles" and "Durand - A Neighbourhood Reclaimed" (both in 2001). Russell was an involved citizen and activist, sharing his passion for politics, the CBC and the downtown core of Hamilton with a wide network of friends and colleagues. Russell Elman passed away in Hamilton, Ontario April 17, 2009.

Mabel Lavinia Hockin married Reverend George Oliver Fallis. She had a daughter Mary, born 1912 in British Columbia, and a son George, born in Nova Scotia in 1916.

Joan Walker, née Sutter, was a Canadian writer. She won two noted Canadian literary awards in the 1950s, the Stephen Leacock Award in 1954 for "Pardon My Parka" and the Ryerson Fiction Award in 1957 for "Repent at Leisure".
Born in London, England she worked as a fashion artist for Harrods, an editor for Amalgamated Press and Newnes-Pearson and as a feature journalism writer for Sunday Pictorial before marrying James Rankin Walker, a Canadian military officer in the Algonquin Regiment, in 1946. She became a Canadian citizen in 1954.
She was a member of the Canadian Women's Press Club and the Canadian Authors Association.
She published one further novel, Marriage of Harlequin (1962), a fictional account of the life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. She was later a columnist and book reviewer for The Globe and Mail.

Archer Wallace was born in England in 1884. The immigrated to Newfoundland in 1904. He studied Victoria University and the University of Western Ontario. In 1909 he was ordained as a methodist minister, serving churches in Northern Ontario and Toronto. In 1919 he was appointed to the Department of Sunday School Publications and edited youth magazines until his retirement in 1954. Wallace was also an author and T. V. host - hosting the first United Church television program.

Edward Wilson Wallace was a missionary to China, and Chancellor and President of Victoria University. The son of Francis Huston Wallace, Edward Wilson Wallace was born in Cobourg, Ontario, 1880, studied at Victoria University and Columbia University, and was appointed by the Methodist Church to the China mission field in 1906. He managed mission schools, taught at West China Union University, and was appointed General Secretary of the West China Educational Union in 1912 and of the China Church Educational Association in 1921. He served as Chancellor and President of Victoria University from 1929 until his death in 1941.

Robert Charles Wallace was born in 1881 on the Orkney Islands in Northern Scotland. He studied Geology at the University of Edinburgh achieving his BA in 1901, a BSc in 1907 and a PhD in 1912. He also earned a MSc from the University of Gottingen in Germany in 1909. He immigrated to Canada after earning his PhD in 1912 and headed the Department of Geology at the University of Manitoba.
In 1918 he became the Commissioner for Northern Manitoba from 1918-1921, and Commissioner of Mines and Natural Resources between 1926-1928. In 1928 he became the President of the University of Alberta. In 1936 Wallace moved to Kingston, Ontario - becoming the 11th Principal of Queen's University - a position he held until 1951.
He was a national figure in education and was widely regarded by the public and the press as the voice of Canadian universities. He received honorary degrees from 20 universities and was one of three people selected to represent Canada at the conference in England that established the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Educational Organization (UNESCO).
He retired from Queen's in 1951 at the age of 70. He was married to Elizabeth (Smith) Wallace and had three daughters and a son. One daughter, Dr. Elspeth (Wallace) Baugh, later became Queen's Dean of Women. Wallace Hall, located in the John Deutsch University Centre, is named in Principal Wallace's honour.

William Stewart Wallace was born June 23, 1884 in Georgetown, Ontario. He earned his Bachelor's degree from the University of Toronto and his Masters degree from Oxford University. He served during World War I as a major with the Canadian Expeditionary Force, battalion adjutant and commanding officer of Khaki College, Shorncliffe. In 1920 he became Assistant Librarian at the University of Toronto, becoming the Librarian (Chief Librarian) in 1923, a position he held until his retirement in 1954. Between 1923-1932 he was general editor of the University program of scholarly publishing. He was the first editor of the Canadian Historical Review (1920-1930). He also served as Editor of the Champlain Society between 1923-1943 and was honourary editor of the Royal Society of Canada between 1937-1945. In his life time he published more than 30 books and hundreds of articles. He retired at age 70. Wallace passed away on March 11, 1970 in Toronto, Ontario.

Lucretia Hazel Adair was born in Swan River, Manitoba. She married Hugh Weatherby on October 14, 1940 in Burnaby, British Columbia.

Phyllis Webb was born in Victoria, British Columbia on April 8, 1927. She attended the University of British Columbia, achieving her B. A. in English and Philosophy. After graduation she moved to Montreal where she worked as a secretary and took courses at McGill University. In 1949 she ran in the British Columbia general election for the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. Webb also lived in England, where she worked for CBC radio as a reporter and reviewer. Returning to Canada in 1959, she taught English literature at the University of British Columbia for four years and continued to write for the CBC on a freelance basis. Webb moved to Toronto in 1965, where she became a program organizer in the public affairs department and created the CBC radio program "Ideas", eventually becoming its executive producer. Webb returned to the West Coast and settled on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia in 1969. Since her first book Trio (along with the work of Gael Turnbull and Eli Mandel) was published in 1954, Webb has published 11 books during a 40-year career as a writer. Her collection The Vision Tree: Selected Poems, won a Governor General's Literary Award for poetry in 1982. Her poetry has been widely anthologized, and she has contributed articles and reviews to various prominent publications, as well as, held readings across Canada. Webb was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1992.

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John Clarence Webster was born in Shediac, New Brunswick on October 21, 1863. His early education was in Shediac, then first attending University at Mount Allison and then the University of Edinburgh. Between 1890-1896 he was an instructor in Edinburgh and Berlin. He was assistant gynaecologist 1896-99 at Royal Victoria Hospital in Montréal and lecturer at McGill. While in Montréal he co-operated with Lady Aberdeen in the founding of the VON (Victorian Order of Nursing). Webster left Canada to take up the appointment of professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at U of Chicago Rush Medical Centre (1899) with accompanying hospital appointments. He retired to Shediac in 1919 and began an entirely new career. Fascinated with history since his youth, he now took up the field full time. He amassed a library on North American history, and then collected some 9000 artifacts and visual representations of that history. In 1922 he was asked to become a member of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board. He remained on the board until 1949, becoming its chairman in 1940. His major historical work, Acadia at the End of the Seventeenth Century, still sells well. In 1935, for his services to Canada, he was made a Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George and awarded the Order of Merit by King George V. By the time of his death, he had received awards and honours from kings, governments and universities in Great Britain, France, Italy, the US and Canada.

A. E. Weekes was a Registered Nurse with the Department of Public Health and Welfare in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Amelia Wensley was born in 1906 in Prince Albert, Sasketchewan.

Reverend Henry John Cody was born in Embro, Ontario in 1868. He attended Galt Collegiate Institute and then University College - University of Toronto and then Wycliffe College. In 1893 he was appointed the curate of St. Paul's Church in Toronto, formerly becoming its rector in 1907. He was a faculty member of Wycliffe College for 10 years and served as a College Trustee from 1899-1951. In 1918 Cody became a member of the University of Toronto's Board of Governors, acting as its chairperson between 1923-1932. Also in 1918 he was sworn in as Minister of Education for Ontario, being an elected member for North-East Toronto. In 1932, he left his position as rector of St. Paul's to accept the presidency of the University of Toronto, which he held until 1945. Following the death of Sir William Mulock, chancellor of the University of Toronto, in 1944, Dr. Cody was elected to that position for the remainder of Mulock's term of office, which was to expire in 1948.
Cody married Florence Louisa Clarke in 1894, and their son, Henry Maurice, was born in 1897. After the death of his first wife in 1932, Cody married Barbara Blackstock in 1933.

Ronald Whiting was a director in the publishing company Rapp & Carroll Limited.

Neil MacMillan Leckie was a clergyman from Grimsby, Ontario.

George Woodcock was born May 8, 1912 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His family moved back to England shortly after his birth. He worked as a farmer, railway administrator and a freelance writer. In the 1940s he founded and edited the literary magazine "Now" and worked for the anarchist publisher Freedom Press. He moved back to Canada in 1949 with his wife. He took a teaching position at the University of Washington - Seattle between 1954-1955. He moved to the University of British Columbia, becoming an Associate Professor. He stopped teaching in 1963 to concentrate on writing and editing.
He published more than 100 books during his career including poetry, books on canadian literature, travel books, and social histories. He died January 28, 1995 in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Edward Carruthers Woodley was born August 2, 1878 in Montreal, Quebec. He was a teacher, a United Church minister, and an education administrator in the Province of Quebec. He worked as a Special Research Officer with the Department of Education in Quebec between 1930-1945. He also did educational work in India. he died February 12, 1955.

Esther Clark Wright was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick in 1895. She earned an Honours degree in Economics from Acadia University in 1916. She went on to study further at the University of Toronto, Oxford University, and Stanford University. She achieved a PhD in Economics from Radcliffe/Harvard University in 1931.
Esther Wright began writing at an early age. Her first published work was "Public Opinion" published in 1916. She would author 14 more books and numerous articles.
She served as the President of the New Brunswick Association of Consumers from 1950-1952, Vice President of the National Council of Women Canada from 1950-1953, and Vice-President of the Canadian Federation of University Women from 1952-1955. Esther Wright received an Order of Canada in 1990.

Arthur Yates was born in British Columbia on December 29, 1884. He attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. While there he was a member of the Oxford Candians, an amateur English ice hockey team formed by Rhodes Scholars who were attending Oxford. They were the 1907 and 1910 English champs and won the European title in 1910. After university Yates returned to Canada, teaching at Victoria High School in Victoria British Columbia. There he was the literary director of the Camosun and directed the boys' debating society. He held that position until 1917 when he enlisted with the Canadian forces to go overseas. After the war he returned to teaching, ending up at the University of Long Island as an Associate Professor of English Literature. He would also work for The Ryerson Press. Yates died on June 4, 1946.

William R. Yendall was the director of the Richards-Wilcox Canadian Co. Ltd.

Walter D. Young was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His family moved to Victoria, British Columbia when he was young. He attended the University of British Columbia, achieving his honours B. A. in English and History in 1955. He went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and achieved his M. A. in 1957. He returned to Canada and took teaching positions at Canadian Services College, Royal Roads University, United College in Winnipeg and between 1959-1960 he worked in the Department of Political Science at the University of Manitoba. He achieved his Ph. D from the University of Toronto in 1965. He began teaching at the University of British Columbia in 1962, and served as the Head of the Political Science from October 1969 until his resignation in 1973. At that point he took a position at the University of Victoria. Walter Young contributed numerous talents to a variety of departmental, faculty and university enterprises. He was one of the organizers of the Arts I programme and, with Margaret Prang, launched the major academic journal dealing with the history, politics and society of British Columbia, B.C. Studies. He was elected to the committee on long-range prospects of the University, and served on the Board of Directors of the UBC Press. In 1969 he was elected to the Senate by the Joint Faculties. Professor Young's research interests focussed on the CCF party, on which he wrote the definitive history. He devoted a life-long interest to the NDP party in this province and in the country. He was an active participant in NDP party affairs, and in 1974 chaired the University Government Committee whose report to the Minister of Education led to the creation of the Universities Council.