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Rae, Henry Norman, Sir

  • Person
  • 1860-1928

Sir Henry Norman Rae was born January 20, 1860. He was an English wool merchant and a Liberal Party politician. He died December 31, 1928.

Summerhayes & Walford

Photographers in Montreal from sometime in the 1870s to the early 1900s.

N.C. Lalonde

N.C. Lalonde was a studio located at 18 St. Lawrence Street, Montreal, Quebec and was active from 1866 to 1876 when it's owner, Noel C. Lalonde, relocated to 20 St. Lawrence Street.

J.L. Jones Army Photographer

  • Corporate body

J.L. Jones Army Photographer was located at 10 Fabrique Street, Quebec City, Quebec.

L.P. Therriault

L.P. Therriault was a photography studio located in Sudbury, Ontario that was active during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Thorns

  • Corporate body
  • [1880-1900]

A photography studio that was located at 1025 Larkin Street, Corner Sutter, San Francisco during the late nineteenth century.

Outremont Golf Club

  • Corporate body
  • 1902-1922

In 1902 the Outemont Golf Club was formed in Montreal, Quebec by members of the Montreal Golf Club, the first Golf Club in North America. It leased farmland between Rockland and Pratt Avenues and had a membership of 212 names.

Wheeler, Halksworth

  • [1917]

Halksworth Wheeler operated a photography studio during the early twentieth century that was located in Folkestone, England.

Barott, Ernest Isbell

  • Person
  • 1884-1966

Ernest Isbell Barott (1884-1966) was born in Canastota, NY, and studied architecture from 1902 to 1905 at Syracuse University. Later he apprenticed at the New York office of McKim, Mead and White and worked there between 1905-1911. Barott went to Montreal to supervise the buildings for his firm. He later formed a partnership with fellow McKim employee Gordon Blackader and Daniel Webster. The firm of Barott and Blackader was in business until 1935.

Wolfman Jack

  • Person
  • 1938-1995

Wolfman Jack was born on January 21, 1938 in Brooklyn, New York, USA as Robert Weston Smith. He was an actor, known for American Graffiti (1973), Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978) and Motel Hell (1980). He was married to Lucy Lamb. He died on July 1, 1995 in Belvedere, North Carolina, USA.

Doucet, Michael J.

  • Person

Dr. Michael J. Doucet was a member of the Ryerson faculty in the Department of Geography from 1977 - 2010 when he retired to Emeritus status. Doucet received his PHD from the University of Toronto in 1977. During his academic career, his research interests included Immigration & Settlement Studies, Urban Land Development and the geography of Toronto. Doucet also served as President of the Ryerson Faculty Association (RFA) between 1998-2002 and as President of the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) between 2003-2007.

Avakumovic, Ivan

  • Person
  • 1926-2013

He was raised in a diplomatic family and spent some of his early years in South Africa. Unable to return home when Yugoslavia was invaded by Nazi Germany 1941, the family settled in Great Britain. He studied at Cambridge and London before proceeding to Oxford University, where he received his doctorate in 1958, before moving to Canada. After teaching for a few years in Manitoba, he joined the UBC faculty in 1963 – initially as a member of the Department of Political Science and then from 1969 on as a member of the Department of History, in which he served until his retirement in 1991.
He was a prolific historian of political movements in Europe and North America from the late nineteenth century to the present and read a wide range of European languages. While still a student, he co-authored with George Woodcock a study of one of the founders of anarchism: The Anarchist Prince: A Biographical Study of Peter Kropotkin (London, 1950) and a study of a Russian sect: The Doukhobors. On his own, he published History of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, The Communist Party in Canada: A History, and Socialism in Canada: A Study of the CCF-NDP in Federal and Provincial Politics. He also wrote many articles, entries in reference works and document collection.

Campbell, Angus

  • Person
  • 1910-1980

He was an American social psychologist best known for his research into electoral systems and for co-writing The American Voter with Philip Converse, Warren Miller, and Donald Stokes. Campbell published his work under the name Angus Campbell. He was a professor at the University of Michigan. He died in Ann Arbor, Michigan on December 15, 1980.

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