Elise Aylen Scott was born on November 14, 1904 in Ottawa, Ontario. She came from a literary family: her mother's father was the prominent Ottawa civil servant and literary critic, Sir John George Bourinot, and her uncle, Arthur S. Bourinot, was a poet who edited the "Canadian Poetry Magazine". She wrote poetry. In 1931 she married Duncan Campbell Scott. She died on December 18, 1972 in Coonoor, Tamil Nadu, India.

Francis Reginald Scott was born August 1, 1899 in Quebec. He was a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford between 1920-1923 before returning to Canada to study Law at McGill University. After graduating he became a member of the faculty there (1928-1969). During the 1930s he was active in the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, a socialist party that became the New Democratic Party in the 1950s. As a socialist and an expert on constitutional law, he wrote "Social Planning for Canada" (1935), "Evolving Canadian Federation" (1958), and "Essays on the Constitution" (1977).
Scott was a member of the Montreal group of poets in the 1920s. He also helped found various literary magazines and also edited poetry anthologies. As a poet, he was at his best as a satirist and social critic. "His Overture" (1945), "Events and Signals" (1954), and "The Eye of the Needle" (1957) are written in a colloquial, conversational style. Selected Poems appeared in 1966 and "The Dance Is One" in 1973. Hie died on January 31, 1985.

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Frederick George Scott (1861-1944) was born in Montreal in 1861. He studied theology at Bishop's College in Lennoxville, Quebec, and at King's College, London, and was ordained as an Anglican priest in Essex, England, in 1886. When he enlisted, soon after the outbreak of the First World War, in November 1914, he was well over fifty years old. He was made chaplain of the 1st Canadian Division, and served in England and France. He suffered a number of injuries and ailments during the war and was sent back to Canada in April 1919 after being declared unfit for further service. By this time he was 58 years old. After the war, he became chaplain of Canada's army and navy veterans. Scott wrote many poems about his experience during the war, publishing over a dozen books of poetry, including In the Battle Silences: Poems Written at the Front. His memoir "The Great War as I Saw It" was published in 1922. He was the father of the poet F.R. Scott, who helped found the New Democratic Party of Canada. F.G. Scott died in 1944 in Quebec City.

Lester del Rey was born in Saratoga, Minnesota in 1915 as Ramon Felipe San Juan Mario Silvio Enrico Smith Heathcourt-Brace Sierra y Alvarez-del Rey y de los Verdes. Del Rey’s father was a poor sharecropper of partly Spanish ancestry; his mother died shortly after his birth. Between his family’s financial difficulties, and the onset of the Great Depression, del Rey had a tough time obtaining an education, although he did manage to finish high school and put together two years at George Washington University before dropping out. Del Rey’s writing career started off when he became disgusted with the low quality of many of the science fiction stories published in his day and protested that even he could write a better story. By l947 del Rey had written enough solid short fiction to generate his first book, the anthology "And Some Were Human". By 1950 he was able devote himself full time to writing (and editing). In addition to his science fiction and fantasy, del Rey also produced considerable juvenile science fiction, and some non-fiction. In 1953 he left a number of his editing positions (Fantasy Magazine, Rocket Stories Space Science Fiction, Science Fiction Adventures) after a dispute. Recognition for del Rey had included the 1972 E. E. Smith Memorial Award for Imaginative Fiction (the Skylark Award); the 1985 Balrog Special Award; the 1990 Nebula Grand Master Award; and the title of SFWA Grand Master in 1991.

John Joseph Heagerty was born in Montreal, Quebec on December 26, 1879. He started working for the Federal Government in 1911 as a bacteriologist. He joined the new Department of Health in 1919 and became the Director of Public Health Services in 1938. He was noted for his work in Canada's campaign against venereal disease in the 1920s and his proposals for national health insurance in 1943. He also broadcast lectures on Canadian medical history and wrote the 2-volume Four Centuries of Medical History in Canada (1928) and The Romance of Medicine in Canada (1940). He died in Ottawa on February 7, 1946.

J. Mackay Hitsman was born in Kingston, Ontario in 1917. He received his B. A. in 1939 and his M. A. in 1940 from Queen's University. He served as a captain in the Second World War and was later chief archivist of the Army Historical Section in Ottawa. He died in 1970.

John Wendell Holmes was born June 18, 1910 in London, Ontario. He studied at the University of Western Ontario and the University of Toronto. In 1943 he joined Canada's Department of External Affairs, serving in London, Moscow, and New York. He left public service in 1960, going to work at the Canadian Institute of International Relations as the President and then Director General, then Executive Secretary, and then Counsellor. He was awarded the Tyrrell Medal of the Royal Society of Canada in 1986. Holmes died in London, Ontario on August 13, 1988.

Dora Ridout was born in Toronto on January 23, 1885. She received a private education in Canada and England and graduated from Havergal College in 1905. Dora travelled extensively until her marriage to physician Frederick C. Hood on December 2, 1918. Her son Wharton and daughter Mary Glen were young children when she became a widow in 1927. Dora Hood found a practical means of supplementing her income in 1928 by purchasing a small mail-order book business from a friend and opened the Book Room, located in her home at 730 Spadina Avenue in Toronto and she was one of the first book dealers in Toronto to specialize in rare and out-of-print Canadiana. Her first catalogue of Canadiana and Americana was printed in 1929 and her business flourished as her reputation grew in the Canadian book trade. She was agent for twelve major American libraries and her clientele included large academic and public libraries, private collectors and the general public. Dora Hood began compiling an extensive card catalogue in 1948 and became a charter member of the Canadian Retail Booksellers Association in 1951. Dora Hood's Book Room obtained a royal warrant from Buckingham Palace to acquire Canadiana. Dora retired in 1954, selling her thriving business to Dr. William S. Wallace, retired chief librarian at the University of Toronto. The Book Room moved to 34 Ross Street in 1963 and subsequent owners included Julia Jarvis, Jean Tweed and Lawrence Cooper until its closure early in 1982. She was an active member of the Ontario Historical Society, the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum and the Canadian Hearing Society until her death on March 8, 1974 in Toronto.

Reverend J. Ray Hord was a was the secretary for the Board of Evangelism and Social Service, United Church of Canada.

Ernest Marshall Howse was born in Twillingate, Newfoundland in 1915. He earned his B. A in 1929 from Dalhousie University, his B. D. from Pine Hill Divinity College in 1931, an S. T. M. from Union Theological Seminary in 1932, and a Ph.D from the University of Edinburgh in 1934. He served charges in Beverly Hills, California (1934-1935), Westminster United Church in Winnipeg (1935-1948), and Bloor Street United Church in Toronto (1948-1970). He served as Moderator of the United Church of Canada (1964-1966). Howse was the author of several books including, "Our Prophetic Heritage (1945)", "Saints in politics" (1952), "Spiritual values in Shakespeare"(1955), and "Roses in December" (1981). His journalism appeared in several major Canadian newspapers, including the Toronto Star and Toronto Telegram, the Winnipeg Free Press and Victoria Sun-Times. In addition, he wrote columns for the United Church Observer, and served on the editorial board of the Christian Century.

George Raleigh Parkin was the son of Sir George Robert Parkin (1846-1922) educationalist and first administrator of the Rhodes Scholarship Trust. Raleigh was educated at Oxford University and the Royal Military College at Kingston. In World War I he served as an officer in the British Infantry at Gallipoli in 1915 and in the Canadian Artillery and Royal Engineers in France, 1916-1919. He joined the Investment Department of the Sun Life Assurance Company of Montreal in 1922 where he worked until his retirement, holding the successive positions of Supervisor Foreign Investments, Assistant Treasurer and Associate Treasurer. He was active in a large number of organizations in connection with his work at Sun Life. He served for 20 years as trustee of the Institute of International Affairs of New York, Chairman of the Markle Foundation's Canadian Selection Committee in 1948 and he was a founding member and Governor of the Arctic Institute of North America as well as being involved in many other associations.

SCM Press is a British publisher of theology, originally linked to the Student Christian Movement. The company was purchased by Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd. in 1997.

Albert Mark John Hyatt received his Ph.D from Duke University. He was a professor of History at Western University (University of Western Ontario).

T. Murray Hunter was a professor in the Department of History at Carleton University.

Jean Le Moyne was born in Montreal, Quebec on February 17, 1913. Le Moyne was a founding member in 1934 of "La Relève", a magazine produced by a group of young French-Canadian Catholic intellectuals. He pursued a career in journalism 1941-59 and then went to the National Film Board. In 1961 he published a collection of essays, "Convergences", which appeared in English in 1966 as "Convergence". For these he won the Governor General's Award in 1961 and first prize in the Québec Literary Competition in 1962. In 1968 he received the Molson Prize. In 1969 he moved to the Prime Minister's Office, where he was an assistant and adviser until retiring in 1978. In 1982 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and appointed to the Senate. He died in Montreal on April 1, 1996.

Thomas Edmund Jessop was born September 10, 1896 in Huddersfield, England. He attended the University of Leeds, where he received his BA (1921) and MA (1922). Jessop earned his BLitt from Oriel College, Oxford. From 1925 to 1928 he was an assistant lecturer at the University of Glasgow. Jessop was the first member of Hull University's philosophy department and the first Ferrens Professor of Philosophy (1928–1960). He died in 1980.

Agnes Bell Joynes was born in Collina, New Brunswick in 1879. She was raised in Studholm, New Brunswick. She studied at the Normal School, qualifying to teach. She also completed Nurse training in Worcester, Massachusetts, working there for several years. She eventually moved back to New Brunswick and worked for the Victorian Order of Nurses, and travelling for the Red Cross. She lived in Toronto for a long period, working at the Royal Ontario Museum. She wrote and illustrated articles for a variety of magazines, and was the pen behind a series of "Flapper" columns written by the "Ottawa Correspondent" to The Standard (possibly Saint John, New Brunswick). She died in St. John, New Brunswick in 1972.

Edna Kells, 1880-1947, was a journalist and women's editor at the Edmonton Journal from 1910 to 1933. She wrote numerous articles for the newspaper and various magazines on early Alberta pioneers. Sometime between 1928 and 1935 she wrote a local history manuscript based on interviews conducted in southern Alberta. She also published "Elizabeth McDougall, Pioneer" (1934). She retired to Victoria ca. 1937.

John Kidman was at one time the the Secretary of the Penal Association of Canada

Mary Perry King was the patron and companion of William Bliss Carman.

Olive Elsie Knox was born at Fort Stewart, Ontario on January 21, 1903. She lived in South Dakota from 1909 to 1915 and Saskatchewan before arriving in Manitoba, where she attended Daniel McIntyre Collegiate and graduated from the University of Manitoba (BA, BEd). She was a school teacher before marrying Harold Knox in 1924.
She began writing in the 1940s. She authored children's stories, radio plays, newspaper articles and books. She served as President of the Winnipeg Branch of the Canadian Authors’ Association. She returned to teaching in the late 1950s, working at Churchill High School (1959-1964). In 1970, she was awarded a Manitoba Centennial Medal by the Manitoba Historical Society. She died at Winnipeg on March 12, 1982.

Andrew Melrose was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Much of his early career was spent at the London Ludgate Hill offices of the Sunday School Union, where from 1893 he published the Sunday School Chronicle. He began publishing under his own name around 1899 in York Street, Covent Garden, finally moving to an address next door to Macmillan in St. Martin Street, Leicester Square. Between 1900 and 1903 Melrose published and contributed to a weekly paper Boys of the Empire, the official organ of the Boys Empire League. Under the pseudonym of A.E.Macdonald, Melrose wrote popular biographies. In 1927 Melrose's publishing business was taken over by the Hutchinson group and became known as Andrew Melrose Limited. It published religious and general titles and the imprint lasted until the mid-1950s. Melrose's son Douglas Melrose, who was associated with his father's business, founded the publishing firm of Melrose and Co. of St Martin's Lane.

Madge Hamilton Lyons MacBeth was born on November 6, 1878 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After her father's death in 1888, she moved with her family to various locations in Maryland. She attended Helmuth College in her teen years. As a child and young adult she wrote and worked with school papers. After graduation she was a touring mandolinist between 1899-1901. She married Charles William MacBeth in 1901. They lived in Detroit, Michigan and then Ottawa, Ontario. Charles died in 1908. After her death she began writing as a career, publishing two stories in "Canada West" Magazine and "Canadian Magazine". She became known for her interviews of members of Canada's Parliament. She published her first novel "The Winning Game" in 1910. She was one of the founding members of the Ottawa Little Theatre. She authored more than just articles and novels, she would accept any writing job including a series of publicity brochures for the Canadian Pacific Railway in the 1920s, to advertisements, magazine fiction, local history, and newspaper journalism. She had a column in the "Ottawa Citizen" newspaper "Over My Shoulder". From 1939 to 1941, she was President of the Canadian Authors Association. She died in Ottawa on September 20, 1965.

Wallace Robinson MacAskill was born 1887 in St. Peters, Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia. He graduated from the Wade School of Photography in New York in 1907 and opened photographic studios in St. Peters and then Glace Bay before moving to Halifax in 1915. There, he worked for official military photographer W.G. MacLaughlan, and as a printer at Elite Studios from 1916 to 1919. Between 1920 and 1929 he was a photographer with Commercial Photo Service. In 1926, MacAskill married fellow commercial photographer Elva Abriel. In 1929, the Bluenose stamp based on his photograph was issued, and he opened a business under his own name on Barrington Street in Halifax. He became internationally known as a marine photographer and his photographs were used extensively for advertising by the Nova Scotia government. MacAskill published two books, "Out of Halifax" (1937) and "Lure of the Sea" (1951). A number of his photographs were also published in "Schooner Bluenose" by Andrew Merkel (1948). MacAskill was the recipient of numerous awards for his achievements in both photography and yachting, including the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron's Prince of Wales Cup (1932-1934, 1938), Thunderbird Crest Award for marine photography, and fellowship from the Photographers Society of America. He died at his home, "Brigadoon", in Ferguson Cove on January 25, 1956.

John Emerson Langdon was born in Ottawa in 1902. In 1928, he was appointed Editor for Eastern Canada for the Financial Post, based in Montreal. He began visiting antique stores while buying items for his new home and started to notice that a silver hallmark attributed to a Channel Islands silversmith has been used extensively in Canada. This led him to do research on the topic, and he eventually became a leading authority in the field. His books include Clock and Watchmakers and Allied Workers in Canada, 1700-1900 (1976) and Canadian Silversmiths, 1700-1900 (1966)

Agnes Christina Laut was born in Stanley Township, Huron, Ontario on February 11, 1871. She relocated with the family to Winnipeg at 2 years of age. She attended and completed Normal School (Teacher's College) training at the age of 15, subsequently working as a substitute teacher because she was too young to achieve her teacher's certificate. She enrolled at the University of Manitoba, leaving in her second year because of ill health. She began writing, and was published in the "New York Evening Post" and "Manitoba Free Press". In 1895 she was employed by the Free Press as an editorial writer, a position she held until 1897. She published her first novel "Lords of the North" in 1900. She moved to Wassaic, New York in 1901. Authoring more than 25 novels, her work was primarily biographies and early North American histories. She died on November 15, 1936 in Wassaic.

James Alexander Corry was born in Millbank, Ontario in 1899. He attended the University of Saskatchewan (LLB 1923) and Oxford University (BCL 1927). He taught law at the University of Saskatchewan (1927-1936) and then came to Queen's to become the Hardy Professor of Political Science. Corry was Vice-Principal from 1951 to 1961, during which time he played a leading role in the founding of Queen's Faculty of Law. He was selected Principal in 1961 when Principal Mackintosh stepped down from the position. He held that role until his retirement in 1968. James Corry was made a Companion of the Order of Canada, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and received honorary degrees from 14 universities, including Queen's. He wrote and taught actively throughout his retirement, and was a visiting professor at several universities. From 1968-1970 he was a consultant to the Department of Justice, analysing proposed changes to Canada's Constitution. He died in Kingston in 1985.

Vera Lesik was born August 7, 1910 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She graduated from St. John's Technical High School at the age of 14 in 1925. She earned her B. A. from the University of Manitoba in 1930. She worked as a nurse and a high school teacher in Alberta before moving to Eastern Canada in 1936. There she worked as a journalist, saleswoman, teacher, factory hand, night school instructor, domestic servant and research clerk. She also wrote synopses of French novels for the Magazine Digest until the World War II disrupted communications with France. In the early 1940's, she was employed by the Windsor Star, which she left in 1943, to begin research for her first book. After 1956, she became disillusioned with writing and criticism of her work from the Ukrainian community, and adopted a reclusive lifestyle, dying in Toronto in October 1975. She wrote under the names "Vera Lysenko" and "Luba Novack".

Kenneth Leslie was born in 1892 in Pictou, Nova Scotia. He was raised and educated in Halifax. At age 14 he entered Dalhousie University, earning his B. A. in 1912. After this he attended Colgate Theological Seminary for one year and completed his M. A. at the University of Nebraska in 1914. He went on to study philosophy and mysticism at Harvard University. When he returned to Halifax, Leslie married Elizabeth Moir, daughter of wealthy Halifax businessman James Moir. With James Moir’s support, Leslie experimented with a number of unsuccessful business ventures including farming and investment. Leslie also became a member of a Halifax literary group while in Nova Scotia called the Song Fishermen. Other members of the group included Charles G.D. Roberts, Charles Bruce, Andrew Merkel, and Robert Norwood. Leslie later moved to New York City where he experimented with preaching, broadcasting, composing music, and acting. He continued to write poetry and was published in The Song Fishermens’ Song Sheet as well as Literary Digest and Scribner’s Magazine. In 1934 he published his first book of poetry, "Windward Rock", by which time his first marriage had ended. Between 1936 and 1938 Leslie published three books of poetry including "By Stubborn Stars and Other Poems" which won the Governor General’s Award in 1938. He also began a career as a left-wing journalist in 1938 when he founded the religious and politically minded magazine "Protestant Digest" (later called The Protestant) with second wife Marjorie Finlay Hewitt. Three Nova Scotians, Ralph (Kelly) Morton, Sandord Archibald, and Gerald Richardson, helped Leslie establish the popular monthly magazine. In 1943 Leslie established the Textbook Commission to eliminate anti-Semitic statements in American textbooks and in 1944 published an anti-fascist comic book called The Challenger. As publisher and editor of The Protestant, Leslie corresponded with many of the prominent American political and social figures of the time and was a popular public speaker. Leslie’s third marriage dissolved shortly after his return to Nova Scotia. He continued to publish The Protestant and successor periodicals from Nova Scotia on a smaller scale until 1972 when his health declined. He also worked sporadically as a taxi driver and teacher while continuing to write and publish poetry. In the early 1960’s he married his fourth wife, Nora Steenerson. Kenneth Leslie died in Halifax in 1974.

Lilian Leveridge was born in England on April 15, 1879. Her family emigrated to Canada in 1883, settling in Coe Hill, Ontario. Lilian attended the Winnipeg Normal School , proceeding to teach for 7 years in Manitoba and Ontario. She would later switch to office work. She won 2 McNab poetry awards. She suffered ill health and was forced to quit office work, retiring to Carrying Place, Ontario. She supported herself through the writing of short stories, articles, and poems. She also issued 6 volumes of verse. She died on November 24, 1953.

Norman Albert Levine was born in Ottawa, Ontario in 1923. He enlisted and served with the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. After the war he attended McGill University, earning his B. A. in 1948 and his M. A. in 1949. He attended King’s College in London with a fellowship from 1949 to 1950, but gave up academics for a career as a writer, living in England. He was head of the English Department at Barnstaple Boys Grammar School in Devon between 1953-54 and the resident writer at the University of New Brunswick between 1965-1966. He earned a Canada Council Fellowship in 1959 and Arts Awards in 1969, 1971, and 1974.

Percy Wyndham Lewis was born on November 18, 1882 near Nova Scotia. He moved to London with his mother in the 1890s, attending the Slade School of Fine Art, leaving before graduating to move to Paris. There he painted and attended lectures at the Sorbonne. He returned to London in 1908 and began authoring satirical stories and painting - inventing the Vorticism style. In 1914 he began publishing the journal "Blast: review of the great English vortex". The publication took aim a Victorian values. In World War I, Lewis served at the front as an artillery officer and then, commissioned as a war artist, he produced some memorable paintings and drawings of battle scenes. He wrote his first novel, "Tarr", in 1915 (published in 1918). After the war Lewis became better known for his writing than for his visual art, although he continued to paint portraits and abstract watercolours. He worked in seclusion until 1926, when he began to publish a remarkable series of books: "The Art of Being Ruled"; "Time and Western Man"; "The Lion and the Fox; and "The Wild Body". In the 1930s he produced some of his most noted paintings, such as The Surrender of Barcelona (1936) and a portrait of the poet T.S. Eliot (1938), and wrote some of his finest books—including Men Without Art (literary criticism; 1934), Blasting and Bombardiering (memoirs; 1937), and The Revenge for Love (a novel; 1937). In 1939 Lewis and his wife journeyed to the United States, where he hoped to recoup his finances with a lecture tour and with portrait commissions. The outbreak of World War II made their return impossible; after a brief, unsuccessful stay in New York City, the couple went to Canada, where they lived in poverty for three years in a dilapidated Toronto hotel. Lewis’s 1954 novel, "Self-Condemned", is a fictionalized account of those years.
Lewis and his wife returned to London after the end of the war and he became art critic for The Listener, a publication of the British Broadcasting Corporation. Lewis wrote a second volume of memoirs (Rude Assignment, 1950), satirical short stories (Rotting Hill, 1951), and the continuation of a multivolume allegorical fantasy begun in 1928 (The Human Age, 1955–56). A year before his death he was honoured with a retrospective exhibition of his art at London’s Tate Gallery. He died in 1957.

Boni & Liveright Press was established in 1917 by Albert Boni and Horace Liveright in New York City. In 1928 the name was changed to Horace Liveright, Inc, and then Liveright Inc in 1931. The company filed for bankruptcy in 1933 and was reorganized into Liveright Publishing Corporation, Inc. In 1974 the company's backlist was purchased by W. W. Norton Company, who revived the imprint in 2012.

Cuthbert Goodridge MacDonald was born on May 10, 1897 in Fredericton, New Brunswick. He was educated in local Fredericton schools until 1912 before his family moved to Nelson, British Columbia, where he attended Nelson High School. From there he moved to Winnipeg in 1914. In 1915, his parents separated and his mother moved her sons to Ottawa. In Ottawa, MacDonald worked as a civil servant until 1916 when he enlisted in the war. From 1917 to 1918, he was deployed with the Queen’s Field Ambulance, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF). He was honourably discharged from that position because of bad health. MacDonald also was an editor of The Montreal Herald. He is best known for his poetry - coming from a dynasty of authors including Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald (his mother), Sir Charles G.D. Roberts, Theodore Goodridge Roberts, Bliss Carman, Dorothy Roberts, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the painter Goodridge Roberts. He died on January 9, 1967.

John Ford Macdonald earned his B.A. and M.A. from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and in 1925 joined the University College, University of Toronto English Department, following the publication of two books, the first on the Canadian poet William Henry Drummond in 1923, and the second, Milton and Representative Short Poems, from Oxford University Press in 1925. He brought out three more books before his retirement in 1948: an edition of The Vicar of Wakefield in 1936, Longer English Poems in 1937, and Twenty-one Modern Essays in 1941. He died in 1965.

Elizabeth (Elsie) Muriel Gregory MacGill was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1905. Her mother was Helen Gregory MacGill, the first woman judge in Canada and her father was James Henry MacGill, a well-known lawyer. Elsie attended the University of Toronto, and was the first woman in Canada to graduate with a degree in Electrical Engineering. After graduation she worked for the Austin Automobile Company in Michigan. The company started producing aircraft, and Elsie became interested in the field of aeronautics. She began working towards her Master's degree in Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Michigan and in 1929 became the the first woman to earn the degree. The same year she was afflicted with a form of polio and told she would not walk again. During her recovery, she wrote articles on aviation, and began studying at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She would walk again, aided by two canes. In 1934 she worked for Fairchild Aircraft Ltd in Longueuil, Quebec as an assistant aeronautical engineer. She helped to design the first all-metal aircraft built in Canada. In 1938 she was appointed Chief Aeronautical Engineer for the Canadian Car and Foundry Company (Can-Car). There she would design and test the Maple Leaf II Trainer - making her the first female aircraft designer in the world. Because of her disability she was not allowed to fly the planes but was always a passenger on text flights. She was elected as the first woman corporate member of the Engineering Institute of Canada. Her best known work was on the WWII Hawker Hurricane fighter planes. She was in charge of all engineering work, including adapting the plane to fly in cold weather. She was also in charge of engineering work on the Curtiss-Wright Helldiver fighters for the United States Navy.
Elsie MacGill married E.J. (William) Soulsby in 1943, moving to Toronto and starting her own private consulting firm specializing in aeronautical engineering. In 1946, she became the first female Technical Advisor to the United Nations' International Civil Aviation Organization. She was Chair of the Stress Analysis Committee. Dr. MacGill published a biography of her mother in 1955 entitled "My mother the judge : a biography of Judge Helen Gregory MacGill". She was President of the Canadian Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs from 1962 until 1964. In 1967, she was appointed as one of the seven Commissioners on the newly-established Royal Commission on the Status of Women. Elsie died in 1980.
She received numerous awards during her career including: Gzowski Medal of the Engineering Institute of Canada (1941); Award for Meritorious Contribution to Engineering from the American Society of Women Engineers, (first non-American to be named "Woman Engineer of the Year") (1953); Centennial Medal by the Government of Canada (1967); Order of Canada (1971); Julian Smith Award from the Engineering Institute of Canada (1973); Amelia Earhart Medal from the International Association of Women Pilots (1975); and Gold Medal of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario (1979). She was also inducted into Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame in the 1980s, and into the Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame in the 1990s.

Thomas (Tom) Robert Edward MacInnes was born on October 29, 1867 in Dresden, Ontario. His family moved to New Westminster, British Columbia in 1874. His father, Thomas Robert McInnes, served in the Senate of Canada from 1881 to 1897, and as Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia from 1897 until 1900. MacInnes was educated at University College, Toronto, graduating with a B.A. from the University of Toronto in 1887. He studied law at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto and was called to the bar in 1893. MacInnes served as secretary to the Bering Sea Claims Commission in 1896 and 1897, and for part of 1897 was a member of the Yukon special police and customs force at Skagway. He acted as private secretary to his father, the Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia, from 1898 until 1900. MacInnes spent long periods in China, where he had business interests, between 1916 and 1927. MacInnes wrote a series of articles on his experiences there that were published in 1926 in the Vancouver Morning Star and Vancouver Province. They became the basis of his 1927 book, "Oriental Occupation of British Columbia". MacInnes was also a popular poet of the early 20th century in Canada. He died on February 11, 1951.

J. H. MacIntyre wrote several books of poetry under the pseudonym "Mack".

John MacLean (McLean) was born on October 30, 1851 in Kilmarnock, Scotland. He emigrated to Canada in 1873. He was received on trial as a minister of the Methodist Church of Canada in 1875 and spent two years northwest of London, Ont., before entering Victoria College, Cobourg, where he earned his B. A. (1882) and his M. A. (1887). He went on to obtain a Ph.D in church history from Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington in 1888 and an LLB from the University of Manitoba in 1926.
He married Sarah Anne Barker in 1880 and soon after they left for a new Methodist mission near Fort Macleod, Alberta. His circuit comprised almost all of what is now southern Alberta. In 1886 Maclean had been appointed public school inspector for a territory extending from Medicine Hat to the Rockies and from Fort Macleod to the United States. He resigned this post after joining the Board of Education of the North-West Territories on December 2, 1887. Two years later Maclean was appointed a member of the board of examiners for teachers and after accepting a charge in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. The family stayed until 1892. Maclean subsequently served at Port Arthur, Ontario (1892–1895), Neepawa, Manitiba (1896–1900), and Carman, Manitoba (1901–1902). In 1902 he moved to Halifax, where he was editor of the Wesleyan for four years; he then returned west and was stationed at Morden, Man., until 1911. That year Maclean was sent to the small, struggling Bethel mission in Winnipeg. In 1918 Maclean accepted the position of chief archivist of the Methodist Church at Wesley College, Winnipeg, a position which, from 1922, he held concurrently with that of chief librarian at the college. He would retain both posts until his death in 1928.

The Canadian Institute of International Affairs was founded by Sir Robert Borden, Sir Arthur Currie, John W. Dafoe and Sir Joseph Flavelle in 1928. It is a national, non-partisan, non-governmental organization dedicated to the discussion and analysis of international affairs. Its purpose is to prepare Canadians for participation at international conferences such as the Institute of Pacific Relations and, more broadly, to engage effectively in the international sphere. A grant from the Massey Foundation in 1932 made it possible to appoint Escott Reid as the Canadian Institute of International Affairs' first full-time national secretary. Today there are 13 CIIA branches across the country that together organize more than 70 events each year, providing forums for the study and discussion of Canada's position and policies in the world. The national office organizes an annual foreign policy conference, lecture series and policy development workshops. It continues to maintain close co-operation with the DEA (now the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, DFAIT) and other government departments.

Elias Wolf Mandel was born 3 December 1922 in Estevan, Saskatchewan. Following military service in World War II, he resumed his studies at the University of Saskatchewan, earning his M. A in 1950. He spent the following three years at the University of Toronto in preparation for his Ph.D. From 1953 to 1957 Mandel taught at the College militaire royal de Saint-Jean. After obtaining his Ph.D., he joined the English faculty at the University of Alberta in 1957. He taught there for ten years, with one year at York University (1963-1964). In 1967 he took a position at York University, where he taught until his retirement. He died September 3, 1992 in Toronto, Ontario.

Richard Merrill Saunders was born in 1904 in Massachusetts. After graduating from college, he took a three-year appointment at the American University of Beirut in the late 1920s. Upon his return to the United States he completed a Ph.D. at Cornell University. He accepted a position as professor of history at the University of Toronto.

Claire du Soulier was born in France. She married James Patrick Manion in 1936.

James Patrick Manning was born in Fort William, Ontario and attended McGill University in Quebec. He also attended a school of economics in London. Manning worked with the Canadian Government's Department of Trade and Commerce, acting as Assistant Trade Commissioner to Tokyo, Paris, and New York. He married Claire du Soulier in Tours, France in 1936. He enlisted with the Canadian Armed Forces in 1942. In 1945 he returned to the Trade Commission, promoting trade with the French Territories in West and North Africa.

Seraphin Marion was born in Ottawa, Ontario on November 25, 1896. He attended the University of Ottawa, earning his B.A. in 1918 and his M.A. in 1922. Marion received his Ph.D from the Universite de Paris. He returned to Canada, teaching French at the Royal Military College between 1920-1923. From 1926-1954 he was a professor of French and French-Canadian literature at the University of Ottawa. He later was named professor emeritus. Marion authored 20 studies, including a nine-volume collection entitled "Les Lettres canadiennes d’autrefois" (published between 1939 and 1958). He served as head translator and later as director of historical publications at the Public Archives of Canada (1923-1953). He was a member of the Royal Society of Canada (1934), the Académie canadienne-française and the Société des Dix (1962). He was awarded the Académie de Lutèce Gold Medal (1933), the Conseil de la Vie Française en Amérique Silver Medal (1972), officer of the Order of Canada (1976) and member of the Ordre de Saint-Grégoire-le-Grand (1982). Séraphin Marion died in Ottawa on November 29, 1983.

Joyce Anne Marriott was born on November 5, 1913 in Victoria, British Columbia. Her writing career started in the 1930s with Marriott producing poetry, short stories, and radio scripts. In the 1940s she was a script writer for the National Film Board in Ottawa and later for the CBC, in connection with the British Columbia Ministry of Education. Marriott was on the board of the literary magazine "Contemporary Verse". Her poem "The Wind Our Enemy" (1939) was widely acclaimed. She won the Governor General's award for her chapbook, "Calling Adventures" (1941).

Thomas Archibald Marshall was born on April 9, 1938 in Niagara Falls, Ontario. He was educated at Queen's University, earning his M. A. in 1965, and at the University of London. He taught at Queen's University starting in 1964, until his death in 1993. Marshall was at the centre of a group of writers active in Kingston, Ontario. As a poet, he is known for 4 linked collections (published between 1969 and 1976) of philosophical, meditative verse. "The Silences of Fire" (1969) is perhaps the best known of these, though all of them are neatly represented in a fifth book, "The Elements" (1980). He is also the author of 2 novels, "Rosemary Gaal" (1978), a satire of academic and literary life, and "Adele at the End of the Day" (1987), as well as other works. Most important critically are "The Psychic Mariner: A Reading of the Poems of D.H. Lawrence" (1970) and "Harsh and Lovely Land" (1979).

Edward Alexander McCourt was born in Mullingar, Ireland, on October10, 1907. He received a BA from the University of Alberta in 1932 and attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, receiving both a BA (1934) and an MA (1937). He taught at various institutions, including Upper Canada College, Queen's University, and the University of New Brunswick prior to joining the University of Saskatchewan as Professor of English in 1944. McCourt was the author of several books, including "Remembering Butler," "Music at the Close," "The Flaming Hour," and "The Canadian West in Fiction," and won the Ryerson Fiction Award in 1947. He also contributed extensively to various journals, and had several plays produced by CBC radio. Edward McCourt died in Saskatoon on January 6, 1971.

Jessie McEwen was born in Bannockburn, Ontario in 1899. She worked as a publicity director in Toronto. Throughout the 1930s, she lived in Toronto and worked in turn as a copywriter, advertising manager and the head of the Editorial Department of the Canadian branch of Nelson Publishing House. A number of her titles appeared under the pseudonym, "Agnes Fisher," and possibly "Anne Dunning". Some time prior to the Second World War, Jessie visited Copenhagen and, witnessing there the terror of German refugees, would later incorporate her observations into "The Little Yellow House" (1953). Jessie's books were written primarily for a juvenile audience, she also produced a book of biographical sketches, translated three works of Antoni Gronowicz from the original Polish, and contributed to periodicals as varied as "Saturday Night" and "Rural Canada". Jessie McEwen died in 1986.

Hugh McKervill earned his B. A. S. from The University of Western Ontario (Waterloo College) and a Master of Divinity from Emmanuel Theological College at the University of Toronto. He is a Fellow of the National Training Institute for Human Relations Training. For ten years he was a minister of the United Church of Canada, serving in British Columbia, in Kitchener, and Port Hope Ontario. For a number of years Hugh was the Regional Liaison Officer for the federal Department of the Secretary of State in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. He was Atlantic Regional Director with the Canadian Human Rights Commission for fifteen years. Hugh is also an award winning member of The Photographic Guild of Nova Scotia and provides his own photography for many of his published articles.

John Metcalf, was born on November 12, 1938 in Carlisle, England. He attended Bristol University, receiving his B. A. in 1960 and Certificate in Education in 1961. He emigrated to Montreal, Quebec and started teaching and writing in 1962. In 1970 Metcalf became a Canadian citizen.

Robert Owen Merriman received his B. A. from Queen's University in 1922 and his M. A. in 1925. He was a lecturer in Economics at the University.

William "Bill" Mara McWhinney graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in commerce. After graduation he volunteered with the group Canadian Overseas Volunteers. He was the first full-time executive director for the group that was renamed CUSO (Canadian University Service Overseas). He would also become the Senior Vice President of CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency).

Walter Jackson McRaye (born McCrea) was born in 1876 in Merrickville, Ontario. He was a writer and lecturer. He met Pauline Johnson in Winnipeg in 1897, and two years later, they became stage partners, travelling throughout Canada, the USA and Britain. After Pauline's death in 1913, McRaye continued to tour with his wife, Lucy Webling who performed as a singer, dancer and actress. He joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War I with the medical brigage. At the end of the war, he joined the Chautauqua circuit and continued to travel for some time. In the 1930s he purchased a farm near Grimsby, Ontario. Walter McRaye died in 1946.

Catherine Robertson McQueen was the wife of Reverend Dr. David G. McQueen, a Presbyterian minister in Edmonton, Alberta.

John Alexander Buchanan McLeish was born on December 6, 1913 in Calgary, Alberta. He was an author and poet. He worked at Brandon University in Manitoba. He died on December 6, 1995.