Roy Mason Pounder was born in Renfrew, Ontario on June 28, 1883.

Samuel Henry Prince was born in 1886 and raised in New Brunswick. He moved to Toronto to attend school – graduating from Wycliffe College, the evangelical seminary at the University of Toronto. He completed his M. A. in psychology from the University of Toronto. He joined St. Paul’s Church, Nova Scotia in 1911. He resigned his curacy there in 1919, going to New York to earn his Ph.D from Columbia University. His thesis “Catastrophe and Social Change” was about the munitions ship explosion in Halifax Harbour in 1919. In 1924 he was appointed a professor of Sociology and Divinity at King’s College – Dalhousie University. He held this position until his retirement in 1955.

John Campbell Readey was born in Ontario on June 24, 1877. He is died on September 8, 1952 and is buried in National Memorial Park, Falls Church, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA

George Elmore Reaman was born in Concord, Ontario on July 22, 1889. He attended the University of Toronto (B.A. 1911; M.A. 1913), McMaster University (M.A. 1916), Queen's University (B. Paed. 1917), and Cornell University (Phd. 1920). Employment included teaching at Moose Jaw College (1913-14), Woodstock College (1915), Educational Director of the Y.M.C.A., Toronto from 1920 to 1924, editor at the Macmillan Co. of Canada, Superintendent of the Boys Training School at Bowmanville from 1925 to 1932, principal of Glen Lawrence School, Toronto from 1932 to 1939, Head of the English Department, Ontario Agricultural College from 1939 to 1954 and Director of Adult Education at the University of Waterloo from 1957 to his retirement in 1967. In 1967 he was awarded a Centennial medal; in 1969 he received an honourary doctorate from the University of Waterloo.
He died Dec. 7, 1969.

The Religious Book Club was founded in 1927. , was a major institution of religious middlebrow culture through the middle decades of the twentieth century.

Born in Hamilton, Ont. in 1881, Ella Reynolds was the only daughter of Robert and May Reynolds. She was a journalist, poet and author. She worked at The Hamilton Spectator from 1912 until 1945. In addition to writing music and theatre reviews at the Spectator, she wrote a book column entitled "Under the Study Lamp" and a weekly column entitled "Wren's Nest" under the pen name Jennie Wren. When the Hamilton chapter of the Canadian Women's Press Club was formed in 1927, she became its first president. In retirement she devoted her time writing poetry and reading mystery novels. Ryerson Press published her book of poems Samson in Hades in 1957. Reynolds died in 1970.

Launched in 2016, The Brookfield Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (BII+E) was founded in 2015 and was made possible by the vision of Sheldon Levy (former Ryerson University President) and Jack Cockwell (Brookfield Assets Management). The institute was started with a $16 million donation from Jack Cockwell and Brookfield Partners Foundation.
The Brookfield Institute is housed within Ryerson University. Their mission/mandate is to "generate far-sighted insights and stimulate new thinking to advance actionable innovation policy in Canada". To achieve their mission, they partner with academics, students, entrepreneurs, business executives and public sector leaders—across all organizations, without limitations or restrictions. The Institute is governed by an independent Advisory Board, which provides strategic direction and oversees the Institute’s leadership team. The Brookfield Institute and Ryerson University are strong partners, but with separate voices. We are immensely proud of this relationship and believe it will mutually benefit both partners— and Canada—for many years to come.

Creig Lamb received his Bachelor of Communications from the University of Ottawa and Masters of Public Policy from the University of Toronto. He has held research roles with Toronto Artscape, and with the City of Toronto in Economic Development and Culture. He is currently employed at the Brookfield Institute of Innovation + Entrepreneurship as a policy advisor.

In 1887, John Bayne Maclean acquired the publication, Canadian Grocer. The company was incorporated in 1891 as J.B. Maclean Publishing Co. Ltd. In 1905, he bought The Business Magazine, later changing the name to Busy Man's Magazine and then to Maclean's in 1911. Maclean and friend Stewart Houston founded The Financial Post in 1907. The Chatelaine (later renamed Chatelaine) was launched in 1928. The company entered French publishing in 1930. Over time, Maclean ventured into international publishing with titles in the U.S. and Britain. The company's large printing plant opened in Toronto in 1948 and received a Governor General's medal for architectural distinction. J.B. Maclean passed away in 1950 and majority ownership and control was passed to Horace T. Hunter. He had joined the company in 1903 and over time acquired a substantial minority ownership and became president in 1933. The Hunter name was added to the company in 1945 (Maclean-Hunter). Other magazines and publications were added to the portfolio over the years. In the early 1960s Maclean-Hunter Publishing Limited teamed up with Clare L. Chambers and Donald G. Hildebrand to form Great Lakes Broadcasting Limited. Through this partnership, Maclean-Hunter entered the broadcasting business when Great Lakes acquired CFCO-AM Chatham from John Beardall. Maclean-Hunter owned 50% of Great Lakes with each of the other partners holding 25%. In 1965 the companies stock became publicly traded and in 1967 they entered the cable television business. In 1970 the company entered the book distribution business and in 1982 Maclean-Hunter entered the daily newspaper business with the purchase of 51% of Toronto Sun Publishing Corp.

Canadian writer and artist Heather Spears was educated at the University of British Columbia, The Vancouver School of Art and the University of Copenhagen. She has lived in Denmark since 1962. She has held over 75 solo exhibitions and published 11 collections of poetry and 5 novels. The Creative Eye (illustrated edition 2012), is the first of a series on visual perception. She has 3 books of drawings: Drawn from the Fire, Massacre and Line by Line. Drawings from the Newborn, The Panum Poems, and Required Reading contain both poems and full-page drawings. Her latest collection of poetry is I can still draw. She has illustrated numerous books and articles; and also draws courtroom, dance, theatre and childbirth. Specializing in drawing children, in particular premature and other threatened infants, she travels widely and has drawn in hospitals in the Middle East, Europe and America.
She was Visiting Writing Professional, University of Windsor in 1999, Visiting Lecturer in the Humanities, Dalhousie Medical School in 1999, and Biomedical Communications, University of Toronto in 2004 and 2006. The Heather Spears archive is housed at the University of British Columbia in Vanouver and is available for use by researchers and others interested. Many of Heather Spears’s drawings have been purchased by the Welcome Trust. Many other images can be found in the Wellcome Trust, Biomedical Images, and are available for reproduction /publication.

Cecil Charles Goldring was a school inspector with the Toronto Board of Education.

Howard Scott Gordon was born on August 14, 1924 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He earned his Bachelor's degrees from Dalhousie University in 1944, his M. A. from Columbia University in 1947 and his Doctorate in Philosophy from McGill University in 1964.
He was an Assistant Professor (1948-1953), Associate Professor (1953-1957) and Professor (1957-1966) in Economics at Carleton University in Ottawa. He moved to Indiana in 1966, taking a professorship in Economics at Indiana University. He held this position until 1981.

Wilhelmina Gordon was born in Winnipeg in 1886. She began her university education at Dalhousie University, then switched to Queen's when her father, the Rev Daniel Miner Gordon, became Principal in 1902. Gordon earned her BA in 1905 and did post-graduate work at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, the University of Chicago, and Somerville College, Oxford. She began teaching English at Queen's as a tutorial assistant in 1909, became an assistant professor of English in 1925 and an associate professor in 1930. She was Queen's University's first female faculty member. She retired from teaching in 1950.

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