William Creighton Graham was born at St. Mary’s, Ontario in 1887. At the age of 7 he moved to Toronto with his parents. In 1914, he received Master of Arts and Bachelor of Divinity degrees. The next year, he became Master of Sacred Theology at Harvard then went overseas as a Chaplain with the Canadian Expeditionary Force, serving for a time with the Fort Garry Horse. After the First World War, he became Professor of Old Testament Languages and Literature, and Registrar of Wesleyan Theological College at Montreal. In 1924, he began work on a PhD at the University of Chicago where, from 1926 to 1938, he was Professor of Old Testament Languages and Literature. In 1938, he moved to Winnipeg from Chicago to become Principal of United College, serving in the post until retirement in December 1954. He was the founding Chair of the Historic Sites Advisory Board of Manitoba, in 1946. He died at Newmarket, Ontario on 31 July 1955 and is commemorated by Graham Hall at the University of Winnipeg.

In the late 18th century, the Church of England did not have a body to organise and effect its missionary activity and there became a growing realisation that there was scope for a society to evangelise the indigenous people. In 1799, a group of Evangelical clergymen and laymen (all members of the Eclectic Society, an Anglican discussion society) met at the Castle and Falcon Inn in Aldersgate in the City of London and the 'Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East' was formed. At that meeting, John Venn, rector of Clapham (and a member of the Clapham sect) laid down the guidelines which the CMS continues to follow. The basis was that the society should be loyal to the leadership of bishops and to the Anglican pattern of liturgy but that it was not to be dominated by clergy. It emphasised the role of laymen and laywomen and was and is primarily a membership society comprising its missionaries, its supporters and its staff at headquarters.

The Church Missionary Society (now renamed as the Church Mission Society) is administered by its committees and each Secretary to a main committee is in charge of a department at headquarters. The General Committee (now the General Council) is the most important and is responsible for overall policy and all CMS members are represented on the General Committee. The main departments at headquarters included the General Secretary's Department, the Finance Department (both in existence from the foundation of the Society), the Medical Department (set up in 1891), the Candidates Department (set up in 1897) and the Home Department (set up in 1871). Initially the Society had no designated offices but in 1813 it rented premises in Salisbury Square which had expanded by the end of the 19th century to house a large headquarters with a complex administration and numerous staff working under eleven Secretaries. The Society moved from the City of London in 1966 to premises in Waterloo Road; after the opening of regional offices in Ghana, Korea and Singapore in 2006, CMS headquarters moved out of London to the current location of Watling Street, Oxford in 2007.

Dr. Kenneth George Gray (1905–1970), who joined the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Toronto in 1949 and was Chief of the Forensic Clinic at the Toronto Psychiatric Hospital from 1949 to 1966, was appointed Professor of Forensic Psychiatry in 1960. Gray, through his many invaluable contributions in clinical services, advanced postgraduate training and research, was a prominent figure in forensic psychiatry, and was a member of several renowned associations. He was a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association where he served on several committees.5 Dr. Robert Edward Turner (1926–2006) was another outstanding contributor to the field of forensic psychiatry in Canada. He was appointed Director of the Forensic Clinic at the Toronto Psychiatric Hospital in 1958 and occupied positions such as Medical Director of the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, Psychiatrist-in-Charge and Director of the Metropolitan Toronto Forensic Service (METFORS), and Professor Emeritus of Forensic Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.

William Antrobus Griesbach was born on January 3, 1878 in Fort Que’appelle, Saskatchewan. Griesbach graduated from St. John’s College in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1895, moving to Edmonton, Alberta that same year. While in Edmonton, Griesbach worked in a law office, bank, and milling business before deciding to study law. He was called to the Alberta Bar in 1901 and he formed a partnership with C. Macdonald in Edmonton, Alberta, which lasted until 1905. Griesbach practiced on his own for a year before partnering in the firm Griesbach and O’Connor in 1906, becoming King’s Council (KC) in 1919, and remaining with the firm until his retirement in 1940. Griesbach was elected as an alderman in Edmonton in 1905, served as mayor of Edmonton in 1907, and was appointed to the Canadian Senate in 1921. Griesbach had a long career in the military that began with his service as a member of the Canadian Mounted Rifles in the Boer War in South Africa from 1899-1900. He then returned to Edmonton, Alberta and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the 19th Alberta Dragoons, becoming captain in 1908 and major in 1910. He served in World War I in the First Canadian Division, Calvary Squadron, returning to Canada in 1914 and, after promotion to lieutenant-colonel, raised the 49th Battalion, which he then commanded in Europe until 1917. At that time Griesbach was promoted to brigadier-general and given command of the First Canadian Infantry Brigade, later receiving a promotion to major-general in 1921. In 1940 Griesbach was appointed inspector-general in western Canada for the Canadian Military Forces, a position he held until 1943 when he had to resign for health reasons. Griesbach died in 1945

Ida Sutherland Groom was born in London, England, and educated there and in France, subsequently studying Prosody under the late Mackenzie Bell who had been a close friend of Tennyson. While doing secretarial work in London, she published a volume of sonnets and became a frequent contributor to Poetry Review and English. During the War she held a small position under the British Council in Montevideo, Uruguay. From Uruguay she accompanied her brother, Bernard Groom, to Canada where he was employed as Professor of English at McMaster University in Hamilton. The two of them set up household in an apartment building on Sterling Street. It was at a Faculty Wives Club meeting at McMaster University that Miss Groom asked if she could address the assembly. She announced that she was interested in writing poetry and asked that anyone else with the same interest gather for discussion at a later time. Thus Members and Associates of McMaster University began the journey to becoming The Tower Poetry Society. Miss Groom recalled to her little gathering of having once belonged to a collective in England that pooled their financial resources and published small pamphlets of their poetry from time to time. An immediate effort was launched to duplicate such a process, which proved to be quite successful. In 1960 Ida Sutherland Groom returned to England with her brother. Ida Sutherland Groom's last poem published in The Tower in 1975 was a tribute to her brother, who had recently passed away, titled simply, Bernard Groom. She died in England on July 25, 1983 at the age of 93.

Mary G. Hamilton was born and raised in Fergus, Ontario. She was the principal of Margaret Eaton School in Toronto between 1926-1934. She founded a summer camp "Tanamakoon" in 1925 on White's Lake - now Tanamakoon Lake. She was the camp's director until 1953.

Dr. Edwin Austin Hardy was an Ontario teacher, author and editor. He was born at Laconia, New Hampshire, on August 30, 1867. Shortly afterward his parents moved to Uxbridge, Ontario where he received his schooling. Hardy's principle profession was teaching, but beginning in 1894, when he became a library trustee at Lindsay, Ont., he also championed the cause of public libraries across the province. He was a driving force in the foundation of the Ontario Library Association in 1900 and served as its secretary for a quarter century. He was president of the association in 1925/26. He was also a secretary of the Canadian Authors' Association, the treasurer of the World Federation of Education Associations in the mid-1930s, and an officer in other organizations.

Watson Thomson was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1889. He graduated from Glasgow University with an M.A. in 1923 and tutored in Jamaica for three years. One year after his return to Scotland, where he taught high school and teacher training, he travelled to Nigeria to become a Superintendent of Education. After this job, he returned to London and worked on publicity for the European Federation. During this time, 1931 ‐ 1937, he was actively involved as the co‐editor of the important English weekly, "New Britain". Thomson travelled across Canada in 1937, lecturing and founding the Workersʹ Education Association in Calgary. He soon became a staff member of the Alberta Extension and a regular commentator for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation until 1944. In 1941, he was appointed Director of Adult Education at the University of Manitoba, and three years later, held the same post for the Province of Saskatchewan. After the War, he became interested in the concept of ʺintentional communityʺ and began organizing one, while writing "Pioneer in Community". He lived on a co‐op farm from 1948‐1950 and also lectured at the University of British Columbia. He continued teaching at UBC from 1950 to 1960, and was internationally known for the specialized English courses he devised for Engineering and Forestry students. In 1960, he retired from his position as Associate Professor because of illness and was awarded Associate Professor Emeritus in 1964. Still writing, he published "Turning Into Tomorrow" in 1966. He died in Vancouver in 1969.

The original Sampson Low was established in 1793. Re-established by his son in the earlier 1800, it has gone through several name changes: Sampson Low, Son & Co.1860-1862; Sampson Low, Son & Marston 1867-1869; Sampson Low, Marston, Low and Searle 1873-1874; Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington 1876-1890; and finally Sampson Low, Marston & Company 1891-1950. In 1950 it was taken over by the British Printing Corporation (BPC). Between 1981-1991 the press was closed down in and de-registered in 1993. George Low, one of the direct descendants of the founder, discovered the remains of the dismembered company at Companies House in Cardiff – and brought it back to life by re-registering Sampson Low Ltd in October 1997.

James Ralph Mutchmor was born at Providence Bay, Manitoulin Island, Ontario on August 22, 1892. After serving in an artillery battery in WWI, he resumed his theological studies and from 1920 to 1936 served churches in Winnipeg's north end. In 1937 he moved to Toronto as associate secretary, and from 1938 to 1963 as secretary, of the Board of Evangelism and Social Service and crusaded against drinking, gambling and social immorality. He was elected moderator of the United Church in 1962. He died in Toronto on May 17, 1980.

The National Council of Women of Canada (NCWC) was founded on October 27, 1893, at a public meeting in Toronto, chaired by Lady Aberdeen, wife of the Governor-General of Canada, at the Horticultural Pavilion in Toronto and attended by 1500 women. It was founded in a period when women were beginning to organize themselves for effective community action. Many women, looking beyond the charitable societies, garden clubs, music and literary clubs, and missionary societies to which they belonged, saw the need for societal reform, better education for women, even women’s suffrage. They realized that they would be much more effective if they spoke with a united voice. The International Council of Women (ICW) had been founded a few years earlier, in 1888, at a meeting in Washington, D.C. The idea of a Canadian Council was developed at the ICW World’s Congress of Representative Women, meeting in Chicago in May 1893. A group of women attending from the Dominion of Canada took the opportunity to form a provisional executive for the possibility of a new Canadian Council. From its beginning, the National Council worked to improve the status of women. Some of its earliest efforts were directed towards improving the lot of three underprivileged groups/women prisoners, women working in factories, and women immigrants. By 1900, its members were reporting the appointment of matrons in some institutions housing women prisoners, and of women inspectors in Ontario and Quebec factories where women were employed.

Dorothy Jane Goulding Needles was born on November 26, 1923 on the family estate at Dentonia Park in East York. She was the youngest daughter of Dr. Arthur M. Goulding and Dorothy Massey. She wrote her first play at the age of five and became an assistant director for her mother who ran the Toronto Children’s Players, an amateur theatre group that performed in Eaton Auditorium on College Street between 1929 and 1959. She received some of her education at East York Collegiate and several schools in Europe during her family’s extended travels there during the 1930s. She briefly considered ballet but switched to the piano, studying at the Toronto Conservatory and later in Vienna. When the family returned to Toronto she earned a teacher’s certificate and at the age of 16 began teaching at Crescent Preparatory School for Boys which was then housed in the Dentonia Park mansion her grandmother had built on the property.
In 1946 she married actor William Needles of Kitchener and moved to North Toronto where Bill developed a career with the CBC and later the Stratford Festival. During the 1950s Dorothy Jane worked for CBC Radio, hosting Kindergarten of the Air and editing Stories With John Drainie until 1963. During this period she published several collections of children’s plays and wrote a novel Margaret, McGraw-Hill, 1966.
In 1954 she bought a property in Mono Township and used it as a summer retreat and hobby farm, keeping a herd of Jersey cows and hosting dozens of children every summer. She taught drama classes, put on open-air theatre festivals and produced many short films. She worked for the Etobicoke Board of Education in the 1970s as a consultant in three dimensional learning and in 1980 moved to Rosemont permanently to live in the Penny Farthing Antique shop, next door to the Globe Restaurant, another business she founded in 1972. She joined the Rosemont Volunteer Fire Department as a dispatcher, served as the church organist, played piano bar at the Bavarian Outpost and gave music lessons to dozens of local students and ran a cultural program out of the Orange Hall. She died May 6, 2017.

Dr. Stephen Neiger was the head of behaviour therapy at Lakeview Psychiatric Hospital.

Frank Panabaker was born in Hespeler (now Cambridge), Ontario, in 1904. He lived in the Hamilton area for most of his life. His artistic career was launched during the summer of his 16th birthday when the artist McGillivray Knowles arrived in town to teach a sketching class. Recognizing his son's artistic talent, Frank's father encouraged him to take the class. Panabaker later studied at the Ontario College of Art, Grand Central School of Art and the Art Students League in New York City. He spent his time in Southern Ontario on the shores of Georgian Bay, around the lakes of Haliburton, Muskoka and in Algonquin Park. He painted Nova Scotia, British Columbia, Alberta, Vermont and Nassau as well as local scenes from the Hamilton area. Frank Panabaker documented the life and times of the Steel City from the 1940s to through to the 1990s. He died at the age of 88 in 1992.

Patricia Kathleen Page was born in Swanage, Dorset, England on November 23, 1916,. Her family emigrated to Canada in 1919 and settled in Red Deer, Alberta. She was educated in Calgary and Winnipeg and later studied art in Brazil and New York. In the late 1930s she lived briefly in Saint John, NB; in the early 1940s she moved to Montréal and worked as a filing clerk and historical researcher. There she was part of the group that founded the journal Preview (1942-45); her poems first appeared in periodicals and in Unit of Five (ed. Ronald Hambleton, 1942). From 1946 to 1950 she worked as a scriptwriter at the National Film Board. She married W. A. Irwin in 1950, and from 1953 to 1964 lived in Australia, where her husband was high commissioner, and in Brazil and Mexico, where he served as ambassador. In they moved to Victoria, British Columbia.
Page's first book was a mythic novel, The Sun and the Moon, published in 1944 under the pseudonym Judith Cape (edited and reprinted by Margaret Atwood in 1973, with stories from the 1940s, as The Sun and the Moon and Other Fictions). In 1987 she published a memoir, Brazilian Journal, short-listed for the Governor General's Award. Later prose included the visionary tale Unless the Eye Catch Fire (1994), the short-story collections A Kind of Fiction (2001) and Up On the Roof (2007), and a meditation on identity, You Are Here (2008). She also wrote a libretto for a one-act opera, What Time Is It, Now? (2004). Her non-fiction included two important statements of poetics, "Questions and Images" (1969) and "Traveller, Conjuror, Journeyman" (1970), both published in the journal Canadian Literature. A collection of her occasional essays, The Filled Pen: Selected Non-Fiction, was edited and introduced by Zailig Pollock in 2007. Page's books of poetry included As Ten As Twenty (1946), The Metal and the Flower (1954, Governor General's Award for Poetry), Cry Ararat! (1967), Poems Selected and New (1974), Evening Dance of the Grey Flies (1981), The Glass Air: Selected Poems (1985, Canadian Authors Association Literary Award for Poetry), The Glass Air: Poems Selected and New (1991), Hologram: A Book of Glosas (1994), The Hidden Room (1997), Alphabetical (1998), Alphabetical/Cosmologies (2000), And Once More Saw the Stars: Four Poems for Two Voices, a moving series of poems written with Philip Stratford (2001), Planet Earth, Poems Selected and New (2002), published in an American edition as Cosmologies: Poems Selected and New (2003), Hand Luggage: A Memoir in Verse (2006), and The Essential P.K. Page (chosen by Théa Gray and Arlene Lampert, 2008). A new book of glosas, Coal and Roses, appeared in 2009 and was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. Page's work has been regularly translated, as in the parallel English/Italian text P.K. Page: Rosa dei venti/Compass Rose (1998). Page also edited an anthology of short poems, To Say the Least: Canadian Poets from A to Z (1979). She also published 8 entertaining and sometimes profound books for children: A Flask of Sea Water (1989), The Travelling Musicians (1991), The Goat that Flew (1993), A Grain of Sand (2003), A Brazilian Alphabet for the Young Reader (2005), Jake, the Baker, Makes a Cake (2008), The Old Woman and the Hen (2008), and There Once Was a Camel (2008). She also wrote an epilogue to Wisdom from Nonsense Land (1991), a book of children's verses written by her father and illustrated by her mother. When in Brazil, Page began to draw and paint; this intricate and beautiful work, signed P.K. Irwin, has been widely exhibited and has been reproduced in several of her books. Her art is exhibited in the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the ART Gallery of Greater Victoria and the Winchester Galleries, Victoria. Page's work has appeared with that of other artists, as in Mimmo Paladino/P.K. Page: Works on Paper Inspired by the Poetry of P.K. Page (1998).
P.K. Page received numerous awards, including the Oscar Blumenthal Award for Poetry (1944, Chicago), the Governor General's Award for Poetry (1954), the Terasen Lifetime Achievement Award (2004, returned), and the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence (2004). The National Film Board of Canada produced a film on her poetry, Still Waters - The Poetry of P.K. Page (1991), and her work was featured in special issues of the Malahat Review (1996) and the Journal of Canadian Studies (2004). A symposium on her work, "Extraordinary Presence: The Worlds of P.K. Page" was held at Trent University in 2002, and a collection of her complete works is in progress under the general editors Zailig Pollock, Sandra Djwa and Dean Irvine. Page received 8 honourary degrees, was awarded the Order of British Columbia, and was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Companion of the Order of Canada.
Patricia Kathleen Page died in Victoria, British Columbia on January 14, 2010.

The Organisation for European Economic Co-operation; (OEEC) came into being on 16 April 1948. It emerged from the Marshall Plan and the Conference of Sixteen (Conference for European Economic Co-operation), which sought to establish a permanent organisation to continue work on a joint recovery programme and in particular to supervise the distribution of aid. The headquarters of the Organisation was in the Chateau de la Muette in Paris, France. The European organisation adopted was a permanent organisation for economic co-operation, functioning in accordance with the following principles:
-promote co-operation between participating countries and their national production programmes for the reconstruction of Europe
-develop intra-European trade by reducing tariffs and other barriers to the expansion of trade,
-study the feasibility of creating a customs union or free trade area,
-study multi-lateralisation of payments, and
-achieve conditions for better utilisation of labour.
The OEEC originally had 18 participants: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, and Western Germany (originally represented by both the combined American and British occupation zones (The Bizone) and the French occupation zone). The Anglo-American zone of the Free Territory of Trieste was also a participant in the OEEC until it returned to Italian sovereignty.

The Centre de Psychologie et de Pedagogie was located in Montreal, Quebec.

William Victor Newson was the deputy Provincial Treasurer for Alberta.

D. J. Rowe was a professor in the Department of Physics and the University of Toronto.

Dimitri Jovan Tosevic was a member of the Royal Yugoslav Legation in Ottawa.

Presses universitaires de France (PUF, English: University Press of France), founded in 1921 by Paul Angoulvent (1899–1976), is the largest French university publishing house.

In 1878, Thomas H. Blair acquired a patent for a unique camera which included a dark-tent for in-camera wet plate processing. This camera was called the Tourograph and built for him by American Optical Division of Scovill Mg. Co. In 1879, Blair opened Blair Tourograph Company in Connecticut. Blair re-branded twice, once in 1881 as Blair Tourograph & Dry Plate Comapny and again in 1886 as Blair Camera Company. In 1890, Blair absorbed the manufacturer of Hawkeye Cameras known as the Boston Camera Company. Until Kodak purchased Blair Camera Company in 1899 and moved it to Rodchester, New York in 1908. From then on, Blair Camera Company began operating as a division of Kodak.

Dr. Evan Vere Shute was a medical doctor. He is best known for treating heart disease with vitamin E. He, along with his brother Dr. Wilfred Chute, founded the Shute Institute in London, Ontario. Shute was an obstetrician and author penning poetry and children's stories.

Sidgwick & Jackson is an imprint of book publishing company Pan Macmillan. It was founded in Britain in 1908.

Claris Edward Silcox was a reverend in the United Church of Canada.

James Nathaniel Simpkins was born on November 26, 1910 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He studied at the Winnipeg School of Art and his first job was as a commercial illustrator for the Hudson's Bay Company's Beaver Magazine. During World War II he joined the Army Medical Corps as an illustrator and in 1945 worked in Ottawa as a film strip for the National Film Board. He created the "Jasper" the bear character comic strip, published in MacLean's magazine. It was first published on December 1, 1948. The comic strip was syndicated in 1967. The strip ran until 1972 when Simpkins retired. He also did monthly cartoons for The Medical Post.
In 1994 he received the first life time achievement award presented by the Toronto Cartoonists Society.

Charles Bruce Sissons was born near Barrie, Ontario and graduated from Victoria University in 1901. After studying at Oxford University, he returned to Victoria in 1909 to teach history, initially as a lecturer, and later becoming an Associate Professor, then Professor Emeritus. He is perhaps best known for his biography of Egerton Ryerson. He also published a history of Victoria University.

Mary Power, daughter of Senate speaker Lawrence Power, attended Mount St. Vincent Academy in Nova Scotia, graduating in 1898. She earned her B. A. from a University in London, her M. A. from Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia and her Ph.D from Notre Dame University in Indiana. She became a Sister in the Sister's of Charity of the Halifax Congregation, changing her name to Sister Maura. She was a poet and a professor of English at Mount St. Vincent College between 1925-1957.

Thomas Vernor Smith was born in Texas in 1890. He received his B. A. from the University of Texas in 1915 and a M. A. in 1916. He taught at his alma mater from 1919-1921. In 1922 he earned his Ph.D from the University of Chicago. He worked there as a professor of Philosophy, and later a Dean, until 1948. While there he was a producer and moderator of the University's Round Table radio program. During the 1930's, Smith interested himself in politics, and ran successfully for State Senator in 1935. In 1938 he was elected Congressman-at-large for Illinois. He gained national recognition when he engaged Senator Robert A. Taft in a series of radio debates which were later published as Foundations of Democracy. In the 1940 congressional election, he was defeated. During the war, Smith was made Lieutenant Colonel (1943-1945), and conducted courses on military government for the Army. He also participated in experimental programs for re-educating German prisoners of war. In 1946, he was a member of the United States Educational Commission in Japan and Germany. Smith left Army service as a Colonel. In 1948, Smith became the Maxwell Professor of Citizenship and Philosophy at the University of Syracuse, where he served until his retirement in 1959. He held visiting and lecture positions at numerous universities and published widely on philosophy, politics and public service. He died in Hyattsville, Maryland in 1964.

Raymond Holmes Souster was born in Toronto January 15, 1921. He attended the University of Toronto Schools, publishing his first poem in the Toronto Star at age 14. In 1939 began his career at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce as a teller. While there, he also met and fell in love with Rosalia Geralde, another teller. They were married eight years later and stayed together until his death in 2012. Souster left the bank briefly in 1941 and joined the Royal Canadian Air Force. He was stationed at a radar station in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Irving Layton's nephew, Bill Goldberg, another lover of poetry, was also stationed there and the two men started "Direction", a literary magazine printed on RCAF letterhead. It was the first of three journals created by Souster. The second, "Contact and Combustion". Contact magazine morphed into Contact Press in 1952, when Souster linked up with Louis Dudek and Irving Layton. He published poetry by Michael Ondaatje and Margaret Atwood. In 1964 he won the Governor General's Literary Award for 'The Colour of the Times". In 1966 Souster co-founded the League of Canadian Poets, in an effort to break the isolation of poetry and showcase Canadian talent. He would serve as its president between 1967-1972. In 1967 Contact Press closed down and Souster received a Centennial Medal. He was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1995, and in 2012 the League of Canadian Poets established an annual prize in his name. Raymond Souster died October 19, 2012.

Michael John Hereford Bird was born in London on October 31, 1928. In addition to several novels, he is best known for his television drama series for the BBC which were usually set in the Mediterranean - The Lotus Eaters and Who Pays the Ferryman? were set in Crete, The Aphrodite Inheritance (1979) was set in Cyprus and The Dark Side of the Sun took place on Rhodes. His final series for the BBC ended this practice, Maelstrom, was set in Norway. Bird also wrote for the following series during his career: Danger Man, Special Branch, Quiller, The Onedin Line, Arthur of the Britons, Secret Army and Warship. He was the author of "The Town That Died: a chronicle of the Halifax disaster" Souvenir Press of London 1962. Bird formed his own production company "Gryphon Productions" and negotiated a number of co-productions with the BBC. He died May 11, 2001.

Souvenir Press was started in 1951 in the bedroom of founder Ernest Hecht's parents’ flat in London.

Frederick Matthew Speed was born in 1921 in London, England. He volunteered when he was 17 for WWII and worked as a Radar Officer with the Royal Mechanical and Electrical Engineers. He fought in the Burma Campaign (1942-1945) and received the Distinguished Service Medal for establishing a school for soldiers to help prepare them for civilian life. He earned post-graduate degrees from OISE (M.Ed) and the University of Birmingham (M.Sc). He authored and co-authored 9 science text books used in Ontario high schools. He taught science with University of Toronto Schools for 33 years until his retirement in 1987. He contributed to the establishment of the Ontario Science Centre, helped to found the Association for Bright Children and in the late sixties helped found the first school science fairs. After retirement, he developed the program for Prime Mentors of Canada where he remained as Program Coordinator until 2006. He has earned recognition for excellence in teaching by the Chemical Institute of Canada and by two Lieutenant Governors for volunteerism. Frederick Speed died June 4, 2008.

Edna Louise Cress Staebler was born on January 15, 1906 in Berlin (Kitchener), Ontario. She earned her B. A. from the University of Torontto in 1929 and a teaching certificate from the Ontario College of Education in 1931. She was the President of the Canadian Federation of University Women between 1943-1945. She published her first magazine article in MacLean's magazine in 1948 and published her first book in 1967. She was a regular contributor to Maclean's, Saturday Night, and Chatelaines magazines as well many newspapers. She is best known for her "Food that really Schmecks" series of mennonite based cook books.
She was a member of the Toronto Women's Press Club, the Media Club of Toronto, the Canadian Author's Association, and the Writers' Union of Canada. She was made a member of the Order of Canada in 1996 and was also awarded a Golden Jubilee Medal. She passed away in 2006.

George Francis Gillman Stanley was born in Calgary, Alberta on July 6, 1907. He received his B. A. from the University of Alberta. He went to Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. There he earned another B. A, a Masters (M. A.), Masters in Literature, and a Doctorate in Philosophy. He returned to Canada in 1936, joining the History faculty at Mount Allison University as the department head. He took a leave from the University between 1940-1946. He joined the Military as a lieutenant with the New Brunswick Rangers - first serving as an infantry training officer before heading overseas to be a historian in the Canadian Army Headquarters in London. He became deputy director of the Historial Section and had achieved the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel when he was discharged from the Army in 1947. He continued to be in the reserves until 1967.
Stanley joined the History faculty at the University of British Columbia (1947-1949) where he was the first ever chair in Canadian History. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and went to Ottawa to conduct research on the history of the Canadian Government's policy on aboriginal peoples. In 1949 he joined the faculty at Royal Military College (RMC) as the head of the History Department. He held that position for 20 years. Between 1962-1969 he was the College's first Dean of Arts.
In 1950 Stanley became a member of the Royal Society of Canada and received the Tyrrell Medal in History in 1957. He left the RMC in 1969, moving back to Mount Allison University to set up Canada's first Canadian Studies programme. He retired from Mount Allison in 1975.
In 1964 Stanley wrote to the committee in charge of finding a design for a new Canadian flag - the sketch he included unanimously approved by the committee.
George Stanley served as the Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick between 1982-1987. He also served as the Honourary Colonel of the New Brunswick Regiment from 1982-1992. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canad in 1976 and promoted to a the level of Companion in 1995.
George Stanley passed away on 13 September 2002.

Leola Ellen Neal was born in Merlin Ontario in 1911. She earned her B.A. (1933) and M.A. (1935) from the University of Western Ontario. She started her teaching career first as a demonstrator, and then she became a teaching fellow and continued to teach until 1939 at the University of Western Ontario. She taught Introductory Psychology, Experimental Psychology, Statistics and various other Psychology courses in different years. Neal interned at the London Mental Hospital in the summers of 1935 and 1936, and following two summers away in 1937 and 1938, continued to intern at the hospital until 1942. She subsequently served as a paid consultant to the hospital and helped with the intern training program. Seeking further training in clinical psychology, she spent eight weeks in 1937, at her own expense, visiting the Boston Psychopathic Hospital, the Judge Baker Guidance Center, and the Walter E. Fernald State School. Coming back to London, she started teaching psychological testing courses and supervised students who wanted to learn assessment skills. In 1938, she went to the University of California at Berkeley to study with Jean Walker McFarlane, Harold E. Jones and Mary Cover Jones for one term. She took a clinical psychology and a mental deficiency course from Dr. McFarlane and worked with her in a longitudinal developmental study of normal children. Just as she was planning to go to University of California at Berkeley to study for her Ph.D., World War II broke out. Because of this, she applied to the University of Toronto in 1940. She received a Reuben Wells Leonard Scholarship in her first year and the Northway Fellowship the following year. At the same time, her genuine interest in psychiatry and patients suffering from mental illness led her to work in the Toronto Psychiatric Hospital while completing her Ph.D. in 1942. Upon completion of her Ph.D. she was offered positions at both the University of Toronto and the University of Western Ontario. She accepted the position from the University of Western Ontario and moved back to London. She became interested in Educational Psychology and gave a series of lectures at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in Toronto. In 1946, she became the Dean of Women at the University of Western Ontario - a position she held for more than 20 years. . In 1949, she became the first female president of the Ontario Psychological Association, and in 1951, only the second woman to serve on the board of the Canadian Psychological Association. Leola Neal died in 1995.

George Victor Ferguson was born in Cupar, Scotland on April 20, 1897. Ferguson was educated at the University of Alberta and Oxford, where he was a Rhodes scholar. He served in WWI as a private soldier and joined the Manitoba Free Press in 1925, rising to managing editor under John W. Dafoe in 1933. After Dafoe's death in 1944 Ferguson became executive editor of the Free Press, but soon after left for Montréal, where he served as editor in chief of the Montreal Star. He died in Montreal, Quebec on January 26, 1977.

Nettie Douglas Fidler attended the McGill School of Nursing and was the first President of the History of Nursing Society at McGill. She was the Director of the University of Toronto's School of Nursing between 1952-1962.

Roscoe Alfred Fillmore was born on July 10, 1887 in Lumsden, New Brunswick. He was a principle organizer for the Socialist Party of Canada in the Maritimes before World War One and joined the Communist Party of Canada in the early 1920s. In 1923 he spent time at an experimental farm in Kuzas, Siberia, working as an horticultural expert. Fillmore was president of the New Brunswick Fruit Growers' Association before losing his job as a large orchard manager in 1924 and moving his family (wife Margaret and children Dick, Ruth, Rosa, and Alexandra) to Centreville, Nova Scotia. He built a house and a nursery, and in 1938 became Head Gardener for the Dominion Atlantic Railway, where he was also responsible for gardening at the Grand Pré Memorial Park. When the Communist Party of Canada was banned in 1940, Fillmore helped refound the party as the Labour-Progressive Party of Canada. In the 1945 federal election he ran as the Farmer-Labour Candidate in the Digby-Annapolis-Kings riding. He received 362 (1.4%) of the 25,944 votes cast. He also published four books on gardening, which were written without the obscure terminology found in many contemporaneous gardening books, and he became a popular speaker on radio and across Canada under the nickname "Mr. Green Thumbs."

Focal Press was founded in 1938 by Andor Kraszna-Krausz, a Hungarian photographer who immigrated to England in 1937. The Focal Press was acquired by Elsevier in 1983. Elsevier sold Focal Press to Taylor & Francis (Routledge) in 2012. Taylor & Francis is a subsidiary of Informa.

Follett Publishing was founded in 1873 when Charles M. Barnes opened a used book store in Wheaton, Illinois out of his home. He moved his business, C. M. Barnes & Company, to Chicago. His store sold new and used textbooks, and other school materials. In 1901 C. W. Follett joined the company as a stock clerk. By 1902 the company had evolved to become a wholesaler - selling books all over the Midwest. That same year Charles Barnes retired and his son William took over the business. In 1908 the company's name changed to C. M. Barnes-Wilcox Company when John Wilcox became a primary shareholder (Wilcox was William's father-in-law). In 1912 C. W. Follett became a Vice-President and shareholder in Barnes-Wilcox. William Barnes sold his remaining shares in the company to his father-in-law in 1917, and by 1918 Wilcox retired with Follett taking over the company - renaming it J. W. Wilcox & Follett Company. In 1923, after the death of John Wilcox, Follett purchased the company and brought his sons (Dwight, R. D., Garth, and Laddie) into the company. In 1925 his son Dwight founded Follett Publishing Company, and in 1930 his other son R. D. found Follett College Book Company - opening its first store on a college campus in 1931. Garth created the Follett Library Book Company in 1940. C. W. Follett passed away in 1952, with his son Dwight taking over as chairmans, renaming the company Follett Corporation in 1957. Laddie would run the company's original business Wilcox & Follett from 1952-1986.
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Robert Arthur Douglas Ford was born in Ottawa on January 8, 1915. Ford joined the Department of External Affairs (now Foreign Affairs and International Trade) in 1940 and in 1946 was second secretary in the Canadian embassy in Moscow, where he spent much of his career in various positions, including ambassador (1964-80). Other postings have included Yugoslavia and the United Arab Republic. He was special adviser to the Canadian government on East-West relations between 1980 and 1985. Ford is the author of numerous collections of verse, including translations - "A Window on the North" (Governor General's Award, 1956), "The Solitary City" (1969), "Holes in Space" (1979). "Needle in the Eye: Poems New and Old" (1983), "Russian Poetry: A Personal Anthology" (1985) and "Doors, Words and Silence" (1985).

Alfred Clinton Forrest was a United Church minister and editor of the United Church Observer. Born in Maple, Ontario, he graduated from Victoria College in 1937. He served as chaplain and minister from 1940 to 1955. He became editor of The United Church Observer in 1955. From 1970 until his death in 1978, he was editor and publisher of that publication.

John Wycliffe Lowes Forster was born in Norval, Ontario on December 31, 1850. In 1869 he began studying portraiture in Toronto. The traveled to England and Europe in 1875 and 1879, studying in Paris. When he returned to Toronto in 1883 he established a permanent studio. He was a popular academic portraitist in Toronto. He painted Alexander Graham Bell, Bliss Carman, Timothy Eaton, Wilfred Laurier, Sir John A. MacDonald, and William Lyon MacKenzie King. He died in Toronto on April 24, 1938.

Edith Margaret Fulton was born near Regina, Saskatchewan on April 30, 1913. She studied English Literature and History at the University of Saskatchewan earning a B. A. in 1933. She earned her B. A. from the Saskatchewan College of Education in 1937 and her Masters from the University of Saskatchewan in 1937. She taught high school and worked for the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF). She married Frank Fowke in 1938 and moved to Toronto. Her interest in folk songs and the lack of recorded Canadian folk music led her to begin to research on the topic in the 1940s. She prepared CBC Radio's weekly "Folk Song Time" between 1950-1963 and "Folk Sounds" between 1963-1974. She also worked on "Folklore and Folk Music" (42 programs broadcast in 1965 on "The Learning Stage"), and "The Travelling Folk of the British Isles" (seven programs for "Ideas" in 1967) for CBC radio. She is a founding member of the Canadian Folk Music Society (Canadian Society for Traditional Music) in 1956. The society published a journal "Canadian Folk Music Journal" and Fowke became its editor in 1973, a position she held until her death in 1996. In 1971 she began teaching courses on folklore at York University. She received an Honourary Doctorate of Laws from Brock University in 1974, an Honourary Doctorate of Literature in 1975 from Trent University, a Honourary Doctorate of Literature from York University in 1982 and a Honourary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Regina in 1986. Between 1985-1986 she was the President of the Folklore Studies Association of Canada.
Fowke edited various periodicals including "The Western Teacher", and contributed articles to the "Journal of American Folklore", "Midwest Folklore", "Western Folklore", "Ethnomusicology", "Sing Out!", and the "Canadian Forum". Her book "Sally Go Round the Sun: 300 Songs, Rhymes and Games of Canadian Children" won a bronze medal from the Association of Children's Librarians in 1970, and she received the Canadian Authors Association's Vicky Metcalf Award in 1985 "for a body of work inspirational to Canadian youth." At the time of her death Fowke had published over 20 books on folklore and folk music, and was working on others.
Fowke was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 1978, and named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1983. She was the first Canadian to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Folk Alliance conference, Feb 2000 (posthumously). A biographical play entitled "Fowke Tales (One Woman, 72 Road Trips, CBC Radio, and the Rest is Peterborough County's Musical History)" premiered in 2008 at the Lang Pioneer Village Museum in Peterborough. In 2011 the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame honoured Fowke with the Frank Davies Legacy Award. Fowke's dedication to preserving Canada's folk music has been widely recognized both by scholars and by folk musicians, who have often turned to her for repertoire. Her field recordings have been deposited at the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Ottawa and at the York University library. Some have been released commercially in LP form. Her archives are held by the University of Calgary. She died March 28, 1996 in Toronto, Ontario

Goldwin French was born January 24, 1923. He was a professor of History at McMaster University between 1948-1972. He became the President and Vice-Chancellor of Victoria College, University of Toronto and held that position until his retirement in 1987. He died August 18, 2013.

Kenneth Percy Robert Hodges was born in 1921-1922 in Saskatchewan to Percy and Mary Hodges. He obtained his BA at Brandon University in Manitoba. He got his Law degree in 1949 at University of Saskatchewan College of Law in Saskatoon. Kenneth was granted Queens Court in 2000. Kenneth operated a private practice in Regina, was the City Solicitor for the City of Moose Jaw and Member of the Law Reform Commission of Saskatchewan from 1976-2008 (as chair 1992-2000). He died April 16, 2014.

Robert Irwin Gait was born on September 12, 1938 in Johannesburg, South Africa. He received his B.Sc from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg in 1958 and the B.Sc honours in 1959. After graduation he worked for Williamson Diamonds Ltd. as a geologist. He moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba to further his education at the University of Manitoba, achieving his M. Sc in 1964 and Ph.D in 1967. After completion of his doctorate he joined the staff at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto as an assistant Curator. He would eventuall hold the title of Curator of Mineralogy.

Angus & Robertson (A&R) was a major Australian bookseller, book publisher and book printer. As book publishers, A&R has contributed substantially to the promotion and development of Australian literature. This well known Australian brand currently exists in an online shop and a reduced form as part of online bookseller Booktopia. The Angus & Robertson imprint is still seen in books published by HarperCollins, a News Corporation company.

Polaroid came to Canada in 1958 and the first plant was on Beaverdale Road, Etobicoke, later moving to 24 Plywood Place, Toronto. He joined the Polaroid Corporation of Canada due to their copy service. He was hired in April 1962 and trained in Cambridge, Mass for 6 weeks, before returning to Canada to design and build the first copy service lab at Plywood Place, as sole operator, with one assistant. The lab, relocated to 350 Carlingview Drive, Toronto, closed in 1979, due to smaller, local competition, but he continued to work for the camera until January 1996.

Richard G. Lipsey studied at Victoria College, University of Toronto and the London School of Economics. He received his Ph.D from the University of London in 1957. In the 1970s he was the Sir Edward Peacock Professor of Economics at Queen's University.

Paul Bruer was an instructor in Ryerson's School of Urban and Regional Planning.

Yvonne Kerr was an English professor at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute.

Dr. Frank Sommers is a Toronto psychiatrist and lecturer at the University of Toronto department of Psychiatry. During his career, he has been privately practiced psycho-sexual therapy, worked at the Queen Street Mental Health Centre, and was deployed with the Canadian Forces Reserves as a military psychiatrist in Afghanistan. He has studied and spoken on disaster psychiatry,

During the Cold War, in 1979, he initiated, and in 1984 was elected Honourary and Founding President of Physicians for Social Responsibility, the Canadian affiliate of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. He is a founding member of the World Association of Sexology, served as the president of the Ontario District Branch of the American Psychiatric Association, and on the Executive of the Central Toronto Clinical Society, and was a delegate to the Ontario Medical Association and Canadian Medical Association councils.

Dr. Sommers was elected a Distinguished Fellow by the Canadian and American Psychiatric Associations, and is recipient of the General Service Medal with ISAF bar for service with the Canadian Forces “in the presence of an armed enemy”. He is a Life Member of the Ontario Psychiatric Association and received the Ontario Medical Association Life Member Award in 2015.

He is the author and co-author of several peer reviewed articles and books, and has spoken on stress, disaster psychiatry, and mindfulness in love and sex.

G. M. Sanders was a professor in Ryerson's School of Interior Design.