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.

Henri d' Arles (born Henri Beaudet) was born September 9, 1870 in Princeville, County of Arthabaska, son of Athanase Beaudet, postal worker, and Marie-Elisabeth-Esther Prince. After studying at the Brothers of the Sacred Heart and the Brothers of the Christian Schools, he did his classical course at the Petit Séminaire de Québec, then entered the Dominicans in Saint-Hyacinthe, in 1889. In 1890, he pronounced his vows under the name of Brother Athanasius and is ordained in Saint-Hyacinthe, on March 25, 1895, by Bishop Decelles. He practiced the holy ministry successively in Saint-Hyacinthe, New York, Lewiston, Maine, and Fall River, Massachusetts, between 1895 and 1902. In 1902, Beaudé asked his exclostation to the authorities of the Order of Saint Dominic to pass to the secular clergy, but will only get his secularization brief in 1912. In 1906, he made a trip to the Holy Land and enrolled in the Bible School of Jerusalem. Later, he visits France. It was then that he chose his pseudonym, Henri d'Arles, as an admiration for this Provençal city and for his great poet, Frédéric Mistral. Agregated in the diocese of Manchester, New Hampshire, by Bishop Georges-Albert Guertin, the first Franco-American bishop, in 1912, he was appointed chaplain of the convent of the Ladies Augustine, in the suburbs of Manchester, in 1918. Henri d'Arles is Assistant chaplain of the Canadian-American Association until January 1925, when Bishop Guertin withdraws his chaplains from the Association, considering it too radical. In January 1919, d'Arles participated in the founding of the militant but ephemeral French Rally League in America. In 1921, he made a second trip to Paris, where he studied literature and history at the Sorbonne, the College de France and the Catholic Institute. Laureate of the French Academy, recipient of the Palmes académiques of the French government, member of the Corporation of the Christian publicists of Paris and the Union of the French writers, the career and the intellectual radiance of Arles reaches then its summit. In 1924, he became a naturalized American citizen. Ill, Henri d'Arles is resting in California in 1927-1928. Wishing to write a life of Jesus, he went to Rome in 1930, where he served as an attache to Cardinal Vanutelli. Henri d'Arles died in Rome, at the Franciscan convent of Villa San Francisco, on July 9, 1930. His remains were buried in the Sulpician's cellar at the Campo Verano cemetery in Rome.

Malgorzata S. (Gosha) Zywno received the Magister Engineer degree in Electrical Engineering, from Technical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland in 1977, the M.Eng. degree from the University of Toronto in 1990, and her Ph.D. degree from Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, in 2003. Dr. Zywno is a Professional Engineer (1984), a Senior Member of IEEE (2003) and a Fellow of Engineers Canada (2009). She is also a member of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) since 2000 and of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) since 2002.

Dr. Zywno has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering at Ryerson University since 1982, first as a Limited Term faculty, and since 1998 in a Tenure-Track position. She received Tenure in 1991 and was promoted to Full Professor in 2008. She was a Visiting Professor at the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand (2006), at the University of Technology, Business and Design, Wismar, Germany (2003), and at Université D'Artois, Bethune, France (1999, 2000, 2001). Dr. Zywno is Ryerson University's first, and still only, recipient of the 3M National Teaching Fellowship, the most distinguished award for university teaching in Canada.

Dr. Zywno's industrial experience prior to the faculty appointment at Ryerson included working for Institute of Heat Technology, Lodz, Poland (1980) and for Ontario Hydro, Toronto, Canada (1986, 1987).

Dr. Zywno has been a Faculty Associate of the Learning & Teaching Office (LTO) at Ryerson University since 2002. She has been volunteering on behalf of Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) since 1991, and has been a member of the PEO's Academic Requirements Committee since 1993.

Professor Zywno's field of expertise is Control Systems. Over the past decade her main research interests have been in Engineering Education. Her research was on the impact of learning styles, instructional technology use, active learning, and more recently, Emotional Intelligence (EI) on student academic achievement. Currently, Dr. Zywno's professional focus, through her work with the LTO, is on educational development of faculty at Ryerson University through the University Teaching Development Program (UTDP). Dr. Zywno authored or co-authored numerous papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings and delivered many invited presentations, including 12 keynote addresses at various conferences. She has won countless awards including Ryerson University Chancellor's Award of Distinction in 2010.

Sandy Zwyer graduated from Ryerson's School of Radio and Television Arts (RTA) in 1979.

John P. Zubek was born in Trnovec, Czechoslovakia on March 10, 1925. He immigrated to Canada at the age of five with his parents. After his early education in Grand Forks, British Columbia. Zubek completed his B.A.in Psychology in 1946 graduating with first class honours from the University of British Columbia. In 1948 he received a Masters in Social Psychology from the University of Toronto. From 1948-1950 Zubek was an instructor in Psychology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore from where he received his Ph.D. in 1950 graduating Phi Betta Kappa. Zubek then joined the Psychology Department at McGill University in the fall of 1950. During his three years at McGill as assistant professor, Zubek published eight articles on such widely divergent topics as the cerebral cortex and locomotor activity in rats to a genetic of Doukhobors' attitudes. In 1953 Zubek joined the faculty of the University of Manitoba as a full professor and chairman of the Department of Psychology. a post he held for the next eight years. In 1959 he added Directorship of the Sensory Deprivation Laboratory to his workload. Dr. Zubek did not limit his activities to the University of Manitoba. He served two terms as a member of the Associate Committee on Experimental Psychology for the National Research Council of Canada from 1955 to 1961. He also served two terms, from 1958 to 1964 as a member of the Human Resources Scientific Advisory Committee for the Defence Research Board of Canada. Zubek was a member of Directors of the Canadian Psychological Association from 1956 to 1958. In 1961 Dr. Zubek turned his attention solely to research. His new position as Research Professor reduced his teaching load to only one class. Dr. Zubek was made a Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association in 1967. He was the recipient of the Clifford J. Robson Distinguished Psychologist in Manitoba Award bestowed by the Manitoba Psychological Society in 1973. The same year, Manitoba's research in sensory deprivation was listed among the 30 major achievements in Canadian science and technology. He died on August 22, 1974 at the age of 49.

Moses Znaimer was born 1942 in Kulab, Tajikistan. His family arrived in Canada in 1948, settling in Montreal. He attended McGill University and received a B.A. in in philosophy and politics and then Harvard University where he completed a M.A. in government.
He Joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as radio and TV producer/director/host of several shows from 1965 to 1969; vice president, T'ang Management Ltd. and Helix Investments; co-founder, president, chief executive office and executive officer, Citytv, 1972, Much Music, 1984, Musique Plus, 1986, and Bravo!, 1995. He is the founder and CEO of ZoomerMedia Limited - a multi-media company for people aged 45+. He is also the President of CARP, Canada’s largest Advocacy Association for Canadians As We Age.
He received a fellowship from Ryerson in 1991.

Qi Tu Zhang was a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ryerson University from 1994 to 2003. Zhang became a full professor in the faculty in 1999. He earned his B.Eng. from Tsinghua University, Beijing, his M.Eng. from the South China University of Technology, China -- both in radio communications -- and his PhD in electrical engineering from McMaster University. Before joining the faculty at Ryerson, he worked as a Senior Member of the Technical Staff in the Satellite and Communication Systems Division of Spar Aerospace Ltd., Montreal. a Following his tenure at Ryerson, Zhang became a Professor at the City University of Hong Kong. His research interest include transmission and reception over fading channels with current focus on wireless MIMO and cross-layer design/optimization. He is presently an Associate Editor for the IEEE
Communications Letters.

Geza Zelinger taught at Humber College of Applied Arts and Technology. He was also professor at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in the Department of Electrical Engineering Technology. He was a certified Professional Engineer.

Nazmin Zaver was the president of the Continuing Education Students' Association of Ryerson (CESAR).

Michael Zabinsky was a student in the School of Electronics of the Toronto Training and Re-establishment Institute.

Ayse Yuce has been a Professor of Finance at the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson Unversity since 2001. Yuce receive her PhD from Louisiana State University. After graduation, Yuce worked at Bilkent University, Turkey, before taking a position as a visiting professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, then as an assistant professor at the University of Northern British Columbia. She has several publications in finance journals, as well as two books. As an emerging market expert, Yuce has delivered speeches at the IMF and the World Bank on Eastern European Stock Markets. She is a member of the American Finance Association, Financial Management Association, Middle Eastern Economic Association, Multinational Finance Society, and Women Economist's Society.

Hong Yu graduated from the Iowa State University of Science and Technology with a PhD in Consumer Behavior and Market Research and holds an MEng from the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology in China. Yu joined the faculty of the Ted Rogers School of Retail Management in 2008, acting as the school's Interim Director in 2014. Yu has served as a visiting scholar at a number of universities in the greater China region and has published widely on the topic of consumer behaviour in an experiential economy.

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

American photographer most known for his production of stereoviews.

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

Maurice Yeates has been a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for the Study of Commercial Activity, Ryerson University in the Ted Rogers School of Management since 1996. Yeates earned his BA from Reading University (UK) in 1960 and his PhD from Northwestern University in 1963. He served as Dean, School of Graduate Studies, Ryerson University, 2002-10; and was appointed Dean Emeritus in 2010. Previously, he was a faculty member at the University of Florida (1963-1965) and Queen's University (1965-1996), where he also served as Head of the Department of Geography (1973-8), Dean of the School of Graduate Studies and Research (1979/84), and Founding Executive Director of the Bader Centre for International Studies at Herstmonceux Castle, UK (1993/95). From 1986 to 1994, he was seconded from Queen's to the Council of Ontario Universities to serve as Executive Director of the Ontario Council on Graduate Studies. His research and consulting has focused on urban and regional development, and spatial location/allocation in the consumer service sector. He is author, co-author, or editor of 19 books, 60 articles in refereed journals and edited books, and over 100 reports. He has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada since 1980; and received the 1982 Award for Scholarly Distinction in Geography from the Canadian Association of Geographers.

Havelock (Hack) H. Yates was the Vice President, Academic, of Ryerson from 1971 to 1974. Yates was born in Cochrane, Ontario. From 1941 to 1945, he served with the Royal Canadian Air Force, completing his pre-flight training at St. James Square---in the school that would later become Ryerson Polytechnic Institute. He earned his Bachelor of Science (1948) and his PhD (1952) from McGill University. Prior to his appointment at Ryerson, Yates was the Associate Dean, Academic, of the Faculty of Engineering at McGill University (1967 - 1971). From 1963 to 1971, he was the Birks Chair in Metallurgy at McGill and served as Chairman of the Department of Metallurgical Engineering from 1961 to 1965. His academic research interests included corrosion and oxidation mechanisms. Before entering academia, Yates worked for Cominco, Inco, Alcan and the Research Division of Standard Oil Development Co. He was district Vice-President and Chairman of the Montreal Chapter of the American Society for Metals and National Director of the National Association of Corrosion Engineers. After leaving Ryerson, Yates became Vice-Chairman of the Ontario Council of Graduate Studies. He returned to Ryerson in 1978 as a part-time consultant on the development of Applied Research.

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

Sharon Yan Zarrabi worked in the School of Nutrition, Consumer, and Family Studies at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute.

In 1934 Dr. Lyle L. Wyse was part of the Department of Pathology at the University of Toronto and the Toronto General Hospital.

Florence Wyle was born November 24, 1881 in Trenton, Illinois. She enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago where she met her life partner Frances Loring. They moved to Greenwich Village in New York in 1909, and then to Toronto in 1913. She is a founding member of the Sculptors Society of Canada (1928). She received a Coronation medal in 1953 for her contributions to Canadian art. Wyle was the first woman accorded full membership in the Royal Canadian Academy of Art. She was also a poet. Her first book "Poems" was published by The Ryerson Press in 1959.
Wyle died January 14, 1968 in Newmarket, Ontario.

June Wu was an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Ryerson University. Wu joined the faculty in 1994. In addition to earning her PEng, Wu received her MEng from the East China Institute of Textile Science and Technology and her PhD in Management Sciences from Waterloo University. Her research interests include systems modelling and optimization, production planning and control, simulation for industrial systems, operations research, and applications to energy, environment and transportation.

George MacKinnon Wrong was born at Grovesend, Elgin County, Canada West on June 25, 1860. In 1886 he married Sophia Hume Blake. They had five children, Margaret (Marga), Murray, Harold, Hume and Agnes (Polly). His wife died in 1931 and two years later he married Elizabeth Durgwynne, an Englishwoman with extensive nursing experience who had come to Canada two years earlier.
Wrong was educated at Wycliffe College and the University of Toronto (BA 1883, MA 1886), taking post-graduate work at Oxford and Berlin. He was ordained a minister of the Church of England in 1883 and from 1883 to1892 was lecturer in history and apologetics at Wycliffe College. In 1892 he was appointed lecturer in history at the University of Toronto and promoted to professor and head of the department in 1894. He remained in that position until his retirement in 1927 and was recognized as a superb lecturer. He introduced Canadian history into the curriculum and in 1904 founded the University of Toronto Historical Club, with its dominant interest in public affairs. In January 1929 he was elected president of the Ontario division of the Canadian Red Cross Society. Later that year he represented Canada at the 3rd Institute of Pacific Relations Conference in Kyoto, Japan.
He founded, in 1897, the Review of Historical Publications Relating to Canada, predecessor to the Canadian Historical Review. In 1905 he helped found the Champlain Society, was its editorial secretary until 1922, and its president from 1924-1928. Besides several text-books on British and Canadian history, he was the author of The Crusade of 1383 (1892), The Earl of Elgin (1906), A Canadian Manor and its Seigneurs (1908), The Fall of Canada (1914), Washington and his Comrades in Arms (1921), The Rise and Fall of New France (1928), Canada and the American Revolution (1935) and The Canadians (1938). He edited for the Champlain Society Sagard's Long Journey to the Country of the Hurons (1939) and was co-editor with H.H. Langton of The Chronicles of Canada (32 volumes, 1914-16).
Wrong was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1908 and received the honorary degree of LLD from McGill University in 1919 and University of Toronto in 1941. In 1936 his portrait, painted by Sir Wyly Grier, was presented to the Department of History at the University. In 1944 he was elected an honorary member of the American Historical Association, the third person to receive that honour. Professor Wrong died in Toronto on June 29, 1948.

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

Eric Wright was born May 4, 1929 in London, England. After growing up in Lambeth, he immigrated to Canada in 1951. Wright attended the University of Manitoba, completing his B.A. in 1957, and received his M.A. in 1963 from University of Toronto. Until his retirement Wright taught English at Ryerson Polythechnical Institute.
Eric Wright is the author of four mystery/detective series—the Inspector Charlie Salter Mysteries, the Lucy Trimble Brenner Mysteries, the Mel Pickett Mysteries, and the Joe Barley Mysteries—as well as a memoir Always Give a Penny to a Blind Man which covers most of Wright's life from when he was a child growing up poor in working-class London through his immigration to Canada and the beginning of his attendance at University. Wright has also written two stand-alone novels, Moodie's Tale and Finding Home, the novella "Dempsey's Lodge", and a short story "Twins". Wright is best known for his series of police procedurals featuring Metropolitan Toronto police inspector Charlie Salter.
Wright's books have won numerous other awards over the years. Four of his novels have been awarded the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel. Among them The Night the Gods Smiled also received the 1984 City of Toronto Book Award, and Britain's John Creasy Memorial Award for best crime drama. The Inspector Charlie Salter Mysteries Smoke Detector and Death in the Old Country, and the Joe Barley Mystery The Kidnapping of Rosie Dawn also received the Arthur Ellis Award. In 1998, Wright received the Derrick Murdoch Award for lifetime contributions to Canadian crime writing. The Kidnapping of Rosie Dawn went on to be nominated for an Edgar Award.
Eric Wright died October 9, 2015.

C. Melville Wright was born in Madoc, Ontario and earned his B. A. from the University of Toronto. He later attended Westminster Hall in Vancouver. He served two charges in British Columbia - Fort George and Nelson - before moving to Toronto. He served at the Bloor Street United Church, becoming the director of religious education. He moved to East Orange, New Jersey where he continued in the religious education field. He died September 28, 1946.

David A. Worton was an instructor in the Department of Business from 1953 to 1962. From 1961 to 1962, Worton was the Director of the Department of Hotel, Resort and Restaurant Management.

Charles Willson Woodside was born in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba in 1905. He attained a bachelor's degree in engineering at the University of Toronto just prior to the Great Depression; following this he worked briefly as an engineer and then taught at the University of Toronto from 1929 to 1934. Woodside travelled extensively in Europe, becoming a journalist. During WWII he was a member of the Allied Press Corps and reported nightly on the radio for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Following the war, he became Foreign Editor at Saturday Night. Woodside served in the post-war period as the executive director of the United Nations Association in Canada. In 1954, he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the House of Commons of Canada as a Tory in a by-election in the Toronto riding of Trinity, losing to Liberal Donald Carrick. He joined the political science department of the University of Guelph, Ontario, as a founding member of the faculty and also chair. He was a professor of the university from 1966 to 1974. His archives are presently held in the university's library.

Moffatt Woodside joined the staff at University College in 1932 and was appointed Dean, Faculty of Arts in 1952. He was Acting President of the University of Toronto from September 1957 to July 1958. In 1959 he became the Principal of University College and in 1963 he was appointed Vice-President (Academic), University of Toronto.

Walter Sainsbury Woods was the Associate Deputy Minister in the Department of Pensions and National Health between 1941-1944 and Deputy Minister in the Department of Veterans Affairs 1944-1950. Woods died on November 11, 1955

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

Kathryn Woodcock is an Associate Professor at Ryerson University in the Occupational Health and Safety program, specializing in human factors engineering. Her NSERC-supported THRILL Laboratory studies applications of human factors engineering and human-centred design to amusement attractions, and she serves as the faculty advisor to the interdisciplinary Ryerson Thrill Club. Woodcock is a registered Professional Engineer with degrees from University of Waterloo and University of Toronto, a Canadian Certified Professional Ergonomist, and a Fellow of the Association of Canadian Ergonomists. She is a member of national and international professional societies in human factors and ergonomics and has presented and published many papers relevant to human factors, error investigation, safety inspection, amusement attractions, and accessibility. Woodcock previously taught courses in Industrial Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology (New York) and Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo. Before joining Ryerson, she managed a research and policy unit in the Prevention Division of the Workplace Safety & Insurance Board of Ontario, and through the 1980s, she was a hospital vice-president, active in the Ontario health care sector. Her past governance and voluntary experience includes a variety of boards and councils in the areas of occupational health and safety, accessibility, and ergonomics. She has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Ontario Medal for Good Citizenship, the Citizenship Award from the Canadian Council of Professional Engineers and Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario, and the Outstanding Alumni Medal from the University of Waterloo Faculty of Engineering.

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

Edward John Wood (a.k.a Ted Wood, a.k.a Jack Barnao) is an English-born, Canadian-based writer. Wood was born in Shoreham, Sussex, England. He lived in London until the outbreak of the Second World War, at which time he moved to Worcestershire. While in England, he served in the RAF Coastal Command. In 1954, he immigrated to Canada, working as a policeman in Toronto until 1957. That year, he joined MacLaren Advertising as a copywriter, eventually becoming a creative director. During his early years in Canada, he sold short stories to Canadian and American magazines and wrote television plays, including the musical comedy Mister Scrooge, produced in Toronto and on CBC television. In 1974, he published a collection of Chekhovian short stories, Somebody Else's Summer. In 1984, Wood published the Dead in the Water, which won the Scribner's Crime Novel Award. The book was published in the USA and Canada and was the first in a series of ten novels--including Murder on Ice (1984) and A Clean Kill (1995)--that were subsequently translated into numerous languages. Wood lives in Whitby, Ontario.

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

Denise Woit earned her BMath and MMath degrees from the University of Waterloo and her PhD in Computing and Information Science at Queen's University in Kingston in 1994. In 1995 she joined the faculty at Ryerson Polytechnic University as an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science (now Department of Computer Science). She held an adjunct position of Assistant Professor in the Communications Research Laboratory in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McMaster University in Hamilton. Her research interests included software testing techniques, software reliability, and software engineering.

Thadeus Eugene Wisz is a Professional Engineer and former Dean of the Faculty of Technology at Ryerson University. Wisz earned his BASc (1959) and MASc (1964) in Chemical Engineering and his MSc in Mathematics (1975) from the University of Toronto. He began teaching in the Mathematics and Physics department at Ryerson in 1961. He became an Instructor Supervisor in 1965, Assistant Chairman in 1966, and Chairman of the Department in 1967, maintaining the latter position until 1977. From 1977 to 1987, he was Dean of the Faculty of Technology. In the early 1980s, Wisz sat on the board of Ryerson's Centre for Advanced Technology Education (CATE). In 2003, he was named an Honorary Member of The Ontario Association of Certified Engineering Technicians and Technologists (OACETT) and, in 2004, was named an Officer of Professional Engineers of Ontario’s Order of Honour.

Jos Wintermans was the President of Canadian Tire Acceptance Ltd. He received a fellowship from Ryerson in 1993.

David Richard Windeyer graduated from Ryerson with a diploma in Business Administration in 1965. After graduation, Windeyer began a career in the administration and management of estates, trusts, agencies, and charitable foundations. He has held senior positions with the Trust Departments for National Trust, the Victoria and Grey Trust and The Bank of Nova Scotia Trust Company. He was a principal at Sweatman Windeyer Consultants, Chair of the Board and Director at the John Bright Foundation, and Secretary of the J.P. Bickell Foundation, among other positions. In 2009, Windeyer was certified by the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners of Canada in Administration of Estates and Trusts, earning a similar accreditation from the Trust Companies Institute in 2012. He is a member of the Canadian Centre for Philanthropy and the Canadian Association of Gift Planners. He was the founding Treasurer and Board Member of Philanthropic Foundations of Canada.

Susannah Wilson was a professor in the School of Nutrition at Ryerson University from 1994 to 2009. Wilson earned her BA from the University of Quebec, her MA from the University of Western Ontario, her MBA from York University and her PhD from the University of Toronto. From 2003 to 2006, Wilson was the Associate Dean of the Faculty of Community Services. Wilson passed away in 2009.

Sharon Wilson (RN, MEd, MN) was a professor of Nursing at Ryerson University. Her areas of concentration were palliative care, qualitative research methods, nursing theory/process, multicultural health, and living with and caring for chronic illness.

Richard Albert Wilson was born on March 18, 1874. He grew up in rural Ontario. He achieved his B. A. (1901), M.A. (1902), Teaching Certificate (1903), and PhD (1906) all from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. While earning his degrees he was teaching English in secondary schools. In 1912 he became Principal of the Regina Normal School and then a professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Saskatchewan in 1915. In 1937 Wilson collated his lecture notes and published a book entitled "The Birth of Language: Its Place in World Evolution and Its Structure in Relation to Space and Time" He retired from the University in 1940. Richard Wilson died in Vancouver, British Columbia on January 2, 1949.

G.W. Wilson is a Scottish photographer (1823-1893). He began his career photographing war ships in 1857. Following 1859 Wilson photographed various Scottish landscapes. In 1863, Wilson helped establish the Liverpool Amateur Photographic Association. By 1880 he had created "G.W Wilson & Co." the largest publishing company of topographic views in Britain.

G. W. Wilson was a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan.

Henry Willis-O'Connor was born on April 1, 1886 in Ottawa, County of Carleton, Ontario. He attended Ottawa Ladies College (at that time open to boys up to nine years of age), followed by Kent Street Public School and Ashbury College. His civilian life consisted of employment at the Sovereign Bank and later, as a partner in an Ottawa brokerage house. Henry Willis-O'Connor joined the Governor General's Foot Guards, based in Ottawa, as a Provisional Lieutenant on April 30, 1906, was appointed a Lieutenant on December 14, 1907, then promoted to Captain on March 3, 1911. He was a member of the Canadian Coronation Contingent in 1911, in the roll of Adjutant, GGFG. He would remain with the Governor General's Foot Guards until becoming part of the draft of the unit that went to Valcartier Camp in August 1914. Willis-O'Connor signed his Attestation Paper as a Captain and First Adjutant with the 2nd Infantry Battalion, on September 22, 1914 at Valcartier Camp. He was appointed to the Permanent Force and transferred to the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry on November 25, 1919, where he was ADC (Adjutant) to Lieutenant-General J.H. MacBrien from 1919 to 1921. Willis-O'Connor accepted eventually ended up serving as Aide-de-Camp to Sir Julian Lord Byng, his former Canadian Corps Commander and Canadian Governor General, beginning on August 18, 1921. He returned to London, to take up the ADC post and married there, taking Hyacinth Shaw as his wife, on July 16, 1921. Upon his return to Canada in 1921, he assumed his position as Aide-de-Camp at Government House in Ottawa under Governor General Lord Byng, a position he was to hold until 1945. He served as Principal ADC and Comptroller at Government House in Ottawa, to five successive Governor Generals: Baron Lord Byng of Vimy (1921-1926), Viscount Willingdon (1926-1931), Earl of Bessborough (1931-1935), Baron Tweedsmuir (1935-1939) and Earl of Athlone (1940-1946). During his time under Viscount Willingdon, Willis-O'Connor was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel on May 21, 1930. He was promoted to Temporary Colonel on February 5, 1936, then promoted Substantive Lieutenant-Colonel on February 16, 1937. He was also the author of a book, "Inside Government House", written in collaboration with Madge Macbeth and published by The Ryerson Press in Toronto in 1954. Colonel Willis-O'Connor was awarded the Royal Victorian Order. He retired from the Army on July 1, 1946. He died on April 25, 1957.

Lionel Willis is a former Professor in the Department of English at Ryerson University. Willis earned his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto and his Master of Arts from York University, Toronto. He began his career at Ryerson as a part-time instructor in 1958, moving to full-time by 1959. Circa 1979, he was a board member of the Canadian Anti-Drug Coalition and an outspoken activists against the legalization of marijuana. Willis retired from Ryerson in 1993.

Peter W. Williams is a professional planner and geographer and a former faculty member in the Department of Geography at Ryerson University (1972-1989). Williams earned his BA in Geography from the University of Ottawa, his MA in Geography from the University of Waterloo, and his PhD in Tourism and Outdoor Recreation from Utah State University. He is former President of the Canadian and International chapters of the Travel and Tourism Research Association, a member of the International Academy For the Study of Tourism, and the Chair of the British Columbia Tourism Research Advisory Council. He is a recipient of the Travel and Tourism Research Association’s Life Time Achievement Award and serves on the editorial review boards of several journals, including the Journal of Travel Research, and Canadian Geographic Magazine. Williams' work focuses on policy, planning, and management issues related to tourism development. He is currently a Professor in the School of Resource and Environmental Management and Director of the Centre for Tourism Policy and Research at Simon Fraser University.

Flow Jewell Williams was born in Toronto in 1893. She attended Jarvis Collegiate and the Toronto Normal School. Her first teaching job was in Bobcaygeon, Ontario. She taught for many years in Toronto before she married and moved to Calgary, Alberta. She submitted her writing "The Judgement of Solomon" to the Hodder & Stoughton Canadian contest and won a prize. She continued to write, contributing poetry, short stories, and articles to various Canadian periodicals. In 1949 she won her second prize in the Ryerson Press book contest "Fold Home" was published in 1950.

Darryl George Williams graduated from Ryerson with a diploma in Photographic arts in 1958 and from the Rochester Institute of Technology with a BSc circa 1968. In 1962, Williams began teaching photo illustration and motion pictures in the Department of Photographic Arts, acting as the department's Instructor Supervisor from 1970 to 1971 and Chairman from 1971 to 1974. Williams served as the first academic director of the Rogers Communications Center and was recognized as Ryersonian of the Year in 1993. He retired from Ryerson in 1995. After his retirement he worked to create a new media program "Habitat" at the Canadian Film Centre. Darryl Williams passed away January 23, 2002.