Born in Orangeville, Ont. on 19 May 1904 he was educated at public and high schools in that town and came to Toronto in 1924 where he enrolled at the School of Architecture at the University of Toronto. Upon graduation with honours in 1928 he was employed by F. Hilton Wilkes of Toronto and worked on the design of the Canada Permanent Building, Bay Street (1928-30) and then joined the office of Sproatt & Rolph in November 1929 where he remained until September 1930. He assisted the prominent landscape architect Edwin Kay of Toronto from June of 1932 until October 1933 and then moved to Montreal where he supervised the construction of multiple-unit housing projects for the Shell Oil Co. Adamson commenced his own practise in Toronto in July, 1934
In the company of other young talented architects who had emerged in Toronto at this time, including John B. Parkin, Robert S. Morris, and Earle Morgan (the latter with whom he had a brief partnership from 1943 to 1945), the Adamson office grew and by the mid-1950's had become one of the dominant forces in the development of a distinctive Canadian interpretation of modern architecture. Adamson was elected as an Associate Member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1950, and became president of the Ontario Association of Architects in 1953. It was in that year that he received his first Massey Medal from the Governor General for his design of an apartment building on Forest Hill Road at Eglinton Avenue West in Toronto. He retired from active practice in March 1971 and died in Toronto on 8 January 1986

ADDISON, Ottelyn Mary (nee Robinson) was born in Edenvale on May 8, 1908 and died Newmarket on August 10, 1997.
She grew up in Barrie, lived with her family in Thunder Bay and Richmond Hill. Her childhood summers in Algonquin Park with their naturalist/park ranger father influenced her deeply. She authored two books, TOM THOMSON: The Algonquin Years and Early Days in Algonquin Park. She worked as the editor of the Federation of Ontario Naturalists' YOUNG NATURALIST bulletin and as a nature interpreter for the Metropolitan Toronto Region Conservation Authority.

He is an American philosopher, educator, editor, and advocate of adult and general education by study of the great writings of the Western world. While still in public school, Adler was taken on as a copyboy by the New York Sun, where he stayed for two years, before attending Columbia University. He completed his coursework for a bachelor’s degree, but did not receive a diploma because he had refused to take physical education. He stayed at Columbia to teach and earn a Ph.D. (1928) and then became professor of the philosophy of law at the University of Chicago, becoming a proponent of the pursuit of liberal education. He is an author of the 54-volume series Great Books of the Western World (1952) and conceived and directed the preparation of its two-volume index of great ideas, the Syntopicon. In 1952 he became director of the Institute for Philosophical Research (initially in San Francisco and from 1963 in Chicago).

"The Administrative Information Technology (AIT) Committee was launched to identify and define strategic directions for administrative information systems at Ryerson. The development and definition of such directions will build and expand upon the work of the Transitional Funding Committee." (Coll.Rec. 736-2 ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY REPORT, October 1996) See also: Group 602 - Transitional Funding Committee.

In April 1993, the Registrariat made some organizational changes with four units amalgamating into two: Academic Advising/Evaluations with Admissions/Liaison and Timetabling joining with Records and Registration Services. The Group name Admissions/Liaison has been changed to include Curriculum Advising.

He was an anesthesiologist who created controversy as an early advocate of requiring prescription drugs to be sold under generic names, instead of brand names, to reduce costs for consumers. He became a national figure for a brief period in 1969 when he was offered the job of director of the Bureau of Medicine in the United States Food and Drug Administration, only to have the appointment withdrawn after pressure from the pharmaceutical industry. At the time, he was associate director of Charity Hospital in New Orleans and a professor at Tulane and Louisiana State Universities, where he taught surgery, oral surgery and pharmacology, as well as anesthesiology. He graduated from Columbia College and was a member of Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons. He practiced several disciplines and was for several years director of the Council on Drugs of the American Medical Association.

Name: 1986 - 1995, ACAC stood for Advisory Committee on Academic Computing. 2010, when an on-line survey was put out, the name appeares as Academic Computing Advisory Committee.

The Vice Presidents' 18-member Advisory Committee On Asbestos Management was formed in the Spring of 1989. It's mandate was to develop and recommend an Institute philosophy on the long-term alleviation of asbestos-related risk on campus, along with programs of asbestos control and/or removal, campus education and communication, and training for those likely to be directly exposed to asbestos. The committee, chaired by Bob Crow, Urban and Regional Planning, was to report by June 30, 1989, jointly to Acting Vice-President Academic Paul Nowack and Vice-President Finance and Administration Glyn Harry, who were responsible for establishing it and who will serve as ex-officio members.

Founded in 1995 by Gavin Affleck and Richard de la Riva and based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

The company was founded in 1953 in Montréal. A partnership between three McGill University School of Architecture graduates - Raymond Tait Affleck (1922-1989), Guy Desbarats (1925-2003) and Jean Michaud (1919-1995) - and two McGill architecture professors - Fred David Lebensold (1917-1985) and, joining in 1954, Hazen Edward Sise (1906-1974). and Dimitri Dimakopoulos (1929-1995), another McGill School of Architecture graduate, began working with the group. D. Dimakopoulos became a full partner in 1957. Following the departure of Jean Michaud in 1959, the firm became Affleck, Desbarats, Dimakopoulos, Lebensold, Sise (ADDLS) for the next decade. In 1968, Hazen Sise retired, Dimitri Dimakopoulos left to open his own office, and Guy Desbarats departed to found and head the University of Montréal's Faculté de l'aménagement. In 1970, Ray Affleck, Fred Lebensold and Arthur Boyd Nichol (who had been an associate in the previous firm since 1956) regrouped and founded ARCOP Associates; designed churches, municipal and provincial government buildings, exhibition pavilions, multiple-dwelling residential buildings, cultural buildings, commercial and industrial buildings, and educational buildings.

Dr. David Ahenakew was the National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations in 1982

He is a Professor Emeritus of forest conservation policy at the Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto, website designer and author. His research interests include forest conservation policy analysis, the conservation of renewable resources, and conservation education. He specializes in the conservation of biodiversity and bioproductivity, forest history and conservation writing.

Airhart retired in 2017 from his position as Director of Philanthropy at Tafelmusik Baroque Orchesta, in Toronto, ON. Previously he held several different positions, including Senior Director of Development, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at Ryerson University (2000-20014).

Dr. Gail Aitken was an alumnus of the Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto schools of nursing. She received her MA in Social Welfare Policy from McMaster University, and her Ph.D. in Social Work from the University of Toronto. Gail began her career at Ryerson as a member of the Department of Social Work between 1978 and 1981. Her areas of research focused on declining social support that agencies and governments are providing for children and women. She retired in 1996. Gail was a member of the Sparrow Lake Alliance for the welfare of Ontario's Children as a member of the Children in Limbo Task Force. She passed away November 23, 2022.

Jack Aitken was from St. Catherine's and graduated from Upper Canada College. He attended Ryerson and graduated from the Food Administration Program (1951-1953). While at Ryerson he won a scholarship from the Canadian Restaurant Association - Toronto and District Branch. He was also a member of the Ryerson Rams Hockey Team and the Hotel Horrors Intramural Hockey Team.

He was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 1928, and graduated from the Faculty of Architecture from the University of Manitoba in 1950. He began his career by moving to Toronto to take a position with John B. Parkin & Associates and eventually established the firm Akitt & Swanson with Herb Swanson. He was a sports enthusiast, enjoying skiing, curling and tennis and golf. He also enjoyed travelling with his wife.

He was a mathematician and co-authored the book, A High School Arithmetic, with Batstone, A. T. and Chown, J. Harold

The eldest daughter of Christian IX of Denmark, Alexandra was married to Edward in St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, on March 10, 1863, later Edward VII of Great Britian. She was renowned for her exceptional beauty and grace. She had six children: Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence; George, Duke of York, afterward King George V; Louise, afterward Duchess of Fife; Victoria; Maud, afterward queen of Norway; and John, who died in infancy. A serious illness in 1867 left Alexandra lame and accentuated a hereditary deafness. As queen, she devoted much of her income and time to the poor and suffering; she founded the Imperial Military Nursing Service in 1902 and started Alexandra Rose Day to raise funds for British hospitals.

Prince Alfred was the fourth child and second son of Queen Victoria and Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the Prince Consort. He joined the navy in August 1858, and was appointed as midshipman on HMS Euryalus at the age of fourteen. Upon the abdication of King Otto of Greece, in 1862, Prince Alfred was selected to succeed him, but the British government blocked plans for him to ascend the Greek throne, largely due to the fact that the Queen strongly opposed the idea. He therefore remained in the navy, and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant on 24 February 1863, serving under Count Gleichen on HMS Racoon, and captain on 23 February 1866, being then appointed to the command of the frigate HMS Galatea. On 24 May 1866, Alfred was created Duke of Edinburgh and Earl of Ulster and Earl of Kent by his mother, Queen Victoria. He was the first member of the British royal family to visit Australia and liked to travel.
On 12 March 1868, he survived an attempted assasination was carried out by Henry James O'Farrell, but was shot in the back by a revolver, which wounded him just to the right of his spine.
In 1874, he married the Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia. They had 6 children: Prince Alfred of Edinburgh, Princess Marie Alexandra Victoria, Princess Victoria Melita, Princess Alexandra, a stillborn son and Princess Beatrice.
On the death without an heir of his uncle, Prince Albert's elder brother, Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha on 22 August 1893, Alfred inherited the duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, after his older brother renounced the right.

She was born to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, a second girl of three children. The Queen, along with the rest of her family, were still in mourning when Alice married Louis, the grand duke of Hesse-Darmstadt seven months after her father's death from typhoid fever. Their union produced seven children: Victoria, Ella, Irene, Ernst, Friedrich, Alix(later the last Tsarita of Russua; name became Alexandra) and May. She had a desire to help and both the poor and wounded soldiers received her aid. She developed a great interest in nursing and befriended the Florence Nightingale, taking an active role to help soldiers during the second of Bismarck's wars, which occurred in 1866. She contacted diphtheria and passed away at age 35.

He holds a B.Sc. Com. (summa cum laude) and an MBA from the Université de Sherbrooke and a PhD from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
He was the co-founder of, and from 1975 to 1990, the Chair of the Board of the SECOR Group, a major Canadian strategic consulting group which became KPMG-Secor in 2012. During this time, he played a critical role in establishing the joint doctoral program in administration in the four Montréal universities, and the executive MBA program at UQAM’s management science school, the École des sciences de la gestion (ESG).
He was Executive Vice-President of Bombardier from 1996 to 2001 and served on many different Boards of Directors. In 2001, he became a professor emeritus of strategy at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and has been the Executive Chair of the Board of the Institute for governance (IGOPP) since 2005. His contribution as Chair of the task force led to the enactment of Québec’s Act Respecting the Governance of State-Owned Enterprises in 2006. He has published over a hundred works and articles covering every aspect of corporate governance, the most recent of which were co-authored with Mihaela Firsirotu.
From 2010 to 2014, Allaire was first, a member and then, Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Role of Business.
He has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada since 1991, and in 2001, received the Award of Distinction from Concordia University’s John Molson School of Business for his extraordinary contribution to the business world and the community. The Academy of Economic Sciences of Bucharest awarded him a doctorate honoris causa in 1995. In 2001, he was also chosen as one of 12 “High Performers” by Commerce magazine and, in 2008, the Financial Post Magazine named him one of Canada's six Business Gurus.

Born in Yarmouth Nova Scotia. Chesley Allen was a teacher, and became the superintendent for the School for the Blind in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Reginald received an undergraduate degree from Haverford College before receiving master's and doctor's degrees in philosophy from Yale University. His doctoral thesis was on "Plato's Theory of the Soul." Over the next 20 years, he taught at a number of colleges and universities, including Indiana University and Purdue University, before landing at Northwestern in Evanston for the final 25 years of his career(1978-2003). A scholar of the ancient Greek philosophers, his translation of Plato's "Republic" that was published in October by Yale University Press.

Allen taught at Western Technical School in Toronto, Ontario.

Served in in the Canadian Army during World War I, reaching the rank of Major with the 3rd Battalion (Canadian Infantry)

Gerald Carlyle Allison was born at Staynor, Ontario on 9 April 1907. He moved to Winnipeg at an early age and attended Mulvey School then received a BA degree from the University of Manitoba in 1926. He then joined the Winnipeg Tribune as a reporter, becoming successively its suburban editor, radio editor, and night editor. In May 1928, he moved to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan where he was a reporter, chief of the news bureau, and telegraph editor at the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix.

He moved to the Montreal Gazette in January 1935 as a copy desk editor, returning to the Tribune a few months later as telegraph editor. He became news editor in 1939, managing editor in 1944, editor in June 1946, and editor-in-chief in August 1951. He left the paper in November 1958 to become a member of the Board of Broadcast Governors, serving as its Vice-Chairman from December 1960 to 1965. A personal friend and advisor of Conservative politician John Diefenbaker, his seven year term on the Board was not renewed by the Liberal government in power. He then returned to Winnipeg as editorial and public affairs director of CJAY television, a position that he held until retirement in 1971.

He was President of the Winnipeg Press Club (1940), Winnipeg branch of the Dickens Fellowship, and the Canadian Club of Winnipeg. He was Chairman of the Winnipeg branch of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs. He was a member of the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce, Gyro Club, Empire Club, Manitoba Club, Winnipeg Humane Society, St. Charles Country Club, and St. Andrew’s United Church.

He died at the Winnipeg General Hospital on 2 February 1972.

William Allison was born in Unionville, Ontario, 1874. He attended the University of Toronto (Harbord Collegiate) and Yale University. He served as the editor “The Harbord Review,” while at school. He became a reporter on Toronto News and The Star. Author of “The Amber Army,” a volume of poetry. He served as pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Stayner, Ontario, until his appointment to Wesley College in 1910.

In 1920, he became Assistant Professor at the University of Manitoba. Allison was active in journalism, syndicating a weekly book review feature in leading Canadian newspapers. He was Literary Columnist of the Winnipeg Telegram and Montreal Daily Star, and Literary Editor of the Winnipeg Tribune. He was a founder of the Canadian Authors’ Association and one of the first educators to take advantage of the medium of radio, lecturing over CKY as early as 1924. He was the author of Bolshevism in English Literature (1921).

He died at his Winnipeg residence on 4 February 1941.

He was a sculptor and worked with stone.

He was a French philosopher who attained international renown in the 1960s for his attempt to fuse Marxism and structuralism.
After joining the French army in 1939, Althusser was captured by German troops in 1940 and spent the remainder of the war in a German prisoner of war camp. In 1948 he joined the French Communist Party (PCF); in the same year, he was appointed to the faculty of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he taught for nearly three decades and influenced generations of students. He wrote two major works on the philosophy of Karl Marx (1818–83), For Marx and Reading Capital (both published in 1965). He later suffered a mental breakdown and strangled his wife of some 30 years to death. Judged unfit to stand trial, he was institutionalized for several years. His confessional autobiography, The Future Lasts Forever, was published posthumously in 1992.

Lawrence Altrows received his Bachelor of Science from McGill University in 1968, and his Masters in Urban Planning from the University of Montreal in 1973. After graduation he worked with a private consulting firm, and as a Community Planner for the City of Ottawa. Professor Altrows joined the Department of Urban Planning in 1978, and is currently still teaching in the School. Since joining Ryerson he has worked on numerous International Development projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. From 1999-2004, he supervised and taught the Cuba Field Experience course in Toronto and Cuba.

The Alumni Association was formed in 1951. There is evidence that faculty was involved in its early activities. The Association functioned until 1984 when it was replaced by the (now-defunct) President's Alumni Council.
An "alumni affairs" function or office existed at Ryerson as early as 1965. In 1969, Ryerson agreed to fund an official Alumni Affairs Office. Louis Gonsalves, a founding member of the Alumni Association, was hired as Ryerson's first Director of Alumni Affairs, concurrent with other duties within the Student Services Department.
In 1977-1978, to facilitate increased fund-raising activites, a Private Funding Office was officially established under, at first, the assistant directorship and then, the directorship of Gonsalves, who divided his time between Alumni Affairs and Private Funding.
In 1979, Louis Gonsalves was appointed full-time Director of the Office of Private Funding and David Butler was seconded to the Alumni Affairs Office as Acting Director of that department.
In 1980, David Butler was appointed Director of the Alumni Affairs Office.
The Alumni Affairs Office ceased to function as a separate department in 1985 when it merged with the Private Funding Office to form the Office of Development. David Butler, Director of Alumni Affairs, became Assistant Director, Office of Development and Bill MacPherson, Director of the Private Funding Office, became the "new" department's Director.
In 1987 Rudy Putns replaced Bill MacPherson as Director and under his direction, officially renamed the department Office of Development and Alumni Affairs. Alumni Relations would become part of the Office of University Advancement.

David Amborski received his Bachelor of Arts in 1971 from Boston College, his Masters in Planning from the University of Toronto in 1974 and his Masters in Economics in 1981 from the University of Toronto. In 1975 he joined the Urban Planning Department at Ryerson where he is currently still teaching. He is also involved in teaching seminars for in-career government officials in Ontario and internationally. He is the president of the Association of Canadian Urban Planning Programs, and serves on a number of boards and committees including the Institute for Finance and Local Governance, Munk Centre University of Toronto, Town of Aurora Planning Committee, and is vice-president of the Ontario Municipal Management Institute.

He is a singer and composer. At age 5, he began singing at "Youth for Christ" rallies at Massey Hall, Maple Leaf Gardens, and elsewhere and performed on gospel radio shows on CKEY and CFRB until he was 16. Turning to popular music he made his CBC TV debut in 1957 on "Cross-Canada Hit Parade" and hosted "While We're Young" (summers 1960, 1961) and "The Tommy Ambrose Show" 1961-3. After several years of nightclub work, accompanied in the late 1960s by Norm Amadio, Ambrose became a host of CBC's gospel series "Celebration," on radio 1971-4 and on TV 1975-6. In the late 1970s, he performed occasionally in clubs and concerts with a nonet led by Doug Riley.
As a partner 1971-88 with Larry Trudel in Trudel Productions, and through his own PC Productions, established in 1989, he has composed many successful jingles, theme songs for CITY-TV and Global TV, and several scores for CBC TV movies. He was the proprietor 1977-89 of Jingles, a downtown Toronto bar that on occasion presented jazz groups. Other recordings include singles for Warner Brothers, RCA Victor, Fuzzy Love and Sweet Times.