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Beckers, Alexander

  • Person
  • [between ca. 1860 and ca.1880]

German/American photographer and manufacturer of stereoscopes. Inventor of the Beckers Viewer, a table top stereoscope that would allow two users to view stereoviews at the same time. Alexander Beckers patented the chain type viewer, an internal chain made of fabric and designed to revolve multiple stereoviews. Later models carried metal chain belts to accommodate heavier stereoviews such as glass transparencies that required more support. This chain type viewer would be adopted by other manufactures who were also producing larger, table-top stereoscopes. The chain belts revolved stereoviews from a self-operated handle. Many standing chain type viewers carried 200 stereoviews. On November 26, 1857 Louis Beckers, Alexander's brother, received a French Patent that increased the number of viewers made throughout the twentieth-century. Ultimately, raising the popularity of a Beckers stereoscope. Beckers tall French design floor-model viewer showed at the 1862 London Exposition

Beckstead, Lori

  • Person
  • [ca. 1992]

Lori Beckstead graduated in 1992 with a Bachelor of Science from the University of Waterloo, a BAA from Ryerson, a B.Ed from OISE, and a Masters in Media Arts and Production from the University of Technology in Australia. While at Waterloo she was a volunteer programmer and member of the board for Waterloo University's radio station CKMS. After graduation she volunteered, worked, or was a board member of various campus/community radio stations. She has also worked for CBC radio as a reporter, producer, and online journalist. Lori joined Ryerson University as an Assistant Professor in 2002. That year she also became the director of SPIRIT Radio - Ryerson's online radio channel. Lori Beckstead has also created various sound art installations including Aur(e)ality, and recorded an album with partner Dave Rose of Australian soundscapes called Winanga-Li.

Becton, Dickinson and Company

  • Corporate body
  • 1897-

Started in 1897 by Maxwell W. Becton and Colonel Farleigh S. Dickinson in New York.
In 1951, BD acquired the Norman S. Wright Company, a Canadian distributor located on King Street in downtown Toronto. This marked the formation of BD in Canada. At that time, the entire sales force in Canada consisted of 5 members. BD in Canada soon moved to Hope well Street in Toronto and began to stock inventory. In 1964, BD in Canada relocated to South Sheridan Way in Mississauga. Currently BD in Canada has two locations in Ontario; Bristol Circle in Oakville and Derry Road in Mississauga.

Bedford, Francis

  • Person
  • 1816-1894

Francis Bedford is a founding member of the Royal Photographic Society. From 1850 to 1853 he had a studio located in London, however, in 1854 Bedford was commissioned by Queen Victoria to photograph the Royal Collection. Bedford joined Edward VII on a tour of Palestine, Syria, Constantinople, and Athens in 1862. He is considered one of the best landscape photographers from this era.

Beggart

  • Person
  • [ca. 1963]

Begin, Monique

  • Person
  • 1936-present

Monique Begin was born March 1, 1936 in Rome, Italy and raised in France and Portugal before emigrating to Canada at the end of World War II. She studied and the Universite de Montreal, earning her MA in sociology. She studied at the Sorbonne between 1961-1963, receiving her PhD. In 1967, she became executive secretary of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women, which published its report in 1970. She won election to the Canadian House of Commons as a Liberal candidate in the 1972 election. She was appointed to the Canadian Cabinet by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau as Minister of National Revenue in 1976, and served as Minister of Health and Welfare from 1977 to 1979 and from 1980 to 1984 during which the Canada Health Act was enacted. In 1986, she joined the University of Ottawa and Carleton University as the first joint Ottawa-Carleton Chair of Women's Studies. From 1990 to 1997, she was the University of Ottawa's dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences and continues teaching to this day as a professor emeritus. From 1993 to 1995, she also served as co-chair of Ontario's Royal Commission on Learning with Gerald Caplan.
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, she received several honorary doctorates in recognition of her contribution to human rights and to public policies. In 1998, she was invested as an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2008, she was one of 20 commissioners who prepared the long-awaited World Health Organization report titled “Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health Equity through Action on the Social Determinants of Health”.

Beigie, Carl E.

  • Person
  • ?-2010

Carl E. Beigie received his Ph.D from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) focusing on the Canada-US Automotive Agreement. He was the President of the C. D. Howe Institute in Montreal, Quebec and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Management at McGill University.

Beker, Jeanne

  • Person
  • 1952-present

Jeanne Beker was born March 19, 1952 in Toronto, Ontario. She attended William Lyon Mackenzie Collegiate Institute. She first launched her career as an actor, landing a role in the CBC Television sitcom Toby in 1968. She entered the theatre program at York University, and then went to Paris to study mime under Étienne Decroux. She then returned to Canada, working for CBC Radio as an arts and entertainment reporter in St. John's while pursuing her theatrical career.
Beker returned to Toronto in 1978, producing daily lifestyle and entertainment features for 1050 CHUM. She launched Citytv's music magazine show The NewMusic in 1979 as co-host with J. D. Roberts and also became an entertainment reporter for CityPulse. She briefly hosted Rockflash news segments on MuchMusic when that station was launched, hosted MovieTelevision, and produced segments for Entertainment Tonight. In 1995, Beker launched @Fashion, the Internet's first-ever fashion website, for American communication giant MCI. From 1985 to 2012 Beker hosted FashionTelevision. From 2012 to 2014 Beker hosted fashion and entertainment segments for Bell Media properties including CTV News, Canada AM and The Marilyn Denis Show. Simultaneously, Beker wrote articles on fashion and style for the Toronto Star, The Kit and The Loop.
Beker is currently a columnist for The Globe and Mail.
She also launched her own fashion line in 2001 "Jeanne Beker" for Eaton's, and "Inside Out by Jeanne Beker" with Sears Canada. Beginning in 2010, Beker released a clothing line entitled 'Edit by Jeanne Beker' at The Bay. In 2013, Beker released a line of footwear with retailer The Shoe Company and a line of eyewear through FYSH UK. In 2014, Beker launched a capsule collection of clothing, fashion jewelry and eyewear with Rogers Media electronic retailer The Shopping Channel. In 2015, Beker launched the weekly live television program Style Matters with Jeanne Beker for The Shopping Channel.

Belafonte, Harry

  • Person
  • 1927-present

American singer, actor, producer, and activist who was a key figure in the folk music scene of the 1950s and was also involved in various social causes, notably the civil rights movement.
He served in the U.S. Navy in the mid-1940s and studied drama at Erwin Piscator’s Dramatic Workshop, where a singing role led to nightclub engagements and a recording contract as a pop singer.
He then became a folk singer, learning songs at the Library of Congress’s American folk song archives. He sang Caribbean folk songs as well, in nightclubs and theatres; his handsome appearance added to his appeal as a frequent performer on television variety programs. He initiated a fad for calypso music and became known as the King of Calypso and also made a Broadway debut; winning a Tony award for his performance. He also starred in films and a TV special, earning an Emmy. In the 1960s he became the first African American television producer.

Belanger, Al

  • Person
  • [ca. 1985]

He was an architect who helped build Masonville Place (Masonville Mall), in London, Ontario.

Belcourt & Blair

  • Corporate body

Founded by Victor Philip Belcourt and D. L. Blair in 1948.

Victor Philip Belcourt (1908-1965) was born in Ottawa on 26 May 1908 and educated at the University of Ottawa (in 1918-25) and at Mount St. Louis College in Montreal (in 1925-27). He later worked as a draftsman for Noffke & Sylvester in 1927-28. After completing his formal education in architecture at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Montreal in 1928-34 he traveled to London, England where he worked as assistant to Sir John J. Burnet. On returning to Ottawa he was briefly in partnership with Roper & Morin (in 1939-40), then served with the Canadian Navy during WWII. In 1948 he formed a new partnership with D.L. Blair (as Belcourt & Blair) and remained active in this Ottawa firm until his death on 7 April 1965.

Belier, Bill

  • Person
  • 1920-2013

He graduated from St. Patrick's, in Ottawa and served with RAF Transport Command. After the War, he attended New York Institute of Photography, then started a long career in the Photo Trade Associated Screen News and with Bell and Howell. President and GM of Argus Cameras of Canada.

Bell & Howell Co.

  • Corporate body

The Bell & Howell Company was incorporated February 17, 1907 by Donald Bell and Albert Howell. The company was a supplier of a variety of media equipment, becoming a supplier for schools and offices. The firm added microfilm products in 1946. It purchased University Microfilms International in the 1980s. UMI produced a product called ProQuest. In the 2000s, Bell & Howell decided to focus on their information technology businesses. The imaging business was sold to Eastman Kodak and the international mail business was sold to Pitney Bowes. On June 6, 2001 Bell & Howell became a ProQuest Company but is now a subsidiary of the private Cambridge Information Group. In September 2001, the remaining industrial businesses, along with the Bell & Howell name were sold to private equity firm Glencoe Capital. The company merged with the North American arm of Böwe Systec Inc. In 2003; Böwe Systec later acquired the entire company. It was known as Böwe Bell & Howell until 2011, when Versa Capital Management bought the company out of bankruptcy and renamed the company "Bell and Howell, LLC"

Bell Features and Publishing Company Limited

  • Corporate body

This Toronto based publishing company was founded in 1939 under the name Commercial Signs of Canada by Gene and Cy Bell. They began publishing Canadian comic books in 1941, when the War Measures act limited the importation of luxury goods (including comic books) into the country. These publications were black and white, with full colour on the cover only leading to the term "Canadian Whites" being used to describe Canadian war-era comics. Located on York Street, the company published bi-monthly variety comics with Canadian characters and stories written and illustrated by Canadian authors and artists. Titles included "Active Comics", "Commando Comics", "Dime Comics", "The Funny Comics", "Wow Comics", "Joke Comics", and "Triumph Comics". Commercial Signs changed its name to Bell Features and Publishing Company in 1942, when Adrian Dingle and his Hillborough Studios joined the company, brining with it the Triumph-Adventure comic and the first Canadian female superhero, Nelvana of the Northern Lights. When trade restrictions ended in 1945, and American comic books returned to the Canadian market, the company faced difficult competition and circulation dropped. The company eventually closed in 1953.

Bell, Chris

  • Person
  • [ca. 2018]

Chris Bell has a BAA in Film and Photography and worked for Ryerson University as a photographer from 1979-1987. He is now a founding partner at WolfsonBell.

Bell, Daniel

  • Person
  • 1919-2011

American sociologist and journalist who used sociological theory to reconcile what he believed were the inherent contradictions of capitalist societies.
He was educated at City College of New York, where he received a B.S. (1939), and was then employed as a journalist for more than 20 years. As managing editor of The New Leader (1941–44) and labour editor for Fortune (1948–58), he wrote on various social subjects. After serving in Paris (1956–57) as director of the seminar program of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, he received a doctorate at Columbia University (1960), where he was appointed professor of sociology (1959–69). In 1969 Bell became a professor of sociology at Harvard University, where he remained until 1990.
He has received numerous awards for his work, including the American Sociological Association (ASA) Lifetime Achievement Award (1992), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) Talcott Parsons Prize for the Social Sciences (1993), and the French government’s Alexis de Tocqueville Prize (1995).

Bell, David

  • Person
  • 1944-2017

He won the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship after attending Glendon College at York University and went on to earn his PhD in political science at Harvard University. After graduating from Harvard, he taught at Michigan State University for two years. In 1971, Bell returned to Canada and assumed the role of Dean of Graduate studies at York University, and later became the Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Studies.

Bell, Eleanor

  • Person
  • 1973-present

She is an author

Bella, Irving

  • Person
  • [ca. 1978]

She was an author

Belyea Bros

  • Corporate body
  • 1908-

Belyea Bros. Heating, Cooling & Electrical stated in 1908 as a plumbing and heating company, and to this day remain independently owned as a family business. They hold the first plumbing and heating license issued in the City of Toronto, PH1.

Bender, Peter Urs

  • Person
  • 1944-2005

Peter Urs Bender was born in 1944 in Basel, Switzerland. He emigrated to Canada in 1967. Peter worked as a Sales manager for a large American software company before he started his own business in the mid 1980's. Peter taught 3 business courses in the continuing education department of Ryerson University for almost 15 years, teaching his last class in 1981. He has published 5 books and was an international lecturer/motivational speaker. In 1994 Peter received his Certified Speaking Professional designation from the U. S. National Speakers Association. In 1995 he received the Communications and Leadership Award from Toastmasters International and the Ted Kemper Leadership Award in 1996. Finally in 2001 he was named a member of the Canadian Speakers Hall of Fame. Peter Urs Bender died in 2005.

Benjamin, Akua

  • Person
  • [ca. 1969]

Akua Benjamin was born in Trinidad. She immigrated to Canada in 1969, studied Sociology at York University,and received both her Master of Social Work and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. As a young woman, she adopted the name Akua, given her by a friend. It was a time of the civil rights movement, she recalls, and Blacks were reclaiming their identity so she took on the continental African name, which means girl born on Wednesday.
Following employment in the fields of psychiatric social work and addictions, she has been teaching at Ryerson University since 1988. Along with these formal employment undertakings, Akua has worked with varying community members and groups on issues of immigration, employment, education, criminal justice, feminism, anti-racism, health and other critical issues impacting many individuals and groups . As such, her research interests and community work continue to address the structural and complex issues that impede social justice and equitable treatment for many racialized and marginalized populations.

Bennett, Andre

  • Person
  • [ca. 1970]

He has an AA from Pasadena City College, a BA from San Francisco State University, and an MA from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is now the owner of Cinema Esperanca International.

Bennett, Charles W.

  • Person

Charles W. Bennett was associated with St. Paul's Church in Halifax, Nova Scotia

Bennett, Ethel Hume

  • Person
  • 1881-[1956]

Ethel Hume Patterson, born in 1881, attended the best girls' schools in Toronto. Although her mother died when Ethel was only ten, the ardent student carried on, studying at the Huron Street Public School, Bishop Strachan, and the Harbord Street Collegiate. Before, during, and after completing her BA from Victoria College, University of Toronto in 1905, Ethel taught for two years in Stanstead and Sarnia. She was employed as head teacher at Havergal Collegiate from 1908 until she retired to marry U of T classmate John Smith Bennett in 1916. Although Ethel was over forty when she began to publish, she evidently was a skilled writer during her younger years: her graduating 1905 yearbook described her as "a little girl for whom is predicted a big literary career." In her books, she depicted the girls she knew from her years as a student and teacher, and adapted the English genre of girls' school stories to distinctly Canadian settings. The geography and history of Georgian Bay form the backdrop of CAMP KEN-JOCKETY (1923); CAMP CONQUEROR (1928) relates the heroine's struggles with fears of the vast Canadian wilderness. In addition, Ethel selected and edited two collections of animal stories by Charles G.D. Roberts, THIRTEEN BEARS (1947) and FOREST FOLK (1949), and NEW HARVESTING (1938), a poetry anthology which presented many previously unknown writers.

Bennett, Ethel Mary Granger

  • Person
  • 1891-1988

Ethel Mary Granger Bennett (1891–1988) was a teacher, academic and writer. She was born in Shroton, Dorsetshire, England, the daughter of James Henry Granger and Julia Ann Hutchings. She married Harold Bennett in 1919. She died in Toronto, Ontario.Granger Bennett was raised in Collingwood, Ontario. After graduating from Collingwood Collegiate Institute, she taught briefly at a nearby school before entering Victoria College, Toronto, in the autumn of 1911. She received a B.A. in modern languages in 1915 and a Ph.D. in French literature from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1931. She taught at several colleges: as an instructor in modern languages at Ontario Ladies College, Whitby (1915–19); as a professor of French and German at Lebanon Valley College, Annville, Pennsylvania (1922–28); and as a special lecturer in French at Victoria College (1945–47).Granger Bennett wrote several books of historical fiction featuring women in 17th-century New France which were published by Ryerson Press: Land for Their Inheritance (1955), A Straw in the Wind (1958), and Short of the Glory (1960), which won the Ryerson Fiction Award for that year. She contributed short stories for children in Discovery, a magazine for children published by the United Church of Canada. She also contributed entries for the Dictionary of Canadian Biography in the early 1960s. After her husband died in 1973, she continued to write stories for friends and relatives until her death.

Bennett, H.

  • Person
  • [ca. 1940]

Author

Bennett, Henry Hamilton

  • Person
  • 1843-1908

Henry Hamilton Bennett purchased a studio in Kilbourn, Wisconsin in 1865 and renamed it "H.H. Bennett Studio." Bennett was best known for building most of his own equipment, including his camera and stereograph-mounting machine. While Bennett photographed landscape scenes around Kilbourn and the Wisconsin River, his wife Evaline Marshall Bennet ran the portrait studio. Following 1949, his daughters took over the business. Much of Bennett's images were used to promote local attractions or used in the tourist trade.

Bennison, David

  • Person
  • [ca. 1969]

In 1969, he received a BA in Geography from the University of Leeds, an MA and a PHD from Durham University also in Geography(1969-1977) and a MA in Marketing from Lancaster University in 1982. He then became a professor at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Benson, Irene Chapman

  • Person
  • 1892-1981

Irene Chapman Benson was born in Waterloo,Ontario in 1892. She was a poet. She died in Victoria, British Columbia in 1981.

Benson, Nathaniel Anketell

  • Person
  • 1903-1966

Nathaniel Anketell Benson was born October 11, 1903 in Toronto, Ontario to parents Thomas and Catherine (Sheehan). He attended University College, University of Toronto and received an honours B.A. in modern languages in 1927, received his M. A. in 1928 and graduated from the Ontario College of Education, University of Toronto in 1932.
He married Emma Wright on October 4, 1930. Together they had children Julian David Thomas, and Charles William Michael.
His career started in 1928 as a contributor to the Mail and Empire publication. From there he went on to be the co-ordinator of the Evening Telegram in Toronto (1929); Junior Editor at the Manitoba Free Press in Winnipeg (1929); Freelance journalist (1930-1931); Teacher Weston Vocational School (1932-1933); Teacher Danforth Technical School (1933-1937); Canadian Poetry Magazine managing editor (1937-1943); worked for a variety of advertising companies in New York (1940-1948); Saturday night drama critic (1946-1949); Teacher at R. H. King Collegiate Institute (1955).
Benson was a member of the Canadian Literary Club (past president 1936-1938); Canadian Authors Association (national vice-president, and president Toronto branch 1941-1943 and founder of New York branch 1943-1944); Poetry Society of America (1944).
Benson died in Detroit, Michigan in 1966.

Berberoglu, Hrayr

  • Person
  • [ca. 1968]

Hrayr Berberoglu received his diploma from the Salzburg Hotel Management School in Austria. After which he worked in hotels in Germany. In 1968 he emigrated to Montreal and then to Toronto - working at the Sutton Place, and Bristol Hotels. He began lecturing at Ryerson's Hospitality and Tourism program. He continued on as a professor with the school for 27 years, retiring in 2001. During this period he also received his Bachelor of Arts degree from York University. Hrayr has written more than 40 books on food, wine, and the hospitality industry. He also contributes work to several online magazines and consults for the food and wine industries.

Bercuson, David J.

  • Person
  • 1945-present

He attended Sir George Williams University, graduating in June 1966 with Honours in History and winning the Lieutenant-Governor's Silver Medal for the highest standing in history. After graduation he pursued graduate studies at the University of Toronto, earning an MA in history in 1967 and a Ph.D. in 1971. He has published in academic and popular publications on a wide range of topics specializing in modern Canadian politics, Canadian defence and foreign policy, and Canadian military history. He has written, coauthored, or edited over 30 popular and academic books and does regular commentary for television and radio. He has written for the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the Calgary Herald, the National Post and other newspapers.
In 1988, Bercuson was elected to the Royal Society of Canada and in May 1989, he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies at The University of Calgary. In 1997 he was appointed Special Advisor to the Minister of National Defence on the Future of the Canadian Forces. He was a member of the Minister of National Defence’s Monitoring Committee from 1997 to 2003. He served on the Advisory Council on National Security from 2005 to 2008. Since January 1997 he has been the Director of the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary. Currently he is also the Director of Programs of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute, which is based in Calgary. Dr. Bercuson served as Honorary Lieutenant Colonel of 41 Combat Engineer Regiment, a Land Force Reserve military engineer unit of the Canadian Forces until November 2010. He is a member of Board of Governors of the Royal Military College of Canada. In 2002 Dr. Bercuson was awarded the J. B. Tyrrell Historical Medal from the Royal Society of Canada. In 2003, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada.

Beresford-Howe, Constance

  • Person
  • 1922-2016

Constance Beresford-Howe was born November 10, 1922 in Montreal, Quebec. She attended McGill University where she received her Bachelor of Arts in 1945 and her Masters of Arts in 1946. She married Christopher Presnell in 1960, and completed her Ph.D at Brown University in 1965. Constance began her teaching career at McGill in 1949. She left there in 1971 to come to Toronto and teach English at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute. She taught at Ryerson until 1987. Aside from teaching she has written 10 novels, her first in 1946 called The Unreasoning Heart and her last in 1991 called A Serious Widow. She has also written for several magazines. 1 of her books, "The Book of Eve", was adapted into a play called "Eve" that debuted at the Stratford Festival in 1976 with Jessica Tandy as the lead. It was made into a movie in 2002 called "The Book of Eve". CBC created a television adaptation of "A Population of One", and "The Marriage Bed" was made into a T.V. movie in 1986. Constance has also written a script for a T.V. movie called "The Cuckoo Bird" and acted in a movie called "Hugh MacLennan: Portrait of a Writer" as herself

Berg, Peter

  • Person
  • 1937-2011

He studied psychology and enlisted in the army. He was an author and advocated bio-regionalism.

Berger, Carl C.

  • Person
  • [ca. 2018]

Berger has a BA from the University of Manitoba, an MA and a PhD from the University of Toronto. He is a Professor Emeritus in Canadian history at the University of Toronto. During his forty years with the University, Prof. Berger published four books, numerous articles and reviews, and edited and contributed to many more books on Canadian history. His 1976 book The Writing of Canadian History: Aspects of English Canadian Historical Writing won the Governor-General’s Award for non-fiction. In 1990 his book The Sense of Power was named one of twenty best books by the Social Science Federation of Canada published since 1940.
In 1976 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and in 1984 the Society gave him the J. B. Tyrrell Historical Medal. He retired in 2003.

Berger, Thomas R.

  • Person
  • 1933-present

He received a BA from the University of British Columbia 1955 and an LL.B., 1956. He worked for Shulman, Tupper and Co., as a lawyer, from 1957-62, then Thomas R. Berger and Co., as a lawyer, from 1963-71, before serving as a judge for the Supreme Court of British Columbia, judge, from 1971-83. He also served as a lecturer at a number of institutions, after being a politician, culminating with his leadership of the New Democratic Party of British Columbia, in 1969. He acted as a commissioner for a number of issues including the Royal Commission on Family and Children's Law, 1973-75, the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry, commissioner, 1974-77, the Indian and Inuit Health Consultation, 1979-80 and the Alaska Native Review Commission, 1983-85. In 1978, he won the Distinguished Achievement Award, Sierra Club of North America.

Bergeron, Leandre

  • Person
  • 1933-present

He studied literature at the University of Manitoba, then at the University of Aix , where he completed his PhD. His a professor at Concordia University and the Royal Military College of Canada. He is the author of a language dictionary and is a Canadian playwright

Bergerson, Phil

  • Person

Phil Bergerson received his Diploma from Ryerson's Photographic Arts program in 1970 and later received his Honours Bachelor of Arts Degree in Fine Arts from York University. Phil Bergerson returned to Ryerson in 1972 as an instructor in the Photographs Arts Program that later became Image Arts. In 1974 he started Ryerson's Annual International Lecture Series on Photography, which later became the Kodak Lecture Series. He invited internationally renowned photographers, historians and curators to come and speak at Ryerson University. He organized this lecture series and was involved with it until 1989. In 1979 he organized "Canadian Perspectives" a national conference on photography and in 1983 he created the first International Symposium of Photographic Theory. In 1988 he was the Program Director for the Media Arts program. He was the 2006 recipient of the Sarwan Sahota Distinguished Scholar Award from Ryerson. He retired in 2007 after 35 years of teaching. Over the course of Phil Bergerson's career he has received 26 awards and grants, and had 35 solo exhibitions of his work. He has published a book entitled "Shards of America" featuring over a hundred of his images taken across the U.S.A. He has had photographs published in magazines such as the New Yorker, the Walrus, New York Times Magazine, and Photo Life Magazine. The National Gallery of Canada, the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, the Shadai Gallery in Japan, and the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography in Ottawa own pieces of Phil's work.

Berle, Adolf A.

  • Person
  • 1895-1971

After graduating, he joined the US military and then after being discharged joined the American delegation to the Paris Peace Conference, advocating for smaller nations' rights of self-determination. In 1919, Berle moved to New York City and became a member of the law firm of Berle, Berle and Brunner.
Berle became a professor of corporate law at Columbia Law School in 1927 and remained on the faculty until retiring in 1964.
He was an original member of Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Brain Trust", a group of advisers who developed policy recommendations. Berle's focuses ranging from economic recovery to diplomatic strategy during Roosevelt's 1932 election campaign. Roosevelt's "Commonwealth Club Address", a speech written by Berle on government involvement in industrial and economic policy, was ranked in 2000 as the second-best presidential campaign speech of the 20th century by public address scholars.
While remaining an informal adviser of Roosevelt after the election, Berle returned to New York City and became a key consultant in the successful mayoral election campaign of reformer Fiorello LaGuardia. From 1934 to 1938, Berle managed the city's fiscal affairs as its last Chamberlain. Then, from 1938 to 1944, Berle was Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs. In 1943, Berle's duties in the State Department involved political supervision of the various clandestine activities necessitated by the war. Working with his assistant Charles W. Yost, Berle liaised with the OSS, and with the Joint Intelligence Committee of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Berle also was a major architect in the development of federal farm and home owners' mortgage programs and in the expansion of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1944.
He served as Ambassador to Brazil from 1945 to 1946, before returning to his academic career at Columbia. Berle briefly returned to government service for the first half of 1961, serving under President John F. Kennedy as head of an interdepartmental task force on Latin American affairs.

Berlin, Isaiah

  • Person
  • 1909-1997

Berlin's family moved twice when he was younger, allowing him to witness the Russian Revolutions of 1917. From there, they emigrated, in 1921, to Britain, living in and around London, studying Greats (classical languages, ancient history, and philosophy) and PPE (politics, philosophy and economics). In 1932 he was appointed a lecturer at New College; the same year he became the first Jew to be elected to a Prize Fellowship at All Souls, considered one of the highest accolades in British academic life.
During the Second World War Berlin served in the British Information Services in New York City (1940–2) and at the British Embassy in Washington, DC (1942–6). After the war Berlin returned to Oxford. Although he continued to teach and write on philosophy throughout the later 1940s and into the early 1950s, his interests had shifted to the history of ideas, particularly Russian intellectual history, the history of Marxist and socialist theories, and the Enlightenment and its critics. He also began to publish widely-read articles on contemporary political and cultural trends, political ideology, and the internal workings of the Soviet Union. In 1950, election to a Research Fellowship at All Souls allowed him to devote himself to his historical, political and literary interests, which lay well outside the mainstream of philosophy as it was then practiced at Oxford. He was, however, one of the first of the founding generation of Oxford philosophers to make regular visits to American universities, and played an important part in spreading ‘Oxford philosophy’ to the USA. In 1957, Berlin was elected Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford. He resigned his chair in 1967, the year after becoming founding President of Wolfson College, Oxford, which he essentially created, retiring in 1975. From 1966 to 1971 he was also a visiting Professor of Humanities at the City University of New York, and he served as President of the British Academy from 1974 to 1978. Berlin was knighted in 1957, and was appointed to the Order of Merit in 1971.

Berman, Rachel

  • Person
  • [ca. 2000]

Rachel Berman received a B.A. Honours in History from Queen's University, a B.A. Honours Magna Cum Laude in Psychology from York University, her Masters of Arts in Human Development from the University of Connecticut, and her Ph.D from the University of Guelph in Family Studies. She joined the Faculty of Ryerson's School of Early Childhood Education in 2000. She is involved in the Ryerson Centre for Children, Youth and Family. In the 2008-2009 school year Rachel was the acting Director of the Graduate Program in Early Childhood Studies. Rachel was awarded a Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada grant, along with 4 others, for a research project on adolescents in military families. She has also received a research grant from the HRDC. She has been involved in numerous research projects.

Bermingham, Philip

  • Person
  • [ca. 2002]

In 2002, he received a BA in Applied Geography from Ryerson University, then an MSA in 2006 from Ryerson and the University of Toronto. He currently is the Director, of Data and Analytics at RPS, Real Property Solutions.

Bernhard, Dr. Judith

  • Person
  • [ca. 1973]

Dr. Judith Bernhard moved to Canada in 1973 from Chile. She graduated with Bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education from Ryerson in 1979. After this she moved to Puerto Rico to work in a children's learning disability clinic. In the early 1980's Judith returned to Ryerson, working in the schools Early Learning Centre. While working here she completed her Master's degree in Educational theory at the University of Toronto in 1985, and her Ph.D in Special Education from the University of Toronto in 1990. She began working as an associate professor with the school of Early Childhood Education at Ryerson, and gained full professorship in the early 1990's. She is also the Director of the MA in Early Childhood Studies program. During her time at Ryerson, Dr. Bernard has authored or co-authored many papers, reports, books, and book chapters and has been principal investigator on 7 major research studies. Her main focus of research is on immigrant and refugee children and cultural issues in human development and education. She has won the Sarwan Sahota Award and the Distinguished Alumni Award from Ryerson. She was also awarded the Maria De Wit Metropolitan Toronto Children's Services Award, and in 2002 she was granted a Fulbright Fellowship.

Bert's

  • Corporate body
  • 1915-1945

Bert's was a photography studio that was located in Kansas City, Missouri. The studio specialized in theatrical photography.

Bertram

  • Corporate body

Berzins

  • Person
  • [ca. 1959]

Besky, Al

  • Person
  • [ca. 1960]

Besse, Ronald Duncan

  • Person
  • 1938-present

Ronald Duncan Besse was born in Stayner, Ontario on December 7, 1938. He attended Collingwood District Highschool, graduating in 1957 and graduated from Ryerson Polytechnical Institute's Business program in 1960. He worked his way up from sales manager to President and CEO of McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd. (1960-1976). In 1976 he became the President of Consolidated Graphics from 1976 to 1978 and Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Gage Educational Publishing Co. Ltd. and other related companies which became Canada Publishing Corporation from 1978 to 2003. Mr. Besse has been Independent Director at CI Financial Corp. since October 11, 1995 and its Lead Director since 1999. He serves as a Director of Luxembourg Cambridge Holding Group and Rogers Media Inc. He served as an Independent Director of Rogers Communications Inc. from June 1984 to April 25, 2012. He served as a Director of Rogers Wireless Inc. since February 2005. He served as a Director of CML Healthcare Inc., Manager of CML Healthcare Income Fund. He served as a Director of Rogers Cable Inc. since October 10, 2004. Previously, he served as Trustee of CI Financial Corp., (formerly, CI Fund Management Inc.) since October 11, 1995 and also served as its Lead Trustee. He serves as a Member of the Chief Executives' Organization, World President' Organization. He was President, Canadian Book Publishers' Council. Mr. Besse was a Governor of Ryerson University, West Park Hospital and Sunnybrook and Women's Health Sciences Centre. He was awarded the Alumni Award of Distinction, Business Administration in 1998. He holds an Honorary Doctorate of Commerce from Ryerson in 2004.

Bevington, Stan

  • Person
  • [ca. 1965]

In 1965, Stan Bevington, a typesetter, newly transplanted to Toronto from Edmonton, created Coach House Press.
In the 1970s, Bevington lectured at York University and Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, and in the 1980s at the Banff Publishing workshops and Radcliffe at Harvard. He was awarded several Canada Council artists' grants during this time and made the Coach House available as a printmaking studio for a number of Canadian artists.
In 1999, Bevington won an Alcuin Society Award for Design for his work on the Toronto in Print catalogue. That same year, Arts Toronto awarded him the William Kilbourn Lifetime Achievement Award, while the Organization of Book Publishers of Ontario gave him the 2005 Janice E. Hanford Small Press Award. In June 2008, Coach House won the Ontario Premier's Award for Excellence in the Arts. In July 2009, Bevington was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada for his outstanding contribution to Canadian culture. In May 2010 Stan was awarded Doctor of Fine Arts, honoris causa from NSCAD. He continues to work at Coach House Press.
In March 2012, Bevington was awarded the Robert R. Reid medal for Lifetime Achievement to the Book Arts in Canada by The Alcuin Societ

Bevis, Adrian

  • Person
  • [ca. 1976]

Adrian Bevis started in the Ryerson Polytechnical Institute Library in 1976. In 1987 he was promoted from library assistant to library technician. Adrian started out as a periodical assistant, eventually ending up in the Media library. He was inducted into Ryerson's 25 year club in 2001 and retired after 27 years service in August of 2003. Aside from his work in the Ryerson library, Adrian is known for his hand drawn cards. He is also a musician and songwriter, playing the bass and the guitar.

Beyins

  • Person
  • [ca. 1958]

Bezanson, Ancel Maynard

  • Person
  • 1878-1959

Ancel Maynard Bezanson was born in Nova Scotia September 1, 1878 and began his love affair with the Peace Country in 1906. That year he traveled throughout the Peace with a camera and a notebook, and shortly thereafter published The Peace River Trails, which was a success. He was convinced of the agricultural potential of the area, and returned for a scouting trip in 1907, and again with his bride, Dorothy Robillard, in 1908. That winter, Dorothy died in childbirth, but her child (Frank) survived. In 1910, Bezanson married Dorothy's sister Lois and the couple returned to the Peace Country. The couple lost twin girls and had one more son who survived (Jim). The Bezanson Ranch was called Teepee Ranch, but Bezanson also kept herds of cattle at Saskatoon Lake. When the C.N.R. Survey came through Teepee Ranch in 1908, Bezanson began to promote a townsite "along the railway" on a bench above the Smoky River. In 1913, Bezanson drove the first car over the Edson Trail. Accompanying him was A.J. Davidson, a real estate dealer from Edmonton, who supported Bezanson's vision of a railroad and town. In 1914 Bezanson published "Looking Ahead in the Peace Country-Building of a City" with a detailed map of the Bezanson townsite. However, when the railroad finally came in 1916, it came to Grande Prairie. Bitterly disappointed, Bezanson left the area, returning to settle at Pouce Coupe in 1931. His sons Frank and Jim, with their families, continue to make their home in British Columbia.

Biasiotto, Marco

  • Person
  • [ca. 2003]

He received an MA is Spatial Analysis from Ryerson University. He worked at Oxford Properties Group from 2003-2009, before joining Primaris Retail REIT from 2010-2013. Mario then rejoined Oxford Properties Group and served as Director of Asset Research and Director of Analytics, Insights and Innovation.

Bielmeier, George

  • Person
  • -2023

George Bielmeier, retired member of the Department of Social Work. Died September 9, 2023.

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