J. H. MacIntyre wrote several books of poetry under the pseudonym "Mack".

Thomas (Tom) Robert Edward MacInnes was born on October 29, 1867 in Dresden, Ontario. His family moved to New Westminster, British Columbia in 1874. His father, Thomas Robert McInnes, served in the Senate of Canada from 1881 to 1897, and as Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia from 1897 until 1900. MacInnes was educated at University College, Toronto, graduating with a B.A. from the University of Toronto in 1887. He studied law at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto and was called to the bar in 1893. MacInnes served as secretary to the Bering Sea Claims Commission in 1896 and 1897, and for part of 1897 was a member of the Yukon special police and customs force at Skagway. He acted as private secretary to his father, the Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia, from 1898 until 1900. MacInnes spent long periods in China, where he had business interests, between 1916 and 1927. MacInnes wrote a series of articles on his experiences there that were published in 1926 in the Vancouver Morning Star and Vancouver Province. They became the basis of his 1927 book, "Oriental Occupation of British Columbia". MacInnes was also a popular poet of the early 20th century in Canada. He died on February 11, 1951.

Elizabeth (Elsie) Muriel Gregory MacGill was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1905. Her mother was Helen Gregory MacGill, the first woman judge in Canada and her father was James Henry MacGill, a well-known lawyer. Elsie attended the University of Toronto, and was the first woman in Canada to graduate with a degree in Electrical Engineering. After graduation she worked for the Austin Automobile Company in Michigan. The company started producing aircraft, and Elsie became interested in the field of aeronautics. She began working towards her Master's degree in Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Michigan and in 1929 became the the first woman to earn the degree. The same year she was afflicted with a form of polio and told she would not walk again. During her recovery, she wrote articles on aviation, and began studying at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She would walk again, aided by two canes. In 1934 she worked for Fairchild Aircraft Ltd in Longueuil, Quebec as an assistant aeronautical engineer. She helped to design the first all-metal aircraft built in Canada. In 1938 she was appointed Chief Aeronautical Engineer for the Canadian Car and Foundry Company (Can-Car). There she would design and test the Maple Leaf II Trainer - making her the first female aircraft designer in the world. Because of her disability she was not allowed to fly the planes but was always a passenger on text flights. She was elected as the first woman corporate member of the Engineering Institute of Canada. Her best known work was on the WWII Hawker Hurricane fighter planes. She was in charge of all engineering work, including adapting the plane to fly in cold weather. She was also in charge of engineering work on the Curtiss-Wright Helldiver fighters for the United States Navy.
Elsie MacGill married E.J. (William) Soulsby in 1943, moving to Toronto and starting her own private consulting firm specializing in aeronautical engineering. In 1946, she became the first female Technical Advisor to the United Nations' International Civil Aviation Organization. She was Chair of the Stress Analysis Committee. Dr. MacGill published a biography of her mother in 1955 entitled "My mother the judge : a biography of Judge Helen Gregory MacGill". She was President of the Canadian Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs from 1962 until 1964. In 1967, she was appointed as one of the seven Commissioners on the newly-established Royal Commission on the Status of Women. Elsie died in 1980.
She received numerous awards during her career including: Gzowski Medal of the Engineering Institute of Canada (1941); Award for Meritorious Contribution to Engineering from the American Society of Women Engineers, (first non-American to be named "Woman Engineer of the Year") (1953); Centennial Medal by the Government of Canada (1967); Order of Canada (1971); Julian Smith Award from the Engineering Institute of Canada (1973); Amelia Earhart Medal from the International Association of Women Pilots (1975); and Gold Medal of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario (1979). She was also inducted into Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame in the 1980s, and into the Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame in the 1990s.

Gwendolyn Margaret MacEwen was born September 1, 1941 in Toronto, Ontario. Her first poem was published in The Canadian Forum when she was just 17 years old. She self-published her first two books "Seleh" and "The Drunken Clock" in 1961. In 1962 She married fellow poet Milton Acorn, divorcing him less than a year later. Her first major collection was titled "The Rising Fire" and was published in 1963. She also completed her fist novel, "Julian the Magician" that same year. MacEwen’s second novel, "King of Egypt, King of Dreams " was published in 1971. Beginning In the 1960s, MacEwen wrote to poetic dramas for the CBC. At the same time, she was writing another collection of poetry, "The Armies of the Moon" (1972). In 1979, she was commissioned by the St. Lawrence Theatre Company to re-imagine Euripedes’s "The Trojan Women" By the age of 37 MacEwen had published six critically acclaimed books of poetry, two novels, a book of short stories, a memoir, "Mermaids and Ikons", and had a play in production. She was invited to read her works across Canada and continued to write prolifically, including children’s stories and short narratives. She died November 30, 1987.
Gwendolyn MacEwen was awarded The Queen's Silver Jubilee Award in 1977. She also served as writer-in-residence at several Canadian universities including the University of Western Ontario (1985) and twice at the University of Toronto (1986 and 1987). She was twice awarded the Governor General’s Award for Poetry — in 1969 for The Shadow-Maker and posthumously for Afterworlds in 1987.

James Brown MacDougall was born in 1871 near Stirling, Scotland. His family emigrated to Canada - Ramsay Township in Ontario - when MacDougall was 2 years old. He attended Almonte High School, graduating in 1892 with the Prince of Wales Scholarship in Classics, English and Mathematics. He attended Queen's University and
graduated in 1896 with honours in Classics and English, and in 1897 became principal of the North Bay Model School. Dr. MacDougall made a major contribution to the
advancement of schools in Ontario during his period of professional service. In 1904, the Department of Education appointed him as the first resident inspector of schools in the North. In 1909, the North Bay Normal School was built and in 1911 Dr. MacDougall became the Master in English and the Science of Education. This position he held until 1919, when the Minister of Education appointed him the Chief Inspector of Public and Separate Schools. In 1918 Dr. MacDougall received his doctorate degree in Pedagogy from the University of Toronto. Dr. MacDougall advocated correspondence courses and railway school cars. As early as 1922 thirteen rural Consolidated Schools and Township Boards of Trustees were established in northern Ontario under the guidance of Dr. MacDougall. In 1925 Dr. MacDougall was transferred to the Department of Education where as Chief Inspector of Public and Separate Schools, he took charge of the general supervision of the elementary schools in Eastern and North-Eastern Ontario. Dr. MacDougall retired in 1942 after more than forty eight years as teacher, principal, inspector, and official of the Department of Education.

Wilson Pugsley MacDonald was born in Cheapside, Ontario on May 5, 1880. Educated at the public schools of Port Dover, at Woodstock College and at McMaster University. After graduating in 1902 he traveled to England, but returned to Canada as a bank clerk and was a advertising copywriter in the United States. He has made his home in Toronto, Ontario, but traveled greatly giving recital tours. He married one Dorothy Ann Colomy of Vassalboro, Maine in [1935]. He died April 8, 1967.
MacDonald wrote books and poetry including "The Song of the Prairie Land" (1918, 1923); "The Miracle Songs of Jesus" (1921, 1923); "Out of the Wilderness" (1926); "Ode on the Diamond Jubilee of Confederation" (1927). Other works of his include: "Caw Caw Ballads" (1930); "A Flagon of Beauty" (1931); "Paul Marchand" (1933); "Song of the Undertow" (1935); "Comber Cove" (1937); "Greater Poems of the Bible" (1943); "The Way Out" (1947); and "The Lyric Year" (1952).

Thoreau MacDonald, son of Group of Seven painter J. E. H. MacDonald, was born on April 21, 1901 in Toronto. He was a self-taught artist, illustrator and designer. He was colour blind, forcing him to work mainly in black and white. His illustrations were featured in books published by the Ryerson Press and in the Canadian Forum magazine. His work can be found in the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Hart House at the University of Toronto, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. MacDonald died May 30, 1989.

John Ford Macdonald earned his B.A. and M.A. from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and in 1925 joined the University College, University of Toronto English Department, following the publication of two books, the first on the Canadian poet William Henry Drummond in 1923, and the second, Milton and Representative Short Poems, from Oxford University Press in 1925. He brought out three more books before his retirement in 1948: an edition of The Vicar of Wakefield in 1936, Longer English Poems in 1937, and Twenty-one Modern Essays in 1941. He died in 1965.

Poet and story writer Dorothy Mary Gostwick Roberts was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick on July 6, 1906. As a young girl she spent time in England, France, Ottawa, Toronto and Fredericton. Educated at the University of New Brunswick, she officially launched her literary career in 1927 with the publication of a small book of poetry, "Songs for Swift Feet" under penname Gostwick Roberts. She worked briefly as a reporter for the Fredericton Daily Mail before enrolling at Connecticut State College, where she met August R. Leisner. They married in 1930 and raised two children: Anne and John. Dorothy and August relocated to Pennsylvania in 1945, when he joined the staff of the English Department at Pennsylvania State University. In Pennsylvania, Dorothy also immersed herself in academic life and continued her literary career. She produced a number of short stories on family themes, which were sold to Canadian and American literary magazines and periodicals. By the 1950s she was writing poetry in earnest, some of which appeared in her published works: "Dazzle", 1957; "In Star and Stalk", 1959; and "Twice to Flame", 1961. Other volumes followed: Extended, 1967, "The Self of Loss: New and Selected Poems", 1976; and "In the Flight of Stars", 1991, and her poetry appeared in a number of anthologies including Made in Canada, The Arts in New Brunswick, Oxford Book of Canadian Verse and Poetry by Canadian Women (1989). She also gave poetry readings and held poetry discussions at Penn State, and often participated in the Central Pennsylvania arts festival. Dorothy Roberts Leisner died at State College, Pennsylvania on April 23, 1993, being predeceased by August R. Leisner on June 23, 1973.

Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts was born in Douglas Manitoba January 10, 1860. As author of Orion and Other Poems (1880) Roberts inspired Bliss Carman (his cousin), Archibald Lampman and D.C. Scott and became a prominent member of the so-called "Confederation Poets." At his death he was regarded as Canada's leading man of letters. The son of a clergyman, he was brought up in New Brunswick, near the Tantramar Marsh and in Fredericton. He attended UNB (1876-79), and then worked as a schoolteacher at Chatham and Fredericton (1879-83), as editor of The Week (1883-84) and as professor at King's College, Windsor, NS (1885-95).
His finest poetry was produced in these early years, appearing in In Divers Tones (1886) and Songs of the Common Day (1893), and he was elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1890). Financial pressure forced him to turn his main attention to fiction. Then, in 1897, he moved to New York and subsequently lived apart from his wife and family. He wrote a number of novels and historical romances, but his most successful prose genre was the animal story, in which he drew upon his early experience in the wilds of the Maritimes. He published over a dozen such volumes between Earth's Enigmas (1896) and Eyes of the Wilderness (1933). In 1907 he left for Europe, where he continued to write, though interrupted by service in WWI. His return to Canada in 1925 led to a renewed production of verse with The Vagrant of Time (1927) and The Iceberg and Other Poems (1934). Roberts was a popular figure at this time. He lectured throughout Canada and in 1935 was knighted.
Roberts is remembered for creating in the animal story, along with Ernest Thompson SETON, the one native Canadian art form. His early descriptive and meditative poetry ("Tantramar Revisited,""The Potato Harvest,""The Sower") recreates his Maritimes years with vivid sensitivity. Although he never fulfilled his early poetic promise, he laid a foundation for future achievements in Canadian verse.
Roberts died in Toronto on November 26, 1943.

Cuthbert Goodridge MacDonald was born on May 10, 1897 in Fredericton, New Brunswick. He was educated in local Fredericton schools until 1912 before his family moved to Nelson, British Columbia, where he attended Nelson High School. From there he moved to Winnipeg in 1914. In 1915, his parents separated and his mother moved her sons to Ottawa. In Ottawa, MacDonald worked as a civil servant until 1916 when he enlisted in the war. From 1917 to 1918, he was deployed with the Queen’s Field Ambulance, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF). He was honourably discharged from that position because of bad health. MacDonald also was an editor of The Montreal Herald. He is best known for his poetry - coming from a dynasty of authors including Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald (his mother), Sir Charles G.D. Roberts, Theodore Goodridge Roberts, Bliss Carman, Dorothy Roberts, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the painter Goodridge Roberts. He died on January 9, 1967.

Finley Eldon MacDiarmid was born on March 31, 1899. He was educated at the Chatham Grammar School and the Provincial Normal School. He earned his B. A. from Mount Allison University in 1930 and his M. A. from the University of New Brunswick in 1934. His worked as the principal of a school in Devon, New Brunswick in 1920. He was later a principal of the grammar school at Woodstock. In 1933 he was named science master at the Provincial Normal School, and in 1949 he was appointed as chief superintendent of education for New Brunswick. He was the Deputy Minister of Education between 1957-1963. He died on November 24, 1980.

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.

Wallace Robinson MacAskill was born 1887 in St. Peters, Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia. He graduated from the Wade School of Photography in New York in 1907 and opened photographic studios in St. Peters and then Glace Bay before moving to Halifax in 1915. There, he worked for official military photographer W.G. MacLaughlan, and as a printer at Elite Studios from 1916 to 1919. Between 1920 and 1929 he was a photographer with Commercial Photo Service. In 1926, MacAskill married fellow commercial photographer Elva Abriel. In 1929, the Bluenose stamp based on his photograph was issued, and he opened a business under his own name on Barrington Street in Halifax. He became internationally known as a marine photographer and his photographs were used extensively for advertising by the Nova Scotia government. MacAskill published two books, "Out of Halifax" (1937) and "Lure of the Sea" (1951). A number of his photographs were also published in "Schooner Bluenose" by Andrew Merkel (1948). MacAskill was the recipient of numerous awards for his achievements in both photography and yachting, including the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron's Prince of Wales Cup (1932-1934, 1938), Thunderbird Crest Award for marine photography, and fellowship from the Photographers Society of America. He died at his home, "Brigadoon", in Ferguson Cove on January 25, 1956.

Arthur Maheux was a priest and historian from Quebec .

Charles Donnell Oberdorf was born in Sunbury, Snyder County, Pennsylvania, to Don and Helen Oberdorf, née Potteiger on February 25th 1941. Oberdorf graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) with a BFA. Oberdorf’s first job after university was with CBS owned and operated WCAU-TV in Philadelphia for TV Ten Around Town, a local public affairs program, which set the tone for his life-long career as a writer/editor/author/producer and some-time on-air host. In 1966 Oberdorf was hired as a junior producer for the CBC’s This Hour has Seven Days show, and subsequently succeeded in carving out a distinguished career in Canada as a freelance journalist, who won numerous writing recognitions, including the U.S. Lowell Thomas Award and several Canadian National Magazine Awards. In 2008 he received the Canadian magazine industry award for “Outstanding Lifetime Achievement,” in recognition of a 30-year writing and editing career, that included the coordinating of a continuing education program comprised of 14 courses on various aspects of Magazine and Web Publishing for Ryerson University. During his freelance writing career, Oberdorf authored countless articles, edited three magazines, and published three commissioned books on the then-fledgling world of Microfinance. Oberdorf passed away on September 16th 2011.

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Charles Edgar Walker was a professor of Business at Queen's University.

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.

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.

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.

T. R. L. MacInnes worked for the Indian Affairs Branch of the Department of Mines and Resources of the Canadian Government.

Arthur Reginald Marsden Lower was born in Barrie, Ontario on August 12, 1889. He attended both the University of Toronto and Harvard University. He was a Professor at Wesley College, Winnipeg (1929-47), and Douglas Professor of Canadian History at Queen's University, Kingston (1947-59). He authored many books including "The Trade in Square Timber" (1932); "Settlement and the Forest Frontier in Eastern Canada" (1936); "The North American Assault on the Canadian Forest" (1938); and "In Colony to Nation" (1946). He was awarded the Governor General's Award twice (1946, 1954), the Tyrrell Medal of the Royal Society of Canada (1947), and was made a Companion of the Order of Canada (1968).

Thomas Morris Longstreth was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on February 17, 1886. He attended Haverford College, graduating in 1908. After graduation he became a travelling tutor and teacher. He authored his first book "The Adirondacks" in 1917. At the time he was teaching in Kingston, Ontario. He wrote over 40 books in his career. He started out writing travel journals on the Adirondacks, the Laurentians, the Catskills, and wrote a biography of Abraham Lincoln’s son. Eventually he wrote historical fiction. He died in Philadelphia in 1975.

Morden Heaton Long was a professor of History at the University of Alberta. He was head of the department.

John Daniel Logan was born in Antigonish, Nova Scotia on May 2, 1869. He earned B. A., M. A. and Ph.D degrees. He is known for teaching the first Canadian Literature course at Acadia Universith in 1915. He worked in advertising, and journalism as well as teaching at American and Canadian Colleges and Univerisities. He died in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on January 24, 1929.

George Herbert Locke was born in Beamsville, Ontario on March 29, 1870. He attended Victoria College, University of Toronto. He would go on to teach at the University of Toronto, the University of Chicago, and Harvard University. He held the title of Dean of Education at the University of Chicago and the Dean at the School for Teachers at MacDonald College. He became the 2nd Chief Librarian for Toronto Public Libraries, promoting library training and professionalism. He helped to establish the Library School at the University of Toronto. He served as President of the Ontario Library Association between 1916-1917 and as President of the American Library Assocation between 1926-1927 (the first Canadian to do so). He received Honourary degrees from the University of Toronto and Western University. A plaque was erected in 1948 in Beamsville, Ontario by the The Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada in his honour. In 1949 the George H. Locke Memorial Branch of the Toronto Public Library was opened in 1949.

Walter Noah Malby (c1858-1892) was a professional photographer who operated a portrait studio at 68 East Street, Chichester, England.

Melvin Howard Tormé, nicknamed The Velvet Fog, was an American musician, best known as a singer of jazz standards. He was also a jazz composer and arranger, drummer, and actor in radio, film, and television, and the author of five books.

Thomas Robson operated a photography studio, Robson's Studio, in Bowmanville, Ontario.

The Maxwell Studio was operated by brothers Charles Thomas and Joseph D. Maxwell and was located in Walla Walla, Washington. It was opened by Joseph D. Maxwell in 1875, and in 1878 Charles D. joined. Two more studios in Spokane Falls and Dayton Washington were also opened by the brothers, and all three operated until about 1900

Douglas Lochhead, was born in Guelph, Ontario on March 25, 1922. He was raised in Ottawa and earned his B. A. from McGill University in 1943. He enlisted in the Canadian Armed Forces, serving as an infantryman in World War II. In 1947 he completed his M. A. at the University of Toronto. He then went back to McGill, earning his Library Science degree in 1951. His first job, post graduation, was as a librarian at the University of Victoria. He also worked at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, and York University in Ontario. He was hired by the University of Toronto's Massey College where he worked to establish the Canadian Literature in English and 19th Century Bibliography special collections. He left this position in 1975 to work for Mount Allison University in New Brunswick. There he was the Davidson Professor in Canadian Studies, a position he held until 1987, becoming the Writing in Residence between 1987-1990.
During his university career Lochhead was also the vice-chairmanship of the League of Canadian Poets (1967-1971), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1976) and, in 2002, he was appointed Poet Laureate of Sackville, New Brunswick. Lochhead published over thirty volumes of poetry during his life. Douglas Lochhead in Sackville, New Brunswick in 2011.

Cecil Francis Lloyd was born in Hertsfordshire, England. He was educated at Queen’s University and London University. He emigrated to Canada. He was in business in Winnipeg from 1917-1930. He became a freelance writer, publishing a number of volumes of essays and poetry, including "Landfall: Collected Poems" (1935). He died in Winnipeg.

Grover Livingstone was born in Richibucto, New Brunswick in 1887. At the age of two he became deaf in one ear and blind. While a student, he developed a system of Braille for writing the Hebrew alphabet. He was ordained in 1914 at Shediac. He married Elizabeth Grace Harper in 1919. His first two charges were at Shediac and at Grand' Mere. At the latter place, he developed tuberculosis and went to the Gravenhurst Sanatorium as a patient. Later, he was appointed Chaplain at that institution and served there for thirty-one years until his retirement in 1957.

John Frederick Bligh Livesay started his newspaper career in Winnipeg in 1902 as a telegraph editor with the Winnipeg Tribune. Three years later he joined the Winnipeg Telegram. When Western Associated Press (WAP) was established in September 1907 he became the agency’s General Manager. On 14 October 1915, he was appointed the Dominion’s Press Censor for the West and remained part of Canada’s national censorship staff for almost five years. With the approval of the Borden government in July 1918, CP selected Livesay to go overseas for several months as the news service’s war correspondent. Livesay returned to Winnipeg in early 1919 and on 1 March 1919 once again became Press Censor of the West. However, he remained in this position for only two months, until 30 April 1919, two weeks prior to the outbreak of the Winnipeg General Strike. Livesay continued as WAP’s manager until September 1917, when the western association merged with the Central Provinces and the Eastern Press Association to become the national news gathering service of Canadian Press Limited (CP). After the merger, CP’s national headquarters was established in Toronto and Livesay was appointed CP’s Assistant General Manager and placed in charge of the Winnipeg bureau and western Canadian operations. In 1920 he left Winnipeg for Toronto to become CP’s General Manager. He wrote two books: Canada’s Hundred Days in 1919 (on his war correspondent experience in late 1918) and The Making of a Canadian in 1947. On 1 September 1908, he married Florence Hamilton Randal and they had two daughters, Dorothy Livesay and Sophie Livesay. He died on 15 June 1944.

Florence Hamilton Randal was born in Compton, Quebec on November 3, 1874. She attended Compton Ladies' College, and her first poem "Remorse" was published while she was still in school. In 1888 Florence taught for a year at Sequin School in New York. She also taught at Buckingham Public School in Montreal. In the lated 1890s her writing career flourished. She published stories, poems, and articles in various North American periodicals. In 1902 she traveled to teach in South Africa with a group of other teachers. She returned to Canada in 1903 and moved to Winnipeg, working first as a secretary to Sanford Evans, editor of the Telegram newspaper. She transferred to the Winnipeg Free Press at the end of that year, where she had her own column written under the pseudonym "Kilmeny." She became engaged to John Frederick Bligh Livesay in 1906, a journalist she had known in Ottawa, but they could not afford to marry until 1908, after his appointment as manager of the Western Canadian Press. Florence became editor of the Children's Department at the Winnipeg Free Press in 1910. She started to learn about Ukrainian culture and taught herself to read the language but not to speak it. She later produced several translations of Ukrainian songs and folklore. In 1917 her husband helped found the Canadian Press. The family moved to Toronto in 1920. She continued her work with Ukrainian literature, she continued to publish translations and undertook a lecture tour on the topic in 1931 for the I.O.D.E. (Imperial Order of Daughters of the Empire). She died in 1953 in Grimsby, Ontario.

Frances Parkinson Keyes was born in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1885. She was raised in New Hampshire. She published her first novel in 1919. She married New Hampshire governor, and eventually Senator, Henry Wilder. Her writing career remained secondary to her role as a mother and political wife. For 14 years she wrote a monthly column for Good Housekeeping called "Letters from a Senator's Wife" and from 1923 to 1936 was a contributing editor. In 1937 she became editor of the National Historical Magazine, resigning the position in 1938 after the death of her husband. After his death, Keyes's career as a writer took hold. She authored a number of novels, including: "All That Glitters" (1941); "Crescent Carnival" (1942); "Dinner At Antoine's" (1948); and "Joy Street" (1950). Between 1919 and her death in 1970 she penned over 50 titles that included novels, memoirs, short story collections, and travelogues. She died in 1970.

Walter Jacobson Lindal was born in Iceland on April 22, 1887. The family moved to Saskatchewan. He attended Wesley College, winning the schools' gold medal in 1911. He went on to study law at the University of Saskatchewan, graduating in 1914 and was called to the bar that same year. He was called to the bar in 1919 in Manitoba, and was appointed King's Counsel in 1932. He served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War I. In the 1920s he became active in the Manitoba Liberal Association, serving as Secretary and Vice-President. He was a Liberal candidate for the Winnipeg constituency in the 1927 provincial general election. He was elected President in 1936, a position he held until his appointment to a county court judgeship in 1942. He retired from the Bench in 1962.Lindal was founder and president of the Citizenship Council of Manitoba, and also founder (1942) and honorary president of the Canada Press Club, the latter an organization representing ethnic newspapers in Winnipeg. He was given a Manitoba Golden Boy Award (1966) and the Centennial Medal of Honour by the Manitoba Historical Society in 1970. He died in Calgary, Alberta on July 28, 1976.

Percy Wyndham Lewis was born on November 18, 1882 near Nova Scotia. He moved to London with his mother in the 1890s, attending the Slade School of Fine Art, leaving before graduating to move to Paris. There he painted and attended lectures at the Sorbonne. He returned to London in 1908 and began authoring satirical stories and painting - inventing the Vorticism style. In 1914 he began publishing the journal "Blast: review of the great English vortex". The publication took aim a Victorian values. In World War I, Lewis served at the front as an artillery officer and then, commissioned as a war artist, he produced some memorable paintings and drawings of battle scenes. He wrote his first novel, "Tarr", in 1915 (published in 1918). After the war Lewis became better known for his writing than for his visual art, although he continued to paint portraits and abstract watercolours. He worked in seclusion until 1926, when he began to publish a remarkable series of books: "The Art of Being Ruled"; "Time and Western Man"; "The Lion and the Fox; and "The Wild Body". In the 1930s he produced some of his most noted paintings, such as The Surrender of Barcelona (1936) and a portrait of the poet T.S. Eliot (1938), and wrote some of his finest books—including Men Without Art (literary criticism; 1934), Blasting and Bombardiering (memoirs; 1937), and The Revenge for Love (a novel; 1937). In 1939 Lewis and his wife journeyed to the United States, where he hoped to recoup his finances with a lecture tour and with portrait commissions. The outbreak of World War II made their return impossible; after a brief, unsuccessful stay in New York City, the couple went to Canada, where they lived in poverty for three years in a dilapidated Toronto hotel. Lewis’s 1954 novel, "Self-Condemned", is a fictionalized account of those years.
Lewis and his wife returned to London after the end of the war and he became art critic for The Listener, a publication of the British Broadcasting Corporation. Lewis wrote a second volume of memoirs (Rude Assignment, 1950), satirical short stories (Rotting Hill, 1951), and the continuation of a multivolume allegorical fantasy begun in 1928 (The Human Age, 1955–56). A year before his death he was honoured with a retrospective exhibition of his art at London’s Tate Gallery. He died in 1957.

Gladys Lewis was born in Ontario in 1905. She earned a degree from the University of Saskatchewan.

Cecil Day Lewis was born on April 27, 1904 in Ballintubber, Ireland. He attended Oxford University. He was a teacher until 1935. He is known as one of Britain's leading poets in the 1930s. He was a lecturer at the University of Cambridge in 1946, and a professor of Poetry at Oxford between 1951-1956. He was England's poet laureate from 1968 until his death on May 22, 1972.

Norman Albert Levine was born in Ottawa, Ontario in 1923. He enlisted and served with the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. After the war he attended McGill University, earning his B. A. in 1948 and his M. A. in 1949. He attended King’s College in London with a fellowship from 1949 to 1950, but gave up academics for a career as a writer, living in England. He was head of the English Department at Barnstaple Boys Grammar School in Devon between 1953-54 and the resident writer at the University of New Brunswick between 1965-1966. He earned a Canada Council Fellowship in 1959 and Arts Awards in 1969, 1971, and 1974.

Lilian Leveridge was born in England on April 15, 1879. Her family emigrated to Canada in 1883, settling in Coe Hill, Ontario. Lilian attended the Winnipeg Normal School , proceeding to teach for 7 years in Manitoba and Ontario. She would later switch to office work. She won 2 McNab poetry awards. She suffered ill health and was forced to quit office work, retiring to Carrying Place, Ontario. She supported herself through the writing of short stories, articles, and poems. She also issued 6 volumes of verse. She died on November 24, 1953.

Kenneth Leslie was born in 1892 in Pictou, Nova Scotia. He was raised and educated in Halifax. At age 14 he entered Dalhousie University, earning his B. A. in 1912. After this he attended Colgate Theological Seminary for one year and completed his M. A. at the University of Nebraska in 1914. He went on to study philosophy and mysticism at Harvard University. When he returned to Halifax, Leslie married Elizabeth Moir, daughter of wealthy Halifax businessman James Moir. With James Moir’s support, Leslie experimented with a number of unsuccessful business ventures including farming and investment. Leslie also became a member of a Halifax literary group while in Nova Scotia called the Song Fishermen. Other members of the group included Charles G.D. Roberts, Charles Bruce, Andrew Merkel, and Robert Norwood. Leslie later moved to New York City where he experimented with preaching, broadcasting, composing music, and acting. He continued to write poetry and was published in The Song Fishermens’ Song Sheet as well as Literary Digest and Scribner’s Magazine. In 1934 he published his first book of poetry, "Windward Rock", by which time his first marriage had ended. Between 1936 and 1938 Leslie published three books of poetry including "By Stubborn Stars and Other Poems" which won the Governor General’s Award in 1938. He also began a career as a left-wing journalist in 1938 when he founded the religious and politically minded magazine "Protestant Digest" (later called The Protestant) with second wife Marjorie Finlay Hewitt. Three Nova Scotians, Ralph (Kelly) Morton, Sandord Archibald, and Gerald Richardson, helped Leslie establish the popular monthly magazine. In 1943 Leslie established the Textbook Commission to eliminate anti-Semitic statements in American textbooks and in 1944 published an anti-fascist comic book called The Challenger. As publisher and editor of The Protestant, Leslie corresponded with many of the prominent American political and social figures of the time and was a popular public speaker. Leslie’s third marriage dissolved shortly after his return to Nova Scotia. He continued to publish The Protestant and successor periodicals from Nova Scotia on a smaller scale until 1972 when his health declined. He also worked sporadically as a taxi driver and teacher while continuing to write and publish poetry. In the early 1960’s he married his fourth wife, Nora Steenerson. Kenneth Leslie died in Halifax in 1974.

Charles Whitney Leslie was born in 1905. He graduated from Emmanuel College, Toronto in 1933. He was a member of the college's faculty between 1940 and 1955. He died in 1986.

Vera Lesik was born August 7, 1910 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She graduated from St. John's Technical High School at the age of 14 in 1925. She earned her B. A. from the University of Manitoba in 1930. She worked as a nurse and a high school teacher in Alberta before moving to Eastern Canada in 1936. There she worked as a journalist, saleswoman, teacher, factory hand, night school instructor, domestic servant and research clerk. She also wrote synopses of French novels for the Magazine Digest until the World War II disrupted communications with France. In the early 1940's, she was employed by the Windsor Star, which she left in 1943, to begin research for her first book. After 1956, she became disillusioned with writing and criticism of her work from the Ukrainian community, and adopted a reclusive lifestyle, dying in Toronto in October 1975. She wrote under the names "Vera Lysenko" and "Luba Novack".

John Douglas Leechman was born in England in 1890. He was educated in England, Egypt and Switzerland before coming to Canada. He served with the 11th Canadian Mounted Rifles during First World War. He studied at the Universities of Washington and Ottawa, obtaining his PhD from the latter in 1941. He was an anthropologist at the National Museum of Canada in Ottawa from 1924 to 1955, during which time he made several research trips to the Arctic and the prairies. In 1928 he married Ruth-Marie d'Aoust. He edited The Canadian Field-Naturalist, 1928-1938. He was the first director of the Glenbow Foundation, 1955-1957, before retiring to Victoria.

Was a high school English teacher in Montreal, Quebec. He published poetry.

Donat Marc LeBourdais was born in 1887 in Clinton, British Columbia. He was raised in Barkerville. He worked for the Yukon Telegraph Service. He moved to Ottawa in 1919, founding a short lived "Canadian Nation" journal and working for a press syndicate. He moved to Toronto in 1926 and began writing for "Canadian Geographic", "Macleans", "Empire Review", "Saturday Night", and "The Beaver". During World War II he worked with the Wartime Prices and Trade Board. He was also the founding executive secretary of the National Railway League, an organization formed to defend public ownership of the Canadian National Railway and served on the boards of the National Committee on Mental Hygiene and the Mental Patients Welfare Association. He ran for election to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1935 federal election as a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation candidate in the electoral district of High Park, but lost.

Myra Lazechko Haas (Maara Haas) won her first award for writing at the age of 15 - a Laura Secord first prize award from the Independent Order of the Daughters of the Empire for her essay "Let No Man Dare to Call Me Foreigner". She was a graduate of Journalism from the University of California- Berkeley. Her first novel "The Street Where I Live" was published in 1976. Myra's literary work was published in The Canadian Review of Literature, The Indian Record, The Washington Post and The Canadian Dimension. She enjoyed speaking on her writing tours and made special appearances in schools to teach creative writing classes/workshops. Myra was a national board member of the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists, a representative for the Status of Women, and an honorary member of the Canadian Women's Institute representing rural women in Manitoba. Her second book, "On Stage with Maara Haas" (1986), was comprised of short stories and poems. It was also narrated on cassette tape. Myra also provided narrations for films from the National Film Board of Canada and on CBC radio: The Hair Pin Story in Passing Parade; Box Cars and The Green-Roses Kerchief and 12 episodes of In Search of Multicultural Women in Identities; The Year of the Drought in Manitoba Short Stories; and a Western Living interview about her adventures through the Northwest Territories. Myra also performed at the Manitoba Theatre Centre and had a film role in a CTV production, Gentle Sinners (1983). She passed away in 2012.

John Emerson Langdon was born in Ottawa in 1902. In 1928, he was appointed Editor for Eastern Canada for the Financial Post, based in Montreal. He began visiting antique stores while buying items for his new home and started to notice that a silver hallmark attributed to a Channel Islands silversmith has been used extensively in Canada. This led him to do research on the topic, and he eventually became a leading authority in the field. His books include Clock and Watchmakers and Allied Workers in Canada, 1700-1900 (1976) and Canadian Silversmiths, 1700-1900 (1966)

Edith Grace Coombs was born in Hamilton, Ontario in 1890. She studied at the Ontario College of Art between 1913 to 1918, and at the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts in 1929. She taught art at Edgehill College, Windsor, Nova Scotia for one year (c.1918); Havergal College, Toronto for three years (1919-1921); and at the Ontario College of Art, (1921-1956). She was a member of the Ontario Society of Artists (1928); the Canadian Society of Graphic Art; the Federation of Canadian Artists; the Ontario College of Art Alumni Association; Victoria University Faculty Womens Association; the Three Arts Club (New York); the Heliconian Club; and the Lyceum Womens Art Association. She painted many images of flowers, most done at her summer home near Parry Sound. She also painted landscapes, figure studies, and abstract work. She painted two murals based on Wyandotte creation myths now owned by the Museum of Civilization. She designed the stained glass windows for Chalmers United Church in Guelph, Ontario, and she illustrated several books, including "The Rambles of a Canadian Naturalist" by T.S. Woods and "The Brave Little People" by Dorothy Campbell. Coombs exhibited with the Ontario Society of Artists, at the National Gallery, the Canadian National Exhibition, with the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour, the Montreal Art Association, and many other smaller exhibitions.

James Sharp Lawson worked in the Library at Victoria University, University of Toronto.

Clifford Austin Curtis was born in Smith Fall's Ontario in November 1899. He earned his Honours B. A. from the University of Toronto in 1922 and his Ph.D from the University of Chicago in 1926. After graduating he taught in Iowa and at the University of Florida. In 1927 he joined the faculty of Economics at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He was head of the department between 1956-1964. Curtis served on the University's senate from 1944-1946, 1956-1959 and 1964-1968. In 1970 the Canadian Institute of Guided Ground Transport was established at Queen's - which he helped plan.

James Alexander Corry was born in Millbank, Ontario in 1899. He attended the University of Saskatchewan (LLB 1923) and Oxford University (BCL 1927). He taught law at the University of Saskatchewan (1927-1936) and then came to Queen's to become the Hardy Professor of Political Science. Corry was Vice-Principal from 1951 to 1961, during which time he played a leading role in the founding of Queen's Faculty of Law. He was selected Principal in 1961 when Principal Mackintosh stepped down from the position. He held that role until his retirement in 1968. James Corry was made a Companion of the Order of Canada, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and received honorary degrees from 14 universities, including Queen's. He wrote and taught actively throughout his retirement, and was a visiting professor at several universities. From 1968-1970 he was a consultant to the Department of Justice, analysing proposed changes to Canada's Constitution. He died in Kingston in 1985.

Alfred Edward Lavell was born in Kingston in 1870. His father Dr. Michael Lavell was a surgeon and warden at the Kingston Penitentiary. Alfred graduated with a B. A. in 1893 from Queen's University. He earned his Doctorate of Divinity from Victoria University and was ordained as a Methodist Minister in 1897. He spent considerable time on educational reform within the Church. He also served as chaplain in WWI and went overseas with the 125th Battalion. He earned the rank of major, but was sent home after contracting a series illness during the Salonika Campaign. In 1918 he moved to Toronto and was appointed Executive Secretary of the Ontario Parole Board. From 1931-1935 he served as Provincial Historian and wrote histories on educational, medical and penal institutions. In 1897 he married Laura Gillespie and had two daughters Mona and Mrs., Frederick A. Wad

Gary Lautens was born in Fort William, Ontario in 1928. His family moved to Hamilton where his father had accepted a position at the Hamilton Spectator. Gary Lautens graduated from Hamilton Central Collegiate Institute and then went on to McMaster University, obtaining a bachelor's degree in history in 1950, while writing for the campus newspaper, the Silhouette. After graduation Lautens joined the Hamilton Spectator and within a few years began to write a sports column, "The Gab Bag". In 1962 he joined the Toronto Star, quickly becoming a columnist. He won a National Newspaper Award in the Sports Writing category in 1965.Then, branching out from sports, he began to write a humorous, general-interest column, often relating the problems and delights of his family. He had married Jackie Lane in 1957 and the couple had three children. He published several collections of his columns in book form during his lifetime, twice winning the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. In 1982 he was appointed Executive Managing Editor of the Toronto Star, a position he held until 1984 when he became editor emeritus. He died in 1992.

Agnes Christina Laut was born in Stanley Township, Huron, Ontario on February 11, 1871. She relocated with the family to Winnipeg at 2 years of age. She attended and completed Normal School (Teacher's College) training at the age of 15, subsequently working as a substitute teacher because she was too young to achieve her teacher's certificate. She enrolled at the University of Manitoba, leaving in her second year because of ill health. She began writing, and was published in the "New York Evening Post" and "Manitoba Free Press". In 1895 she was employed by the Free Press as an editorial writer, a position she held until 1897. She published her first novel "Lords of the North" in 1900. She moved to Wassaic, New York in 1901. Authoring more than 25 novels, her work was primarily biographies and early North American histories. She died on November 15, 1936 in Wassaic.

Frances Elsie Emily Fry was born on April 26, 1892 in England. She attended Milton Mount College in Kent. She acted as governess to two families in Russia, where she wrote her first novel "Half a Gipsy" (1916). She emigrated to Canada with her siblings and widowed mother. She met John Laurence in South Fort George, British Columbia and they married in 1915. She had 7 children, moving with them to various towns in British Columbia and Alberta. During this time she wrote radio scripts, poems, and short stories. Her poetry and short stories were published in Canadian and American magazines and she won several awards for her poetry. Her second novel "Bright Wings" was published in 1964. She died March 4, 1982 in Victoria, British Columbia. She is the mother-in-law to Margaret Laurence.

Gustave Lanctot was born in St. Constant, Quebec on July 5, 1883. He studied at the Universite de Montreal, Oxford University, and the Sorbonne. In 1912 he began working at the Public Archives of Canada (now Library and Archives Canada). He was the Chief French Archivist, becoming the Dominion Archivist in 1937 until his retirement in 1948. He died in Montreal on February 2, 1975.
During his career he won many awards and honours including David Awards in 1925, 1929, and 1945 (given to writers or researchers in Quebec), a JB Tyrrell Medal in 1943, the Champlain Award in 1962, The Governor General's Award in 1963 and was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1967.

Archibald Lampman was born on November 17, 1861. In 1866 the family moved to Perrytown (near Port Hope), moving again in 1867 to Gore's Landing. In 1868 he contracted rheumatic fever, that would eventually contribute to his death at the age of 38. The family moved to Cobourg in 1874. In 1876 Lampman enrolled at Trinity College School, graduating in 1879. He enrolled at Trinity College (University of Toronto) in 1879. He joined the school's literary institute and began contributing to the school's newspaper. He graduated in 1882. After graduation he taught briefly before taking a clerk position in the Post Office Department in Ottawa.
He was a prolific author of poetry - writing more than 300 poems in the last period of his life. Some of them were published in literary magazines in Canada and the U. S.
He was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1895. He died in Ottawa on February 10, 1899.
Archibald Lampman is known as one of Canada's Confederation Poets, a group which also includes Charles G.D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, and Duncan Campbell Scott.

Andrew Doane Merkel was born in New York State in 1884. He moved to Nova Scotia as a boy when his father, an Anglican Minister, took over Digby parish. Andrew worked as a journalist, for the "Philadelphia North American", "The Sydney Record", and was news editor of "The Saint John Standard" between 1908-1910. In 1910 he moved to Halifax to take over editorship of the "Halifax Echo". In 1917 he moved to Montreal to join "The Canadian Press" as the Maritime News Editor. In 1919 he moved back to Halifax, becoming the superintendent of the Canadian Press' Atlantic Division. He held this position until his retirement in 1946. Merkel was also a poet and avid historian. His first book length poem, "The Order of Good Cheer", was published in 1944. His second book length poem, "Tallahasse", was published the following year. He also published two non-fiction books "Letters from the Front" (1914), and "Bluenose Schooner" (1948). He died in 1954.