Lester del Rey was born in Saratoga, Minnesota in 1915 as Ramon Felipe San Juan Mario Silvio Enrico Smith Heathcourt-Brace Sierra y Alvarez-del Rey y de los Verdes. Del Rey’s father was a poor sharecropper of partly Spanish ancestry; his mother died shortly after his birth. Between his family’s financial difficulties, and the onset of the Great Depression, del Rey had a tough time obtaining an education, although he did manage to finish high school and put together two years at George Washington University before dropping out. Del Rey’s writing career started off when he became disgusted with the low quality of many of the science fiction stories published in his day and protested that even he could write a better story. By l947 del Rey had written enough solid short fiction to generate his first book, the anthology "And Some Were Human". By 1950 he was able devote himself full time to writing (and editing). In addition to his science fiction and fantasy, del Rey also produced considerable juvenile science fiction, and some non-fiction. In 1953 he left a number of his editing positions (Fantasy Magazine, Rocket Stories Space Science Fiction, Science Fiction Adventures) after a dispute. Recognition for del Rey had included the 1972 E. E. Smith Memorial Award for Imaginative Fiction (the Skylark Award); the 1985 Balrog Special Award; the 1990 Nebula Grand Master Award; and the title of SFWA Grand Master in 1991.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Zeiss Ikon was formed in Germany in 1926 by the merger of camera manufacturers Contessa-Nettel, Ernemann, Goerz and Ica.

The company formed one part of the Carl Zeiss Foundation, another part being the optical company Carl Zeiss. Logically, most of the Zeiss Ikon cameras were equipped with Carl Zeiss lenses; and the formerly independent companies, in particular Goerz, had to shut down their own lens manufacture.

The merged company was also obliged to use Compur shutters for 80% of its cameras. Thus only the simplest cameras could get cheaper shutters like the Klio. Soon AG Hahn für Optik und Mechanik, Kassel, and Goerz Photochemisches Werk GmbH, Berlin, joined the Zeiss Ikon syndicate. Both companies, Zeiss Ikon and Hahn, were also in the business of producing keys, latches an lock cylinders. This business was more and more concentrated in the former optical factories of Goerz in Berlin.

The group became one of the big companies in the photo technology capital Dresden, with plants in Stuttgart and Berlin. It continued several products of its constituents for a while, but also created new ones like the quality folder Ikonta and the medium format rangefinder camera Super Ikonta. Until WWII Zeiss Ikon was the world's market leading maker of 8mm movie cameras. In addition to cameras and lenses, Zeiss Ikon also produced some optics for medical applications.

Source: http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Zeiss_Ikon

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

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

Matthew Stankiewicz was born in Wilno, Poland on January 3, 1926. In 1949 he graduated from the School of Architecture,University of Liverpool, England. He later immigrated to Canada to work with the Department of Public Works and the Canadian Government Exhibition Commission.In 1958 he began a private architectural practice in Ottawa. His buildings appear primarily in Ontario and New Brunswick. He became the Ottawa editor for the Canadian Architect magazinein 1959. In 1965 he won a national award for his design of a house. Along with architects R. Robbie and P.Schoeler, Stankiewicz designed the Canadian Government Pavilion for Expo '67 and was Chairman of the jury which selected the design for the Canadian Pavilion at Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan. He died in 1979.

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

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

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

American photographer most known for his production of stereoviews.

In 1974 the Joint York-Ryerson Computing Centre established the first cooperative computing centre in Canada with the objective of sharing expertise and reducing costs. The first of its kind in Canada, the YRCC operated with the main computer at York and connected terminals at Ryerson.

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

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

The School of Graduate Studies was formed in 1998, with its first 2 programs being launched in 2000. In 2010 the school changed it name to the Yeates School of Graduate Studies in honour of former Dean Dr. Maurice Yeates (2002-2010). In February of 2024 the school was renamed again, adding on Postdoctoral Studies, to highlight the importance of post doctoral fellows contribution to Scholarly research at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University)

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

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

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

Yale University Press was founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day. He would act as director until the mid-1940s when he became Chairman of the Board. For the next 15 years there was succession of directors that included Edgar Furniss, Norman Donaldson, and, in 1959, Chester Kerr, who oversaw the Press for the next twenty years. Also in 1959, the Press moved its headquarters from 143 Elm Street to 149 York Street. The year 1961 brought two major changes. The Press formally became a department of Yale, further enhancing its ties to the University (though it remained, and still remains, financially and operationally autonomous), and in the same year it established a London branch—then called Yale University Press, Limited—to sell books abroad. Nearly a decade later the role of the London branch began to expand, in part due to Yale University’s commitment to assist in the publishing efforts of the Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, established in London in 1970. In 1973, John Nicoll was hired to oversee the Press’s London office, which he did for the next thirty years, developing it into a full-fledged editorial division with its own acquisitions strategy and identity, its own reputation for excellence, and its own specialties—not least among them the publishing of extremely high quality, critically acclaimed art books and distinguished works of social history. The name of the division was changed to Yale University Press, London, in 1984, and today the London office, overseen by its present director, Robert Baldock, is responsible for nearly one third of Yale University Press’s titles
In 2001 Yale partnered with Harvard University Press and MIT Press to create TriLiteral LLC, a limited liability partnership to manage distribution of all three presses’ publications, and together built a 155,000-square-foot warehouse and distribution center in Rhode Island.