William Stewart Wallace was born June 23, 1884 in Georgetown, Ontario. He earned his Bachelor's degree from the University of Toronto and his Masters degree from Oxford University. He served during World War I as a major with the Canadian Expeditionary Force, battalion adjutant and commanding officer of Khaki College, Shorncliffe. In 1920 he became Assistant Librarian at the University of Toronto, becoming the Librarian (Chief Librarian) in 1923, a position he held until his retirement in 1954. Between 1923-1932 he was general editor of the University program of scholarly publishing. He was the first editor of the Canadian Historical Review (1920-1930). He also served as Editor of the Champlain Society between 1923-1943 and was honourary editor of the Royal Society of Canada between 1937-1945. In his life time he published more than 30 books and hundreds of articles. He retired at age 70. Wallace passed away on March 11, 1970 in Toronto, Ontario.

Robert Charles Wallace was born in 1881 on the Orkney Islands in Northern Scotland. He studied Geology at the University of Edinburgh achieving his BA in 1901, a BSc in 1907 and a PhD in 1912. He also earned a MSc from the University of Gottingen in Germany in 1909. He immigrated to Canada after earning his PhD in 1912 and headed the Department of Geology at the University of Manitoba.
In 1918 he became the Commissioner for Northern Manitoba from 1918-1921, and Commissioner of Mines and Natural Resources between 1926-1928. In 1928 he became the President of the University of Alberta. In 1936 Wallace moved to Kingston, Ontario - becoming the 11th Principal of Queen's University - a position he held until 1951.
He was a national figure in education and was widely regarded by the public and the press as the voice of Canadian universities. He received honorary degrees from 20 universities and was one of three people selected to represent Canada at the conference in England that established the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Educational Organization (UNESCO).
He retired from Queen's in 1951 at the age of 70. He was married to Elizabeth (Smith) Wallace and had three daughters and a son. One daughter, Dr. Elspeth (Wallace) Baugh, later became Queen's Dean of Women. Wallace Hall, located in the John Deutsch University Centre, is named in Principal Wallace's honour.

aul Anthony Wilson Wallace, 1891-1967, was born in Cobourg, Ontario, grew up in Toronto and as a young man did a great deal of travelling. He graduated with a BA in English and History from the University of Toronto in 1915. While a student he was active in the Alpine Club of Canada at Banff, Alberta and in mountain climbing. In the summer of 1915 he taught school at Baraca, near Youngstown, Alberta. He lived briefly in Victoria, British Columbia before serving in the First World War. On his discharge in 1918 he took one year of graduate work at the U of T. He married Dorothy Clarke in 1919 and became a lecturer in English at the University of Alberta where he remained until 1922. He then did his MA and PhD at Toronto. He was professor of English at Lebanon Valley College, Pennsylvania, USA from 1925 until 1949, then associate historian for the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission until 1965. He returned to Lebanon Valley College until his death. He published many articles and books on Pennsylvania and native American history.

Edward Wilson Wallace was a missionary to China, and Chancellor and President of Victoria University. The son of Francis Huston Wallace, Edward Wilson Wallace was born in Cobourg, Ontario, 1880, studied at Victoria University and Columbia University, and was appointed by the Methodist Church to the China mission field in 1906. He managed mission schools, taught at West China Union University, and was appointed General Secretary of the West China Educational Union in 1912 and of the China Church Educational Association in 1921. He served as Chancellor and President of Victoria University from 1929 until his death in 1941.

Archer Wallace was born in England in 1884. The immigrated to Newfoundland in 1904. He studied Victoria University and the University of Western Ontario. In 1909 he was ordained as a methodist minister, serving churches in Northern Ontario and Toronto. In 1919 he was appointed to the Department of Sunday School Publications and edited youth magazines until his retirement in 1954. Wallace was also an author and T. V. host - hosting the first United Church television program.

Michael A. Walker received his Ph.D in Economics from the University of Western Ontario. He was the Director of the Fraser Institute in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Joan Walker, née Sutter, was a Canadian writer. She won two noted Canadian literary awards in the 1950s, the Stephen Leacock Award in 1954 for "Pardon My Parka" and the Ryerson Fiction Award in 1957 for "Repent at Leisure".
Born in London, England she worked as a fashion artist for Harrods, an editor for Amalgamated Press and Newnes-Pearson and as a feature journalism writer for Sunday Pictorial before marrying James Rankin Walker, a Canadian military officer in the Algonquin Regiment, in 1946. She became a Canadian citizen in 1954.
She was a member of the Canadian Women's Press Club and the Canadian Authors Association.
She published one further novel, Marriage of Harlequin (1962), a fictional account of the life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. She was later a columnist and book reviewer for The Globe and Mail.

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

Walker Publishing Company, Inc. publishes and markets adult non-fiction and children's books. The company was founded in 1959 and is based in New York City. As of 12/31/2004, Walker Publishing Company, Inc. is a subsidiary of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

Allan Waisman was born in Winnipeg on 24 January 1928. He attended Mulvey Public School and Gordon Bell High School, both in Winnipeg, before enrolling with the School of Architecture at the University of Manitoba. In 1950 Waisman received his Bachelor of Architecture and began an apprenticeship in the office of architect Charles Faurer. In partnership with Jack Ross – another recent University of Manitoba graduate – Waisman founded a new practice Waisman Ross and Associates in 1953.
In 1961, Waisman entered a business relationship with local developer R.C. Baxter which would alter his career path and lead to new opportunities. Baxter represented the real estate side of an investment group called MEPC, through which he employed Waisman and Ross to build four office buildings along Broadway between 1961 and 1964.
In the 1960s Waisman and Ross built their own office at 10 Donald Street, large enough to be shared with their partners – the engineering firm of Klein and Dashevsky forming a new company Waisman Ross Blankstein Coop Gillmore Hanna in 1964, which ultimately adopted the office’s address for their new name: Number TEN Architects. Other benchmark projects for the firm during this era included the Mendel Art Gallery and Conservatory in Saskatoon in 1965, the Thompson General Hospital, the Market Mall Shopping Centre in Saskatoon (a Massey merit winner), the Fletcher Argue Building and Theatre at the University of Manitoba, the Manitoba Theatre Centre and the Northstar Inn on Portage Avenue.
Waisman taught a real estate course at the School of Architecture in the early 1960s was active in the Manitoba Association of Architects, the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) and the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce. He furthermore sat on the boards of the Winnipeg Art Gallery and Royal Winnipeg Ballet. In 1961 Waisman was also a founder of the Manitoba Design Institute.
Waisman left Winnipeg in 1971 and started a new firm Architectura Waisman, Dewar, Grout, Carter Architects and Planners.

Wadsworth Publishing Company, Inc. operates as a provider of higher educational materials for the humanities, social sciences, and behavioral sciences and mathematics, science, and statistics. The company operates under the brands Brooks/Cole, Duxbury, Heinle & Heinle, Schirmer, and Wadsworth and West. Wadsworth Publishing Company, Inc. was formerly known as Walsworth Brothers Company and changed the name to Wadsworth Publishing Company, Inc. in 1956. The company was founded in 1937 and is based in Belmont, California. Wadsworth Publishing Company, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Cengage Learning, Inc.

Miriam Waddington, nee Dworkin, was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba on December 3, 1917. She attended the University of Toronto receiving her Bachelor of Arts in 1939 and Masters of Arts in 1968. She also achieved her Masters of Social Work in 1945 from the University of Pennsylvania.
In 1945 she moved to Montreal and worked as a caseworker and teacher of social work in the 1940's and 1950's. In 1964 she became a professor at York University in Toronto in the Department of English. She worked there until her retirement in 1983.
Her first poetry published was "Green World" in 1945. In 1958 "The Season's Lovers" was published. She was also written fiction, "Summer at Lonely Beach and Other Stories" (1982), a critical study of A.M. KLEIN (1970), and numerous essays and reviews; and edited John Sutherland: Essays, Controversies and Poems (1972), Klein's Collected Poems (1974) and Canadian Jewish Short Stories (1990).

Harriet Jean Percival was born on March 15, 1867 in Kemptville, Ontario. She married John Bell Waddell in 1891.. Under her married name she published 3 books of prose "Down the Aisles of Calm", "A Harp in the Wind", and "Candled by Stars". She won award for her poetry as well including 1st Place for "Last Night," Short Poem Competition, Montreal Poetry Contest (Canadian Authors Association, 1929); Award for “Intimations,” Best Poem from Montreal Competition, Montreal Poetry Contest (Canadian Authors Association, 1930); Bradford Award for “Wonder-Eyes” Montreal Poetry Contest (Canadian Authors Association, 1937).

Judith Waalen received her B.A. in Biology and Psychology from Assumption University in 1962, her M.A. in Psychology from University of Windsor in 1964, and her Ph.D. in Sociology from Wayne State University in 1982. While at Ryerson University Dr. Waalen was a professor in the Department of Psychology and the Director of the Centre of Quality Research. She would later become a professor at Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College, working in the Graduate Studies and Research, and Post-graduate and Continuing Education departments. For many years, Judith taught Psychology courses at Ryerson to students in the professional programs and interacted with a great many faculty members in these departments in various capacities.
In 2000 Judith left the Psychology Department and went to manage Ryerson’s Centre for Quality Service Research and to join CMCC to teach research methods and statistics in their graduate residency programs. During this time with her husband David, she published articles on chiropractic education, and with other colleagues, she co-authored a number of articles for scientific and scholarly journals. In 2005, Judy returned to Ryerson to work as a research analyst for The Chang School. She taught staff members to conduct, analyze, and publish their research in-house, did competitive research, and conducted annual student satisfaction surveys until she left in 2011.

The Photographic Studio of W.J. Fenner, Art Photographer was located in Gallipolis, Ohio and operated during the late nineteenth century.

W.H. Spinks was a photography studio located in Woodstock, Ontario at 461-463-465 Dundas Street

W.H. Midwinter, artist and photographer, operated a studio in Bristol, England.

W.D. Brigham was a photographer with studios located in Scarborough and Pollington, United Kingdom.

W. W. Norton & Company was founded by William Warder Norton and his wife Mary Dows Herter Norton, hired a stenographer and began transcribing and publishing the lectures delivered at the People’s Institute, the adult division of Cooper Union in New York City in 1923. Norton and his wife used their living room table to assemble these lectures into pamphlets, which they then boxed in sets of twenty to sell as a whole. As Mrs. Norton later remembered, “Warder would carry the results by taxi in an old Drew suitcase that had accompanied my parents on their wedding journey.” The Nortons soon expanded their program beyond the People’s Institute, acquiring manuscripts by celebrated academics from America and abroad and entering the fields of philosophy, music, and psychology, in which they published acclaimed works by Bertrand Russell, Paul Henry Lang, and Sigmund Freud (as his primary American publisher). William Warder Norton died shortly after WW II. Within a few years, Mrs. Norton, who had been so instrumental in the firm’s development, decided that the company should be entrusted to the next generation of employees, and she offered most of her stock to its leading editors and managers. The Joint Stockholders Agreement that was subsequently signed gave the ownership of the firm to its active employees; that agreement remains in force to this day, the number of shareholders greatly expanded to include nearly all current Norton employees. document printed with record speed, a significant portion of its profits going to charity.

W. R. Macaulay was a photographer located at Cor. King & John Sts., Hamilton, Ontario.

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

William James Gage was born in Toronto. He was was educated in Brampton and at the Toronto Normal School. Gage taught for three years and then briefly studied medicine. He was hired as a bookkeeper by publisher Adam Miller & Company. After Miller's death in 1875, Gage became a partner in the business. In 1879, the firm was renamed W. J. Gage & Company. The company specialized in textbooks, but also printed writing paper and envelopes. It was renamed Gage Educational and is now part of Nelson Publishing.

W. H. Gough, Artist & Photographer had a studio located in Coventry, England.

William Garey was an artist and a photographer with a studio in Aberdeen, Scotland during the late nineteenth century.

W. Farmer was a photography studio located at 35 King Street in Hamilton Ontario.