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Créé par le Bureau des gouverneurs le 29 mai 1967, le Comité était chargé d'étudier l'entente conclue entre l'Université d'Ottawa et l'Université Saint-Paul, en rapport avec la Faculté de philosophie. Ses recommandations ont été approuvées par le Comité exécutif du Bureau des gouverneurs le 23 août 1967.

The Toronto Western Hospital School of Nursing’s September Class of 1946 consisted of students who would have started the 3-year nursing program at the school in September 1943. These nursing students would have had to stay in residence together throughout their 3-year program. Their convocation was held on Tuesday June 11th, 1946. They were the 48th class of the School.

After graduation the class of 1946 had reunions every 5 years, and later every 2-3 years, up until their 60th reunion in June 2006. Class reunions included the February Class, but content of fonds only relates to the September Class. The full graduating class of 1946 consisted of 50 students.

Paul Antoine R. Bouissac is a writer and an academic. He was born in Perigueux, France, the son of Antoine Louis Bouissac and Marguerite Marie Frêne. He lives in Toronto.

Bouissac received license-ès-lettres in Études latines (1955), Études grêcques (1955), Psychologie générale (1956), and Grammaire et philologie classique (1962) at the Sorbonne in Paris, where he also received a Diplome d’Études Supérieures in 1956. In 1970 he received a Doctorat du Troisième Cycle en Linguistique (sémiotique) at the University of Paris.

Bouissac was appointed Lecturer at Victoria University, Toronto in 1962. After this he was appointed Assistant Professor at Victoria University (1965); Associate Professor at Victoria University (1969); Professor at the Graduate Department of French at the University of Toronto (1971); Professor at the Graduate Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto (1972); Professor at Victoria University (1974); and Professor Emeritus at Victoria University (1999). He became a Member of the Associate Faculty at the Centre for Comparative Literature in 1981, and of the First (1980) and Third (1982) International Summer Institutes for Semiotic and Structural Studies. He served as visiting professor at New York University in Buffalo (1975), the University of South Florida (1975), New York University (1980), and again at New York University in Buffalo from 1981 onwards. He also served as Associate Director of the Summer Institute for Semiotic and Structural Studies at Indiana University in 1982.

During his career Bouissac received awards from the University of Toronto in 1963, 1971 and 1972, from the Canada Council in 1967, 1968 and 1977, from the Wenner Gren Foundation in 1970, and fellowships from the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (1972–73); the Guggenheim Foundation (1973–74); Connaught (1988–89); and Killam (1989–91).

Bouissac’s publications include one work of fiction, Les Demoiselles (1970), and works of non-fiction: La Mesure des Gestes; prolegomenes à la sémiotique gestuelle (1973), Circus and Culture; a Semiotic Approach (1976), Iconicity: Essays on the Nature of Culture: Festschrift for Thomas A. Sebeok on his 65th birthday (1986), Encyclopedia of Semiotics (1998), Semiotics at the Circus (2010), Saussure: A Guide for the Perplexed (2010), Circus as Multimodal Discourse: Performing, Meaning, and Ritual (2012), The Semiotics of Clowns and Clowning: Rituals of Transgression and the Theory of Laughter (2015), The Meaning of the Circus: The Communicative Experience of Cult, Art, and Awe (2018), The Social Dynamics of Pronominal Systems: A Comparative Approach (2019), and The End of the Circus: Evolutionary Semiotics and Cultural Resilience (2021).

In 1964 Bouissac became president and main stockholder of the Debord Circus, a circus that attempted to present high quality animal acts in a single ring. The circus lasted only 2 years and closed in 1965.

Helena Jane Coleman was a music teacher, poet and writer. She was born in Newcastle, near the Bay of Quinte, Ontario, the daughter of Francis Coleman and Emmeline Maria Adams, the sister of Albert Evander and Arthur Philemon Coleman. She resided with her brother, A.P. Coleman, in Toronto and spent summer holidays at their cottage in the Thousand Islands (“Pinehurst”). She died, unmarried, in Toronto.

Coleman was educated at Ontario Ladies’ College, Whitby, where she received the Gold Medal in Music, and became the Head of its Music Department (1880-1892). She took a one-year leave of absence to pursue post-graduate studies in music in Berlin, Germany.

Coleman contributed poems to a large number of Canadian and American journals. She was a member of the Author’s Society, the Canadian Author’s Association, the Rose Society, and the University Women’s Club in Toronto. She did not publish under her own name until the release of Songs and Sonnets in 1906. Her short stories and articles continued to appear under pseudonyms long afterwards.

Pseudonyms used included: Caleb Black, Catherine G. Brown, H.C., Helen Gray Cone, H.S.C., Hollis Cattwin, L.D. Clark, Winifred Cotter, Winnifred Cotter, A.T. Cottingham, Winnifred Ford, C.H., Mrs. R.H. Hudson, Hollis Hume, Shadwell Jones, Annie Lloyd, M.D. Merrivale, Helen Saxon, Helen A. Saxon, Emily A. Sykes, Gwendolen Woodworth.

She is also presumed to have used the following pseudonyms: Frances Alexander, C.D., Ralph Hodgson, F.G. Pearson, Maxwell Wallace, and Dorothea West.

She contributed to the following journals: Appleton’s Magazine, Associated Sunday Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, The Bellman, Bob Taylor’s Magazine, Booklover’s Magazine, Canadian Courier, Canadian Magazine, Canadian Good Housekeeping, Canadian Public Health Journal, The Churchman (New York), Collier’s, Cosmopolitan, The Delineator, The Editor: A Journal of Information for Writers, Evening Post (New York), The Globe, Good Housekeeping, Gunter’s Magazine, Hampton’s Harper’s Bazaar, Harper’s Weekly, Independent, The Interior, Ladies’ Home Journal, Ladies’ Review, Ladies’ World, Leslie’s Weekly, Lippincott’s Magazine, Literary Digest, Mail and Empire, The Metropolitan Magazine, Modern Women, National Home Journal, The National Monthly, The New Age, New England Magazine, New Idea, Northwest Magazine, Pearson’s Magazine, The Pictorial Review, The Pilgrim, The Presbyterian, Progress, The Prospector, Puck’s Magazine, The Reader Magazine, Red Book, Saturday Evening Post, Saturday Night, The Smart Set, Smith’s Magazine, Spare Moments, Star Weekly, Tom Watson’s Magazine, Twentieth Century Home, The University Magazine (Montreal), Willison’s, Women’s Home Companion.

Her publications of poetry include: Songs and Sonnets (1906), Marching Men (1917), Songs (1937).

Her collection of short stories Sheila and Others: the Simple Annals of an Unromantic Household (1920) was published under the pseudonym of Winifred Cotter.

Lewis Emerson Horning was a teacher and an academic. He was born in Norwich, Ontario, the son of James Horning and Eliza Macklem. He married Beatrice Lillian Nixon in 1885. She died in 1912. He married Grace McRae Cooper in 1916. He had one son and two daughters. He died in Toronto.

Horning was educated at Brantford Collegiate Institute. He received a B.A. from Victoria University, Toronto, in 1884 and went on to study at the University of Breslau, Germany, the University of Göttingen, Germany, where he received a Ph.D. in 1891, and the University of Leipzig, Germany.

Horning was a teacher at Peterborough Collegiate Institute (1884-86). He was appointed Assistant Professor Classics and Modern Languages (1886-91), Professor German and Old English (1891-1905), and Professor Teutonic Philology (1905-25) at Victoria University. He was Chief Examiner at the Education Department of Ontario for several terms and Honourary President of the French and German Club. He received the Prince of Wales medal and the silver medal in Philosophy at Victoria University.

Horning’s publications include: Exercises in German Composition (1895), Materials for German Composition (1901), A Bibliography of Canadian Fiction (1904), The German Drama of the Nineteenth Century (1909), and Syllabus of Lectures on the Outlines of German Literature (1909).

John Webster Grant was a United Church clergyman, an editor, and an academic. He was born in Truro, Nova Scotia, the son of William P. Grant and Margaret Dorothy Waddell. He married Gwendolyn Margaret Irwin in 1944. Gwendolyn died in 2002.

Grant was educated at Pictou Academy (1931–35) and Dalhousie University in Halifax where he received a B.A. in 1938 and an M.A. in Philosophy in 1941. He attended Princeton University, New Jersey, on a foreign scholarship for graduate studies in Politics (1938–39), Pine Hill Divinity Hall, Nova Scotia, where he received a Certificate in Theology (1939–40, 1942–43), and Oxford University in England where he received a D. Phil. (1946–48).

Grant was a minister in West Bay, Nova Scotia in 1943, in Chelsea, Quebec from 1943 to 1945, and in Pictou, Nova Scotia in 1949. He served as Director of Information to non-Roman Catholic Churches, Wartime Information Board between 1943 and 1945 and was a Chaplain in the Royal Canadian Navy in 1945 and from 1952 to 1959. He was Editor-in-Chief, Ryerson Press from 1960 to 1963. Grant was appointed Sessional Lecturer in Systematic Theology at Pine Hill Divinity Hall (1945–46), Professor of Church History at Union College, University of British Columbia (1949–59), visiting Professor at United College of South India and Ceylon during a sabbatical (1957–58), and Professor of Church History at Emmanuel College, Victoria University, Toronto (1963–84). As a member of the United Church of Canada he served on several committees, including the Committee on Worship and the Committee planning Hymn Book for Anglican Church and United Church. He was a member of several university departments and committees at the Toronto School of Theology, the University of Toronto, the Centre for Religious Studies and Victoria University. He also was a member of several associations and other organizations, including the Canadian Society of Church History, the Canadian Historical Association and the Association of Theological Schools. He received a number of awards, including Honourary D.D.’s at Union College, British Columbia (1961), Pine Hill Divinity Hall (1962), and Trinity College, University of Toronto (1981).

Grant has published extensively (articles, introductions, contributions to books), edited several publications, participated in the creation of Calvinism and Work (phonotape: Learning Systems, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) and written/edited the following books: World Church: Achievement or Hope? (1956), Free Churchmanship in England, 1870–1940 (1958), God’s People in India (1959), The Ship under the Cross (1960), George Pidgeon: a Biography (1962), The Churches and the Canadian Experience (1963), God Speaks...we answer: a Handbook for Lay Leaders of Adult Worship (1965), The Canadian Experience of Church Union (1967), Salvation! O the Joyful Sound: the Selected Writings of John Carroll (1967), The Church in the Canadian Era: the First Century of Confederation (1972), Die unierten Kirchen (1973), and Moon of Wintertime: Missionaries and the Indians of Canada in Encounter Since 1534 (1984).

Oscar Pelham Edgar was a teacher and an academic. He was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of James David Edgar and Matilda Ridout. He married Helen Madeline Boulton in 1893. She died in 1933. He married to Dona Gertrude Cameron Waller in 1935. They had one daughter, Katharine Jane. He died in Canton, Ontario.

Edgar was educated at Upper Canada College. He received his B.A. from the University of Toronto in 1892 and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland in 1897. He began his teaching career as modern-language master at Upper Canada College (1892-1895). He was appointed to the staff of the Department of French at Victoria College, Toronto, as Lecturer in 1897, then as Head from 1901 to 1910. He also began to lecture in the Department of English in 1902, later transferring permanently to the latter, where he held full professional rank until 1938 and served as Head for twenty-eight years.

Edgar was a member of the Athenaeum Club, London, England; of the Canadian Society of Authors where he served as Secretary; of the Tennyson Club, Toronto, where he served as President; of the Modern Language Association, Ontario, where he served as President; of the Ontario Education Society, where he served as Secretary from 1908 to 1909; and of the Canadian Writers’ Foundation which was founded by Edgar. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1915 and received its Lorne Pierce Medal for distinguished service to Canadian literature in 1936.

Edgar published many reviews and articles, along with three monographs: A Study of Shelley with Special Reference to his Nature Poetry (1899), Henry James, Man and Author (1927), The Art of the Novel from 1700 to the Present Time (1933). He also contributed a chapter on Canada to The Cambridge History of English Literature (1916), and acted as Canadian advisor for the Dictionary of National Biography (1911). Some autobiographical material was published posthumously under the title Across my Path (1952), edited by Northrop Frye, including a complete bibliography of Edgar's publications, compiled by Margaret Ray.

Janis Rapoport is a poet, playwright, writer of non- fiction, educator and editor. She was born in Toronto, the daughter of Maxwell Lewis Rapoport and Roslyn Cohen. She married Dr. David Seager in 1966; divorced in 1980. They had three children: Jeremy Seager (1970), Sara Seager (1971) and Julia Seager (1973). She married Douglas Donegani in 1980; divorced in 2003. They had a daughter, Renata Donegani (1980). She married Fernando Miranda Arregui in 2003. She lives in Pembroke, Ontario and Cusco, Peru.

Rapoport received a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Toronto in 1967. She has been Associate Editor of Tamarack Review (1970- 82), Editor of Ethos (1983-86), Playwright-in-Residence (1974-75), and Writer-in-Residence at several Ontario libraries (1987 -1991). She has also worked as a literary and television editor, and as an instructor at the University of Toronto.

Rapoport has been a member of the League of Canadian Poets, the Writers’ Union of Canada, the Playwrights’ Union of Canada, the Writers’ Guild of Canada, and PEN International and is currently a member of the Playwrights' Guild of Canada (formerly the Playwrights' Union of Canada) and the Writers' Guild of Canada. Awards she received include the New York Art Directors Club Award of Merit in 1983, the American Institute of Graphic Arts Certificate of Excellence in 1983, the American Poetry Association Award in 1986, a Canada Council Arts Award in 1991, a Toronto Arts Council Award in 1990 and 1992, and an Ontario Arts Council Work-in-Progress Grant in 1995.

Rapoport’s publications include Within the Whirling Moment (1967), Jeremy’s Dream (1974), Winter Flowers (1979), Dreamgirls (1979), Upon her Fluent Route (1991), and After Paradise (1996). Her unpublished plays include And She Could Eat No Lean and Gilgamesh. Her articles have been published in Canadian magazines and newspapers, and her writing has been anthologized in four languages. Rapoport is currently working on a book about her travels and experiences in Peru and Bolivia.

John Douglas was born in Toronto in 1935 and was educated at Victoria University (B.A. 1957), where he performed in many Hart House Theatre productions. After studying drama production and theatre history in West Germany on a scholarship he returned to Canada in 1959 to work as a freelance actor. He joined the Neptune Theatre, Halifax, in 1963, becoming its dramaturge (literary manager) in 1965, and writing three plays there before spending 1968-1970 in Europe on a Canada Council Scholarship, studying dramaturgy. Douglas returned to Canada to become dramaturge of the Toronto Arts Production Company at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts in Toronto.

In 1971 he began his CBC radio production career as a drama producer in Halifax. He was one of three authors of the 1976 CBC report on "Radio Broadcasting in Arts, Music and Drama", and the same year became Area Executive Producer for CBC radio network drama in Toronto. Co-winner (as director) of the international Variety broadcasting prize in 1979, he went on to produce radio drama at the CBC, including his own creation, "Festival Theatre". In addition to his production work he wrote radio dramas, programme proposals and stage plays, including the 1986 script "The Bruce Curtis Case" from the "Scale of Justice" series, which won the Best Radio Drama Award. John Douglas died in 1991.

Albert Frank (A.F.) Moritz is a poet who has published numerous acclaimed collections and contributed to many anthologies and periodicals. He was born in Niles, Ohio in 1947. His father was a teacher and later a professor of biology and science education; his mother was a grade school teacher. In 1969 he received a B.A. in Journalism from Marquette University, and he later earned an M.A. and Ph.D (English) from that institution. He came to Canada in 1974 with his wife Theresa (Carrothers) and son Blaise (born 1971). Since arriving in Toronto Moritz has worked in a number of occupations, including advertising copywriter and executive, editor and publisher (Watershed Books), and has held various university teaching positions. Through the years he has won distinguished awards for his poetry, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, 1990, and Selection to the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, 1984, and the Griffin Poetry Prize for his work Sentinel in 2009. In 2019 he was selected to be Toronto's sixth Poet Laureate.

John Reibetanz is a poet, literary critic and English Professor. He was born in 1944 in New York City, the only child of Harold and Veronica (Hanley) Reibetanz, and grew up in various places in urban and rural northeastern United States and Canada. In 1967 he married Julia Maniates in Toronto—they had three children, Stephanie Sophia, Timothy and David. Reibetanz divides his time between Toronto and a small farm near Creemore, Ontario.

Reibetanz received a B.A. with Special Honours in English from Brooklyn College (City University of New York) in 1965, followed by an M.A. (1967) and a Ph.D (1968) in English Language and Literature from Princeton University. In 1968 he was appointed Assistant Professor of English at Victoria College in the University of Toronto, and went on to become Professor in 1982. His teaching and research interests include modern and contemporary British and American poetry, 16th and 17th century poetry and drama, and Shakespeare. In his career at the University of Toronto he has served on and chaired various committees. In 1990, Reibetanz received the first Victoria University Teaching Award for excellence in teaching and course preparation.

Reibetanz’s first published book was The Lear World: a Study of King Lear in its Dramatic Context (1977), which was nominated as the University of Toronto Press entry for the Christian Gauss Prize of Phi Beta Kappa. His subsequent books have been collections of poetry: Ashbourn (1986), Morning Watch (1995), Midland Swimmer (1996), Near Finisterre (1996), Mining for Sun (2000), which was shortlisted for the 2001 ReLit Award in Poetry, and Near Relations (2005). His poems have appeared in various periodicals, including Poetry (Chicago), Quarry, Canadian literature, The Malahat Review, and The Paris Review. He has also contributed poems to anthologies, including Vintage 94 (1995), Vintage 95 (1996), and Ars Poetica (1996). Reibetanz has given poetry readings in major cities across Canada, and is a member of the League of Canadian poets. In 1995 he was a finalist for the National Magazine Awards, and in 2002 he was awarded the First Prize in the Petra Kenney poetry Competition for his poem “Night Thought.

Stephen Harold Riggins was born in 1946 in Loogootee, Indiana, to parents Harold and Eithel Riggins. Riggins completed his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology in 1968, and his Masters of Arts in Sociology in 1971, both from Indiana University. He obtained his PhD in Sociology in 1980 from the University of Toronto. His thesis was entitled "Institutional Change in Nineteenth-Century French Music". Dr. Riggins has taught courses at Sociology departments of various universities, including the University of Toronto from 1981 to 1982 and 1989 to 1990, at Laurentian University from 1982 to 1985 and at the University of Alberta in Edmonton from 1986 to 1989. In 1990 he accepted a teaching position at Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundland, where he continues to teach as an Associate Professor in the department of Sociology. Dr. Riggins retired from teaching in 2015.

Stephen Riggins is a member of various professional associations, including the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, Canadian Society for Asian Studies, American Sociological Association, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, and the Indiana Historical Society. He has participated as an organizer and participant in various conferences including the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association's annual meetings. His teaching interests include mass communication and public opinion, sociology of the arts and popular culture, and sociology of families and deviance. His research interests include ethnicity and mass media, symbolic interactionism, contemporary French cultural policy and democratization of culture.

Dr. Riggins has published numerous articles, as well as books, including Ethnic Minority Media: An International Perspective (1992), The Socialness of Things: Essays on the Socio-semiotics of Objects (1994), The Language and Politics of Exclusion: Others in Discourse (1997), and The Pleasures of Time: Two Men, A Life (2003). He has been with his partner, Paul Bouissac, for over 50 years and presently divides his time between St. John's and Toronto.

Gwendolyn Margaret Grant (née Irwin) was born in Toronto on May 14, 1920, the daughter of John S. Irwin and Ethel Brookbank. After attending St. Clement's School and Trinity College, she went on to receive a B.A. from the University of Toronto in 1941. During World War II she worked for the Farm Radio Forum outside Montreal, and then in Ottawa for the Wartime Prices and Trade Board. In June 1944 she married the United Church minister John Webster Grant; and in 1946 she earned an M.A. from Dalhousie University.

Gwen accompanied her husband at Oxford from 1946 to 1949, and then in British Columbia, where he taught at Union College to 1959. During her time in Vancouver she directed student theatre and originated a weekly words and music radio program. When John Webster Grant was on sabbatical leave in India, 1957-1958, she wrote descriptive letters used by CBC Radio, and subsequently wrote a study book on South Asia for the Woman's Missionary Society of the United Church.

In 1959 Gwen and John Webster Grant moved to Toronto, and Gwen spent an increased amount of time writing poetry. At one point she read two poems on a local radio station. In later years her poetry was influenced by Asian culture and religion; she visited a brother who was teaching in Linfen, China.

Gwendolyn Grant died on September 1, 2002.

Reuben Butchart was a Toronto writer and church periodical editor who researched and wrote about the history of the Churches of Christ (Disciples) in Canada. He served as manager and later as editor of Christian Messenger and its successor The Canadian Disciple for the period 1897-1929. During that time he was active in his local congregation, since 1923 known as Hillcrest Church of Christ, and served many years as Corresponding Secretary of the Cooperation of Disciples of Christ in Ontario. His historical research broadened in the 1940's, culminating in the publication of his pioneering work The Disciples of Christ in Canada since 1830 (1949).