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Mosteller, Sue, 1933-
n99013626 · Person · 1933-

Sue Mosteller, C.S.J. is a writer and teacher.

n84007906 · Person · 1907-1977

Arthur Fitzwalter Wynne Plumptre, referred to as A.F.W. or Wynne, was the second principal of Scarborough College, a subordinate college of the University of Toronto. Plumptre was born in 1907 and raised in Toronto, the son of Rev. Canon Henry Pemberton Plumptre and Adelaide Mary Wynne-Willson. He graduated with a degree in political science from University College, University of Toronto in 1928 and studied for two years at King's College, Cambridge. At Cambridge, Plumptre was in contact with British economist and King's College lecturer John Maynard Keynes. He gained an appointment as lecturer at the University of Toronto in 1930. Plumptre was involved in economics at the national level during the Great Depression, assisting on the 1933 Royal Commission on Banking and Currency in Canada and co-edited, with University of Toronto professor Harold Innis, The Canadian Economy and Its Problems (1934). He married Beryl Alice Rouche of Heidelberg, Australia in 1938, with whom he had three children — Barbara, Judith, and Timothy. In 1949 Plumptre became the head of the Economics Division of the federal Department of External Affairs, followed by an appointment as deputy representative on the North Atlantic Council and the Organization for European Economic Co-operation. In 1954 Plumptre became the director of International Economic Relations, and from 1955 to 1965 served as an assistant deputy Minister of Finance.

In 1965 Plumptre was appointed as second principal of Scarborough College, following University of Toronto vice president D.C. Williams. Plumptre oversaw the formal opening of the College in October 1966. The College developed rapidly, soon outpacing many established universities in the province in enrolment growth. In 1971, Plumptre established the Committee on the Status and Future of Scarborough College, which recommended in its final report that the college move towards a more autonomous governance model within the university, which was supported by two-thirds of the college council. He retired as principal in 1972, and in 1974 was made an honorary member of the college. Following his this, Plumptre returned to the study of economics and took on the mantle of governor of the International Development Research Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, His magnum opus, entitled Three Decades of Decision: Canada and the World Monetary System, 1944-75, was published posthumously in 1977.

Vanier, Jean, 1928-
n80051353 · Person · 1928-

Jean Vanier was born in Geneva, Switzerland in 1928 to Canadian Governor-General Georges Vanier and Pauline Vanier. He founded L'Arche, an international network that supports individuals with intellectual disabilities in 1964.

Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968
n80005353 · Person · 1915-1968

Thomas Merton, O.C.S.O. was a Catholic writer and mystic. A Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky, he was a poet, social activist, and student of comparative religion.

http://viaf.org/viaf/9853153954912005680005 · Person · 1838-1932

Charles James Stewart Bethune was born in West Flamborough Township, Upper Canada on August 11, 1838. He was a graduate of Toronto’s Upper Canada College and University of Toronto’s Trinity College with a BA in 1859. He was ordained as an Anglican priest in 1862, after nine years, he was appointed headmaster of Trinity College School in Port Hope.

Between 1906 and 1920, as a professor and head of the entomology department at the Ontario Agricultural College (now a part of the University of Guelph), he pioneered the instruction of the science of insects at the university level.

Bethune cofounded the Entomological Society of Canada with William Saunders in 1863, where he served as its president for 11 years and edited its journal, the Canadian Entomologist for 30 years. At Guelph, he developed the teaching of economic entomology based on sound scientific principles, promoted the collection and careful identification of insects, and published widely on the lives of insects and on their control.

White, William Charles
http://viaf.org/viaf/98301928 · Person · 1873-1960

William Charles White, born in 1873, was an Anglican Bishop, author and archaeologist. He was the first Anglican Bishop from Canada to be stationed in Honan province, China, between 1901 and 1934. He was also the first Canadian Bishop to be consecrated for service in the mission field. He died in 1960.

Bishop William Charles White (1873-1960) was a missionary in Fukien, China, 1897-1909 and Bishop of the Canadian missionary Diocese of Honan, China, 1909-1934. He returned to Toronto as Professor of Chinese Studies and as Keeper of the East Asiatic Collection at the Royal Ontario Museum, a collection enhanced by his connections. He was also a biographer of the Rev. Canon H.J. Cody.

Villeneuve, Jocelyne
http://viaf.org/viaf/93245900 · Person · 1941-1998

Jocelyne Villeneuve (1941-1998) est née à Val d'Or, Québec et a vécu en Ontario de 1953 jusqu'à sa mort. Elle a poursuivi ses études primaires à l'École Saint-Jean et son secondaire au Collège Notre-Dame à Sudbury. Elle a aussi étudié à l'Université Laurentienne et l'Université d'Ottawa. Elle détient deux baccalauréats de l'Université Laurentienne, l'un en économie (1962) et l'autre avec spécialisation en littérature française (1973). En 1964, elle a obtenu un baccalauréat en bibliothéconomie de l'Université d'Ottawa.

En 1964 elle a travaillé comme bibliothécaire et chef de département au service des acquisitions de la bibliothèque à l'Université Laurentienne. A la suite d'un accident de voiture en 1967 et aussi dû à des problèmes de santé, elle opte pour la littérature et le métier d'écrivaine. Des gestes seront posés a paru aux Éditions Prise de parole en 1977, ceci représente un premier roman de la plume de cette auteure franco-ontarienne qui a vu publié un bon nombre de ses articles et poèmes, contes et nouvelles. Un recueil de contes pour enfants intitulé Contes des quatre saisons a paru aux Éditions Héritage (1978), ainsi qu'un recueil de contes pour adultes intitulé Le Coffre (1979) aux Éditions Prise de parole. La version française de deux légendes, Nanna Bijou: Le géant endormi (1983) et La Princesse à la mante verte (1983). La version anglaise de Nanna Bijou: The Sleeping Giant a paru chez Penumbra Press. Deux recueils de poésie ont aussi paru aux Éditions Naaman: La saison des papillons (1980) et Feuilles volants (1985). Le livre Ménagerie (1985) qui a paru aux Éditions des plaines du Manitoba, sa neuvième publication littéraire rassemble cinq contes mettant en vedette des animaux. De plus, Les feux Saint-Elme a paru dans Rauque (Revue de création) en 1985. Un récit poétique Terre des Songes (1986) et Le geai bleu et le papillon (1992) ont paru chez les Éditions du Vermillion. En 1987, Contes de Noël est publié par les Éditions des Plaines et en 1988 Greenmantle a paru chez Penumbra Press, ainsi que Marigolds in Snow (1993). Jocelyne Villeneuve a aussi publié des articles et des récits dans le journal Le Voyageur, certains de ses récits ont aussi été diffusés sur les ondes de Radio-Canada. Villeneuve a aussi été publié 3 livres de haïkus. Mentionnons que Haïku Canada a un Prix Jocelyne Villeneuve, en mémoire de Jocelyne Villeneuve une des pionnières du haïku canadien-français décerné chaque année pour le haïku francophone.

Jocelyne Villeneuve est décédée le 8 mai 1998, à Sudbury.

http://viaf.org/viaf/89792043 · Person · 1900-1994

William Elgin Swinton was born on September 30, 1900, in Kirkcaldy, Scotland to William Wilson Swinton and Rachel Cargill. He had one younger sister, Mary Swinton. He received his early education in Dundee, Scotland and graduated in 1922 from the University of Glasgow with a BSc. Swinton began his career in 1922 as an assistant in the geology department at the British Museum and was later appointed as a paleontologist and curator of fossil amphibians, reptiles and birds. During his career at the British Museum, Swinton gained an international reputation as an authority on dinosaurs and had many publications on the topic, including The Dinosaurs (1934).

In 1961 Swinton left Britain to become Head of the Life Sciences Division at the Royal Ontario Museum, combined with a post of professor of zoology in the Departments of Zoology and Geological Science at the University of Toronto. On July 1, 1963, Swinton was appointed Director of the ROM. After three years, Swinton was required to retire from his post due to a new University regulation that fixed retirement for administrators at the age of 65.

Upon leaving the ROM, Swinton resumed his scholarly activities as a professor at Massey College, University of Toronto. His last appointment was as a professor at Queen’s University in Kingston until 1979.

Swinton died in Toronto, Ontario in 1994, at 93 years old.

http://viaf.org/viaf/79258341 · Person · 1876-1957

Charles Trick Currelly (Jan. 11,1876 – Apr. 10, 1957) was the first Director of the Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology and Professor of the History of Industrial Art (later changed to Archaeology) at the University of Toronto from 1914-1946.

Currelly was born in Exeter, Ontario, attended Harbord Collegiate Institute in Toronto and then Victoria College, graduating with his degree in 1898. He then went to Manitoba to work as a missionary for two years, before returning to Toronto to do an M.A. at Victoria College. In 1902 he travelled to Europe and joined the staff of the Egypt Exploration Fund as an assistant to the famous archaeologist, Flinders Petrie.

Currelly established a reputation as a well-respected archaeologist and collector. In 1906 the University of Toronto appointed him official collector of antiquities, and later, Curator of Oriental Archaeology. Around this time Currelly and Sir Edmund Walker, president of CIBC, joined forces to petition the Ontario Government to provide the money to establish a museum in Toronto. They were guaranteed this support in 1908 and in 1914 the Royal Ontario Museum was opened to the public.

Charles Currelly retired from the ROM as of July 1, 1946 . In 1956, he published his memoirs, I Brought the Ages Home, in which he tells the stories of his travels and his work at the ROM.

http://viaf.org/viaf/78648683 · Person · 1891-1964

Helen Elizabeth Fernald (1891-1964) was the Keeper of the East Asian Department of the Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology from 1948 until her retirement in 1960. She came to the ROM in 1944 to assist Bishop White, then Keeper of the East Asian Department, and to teach in the School of Chinese Studies at the University of Toronto. H.E. Fernald was born in December 1891 in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A., where her early education was directed by her father, who was a professor of entomology. She got her B.A. in 1914 at Mount Holyoke, and continued her education at Columbia University Teachers College, principally studying art and zoology. She worked as an artist and technician for the Columbia Zoology Department. Her interests moved away from zoology and she went to Bryn Maur College, where she became an instructor in art. Her interests again shifted, this time toward public education, and she then became Head of the Education Department at the University of Pennsylvania Museum, where in 1925 she was appointed Curator of Far Eastern Art and remained there for 10 more years, during which time she travelled widely to learn more about her field. In 1935 she moved to England and became a student at the Courtauld Institute of Art. She travelled and became a freelance writer for nearly four years after her studies concluded. In 1943 she became engaged by the Office of Strategic Services in Washington to prepare maps for Sicillian battlegrounds, and later she was transferred to the China unit mapping service. In 1944, Fernald was appointed Assistant Keeper in the East Asian Department at the ROM and Special Assistant to Bishop W.C. White. She was Acting Keeper while Bishop travelled to China from 1946 to 1947 and Assistant Professor at the School of Chinese Studies. When Bishop White retired in 1948, she took over his position. During her tenure she made surveys of the collection, prepared special exhibitions and catalogues, and wrote over 40 articles and papers on Chinese art and Court Costume. She became gravely ill and retired in 1960 to New England. She died on August 20, 1964 in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.

Dixon, Catharine
http://viaf.org/viaf/75602908 · Person · 1927-

Catharine Dixon (1927- ) moved to Elliot Lake in 1957, and, since then, has been a very active member of the community by serving on a wide variety of community boards, committees and organizations. While continuing to be involved in different activities of the United Church, she was elected to the first Public School Board in 1966. For the period 1980-1987, she also served as a member of the Elliot Lake Police Commission.

In the 1970s, Catharine Dixon worked as a reporter for the Sault Star. She wrote short histories of the United Church and of the Elliot Lake Police Force. In 1997, she published The Power and the Promise: the Elliot Lake story. Her latest publication is titled As It Happened: The founding of Elliot Lake Secondary School (2001).

Baillie, James L.
http://viaf.org/viaf/7108309 · Person · 1904-1970

James L. Baillie was born in Toronto, July 4, 1904 and was educated at King Edward School and Harbord Collegiate. He joined the staff at the Royal Ontario Museum in 1922 and served in the Department of Ornithology as Technical Assistant, Research Assistant and Assistant Curator until his death in 1970.

Baillie was involved in many organizations, including The American Ornithologists Union, the Toronto Field Naturalists, the Federation of Ontario Naturalists, the Canadian Audubon Society, the Toronto Ornithology Club, the Field Biologists' Club and the Brodie Club.

Keck, Jennifer
http://viaf.org/viaf/70949881 · Person · 1954-2002

Jennifer Marguerite Keck (1954-2002) was born in Sudbury on January 12, 1954 to Lyle Keck and Jacqueline Fournier Keck. She died on June 12, 2002 at Sudbury Regional Hospital at the age of 48. Dr. Keck was survived by her father, her sister Leslie Keck, her partner Don Kuyek, her son David, a special (step) son Devlin, and special daughter (niece) Jordan Keck.

Jennifer Keck moved to Ottawa to pursue post secondary education at Carleton University and received a BA in Political Science in 1975 and MSW in Social Work in 1981. She received a PhD in Social Work in 1995 from the University of Toronto.

Dr. Keck worked in a legal aid clinic in Toronto in the late 1970s before moving to Northwestern Ontario as a Field Research Coordinator with the Anti-Mercury Ojibwa Group in White Dog and Grassy Narrows in 1978-79. She returned to Sudbury in 1979 and worked as Coordinator of Children's Services at the Native People of Sudbury Development Corporation until 1980. From 1980 to1982, she worked as an intake social worker at the Manitoulin-Sudbury District Children's Aid Society and as Project Officer for the Job Development and Training Program at the Canada Employment and Immigration Commission in Sudbury. She began working as a lecturer in the School of Social Work at Laurentian University in 1982 and became an Associate Professor in 1989. She taught specifically in the subjects of community development, AIDS, child abuse, and social work theory/practice.

Dr. Keck has been described as a writer, academic, activist, organizer, and an active researcher. She was President of the Myths and Mirrors Community Arts group, a founding member of Sudbury Women's Centre/Centre des Femmes de Sudbury, a former board member and Northern Ontario representative for the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, a member of advisory committee for Better Beginnings, Better Futures, an executive member of Circle of Strength – The Sudbury Breast Cancer Support Group, and a founding member of Justice with Dignity – The Committee to Remember Kimberley Rogers.

Dr. Keck's research and publications concerned the themes of women, poverty, women in blue collar jobs (chiefly at INCO), call centres, care for children with special needs, community development/organizing, government employment grants and projects, welfare/workfare, and labour in Sudbury. Her memory is preserved through the Dr. Jennifer Keck [Memorial] Lecture Series on Social Justice, sponsored by the School of Social Work, Laurentian University.

Hogan, Brian F., 1946-
http://viaf.org/viaf/70210420 · Person · 1946-

Rev. Father Brian Hogan was born on January 2, 1946 in Haileybury, Ontario. After receiving his BA., he taught at St. Charles College in Sudbury from 1969-1971. He received his Master’s degree in Divinity in 1974 and was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in the Congregation of St. Basil in 1975. From 1974-1977 he was employed as a teaching assistant and instructor in the History Department of St. Thomas Moore College at the University of Saskatchewan where he was also the Chaplain of the Newman Centre there. In 1977, Rev. Hogan began his studies toward a doctoral degree in Canadian history at the University of Toronto. Rev. Hogan is the author of the 1978 book Cobalt: Year of the Strike 1919.

Paiement, André
http://viaf.org/viaf/70047823 · Person · 1950-1978

André Paiement (1950-1978), fils de Paul-Émile et Thérèse Paiement, est né à Sturgeon Falls, Ontario. Deuxième d’une famille de neuf enfants, il complète son cours primaire à Sturgeon Falls, pour ensuite être pensionnaire au Collège Sacré-Cœur à Sudbury.

Par la suite, Paiement s'inscrit à l'université Laurentienne en traduction. Il quittera l'université en 1972. C'est lorsqu'à l'université, qu'il rencontre les gens avec lesquels il crée des liens et ensemble ils s'impliqueront dans le milieu culturel et artistique de Sudbury, puis du Nouvel Ontario. Parmi ceux-ci mentionnons, Marcel Aymar, Robert Paquette, Pierre Bélanger et son ami d'enfance : Gaston Tremblay. Il se joint à La Troupe de théâtre de la Laurentienne et participe à plusieurs créations collectives, dont Moé j'viens du Nord 'stie.

Paiement est parmi les initiateurs de la création du Théâtre du Nouvel Ontario (TNO), première troupe de théâtre professionnel de l'Ontario français. Avec cette troupe il signe de nombreuses créations collectives, dont : Et le septième jour, joué en 1971, À mes fils bien-aimés (1972), La vie et les temps de Médéric Boileau (1973). En 1972, à la fondation de la Coopérative des Artistes du Nouvel Ontario (CANO), Paiement devient membre de cette coopérative, basée à Earlton. Mais il demeure toujours actif au sein du TNO. Parmi les pièces de théâtre qu'André Paiement a écrit mentionnons : Lavalléville, et dans lesquelles il a joué : Le médecin volant (Molière), Les Communords de Claude Belcourt. Ce n'est qu'en 1976, qu'il quittera le TNO. Entre-temps, en 1975, il y a eu la création du groupe CANO-musique, dont André Paiement fait partie. Cette même année ils donneront leur premier spectacle sur la scène de La Slague. En 1976, le groupe CANO-musique enregistre son premier album, Tous dans l'même bateau et se produit à La Nuit sur l'Étang et sur plusieurs scènes ontariennes et québécoises, dont Ottawa, Montréal, Québec. En 1977 André Paiement est surtout actif dans le milieu musical, avec le groupe CANO qui obtient un franc succès dans le Canada français, et qui fait l'enregistrement de leur deuxième album Au nord de notre vie. André Paiement s'enlève la vie, le 23 janvier 1978.

http://viaf.org/viaf/68946285 · Person · 1939-

Graeme Mount, PhD, moved from Montreal to Sudbury in 1969 to teach courses in Canadian, American, and Latin American history at Laurentian University. As an a academic, he published papers and books on topics relating to international relations, Canadian history, Canadian-American relations, Latin America, the Caribbean, and espionage. Upon his retirement in 2005, Mount remained actively involved in research on politics in Latin America as well as on the history of Northern Ontario.

MacLean, Margaret
http://viaf.org/viaf/68491008 · Person · 1871-1931

(Sarah) Margaret MacLean was born in 1871 in Cornwall, Ontario. She was the daughter of Alexander MacLean (1834-1908) and Sarah Smith (1838-1897). She grew up in Ontario, Canada but moved to Japan in 1904 at the age of 33 to accompany her father who had been appointed Canada’s commercial agent to Japan. She spent time travelling in China which became the inspiration for her publication “Chinese Ladies at Home”. She remained in Japan with her father until he was posted to China in 1908. Margaret returned to Ottawa Canada in 1909 following her father’s death in Shanghai.

Margaret MacLean became a fixture at the Royal Ontario Museum in 1915 visiting the museum often. She proposed the creation of an employed position for an official Museum Guide but was told that no such position existed. Margaret MacLean continued to visit the museum and engaged in a course of personal study. In 1918 she was authorized to give private tours and lectures of the Museum. In 1919 the position of Official Guide was created and Margaret MacLean began working for the Royal Ontario Museum as a paid employee. Her lectures and school tours were enormously popular and her workload increased.

Margaret MacLean resigned from the Royal Ontario Museum as of February 15, 1924 citing ill health. She continued to travel after her resignation from the Museum. Margaret MacLean died on May 30, 1931 having laid the foundation for the development of the Education Department and programs such as the Saturday Morning Club.

Fritz, Madeleine A.
http://viaf.org/viaf/62919392 · Person · 1896-1990

Madeleine Alberta Fritz (3 November 1896 – 20 August 1990) was a Canadian paleontologist. She was a professor at the University of Toronto, where she taught vertebrate studies in the department of Geology. Fritz's writing on the fossil Bryozoa along with her research on the stratigraphy of Toronto and the surrounding areas were major contributions to the geological field.

Fritz was one of the pioneering researchers on the Palaeozoic fossil Bryozoa, which is a type of sea creature that bonds together and builds joint skeletons composed of tiny chambers or tubes. Her work on these creatures later lead to her being called the “great-grandmother of Palaeozoic Bryozoa" Her scientific journals on these extinct marine invertebrates are internationally acclaimed.

Fritz worked at The Royal Ontario Museum as an associate director from 1936 to 1955, and later became the Invertebrate Paleontology Curator at the ROM from 1955 to 1957. In 1956, she became a paleontology professor at University of Toronto under the Department of Geology until her official retirement in 1967. Fritz was a member of the Geological Association of Canada and the Geological Society of America. She also was a member of the Canadian Confederation of University Women and the International Federation of University Women Panel of Experts.