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The Lennox family has Northern Irish roots in Simcoe County, Ontario. William James Wilfred (“Wiff”) Lennox (1883-1968) and his wife Fannie Jane Evangeline Watt (1895-1980) both shared a common ancestor, John Lennox (m. Mary Hinds) of Kilrae, Londonderry. John and Mary had been born sometime in the second half of the 18th century. Among their many children, they had two sons: John (1794-1866) and William (1800-1880). Fannie was John’s great-granddaughter and Wilfred was William’s grandson.

Wilfred (“Wiff”) grew up on his father James’ farm in Newton Robinson, Ontario. Wilfred was educated locally and later obtained his Bachelor of Scientific Agriculture degree in 1905 from the Ontario Agricultural College in Guelph, Ontario. Fannie was the daughter of Arven Cruickshanks Watt, the incumbent priest of Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Bond Head Ontario. After her father’s death in 1912, Fannie and her family moved to Toronto where she attended Oakwood Collegiate and the Toronto Normal School. She may have taught for a year or two before her marriage in 1916 to Wilfred. She was a full-time homemaker from that time. Wilfred found employment with the Federal Department of Agriculture in the Plant Products Division where he worked until his retirement in 1948. During WWII, he was seconded to the Wartime Prices and Trades Board in Ottawa where he lived during the week.

Fannie and Wiff had three children: William (“Bill”) James Arven (1917-1991); John Watt (1920-1943); and Elizabeth Jane (“Bettie”) (1921-2010). The family’s home was at 9 Duggan Avenue in Toronto. The children attended Brown Public School and North Toronto Collegiate Institute. John was employed during the summers of 1939 and 1940 as a bell boy and later a deck hand on the Great Lakes passenger steamship “Manitoba.” In September 1939 he enrolled, like his father before him, at the Ontario Agricultural College in Guelph. His roommate there was Richard Palmer. During his second year at O.A.C., John met Muriel (“Meem”) Young who had enrolled at the Guelph college for women, the Macdonald Institute, popularly known as Macdonald College. She and John became close and he carried her photograph with him overseas when he later joined the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. John was a member of the Canadian Officers Training Corps on campus and in spring 1941, after the completion of his final second-year examinations, he travelled to the Manning Pool in Hamilton , Ontario and applied and enlisted in the R.C.A.F. His older brother Bill also joined the R.C.A.F after his marriage in June 1942.

John was a steady letter-writer and kept up a steady correspondence with family, particularly his mother who for the most part appears to have been intended to share her letters from John with the rest of the family. These letters comprise most , though not all, of John’s letters in the fonds. Others – those written to and from Meem Young, and to and from Richard Palmer who was later killed in Burma – have been lost. This flow of communication continued constantly during the war throughout John’s training in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan at bases in Sydney, Nova Scotia; Victoriaville, Québec; Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Québec; and finally in Moncton, New Brunswick where John received his wings as sergeant pilot. He came home for disembarkation leave just after Christmas 1941 and stayed until just after New Year’s. By early 1942 he was posted to Debert, Nova Scotia and was shipped to the United Kingdom in February. John completed his training in October 1942, but was required to retrain in order to fly what was to him a new kind of aircraft nicknamed “heavies” – enormous Halifax and Wellington bombers. In January 1943 he received his commission as a pilot officer from the King and was thrilled to have received it in the United Kingdom. He was eventually assigned to the 405 Pathfinder Squadron which was designed to illuminate German targets in advance of a bomber assault. He flew a number of missions into Germany as crew member and then in April he assumed, as Pilot Officer, command of his own aircraft and six-member Commonwealth crew.

On the night of May 4/5 on a mission to prepare the way for the bombers on a night raid targeting Dortmund in the Ruhr Valley, Lennox and his crew were fatally disabled over Lingen-am-Ems by a German fighter fire just as they crossed the Dutch-German border. Lennox maintained control of the descending Halifax bomber long enough for five of the crew members to escape by parachute. Those five survived. Lennox and his air gunner Bernard Moody were killed. John Lennox was one month short of his twenty-third birthday. He and his air gunner were initially buried in Lingen-am-Ems. After the end of the war, their bodies were moved to the Reichswald Forest British Military (now Commonwealth) Cemetery near Kleve, Germany, just over the border from Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Stevie Cameron (1943-) was an investigative journalist and author. She was born in Belleville, Ontario and was educated at the University of British Columbia (B. A. 1964), University College, London England (1966-1968), and received chef training at the Cordon Bleu School in Paris (1974-1975). Cameron began her journalism career as a food writer, becoming the food editor at the Toronto Star in 1977. By the mid 1980s, she was covering political affairs for the Ottawa Citizen and was Weekly Ottawa Commentator both for CBC morning radio and for CBC TV's Newsday. She later became a national columnist for the Globe and Mail, host of CBC TV's The Fifth Estate, and contributing editor to Saturday Night Magazine. Cameron's monographs and investigative work about the backrooms and boardrooms of Ottawa and corporate Canada have earned her many honours and awards including Book and Author of the Year for ''On the Take' : Crime, Corruption and Greed in the Mulroney Years' (1994) from the Periodical Marketer's Awards (1995). 'Blue Trust: The Author, the Lawyer, His Wife and Her Money' (1998) won the 1998 Business Book of the Year Merit Award, and 'The Last Amigo : Karlheinz Schreiber and the Anatomy of a Scandal,' co-authored with Harvey Cashore (2001) also received the Best Crime Non-Fiction Book of the Year Arthur Ellis Award (Crime Writers' of Canada). Cameron earned the same Arthur Ellis Award for her most recent work 'On the Farm : Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women' (2010); this work was also nominated for the 2011 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction. She was named the Ryerson Journalism School's Atkinson Lecturer in 1995, and she earned the 1998 Quill Award from the Press Club of Windsor. Cameron has served as editor-in-chief of Elm Street magazine, a columnist with the Globe and Mail, a contributing editor to Maclean's, as well as a contributor to the Financial Post, Chatelaine and Canadian Living. Cameron has lectured on journalism at schools across the country. She is also known for her humanitarian work with the homeless. In 2004, she was recognized with an honorary Doctorate of Divinity from the Vancouver School of Theology.
Stevie Cameron passed away on August 31, 2024 after a long battle with Parkinson's disease and dementia.

Dora Drivas-Avramis was born in 1947 in Lakonia, Greece. She immigrated to Toronto at the age of 9 with her family. She attended the University of Toronto and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in History and Political Science. She then attended the University of Michigan and completed her Master of Arts (MA) in World History. After obtaining her MA, she returned to Toronto to wait for her supervisor to return from overseas so she could pursue a PhD. It was during this time that she was hired by the Toronto Public Library for her fluency in English, Greek, and French.

Around 1970, Basil began working with Rogers Television to produce the Avramis Greek Show, with the aim to provide unbiased coverage of Greek events in Toronto, as well as Greek-language programming on Canadian news topics. As part of this work covering an upcoming election, Basil contacted the Chief Librarian at the Toronto Public Library looking for a guest who could speak Greek. He was put in touch with Dora, who participated in the interview. They were married in 1975.

Dora and Basil Avramis worked together to develop programming for the Avramis Greek Show. Dora used her passion for public affairs, and her skills from her position as the Head of Publicity and later as the Marketing and Communications Officer for the Toronto Public Library to act as the creative advisor who would suggest guest speakers and topics. Dora would also cover news from Greece in English as part of the show, but this segment was short-lived as she needed time to focus on her career and her young family.

The Avramis Greek Show ceased production in 2012. In her retirement, Dora Avramis spends time pursuing research and writing. She has written opinion pieces for the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail. She is also the author of an anthology titled “The Buses and Other Short Stories”. During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Dora began work on writing a history book on the every-day lived experiences of Greeks during the Axis Invasion and Occupation of Greece during the Second World War.

In addition to her BA and MA, Dora Drivas-Avramis completed a postgraduate certification in Communication from York University, where she studied under Eric McLuhan.

Basil Avramis was born in 1936 Lepreon (Zacharo), Greece. His experiences with the Axis Occupation of Greece in the Second World War and subsequent Greek Civil War inspired him to pursue a career in journalism. He attended the School of Journalism at the University of Athens and received a degree in Journalism. In 1964 he immigrated to Toronto, where he worked as the foreign correspondent for Εθνικός Κήρυξ (The National Herald), a Greek-language newspaper based in New York City, USA. He was also a correspondent for Μακεδονική Ζωή (Macedonian Life), a magazine based in Thessaloniki, Greece. In the 1970s he served with the Queen’s Own Rifles in Petawawa, Ontario.

Around 1970, Basil began working with Rogers Television to produce the Avramis Greek Show, with the aim to provide unbiased coverage of Greek events in Toronto, as well as Greek-language programming on Canadian news topics. As part of this work covering an upcoming election, Basil contacted the Chief Librarian at the Toronto Public Library looking for a guest who could speak Greek. He was put in touch with Dora, who participated in the interview. They were married in 1975.

Around 1975, the Avramis Greek Show was also picked up by Global TV and aired live from their studios at 81 Barber Greene Road every Sunday morning. This would continue until around 1985, when the Avramis Greek Show would air exclusively on Rogers Television. Basil produced the Avramis Greek Show on his own using his own equipment. He employed a cameraman named Dan Starteck who also worked with the CBC, but Basil would also act as cameraman on occasions when he was not available. He ran his company, Avra Productions, out of the basement of his home, where he edited episodes of the Avramis Greek Show for Rogers Television.

The Avramis Greek Show had many notable regular guests on the show, including former Ontario Premier Bill Davis, Professor John Mylopoulos, Professor Tasos Venetsenopoulos, Dr. Demitrios Oreopoulos, and Dr. Tony Vlasopoulos. The Avramis Greek show also covered events in the Greek Cypriot Canadian community, including the demonstrations in Ottawa around the Turkish Invasion of Cyprus.

In recognition for his work on the Avramis Greek Show, Basil Avramis was awarded the Diaspora Media of the Year 2000 (Ομογενειακό Μέσο της Χρονιάς 2000) award by the Hellenic Republic’s Ministry for the Press and Media (Υπουργείο Τύπου και Μέσων Μαζικής Ενημέρωσης). The award was presented on July 5, 2001, by Minister Dimitris Reppas.

Two years later, on July 10, 2003, a committee assembled by the Hellenic Republic’s Ministry of Press and Media awarded Basil Avramis the prize for the Best Report of the Year 2002 in diaspora radio and television (Βραβείο για το καλύτερο Ρεπορτάζ της Χρονιάς 2002 σε ομογενειακό ραδιοτηλεοπτικό μέσο) for his coverage of the Greek Community of Toronto’s Greek Language education program.

The Avramis Greek Show ceased production in 2012. In his retirement, Basil spend time pursuing research and writing short stories and poetry.

In addition to his degree in Journalism, Basil Avramis also completed a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Political Science from York University.

Lynn Crosbie, writer and educator, was born in Montreal. She attended Dorval High School and Dawson College in Montreal before moving to Toronto, where she attended York University, obtaining a BA in English and Sociology in 1986 and an MA in English in 1987. Crosbie then attended the University of Toronto, earning a PhD in English in 1996. Her PhD thesis is entitled “Contextualizing Anne Sexton: confessional process and feminist practice in the Complete Poems”. Crosbie has been an instructor at the Ontario College of Art and Design/OCAD University, the University of Toronto, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the University of Guelph and York University, teaching courses in English literature, creative writing, and popular culture.

Crosbie began her literary career writing poetry. Her first book of poetry, Miss Pamela’s Mercy, was published in 1992, followed by VillainElle (1994), Pearl (1995), Queen Rat (1998), Missing Children (2003), Liar (2006), and The Corpses of the Future (2017). Her books of prose and fiction include Paul’s Case (1997), Dorothy L’Amour (1999), Life Is About Losing Everything (2012), Where Did You Sleep Last Night (2015), and Chicken (2018). She co-wrote Phoebe 2002: An Essay in Verse (2003) with Jeffery Conway and David Trinidad, and she is the editor of The Girl Wants To: Female Representations of Sex and the Body (1993) and Click: Becoming Feminists (1997).

Crosbie, also a prolific writer on popular culture, started freelance writing in the early 1990s. She has written features, reviews and columns for magazines, newspapers and literary journals including Maclean’s, the National Post, Fashion, Flare, This Magazine, Hazlitt, Quill and Quire, The Walrus, NOW, Saturday Night and Zoomer. Between 2002 and 2012, Crosbie’s column, “Pop Rocks”, appeared in the Globe and Mail’s Arts Section. She also wrote a column, “Critical Mass”, for the Toronto Star between 2000 and 2004 and a television column in Eye Weekly between 1999 and 2001.

Crosbie's story "The High Hard Ones", published in Saturday Night magazine, won the National Magazine Awards’ gold award for best fiction story in 2000, and her article "Lights Out", published in Fashion Magazine, won the silver award for best short feature in 2009. Her book, Where Did You Sleep Last Night, was shortlisted for the 2016 Trillium Book Award.

Dianne Lee Martin, lawyer, advocate and professor, was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, on 19 March 1945. She attended the University of Toronto, graduating with an BA (Hon) in 1973, followed by an LLB from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1976, and a LLM (with merit) from the University of London (1987). Martin began her legal career with an articling position at Toronto law firm Ruby and Edwardh and was called to the bar in 1978. She practised in the area of criminal law between 1978 and 1981 as a partner in Martin, Kainer & Fyshe and then as a partner in Martin & Gemmell from 1981 to 1989. From 1989 onwards, Martin was a professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, where she taught in the LLM (criminal law) programme, and also served as the Academic Director of the Intensive Programme in Poverty Law from 1989 to 1992, the director of the Institute for Feminist Legal Studies from 1999 to 2002, and as the director of Clinical Legal Education from 2000-2001. She was the director of the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted from 1993 to 1997 and director of Osgoode Hall Law School's Innocence Project from 1997 until 2004.

Outside of her work at Osgoode Hall Law School, Martin was actively involved in the legal profession as a member of the Criminal Lawyers Association of Ontario (1979-1995), a member of the John Howard Society of Ontario (1981-1990), a member and director of Parkdale Community Legal Services (1989-2004), and a member of the Ontario Legal Aid Plan's York County Area Committee (1980-2004). She was a posthumous recipient of Legal Aid Ontario's Sidney B. Linden Award in 2005.

Martin was a co-author of three monographs, Criminal Sentencing Digest (1993), Principles of Evidence for Policing (1999), and The Law of Evidence: Fact Finding, Fairness and Advocacy (1999), in addition to numerous book chapters, reports and journal articles in the area of social justice/injustice and criminal law.

Martin died in Toronto on 20 December 2004.

Deborah R. Brock is an academic and professor specializing in research and teaching on sex work and social, sexual and moral regulation. She received a BA in Sociology and Canadian Studies from the University of Waterloo, a MA in Sociology from Carleton University (1984), and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto (1990). Brock taught at Ryerson Polytechnic University, Wilfrid Laurier University and Trent University before joining York University's Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies in the Department of Sociology. She retired as a Professor Emeritus in 2024.

Brock is the author of "Making Work, Making Trouble: Prostitution As a Social Problem" (1998) and "Making Normal: Social Regulation in Canada" (2003), co-editor of "Power and Everyday Practices" (2011), "Criminalization, Representation and Regulation" (2014), "Power and Everyday Practices" (2019), and editor of "Governing the Social in Neoliberal Times" (2019).

Ray Ellenwood, professor, translator and academic, was born in Edmonton and educated at the University of Alberta, where he received his BA (1961) and MA (1963) in English. After completing his MA, he worked as an Assistant d’anglais at Lycée Victor Hugo in Narbonne (Aude), France (1963-1964), as an Assistant Master of English at Palmer’s Grammar School for Boys in Grays’ Essex, England (1964-1965), as a full-time lecturer in English at the University of Alberta (1965-1967) before attending Rutgers University in New Jersey, where he received his PhD in Comparative Literature in 1972. He taught English at Atkinson College, York University, where he was Assistant Professor (1972-1975), Associate Professor (1975-1991), and Professor with the School of Arts and Letters at Atkinson College (renamed the Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies) from 1991 until his retirement in 2005.

Ellenwood is the author of "Egregore: A History of the Montréal Automatist Movement" (1992) and its updated French version, "Égrégore : une histoire du mouvement automatiste de Montréal" (2014), co-author of "The Automatiste Revolution : Montreal, 1941-1960" (2009), editor (with Betty Bednarski) of "Jacques Ferron hors Québec" (2010), and co-editor of "Trans/Acting Cutlure, Writing, and Memory: Essays in Honour of Barbara Godard" (2013). His work as a translator includes "Vanishing Spaces" (1980), a translation of Guillaume Charette's "L'espace de Louis Goulet", "Refus global/Total Refusal" (1985) by Paul-Émile Borduas, and "The Vampire and the Nymphonaiac/Le vampire et la nymphomane" (2022), as well as works by Jacques Ferron, Marie-Claire Blais, Claude Gauvreau, Gilles Henault, Fernand Ouelette, and Thérèse Renaud. He was awarded the Canada Council Translation Prize in 1982 and has served on the jury of the Governor General's Award for Translation on three occasions.

Johann W. Mohr (1928-2008), commonly known as Hans Mohr, was a social worker, psychiatric researcher, and teacher with interests that included psychiatry, etymology, family law, criminal statistics, and penal policy. Mohr was born in Graz, Austria, on March 19, 1928. In 1946 Mohr began his academic career at the University of Graz in Austria, studying Anglistic and Germanic Philology and Literary Studies. From 1948-1949 Mohr studied at the University of Nottingham on the Language and Social Institutions Scholarship. Upon his return to the University of Graz in 1949, Mohr worked at the International Social Services refugee camp in Ried, Austria, as an English tutor and counsellor. This is where Mohr met his wife, Ingeborg, whom he married in 1952. He completed his thesis in 1950 and graduated with a PhD from the University of Graz. From 1951-1952, Mohr worked as a counsellor in Salzburg, Austria, with the American National Catholic Welfare Conference (NCWC). His caseload consisted primarily of older men and women who were rejected from immigration because of their age, even by countries that accepted their children. This job brought him into contact with a wide range of people from various countries and classes. With the need to raise a family in better conditions and the urge to take part in a culture that was stimulating and growing, Mohr left Austria to find work in Canada in 1953. Upon arriving in Toronto, Mohr worked in carpentry, construction and in a factory. In 1954 he accepted a position as an assistant social worker at the Department of Social Welfare in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, with the child welfare and the juvenile delinquency departments. In order to advance his career, Mohr and his family moved to Toronto so he could attend the School of Social Work at the University of Toronto from 1955-1959 while working with the Big Brothers of Canada organization. He also worked as a research consultant for the Department of the Attorney General of Ontario. In 1959 he received his Masters of Social Work (MSW), with a specialization in research. From 1960-1966, Mohr was a research associate at the Forensic Clinic of the Toronto Psychiatric Hospital (TPH), which preceded the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry. The major referrals in this new job in forensic psychiatry were pedophiles, exhibitionists and homosexuals. Mohr wrote and assisted in many research projects that dealt with these types of psychiatric conditions. Continuing with his work on psychiatry, Mohr taught at the University of Toronto's Department of Psychiatry from 1962-1967. While teaching at the University of Toronto, Mohr was the Head of the Section of Social Pathology Research at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry. Initially he was a member of the medical faculty and then became head of the research unit. From 1969-1972, Mohr was a consultant for the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry's Forensic Services. In 1969 Mohr was cross-appointed to York University's Osgoode Hall Law School and the Faculty of Arts and Science's Department of Sociology. With his background in research and practical experience in psychiatry, social work and social psychology, Mohr helped develop and teach new courses and seminars in criminology, law and psychiatry, and research methodology. When he joined Osgoode's faculty, he was one of the first non-lawyers to become a member of a Canadian law faculty. During his time at Osgoode Hall Law School, from 1969-1989, Mohr and many of his associates were concerned with the effects of law and legal institutions, as well as law being an instrument of social change, rather than of oppression. He took a leave of absence from Osgoode in 1972 to 1976 to work as a commissioner for the Law Reform Commission of Canada, where he was able to advocate for law reform and chaired the prison reform ventures. He was one of the first non-lawyers to participate in a law reform commission anywhere in the common law world. Upon his return to Osgoode in 1976, Mohr became a mainstay of the graduate program as he led graduate colloquiums and supervised many students. He was well known for his seminar on legal epistemology. Mohr continued to teach at University of Toronto from 1976-1989. Between 1980 and 1985, Mohr was awarded the Laidlaw Fellowship in 1980, was an adjunct professor at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and a visiting Lansdowne Professor for the Faculty of Law and Human and Social Development at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. Between 1985 and 1989 Mohr extended his graduate seminar on improving the quality of thesis work for Osgoode over two terms and supervised a number of graduate students. He also took on unpaid duties, such as presidency of the Vanier Institute of the Family and the Church Council of Justice and Corrections. In 1989 Mohr became a Professor Emeritus. He continued with his graduate seminar until 1993, commuting from Howe Island, near Kingston, Ontario. He wrote many significant unpublished manuscripts during retirement, worked with organizations such as the John Howard Society and the Law Commission of Canada, corresponded with his colleagues locally and abroad, and provided valued criticisms of academic and professional works of colleagues. Mohr died in 2008.

Richard Daley Outram (April 9, 1930-January 21, 2005) was a Canadian poet and publisher.
Born in Oshawa, Ontario to Mary Muriel Daley, a school teacher, and Allan Outram, an engineer and veteran of the First World War. The couple moved to Toronto, where Richard attended high school in Leaside from 1944 to 1949.
Outram later attended Victoria College at the University of Toronto from 1949 to 1953, earning his Honors B.A. in English and Philosophy and studying with Northam Fry and Emil Fackenheim. During his summers, he served as an officer cadet in the Royal Canadian Navy reserves in the maritimes.
Following his graduation, Outram worked at the CBC as a stagehand before moving to London, England to work as a television stagehand at the BBC between 1955 and 1956. It was during this period that he began to write poetry and met his future wife, Barbara Howard. The couple returned to Toronto and married in 1957 and Outram returned to the CBC where he worked until 1990 as the stage crew foreman.
Between 1966 and 2001, Outram published ten collections of poetry in addition to dozens of collections of poetry and prose under the Gauntlet Press imprint, a small private press which he and Barbara Howard founded in 1960. The Gauntlet Press issued limited editions (60-80 copies) of Outram’s poetry, including Creatures (1972), Thresholds (1973), Locus (1974) and Arbor (1976). The Gauntlet Press also issued series of broadsheets of Outram’s poems throughout the 1970s and 1980s before shifting to computer-based publications. The limited editions produced by the Gauntlet Press in the 1990s include Around and About the Toronto Islands (1993), Tradecraft and Other Collected Poems (1994), Eros Descending (1995), Ms. Cassie (2000) and Lightfall (2001).
Outram also published works with other publishers, including Anson-Cartwright Publications (Turns and Other Poems, The Promise of Light, and Benedict Abroad).
Outram's collection "Benedict Abroad" won the City of Toronto's Book Award in 1999.
Following his wife’s death in 2002, Outram took his own life, dying of hypothermia in Port Hope, Ontario on January 21, 2005.

Clara McCandless Thomas, educator and author, was born in Strathroy, Ontario in 1919 to Basil McCandless and Mabel Sullivan McCandless. She attended the University of Western Ontario, where she studied English literature. In 1957, Thomas returned to university at the University of Toronto to pursue her PhD in English Literature. She received her doctorate in 1962 and was hired by the English Department at York University in the fall of 1961 as part of the first faculty of the new university. She published her doctoral thesis in 1967 as Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. Thomas published several works regarding the work of Margaret Laurence, including the critical introduction Margaret Laurence in 1969 from the New Canadian Library and The Manawaka World of Margaret Laurence in 1975.

Thomas had a close relationship with the archives and special collections of York and in 2005 the university acknowledged her contributions by the renaming the archives in her honour. She retained her office in the archives until 2007 and continued to publish several books after her retirement, including her memoirs Chapters in a Lucky Life in 1999. She became a Fellow of The Royal Society in 1983 and received honorary degrees from York, Trent and Brock.

Thomas died on 26 September 2013 in Strathroy, Ontario.

John Lennox was educated in Canada, receiving his PhD from the University of New Brunswick (1976), and taught at York since 1970, serving as chair of the graduate programme in English (1987-1990), and as director of the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies (1985-1988). He is the editor of 'Margaret Laurence - Al Purdy, a friendship in letters: selected correspondence,' (1993) and of 'Charles W. Gordon ("Ralph Connor") and his works,' (1988).

Canadian Speakers' and Writers' Service Ltd. was begun by Matie Molinaro in 1950. Since that time it has represented the interests of several leading Canadian authors, performers and speakers including Marshall McLuhan, Harry Boyle, Mavor Moore, Celia Franca, Lister Sinclair, Don Harron, and several others. The Service also ran a writer's retreat north of Toronto until the late 1980s. Molinaro has also acted as a ghost-writer, written publicity, and translated material in her career as president of CSWS.

The Faculty of Education was inaugurated in 1971 and became operational in 1972 with the first courses being offered in 1973. The new faculty absorbed Lakeshore Teachers' College in 1971, accepting most of the faculty there as York teachers. The faculty currently offers programmes, combining theory and practice, in elementary, secondary and special education in both a concurrent programme (with an undergraduate degree in Arts or Science), and a consecutive (post-graduate) degree, as well as a Master of Education programme and a doctoral programme. The faculty also offers programmes in Jewish Teacher Education, Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing, and a number of specialized graduate diplomas. In addition the Faculty has a large in-service degree programme for professional teachers who wish to upgrade their qualifications. The Jean Augustine Chair in Education in the New Urban Environment was established in 2008 to facilitate research and activities related to education in a diverse urban society. The following individuals have served as dean of the faculty: Robert L.R. Overing (1972-1980); Joan E. Bowers, acting(1980); Andrew E. Effrat (1980-1990); Stanley Shapson (1990-1998); Jill S. Bell, acting (1998-1999); Terry Piper (1999-2001); Donald Dippo, acting (2001); Paul Axelrod (2001-2008); Alice Pitt (2008-2012); Ron Owston, interim dean (2012-).

The Birth Control and Venereal Disease Information Centre (now known as the Birth Control and Sexual Health Centre) has been serving the North York community since 1972 and provides sexual health services to women, men and transgendered clients.
It was the first sexual health centre in North York, at first using a mobile trailer to meet local needs. They initiated one of the first programs for Somali women on female genital mutilation (FGM), providing educational sessions for health care professionals, teachers and community service workers. They also served on the Ministry of Health Task Force on Abortion Access as well as the Task Force on FGM Prevention. The centre became the first anonymous HIV test site in North York and the second in Ontario, leading the Ministry of Health to designate anonymous test sites across the province. They established the first Herpes self help group and published the Herpes Handbook, one of the first resources on the subject. The Centre published pamphlets on sexual health for women with disabilities which were widely distributed. The Centre was a founding member of the Ontario Coalition for Abortion Clinics which changed the federal regulations on abortion access and led to the establishment of free standing abortion clinics fully covered by OHIP. The centre remains a member of the Network for the Uninsured working to provide health services to those without status.

Yael Seliger was educated in Israel, England, United States and Canada. Her undergraduate work is in History, Literature and Education. She obtained an MEd from OISE. Her graduate studies are in the field of Education, History and Literature. Thesis topic: Psychoanalysis, Literature and History.
Yael Seliger began her teaching career at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Since then, she has taught high school and university students in Israel and Canada. She has also completed a special project on anti-Semitism for Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
In 1984 she joined the staff of the Centre for Enhancement of Jewish Education. She has also served as Associate Director and Director of Toronto Jewish Teachers Seminary.
Seliger was a course developer for the York University-based Markaz i.t. L'Morim Project, a co-operative venture to enhance the professional development of Jewish Teachers in Canada.
Her research focuses on post-modern trends in Hebrew literature within the context of major historic developments.

Arnold A. Rogow (1924-2006) was a political scientist, author, and psychotherapist. His main area of research was psychological explanations for politics, especially the decision-making of leaders, notably James Forrestal and Alexander Hamilton.

Rogow taught at the University of Iowa and Stanford University before becoming a professor of political science at the City College of New York (part of CUNY) in 1966, where he remained for the rest of his career. Soon after coming to New York, Rogow studied at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and became a practicing psychotherapist in addition to his academic responsibilities. Rogow became a leading figure in the study of the psychodymanics of political behavior and was instrumental in establishing it as a cross-field interdisciplinary concentration at CUNY. He also served as the associate editor of the Journal of Conflict Resolution from 1956 to 1963 and was a member of the original editorial committee of Comparative Politics.

Rogow was a pioneer and prolific writer in the field of psychiatry and politics, and wrote or edited over a dozen books, as well as numerous articles, during his career utilizing his psychoanalytic expertise. His major works include James Forrestal: A Study of Personality, Politics, and Policy (1963), Power, Corruption and Rectitude with Harold D. Laswell (1963), The Psychiatrists (1970), The Dying of the Light: A Searching Look at America Today (1975), Thomas Hobbes: Radical in the Service of Reaction (1986), and A Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr (1998). His book on James Forrestal, the first Secretary of Defense and the nation's highest-ranking individual to later commit suicide, was Rogow's first major work to utilize psychology to examine a political figure. Rogow relied on both the archival record and interviews or correspondence with over fifty individuals who knew Forrestal in various capacities, including some of the psychiatrists involved in treating his illness, to identify the factors which led Forrestal to commit suicide in 1949.

Arnold Austin Rogow was born on August 10, 1924 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He earned his B.A. in political science from the University of Wisconsin in 1947 after interrupting his undergraduate education to serve in the Army as an infantryman during World War II. Rogow earned his Ph.D. in political science from Princeton University in 1953, where he wrote his dissertation on "The Labor Government and British Industry, 1945-1951." He married Patricia Evans and they had three children: Jennifer, Sarah, and Jeanne. Rogow died on February 14, 2006 at the age of 81.

Irving Allan Paisley, born in Toronto in 1919, was a North York, Ontario, businessman and local politician. Originally in the garment industry, he served with the Canadian army in World War II (1939-1945) and established the War Assets Distribution Company following the conflict before opening Irving Paisley Insurance Services Limited and associated companies. Paisley served North York as an alderman and controller in the 1960s and 1970s and was a member of several of the Council committees (Property Committee, Works Committee, Traffic Committee, Parks Committee) as well as of the North York Planning Board. He also served on the Metropolitan Toronto Transportation Committee, the Social Planning Council of Metro Toronto and the Canadian National Exhibition Board of Directors where he chaired the Building Committee. In 1976 he was appointed to the Board of Directors of the North Pickering Development Corporation which planned to erect a community in the vicinity of the proposed Pickering Airport. Paisley was the founding chairman of the York-Finch General Hospital, played a role in the establishment of the Canadian Save the Children Fund, served on the board of the Reena Foundation, and was a founding member of Temple Sinai Congregation. He died in Toronto on 12 November 2006.

William Edward Mann (1918-2012), writer and professor, was educated at Trinity College, University of Toronto (MTh 1949) where he also received his PhD in 1953. He served in the Anglican Church of Canada ministry from 1949 to 1959, during which time he was also a special lecturer at Trinity College, an assistant secretary of the Canadian Council of Churches (1948-1949) and secretary of the Toronto Diocesan Council for Social Service (1953-1958). In 1959 Mann embarked upon his second career, teaching at the Ontario Agricultural College (1959) and the University of Western Ontario (1961). He joined the faculty of the Department of Sociology at Atkinson College, York University in 1965 and remained there until 1982. He served as chairman of that department from 1965 to 1968. Mann is the author of several books including "A Mann for all seasons" (1996), "The Quest for total bliss : a sociological interpretation of Rajneeshism," (1990), "Vital energy and health," (1989), "Orgone, Reich and eros," (1973), "Society behind bars" (1969), and others. He has edited several texts including "Canada : a sociological profile" (3rd ed., 1976), and is the author of numerous reports and studies. Mann died on 12 January 2012.

Desmond George Neill (1924-2012) served as the second librarian of Massey College, University of Toronto, from October 1975 to 1990. He was a senior fellow of the college. A leading scholar in the field of bibliography and rare books, he also taught courses in the history of books and printing at the Faculty of Library Science (now Faculty of Information) and was a lecturer in the Department of English.

Neill was born in Oxford, England. He completed a D.Litt. at Balliol College, Oxford. In 1953, he married Sheila M. Pereira in Chelsea, Middlesex, and they had four children.

From 1969 to 1975, Neill was a senior research fellow at Balliol College, Oxford University, and worked as a librarian at the Bodleian Library. In 1975, at the invitation of the Master of Massey College, Robertson Davies, Neill came to Toronto to take up the post of librarian at Massey. He made important additions to the reference and Canadian literature collections, and to the bibliography holdings. He was a member of the Bibliographical Society of Canada and served on its executive, including a term as president.

Neill was a member of the Friends of the Library at Trinity College. In his retirement, he volunteered at Trinity’s annual book sale; starting in 1996, he focused his efforts on donations, looking for rare books for the sale and for the John W. Graham Library. In 2004, he received the University of Toronto’s Arbor Award for distinguished volunteer service.

Neill moved back to Oxford, where he died on 13 June 2012 at the age of 87. His funeral was held on 26 June at the Chapel of Balliol College.

Judith Cowan, author, translator and professor, was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia. She received a BA in Modern Languages and Literature in 1965 and a MA in French Literature in 1969 from the University of Toronto. She received an MA in English Literature in 1970 from York University where she also lectured during the 1970-1971 academic year. She completed her PhD in Canadian comparative literature at l'Université de Sherbrooke in 1983. She has been a professor of Canadian, American and English Literature at l'Université de Quebec at Trois-Rivières since 1973. Cowan has translated numerous poems by Quebec writers for Ellipse magazine, a magazine that specializes in translations of Canadian literature. She has also translated whole works by authors such as Gérald Godin and Yves Préfontaine. She was awarded a Governor-General's Award in 2004 for "Mirabel," her translation of Pierre Nepveu's "Lignes aériennes." She has authored and published several collections of short stories, including "Gambler's Fallacy," and had several novels in progress. She passed away in her home in Trois-Rivières on 21 January 2025.

The poet/scholar George Thaniel was born on 22 February 1938 in Trahila, Messinia, Greece. After WWII and the Civil War in Greece his family moved to Piraeus where George attended Ionidhios High School (1950-1956) where he also began learning English. During this time he also studied French and Latin at St. Paul's Roman Catholic School. His natural aptitude for languages was awarded with a trip to France from the Alliance Française in 1955. This trip and his love for the French Romanticism inspired him to pursue his calling as a poet in that style.

In 1956, Thaniel enrolled in the School of Philosophy of the University of Athens, graduating in 1962. His education was briefly interrupted (1960-1961) as he performed his required military service with the Greek Navy, where he served as a translator and teacher of English. After graduation, Thaniel taught briefly English at Greek high schools until he emigrated to Canada in 1964. There he taught French and Latin in various Canadian high schools in remote places in Ontario such as Sioux Lookout and Chapeau.

In 1967, Thaniel enrolled in the Classics graduate program at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. The title of his PhD dissertation was "Themes of Death in Roman Religion and Poetry." After completing his PhD in 1971, Thaniel was hired by the University of Toronto as a part-time instructor of Modern Greek in the Department of Classics. In 1972 he advanced to become the University's first full-time instructor of Modern Greek. In 1977 he received tenure and went on to become the University of Toronto's first and only professor of Modern Greek in 1987.

While on a trip to Greece, Thaniel died suddenly and unexpectedly in Athens' General hospital on 22 June 1991.

Michiel Horn is a professor emeritus of history at Glendon College, York University, and served as chair of the History department from 1973-1978 and again from 1982-1993. He chaired the York University Faculty Association (1972-1973) and was its past chair and treasurer (1973-1974). In addition, he served on the Canadian Association of University Teachers' Committee on Student-Faculty Relations and chaired CAUT's Committee on the Canadianization of the University (1973-1977). He was also treasurer, chair and a committee member of the Ontario Council of University Faculty Associations (1975-1977). Horn is the author of several monographs, including "York University: The Way Must Be Tried" (2009).

Amice Mary Calverley was born on 9 April 1896, in Chelsea, London, England. In 1903 her family moved to Bloemfontein, South Africa, where her father was employed as an archivist and librarian for the British colony there. After this position was abolished in 1909, the family returned to England. That same year, Calverley began attending Bedford High School for Girls and studying art at University College London’s Slade School of Fine Art. It was also during this time that Calverley took piano lessons.
In 1912, she immigrated with her family to Canada and settled in Oakville, Ontario. Calverley attended the Royal Conservatory of Music until the First World War, when she worked in a munitions factory, trained to be a nurse at the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children, and worked as a masseuse at the Christie Street Veterans’ Hospital.
In 1922, Calverley received a scholarship from the Royal College of Music and returned to England. There she studied under Ralph Vaughan Williams and George Dyson. In 1926, Calverley was hired as a draughts person at the University of Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum, where she illustrated a book by archeologist V. Gordon Childe. This work would connect her to the Egypt Exploration Society, which Calverley joined in 1927. In January 1928, Calverley was sent to Abydos, Egypt to photograph and produce manual drawings of the Temple of King Seti I.
She would make a second trip to Abydos in the winter of 1928-1929, where she would meet John D. Rockefeller. Impressed with her work, he provided funding for a publication of her illustrations and further field work. With this funding, Calverley was able to spend winter 1929 through to winter 1936-1937 with an assistant, Myrtle F. Broome. Their work was published across three volumes titled The Temple of King Sethos I at Abydos (published in 1933, 1935, and 1938). It was also during this period that Calverley began to document local life and customs on film in Egypt and in Balkan countries that she would visit between field seasons.
The outbreak of the Second World War would interrupt Calverley’s fieldwork, and she would instead pivot to various war efforts as she did in the First World War. In 1939, she became a driver for the Invalid Children’s Aid Association, assisting with evacuations from English cities. In 1941, she was sent to Cairo by the Ministry of Information to work in the propaganda unit of the British Embassy and analyzed photos for the Royal Air Force. In 1944, she signed up as civilian relief worker for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) in the Balkans. She would attempt to resume her work at Abydos in 1947, but a cholera outbreak saw her instead obtaining vaccines from Chicago and inoculating local Egyptians, as well as British and American nationals. This work was not new to her, as she had previously used her nursing background to provide basic medical treatments to locals while performing field work in Abydos.
In 1948, war between Egypt and Israel put a permanent end to her work in Abydos, and she relocated to the Greek island of Crete, with the aim of filming local daily life there. This period was a difficult one in Greece, with the Civil War still being waged. Calverley thus turned her attention to filming the conflict and using her nursing background to care for the wounded. Her experience in Crete compelled her to raise funds for disabled Greek war veterans and to support Greek war relief efforts in Europe and America.
Around 1950, with declining health affecting her ability to travel to the extent that she had become used to, Calverley returned to Oakville, Ontario, where she would become known in the Toronto arts community for her chamber music concerts and donations to the Royal Ontario Museum.
Amice Calverley suffered an aneurism and died on 10 April 1959 at her home in Oakville, Ontario. She had been preparing a concert at the time of her death and was working on the final 2 volumes of her publication of illustrations. Her legacy has been maintained by her niece Sybil Rampen, who founded an archive and cultural centre in Oakville.

Andrew Tomcik is a professor, graphics designer and visual communications consultant. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and received a Diploma from the Cleveland Institute of Art (1960) and a B. F. A. and an M. F. A. from the Yale University School of Art and Architecture in New Haven, Connecticut (1964,1965). Prior to teaching at York University, Tomcik had a professional practice in corporate design and taught at Georgia State University (1967-74), directing its Division of Applied Design and Crafts (1973-1974). At York University, Tomcik is a Professor of Fine Arts (1974-present) and has been Chair of the Department of Visual Arts (1981-84, 1990-91). He has written numerous articles on design and has presented art and designs for publications such as Azure, Scan, Graphis Posters and Graphic Design Journal. His work has been exhibited and published in North America, Europe and China. As a consultant, Tomcik has created designs, artwork and posters for clients such as Companion magazine and I.B.M. and many departments at York University. Honours include the OCUFA Teaching Award in 1986 and four publication design awards from the Canadian Church Press (1988). He is a member of and has held prominent positions in the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. More recently, Tomcik was Master of Winters College, York University.

Mildred Bakan (15 October 1922-7 August 2010) , Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Social Science at York University, was an author, teacher, scholar, and community activist, and was one of the first female philosophy academics in Canada.

Born in New York City, she moved to Iowa City to obtain a MA in Psychology (1945) from the State University in Iowa. Four years later, she completed a PhD in philophy from Ohio State University. During this time, she married David Bakan in 1948 with whom she would have six children. From 1968 until her retirement she taught philosophy and social science at York University in Toronto, Ontario.

Bakan's areas of research interest included phenomenology and Marxism, political economy, history and philosophy of science, German classical idealism, and issues in political ecology. Her service to the community included involvement with the Multi-Age Group unit (an experimental school under the administration of the North York Board of Education), the North York Seed (an extra curricular high school program), and the Advisory Board City School (an alternative high school under the administration of the Toronto Board of Education).

She was a member of the following honor societies: the Phi Beta Kappa, the Sigma Xi (honorary science), and the PiMu Epsilon (honorary mathematics).

George Tatham (1907-1987) was a member of the Department of Geography and an administrator at York University, 1960-1977. He served as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science, 1960-1962, dean of students, 1962-1966, and master of McLaughlin College, 1968-1977. He was educated at the University of Liverpool and Clark University and taught at the University of Toronto for several years before coming to York University.

Ruth Dyson Hadfield was born in Oldham, Lancashire, England on 18 October 1922 and was trained as a nurse at the Royal Halifax Infirmary. She wrote poetry in her later years and cared for rescued poodles. She died in Henrico, Virginia on 26 Apr. 2011.

Anthony Butler Hadfield was born in London, England on 25 Apr. 1915. After earning a law degree, Hadfield served in the British Army from 1939 to 1948, rising to the rank of Captain. He entered the automobile association business in 1948 as manager of the Bournemouth office of the Royal Automobile Club in Hampshire. In 1952, Hadfield accepted the job of provincial secretary for the Ontario Motor League (part of the Canadian Automobile Association). He represented Ontario during the opening of the Trans-Canada Highway. He moved to Richmond, Virginia in 1969 and became administrative vice-president of the Automobile Association of Virginia. Hadfield died on 18 May 1981.

Frederick E. “Fred” Moffatt, industrial designer, was born in Toronto in 1912. He left Central Technical School at the age of 16 to pursue a career as an illustrator. His first job was at Southam Press, cutting French rubber plates for water colour tinting. He then joined Rapid Grip, a photo engraving company, as an apprentice, but was let go in 1931 due to the Depression. Moffatt started his own company and built up business by drawing sketches for advertising agencies to promote the products of Carnation, General Foods, General Motors, Kodak, and other companies while taking night classes at the Ontario College of Art. His clientele grew to include Canadian General Electric Company Limited (CGE) and Pitney-Bowes, the postage meter company. Despite suffering a nervous breakdown due to overwork, Moffatt was enjoying success as a designer and was developing his contacts with CGE. The company asked Moffatt to work with an engineer at Canadian Motor Lamp, CGE’s lamp factory, who had combined a chromed headlight shell with a heating element to create a prototype electric kettle. Moffatt reconfigured the handle and spout to prevent spillage and scalding, improvements that also reduced production costs. The model K42 kettle was introduced to the marketplace by CGE in 1940 as the world’s first electric kettle. It was a great success, leading the company to request a more advanced model to deter copies. Moffatt produced an oval, streamlined version in 1941, and continued to work on kettle designs until 1980. The scope of Moffatt’s work with CGE expanded in the 1950s to include one of the first electric lawnmowers, a floor polisher that won national awards, and a teardrop floor heater that won a design competition in Milan. Moffatt was a freelance contractor, working on a handshake agreement that he would design only for CGE and that CGE would engage no other industrial designers. After Black & Decker Canada Incorporated bought CGE’s small appliance division in 1984, Moffatt and his son Glenn worked for two years converting graphics, packaging, and other design elements to Black & Decker’s brand. The line was launched at Ontario Place in 1986. Two weeks later, Black & Decker terminated Moffatt’s contract as it had its own design department in Connecticut. Moffatt worked with other commercial clients in the ensuing years, often in collaboration with Glenn. Fred Moffatt died on 2 Aug. 2006.

Glenn Murray Moffatt, industrial designer and teacher, was born in Toronto on 23 May 1944 to Fred and Roma Moffatt and grew up in Thornhill. After graduating from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 1967, Moffatt began a successful career designing consumer and industrial products. He ran his own business, Moffatt Associates, while occasionally collaborating with his father. His most successful project was an electric hair setter designed within a year of graduation, which sold between 2 and 3 million units for Samson-Dominion, its Canadian manufacturer. Moffatt worked on a wide variety of products that ranged from the GT Snow Racer and Noma Snowthrowers to amplifiers and public address systems, industrial paint spraying equipment, and a paint store colourant dispenser carousel. He continued his father’s work on electric kettles, developing a plastic kettle for Black & Decker Canada Incorporated in 1984 and updating the designs of Superior Electrics of Pembroke, Ontario, Canada’s last manufacturer of steel kettles which also introduced a plastic model designed by Moffatt. He designed packaging graphics for Black & Decker from 1984 to 1987. Moffatt was a member of the Association of Chartered Industrial Designers of Ontario and served as a Professor of Industrial Design and Coordinator of Special Projects at Humber College from 1995 to his retirement in 2022. Moffatt died on 9 July 2023.

Thomas Mossington was born in Hartfordshire, England. He was a shipwright and timber procurer for the Royal Navy. Mossington made various trips to Canada beginning in 1804 to secure timber for the masts of naval vessels. He was sent to Canada by the Royal Navy in 1814 and worked as a quarterman supervising shipbuilding at Kingston's naval dockyard to 1815. Mossington retired from the Royal Navy in 1828. He and his family emigrated to Upper Canada in 1830 and began farming in Georgina Township. Mossington was appointed a justice of the peace in 1833.

Ali Kazimi (1961-) is a Toronto-based filmmaker, author, multimedia artist, and educator. He received a Bachelor of Science from St. Stephen’s College at Delhi University in 1982 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hon.) in film and video production from York University in 1987.

As a director and producer, his works include the feature length documentaries Narmada: A Valley Rises (1994), Shooting Indians: A Journey with Jeffrey Thomas (1997), Documenting Dissent (2001), Continuous Journey (2004), Runaway Grooms (2006), Rex Versus Singh (2009), Random Acts of Legacy (2016), and Beyond Extinction: Sinixt Resurgence (2022). His films, including those above, have screened at film festivals around the world, and Kazimi received awards for those films, including the Donald Brittain/Gemini Award for Best Social/Political Documentary, the Golden Gate Award, San Francisco International Film Festival, the Golden Conch, Mumbai International Film Festival, Best Director & Best Political Documentary at Hot Docs, audience awards for Best Documentary at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival and Los Angeles Indian Film Festival, and the People’s Choice Award, Planet in Focus, for Beyond Extinction: Sinixt Resurgence at the Canadian Environmental Film Festival.

Kazimi has also collaborated on numerous film and television projects as a cinematographer, including Burning Bridges (1984), Screen Smarts (1986), Voice of Our Own (1989), A Song for Tibet (1991), Going to the Extremes: WET (1992-1993), Constructing Reality: Exploring Media Issues in Documentary (1993), After the Bath (1996), A Scattering of Seeds: Passage from India (1997), Colour Blinds (199-?), Bollywood Bound (2001), Dangerous Obsessions: The Stalking Epidemic (2002), The Journey of Lesra Martin (2002), Surviving Extremes (2002), Women and Men Unglued (2003), and Fig Trees (2009).

Kazimi is the author of Undesirables: White Canada and the Komagata Maru (2012), which was a finalist for both the 2012 City of Vancouver Book Award and the 2013 British Columbia Book Prizes’ Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize. In addition to Undesirables, Kazimi has also been published in film and media outlets and publications.

As a multimedia artist, Kazimi has been part of exhibitions at cultural institutions throughout Canada. Some of those exhibitions include Arunuchal: Beyond the Inner Line Exhibit (1989), To|From: BC Electric Railway 100 Years (2012), Komagata Maru Redux Exhibition Prints (2012), Ruptures in Arrival: Art in the Wake of the Komagata Maru Exhibition (2014), and Transformations: Enlightenment in the Digital Age Exhibition (2016). His stereoscopic 3D installation Fair Play is part of the permanent collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Kazimi has been a professor at York University in the Department of Cinema and Media Arts since the mid-2000s. Kazimi’s time at York has also involved work in stereoscopic 3D cinema, of which he is one of Canada’s earliest innovators. He was the recipient of a prestigious John Evan Leaders Fund, from the Canada Foundation for Innovation for the Stereoscopic 3D Lab @York (2012–17). He was also the founding filmmaker of the 3D Film Innovation Consortium (3D FLIC), an interdisciplinary academic/industry partnership. His short film Hazardous (2010) was one of the first stereoscopic 3D short dramas in Canada. His stereoscopic 3D installation Oceans Within was part of the site-specific project Land|Slide: Possible Futures (2013) in Markham, Ontario, which was shown again as part of Transformations: Enlightenment in the Digital Age Exhibition mentioned above, at the Ismaili Centre in Toronto in 2016.

Beyond his work as an artist and educator, Kazimi has served as a member of the Board of Directors for the Images Film Festival (1991-1992), as the president of the Independent Film and Video Alliance (1992–1993), as chair of the Canadian Independent Film Caucus Toronto (1996-1997), as an advisory board member of the journal Rungh: A South Asian Quarterly of Culture, Comment, and Criticism in the 1990s, and as a juror at films festivals around the world including the 2008 Mumbai International Film Festival and the 2008 CIDA Prize for Best Canadian Documentary on International Development.

He was the recipient of the 2019 Governor General’s Award for Visual and Media Arts, a Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) from the University of British Columbia in 2019 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2023. Retrospectives for Kazimi and his works have also been held, including at the 2021 Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, where he was the festival's spotlight artist for the year. Kazimi has also been selected multiple times in Now Magazine’s annual Best of Toronto publications as the best documentarian in the city.

Rohinton Mistry, writer, was born in Bombay (now known as Mumbai), India, in 1952, and immigrated to Canada in 1975. He earned a degree in mathematics and economics at the University of Bombay before continuing his education in Canada. He attended York University and the University of Toronto, where he received his B.A. in English and philosophy. Mistry began his career as a writer by winning two Hart House literary prizes in 1983 and 1984, and Canadian Fiction Magazine’s Annual Contributor’s Prize in 1985 for his short stories. Mistry’s first book, a collection of short stories entitled “Tales from Firozsha Baag,” was published in 1987. His first novel, “Such a Long Journey” (1991), won the Governor General's Award, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book, and the W.H. Smith/Books in Canada First Novel Award, and was short listed for the Booker Prize and the Trillium Award. It was adapted for film and released as a major motion picture in 1999. His 1995 novel, “A Fine Balance,” won the Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Royal Society of Literature's Winifred Holtby Prize, in addition to an award by the Danish Literature Council. It was also short listed for the Booker Prize, the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the Irish Times International Fiction Prize. His latest novel, “Family Matters” (2002), was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and was the winner of the Kiriyama Prize and the Canadian Authors Association's Award for Fiction. Mistry received the Trudeau Fellows Prize from the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation in 2004, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2010, was a finalist for the 2011 Man Booker International Prize, and in 2012 was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. In 2013, on the twentieth anniversary of the Giller Prize, he won the CBC Books’ “Giller of All Gillers” for “A Fine Balance.” In 2016 he was appointed to the Order of Canada. Mistry’s work has been published in more than thirty languages.

Grace Merle Anderson was a sociologist and historian and collaborator with historian David Higgs on a shared project related to the Portuguese community in Canada. Her 1964 Master's thesis in Sociology from McMaster University was titled "The Relationship Between Religious Affiliation and Secular Attitudes and Behaviour." Her 1971 doctoral thesis from the University of Toronto was titled "The channel facilitators model of migration : a model tested using Portuguese blue-collar immigrants in Metropolitan Toronto." In 1976 Anderson co-published with Higgs "A future to inherit : Portuguese communities in Canada." In 1990 she co-authored with Juanne Nancarrow Clarke the book "God calls, man chooses : a study of women in ministry."

David Higgs (1939-2014), was a historian and scholar focusing on various topics of social, political, religious and cultural history as well as queer studies, particularly in relation to France, Portugal, Brazil and Canada.

Born in Rugby, England, his family moved to British Columbia when he was young. He earned a joint B.A. in French and History from UBC in 1959, an MA in History from Northwestern University in 1960, and a PhD in History (under the supervision of Alfred Cobban) from the University of London in 1964.

He taught as a professor of history at the University of Toronto, publishing such works of scholarship as Ultraroyalism in Toulouse: From its Origins to the Revolution of 1830 (1973),Nobles in nineteenth century France: the Practice of Inegalitarianism (1987) (translated in French as Nobles, titrés, aristocrates après la Révolution, 1800-1870), A Future to Inherit: The Portuguese Communities of Canada, co-written with Grace M. Anderson (1976), Church and Society in Catholic Europe of the eighteenth century (1979 with Bill Callahan), Portuguese migration in global perspective (1990) and Queer Sites: gay urban histories since 1600(1999), which he edited.
In 1998 he started the first LGBTQ (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer) undergraduate seminar given in the History department under the title "Historians and Sexual Dissidents." He also taught courses on urban studies.

Retiring in 2004, Higgs continued his work and participation in scholarly communities in Portuguese Studies and French History.
David Higgs passed away October 20, 2014, and is survived by his partner Kaoru Kamimura.

The PCDA (1959-2007) was a Toronto based anti-fascist organization, composed of political exiles and other oppositionists of the Salazar/Caetano dictatorial regime in Portugal. The PCDA was very active in the Toronto, especially during the years leading up to and immediately after the Carnations Revolution of 1974 in Portugal. Besides engaging in political activism, locally and abroad, the PCDA also invested a great deal in cultural development, bringing important artists and intellectuals from Portugal and organizing cultural activities for the members of the Portuguese community of Toronto.

Domingos de Oliveira Marques was born 20 January 1949 in Ribeiro, Murtosa, the son of Francisco Marques and Augusta da Purificacao Oliveira.

His father was a cod fisher who had visited Saint John's Newfoundland while fishing the Grand Banks and Greenland. He attempted to immigrate in 1953 but was rejected due to his large family. The family eventually succeeded in 1957 when Marques' parents and siblings emigrated while he remained in Portugal in the seminary school at Aveiro. Domingos visited with his family in the summer of 1967. After graduating in 1968 and starting theological studies in Lisbon, Marques, having doubts about his future as a Catholic priest, returned to his family in Toronto in 1968. He worked in the tomato harvest in Chatham to repay his parents the cost of his travels. He worked several jobs, including as a journalist with "O Jornal Português" and in the Promotions Department of the Toronto Star before quitting to pursue a university degree full-time.

As a community activist, Marques was involved during the 1960s in the cultural and theatrical projects of the youth organization of the local St. Mary's Catholic parish and the cable 10 television program Luso-Brasileiro. In the 1970s he reported and edited the community newspaper "Comunidade." Marques taught Portuguese at the First Portuguese Community School at Harbord Collegiate Institute, as well as coordinating projects for the Portuguese Community from the West End YMCA. He edited and researched a book on the history Portuguese immigration to Canada with João Medeiros "Emigrantes Portugueses: 25 anos no Canadá", which was published in 1978.

In the late nineteen-seventies, Marques was self-employed and ran Marquis Printing and Publishing. In 1981, he joined the Workers Compensation Board as a Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor, serving fifteen years in this role. In 1992 he published with Manuela Marujo "With hardened hands : a pictorial history of Portuguese immigration to Canada in the 1950s", a more official history of Portuguese Immigration to Canada.

A volunteer for the Canadian Association of Retired Persons (CARP) and the Portuguese Interagency Network (PIN) in the 1980s, Marques was elected Trustee of the Separate School Board Ward 3-4 in 1991. He is married to Manuela Marujo.

Stan Draenos is the Research Consultant for the Andreas G. Papandreou Foundation. He received his PhD at York University in Toronto, after also studying at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Chicago. In addition to his role at the Andreas G. Papandreou Foundation, Draenos has also served as press secretary for the Majority Leader of the California state Senate, speech writer for corporate executives, analyst for RCM Capital Management in San Francisco, report writer for Ernst & Young global marketing, and feature writer for Upside Magazine. Draenos is the author of the biography "Andreas Papandreou: The Making of a Greek Democrat and Political Maverick". He is based in Athens, Greece.

Marina Sterghiou was born on January 21, 1932 in the Kolonos district of Athens, Greece. After graduating from high school, she learned how to type and worked as a typist in a lawyers office. She immigrated to Canada in 1958, and was married that same year. In 1959, her first daughter, Helen, was born. Sterghiou worked at Cooper Canada Limited and at Regal Cards until the birth of her second daughter, Maria in 1966.

Following the death of her mother, Sterghiou made a promise to herself to get more involved with community service. She joined the Ladies’ Philanthropic Association (“Philoptochos”) at the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary Greek Orthodox Cathedral (also known colloquially as “Panagia”). She served as Treasurer from 1983-1984, and then as President from 1986-1989. She continued to volunteer with the Ladies’ Philanthropic Association for many years after her term as president, but eventually had to step away from her duties to attend to her family. Sterghiou continues to reside in Toronto.

John Sotos is a Greek Canadian lawyer. Born in 1952, he was awarded a B.A. from the University of Toronto in 1975, and an LL.B from the University of Western Ontario in 1978. Mr. Sotos was called to the Ontario Bar in 1980.

In addition to practicing franchising law, Mr. Sotos has been involved with many community and diasporic organizations, including the Greek Community of Metropolitan Toronto, The Hellenic-Canadian Federation of Ontario, the Hellenic Canadian Congress, the Hellenic Heritage foundation, and the Canadian Ethnocultural Council. Mr. Sotos spearheaded the development of the Greek Community of Metropolitan Toronto’s Social Services Centre, and was a founding member and secretary of both the Hellenic Canadian Congress and the Hellenic Heritage Foundation. Mr. Sotos has also served as secretary on the Canadian Ethnocultural Council, and was an active member of its media committee.

In addition to the diasporic organizations included in this fonds, Mr. Sotos has also served as a founding member and secretary of the Canadian Hellenic Lawyers' Association, as well as a secretary on the Hellenic Canadian Board of Trade.

Mr. Sotos is a founding partner of Canada’s largest franchise law boutique, Sotos LLP, and is a dean of the franchising, licensing and distributing bar.

The Office of the Counsel provides advice and representation to the University on a variety of matters, including: student academic and non-academic discipline, petitions and appeals; student professional behaviour reviews; policies and procedures that protect the University from undue liability; risk assessment and control; human rights and accommodation issues; complaints filed with the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal and other administrative tribunals; representation of the University in Court in litigation matters; compliance with various regulatory regimes (e.g. FIPPA, AODA, CASL, GDPR, copyright and trademarks); employment issues; labour relations matters; contracts and agreements of a wide variety of matters (academic, commercial, experiential learning, donor agreements and many others); research and intellectual property (IP) issues; commercialization of IP; land, property and development projects, including financing procurement; and the governance of the University as per the York University Act, 1965. The Office of the Counsel also provides seminars and other education-oriented initiatives on legal issues affecting the University.

Brian Wright-McLeod is a Toronto-based music journalist, producer, radio host, and educator who identifies as Dakota-Anishnabe. He teaches courses related to Indigenous studies at Centennial College since 2014, George Brown College since 2019 and the York University Department of Communication since 2020. He previously earned a Diploma in Journalism, graphic arts, and design from Canadore College.

Wright-McLeod began working as a music journalist in 1979. His column "Dirty Words and Thoughts about Music" appears bimonthly in News from Indian Country, Hayward, Wisconsin. His journey in radio began in 1983. He then became the host and producer of Renegade Radio, a live two-hour weekly music and issues program. It first aired in 1984 until 2009 at the Ryerson University campus/community radio station CKLN 88.1 FM and then made available on other radio outlets including Sirius Satellite Iceberg95, JAZZ 91.1 FM, CBC Radio 1, BBC Radio, and the American Indian Radio on Satellite (AIROS) network.

This work and years of research resulted in the publication of his first book “The Encyclopedia of Native Music” (2000) and the companion 3-CD set “The Soundtrack of a People” (2005). Through these works, Wright-McLeod documents artists representing traditional music from the Arctic Circle to the US Southwest from 1905 to 2005 including folk roots and bluegrass; Powwow music from the traditional foundations to the current sounds of northern and southern style; and contemporary music from early jazz of the 1920s to the eclectic sounds of the new millennium. In 2011, Wright-McLeod also authored and illustrated “Red Power: A Graphic Novel.”

Brian is also a music consultant for film, television, recording projects, and institutions including the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences; the Library & Archives, Ottawa; Library of Congress, Washington, DC, and Calgary’s National Music Centre. Wright-McLeod has also volunteered as the Executive Director of the Canadian Alliance in Solidarity with Native People since January 1991.