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John Stevens Henslow was an English clergyman, botanist and geologist. He is best remembered as friend and mentor to his pupil Charles Darwin.

Samuel Reynolds Hole (1819–1904) was the dean of Rochester and a horticulturist.

Sir Charles John Holmes (November 11, 1868 - December 7, 1936) was a British painter, art historian and museum director. His writing on art combined theory with practice, and he was an expert on the painting techniques of the Old Masters, from whose example he had learned to draw and paint.

John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent (January 9, 1735 – March 14, 1823) was an admiral in the Royal Navy and Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom. Jervis served throughout the latter half of the 18th century and into the 19th, and was an active commander during the Seven Years' War, American War of Independence, French Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic Wars. He is best known for his victory at the 1797 Battle of Cape Saint Vincent, from which he earned his titles, and as a patron of Horatio Nelson. Jervis was also recognised by both political and military contemporaries as a fine administrator and naval reformer.

Thomas William Jex-Blake (January 26, 1832 - July 2, 1915) was an eminent Anglican clergyman, educationalist, and headmaster and dean of Wells. He began a career as a school master at Marlborough and was then Assistant Master at Rugby. From 1868 to 1874 he was Principal of Cheltenham College and from 1874 to 1887 was Headmaster of Rugby then Rector of Alvechurch. In 1891 he was appointed Dean of Wells, a post he held for two decades.

George Henry Sacheverell Johnson (1808 – 1881) was a British clergyman and academic who was Dean of Wells and a professor at the University of Oxford. He was ordained into the Church of England in 1834 and elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1838.

Charles Knight (March 15, 1791 – March 9, 1873) was an English publisher, editor and author.

Henry Richards Luard (August 25, 1825 – May 1, 1891) was a British medieval historian, antiquarian, Church of England clergyman and university administrator. He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1847, and 1849 was elected to a Fellowship. He entered holy orders, and served as vicar of Great St. Mary's Church, Cambridge from 1860 to 1887. Luard was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge and of King's College London, and was Registrary of the University of Cambridge, and worked on cataloguing the manuscripts in the Cambridge University Library. He was an early scholarly editor of the papers of Isaac Newton, and contributed to the Rolls Series.

Wilson Pugsley MacDonald was a Canadian poet, poetaster, and performer.

Henrietta MacOubrey was the stepdaughter of English author George Borrow.

John David Macbride (June 28, 1778 – January 24, 1868) was an academic at the University of Oxford in the 19th century.

Charles Mackay was a Scottish poet, journalist, author, anthologist, novelist, and songwriter, remembered mainly for his book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.

Sir James Mackintosh (October 24, 1765 – May 30,1832) was a Scottish jurist, Whig politician and historian. He was trained as a doctor and barrister, and worked also as a journalist, judge, administrator, professor, philosopher and politician. He was Lord Rector at the University of Glasgow from 1822-1824.

Sir Henry James Sumner Maine was a British comparative jurist and historian.

Richmal Mangnall (1769–1820) was an English schoolmistress at Crofton Hall and writer of the famous book Historical and Miscellaneous Questions for the Use of Young People (1800), generally known as “Magnall’s Questions,” which was prominent in the education of English girls in the first half of the 19th century.

Dr. James Martineau (April 21, 1805 – January 11, 1900) was an English religious philosopher influential in the history of Unitarianism.

Henry William Massingham (May 25, 1860 - August 27, 1924) was an English journalist, editor of The Daily Chronicle from 1897-1899, and editor of The Nation from 1907 to 1923.

Sir Monier Monier-Williams was the second Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford University, England. He studied, documented and taught Asian languages, especially Sanskrit, Persian and Hindustani. He was knighted in 1876, and was made KCIE (Knight Commander - Order of the Indian Empire) in 1887, when he adopted his given name of Monier as an additional surname.

Mowbray Walter Morris (1847–1911) was the editor of Macmillan’s Magazine and the author of works of biography and literary criticism.

Wife of Friedrich Max Muller.

Edward Williams Byron Nicholson (March 16, 1849 – March 17, 1912) was an author and Bodley's Librarian, the head of the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford, from 1882 until his death in 1912.

Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas (March 10, 1799 – August 3, 1848) was an English antiquary. In 1831 he was made a knight of the Royal Guelphic Order, and in 1832 chancellor and knight-commander of the Order of St Michael and St George, being advanced to the grade of the grand cross in 1840.

Sir William Gore Ouseley was a British diplomat who served in various roles in Washington, D.C., Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires. His main achievement were negotiations concerning ownership of Britain's interests in what is now Honduras and Nicaragua.

William Gifford Palgrave (1826–1888) was a traveller, diplomatist, and consul at Trebizond.

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, known popularly as Lord Palmerston, was a British statesman who served twice as Prime Minister in the mid-19th century. He was in government office almost continuously from 1807 until his death in 1865, beginning his parliamentary career as a Tory and concluding it as a Liberal. He is best remembered for his direction of British foreign policy through a period when Britain was at the height of its power, serving terms as both Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister.

Mark Pattison (October 10, 1813 – July 30, 1884) was an English author and a Church of England priest. He served as Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford.

John Percival (September 27, 1834 – December 3, 1918) was a headmaster and bishop of Hereford.

Bonamy Price (May 22, 1807 – January 8, 1888) was an English political economist.

Henry Reeve (September 9, 1813 – October 21, 1895) was an English journalist, translator, and writer. He was also the editor of the Edinburgh Review from 1855 to 1895.

Ernest Renan (February 28, 1823 - October 2, 1892) was a French philosopher, historian, and scholar of religion, a leader of the school of critical philosophy in France.

Mary Roberts was an English author, who predominantly wrote about natural history and the countryside around her.

Sir John Ross was a British naval officer and Arctic explorer.

Clement William Scott was an influential English theatre critic for the Daily Telegraph, and a playwright and travel writer, in the final decades of the 19th century.

Clement King Shorter was a British journalist and literary critic.

Edith Sitwell was an English poet who first gained fame for her stylistic artifices but who emerged during World War II as a poet of emotional depth and profoundly human concerns. She was equally famed for her formidable personality, Elizabethan dress, and eccentric opinions.

Florence Alice Sitwell was the daughter of Sir Sitwell Reresby Sitwell, 3rd Bt. and Louisa Lucy Hely Hutchinson. She authored two books: Daybreak A Story for Girls ( published 1888) and Mistress Patience Summerhayes' Her Diary: During the Siege of Scarborough Castle, 1644-1645 [published 1885?].

Philip Henry Stanhope, 4th Earl Stanhope (7 December 1781 – 2 March 1855) was an English aristocrat and politician. He sat in Parliament as a Whig for Wendover from 1806 to 1807, Hull from 1807 to 1812, and Midhurst from 1812 until his succession to the peerage on 15 December 1816. Sharing his father's (Charles Stanhope's) scientific interest, he was elected F.R.S. (Fellow of the Royal Society) on January 8, 1807, and was a president of the Medico-Botanical Society; he furthermore was a vice-president of the Society of Arts. In 1831 Stanhope took an interest in Kaspar Hauser, [1812?]-1833, a German youth who claimed to have grown up in the total isolation of a darkened cell. Stanhope took custody of Hauser in 1831 and spent a great deal of money attempting to clarify Hauser's origin. By January 1832 Stanhope left Hauser for good and after Hauser's death, Stanhope published a book in which he presented all known evidence against Hauser's origins and story. Stanhope died in 1855 and was succeeded by his son Philip Henry Stanhope, fifth Earl Stanhope (1805–1875).

Daniel Stuart (1766–1846) was a Scottish journalist and newspaper proprietor.

Samuel Prideaux Tregelles (January 30, 1813 – April 24, 1875) was an English biblical scholar, textual critic, and theologian.

John Walter was a newspaper proprietor, working with The Times from 1898 to ca. 1967. The Times newspaper had been founded by his great-great-grandfather in 1785.

Edmond Warre (February 12, 1837 – January 22, 1920) was the head master of Eton College from 1884 to 1905.

John Matthias Wilson served as the President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

Henry Sampson Woodfall (1739-1805) was a printer and newspaper editor. He was a freeman in the Stationers' Company from 1760, and operated from printing premises at the corner of Ivy Lane and Paternoster Row from 1761 until his retirement in 1793. Upon his father's death, Henry Woodfall (1713-1769), he appears to have inherited shares in the paper. In the following year he was also listed as a partner in the London Packet. The Public Advertiser was a successful paper under Woodfall's command. although he was involved in a couple of libel cases. Woodfall disposed of his interest in the Public Advertiser in November 1793, and retired from business in the following month when his offices burnt down. The newspaper lasted only two more years after he ceased to run it. His involvement with the print trade did not entirely cease, as he was master of the Stationers' Company in 1797. From his retirement until his death he lived in Chelsea, London, where he died on 12 December 1805.

Herbert G. Wright (1888-1962) was Professor of English at the University College of North Wales, 1919-1954. He was a scholar of distinction and wide-ranging interests, not least of which, as these papers show, was Anglo-Welsh literary relations, on which he wrote a large number of articles in the 1920's and 1930's.

Thomas Wright (April 21, 1810 – December 23, 1877) was an English antiquarian and writer.

William Aldis Wright (August 1, 1831 - May 19, 1914), was a literary and biblical scholar.

Thomas Ring was a German artist, an expressionist painter and graphic designer, philosopher, parapsychologist (collaborator of H. Bender), cosmologist, professional astrologer and published astrological author.

Constituted in Toronto in 1979, the Association of Canadian Film Craftspeople was later recognized as a trade union in Ontario and operated as an unincorporated association representing the workplace interests of film technicians in sectors including lighting, hair and makeup, camera work, set decorating and transportation. In addition to negotiating improved pay and working conditions and promoting skills development workshops, the association provided its membership with health insurance and other benefits. The ACFC participated in Canadian industry committees, lobby groups and events and supported many organizations dedicated to the development of Canadian film production personnel. By 1989 the ACFC had opened locals in Winnipeg and Vancouver and including Toronto reached a membership peak of 800. By the early 1990's, a shifting marketplace and an intense rivalry with other unions resulted in a declining membership. The ACFC was dissolved in April of 1998 and many of its locals merged with the rival International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. One division of the former association, ACFC West, continues to operate in British Columbia.

Nathan (Nat) A. Taylor, film and theatre executive, was born on 26 May 1906 in Toronto, Ontario. He was educated at the Universty of Toronto and at Osgoode Hall Law School, graduating in 1930. Operating his first cinema in 1923, he was a pioneer in offering multiple film screenings simultaneously in the same building by subdividing the theatrical space. By 1979, Taylor founded Pan-Canadian Film Distributors Inc. with Garth Drabinsky, and as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cineplex Corporation opened the 18 screen Cineplex in Toronto's Eaton's Centre. Throughout his career, Taylor has founded or served in various capacities in cinema-related organizations such as the Motion Picture Theatre Owners Association of Ontario, Exhibitor's Co-operative Limited, Exhibitors Booking Association, Film Publications of Canada Ltd., Motion Pictures Theatres Association of Ontario and International Film Distributors Limited among others. He has been a president of the Canadian Picture Pioneers and has received both its Pioneer of the Year, and Pioneer Jubilee Awards.

William Greer (19-) is an architect and heritage consultant. He received a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Toronto in 1948 and a Master of Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1950. He joined the architecture firm of Shore and Moffatt in 1950, became an Associate in 1955 and entered the partnership in 1962 when the firm was reorganized as Shore and Moffatt and Partners, Architects, Engineers and Site Planners. Greer represented the firm in the joint venture activities of UPACE (University Planning, Architecture and Consulting Engineering Limited). Specific responsibilities for the UPACE Consortium included Master Planning for York University and individual building projects for York such as The Scott Library, Petrie Science Building, McLaughlin College and the Tait McKenzie Physical and Recreation Building. In 1972, Greer established a private practice as an architect and later went on to become the Chief Architect for the Toronto Historical Board in 1976. In 1992, he established his architectural heritage consultant practice and has worked on numerous projects including the Windsor Arms Hotel and the Whitney Block and Tower, Queen's Park, Toronto. In addition, he has lectured at the University of Toronto and has written articles for publications. Greer is a fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and a member of numerous associations including the Advisory Board of St. James' Cemetery and Crematorium, Ontario Association of Architects and the Canadian Association of Professional Heritage Consultants. In recognition of his achievements, he was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Sacred Letters from the University of Trinity College, University of Toronto in 1992.

Norman S. Endler (1931-2003) was born on 2 May 1931 in Montreal, Quebec and educated at McGill University where he received his B.Sc. in Mathematics and Psychology in 1953 and his M.Sc. in Psychology in 1954. He continued his studies at Bet Berl College, Kfar Saba, Israel and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne where he received a PhD in Clinical Psychology in 1958. Endler was the youngest member of the original group of faculty hired by the newly founded York University in 1960 and was the last of this group to retire. He won numerous distinctions for his teaching and research contributions to the study of psychology and the social sciences and for his service to York University. He focussed his research in the areas of stress, anxiety and coping. In addition to authoring or co-authoring 8 monographs, 174 refereed articles, 66 book chapters, and 100 technical reports, Endler's writing about shock therapy and his own struggles with depression reached general audiences with the publication of his book "Holiday of Darkness: A Psychologist's Personal Journey Out of Depression". Over the course of his career, he supervised 29 Ph.D. and 35 M.A. candidates throughout their studies as well as serving as an administrator on several occasions for the Department of Psychology at York. When Norman Endler passed away on 7 May 2003, he was a Distinguished Research Professor (Emeritus) at York University.

Rick Salutin (1942- ), journalist, playwright and novelist, was born in Toronto and educated at Brandeis University, Massachusetts, in Near Eastern and Jewish Studies (B.A.), Columbia University, New York, in religion (M.A.), and undertook Ph.D. studies in philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York. After returning to Toronto in 1970, Salutin worked as a trade-union organizer and journalist and has written on a variety of issues for magazines such as Harper's, Maclean's, Toronto Life, Weekend, Saturday Night, Quest, TV Times, Today, and This Magazine, of which he was an editor and is now a contributing editor. He wrote a weekly column for the Globe and Mail between 1991 and 2010 and has been a lecturer of Canadian Studies at the University of Toronto since 1978. As a dramatist, Salutin has written and produced a series of plays including Fanshen (1972), 1837: The Farmers' Revolt (1973), which won a Chalmers Outstanding Play Award, The Adventures of An Immigrant (1974), The False Messiah (1975), Les Canadiens (1977), which won a second Chalmers Award, Nathan Cohen: A Review (1981), Joey (1981), and S: Portrait of a Spy (1984). Other titles of Salutin's novels, collections of essays and political commentaries include Marginal Notes: Challenges to the Mainstream (1984), Spadina Avenue (1985), A Man of Little Faith (1988), Waiting For Democracy: A Citizen's Journal (1989), Living in a Dark Age (1991), and The Age of Improv: A Political Novel of the Future (1995), and The Womanizer (2002). In recognition of his achievements, Salutin has been awarded many honours including the National Magazine Award for Comment and Criticism, 1981 and 1983; Toronto Arts Award for Writing and Publishing, 1991; and the National Newspaper Award for Columnist at the Globe and Mail, 1993. Salutin held the Maclean Hunter Chair in Communications Ethics at Ryerson (1993-1995) and is presently a media analyst for the CBC and a columnist for the Toronto Star.

Alan Clarke advisor, educator and public servant, was born in Stratford, Ontario on August 1, 1929. He received a B.A. from the University of Toronto in 1957 in addition to receiving an honorary doctorate from York University in 1992 in recognition for his role as secretary of its Planning Committee from 1956-1958. He also spent two summers while attending U. of T. with Frontier College as a labourer-teacher on a railway gang. From 1950 to 1960, he was Secretary of the YMCA in Toronto following which he was Executive Director of the Canadian Citizenship Council (1960-1966), the Canadian Centenary Council and the Company of Young Canadians (1966-1968), respectively. He was President of CRD Training Associates Ltd. (1969-1970), Director of the Demonstrative Project on Community Development at Algonquin College (1970-1971) and Director of its School of Continuing Education (1971-1985). In 1985 and 1986, Clarke acted as advisor to the Canadian Emergency Coordinator for African Famine and was later Communications Advisor for the International Joint Commission (1986-1996), a Member of the Canadian Delegation to the UNESCO General Conference in Paris (1987), Chair of the European Joint Study Meeting on the Impact of New Technologies on Culture in Rural Areas, Paris (1983), participant at the Experts Meeting of European Joint Studies in the Field of Education, Vienna (1982) and Founder and First Chair of the Board of Directors for the Movement for Canadian Literacy (1978). He has also been the director of the United Nations Association in Canada as well as the Millennium Council of Canada. Clarke was a contributing editor to Strong and Free : A Response to the War Measures Act, 1970 and is the author of several papers and reports in the fields of adult education, public participation, human rights, citizenship and education and community development.

The NDWT Theatre Company was founded by director Keith Turnbull (b.1944-) and playwright James Reaney (1926-2008)and based out of the Bathurst Street Theatre in Toronto. The theatre company acronym is occasionally attributed as the "Ne'er-Do-Well Thespians". The company operated between January 1975 to January 1982, and is perhaps best known for mounting and touring James Reaney plays across Canada, including "The Donnellys" trilogy in 1975 and four more Reaney plays from 1976 to 1981 as well as works by other writers, including Gordon Pengilly. In 1979 it toured the revue, "Northern Delights" to northern Aboriginal communities in Ontario, Manitoba and the Northwest Territories.

Linda McQuaig, journalist and author, was born in Toronto in 1951 and educated at the University of Toronto where she received her B.A. in 1974. Her articles have appeared in The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star and Maclean's magazine. She has also worked as a columnist and producer for CBC Radio and as a columnist for The National Post. She is the author of several books dealing with the political economy of Canada including 'The wealthy banker's wife : the assault on equality in Canada' (1993), 'The cult of impotence : selling the myth of powerlessness in the global economy' (1998), 'All you can eat : greed, lust and the new capitalism' (2001), and 'It's the crude, dude : war, big oil and the fight for the planet' (2004). In 1989 she was awarded the National Newspaper Award for her work on the Patti Starr affair, and in 1991, an Atkinson Fellowship for Journalism in Public Policy to study the social-welfare systems in Europe and North America.

Reverend Louise Mahood is a United Church minister. She received her Bachelor of Arts from York University in 1984, and was the first graduate of York's Women's Studies programme. Mahood received her Master of Divinity from Emmanuel College, University of Toronto, in 1988, where she won numerous scholarly awards. Mahood was ordained as a minister by the Toronto Conference of the United Church of Canada in 1992. She served at Forest Grove United Church before being appointed as an Intentional Interim Minister at Bolton United Church. Following Bolton she became an Intentional Interim and Supply Minister at Sutton-Virginia Pastoral Charge and a supply minister at Woodgreen United Church in Toronto. Mahood is currently serving at Thistletown United Church in Rexdale. Mahood is or has been a member of numerous professional and volunteer associations and committees. She is currently President of the School of Women's Studies, York University Alumni Association.

Mira Friedlander was a theatre critic and writer. She was born in Jaffna, Israel in 1944 and graduated from York University with a B.A. in Theatre History and Criticism in 1975. As a regular contributor, features writer or critic, she wrote for numerous publications including The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, The National Post, The Financial Post, Seniors, Performing Arts in Canada, Canadian Theatre Review, Scene Changes and American Variety. She championed Canadian theatre drawing attention, notably, to the work 2 Pianos, 4 Hands. Friedlander was the winner of the Canadian Theatre Critics' Association's Nathan Cohen Award twice and served as the Association's president for 1998-1999, in addition to being a member of numerous theatre or arts organizations. She also reported for CBC Radio. Friedlander was filmed for the Barbra Ames' documentary, 'Wars: Dispatches From the Front' during Friedlander's treatment for breast cancer. She died on 10 May 2000 in Toronto, Canada.

Andrew Tomcik is a professor, graphics designer and visual communications consultant. He was born on 18 June 1938 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.

Tessera was founded in 1981 as result of conversations among its founding editors, Barbara Godard, Daphne Marlatt, Kathy Mezei and Gail Scott at a York University conference on feminist literary theory in Canada. Their goal was to foster the development of new modes of writing both creative and critical texts which was being pioneered in Quebec. Tessera

began publishing in 1984 out of Simon Fraser University and Stong College at York University. The first four issues of Tessera appeared as special issues of already established periodicals, "Doubleness in language" (Room of one's own); "Reading as

writing/l'ecruture comme lecture" (La nouvelle barre du jour); "fiction/theorie" (Canadian fiction magazine) and "The state of feminist criticism/la situation de la theorie litteraire feministe"(Contemporary verse II). Between 1988 and 1993, Tessera explored poststructuralist theory in conjunction with feminist poetics in such issues as "Translating women" (1989)

and "Performance/transformance" (1991). In 1993, a new editorial collective was formed by Katherine Binhammer, Jennifer Henderson and Lianne Moyes. Adding "feminist interventions in writing and culture" to the journal's title, the new collective invited contributors to include cultural studies and began to profile feminist visual artists such as Ginette Legare, Joanne Todd and Jamelie

Hassan on its covers and in portfolios included within the journal. Since 1988, Tessera has been an independent publication appearing twice a year in a book-size format, printed at Coach House Printing in Toronto, and supported by

grants from the Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council.

Garth H. Drabinsky (1949- ) is a Toronto-based lawyer, author and entrepreneur specializing in the entertainment industry both in Canada and abroad. Drabinsky was born and educated in Toronto, Canada, graduated with a LL.B. from the University of Toronto in 1973, and was called to the Bar in 1975. After articling with Thomson, Rogers, Drabinsky formed his own partnership (Roberts and Drabinsky) in 1977 to concentrate on entertainment law. His monograph Motion pictures and the arts in Canada : the business and the law, published in 1976, is considered a standard text on the subject. Drabinsky has produced or co-produced several award-winning motion pictures including The Silent Partner, The Changeling, and Tribute. He co-founded the Cineplex Corporation, later the Cineplex Odeon, with entrepreneur Nat Taylor in 1978. In 1989, Drabinsky partnered with Myron Gottlieb to form Live Entertainment Corporation of Canada, later known as Livent, to focus on musical theatre productions such as Phantom of the Opera, Show Boat, Ragtime, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat, among others, many of which have been recognized with national and international awards. During this period he was responsible for the restoration and/or construction of several live theatre venues including the Pantages Theatre, the Wintergarden, and the North York Performing Arts Centre all in Toronto, and many other venues in other Canadian and American theatre centres. Drabinsky's autobiography (with Marq de Villiers) Closer to the sun was published in 1995. Drabinsky's work and influence has been recognised with numerous awards including being named Officer of the Order of Canada, receiving two honorary degrees (York University and the University of British Columbia), two honourary fellowships (York University's Faculty of Fine Arts, Ryerson Polytechnical Institute) and a Distinguished Achievement Award from B'nai B'rith International. Drabinsky is currently involved with producing the apartheid-era drama The Island, and serving as "creative marketing consultant" in the redevelopment of the Muskoka Sands Resort into a luxury resort with a cultural focus, and as a special marketing consultant to the National Post newspaper. Drabinsky is married with two children and resides in Toronto.

Richard C. Hoffmann (1943- ), professor, was born in Wisconsin. He received a B.A. in History (High Honours, 1965) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Ph.D. in Medieval Studies (1970) from Yale University. Hoffmann joined York’s Department of History in 1971 and has taught courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Hoffmann’s research interests include medieval and early modern Europe (economic, social and environmental history) and East-Central Europe. In addition to serving on several doctoral committees and as acting as supervisors for graduate students, Hoffmann has held a number of positions on faculty, senate, and departmental committees and has served as departmental chair.

Hoffmann is also involved in the preservation of fish habitat in the Greater Toronto Area. He is a member of Trout Unlimited of Canada, serving on the Board of Directors and as President. Hoffmann was also a member of the Humber Watershed Alliance.

Hoffmann’s major publications to date include "Fisher’s craft and lettered art : tracts on fishing from the end of the Middle Ages" (Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1997) and "Land, liberties, and lordship in a late medieval countryside : agrarian structures and change in the Duchy of Wroclaw (Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989).

Alan Phillip Lessem, professor and musicologist, was born 29 November 1940 in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zambia) and educated at the University of Cape Town where he received his BA and B.Mus., both in 1963, and Cambridge where he received his M.Litt. in 1967. He taught at the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem and the Telma Yellin School in Tel-Aviv before enrolling at the University of Illinois, Urbana where he completed a Ph.D in Musicology in 1973. He is a founding member of the Department of Music at York University and was a lecturer, assistant and associate professor there from 1970 until his death. He was the Chair of the Department of Music at York from 1975-1982 and Associate Dean, Faculty of Fine Arts from 1985-1988. He is the author of the book "Music and Text in the Works of Arnold Schoenberg : The Critical Years, 1908-1922" as well as the author of numerous essays, articles and reviews that have appeared both in scholarly journals in published collections. In addition to his academic career, he was also an accomplished pianist, cellist and composer. He died on 10 October 1991 in Toronto.

Paul Grosney was a jazz trumpeter and big band leader. He was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba on February 10, 1923. Grosney, the son of Russian immigrants, studied music and played hockey in his hometown before relocating at age 19 to New York City where he worked with legendary vibraphonist Red Norvo. Grosney served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War. In 1948 he joined Canadian saxophonist and band leader Georgie Auld and then drummer Buddy Rich on tour. In Toronto he played with Bert Niosi at the Palais Royale. From 1948 to 1959, Grosney led bands in Winnipeg clubs, notably the Rancho Don Carlos, where he played with a number of film and music legends, including Doris Day, Bob Hope, Sammy Davis Jr., the Andrews Sisters, and Louis Armstrong. In 1959, he returned to the Toronto scene and led groups in a number of jazz venues; he also played in groups such as Trump Davidson's Orchestra and the Harvey Silver Dixieland Band. Grosney served as music director for the Bourbon Street and Basin Street clubs in the 1970s and 1980s, and in the 1990s he was part of the Canadian Tribute To Glenn Miller band led by Don Pierre. As well, Grosney put out a number of recordings under his own label, "Leo". Paul Grosney passed away in Toronto on May 17, 2003 at the age of 80.

Harry William Arthurs was born in Toronto in 1935 and educated at the University of Toronto, receiving his BA degree in 1955 and his LLB in 1958. He obtained his LLM at Harvard Law School in 1959 and was admitted to the Bar of Ontario in 1961. He began teaching at Osgoode Hall Law School in 1961, where he has taught courses on labour relations law, administrative law, legal education, the legal profession, civil liberties, globalization, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and other subjects. Arthurs has acted as an arbitrator and conciliator in labour disputes since 1962. He has been the Canadian member of the United Auto Workers Public Review Board (1967-1977), Chief Adjudicator for the Public Service of Canada (1967-1968), and Impartial Chairman of both the Men's Garment Industry, Toronto (1967-1983) and the Ladies Garment Industry (1967-1981). His scholarly research reflects his lengthy involvement in the area of labour law; he has also written and spoken extensively on administrative law and public administration, legal pluralism and the sociology of law, and the legal profession, legal history and legal education. He is the author of numerous articles and monographs in these fields. In addition, Arthurs has been widely involved in university government and higher education policy, serving as Dean of Osgoode Hall Law School from 1972 to 1977 and President of York University from 1985 to 1992. He was named University Professor of Law and Political Science and President Emeritus of York University in 1995, and he served as Chair of the Council of Ontario Universities from 1987 to 1989. He was chair and principal author of the reports of committees investigating Legal Research and Education in Canada (1980-1983) and Integrity in Research at Concordia University (1993-1994), and he co-authored the external review of administration at Trent University (1997). Arthurs has been chair or member of many other public, academic, and professional bodies, including President of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (1976-1977), Bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada (1979-1983), member of the Economic Council of Canada (1978-1981), and Associate of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (1995- ). He was appointed Commissioner of the Federal Labour Standards Review to examine Part III of the Canada Labour Code in 2004, and headed the Government of Ontario's Expert Commission on Pensions (2007-2008). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1982) and the British Academy (2003), an Officer of the Order of Canada (1989), and a Member of the Order of Ontario (1995). He has been awarded nine honorary degrees by Canadian universities.

Jeniva Berger, theatre critic, received a M.A. in Drama from the University of Toronto and has been reviewing theater in the Toronto area for a variety of publications. She was the Founding President of the Canadian Theatre Critics Association and is still involved with the Association as Chair of the annual Nathan Cohen Award for Excellence in Theatre Criticism. Her work on multicultural theatre in Canada has been published in the ’Canadian Encyclopedia’, the ’Oxford Companion to Canadian Drama’ and ’Contemporary Canadian Theatre’ (1985).

Montarville Boucher de la Bruere (1867-1943) was a journalist, archivist and author. He succeeded his father as editor of the "Courier de Saint-Hyacinthe," (1895-1903), and also worked on "La Minerve," "La patrie," and "Le devoir." He also served as head of the Archives of Canada at Montreal, beginning in 1914.

John Bruckmann was the one of the first faculty members of York University. Appointed in 1961 as lecturer in the Department of History, his field of specialization was Medieval European History. In addition, Bruckmann taught in the Humanities Division, in the graduate programs in Social and Political Thought and in Interdisciplinary Studies, as well as teaching part-time at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. Bruckmann served on several University committees, on the Senate and Faculty Council and as the Marshall at Glendon College Convocations.

Tim Buck (1891-1973), politician and labourer, was born in England and emigrated to Canada in 1910. Employed as a machinist he soon became involved in radical trade union activity and claimed to be a founder of the Communist Party of Canada. In 1930 he became general secretary of the party, a post he held until 1962. Buck was the author of many books, pamphlets and articles for the press in Canada and internationally including 'Canada, the Communist viewpoint,' 'Thirty years,' and 'Yours in the struggle,' a memoir of his years in the Communist world struggle.

The 'Canadian annual review of politics and public affairs,' (previously the 'Canadian annual review,') is a reference publication which covers political, economic, foreign affairs and related issues in a series of essays composed by academics from Canadian universities. The serial is organized on an annual basis ('Canadian annual review of politics and public affairs, 1980'), although its publication lags behind its period of coverage by two to four years.

Hans Carol (1915-1971), educator and author, was appointed professor and chair of the Department of Geography at York University in 1962. He remained chair until

1967 when he took up an appointment as director of the Graduate Programme in Geography, remaining in that post until shortly before his death. His early interest was in African geography and the urban geography of Zurich, but he became increasingly interested in the theory and methodology of geographic study in his later years.

'Cartographica' is considered to be the foremost journal in its field, publishing articles on latest developments of in cartography. It was formed by the union of 'Canadian cartographer,' and 'Cartographica,' and has long been associated with the Geography Department of York University.

Robert Pridham Crawford (1923-1978), engineer and college administrator, was educated at the University of Toronto and joined the International Nickel Company as an engineer in 1949. He remained with that firm in different capacities until 1967 when he was appointed president of Georgian College of Applied Arts and Technology. Crawford was also a hobby farmer in the Barrie area, raising and boarding horses on his property, Gladhill Farm.

Harry Sherman Crowe (1922-1981), educator, administrator and labour researcher, was affiliated with York University for the last fifteen years of his life as a professor and administrator of Atkinson College. He joined the Atkinson History Department in 1966 as professor and chairman (1966-1969) and was subsequently named dean of the college, 1969-1974. He later served a second term as dean, 1979-1981. Prior to his tenure at York, Crowe had been a professor at United College (now the University of Winnipeg) during the years, 1950-1959. At this time he became involved in a protracted dispute with the administration of the college which resulted in his dismissal in 1958. The dispute gained prominence as an example of the tenuous state of academic tenure in Canadian universities and proved to be instrumental in establishing the Canadian Association of University Teachers as an effective voice for the rights of university teachers. Following his career at United College, Crowe spent the years 1959-1966 as the director of research for the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway, Transport and General Workers and also served as a research associate with the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism. Crowe also had a strong attachment to the New Democratic Party of Canada and served as press agent and adviser to leader Tommy Douglas in a federal election campaign. Crowe was the author of several articles dealing with industrial relations, co-authored a textbook, 'A sourcebook of Canadian history,' edited the journal 'Middle East focus', and was a columnist for the Toronto telegram and Chatelaine magazine.

Kurt Czasch (d. 1971) was a captain in the German army (Regiment 12, Battalion 2, Paratroop Storm Regiment), and served in France, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Russia and Italy. His regiment was captured by the British in 1945. Czasch later emigrated to Canada and died in Montreal in 1982.

Robert Charles Freeman (1933- ), was a student at Osgoode Hall Law School (LLB 1974), and a student in the Faculty of Graduate Studies, York University. He was active in student affairs, participating in constitutional discussions and constitution-drafting, for the Council of the York Student Federation, the Environmental Studies Student Association, in the period, 1972-1974. He was also associated with the York University Tenant Association.

The Gilchrist Family resided in Shanty Bay, Ontario. Henry Gilchrist was the patriarch of the household.

Joseph Oscar Goodman (1912-1982), transportation executive, was born and educated in Toronto. He served for three decades as an official with the Ontario Trucking Association and its predecessor, the Automotive Transport Association of Ontario, as general manager and from 1973-1978 as executive vice president. Goodman was involved with community projects in the Toronto area, and had a keen interest in amateur sports. He was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 1978.

E.C.A. Gordon (fl. 1856), was a major-general in the Royal Engineers attached to the Navy at the Turkish port of Galatea and Pera during the Crimean War. He was in charge of supplies for the British Navy and commandant to the Russian prisoners of war.

Oliver Edwin Hodges (1915-1993), union organizer and politician, was born in Canada. He served with the National Union of Shoe and Leather Workers as an education officer (1943-1947), the United Glass and Ceramic Workers of North America as a president of District 6. He was also a district organizer for the Canadian Congress of Labour as well as a general representative of the organization in the 1950s. A founding director of the Religion-Labour Council of Canada (1959), Hodges was also a member of education committees in the Canadian Labour Congress. He was a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation candidate in London, Ontario municipal elections and served on its Labour Committee (1947-1949). He was unsuccessful as a CCF candidate in provincial elections in the 1940s and as a federal NDP candidate in 1965. After 1965, he became a collective bargaining consultant. He served as a member of the Ontario Labour Relations Board and was president of Workers' Equity Limited.

Gordon Hamilton Jack (1913-1978), was educated at the University of Toronto where he received a Bachelor's degree (1934). He was later employed by John Labatt Ltd. in industrial relations in London, Ontario. At university, Jack was involved in student politics, and was president of the campus branch of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. He was active in the League for Social Reconstruction in London, Ontario, and was also a member of the local CCF riding association.

James Robbins Kidd (1915-1982), educator and author, was born in Canada and educated at Sir George Williams University, McGill and Columbia University where he obtained the PhD. Kidd served as associate director and later as director of the Canadian Association for Adult Education (1947-1961). For a time in the 1960s he worked as secretary-treasurer of the Social Science Council and the Humanities Research Council before becoming the head of the Adult Education Department at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto (1966-1972). He became the chair of the Canadian Studies Department at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) and was instrumental in bringing Canadian studies to the public school system in Ontario. Kidd's interest in adult education made him an early proponent of the need for adult higher education in the province and this led to his membership on the Organizing Committee of York University in 1958.

Gabriel Kolko (1932-2014), historian and author, was born in 1932 and educated at Harvard where he received his PhD in 1962 and where he was a member of the Student League for Industrial Democracy. Following his graduation, he taught at the University of Pennsylvania and at the State University of New York-Buffalo. In 1970, he joined the History Department at York University and eventually retired as a Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus. Kolko's research interests included American political history, the Progressive Era and foreign policy in the twentieth century. He authored over ten books on topics ranging from the origins of the Cold War, American history after 1865 and the Vietnam War including "Century of war : politics, conflict, and society since 1914," and "Anatomy of a war: Vietnam, the United States, and the modern historical experience," "Another century of war?" and "The age of war : the United States confronts the world" among other books. He was a regular contributor to the bi-weekly political newsletter "CounterPunch". Prof. Kolko died in the Netherlands in 19 May 2014 at his home in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He was predeceased by his wife Joyce Manning Kolko in 2012.

Margaret Beatrice Leitch (née Cartwright) (d. 1979) was chair of the York University Theatre Committee in 1966 when a Faculty of Fine Arts was proposed for York University. She later entered the faculty as an undergraduate student and in 1976 was commissioned to prepare a 'history' of the faculty for its tenth anniversary. Leitch was the wife of John D. Leitch, a member of the Board of Governors at the time.

Jay Leyda was a critic, filmmaker, author, editor, and educator. Leyda was born February 12, 1910 in Detroit and studied filmmaking at State Film Institute, Moscow, with Sergei Eisenstein in 1933, and he translated Eisenstein's theoretical works on cinema. He wrote and edited critical studies and biographies of Melville, Dickenson, Mussorgsky, and Rachmaninoff. Leyda was a lifelong film historian and teacher of cinema, and during 1940s he was technical advisor on Russian subjects for Hollywood. In the 1960s and 1970s, Leyda taught at Yale and York University, Toronto, before going to New York University from 1973 until his death on February 15, 1988 of heart failure.

Addison Alexander (Lex) Mackenzie (1885-1970), was born and raised in Ontario. He originally pursued a military career, joining the Governor-General's Body Guard in 1912. He was transferred to France as part of the 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles in 1915, was wounded and decorated for valour (Military Cross) at the Battle of the Somme (1916), and was later wounded at Vimy Ridge. After the war, Mackenzie left the army and returned to the family farm and took up farming. He entered municipal politics, serving as a member of the Woodbridge (Ont.) Village Council and later as reeve. He was elected member of the Legislature for York North under the Conservative banner in 1945 and represented the riding until his retirement at the 1967 provincial election. Mackenzie also served as a member of the Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (1961-1970), and was a charter member of the Woodbridge Horticultural Society. The Woodbridge branch of the Royal Canadian Legion in named in his honour as is Major Mackenzie Drive in the Town of Vaughan. Mackenzie died in 1970.

Donald Mackenzie (1852-1941?), farmer, merchant and civil servant, operated a butcher shop and general store in Woodbridge, Ontario, at least part of the time in a partnership, Mackenzie & Rogerson. In addition, Mackenzie was a liquor license inspector for the West Riding of York, centred in Woodbridge, where he also sat on the village council (1884-1892). His farm was located in Vaughan Township. He was the father of Addison Alexander Mackenzie, a member of Provincial Parliament for York North riding (1945-1967).

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.