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Janice Kulyk Keefer (1952-), writer, critic and scholar, was born in Toronto, Ontario and educated at the University of Toronto where she received a BA in English literature in 1974, and the University of Sussex where she received a MA in modern literature in 1976 and a PhD in English literature in 1983. She has been a professor of literature and creative writing at the University of Guelph since 1990, is the author of over ten books and has written in numerous genres including poetry, short and long fiction, non-fiction and children's literature. Her writing has won or been nominated for several awards including awards by the CBC Radio Literary Competition and the National Magazine Award Foundation. Her collection of short stories entitled "Travelling Ladies" was nominated for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Canada and Caribbean in 1991. Her novel "The Green Library" and her study of Canadian fiction from the Maritimes entitled "Under Eastern Eyes" were both nominated for Governor-General's Awards. She was the recipient of the Marian Engel Award for her body of work in 1999, and she was awarded the Kobzar Literary Award for her novel "The Ladies' Lending Library" in 2008. Keefer is also the co-editor of the anthologies "Two Lands, New Visions: Stories from Canada and Ukraine" and "Precarious Present / Promising Future?: Ethnicity and Identities in Canadian Literature". Her work has also appeared in numerous journals and anthologies.

"Dr. M.W. Keatings made valuable contribution to the teaching of history at the middle school by writing a textbook entitled "Studies in the Teaching of History" in 1910." (G. Aggarwal, "Teaching of History: a practical approach" p.5)

(from obituary notice) Mr. Charles Francis Keary, the novelist, died yesterday of heart failure at the age of 55. He was educated at Marlborough and Trinity College, Cambridge, and was for some years in the Department of Coins at the British Museum. In 1890, while he was still in the British Museum, he published "The Vikings in Western Christendom," still a standard book on the subject. It was intended that it should be followed by a second volume, which was never written. He also wrote books on religious origins, "The Outlines of Primitive Belief" (1882), "The Mythology of the Eddas" (1882), which, of course, have now been rendered out of date by the great body of research on this subject

Morris Katz (1901-1987), educator, scientist and author, was born in Kiev and emigrated to Canada as a child. Educated at McGill University (PhD 1929), Katz was employed as a research chemist at the National Research Council (1931-1947) and at the Defence Research Board of Canada (1947-1955). He then worked as a consultant before becoming director of Environmental Assessment, Occupational Health Division, of the Department of National Health and Welfare (1956-1965). In the latter year Katz became a professor in the Graduate School in Sanitary Science and Engineering at Syracuse University. He joined the Chemistry Department and the Division of Natural Science at York University in 1969. In 1980 he was named Professor Emeritus at York.

In addition to his work as an academic and for the Canadian government, Katz served on numerous committees and as a technical consultant. He served with the Technical Advisory Board on Transboundary Air Pollution for the International Joint Commission (1949-1965), on the Expert Advisory Panel on Air Pollution for the World Health Organization (1964-1973), and on the Air Pollution Committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (1960-1962). He also was an editor and member of the Intersociety Committee, an umbrella body of American scientific and engineering societies with an interest in the measurement and analysis of air sampling and pollutants. Katz acted as a consultant on air and water pollution to the World Bank, the Ontario Department of Mines (with special interest in the nickel smelters of Sudbury) (1947-1965), and the International Nickel Company. Katz was the author of many articles, book chapters, research bulletins and reports dealing with environmental issues, specifically the impact of air pollution on vegetation, water and the development of monitoring devices to measure air and water quality.

Michael Hans Kater is a distinguished research professor of history at Atkinson College, York University and the author of several books on Nazi Germany. He was born in Zittau, Germany July 4, 1937 and came to Canada as a teenager. He was educated at St.Michael's College H.S; University of Toronto (B.A. 1959, M.A. 1961); University of Munchen and University of Heidelberg (Phd 1966). Professor Kater was first employed as a lecturer at the University of Maryland (1965-1966). He joined York University in 1967 and held the positions of Assistant Professor (1967-1970), Associate Professor (1970-1973), and Professor (1973-1991) before becoming Distinguished Research Professor in 1991. He was also the Jason A. Hannah Visiting Professor of the History of Medicine at McMaster University from 1985-1986. Kater has sat on many committees of the American Historical Association and the editorial boards of various leading historical journals. He is the author of numerous articles and 8 books, such as Das "Ahnenerbe" der SS 1935-1945: Ein Beitrag zur Kulturpolitik des Dritten Reiches (1974); The Nazi Party: A Social Profile of Members and Leaders, 1919-1949 (1983); Doctors Under Hitler (1989); and Different Drummers: Jazz in the Culture of Nazi Germany (1992). In recognition of his scholarly achievements, Kater was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1988) and was awarded its Jason A. Hannah Medal (1991) for his book, Doctors Under Hitler. In addition, he has been awarded the Guggenheim and Canada Council Killam fellowships and the Konrad Adenauer Research Award of the Federal Republic of Germany (1990-1991).

John Kastner was a documentary filmmaker, producer, writer, actor and director. Born in Toronto, Canada, he began his career as a professional child actor and appeared in many TV and radio programs, including the CBC drama "The Offshore Island". He also produced, directed and wrote for a variety of television programs, including game shows ("Photo Finish"), variety shows ("Street Comedy", "Ask a Silly Question" and "90 Minutes Live") and a children's comedy ("Just Kidding"). Kastner is best known as an award-winning writer, producer and director of television documentaries for the CBC and CTV. These documentary projects predominantly pertain to prisoners, Canada's prison and parole systems as well as the personal struggles of those with life-threatening illnesses. Kastner's documentaries include "Prison Mother/Prison Daughter" (1986), "Romance with a Rapist" (1997), "Hunting Bobby Oatway" (1997), "House of Secrets" (1997), "Rage Against the Darkness" (2004), "Monster in the Family" (2006), "Monster in the Family: The Struggle Continues" (2007), "Life With Murder" (2010), "NCR: Not Criminally Responsible" (2013), and "Out of Mind, Out of Sight" (2014). He received Emmy Awards for three feature-length documentaries, "Four Women" (1978), "Fighting Back" (1982) and "The Lifer and the Lady" (1986). Kastner has also written, produced and directed a number of comic documentaries, including "Ask a Silly Question" (1998), "Somebody's Gotta Do It" (1999), "Chickens are People Too" (2000), and "Sinner in Paradise" (2007). He died on 21 November 2019.

Mary Karadja , born Marie Louise Smith 12 March 1868 in Stockholm, died in Locarno in 1943, was a Swedish-Turkish princess and author.

Mary Karadja was the youngest of four children to "liquor king" LO Smith and his first wife, Maria Lovisa Collin, and was schooled in retirement in Geneva between nine and 16 years of age. She married in April 1887 under the Greek Orthodox ritual with a Turkish prince and minister at the courts of Stockholm, Copenhagen and The Hague Jean Karadja Pasha , died in 1887) and had two children, Prince and later Romanian diplomat Constantin Karadja and Princess Despina (1892 - 1983). The couple first lived in Stockholm, then Hague and finally in London. After Jean's death Karadjas spent the multilingual Mary Karadja alternately in Belgium, Britain and France, but also had influence on the formation of spirit genomic associations in Sweden.
Mary Karadja was a versatile writer and wrote several poetry and prose books and plays and numerous spiritualist writings. During the years 1902-04 she published the spiritualist journal XXth century along with Lizzy Lind af Hageby (1878-1963) and Anna Synnerdahl. [translated from Swedish Wikipedia page]

John Kane (musician, composer, arranger, and conductor) was born in London, England on 29 November 1924, the son of Barry Kane, a British music-hall entertainer. The family emigrated to Toronto in 1933, and Kane was soon singing with his father in local vaudeville. He studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music between 1939 and 1942, learning clarinet from Herbert Pye. He later graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Toronto in 1950. Kane served with the Royal Canadian Signals Corps Band from 1942 to 1945, and led the Khaki Kollegians in the "Army show" during 1945 and 1946. He played with orchestras of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) after leaving the army in 1946. While studying composition with John Weinzweig, Kane started composing several concert works for woodwinds, strings, and saxophone, as well as a symphony that was never finished. He was appointed assistant arranger-conductor to Howard Cable in 1949, and became the chief arranger for CBC Radio's "Startime" the following year. His work led to the Maurice Rosenfeld Prize for most promising newcomer to Canadian radio in 1951. Kane soon moved over to television. He was the music director for CBC shows "On stage" (1954), "The Jackie Rae show" (1955), and "Summertime '57", and was featured on "Music makers '58," "Music makers '59," and "Music '60 presents the Jack Kane hour." His success as an arranger attracted the attention of American singers Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, and when NBC offered them a television show as a summer replacement for Steve Allen in 1958, they insisted that Kane join them as music director. He also served in this role for Andy William's variety show with CBS in 1959 and for a NBC special featuring Ethel Merman 1959, commuting to New York from his home in Toronto. Kane recorded several albums during this period, including "Kane is able" (1958; nominated for a Grammy award for best orchestra performance), "Jack Kane salutes the women of show business" (1960), and "Raisin' Kane" (1961), and performed in recordings by Steve Allen and Dorothy Collins during the late 1950s. Highly respected for the excellence of his arrangements, the vigour of his conducting, and his exhausting work schedule, Jack Kane died in Toronto on 27 March 1961 after a short battle with cancer. His career was celebrated through a recording of his big band arrangements by Bert Niosi leading the Jake Kane Band for the Canadian Talent Library Trust in 1963.

Evelyn Kallen, professor of social science and anthropology, has taught at York University since 1970, achieving full professorship in 1984. She has also held an honorary chair at the Human Rights Research and Education Centre at the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Law from 1989-1990 and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1989.
Kallen's research interests include social stratification, social change, race and ethnic relations, religion and ethnicity, hate propaganda, multiculturalism, ethnic and non-ethnic minorities, human rights legislation, The Charter of Rights, minority rights, abortion and euthanasia.
She has conducted empirical research on Canadian Jewish communities, the Inuit of the Northwest Territories, and western Samoan migrants to New Zealand. Kallen has published numerous books on human rights, including: "The Anatomy of Racism: Canadian Dimensions" (with D.R. Hughes in 1974), "Spanning the Generations: a study in Jewish identity" (1977), "The Western Samoan Kinship Bridge: a study in migration, social change and the new ethnicity" (1982), "Ethnicity and human rights in Canada" (1982), "Label Me Human: minority rights of stigmatized Canadians" (1989), "Ethnicity and Human Rights in Canada" (1995, 2nd ed. published in 2003) and "Social Inequality and Social Injustice: a human rights perspective" (2004), as well as numerous articles and book chapters.

A Canadian folk singer-songwriter who as received three Juno Awards. Kaldor was born in Regina, Saskatchewan and graduated from Campbell Collegiate in 1972 and the University of Albert in 1976 with a BFA degree in theatre.

A retired Canadian ballet dancer, and currently the Artistic Director of the National Ballet of Canada.

"Si Kahn is an American singer-songwriter, activist, and founder and former executive director of Grassroots Leadership." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_Kahn

May be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jukes_%28theologian%29 or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jukes_%28missionary%29

Benjamin Jowett (April 15, 1817 – October 1, 1893) was renowned as an influential tutor and administrative reformer in the University of Oxford, a theologian and translator of Plato. He was Master of Balliol College, Oxford.

For more information, see Wikipedia entry at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Jowett.

Philip Edward Bertrand Jourdain (16 October 1879 - 1 October 1919) was a British logician and follower of Bertrand Russell.
He was born in Ashbourne in Derbyshire one of a large family belonging to Emily Clay and his father Francis Jourdain (who was the vicar at Ashbourne). He was partly disabled by Friedreich's ataxia. He corresponded with Georg Cantor and Gottlob Frege, and took a close interest in the paradoxes related to Russell's paradox, formulating the card paradox version of the liar paradox. He corresponded with Ludwig Wittgenstein, meeting with him in Cambridge to discuss Frege's book Grundgesetze der Arithmetik, of parts of which Jourdain had prepared a translation. He also worked on algebraic logic, and the history of science with Isaac Newton as a particular study. He was London editor for The Monist.
His sister Eleanor Jourdain was an English academic and author.

"In 2010, Ritter's band members – some of whom had been performing with him from the early 2000s – were given the name "The Royal City Band" (a reference to the song "Thin Blue Flame" from The Animal Years)." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Ritter

Marc Jordan is an American-born Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer, session musician, jazz guitarist, and actor. Jordan can play guitar and trumpet and creates rock, jazz fusion, and dub music. He attended Brock Univeristy.

“Rev. Robert Jones, Sr. is a native Detroiter and an inspirational storyteller and musician celebrating the history, humor and power of American Roots music. His deep love for traditional African American and American traditional music is shared inlive performances that interweave timeless stories with original and traditional songs. For more than thirty years Robert has entertained and educated audiences of all ages in schools, colleges, libraries, union halls, prisons, churches and civil rights organizations. At the heart of his message is the belief that our cultural diversity tells a story that should celebrate, not just tolerate. Rev. Robert Jones makes his home in Detroit, Michigan but he performs throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. An award-winning multi-instrumentalist, he is accomplished on guitar, harmonica, mandolin, banjo, fiddle and ukulele. He has recorded six albums of original and tradition songs. Robert is the former host of the award-winning radio programs “Blues from the Lowlands” (https://wdet.org/2019/12/10/Robert-Jones-Is-on-a-Mission-to-Keep-the-Blues-Alive-in-Detroit/) and “Deep River” broadcast on Detroit Public Radio’s WDET-FM Detroit. He has taught music history courses at Wayne State University in Detroit, and he serves as a member of the affiliate faculty at Boston’s Berklee School of Music. Jones has taught and performed for a number of folk music organizations including the Ashokan Center, Summer Acoustic Music Week, Fiddle Hell, the Houston Folklore Society and more. In recent years Robert wrote, performed and recorded a one man show entitled “An Evening With Lead Belly”, and in recent years Robert has been a featured artist at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum (Springfield, IL), Rutherford B. Hayes Library (Fremont, OH) and Gerald R. Ford Library (Grand Rapids, MI). Robert is also a frequent performer and presenter for The Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village (Dearborn, MI). In 2018 Robert received a Kresge Arts Fellowship for Music Composition and Performance.” https://www.revrobertjones.com/

Emily Elizabeth Constance Jones (1848-1922) was an English educator and writer on logic and ethics, and Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge, from 1903 until 1916. Her ideas were misrepresented by Bertrand Russell as his own.

She was educated at Girton, taking a first class in the Moral Sciences Tripos in 1880; was a resident lecturer on moral sciences (1884-1903), and after 1903 mistress. She translated, with Miss Hamilton, Hermann Lotze's Mikrokosmus (1888); edited Henry Sidgwick's Methods of Ethics (1901) and his Ethics of Green, Spencer, and Martineau (1902); and wrote Elements of Logic (1890); A Primer of Logic (1905); A Primer of Ethics (1909); A New Law of Thought and its Logical Bearing (1911); Girton College (1913).

Jones was the first woman recorded as having delivered a paper to the Cambridge University Moral Sciences Club. She spoke about James Ward's Naturalism and Agnosticism on 1 December 1899, with the philosopher Henry Sidgwick chairing the meeting. Her views were regarded as original and influenced her colleagues. She spent her career developing the idea that categorical propositions are composed of a predicate and a subject related via identity or non-identity.

This is the administrative history or biographical sketch (RAD 1.7B)

Jojo is a francophone singer-songwriter, performer, and children's entertainer. She has won three awards from "Le gala des prix Trille Or" for best children's album and best children's entertainer. Mariposa Festival Program, 2011, p. 45

The Joint Programme in Transportation was operated jointly by the York University Transportation Centre and the University of Toronto Department of Urban Studies. Established in 1970 with a grant from the Canadian Transport Commission, it promoted and coordinated interdisciplinary research and teaching in the field of transportation studies. Its goals were to promote and co-ordinate research interests and a comprehensive teaching program through support for research projects, publications and sponsored seminars.

The Joint Centre on Modern East Asia was organized in 1974 as a joint venture of the University of Toronto and York University to promote research, in the Toronto region, at the faculty and graduate level, on modern China, Japan and Korea. The Centre is involved in several on‑going research projects including Canada and Hong Kong, the North Pacific Cooperative Security Dialogue and Women in Development in Thailand. In 1987-88 it's name was changed to Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies (JCAPS) and its mandate broadened accordingly to include South-East Asia. During the same period, JCAPS achieved official status as a research centre both at York and the University of Toronto. In May of 2002, the University of Toronto ceased its involvement in JCAPS and the centre’s name was changed to York Centre for Asian Research.

The Joint Centre on Modern East Asia was organized in 1974 as a joint venture of the University of Toronto and York University to promote research, in the Toronto region, at the faculty and graduate level, on modern China, Japan and Korea. The Centre is involved in several on‑going research projects including Canada and Hong Kong, the North Pacific Cooperative Security Dialogue and Women in Development in Thailand. In 1987-88 it's name was changed to Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies (JCAPS) and its mandate broadened accordingly to include South-East Asia. During the same period, JCAPS achieved official status as a research centre both at York and the University of Toronto. In May of 2002, the University of Toronto ceased its involvement in JCAPS and the centre’s name was changed to York Centre for Asian Research.

“Canadian folk singer and community activist. [...] In 1954, after the departure of Helen Gray, Simone was asked by fellow UJPO member and co-founder of The Travellers, Jerry Goodis, to join the group. That same year, under the direction of Samuel Goldberg, they made their television debut on the CBC program, Haunted Studio. [...] It was after The Travellers appeared on a national television commercial for Molson Canadian Beer that Simone started to doubt the direction of the group. She felt the band had strayed from their "roots" and were more interested in becoming mainstream. In 1969, she left The Travellers due to artistic differences. She was replaced by Pam Fernie.” https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1067533/bio/

“Born and raised in Peterborough, Ontario, pianist/singer-songwriter Michael Johnston is one of Canada's best-loved musicians, bringing genuine warmth and enthusiasm to the stage and studio. Michael’s 2016 album, The Bound Of The Red Deer, is a collaboration with Mercury Prize-Nominee King Creosote. Based around the piano and acoustic guitar, the recording is “richly ambient and elegaic” (Montreal Gazette) and a “record that will haunt you, inspire you and bring you joy” (Belleville Intelligencer). Michael played a central role in the music for acclaimed 2017 film, Maudie, contributing piano, accordion, organ and keyboard to the soundtrack by Michael Timmins. Michael co-wrote and co-produced a seasonal EP, Decemberly: a duo piano and voice recording with long-time friend Suzie Ungerleider (Oh Susanna) released in November 2018. Michael has toured, written and recorded with Juno-winning roots group Skydiggers since 2006. He co-wrote one of their most popular songs, Hello Beautiful Life. Michael is also a member of Scottish-Canadian supergroup The Burns Unit. Formed at a songwriting retreat in rural Scotland, The Burns Unit released one album (voted #2 folk recording of 2011 by MOJO magazine) and performed songs co-written by Michael on the Jools Holland Show (BBC). A trusted collaborator, both on stage and in the studio, Michael has accompanied Cowboy Junkies, Blue Rodeo’s Jim Cuddy, musical-theatre star Ramin Karimloo (Les Miserables), Paul Langlois, Gord Sinclair and Rob Baker (from the Tragically Hip), as well as Scottish singer KT Tunstall. Michael has co-written songs with the likes of Chris Difford (Squeeze), Stephen Fearing (Blackie and The Rodeo Kings) and Emma Pollock (The Delgados) and recorded with producers Gary Louris (Jayhawks) and Joel Plaskett. Michael has contributed to over 50 recordings, as a musician and/or songwriter. As a producer, he co-wrote and arranged the only recordings by Taylor Mitchell, and co-produced the debut by Saidah Baba Talibah (daughter of Salome Bey, now known as SATE). Michael's solo debut, Curious Heart, drew nationwide acclaim upon its release a decade ago. Based around the piano, and an all-star band led by producer Don Kerr (Ron Sexsmith), the album became a quick favourite of CBC, and led to festival bookings across Canada.” https://www.kc-mj.band/about

William Ernest Johnson (23 June 1858 - 14 January 1931) was a British logician mainly remembered for his Logic (1921-1924), in 3 volumes. In 1924, in volume III he introduced the important concept of exchangeability.
He taught at King's College, Cambridge for nearly thirty years. He wrote a bit on economics, and John Maynard Keynes was one of his students. Johnson was a colleague of Keynes's father, John Neville Keynes.
Logic was dated at the time of its publication, and Johnson
can be seen as a member of the British logic "old guard" pushed aside by
the Principia Mathematica of Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell.
Yet an article entitled "The Logical Calculus" (Johnson 1892) reveals
that he had nontrivial technical capabilities in his youth, and that he
was significantly influenced by the formal logical work of Charles Sanders Peirce. The article begins as follows:

"As a material machine economises the exertion of force, so a
symbolic calculus economises the exertion of intelligence ... the more
perfect the calculus, the smaller the intelligence compared to the
results."

A.N. Prior's Formal Logic cites this article several times.
John Passmore tells us:

"His neologisms, as rarely happens, have won wide acceptance: such
phrases as

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.

Arthur C. Johnson (1923-1985) was a Professor of energy studies in the Liberal Science Program at York. One of the original staff members of the university, he was appointed Assistant to the President in 1960 and later served as Vice-President (Academic Services). Prior to his tenure at York, Johnson had been project manager at Canadair Ltd., a division of General Dynamic Corporation, and was a nuclear physicist by training. Along with his university work, he was an adviser to the Ontario government and TV Ontario on energy matters.

John Tupper Saywell (1929- ), author and educator, was educated in Canada and the United States receiving the PhD from Harvard University. He taught at the University of Toronto, 1954-1962, before accepting a post as professor of history and dean of the Faculty of Arts at York University in 1963. He currently serves as University Professor, professor of environmental studies and chairman of the graduate programme in history. Saywell served as editor of the 'Canadian historical review,'(1957-1963) and as editor of the 'Canadian annual review,' (1960-1979). He is the author of several books and articles including, 'The office of the Lieutenant Governor,' (1986), 'Making the law,' (1991) and 'Just call me Mitch,' (1991).

“The band led by John McDermott, is comprised of a group of talented professional musicians who have performed and toured throughout the world entertaining live audiences.” https://thejmb.com/home

"The Weakerthans is an award-wining and Juno nominated Canadian indie folk-rock band from Winnipeg, Manitoba." The band collaborated with Jim Bryson for the album "The Falcon Lake Incident in 2010". Bryson is a singer-songwriter and performer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weakerthans

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.

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.

Jerry Leger and his longtime backing band, The Situation (James McKie, Dan Mock, Kyle Sullivan). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Leger

Alfred James (A. J.) Jenkinson (c. 1878-1928). Translator; senior dean of Brasenose College, Oxford; O. B. E.

“Joe Jencks is an 25-year veteran of the international folk circuit, an award-winning songwriter, and celebrated vocalist based in Chicago. Merging conservatory training with his Irish roots and working-class upbringing, Joe delivers engaged musical narratives filled with heart, soul, groove and grit. Having penned several #1 Folksongs including the ever-relevant Lady of The Harbor, Jencks is also co-founder of the harmony trio, Brother Sun. From Festivals like Falcon Ridge, Kerrville, Mariposa, and Old Songs, to venues like Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, Jencks has enthralled diverse audiences with his approachable style. Joe is noted for his unique merging of musical beauty, social consciousness, and spiritual exploration. Blending well-crafted instrumentals and vivid songwriting, Jencks serves it all up with a lyric baritone voice that has the edgy richness of a good sea-salt caramel.” https://www.joejencks.com/bio

“Jen Schaffer and the Shiners hail from Toronto via Montreal, Hamburg, Calgary and the UK! They are purveyors of original soulful folkrock music with lush harmonies and heavy bass. Jen Schaffer is the lead singer, songwriter and acoustic guitarist. She came to music via a stint as a public defender in the Appalachian foothills of Ohio, where she gained a love of alt-country music and a heightened social conscience. Her self-penned works, which have garnered praise from the likes of Ron Sexsmith, speak of love, struggle and injustice and are sharply focused through the lens of her own life journey. The Shiners are Simon Law, the band’s drummer, keyboardist, background vocalist and producer, who is also a Grammy winning songwriter of Soul II Soul’s Back to Life and original member of that band; Astrid Foster on bass and sweet background harmonies; John Teshima plays guitar, both electric and acoustic – he also plays keyboards and adds background harmonies; Jonathan Marks contributes violin, viola and mandolin as well as background harmonies.”

(from Wikipedia entry)

Gertrude Jekyll (/ˈdʒiːkəl/ jee-kəl; 29 November 1843 - 8 December 1932) was an influential British horticulturist, garden designer, artist and writer. She created over 400 gardens in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States, and wrote over 1,000 articles for magazines such as Country Life and William Robinson's The Garden.
Jekyll has been described as "a premier influence in garden design" by English and American gardening enthusiasts.

For more information see Wikipedia entry at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Jekyll .

An American postmodern choreographer based in San Francisco and founder of the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company.

Reverend Henry Gladwin Jebb was born on 6 May 1826. He was the son of Samuel Henry Jebb and Frances Straw. He married Emma Louisa Ramsden, daughter of Robert Ramsden and Frances Matilda Plumptre, on 29 September 1853. He died on 19 April 1898 at age 71.
He graduated from St. John's College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, in 1851 with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.). He graduated from St. John's College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, in 1872 with a Master of Arts (M.A.). He was the Rector at Chetwynd, Shropshire, England. He was invested as a Fellow, Society of Antiquaries (F.S.A.). He held the office of Justice of the Peace (J.P.) for the West Riding, Yorkshire. He was the Rector at Fontmell, Dorset, England. He lived at Firbeck Hall, Yorkshire, England.

“Focusing on songs collected by folklorist and field recording pioneer Alan Lomax, this collaboratory brings together some of North America’s most distinctive and creative roots musicians to revive, recycle, and reimagine traditional music. The repertoire includes Bahamian sea chanties, African-American a cappella singing from the Georgia Sea Islands, ancient Appalachian ballads, fiddle tunes, and work songs collected from both well-known musicians and everyday folk: sea captains, cowhands, fishermen, prisoners, and homemakers. Collaborators include Grammy-winning singer Tim O’Brien, Bruce Molsky, Margaret Glaspy, Moira Smiley, Brittany Haas, Julian Lage, and more.” https://jaymestone.com/projects/lomaxproject/

Richard Adrian Jarrell (1946-2013), a professor and historian of science, was born in the United States on 29 August 1946. He received his BA from Indiana University in 1967, where he majored in history and minored in astronomy and the history and philosophy of science. He then moved to Toronto to attend the University of Toronto’s Institute for History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, graduating with an MA in 1969 and a PhD in 1972. Jarrell’s graduate studies focused on 16th century astronomy, the history of technology, and medieval philosophy and science. One of the Institute’s first PhD graduates, his dissertation was entitled “The life and scientific work of the Tübingen astronomer Michael Mästlin, 1550-1631”.

Jarrell’s association with York University began in 1970 with his work as a tutor and marker in the Department of Science Studies at Atkinson College. He would stay at Atkinson College until 1997, where he moved from course director to full professor in what would become the Department of Natural Science. In 1997, Jarrell became a professor in the Faculty of Science and Engineering’s Division of Natural Science. His university service was extensive and included his positions as chair of Atkinson College’s Department of Natural Science (1986-87, 1990-1994) and coordinator of the Program in Science and Technology Studies in the Faculty of Science and Engineering (2006-2008, 2011-2013).

Widely considered an expert in the history of Canadian science, Jarrell was the author of “The Cold Light of Dawn: a History of Canadian Astronomy” (1988) and “Educating the Neglected Majority: the Struggle for Agricultural and Technical Education in 19th Century Ontario and Quebec” (2016). He co-edited a number of books including “A Curious Field-Book: Science and Society in Canadian History” (1974), “Science, Technology and Canadian History” (1980), “Critical Issues in the History of Canadian Science, Technology and Medicine” (1983), “Science, Technology and Medicine in Canada’s Past: Selections from Scientia” (1991), “Building Canadian Science: the Role of the National Research Council of Canada” (1992), “Dominions Apart: Reflections on the Culture of Science and Technology in Canada and Australia 1850-1945” (1995), and “Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers” (2007). He was also a prolific contributor of biographical and other entries for science- and astronomy-related encyclopedias and dictionaries and was the author of six textbooks.

In addition to his teaching and writing, Jarrell was the founding editor of the “HSTC Bulletin” (later “Scientia Canadensis”) (1976-1988), a member of the “Social Studies of Science” editorial board (1986-2002), and a member of the “Atkinson Review of Canadian Studies” editorial board (1982-1987). He was a co-founder of the Canadian Science and Technology Historical Association and a member of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science, the History of Science Society, the Royal Astronomical Society, the American Astronomical Society, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and the International Astronomical Union. Jarrell’s interest in horticulture and environmental preservation led to his involvement with committees and organizations in the Markham and Thornhill areas, including the Markham Conservation Committee, Markham Environmental Alliance, and the Thornhill Garden and Horticulture Society.

Jarrell became the first non-astronomer elected to be a member of the Canadian Astronomical Society in 1975. He was appointed a life member of the Royal Canadian Institute in 1990, received Ontario Volunteer Service Awards in 2002 and 2004, and became a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine in 2013.

Richard Jarrell died on 28 December 2013.

Jaron Freeman-Fox and The Opposite of Everything is comprised only of Jaron Freeman-Fox a fidder who studied under the classical violinist Marc Destrube, studied South Asian classical music, and was apprenticed under Oliver Schroer.

Ilda Januário (b 1950), is a Portuguese scholar raised in Quebec. Studying anthropology at McGill University and the University of Montreal, her Master's thesis focused on the Portuguese women in Montreal ("Les activites economiques des immigrantes portugaises au Portugal et a Montreal a travers les recits de vie"). Moving to Toronto in 1982, Januário has been a research chair at OISE (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education) since 1985.

Januário was involved in the Portuguese-Canadian Coalition for Better Education, a volunteer umbrella group which advocates for Portuguese-Canadian and working-class students and parents in Toronto public and Catholic schools. She has also served as president of the Toronto Portuguese Parents' Association (TPPA) from 1994 to 2003. Januário has also worked in the Centre for the Study of Education and Work (CSEW), as well as the serving as coordinator for the Research Network on Work and Lifelong Learning (WALL).

Januário was also involved in the Comite Lar dos Idosos, a committee arising out of the 50th Anniversary: Celebrating Portuguese Canadians Committee that succeeded in obtaining a number of beds at the Yee Hong Centre for Geriatric Care in Mississauga designated for Luso-Canadians).

"Scarlett Jane is the marriage of the distinctive songs and beautifully haunting voices of Andrea Ramolo and Cindy Doire. And now, Stranger, their debut recording, captures their strength and their vulnerability. It’s a progressive roots sound which embodies the raw and candid demeanor of Lucinda Williams, the moody sensuality of Stevie Nicks and Nick Cave, and the tender playfulness of Dolly Parton." https://thefestival.bc.ca/artists/scarlett-jane/

Reid Jamieson is a Canadian indie-folk singer-songwriter from Vancouver, British Columbia. He first debuted his musical talents in the band "Alvy" before becoming a solo act. Jamieson currently performs with his wife Carolyn Victoria Mill. http://reidjamieson.com/about/

William James (January 11, 1842 - August 26, 1910) was an American philosopher and psychologist who was also trained as a physician. The first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States,
James was one of the leading thinkers of the late nineteenth century
and is believed by many to be one of the most influential philosophers
the United States has ever produced, while others have labelled him the
"Father of American psychology". Along with Charles Sanders Peirce and John Dewey, he is considered to be one of the greatest figures associated with the philosophical school known as pragmatism, and is also cited as one of the founders of functional psychology. He also developed the philosophical perspective known as radical empiricism. James' work has influenced intellectuals such as

Henry James, OM (15 April 1843 - 28 February 1916)
was an Anglo-American writer who spent the bulk of his career in
Britain. He is regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. He was the son of Henry James, Sr. and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.
James alternated between America and Europe for the first 20 years of his life; eventually he settled in England, becoming a British subject
in 1915, one year before his death. He is best known for a number of
novels showing Americans encountering Europe and Europeans. His method
of writing from the point of view of a character within a tale allows
him to explore issues related to consciousness and perception, and his style in later works has been compared to impressionist painting.
James contributed significantly to literary criticism,
particularly in his insistence that writers be allowed the greatest
possible freedom in presenting their view of the world. James claimed
that a text must first and foremost be realistic and contain a
representation of life that is recognisable to its readers. Good novels,
to James, show life in action and are, most importantly, interesting.
His imaginative use of point of view, interior monologue and possibly unreliable narrators in his own novels and tales brought a new depth and interest to narrative
fiction. An extraordinarily productive writer, in addition to his
voluminous works of fiction he published articles and books of travel, biography, autobiography, and criticism,
and wrote plays, some of which were performed during his lifetime,
though with limited success. His theatrical work is thought to have
profoundly influenced his later novels and tales.James was born at 2 Washington Place in New York City on 15 April 1843. His parents were Mary Walsh and Henry James, Sr..
His father was intelligent, steadfastly congenial, and a lecturer and
philosopher who had inherited independent means from his father, an
Albany, NY banker and investor. Mary came from a wealthy family long
settled in New York City, and her sister Katherine lived with the family
for an extended period of time. Henry, Jr. had three brothers, William who was one year his senior and younger brothers Wilkinson and Robertson. His younger sister was Alice.
The family first lived in Albany and moved to New York City and took
up residence on Fourteenth Street when James was still a young boy. His
education was calculated by his father to expose him to many influences,
primarily scientific and philosophical; it was described as
"extraordinarily haphazard and promiscuous." James did not share the
usual education in Latin and Greek classics, and did not attend
university. Between 1855 and 1860, the James' household traveled to London, Paris, Geneva, Boulogne-sur-Mer and Newport, Rhode Island,
according to the father's current interests and publishing ventures,
retreating to the United States when funds were low. Henry studied
primarily with tutors and briefly attended a few schools while the
family traveled in Europe. Their longest stays were in France, where
Henry began to feel at home, and became fluent in French. In 1860 the
family returned to Newport,
and in 1864 moved to Boston, Massachusetts to be near William, who had
enrolled in the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard, and then in the
medical school. Henry James could not serve during the Civil War owing to a bad back. In 1862 he attended Harvard Law School,
but realized that he was not interested in studying law. He pursued his
interest in literature and associated with authors and critics William Dean Howells and Charles Eliot Norton in Boston and Cambridge, and formed lifelong friendships with Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., the future Supreme Court Justice, and James and Annie Fields, his first professional mentors.

“Shortly after James released his solo album Goodnight, Young Novelist (2009), he realized that in order to perform live, he needed to assemble a band to match the record’s full sound. After recruiting some musicians he had met over the years and touring the east coast as a six-piece, the band decided to stay together, becoming Graydon James & The Young Novelists. Between 2011 and 2012, they released two albums: live at dublin st. church (2011), and in the year you were born (2012). However, it became clear that Spink was taking on more lead vocal duties. By the time they recorded their next album, made us strangers (2015), it made the most sense to simply shorten their name to The Young Novelists.” http://theyoungnovelists.com/about/

Dr. Carl E. James is known for his work in Toronto's marginalized communities, and for his work, nationally and internationally, in research on equity as related to race, class, gender and citizenship.

Emigrating from Antigua, James volunteered and worked with youth in Toronto as early as the 1970s at organizations such as the Black Education Project, Harriet Tubman Centre, Central Neighborhood House (working in Regent Park, St. Jamestown and Moss Park neighbourhoods) (1978-1980, 1987), and the Family Service Association in Etobicoke (1981-1983).

He pursued his education at York University and obtained a Bachelors (Hon.) in Sociology and Latin American & Caribbean in 1978, a Masters in Sociology in 1980, and a Doctorate in Sociology in 1986. Between 1980 and 1981, James completed courses in Graduate Social Work from the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto.

In 1993, he joined York University's Faculty of Education. He has been cross-appointed to the graduate programs in the Department of Sociology since 1999, the Graduate Programmes in Social Work from 1995 to 2016, and Social and Political Thought from 2015. He has also been Visiting Course Director in the Department of Teacher Training at the University of Uppsala in Sweden from 1997 - 2013 where he taught an international course in Multicultural Education.

James combined his experience in community development work and advocacy with his academic and research interests to work with teacher candidates, faculty colleagues, teachers and community members in the Jane and Finch community, where since 1994, he has played a major role in the development of the York-Westview Partnership program that links local schools, the university, and the Jane/Finch community.

A prolific writer and researcher, James has authored, co-authored, edited and co-edited some 21 books, 75 book chapters, 38 journal articles, over a dozen educational resource material, many conference papers, and invited lectures, talks, and workshops. A number of his works are in Swedish and French. His first book (1990), Making It: Black Youth, Racism and Career Aspirations in a Big City remains an important reference on issues about identity construction and schooling of Black youth. In some of his recent publications, James has examined social, education and immigrant settlement issues in the Caribbean and Jamaica and Antigua in particular, and immigrant settlement and minority issues in Sweden.

His work focuses on the experiences of racialized youth, particularly African Canadians. His research and publications into experiences of difference due to race, ethnicity, class, and culture range from studying the schooling and university plans of students from urban and suburban neighborhoods, the complementary and contradictory nature of sports in the schooling and educational attainments of racialized students, to the social construction of marginalized males in relation to the racialization and norms of masculinity in schooling, and the capacity of multiculturalism as a state policy to address racism and discrimination. His interest in equity, diversity, inclusivity, and social justice informs his research and publications, including his examination of the educational performance and outcomes of students in higher education, and the importance of educational programs and curriculum that are responsive to the needs, interests, and aspirations of students. Areas of focus include the Jane and Finch neighbourhood, suburban areas in Toronto, and Canada.

Prior to his appointment to York University, his teaching experience includes positions at Ryerson Polytechnic Institute's Department of Sociology (1982-1983, 1988), Seneca College's Liberal Studies and Continuing Education Departments (1981-1989), Humber College's Continuing Education program (1990-1994), and Sheridan College an Instructor (1986-1993).

James has also held a number of visiting scholar/part-time course director appoints at Trent University's Department of Canadian Studies (1993), Queen's University's Geography Department (2001-2003, 2005, 2008) University of Western Sydney's School of Education (2003), Dalhousie University's School of Social Work (2006), University of Toronto's Graduate Program in the Faculty of Physical Education & Health (1996-2009), Mt. St. Vincent's University's Faculty of Education (2007, 2012), and the University of Alberta's Department of Educational Policy Studies (2015).

James was the university's Affirmative Action Officer from 2003 to 2006, the director of the Graduate Programme in Sociology from 2007 to 2008, the founding Director of the York Centre for Education and Community from 2008 to 2016, and the Affirmative Action, Equity and Inclusivity Officer of the university since 2016. In 2016, he was appointed for a five-year term as the Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community & Diaspora, bringing a strong record of scholarship and community engagement to the position.

Examples of James' community service includes being appointed as an Advisor to the Ontario Minister of Education and Premier(2017-2018), a member of the Committee Advisory group of the Ontario Human Rights Commission (2017-), served on the Advisory Panel on Community Safety to the Toronto Police Services Board (2008-2009), member of the Board of Directors for the Youth Challenge Fund (with the United Way of Greater Toronto) (2006-2009), member of the Board of Directors for the Urban Alliance on Race Relations, Toronto (1997-1998), Advisory/Planning Committee for Alternative School (Nighana) with focus on African Studies (1995). He has also served on the board of the Joint Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration & Settlement (2003-2009, chair in 2008) and on the Equity Committee of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) (2000-2009). He was also a member of the Executive Committee, & Chair, Equity & Diversity Committee the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) (2015-2018); and of the Equity Committee, Canadian Sociological Association (CSA), 2013 - 2016. Internationally, he serves a member of the National Advisory Committee of the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education (NCORE), University of Oklahoma, USA (2017- ).

His honours and awards include membership as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2012), the Diaspora Award for Meritious Service from the Governor General of Antigua & Barbuda (2017), York Universit's Graduate Faculty Teaching Award (2017), Jackie Robinson Fortitude Award for Education (2014), Harry Jerome Award for Professional Excellence (Black Business and Professional Association (2013), African Canadian Achievement Award (Education) (2009), William P. Hubbard Award for Race Relations, City of Toronto (2008), New Pioneer Award: Skills for Change (March 2006), and President's Award of Excellence in Teaching, Sheridan College (1991). He has been included in the Who's Who in Black Canada (2006) and Canadian Who's Who (since 1998). In 2006, James received an Honourary Doctorate in Education from Uppsala University, Sweden.

William Jaffé (1898-1980), educator and author, was associated with York University for the last ten years of his life as a professor in the Economics Department. Prior to his tenure at York, Jaffé had spent 1928 to 1966 at Northwestern University (Illinois), where he began his lifelong work on the French nineteenth-century economist, Leon Walras. He translated Walras’s "The elements of pure economics," and edited three volumes of Walras correspondence. Jaffé was made a Member of the French Legion of Honour, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Science and Letters, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the British Academy.

Philip J. Jaffe was an American businessman resident in New York who took a special interest in Communist parties and governments in the Soviet Union, China, Southeast Asia (including India), as well as the Communist Party of the United States. He was a book collector and author of several studies on communism. The Workers' Party, formed in 1921, was a successor to the Communist Party of America, a largely foreign-language dominated communist body which itself split-off from the Socialist Party in 1919. The Communist Party of the United States was founded in 1921 and, although it has contested American presidential and other elections, its strength has largely been confined to those involved in the labour and civil rights movements, and among students on university campuses. It reached its zenith, in terms of popular support, during the 1930s and 1940s. The party was influential in the establishment of the CIO and benefitted from the US-Soviet alliance in the Second World War. The Cold War diminished the strength and resources of the Party as did the revelations of Stalin's policies in the USSR.

John Hughlings Jackson, FRS (4 April 1835 - 7 October 1911), was an English neurologist.He was born at Providence Green, Green Hammerton, near Harrogate, Yorkshire, the youngest son of Samuel Jackson, a brewer and yeoman who owned and farmed his land, and Sarah Jackson (n

editor of "Hibbert Journal". Lawrence Pearsall Jacks (9 October 1860 - 17 February 1955), abbreviated L. P. Jacks was an English educator, philosopher, and Unitarian minister who rose to prominence in the period from World War I to World War II.Jacks was born on 9 October 1860 in Nottingham,
to Anne Steere and Jabez Jacks. When his father died in 1874, George
Herbert, at the University School in Nottingham, allowed the 14 year old
Jacks to continue his education without fee. At about the same time,
his family took in a Unitarian lodger, Sam Collinson, who discussed
religion with Jacks and lent him books such as Matthew Arnold's Literature and Dogma.
Jacks left school at the age of 17 and spent the next five years
teaching at private schools, while earning a degree as an External
Student at the University of London.
In 1882, Jacks enrolled in Manchester New College, London, to train for the clergy, and became a Unitarian while at the College, under the influence of James Estlin Carpenter and James Martineau. After graduating, he spent a year on scholarship at Harvard University, where he studied with the philosopher Josiah Royce and the literary scholar Charles Eliot Norton. In 1887, after returning from the United States of America,
he received an unexpected invitation (due to Carpenter's
recommendation) to take the prestigious position of assistant minister
to Stopford Brooke
in his chapel in London; he later wrote that "Had I received an
invitation to become demigod to Apollo my surprise would hardly have
been greater." He served as assistant minister for a year, and then
accepted a position as Unitarian minister for Renshaw Street Chapel in Liverpool in 1888.
In 1889, Jacks married Olive Brooke (the fourth daughter of Stopford
Brooke), whom he had fallen in love with on the ship returning from
America. They had six children together.
In 1894, Jacks was appointed minister for the Church of the Messiah, Birmingham, England, where he developed his democratic
political and religious views, holding that "the Common Man is the
appointed saviour of the world," and developed his idea of a natural
religion accessible to everyone, regardless of denomination or creed. In 1903 he accepted a Professorship at Manchester College, Oxford, where he taught philosophy and theology. He taught the work of Henri Bergson and Baruch Spinoza, and published The Alchemy of Thought
in 1910. He served as Principal of the College from 1915 until his
retirement in 1931, where he opened the theology program to lay students
and tried to introduce the study of Asian religious thought, in an
effort to relieve what he saw as the "insufficient ventilation" in the
theology program.
Jacks served as the editor of the Hibbert Journal from its founding in 1902 until 1948. Under his editorship the Journal
became one of the leading forums in England for work in philosophy and
religion. He gained international notoriety as a public intellectual
with the outbreak of World War I,
when he wrote in support of the war effort, citing the need to defeat
German militarism and defend "the liberties of our race." In September
1915, he published "The Peacefulness of Being at War" in The New Republic,
arguing that the war had "brought to England a peace of mind such as
she had not possessed for decades," claiming that the sense of common
purpose brought on by the war had overcome social fragmentation and
improved English life.
After the war, Jacks wrote prolifically and gained popularity as a
lecturer in Britain and America. He frequently returned to the theme of
militarism and the "mechanical" mindset, which he regarded as one of the
greatest threats in modern life. In his Revolt Against Mechanism
(1933), he wrote that "The mechanical mind has a passion for control

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.

"Jabulani is a Zulu word meaning "we are happy". […] Jabulani has been writing and performing unique South African music for several years now. The music embraces the many styles and rhythms of the region, with  a strong leaning toward the Zulu "Maskande" guitar style. After numberous musical collaboratives, the sound of Jabulani has matured, and is now a tight melodic group that sings both in English and Zulu. Jabulani founder Brian Litvin, originally from Johannesburg in South Africa, Mafata Lemphane from Lesotho on bass guitar and vocals, and George Morellato on percussion and vocals. Also accompanying the band with frequent guest appearances is the multi-talents, South African singer, percussionist, actor and dancer, Welcome Nkosi." Mariposa Folk Festival programme, 2009, p. 47

“iskwē (short for waseskwan iskwew, meaning "blue sky woman" in English) (born Meghan Meisters, 1981) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and activist. Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, iskwē has lived in Los Angeles, New York City, and Toronto, and now lives in Hamilton, Ontario.” Genres include electropop, indie electronic, downtempo, trip hop, and post-rock. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iskw%C4%93

Avrom Isaacs, Toronto art dealer, was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1926 and moved to Toronto with his family in 1941. He graduated with an Honours B.A. in Political Science and Economics from the University of Toronto in 1950. While at university, he opened a picture-framing store with a friend and became the sole proprietor of the Greenwich Art Shop by 1950. Isaacs came into contact with many of Toronto's emerging artists while working at his store and began displaying their art on his shop's walls. This led to the opening of the Greenwich Art Gallery in 1955. The space was renamed The Isaacs Gallery in 1959 and moved to Yonge Street in 1961. Isaacs opened the Inuit Gallery in Toronto in 1970, the first commercial gallery in the world devoted solely to Inuit art. In August 1991, Isaacs consolidated his two galleries to form the Isaacs/Inuit Gallery, which closed in 2001 at the time of his retirement from the business. Over the course of his career, Isaacs represented numerous Canadian artists including Dennis Burton, Michael Snow, Graham Coughtry, Gordon Rayner, Jack Chambers, Joyce Wieland, Mark Prent, John Meredith, William Kurelek, Robert Markle and Gathie Falk. He also sponsored poetry readings, underground film screenings, and mixed media concerts at his gallery. Isaacs served on the executive of the Professional Art Dealers Association of Canada (PADAC), is a former director of the Toronto Arts Awards Foundation, and an Honorary Fellow of the Ontario College of Art. He has served on various arts advisory boards at the municipal, provincial and federal levels and was a member of the board of the Canadian Filmmakers' Distribution Centre from 1979 to 1982, serving as its Chairman from 1981 to 1982. In 1992, Isaacs was made a member of the Order of Canada, was awarded an honorary doctorate by York University, and received the RCAIC (Royal Canadian Architectural Institute of Canada) silver medal. In 2005, 'Isaacs seen : 50 years on the art front, a gallery scrapbook' compiled by Donnalu Wigmore, was published in support of 'Isaacs seen', four interconnected exhibitions held in Toronto that year to illustrate his career.

James Paton Isaac (1895-1964), educator and author, was born in and educated in Toronto and at Harvard University where he received the PhD. He later taught Ancient History at the University of Colorado and at Oklahoma State University. Isaac was the author of 'Factors in the ruin of antiquity; a criticism of ancient civilization,' (1971).

Elisapie Isaac is a French-Canadian recording artist and documentary filmaker. Isaac is Inuit and from Salluit, Quebec. She produces pop music and is a Juno Award nominee.