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Hersh Zeifman

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  • 1944-

Hersh Zeifman was born in Toronto on 11 June 1944. Zeifman received his BA English in 1966, followed in 1967 by a MA English, both from the University of Toronto. He attended the University of Birmingham, England, graduating in 1961 with a PhD in drama and theatre arts. His dissertation is titled “Religious thought and imagery in the plays of Samuel Beckett.”

Zeifman’s teaching career started in 1966 with fellow positions at Scarborough College and University College, University of Toronto. His career in theatre arts with York University began in 1971. Zeifman’s tenure at York University included visiting assistant professor (1971-1974), assistant professor (1974-1979), associate professor (1979-1999), professor (2000-2008), and professor emeritus and senior scholar (2008-). He was the first professor at York University to teach Canadian drama beginning in the mid-1990s.

Zeifman has an extensive publishing career including as editor of “David Hare: a casebook” (1994), and co-editor of “Contemporary British drama, 1970-90: essays from ‘Modern Drama.’” (1993). He was co-editor of “Modern drama,” a journal focused on dramatic literature published by the University of Toronto Press, from 1989-1995 and editor for several special issues thereafter. Zeifman served on several executive and editorial boards including The Harold Pinter Society, The Pinter Review, and the Samuel Becket Society. Hersh Zeifman lives in Toronto.

Haig-Brown, Celia

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  • Person
  • 1947-

Celia Haig-Brown is a Euro-Canadian ethnographer, researcher, professor, and university administrator based at York University. She is best known for her research working with former students of the Kamloops Indian Residential School, updated in 2022 with Indigenous collaborators and published as "Tsqelmucwílc: The Kamloops Indian Residential School, Resistance and a Reckoning." Her research and scholarship focuses on the indigenization of education in the Canadian context and interrelations between Euro-Canadian and Indigenous Haig-Brown has also directed and co-produced film documentaries, including Peq'ilc: Coming Home (2011), Cowboys, Indians and Education: Regenerating Secwepemc Culture (2012), and Listen to the Land (2018). Her most recent project, Rodeo Women: Behind the Scenes, a documentary on the role women play in the rodeo circuit.

Haig-Brown completed a BA in Zoology and English at the University of British Columbia in 1968. She completed her teaching certificate (Science and English) in 1970 at the University of British Columbia. She later completed a MA in Curriculum and Instruction in 1986, writing a thesis "Invasion and Resistance: Surviving the Kamloops Indian Residential School" which would later form the basis for her 1988 monograph "Resistance and Renewal: Surviving the Indian Residential School." Her PhD in Social Foundations of Educational Policy from UBC was completed in 1991. Her thesis, "Taking Control: Power and Contradiction in First Nations Adult Education" would later form the basis for a 1995 monograph published by UBC Press.

She served as a researcher, curriculum developer and instructor in several educational programs tied to Indigenous education and adult learning facilities in British Columbia before joining the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University in 1990. She taught various courses on feminist pedagogical practices, educational theory and practice, social issues in education, and gender equity in teacher education. She later joined York University in 1997 and taught graduate courses in the Faculty of Education, the Faculty of Graduate Studies, and the School of Women's Studies in the area of feminist research methods, decolonization, indigenization of school curriculum, Indigenous pedagogies, land-based pedagogy; and the Indian Residential Schools and the impact of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission and undergraduate courses on the foundations of education and models for education.

Beginning in about 2007, Haig-Brown shifted into roles in university administration, university governance, and research ethics. She served on York University's Senate, chairing from 2009-2010. She served as a member of numerous committees related to research ethics, and York's' Indigenous Research Ethics Board. From 2013-2015, she served a three year term as Associate Dean, Research and Professional Learning within the Faculty of Education. From 2015-2020, Haig-Brown served a five-year term as Associate Vice-President Research for the university.

Beginning in the early 2000s, Haig-Brown began developing her research outputs as documentary films, many in partnership with her niece Helen Haig-Brown. In 2008 she produced and co-directed with Helen Haig-Brown "Pelq'ilc: Coming Home", a film focusing on the place of education in renewing Indigenous culture and tradition. The piece focuses on the children and grandchildren of residential school survivors first interviewed by Haig-Brown for her MA thesis.

In 2012 she produced and co-directed with Helen Haig-Brown "Cowboys, Indians and Education: Regenerating Secwepemc Culture" which again focused on the experience of children and grandchildren of former Kamloops Indian Residential School students working on traditional knowledge revitalization efforts.

In 2018 she produced and directed "Listen to the Land" a documentary focusing on the experience of members of the Naskapi Nation of Kawawachikamach and their complex relationship with the land and contemporary economic realities of mining exploration in the territory.

Haig-Brown was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2022. She retired from York University in January 2024.

Stuckey, Johanna Heather

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  • Person
  • 1933-2024

Johanna Heather Stuckey, educator and author, was born and largely educated in Canada. She also attended Yale University, receiving a PhD in 1965. She joined the staff of York University in 1964 and has served in administrative positions as advisor to the president on the status of women (1981-1985), chair of the Senate Task Force on the Status of Women (1972-1975), co-ordinator of the Women's Studies Programme (1986-1989), chair of the Division of Humanities (1974-1979), acting master of Founders College (1972-1973) and as vice-chair, York University Faculty Association (1973-1974). Stuckey died on 15 February 2024.

York, Alissa

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  • Person
  • 1970-

Alissa York was born in Athabasca, Alberta and grew up in Victoria, British Columbia. She studied English Literature at McGill University and the University of Victoria, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in 1993. She received her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph in 2016. Her thesis, “How Do I look?: In Search of the Female Gaze,” was a work of creative nonfiction blending memoir and interviews.

In 1999, York published a collection of short stories titled, Any Given Power (1999). She is the author of four novels, Mercy (2003), Effigy (2007), Fauna (2010), The Naturalist (2016), and Far Cry (2023).

Her novel, Effigy, was short-listed for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and her short stories have won the Journey Prize and Bronwen Wallace Award.

York’s writing process involves a year of research where she gathers notes, writes character sketches, and arranges her notes. She then writes her novels' scenes in long-form from the perspective of every character. She cuts up the script into pieces and arranges it on her kitchen floor in various orders, then tapes the pieces to create scrolls or "assemblies." She repeats the process until she finds an arrangement which will constitute the order of the final book. The end result is a narrative form in her novels in which the point of view shifts constantly.

York lives in Toronto with her husband, the artist Clive Holden.

Cann, Mark W.P.

  • Person
  • 1932-2021

Mark William Philip Cann (physicist, teacher) was born on 2 September 1932 in Dalhousie, India and spent his early years in Kashmir before his family moved to England. He was educated at Bradfield College, Berkshire, and earned a Master's degree in physics from Clare College, University of Cambridge. Cann began his career at Rolls Royce, where he worked on the United Kingdom's first nuclear submarine. He and his young family emigrated to the United States in 1963, when he joined the Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute in Chicago, Illinois as a research physicist. Cann was hired by York University in 1969 and worked with the Centre for Research in Experimental Space Science (CRESS), becoming an expert in synthetic spectroscopy. He died on 5 December 2021.

Alleyne, Archie

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  • Person
  • 1933-2015

Archibald Alexander Alleyne was born in Toronto 7 January 1933. He taught himself how to play the drums and began his music career in 1953. Between 1955 and 1966 he worked as the house drummer at the club Town Tavern, in Toronto, where he accompanied some of the most successful jazz musicians of the 20th century. Following a 1967 car accident, Alleyne suspended his music career and became a restaurateur (The Underground Railroad Soul Food). He resumed his career in 1982, when he established a quartet with Frank Wright (vibraphone) Connie Maynard (piano) and Bill Best (bass). In 1988-1989, he toured with Oliver Jones, travelled to Cuba, Ireland, Spain, Egypt, the Ivory Coast and Nigeria, appearing in the NFB's Oliver Jones in Africa (1989).

In 2001, Alleyne created the Evolution of Jazz Ensemble (EOJ) which provided performance opportunities and mentorship to post-secondary African-Canadian musicians. He also established the Archie Alleyne Scholarship Fund in 2003 to provide bursaries to music students.

In 2000, Archie Alleyne and Doug Richardson created the hard-bop jazz band, Kollage. Kollage’s original lineup included Jeff King (saxophone), Chris Butcher (trombone), Alex Brown (trumpet), Stacie McGregor (piano), Artie Roth (bass) and Archie Alleyne (drums). Kollage disbanded in 2014. In 2015, the band was reestablished with Archie Alleyne Scholarship recipient and Evolution of Jazz Ensemble member, Isaiah Gibbons, as the percussionist.

Since 2011, Alleyne organized a series of live performances promoting Black entertainment history, known as the Syncopation Series. The program also included an accompanying photograph exhibit titled, Syncopation: Black Stories, which showcased the biographies of black artists in Canadian music history.

He was named to the Order of Canada in 2011 and received the Black Business and Professional Association's Harry Jerome Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2015.

Alleyne completed writing his memoir, Colour Me Jazz: The Archie Alleyne Story, in 2005. The final book, which was co-authored by Sheldon Taylor, was released in 2015.

Elliston, Inez

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  • Person
  • 1930-2017

Dr. Inez Elliston was an educator, writer, policy consultant, and leader in community volunteerism. Born in Jamaica, Elliston acquired a Bachelor of Arts from the University of London/University of the West Indies in 1961. She subsequently received a Diploma in Education in 1961 from London University, a Masters of Education from Boston University, a Masters of Education from the University of Toronto in 1972 and her PhD, also from UofT, in 1976.

Elliston was the first coordinator of the Multiculturalism and Race Relations Committee for the Scarborough Board of Education. She was responsible for implementing 14 major policy recommendations, including multicultural training for staff and improved assessment of immigrant children in the school system.

She was Coordinator of the Adult Day School and Multicultural Centre 1978-1982. From 1986 to 1990 she was the vice principle of Continuing Education, From 1994 to 1996 she was an Education Officer in the Ministry of Education and Training. Elliston played key leadership roles in the Canadian Council of multicultural and Intercultural Education (CCMIE), Delta Kappa Gamma International Society for Key Women Educators, the Governing Council at University of Toronto, has sat on the Advisory Board and Faculty Council at OISE at the University of Toronto, and is involved in the Canadian Federation of University Women.

Elliston’s contributions to Canadian society and her local community have been acknowledged through awards including: a 15 Year Volunteer Service Award from the Ministry of Citizenship (1987), a citation for Citizenship from the Government of Canada (1989), an Outstanding Achievement Award from CCMIE (1990), and Outstanding Achievement Ward from the Jamaican Canadian Association (1996), the ACAA in 1996, and lifetime achievement awards from the Malvern Youth Club (2000), the John Hubbard Humanitarian Award (2001). She has also received public recognition of her contributions to the community from the City of Scarborough (1994) and the City of Markham (2002). She received the Order of Ontario in 2004.

An award for achievement in anti-racist and ethno-cultural equity was established in Elliston’s name by the Board of Scarborough in 1995.

Elliston was the author of Multiculturalism in Canada: issues and perspectives, Education in a changing society and Effective schooling for an increasingly diverse student population.

McPhedran, Marilou

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Marilou McPhedran is a Canadian feminist lawyer, consultant and activist. Born and raised in Neepawa, Manitoba, McPhedran attended the University of Winnipeg from 1969 to 1972, where she was president of the University of Winnipeg Student Association. She then attended the University of Toronto in 1972-1973, graduating with a BA in 1973. That same year, she enrolled at York University's Osgoode Hall Law School and graduated with a LL.B. in 1976. In 1992, McPhedran was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by the University of Winnipeg. She completed a LL.M. degree in Comparative Constitutional Law at Osgoode Hall Law School in 2004. After completing her LL.B., McPhedran worked as counsel and human rights consultant for the Advocacy Resource Centre for the Handicapped from 1979 to 1981. During this period, she assisted with the Justin Clarke case and helped to organize the first National Conference on Law and the Handicapped. From 1981 to 1985, she was employed as health advocate and counsel for the City of Toronto, where she served as member of the Metro Toronto Task Force on Public Violence against Women and Children and as a coordinator of the Action Task Force on Discharged Psychiatric Patients. In 1981 and 1982, McPhedran was a volunteer member of and counsel to the Ad Hoc Committee of Canadian Women on the Constitution, a group that successfully drafted a gender equality clause for the Canadian Constitution of Rights and Freedoms.

McPhedran's other volunteer and activist work included serving as co-founder of the Charter of Rights Education Fund in 1982-1983 and co-founder of the Women's Legal Education Action Fund (LEAF) in 1985, for which she also served as chair of LEAF Foundation and chair of the LEAF's National Board of Directors. In 1984, she co-founded and later served as chair of the Metropolitan Toronto Action Committee on Violence against Women and Children (METRAC), the first non-government organization in Canada dedicated to research and advocacy to counter violence against women and children. McPhedran was a founding board member and manager of the Gerstein Centre in 1989, an organization helping discharged psychiatric patients. From 1990 to 1991, McPhedran served as chair of the College of Physician and Surgeons' Independent Task Force on Sexual Abuse of Patients and, in 2000, she chaired a second task force on the same subject. She also worked as interim director of the Canadian Women's Foundation in 1990. Starting in 1988, McPhedran offered strategic counsel and legal consultancy under the name Law, Systems and Advocacy. Working as a consultant in the area of women's health, McPhedran held the position of corporate director of the City of Toronto's Healthy City office from 1991 to 1994 and for Women's College Hospital's Health Partnerships program from 1994 to 1996. She then served as a consultant for Friends of Women's College Hospital, Liberty Health, and Homewood Health Care between 1996 and 1998. From 2001 to 2003, McPhedran was executive coordinator of the National Network on Environments and Women's Health at York University.

In 1998, McPhedran became the founding director of the International Women's Rights Project (IWRP), located respectively at the Centre for Refugee Studies and the Centre for Feminist Research at York University. Her association with IWRP continued as co-director from 2003 to 2007, lasting through its 2003 relocation to the Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria. She was employed in 2004 as an international consultant for Cowater International, hired to conduct a study and prepare a final report about the work of the Asian Development Bank's RETA 6008: Gender and Governance Issues in Local Government project. From 2003 to 2005, McPhedran was a volunteer member of the Program Advisory Committee of the Canadian Firearms Program. In addition to her volunteer and consultancy work, McPhedran has also worked as a writer and educator. Based on her experiences chairing task forces on the sexual abuse of patients and other advocacy work, McPhedran co-authored a textbook with Wendy Sutton titled "Preventing sexual abuse of patients : a legal guide for health professionals." She also served two terms, in 1994 and 2000, as Planner-in-Residence at the School of Planning at the University of Waterloo, where, in 2000, she taught a course titled "Building healthy communities : local to global human rights." Made a Member of the Order of Canada in 1985 for her work with the Ad Hoc Committee on the Constitution, McPhedran was also awarded a Canada 125 Medal for community service in 1992 and the Woman of the Year award from the B'nai Brith in 1993. She was the Women's Law Association of Ontario's Woman of the Year in 1997. In 2002, she was awarded the Queen's Jubilee Medal, and she received the Governor General's Persons Case Medal in 2003. In January 2007, McPhedran became the Ariel F. Sallows Chair in Human Rights at the University of Saskatchewan. From November 2007 to July 2008, she was the Chief Commissioner of the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission. She was the founding director of the Institute for International Women’s Rights at Global College at the University of Winnipeg from 2009 to 2016. McPhedran is currently a Canadian Senator, appointed under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government in 2016.

Barndt, Deborah

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Deborah Barndt, educator, writer, activist and photographer, attended Otterbein College in Ohio, graduating in 1967 with a BA in Comprehensive Social Studies and French. She then studied at Michigan State University, completing her MA in Social Psychology in 1968. From 1970 to 1972, she taught as an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology and Sociology at Brookdale Community College in New Jersey. She travelled to Lima, Peru, in 1976 to serve as resident sociologist for a visual communications workshop at the Universidad La Catholica. Barndt was a part-time faculty member in the Applied Social Science department at Concordia University in Montreal before completing her PhD in sociology from Michigan University in 1978. Her PhD dissertation was entitled “People Connecting with Structures: A Photographic and Contextual Exploration of the Conscientization Process in a Peruvian Literacy Program”. From 1977 to 1981, Barndt was a staff member in the participatory research group of the International Council for Adult Education, becoming its director for 1980-1981. During this time, Barndt also worked as an instructor for the Toronto Board of Education and Humber College’s Labour Studies Centre and its English in the Workplace program. She was a visiting professor in the “Women in Unusual Careers” programme at Denison University in Ohio in 1981 before working as a teacher training consultant for the Nicaraguan government’s Vice-Ministry of Adult Education between 1981 and 1983. In 1983, Barndt worked as a consultant at the Highlander Research and Education Center in Tennessee. She returned to Toronto to take the position of adjunct professor in the Department of Adult Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education until 1985, when she became the coordinator of Canadian issues at the Jesuit Centre for Social Faith and Justice, a position she held until 1993. Between 1987 and 1990, Barndt was an instructor at the University of Toronto’s Regis College and Department of Sociology. In 1993, Barndt joined the Faculty of Environmental Studies (FES) at York University as an assistant professor, becoming an associate professor in 1999 and professor in 2004. At York, she founded the Community Arts Practice (CAP) program in 2005. She was a senior scholar at the Centre for Refugee Studies in 2008, and between 2012-2013 she served as the inaugural chair for social justice at the Coady International Institute and St. Francis Xavier University, in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. She retired from York University in 2014.

Barndt is the author of Education and Social Change: A Photographic Study of Peru (1980), Getting There: Producing Photo-stories with Immigrant Women (1982) (co-author), A New Weave: Popular Education in Canada and Central America (1985) (co-author), To Change This House: Popular Education under the Sandinistas (1991), Tangled Routes: Women, Work and Globalization on the Tomato Trail (2002), and Earth to Tables Legacies: Multimedia Food Conversations across Generations and Cultures (2022) (co-author). She is the editor of Women Working the NAFTA Food Chain (1999), Just Doing It: Popular Collective Action in the Americas (2002) (co-editor), Wild Fire: Art as Activism (2006), and VIVA! Community Arts and Popular Education in the Americas (2011).

Turnbull, Barbara

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  • Person
  • 1965-2015

Barbara Turnbull, Toronto star reporter, advocate and disability activist, was born February 7, 1965 in Montreal, Quebec as the third born of five daughters. At the age of seven, she moved with her mother and four sisters to Mississauga, Ontario where she attended elementary and high school.

On September 23, 1983 Turnbull was working part time at a Becker’s convenience store in Mississauga when the store was robbed at gunpoint. Turnbull was shot in the neck and sustained a spinal cord injury which resulted in her becoming quadriplegic. The event became high profile news, and the media, particularly in the Greater Toronto Area, followed Turnbull’s recovery and the subsequent criminal trial for the men involved in the shooting, into 1985.

In the years after her injury, Turnbull took courses at the University of Toronto, and eventually moved to attend Arizona State University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism, graduating Magna Cum Laude and as the class valedictorian. Upon returning to Toronto in 1990, she was hired by the Toronto Star as a reporter, where she then worked for the next twenty-five years.

Turnbull became an outspoken and avid advocate for those with spinal cord injuries such as herself. This advocacy led to the founding of the Barbara Turnbull Foundation for Spinal Cord Research, and the creation of the Turnbull-Tator Award in Spinal Cord Injury and Concussion Research, alongside Dr. Charles Tator, one of Barbara’s original doctors at the time of her injury. The award aims to annually recognize outstanding publication by an independent researcher at a Canadian institution in the field of spinal chord and/or brain injury. Turnbull’s advocacy efforts extended to creating real change toward accessibility. In 1993, Turnbull filed a complaint with the Ontario Humans Rights Commission over the lack of accessibility in cinemas operated by Famous Players. (Four other complaints were made by Marilyn Chapman, Domenic Fragale, Ing Wong-Ward and Steven Macaulay.) In 2001, the court ruled in Turnbull’s favor and as a result Famous Players was required to make all their cinemas fully accessible, which resulted in a few downtown theatres being permanently closed.

Throughout her career, Turnbull was acknowledged by many organizations for her work and advocacy, including two honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Toronto and York University. Posthumously, she was awarded the Order of Canada.

Turnbull died in 2015 at the age of 50.

Panitch, Leo, 1945-2020

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  • 1945-2020

Leo Panitch was a Distinguished Research Professor, renowned political economist, Marxist theorist and editor of the Socialist Register. He was born 3 May 1945 in Winnipeg, Manitoba and received a B.A. (Hons.) from the University of Manitoba in 1967 and a M.Sc.(Hons.) and PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1968 and 1974, respectively. He was a Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor at Carleton University between 1972 and 1984.

He was a Professor of Political Science at York University from 1984 until his retirement in 2016.. He was the Chair of the Department of Political Science at York from 1988-1994. He was the General Co-editor of State and Economic Life series, U. of T. Press, from 1979 to 1995 and the Co-founder and a Board Member of Studies in Political Economy. He is also the author of numerous articles and books dealing with political science including The End of Parliamentary Socialism (1997). He was a member of the Movement for an Independent and Socialist Canada, 1973-1975, the Ottawa Committee for Labour Action, 1975-1984, the Canadian Political Science Association, the Committee of Socialist Studies, the Marxist Institute and the Royal Society of Canada. Panitch died in Toronto on 19 December 2020.

Fleming, Allan

  • VIAF ID: 143849918 (Personal)
  • Person
  • 1929-1977

Allan Robb Fleming was born in Toronto on 7 May 1929 to immigrant Scottish parents, Isabella Osborne Fleming and Allan Stevenson Fleming. His mother was a nurse and teacher; his father a switchman and later a clerk for Canadian National Railways. He studied commercial art at the Western Technical School until 1945, and was hired as an illustrator immediately on graduation into the mail order catalogue illustration department of T. Eaton Company. During this time he met Nancy Barbara Chisholm, whom he was married in 1951. After leaving Eaton's in 1947, Fleming worked as a layout artist with the Art Associates Studio and later as the art director of the advertising firm Aiken McCracken. He joined another advertising firm, Art and Design Service, in 1951, and worked with clients such as Ford, Helena Rubinstein, and Kaiser-Frazer until April 1953. Fleming started his own freelance practice at this time, beginning a relationship with Steve Barootes that included the design of print material and signage for Barootes' restaurant, The Fifth Avenue. He also attended a series of Typography Workshops at Cooper & Beatty Typesetters run by Carl Dair. This instruction formalised Fleming's fascination with the letterform, and he resolved to travel to Europe and England to study with master typographers and book designers. Allan and Nancy Fleming left for England in April 1953, where Allan worked as an art director for the advertising firm John Tait and Partners. He studied in London at the St Bride Printing Library, the British Library incunabula collection and the Victoria and Albert Museum National Art Library, as well as frequenting the most important typographers and type historians of the day. He was mentored by Beatrice Warde of the Monotype Corporation, Oliver Simon, Stanley Morison and others, and began to collect what would become a comprehensive reference library of books about typography, design, and book design. In London, Allan and Nancy met their lifelong friends, the poet Richard Outram and his wife to be, the artist Barbara Howard. On their return from London to Toronto in 1955, Fleming began working informally with Cooper & Beatty as a freelance designer and became head of the Typography Department of the Ontario College of Art, where until 1961 his teaching influenced a significant number of well-known graphic and editorial designers who emerged in the 1970s. In 1957 he was appointed Creative Director of Cooper & Beatty and his design and art direction work there during the following six years, informed by the study and mentoring he had followed in London, was of such a high calibre and so prolific that it was awarded numerous awards from professional associations such as the Toronto, Montreal and New York Art Directors' Clubs, Type Director's Club of New York, American Institute of Graphic Arts, the Aspen and Silvermine Design Conferences, and the Advertising Typographers' Association of New York. Fleming was well known in the United States as a Canadian graphic designer, and respected as a peer. During his time at Cooper & Beatty, he also organised a series of landmark exhibitions of international typographic designers. From 1963 to 1968 Fleming was Creative Director of the influential MacLaren Advertising firm while maintaining a busy freelance practice. Fleming's most significant contributions were to national identity and to the visual culture of Canada in the formative period of the 1960s. His logo design for Canadian National Railway was commissioned in 1959 and launched in 1960; it is still used today. Other logo designs for government and for important Canadian institutions in this formative period for the country are: Trent University (1964), Ontario Hydro (1965), National Design Council of the Department of Industry (1965), Toronto Symphony Orchestra (1965), Hudson's Bay Company (1969), ETVO (now TVOntario, 1970), Gray Coach Lines (1971) and others. In 1973-74, while working with Burton Kramer Associates, he was involved in developing the project that led to rebranding the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He worked on a number of important centennial projects during the mid 1960s, notably the award-winning book Canada: A Year of the Land for the National Film Board Still Photography Division. He was a jury member for the award of the design of Canada's centennial coinage, and worked closely with the competition's winner, Alex Colville, to create typographic elements for the commemorative coins. He designed the logo for Ontario's centennial project, the Ontario Science Centre, and a number of its early publications. He participated in the international design conference that took place at Expo '67, and was awarded the Centennial Medal by the government of Canada. In 1965, he was also awarded the Medal of the Royal Canadian Academy for "his distinguished contribution to the art of typographic design." Fleming also designed the first annual report for the Canada Council for the Arts in 1960, the street and shop signage for Upper Canada Village in 1961, lettering and silverware for Ron Thom's Massey College in 1963, a redesign of Maclean's magazine in 1963, electoral publications for the Liberal Party in 1965, the medal struck to commemorate the new Toronto City Hall in 1965 as well as its Hall of Memory and, for the Hudson's Bay Company anniversary celebrations in 1970, he produced a film directed by Christopher Chapman. In 1968 Fleming was commissioned by Postmaster General Eric Kierans to strike and lead a working committee on the design of Canada's postage stamps; he appointed, among others, artist Christopher Pratt and curator and arts administrator David Silcox. His "Report to the Canada Post Office on their philatelic product" became the new style guide for a renaissance in Canadian postage design that still forms the basis of stamp design in Canada. Fleming went on to art direct and design numerous stamps until his untimely demise from heart disease on 31 December 1977. He was awarded the Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal just a few months before his death.

Lucas, Helen

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  • Person
  • 1931-2023

Helen Lucas (artist) was born in 1931 in Weyburn, Saskatchewan, to Greek parents, Eftihia and William Geatros. She studied at the Ontario College of Art (Toronto) from 1950-1954, and was Drawing and Painting Master at Sheridan College (Oakville, Ont.) from 1973-1979. Her early works were figurative pieces in black and white, and later works were colourful floral paintings. She has exhibited her art works widely in Canada, the United States, and Italy, published drawings and text in several publications, and was an active participant in Canadian Women studies projects. In 1991 York University awarded her an honorary Doctor of Letters and she received the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012. Her life was featured in an award-winning, hour-long documentary produced by Donna Davey that was shown at the Chicago International Film Festival in 1996. Lucas died on 27 November 2023.

Wicks, Ben

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  • Person
  • 1926-2000

Alfred (Ben) Wicks (1 Oct. 1926 - 10 Sept. 2000) was born in Southwark, a borough of London, England’s East End. After World War Two, he remained in London working odd jobs including a stint with the British Air Training Corp. and as a saxophone player before turning to a career as an illustrator. Wicks married Doreen Curtis (1935-2004), a nurse, in Bristol, England, on 31 May 1956.

Ben and Doreen Wicks moved to Calgary, Canada in 1957. Wicks had his first sale as a cartoonist in Canada to The Saturday Evening Post in 1962, and year later, started as a staff member for the Toronto Telegram. His cartoon strip, “The Outcasts,” a take on politics in Canada and the United States, was soon syndicated by over 50 newspapers. In 1967, Wicks was assigned to travel alongside a journalist to cover the Nigerian–Biafran War and its effects on the civilian population through cartoons and drawings. Wicks would continue his efforts in humanitarian work in Haiti, Sudan and other parts of Africa.

After the Toronto Telegram ceased operations in 1971, Wicks moved to the Toronto Star. His single frame cartoon, “Wicks,” was syndicated in 84 Canadian and over 100 American newspapers. Wicks was also a well-known Canadian television personality. He hosted several productions including “Ben Wicks” in the late 1970s that aired on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. In 1990, Wicks founded the I.Can Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to children’s literacy around the world, and he illustrated several literacy booklets (Born to Read series) that reached millions of school age children across Canada.

Wicks published over 40 books and booklets over his career including Ben Wicks’ Canada (1976), Ben Wicks’ Women (1978), Ben Wicks’ Book of Losers (1979), Ben Wicks’ Etiquette (1981), Ben Wicks’ Dogs (1983), Mavis & Bill (1986), and Mavis & Bill Yes, Again! (1988). He also published non-fiction books including No Time to Wave Goodbye (1987), The Day they Took the Children (1988), Nell’s War (1990), Welcome Home (1991), Master of None: The Story of Me Life (1995), and Dawn of the Promised Land: The Creation of Israel (1997).

In 1986, Wicks was awarded membership into the Order of Canada, followed three years later by his wife, Doreen.

Ben Wicks died of cancer on 10 Sept. 2000.

Burke, Theresa, 1956-

Theresa Burke is a Canadian producer, director, researcher and writer best known for her work for the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) television program "The fifth estate.” Burke attended the University of Nantes, the University of Ottawa and the University of Alaska before obtaining an Honours BA in Philosophy from the University of Toronto. She worked as a director of public relations and corporate communications at Alliance Entertainment and as a director of marketing for Norstar Entertainment between 1987 and 1990. In 1994, Burke joined "The fifth estate" as a researcher and subsequently became one of the program's producers and directors. She has produced a wide variety of documentary programming for "The fifth estate", with a particular focus on prisoners and miscarriages of justice. Burke was a research associate for Julian Shur's book about Steven Truscott, "Until you are dead: Steven Truscott's long ride into history" (2001), which won the 2002 CAA Birks Family Foundation Award for Biography, and co-wrote "Who killed Ty Conn" (2001) with Linden MacIntyre. "His word against history," a "Fifth estate" documentary about Steven Truscott on which Burke worked extensively as a researcher and producer, was awarded the best investigative report of 2000 by the Canadian Association of Journalists.

Papadatos, Giorgos

  • http://viaf.org/viaf/105856662
  • Person
  • 1941-

George Papadatos is a Greek Canadian who lived in Toronto from 1969 to 1984. He was very active in organizing cultural activities on the Danforth and was co-owner of the Trojan Horse coffee house where a number of anti-junta activities took place. Alongside Fotis and Dimitris Stamatopoulos, he founded Eastminster Community Services in 1972, an organization that supported Greeks in their interactions with Canadian federal departments and agencies. Papadatos taught Greek language and culture courses at the University of Toronto Scarborough (then Scarborough College) between 1979 and 1984 when he returned to Greece. He was also a journalist and local community organizer who organized and promoted several music tours of Greek musicians, performers and poets who were invited to tour the United States and Canada by the Cultural Workshop of Toronto to raise awareness of local conditions in Greece. In 1979, Papadatos and Nancy White published "Ta Tragoudia tou Agona - Songs of Struggle," a collection of translated songs. A year later, he published "Anthologio Antistasiakis Technis," an edited collection of works produced by Greek artists during the 1940s. In recognition of his journalistic and publishing activities, he was awarded a Print Prize by the Canadian Ethnic Media Association. In 1984, he was awarded a metallic plate for his services as the Secretary of the Hellenic Athletic Federation of Ontario.

Consumers' Gas Company of Toronto

  • https://viaf.org/viaf/141812620/
  • Corporate body
  • 1847-

Consumers' Gas Company was established in Toronto in October, 1847, as a private company to bring gas to the city for the purpose of illuminating the streets. In 1879 the company's authority was extended to providing gas for indoor uses (heating, cooking, illumination). In 1847 the company served approximately 641 consumers: by 1923 the company was serving two hundred times as many consumers claiming that every house in Toronto made use of gas. In 1887 legislation was passed to regulate the price of gas in Toronto, with the City Auditor inspecting the company's books. Further civic involvement in the gas company commenced in 1904 when the City of Toronto purchased shares in the company and the Mayor became an ex-officio director.

Thaniel, George,‏ ‎1938-

  • https://viaf.org/viaf/307202426/
  • Person
  • 1938-1991

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

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

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

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

Vassanji, M.G.

  • http://viaf.org/viaf/96951910
  • Person
  • 1950-

Moyez G. Vassanji (1950- ), author and nuclear physicist, was born in Nairobi, Kenya and raised in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He began his studies at the University of Nairobi but left in 1970 to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Vassanji later completed a Ph.D. in nuclear physics at the University of Pennsylvania. He immigrated to Canada in 1978 to work at the Chalk River atomic power station in Ontario. Vassanji moved to Toronto in 1980 to work at the University of Toronto as a research associate and lecturer, and soon began writing fiction. He edited "A Meeting of Streams : South Asian Canadian Literature" in 1985. His first novel, "The Gunny Sack," was published in 1989, and was awarded the 1990 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for best first novel (Africa). That year, he and his wife, Nurjehan Aziz, founded "The Toronto South Asian Review," a journal devoted to South Asian Canadian writers. It was renamed "The Toronto Review of Contemporary Writing Abroad" in 1993 to reflect the wider community of immigrant writers in Canada. Vassanji gave up his work as a nuclear physicist in 1989 to turn his full attention to writing. He is the author of several novels: "No New Land" (1990), "The Book of Secrets" (1993), "Amriika" (2000), "The In-between World of Vikram Lall" (2003), "The Assassin's Song" (2007), "The Magic of Saida" (2012), “Nostalgia” (2016), “A Delhi Obsession” (2019), and “Everything There Is" (2023). He is also the author of three collections of short stories - "Uhuru Street" (1990), "When She Was Queen" (2005), and “What We Are” (2021) - as well as two memoirs, "A Place Within: Rediscovering India" (2008), “And Home Was Kariakoo: A Memoir of East Africa” (2014), and a biography of Mordecai Richler published by Penguin Canada in 2009 as part of its Exceptional Canadians Series. He is the first repeat winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, winning in its inaugural year for "The Book of Secrets" and later for "The In-between World of Vikram Lall," and was shortlisted for the prize for "The Assassin's Song." Vassanji was made a Member of the Order of Canada in October 2004 for his contributions to writing and the arts, and an honorary Doctor of Letters by York University in June 2005. "The In-between World of M.G. Vassanji," a television documentary about his life, was first broadcast in 2006.

Peacock, David

  • http://viaf.org/viaf/92370234
  • Person
  • 1942-

Scurr, David

  • http://viaf.org/viaf/104817710

MacLean, Joe

  • http://viaf.org/viaf/31731860

Berlin, Gloria

  • http://viaf.org/viaf/2146822103907380965

Levine, Samuel Robert, 1915-2005

  • Person
  • 1915-2005

Sam Levine was a Toronto-born musician and labour advocate, son of Russian-Jewish immigrants Morris and Annie Levine. Levine graduated from Harbord Collegiate in Toronto. He played guitar, banjo and bass in various bands including the Trump Davidson Orchestra and graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Music. He was a co-owner of the Onyx Club on Church Street in Toronto. During World War II, Levine enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force and played in a musical show called "The Blackouts".After the war, he joined the Toronto Symphony Orchestra as a double bassist. Levine also served as a vice-president and then president for the Toronto Musicians' Association and helped to found the Association of Canadian Orchestras. Levine died in Toronto on 22 January 2005.

Toronto Musicians' Association

  • http://viaf.org/viaf/152311346
  • Corporate body
  • 1887-

The Toronto Musicians' Association (TMA) was founded in Toronto, Ontario on December 2, 1887 under the name of the Toronto Orchestral Association (TOA) with the objective of providing a labour union for musicians in the City of Toronto. The TOA changed its name to the Toronto Musical Protective Association (TMPA) in 1894. The TMPA originally only initiated members of the orchestral community into its association, although in 1897 initiation rights were extended to the bandsmen of the city.

On 15 June 1901, the TMPA became part of the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada (AFM) and became its Local 149 while also retaining its own constitution and operating rights. Fees paid to the TMPA included a one-time initiation fee to the AFM. In April 1952, AFM's International Secretary granted the TMPA's request of a name change to the Toronto Musicians' Association.

The TMA's Executive Board, which became its board of directors September 1952, is responsible for the administration of the association. Regular board meetings are held as well as general meetings for the association.

Several funds were set up for the benefit of the members: the Benevolent Fund, first mentioned in 1889, provided members with relief funds in times of need. The funds were administered through the Relief Committee. The TMA maintained three other funds for its membership: the General Fund, the Contract Defence Fund, and the Health, Education, and Welfare Fund. Through the AFM, TMA members also were able to into a pension fund.

In January 1932, "The Bulletin", the TMA's first newsletter, was published. The newsletter was renamed "Crescendo" in February 1958.. Crescendo continues to be published by the TMA. From 1934 to 1956, the TMA participated in the Promenade Symphony Concert orchestra as an initiative to provide summer employment to its members and to provide weekly conceit series for the citizens of Toronto. The TMA's Musician's Club was created in October 1962 for the accommodation, recreation and convenience of the association's members.The TMA also offers its members advice pertaining to all areas of the music business, from legal protection to instrument insurance, to dental and pension plans, as well as access to working visas for the United States.

Currently, TMA membership also provides membership in the Canadian Federation of Musicians (CFM), the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada (AFM) and after two years as a TMA member, with periodic work (at least every six months) under TMA/CFM/AFM contracts, members can join the Musicians Pension Fund of Canada.

Hellenic Heritage Foundation Greek Canadian Archives

  • Corporate body
  • 2012-

"The Hellenic Heritage Foundation Greek Canadian Archives (HHF GCA) grew out of the Greek Canadian History Project (GCHP)—a joint initiative launched by Athanasios (Sakis) Gekas and Christopher Grafos in 2012. The GHCP’s mission was to preserve and facilitate access to historical materials illuminating aspects of Greek immigrants’ varied experiences in Canada.

Over the next decade, Gekas, Grafos, Kali Petropoulos (the GCHP’s Public Relations Coordinator), and dozens of community volunteers organized memorable events, exhibitions, and historical walks. The project’s success inspired further investment. On September 22, 2021, York University announced that it had received a $1.4-million gift from the Hellenic Heritage Foundation to aid in preserving, cataloguing, digitizing, and teaching Greek Canadian history. The GCHP acquired a new name, and the HHF GCA was born." https://www.yorku.ca/research/project/hhfgca/history/

Heller, Jeanette

  • Person
  • 1911-2008

Jeanette Heller (1911-2008), dancer and performing arts worker, spent forty-five years in show business. Born in Paris, Ontario on 14 April 1911, Heller was the only girl in a family of seven children born to Samuel Heller, an immigrant from Lithuania who worked in the scrap metal business and served in WWI, and his Canadian-born wife Lena (Davis) Heller.
Her family moved to Toronto in 1921 and she first took dance classes at Lansdown Public School. Her first dance job was in a line at the Royal York Hotel by Hylda Parker. Heller left school at 16 years of age to perform small parts in pantomime and vaudeville shows at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto.

In the early 1930s, she moved to New York, and danced for eight years travelling across North America as a Roxyette, the precursor to S.L. "Roxy" Rothafel's Rockettes, at Radio City Music Hall. Her stage names included Jeanette Hallen and Jeanette Mansfield.
From about 1941 until 1945, Heller returned to Toronto to take care of her mother while her brothers were fighting in World War II. During this time, she worked in the circulation department at the ‘Globe and Mail.'

After her brothers returned from war, Heller resumed her career as a dancer working contracts across the United States and during this time became an American citizen. Heller spent 1946 as a United Service Organizations (USO) troupe dancer performing in American army and navy hospitals. In 1947, she went to Japan as part of a United Service Organizations (USO) troupe to entertain the occupation forces, and then to Korea during the Korean War in the early fifties. In 1967 and 1947 Jeanette performed on the CNE Grandstand. During the 1950s, she also danced in Scandinavia, the Middle East, Cuba – in Havana with Lou Walters before the revolution - and in various European capitals.
After retiring from in the late fifties, Heller remained in New York and began a second career in wardrobe and show production. She worked for the American Ballet Theatre, the American Repertory Company including acting as the wardrove supervisor for the European tour for the State Department, fashion shows at the Waldorf-Astoria, and Broadway shows such as ‘Guys and Dolls,’ ‘the King and I,’ and ‘Annie.’ She also worked in television, working on soap operas such as ‘All My Children’ and ‘One Life To Live,’ as well as ‘the Dick Cavett Show’ and ‘the Ed Sullivan Show,’ and involved other productions including ‘Sesame Street’ and the 1957 CBS Cinderella television special with Julie Andrews. Heller as also involved in the filming of the 1963 romantic comedy ‘The Thrill of It All.’

In 1975, Heller returned to Canada, commuting from Toronto to Florida during the winter for nine years to work as a wardrobe manager. After working for nearly two decades at the Jackie Gleason Theatre in Miami, Heller retired at the age of 82 in 1993. In 2001, she moved into the Toronto Performing Arts Lodge. She performed one last time as a Rockette during the 2006 Guinness World record for the longest kicking line at the Humming Bird Centre. In 2008, the ‘Limelighters’ documentary by David Hansen dedicated an episode to Heller. She died on 16 October 2008.

Pick, Alison, 1975-

  • http://viaf.org/viaf/16917133/
  • Person
  • 1975-

Alison Pick, novelist and poet, was born in Toronto in 1975. She grew up in Kitchener, Ontario, and attended Kitchener Collegiate Institute and Lakefield College School before graduating from the University of Guelph in 1999 with a BA in psychology, and from Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundland, with a Master's degree in Philosophy. Pick began her literary career while a student at the University of Guelph, where she started writing poetry. Her first published poems, "The First" and "History Class," appeared in Canadian poetry journal "The New Quarterly" in 1999. In the early 2000s, while living in Newfoundland, Pick published poetry in a number of other poetry journals, including "The Fiddlehead," "Arc," "Fireweed," and "Contemporary Verse 2." Her first book of poetry, "Question and Answer," was published in 2002. It received the 2002 Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award for Poetry and was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award and the Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award in 2002. Pick also won the 2003 National Magazine Award and the 2005 CBC Literary Award for Poetry. Her second book of poetry, "The Dream World," was published in 2008. Its title poem was also appeared in "Best Canadian Poetry of 2008." In addition to her work as a poet, Pick writes non-fiction prose and novels. Her first novel, "The Sweet Edge," was published in 2005 and was a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of 2005. Her second novel, "Far to Go," was published in 2010. It won the Canadian Jewish Book Award for Fiction, and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Rights to this book were sold to commercial interests in Canada (including Quebec), the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, and Brazil. Pick's memoir, "Between Gods," was published in 2014 and won the Canadian Jewish Book Award. It was also shortlisted for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction and the JQ Wingate Prize. Her third novel, "Strangers with the Same Dream," was published in September 2017. Her freelance writing has appeared in magazines and newspapers including "The Globe and Mail," "The Walrus," "National Post," "Mothering Magazine," and "Chatelaine." Pick served on the jury for the 2015 Giller Prize and has been a faculty member at the Banff Centre for the Arts Wired Writing Studio, the Humber School for Writers, and the Sage Hill Writing Experience.

Lightfoot, Gordon

  • http://viaf.org/45193918
  • Person
  • 1938-

"Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. CC OOnt (born November 17, 1938) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music. He is credited with helping to define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and 1970s. He is often referred to as Canada's greatest songwriter and is known internationally as a folk-rock legend." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Lightfoot

Kilbourn, Elizabeth

  • http://viaf.org/viaf/233123657
  • Person
  • 1926-2023

Elizabeth Kilbourn, broadcaster, journalist, and Anglican minister, was born in Hespeler, Ontario on 18 July 1926 to Violet M. Hill and Rev. Philip A. Sawyer. She attended Caledonia High School (1939-1944) and Trinity College at the University of Toronto (1944-1948), where she studied modern history. In the summer of 1946 and 1947, she worked in Alberta on the Western Canada Anglican Sunday School Caravan Mission. She studied for her Master's degree at Radcliffe College at Harvard University (1948-1949) and married her fellow Trinity alumnus William Morley Kilbourn (1926-1995) on 10 September 1949. The couple lived in the United States and England while William studied at Oxford and Harvard, and later lectured at Harvard, McMaster, and York universities. The couple had five children. During the late 1950s and 1960s, Kilbourn was an art critic for The Hamilton Spectator, CBC Radio, and The Toronto Star. Between 1972 and 1973 she was an art lecturer at the Art Gallery of Toronto. During this time, she also published articles in Art, Canadian Forum, and Tamarack Review. In 1975 Kilbourn returned to Trinity College and the Toronto School of Theology (TST) to study for her Master of Divinity degree. After graduating in 1977, she studied at St. George's College in Jerusalem. She was ordained deacon in 1977 and became one of the Anglican Church's first women clergy in 1978. In 1986 she was the first woman to be nominated for the position of Suffragan (assistant) Bishop in the Anglican Church of Canada. Between 1976 and 1984, Kilbourn studied for accreditation in clinical pastoral education, and worked as the Anglican chaplain at Toronto General Hospital and within the Diocese of Toronto (1977-1981). She was also active on the International Council for Pastoral Care and Counseling during the 1980s. Kilbourn qualified as practitioner of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator psychological assessments in 1981 and gave workshops on this procedure at TST for congregations, clergy, civil servants, and business people until 1999. She also taught interim ministry at TST from 1989 to 1999 and served as an interim minister for ten churches in the diocese of Toronto. Kilbourn moved to Warminster, England in 1999 to join Richard Ernest Mackie, who she had met when they were students at Trinity College in 1944-1945 but were separated when he returned to England at the end of the war. She received permission from the Church of England to officiate in the diocese of Salisbury in 2001, which was expanded to include Bath and Wells dioceses the following year. In addition to being attached to several parishes, she served as duty chaplain at Wells and Salisbury cathedrals. Kilbourn was granted the degree of Doctor of Divinity (honoris causa) by Trinity College on 15 May 2001. Kilbourn returned to Canada after Mackie’s death in 2011 and was active as a priest until her death on 5 April 2023.

Grossman, Danny

  • http://viaf.org/viaf/349154741627453110004
  • Person
  • 1942-2023

Daniel (Williams) Grossman was an American dancer, choreographer and instructor. His company, the Danny Grossman Dance Company, performed the majority of his choreography. His works are also included companies such as the National Ballet of Canada, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, and the Paris Opera Ballet. His choreography, set to a variety of music with a preference for jazz, appealed to a broad audience through a distinctive movement idiom, directness of purpose, theatricality and a humanistic viewpoint. His social activist upbringing in San Francisco acted as the inspiration for the majority of his works. Danny Grossman died on 29 July 2023.

Born on September 13, 1942, in San Francisco, his parents influenced his participation in social activism. At ten years of age, he walked his first picket line. As a student, he took part in the Berkley student demonstrations of the 1960s.

Grossman was first introduced to dance in grade school through folk dancing. In high school, he was a dancing cheerleader with friend Margaret Jenkin. He also studied dance with her under Welland Lathrop.

While attending the San Francisco Community College in 1960, he was mentored by Gloria Unti. During this time, he was also a dancer for Unti and Lathrop’s companies. By 1962, Grossman decided to leave college, move to New York City, and train with Gertrude Shurr and May O’Donnell. A summer session at Connecticut College, the home of the American Dance Festival, he met David Earle, the future founder of the Toronto Dance Theatre (TDT), and Paul Taylor at There, Taylor invited Grossman to join his company.
From 1963 to 1973, Grossman toured with the Paul Taylor Dance Company (PTDC). Grossman used the stage name Daniel Williams as Taylor wanted a more American-Ohio, middle-class sounding name on his roster of performers. During this time, Grossman was also known as Dynamo Danny, a nickname started by Taylor.

In 1973, invited to teach summer school at TDT and then offered a contract as a dancer for a year, Grossman moved to Canada. He then joined the York University Faculty of Dance as an Adjunct Professor. As a part-time professor, Grossman also worked at the TDT as a guest artist and choreographer. In 1975, Grossman met Judy Henton and choreographed Higher, a duet for the two of them. It's successful premier at the Burton Auditorium influenced Grossman’s decision to form his own company.

While getting DGDC off the ground, Grossman and his dancers were employed by the TDT. During the off-hours, Grossman worked on, choreographed for, and practised with his company. In 1976, Grossman choreographed three works: National Spirit, his first anti-establishment political statement about patriotism; the Couples Suite; and Triptych, a trio about abuse which projected hopelessness and despair. The first two were brought into the TDT’s repertoire. The same year, Grossman undertook a residency at the Performing Arts Workshop with Gloria Unti and taught a residency at Simon Fraser where her met Judy Jarvis with whom he would later choreograph Bella. He completed his first solo in 1977: the Curious School of Theatrical Dance, a paranoiac dance to death and redemption for a crippled harlequin set to music by Francois Couperin.

In 1978, when Grossman left TDT to work on his company full-time, he also received the Jean A. Calmers Award. He explored issues of homosexuality on stage with Nobody’s Business (1981) and again with Passion Symphony (1998), a pro-gay marriage piece. In 1982, Grossman choreographed Endangered Species which portrayed a post-apocalyptic world where the dancers fought against military oppression. In 1986, Grossman choreographed Hot House: Thriving on a Riff for the National Ballet of Canada.
Funding to develop new works and pay for company operations started to decline in the 1990s. By 2008, Grossman stopped creating works for his company and would shift its focus from performance to teaching.

Involved in community governance, Grossman participating in activities such as the 1994 Dance/USA National Task Force on Dance Education, the Board of Toronto arts Council as Co-Chair of the dance committee, the Artsvote campaign to education votes and politicians about issues in the cultural sector, and the Dance 2020 workgroup to set priorities and visions for the future of the Toronto dance community.

Regent Park Film Festival

  • 32158066610008431833
  • Corporate body
  • 2003-

The Regent Park Film Festival is Toronto's longest running free-of-charge community film festival, dedicated to showcasing local and international independent works relevant to inner-city life. In 2003, Chandra Siddan, a filmmaker and student in the York University’s “Regent Park Community Education Program”, founded the RPFF as an alternative educational setting for an assignment with support from her instructor Jeff Kugler, principal of Nelson Mandela Park Public School, who offered his school as the venue for the event, and Prof. Harry Smaller who garnered broadly-based support from the University.

For seven years, the festival screened at the Nelson Mandela Park Public School before moving to the Lord Dufferin Public School for 2010 and 2011. On the tenth anniversary in 2012, the festival and its offices moved into the Daniels Spectrum cultural hub and started delivering year-round programming such as workshops and community screenings.

In 2007, a year after RPFF incorporated, Siddan stepped down as Festival Director and was replaced by Karin Haze until 2010, Richard Fung in 2011, Ananya Ohri from 2012 to 2018, and Tendisai Cromwell as of 2018.

In 2017, the RPFF embarked on a three-year home movie archive project titled “Home Made Visible” after receiving funding from the Canadian Council for the Arts New Chapter. The three-part nationwide project digitized home movies from the Indigenous and visible minority communities and donated a selection of clips for preservation, commissioned six artist films, and exhibited the artworks and selected home movie clips across Canada to encourage discussions around diverse histories and futures.

Kiev Glasnost Films Inc.

  • Corporate body
  • 1990-[2020?]

Kiev Glasnost Films, Inc. distributed films contextualizing the fall of Communism in the USSR and Eastern Europe. Its history begins in 1989 when Dr. Romana M. Bahry, Associate Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies and Fellow of Stong College at York University became the recipient of the 1989 Canada -USSR Academic Exchange Grant which allowed her to travel in August 1989 to St. Petersburg (then called Leningrad), Moscow and Kyiv (then called Kiev). She was one of the first Slavic Studies professors in Canada to travel to Ukraine which was then still part of the USSR. It is here that Professor Bahry met directors of the Ukrainian film studios who asked her to take their films to Canada with her. That same year, Bahry organized a film festival at York University Ukraine titled "Glasnost and Ukrainian Documentary Films" (Oct. 22-23, 1989) which screened documentary films from Kiev. During Bahry’s second visit to Ukraine in 1990, she met with documentary and animation film studios in Kyiv (then called Kiev) and formed Kiev Glasnost Films which would acquire screening and duplication rights.

After acquiring permissions, Kiev Glasnost Films and Bahry were involved with organizing an international symposium at York University titled "Ukrainian Glasnost Films 1990" (proceedings of the symposium published as "York University, Ukrainian Glasnost, 1990 Film Festival”) and consultation for the symposium and film series on "Soviet Society in the Glasnost Era" at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.; the American Committee on U.S.-Soviet Relations, January 10-21, 1991; The University of Alberta and The Alberta Council for the Ukrainian Arts, March 23, 1991; C.B.C. television’s the Journal "Latvia, Ukraine" (March 1991); and the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute: Contemporary Ukrainian Film Festival, Harvard University, Ukrainian Research Institute, August 1991.

Bahry, Romana

  • http://viaf.org/viaf/105106341
  • Person
  • 1946-

Romana Bahry is a professor whose research areas include comparative Slavic literature (Ukrainian, Polish, Russian); English, Central and East European Film and Culture; and European Studies. She was born in Salzburg, Austria and came to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada as an infant with her parents after World War II. They joined her father’s uncle who had immigrated earlier to Canada from Poland in the 1920s. After three years as a Teaching Assistant at the University of Toronto, she joined York University in 1972. She has authored several books including “Shliakh Sera Val’tera Skotta na Ukrainu (Path of Sir Walter Scott to Ukraine” (1993), “Echoes of Glasnost in Soviet Ukraine” (1990), Dr. W. S. Kindraczuk: Forgotten Chemist of Łańcut and Pioneer of Probiotics /Zapomniany aptekarz miasta Łańcuta i naukowiec-pionier probiotyki (2018), and articles on N. Gogol, Les Kurbas and A. Dovzhenko. Bahry also produced and edited documentaries including a collection of ten videos titled “Ukraine in the 1990s”, a collection of five videos titled “Artists and Writers,” and a collection of three videos titled “Satire: Legends: Stories.”

Mistry, Rohinton, 1952-

  • http://viaf.org/viaf/29581388
  • Person
  • 1952-

Rohinton Mistry, writer, was born in Bombay (now known as Mumbai), India, in 1952, and immigrated to Canada in 1975. He earned a degree in mathematics and economics at the University of Bombay before continuing his education in Canada. He attended York University and the University of Toronto, where he received his B.A. in English and philosophy. Mistry began his career as a writer by winning two Hart House literary prizes in 1983 and 1984, and Canadian Fiction Magazine’s Annual Contributor’s Prize in 1985 for his short stories. Mistry’s first book, a collection of short stories entitled “Tales from Firozsha Baag,” was published in 1987. His first novel, “Such a Long Journey” (1991), won the Governor General's Award, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book, and the W.H. Smith/Books in Canada First Novel Award, and was short listed for the Booker Prize and the Trillium Award. It was adapted for film and released as a major motion picture in 1999. His 1995 novel, “A Fine Balance,” won the Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Royal Society of Literature's Winifred Holtby Prize, in addition to an award by the Danish Literature Council. It was also short listed for the Booker Prize, the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the Irish Times International Fiction Prize. His latest novel, “Family Matters” (2002), was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and was the winner of the Kiriyama Prize and the Canadian Authors Association's Award for Fiction. Mistry received the Trudeau Fellows Prize from the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation in 2004, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2009, was a finalist for the 2011 Man Booker International Prize, and in 2012 was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. In 2013, on the twentieth anniversary of the Giller Prize, he won the CBC Books’ “Giller of All Gillers” for “A Fine Balance.” Mistry’s work has been published in more than thirty languages.

Xena

  • Corporate body

Yarrow, Peter

  • http://viaf.org/84167935
  • Person
  • 1960-

Peter Yarrow is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and artist. Yarrow attended the High School of Music & Art and Cornell University. He is a tenor that focuses on folk music. Yarrow, along side Paul Stookey and Mary Travers, form a multi-platinum and gold-selling group called "Peter, Paul, and Mary".

Yeshe

  • Person

Yeshe is a German-born musician with a multi-cultural twist to his music, having lived in Germnay, Africa, Japan, Bali, and South Korea.

Wood, Royal

  • http://viaf.org/80235123
  • Person

"Royal Wood[, born John Royal Wood Nicholson,] is a Juno-nominated Canadian musician and record producer based in Toronto, Ontario. […] [His] lead single, "Long Way Out", found its way into the CBC Music Top 20. It was released internationally on Outside Music in 2017. The momentum of Ghost Light and Wood's career successes led him to be the "very special guest" on Bonnie Raitt's national Canadian tour in 2017." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Wood

Yashinsky, Dan

  • http://viaf.org/72802065
  • Person
  • 1950-

“Dan Yashinsky is a Toronto-based storyteller, author, and community animator. He received, in 1999, the first Jane Jacobs Prize for his work with storytelling in the community. He founded the Toronto Festival of Storytelling (in 1979) and co-founded Storytelling Toronto (formerly the Storytellers School of Toronto). He also began the longest-running open session in North America: 1,001 Friday Nights of Storytelling (in 1978). He has performed and taught at festivals in Israel, Wales, Norway, Sweden, England, Germany, Brazil, Austria, France, the U.S., Singapore, Ireland, and across Canada.” https://www.storytellers-conteurs.ca/en/storytellers-directory/Dan_Yashinsky.html

Yukon Blonde

  • http://viaf.org/121581452
  • Corporate body
  • 2005-

Yukon Blonde is a Canadian indie rock musical group from Kelowna, British Columbia.

Worthington, JoJo

  • http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30323460
  • Person
  • 1994-

"Joanna Worthington (born November 7, 1994) is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer, and avant-folk musician from Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario. Alongside her experimental use of the ukulele, Worthington has been noted for her extensive use of live looping and effects. In 2015, she was the Grand Prize winner in the Songwriters Hall of Fame Songwriting Competition, and has won awards in every year since for her work." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoJo_Worthington

Wiseman, Bob

  • http://viaf.org/79834118
  • Person
  • 1962-

Bob Wiseman is a Canadian singer-songwriter, pianist, playwrite and record producer from Winnipeg, Manitoba.Wiseman creates alternative rock and country music. Wiseman was formally a part of "Blue Rodeo". As well, he is credited for discovering Ron Sexsmith. He has been nominated for a Governor Generals Media Arts Award and a Juno Award.

Wright, Alyssa

  • Person

Alyssia Wright  is a Canadian cellist, vocalist, songwriter, composer, educator, writer, activist, and advocate, from Toronto who is currently based in Barrie, Ontario. http://alyssawright.com/

Yates, Lori

  • http://viaf.org/41051138
  • Person
  • 1960-

“Lori Yates is a Canadian alternative country music singer and songwriter. Yates' early music career was with Toronto-area bands such as Rang Tango, Senseless and The Last Resorts.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lori_Yates

Zeus

  • http://viaf.org/136003287
  • Corporate body
  • 2009-

“Zeus is a Toronto-based Canadian indie rock band signed to the Arts & Crafts record label. Its members include Rob Drake, Carlin Nicholson, Mike O'Brien, and Neil Quin. The band have released three albums and one EP since 2009. They have also served as the backing band for Canadian musician Jason Collett.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeus_(band)

Zydeco Loco

  • Corporate body
  • 2002-

“a 6 person, high energy, Canadian Zydeco band, based in Southern Ontario. Winning over enthusiastic crowds with an energetic blend of contemporary and traditional Zydeco, LZ has created a unique take on Louisiana's most exciting musical export, in all it's toe-tapping, hip-shaking glory.”

Vesely, Tim

  • http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7804424
  • Person
  • 1963-

“Tim Vesely is a Canadian musician and songwriter. He is best known as a founding member of the indie rock band Rheostatics, in which he shared vocal duties with bandmates Dave Bidini and Martin Tielli.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Vesely

Vollant, Florent

  • http://viaf.org/34735591
  • Person
  • 1959-

"Florent Vollant (born August 10, 1959 in Labrador) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. An Innu from Maliotenam, Quebec, he was half of the popular folk music duo Kashtin, one of the most significant musical groups in First Nations history. He has subsequently released four solo albums." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florent_Vollant

Vollé, Yvan

  • http://viaf.org/106377266
  • Person
  • 1968-

Yvan Vollé is a "musician, animator, song-writer, and poet". Vollé plays the guitar, ukulele, harmonica, and piano. Mariposa Festival Program, 2011, p. 55

Wardrop, Graham

  • http://viaf.org/42145003652161341145
  • Person

White, Nancy

  • http://viaf.org/104006282
  • Person
  • 1944-

"Nancy Adele White (born November 11, 1944) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, whose humorous and satirical songs on political and social topics were a regular feature on CBC Radio from 1976 to 1994 on the public affairs show Sunday Morning."

Walk off the Earth

  • http://viaf.org/176174175
  • Corporate body
  • 2006-

“Walk off the Earth is a Canadian indie pop band from Burlington, Ontario. The group is known for its music videos of covers and originals. The band is well known for covering pop-genre music on YouTube, making use of instruments such as the ukulele and the theremin, as well as looping samples. The band's recorded music and videos are produced by member and multi-instrumentalist Gianni "Luminati" Nicassio.” Members include Gianni Nicassio, Joel Cassady, Sarah Blackwood, David Speirs, Adam Michael, CJ Hinds; and previous members included Peter Kirkwood, Mike Taylor, and Ryan Marshall. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk_off_the_Earth

Wallace, Skye

  • http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q88463630
  • Person

“Skye Wallace is a Canadian singer-songwriter currently based in Toronto, Ontario. Wallace has released five studio albums: This Is How We Go, Living Parts, Something Wicked, Skye Wallace, and "Terribly Good".” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skye_Wallace

Wang, Li

  • Person

“With playing that The Toronto Star describes as “flawless technique combined with a light touch to produce the most exquisite tonal effects”, pianist Li Wang has earned the recognition as one of Canada's finest artists. Gold medal winner of the First Canadian Chopin Piano Competition, Mr. Wang has enjoyed success on the international competition circuit, claiming awards and distinctions in the AXA Dublin International Piano Competition, 43rd Maria Canals International Piano Competition in Barcelona, the International Franz Liszt Piano Competition held in Budapest, and the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, in which he was the only Canadian accepted to compete. In performances, Mr. Wang has been heard as recital soloist and chamber musician around the globe, a highlight of which was to perform an all-Chopin recital at the International Chopin Festival in Antonin, Poland, in September 2000. As well, Mr. Wang has been featured as concerto soloists with acclaimed orchestras such as the RTE National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, the MATAV Hungarian Symphony Orchestra, and the Sinfonia Cultura Orchestra of Brazil. In Canada, Mr. Wang’s performances has been broadcasted on CBC, CJRT, Classical 96.3FM, and BRAVO! arts channel, OMNI TV, Fairchild TV, and CityTV. Additionally, Mr. Wang is one of the recording artists for the Celebration Series of The Royal Conservatory’s 2015 Piano Syllabus; a recipient of the Steinway and Sons’ Top Teacher Award; and has served as judge for the Canadian Chopin Piano Competition. Born in Beijing, Mr. Wang began his piano studies with his father, and furthered his musical training at the Beijing Central Conservatory of Music, the Conservatoire Nationale Supérieur de Musique in Paris under Brigitte Engerer, and The Royal Conservatory’s Glenn Gould School in Canada under the tutelage of James Anagnoson. A resident of Toronto, Mr. Wang is currently piano faculty at both The Glenn Gould School and The Phil and Eli Taylor Performance Academy for Young Artists.” https://www.rcmusic.com/bios/li-wang

Wendell and Wheatley

  • Corporate body

Wendell and Wheatley is a musical duo comprised of Katherine Wheatley and Wendell Ferguson.

Wheatley, Katherine

  • http://viaf.org/103446408
  • Person

Katherine Wheatley is a singer-songwriter and guitarist. "In addition to touring across Canada, the U.S. and Europe as a solo singer/songwriter, Katherine is a member of the Toronto super group "Betty and The Bobs", plays regularly in the duo "Wendell and Wheat" and tours every winter with Tannis Slimmon and Angie Nussey in the trio "Boreal"." http://www.katherinewheatley.com/bio.html

Wheeler, Cheryl

  • http://viaf.org/31176297
  • Person
  • 1951-

“Known for her comic as well emotionally intense songs, folk singer/songwriter Cheryl Wheeler was raised in Timonium, Maryland, and began playing the guitar and ukulele as a child. She first performed professionally at a local restaurant, but soon graduated to clubs in the Baltimore and Washington, D.C., areas. In 1976, she moved to Rhode Island, where she became a protégé of country-folk singer/songwriter Jonathan Edwards, for whom she initially served as bass player.” https://www.allmusic.com/artist/cheryl-wheeler-mn0000108774/biography

Vollebekk, Leif

  • http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30728187
  • Person

“Leif Vollebekk is a Canadian indie folk singer-songwriter, whose 2017 album Twin Solitude was a shortlisted finalist for the 2017 Polaris Music Prize and the 2018 Juno Award for Adult Alternative Album of the Year.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Vollebekk

Weidinger, Matt

  • Person

“Matt Weidinger [...] is a singer/songwriter and a multi instrumentalist. He has three original albums under his belt and although considers the Hammond Organ, his instrument of choice, is equally comfortable on piano, guitar, bass and mandolin. He joined forces with Lance Anderson in 12-piece band called "Matchedash Parish" whose debut album Saturday Night earned them a 2020 Maple Blues Awards nomination for New Artist of the Year.” https://www.mattweidinger.com/bio

Wempe, Kim

  • http://viaf.org/106746629
  • Person

“[Kim Wempe] won an East Coast Music Award in 2010 for Rising Star of the Year, and received three award nominations in 2011. Touring consistently in Canada, Wempe has performed alongside Canadian favourites Joel Plaskett, Royal Wood, Jill Barber, David Myles, Rose Cousins, Jenn Grant, Matt Andersen, and more. She has showcased at JUNO Fest, the Vancouver Olympics, Canadian Music Week and festivals across the East Coast. Undaunted by industry expectations and challenges, Wempe has taken a big, bold leap into a whole new sound for her third album, ‘Coalition’, coming out this September. Born in a small Saskatchewan farming town, Wempe moved to Alberta at the age of 15. In the 8 years Wempe lived in Alberta, she started performing, continued writing songs, and attended the Red Deer College Music Diploma Program. In 2007, Wempe hesitantly packed her bags for her move to Nova Scotia to attend St. Francis Xavier University and continue her music education with a Vocal Jazz Degree. She had been hoping to get into Humber College in Toronto, but to her surprise, Wempe found her musical home in Nova Scotia and dove full force into the east coast music scene. Off the strength of her 2009 East Coast Music Award and Music Nova Scotia award-winning debut album “Where I Need To Be,” Wempe caught the attention of Joel Plaskett, Old Man Luedecke, and Geoff Hilhorst of Deep Dark Woods – all of whom appear on her subsequent release “Painting With Tides.” With producer Charles Austin at the helm, it was released in 2010 on Ground Swell Music and Warner Canada, and was nominated for an East Coast Music Award and two Music Nova Scotia Awards.” https://www.rdpsd.ab.ca/huntinghills/page/8092/kim-wempe

Werth, Craig

  • Person

“Craig Werth is a singer-songwriter from New Hampshire. He is available for concerts, workshops, and as an officiant/composer/musician for services and ceremonies. Craig serves as pastor at Nottingham Community Church (UU).” https://craigwerth.bandcamp.com/

White, Josh, Jr.

  • http://viaf.org/58290045
  • Person
  • 1940-

“Josh White Jr. is a Grammy Award-nominated recording artist who upholds the musical traditions of his father, the late bluesman Josh White.” Genres include blues and folk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_White_Jr.

Whiteley, Ken

  • http://viaf.org/43489666
  • Person

"Kenneth Whiteley (born April 30, 1951) is a multi-instrumentalist, producer and composer. He began performing folk music in the early 1970s, making frequent appearances at the Mariposa Folk Festival and recording and touring with acclaimed children's performer Raffi. Whiteley frequently performed with his brother Chris Whiteley and later with his niece and nephew Jenny Whiteley and Daniel Whiteley. Whiteley has been honoured with numerous awards, including a Genie Award in 2004, and he was inducted into the Mariposa Festival Hall of Fame in 2008." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Whiteley

Williams, Dar

  • http://viaf.org/27278892
  • Person
  • 1967-

An American pop-folk singer-songwritter from Mount Kisco, New York.

Vinnick, Suzie

  • http://viaf.org/105514579
  • Person
  • 1976-

"Suzie Vinnick is a Canadian roots and blues singer-songwriter. She performs as a solo artist and contributes to variety of band projects, including The Marigolds (with Gwen Swick and Caitlin Hanford), Vinnick Sheppard Harte (with Kim Sheppard and Elana Harte), Betty and the Bobs and as a duo with Rick Fines. Originally from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Vinnick is currently based in Toronto, Ontario. Her music has appeared in commercials for Tim Hortons, Interac, Ontario Foodland, Tetley's Tea and Shoppers Drug Mart, as well as the soundtracks for MVP: The Secret Lives of Hockey Wives, ReGenesis and the film A Touch of Grey." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzie_Vinnick

Webb, Jimmy

  • http://viaf.org/33636158
  • Person
  • 1946-

“Jimmy Layne Webb is an American songwriter, composer, and singer. He achieved success at an early age, winning the Grammy Award for Song of the Year at the age of 21. During his career, he established himself as one of America's most successful and honored songwriter/composers. [...] Webb was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1986 and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1990. He received the National Academy of Songwriters Lifetime Achievement Award in 1993, the Songwriters Hall of Fame Johnny Mercer Award in 2003, the ASCAP "Voice of Music" Award in 2006 and the Ivor Novello Special International Award in 2012. According to BMI, his song "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" was the third most performed song in the 50 years between 1940 and 1990. Webb is the only artist ever to receive Grammy Awards for music, lyrics and orchestration.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Webb

Weinstock, Marky

  • http://viaf.org/106341651
  • Person
  • 1975-

"Marky Weinstock is a popular children's entertainer, award winning songwriter, physician, and respected educator. He continues to perform across the continent and overseas, picking up new instruments and stories to share along the way. His unforgettable concerts and parades have become festival favourites, filled with singing, dancing, group participation and lots of laughter." http://www.markyweinstock.com/about.html

Whitehorse

  • http://viaf.org/146603962
  • Corporate body
  • 2011-

"Whitehorse is a Canadian folk rock band, composed of husband-and-wife duo Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland. Based in Hamilton, Ontario, Doucet and McClelland were both established singer-songwriters before opting to put their solo careers on hold to work together as Whitehorse." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitehorse_(band)

Whiteley, Chris

  • http://viaf.org/104033283
  • Person

“During his career, Chris Whiteley toured with Stuart Maclean’s Vinyl Café show on CBC for 10 years. Kansas born multi-instrumentalist Chris Whiteley, (guitar, harmonica, trumpet, steel guitar), has had an illustrious music career spanning some 50 years since his early beginnings with the renowned Sloth Band. A legend on the Canadian music scene, Whiteley’s extensive touring career includes working with many renowned jazz and blues legends such as Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson and countless appearances on television and radio including a special guest appearance on Saturday Night Live with the international recording artist Leon Redbone. A multiple award-winning international touring performer, Chris Whiteley has appeared on over 250 recordings. In January 2020 Chris Whiteley won the Maple Blues Award for the top blues horn player in Canada–for the 9th time.” https://hotblues.ca/about-diana-chris/

Williams, Lucinda

  • http://viaf.org/85900983
  • Person
  • 1953-

“Lucinda Gayl Williams is an American singer-songwriter and a solo guitarist.” Genres include rock and folk. Accolades include three Grammy Awards and seventeen nominations, two Americana Awards, ranked 79th greatest songwriter of all time according to Rolling Stone, and inducted to the Austin City Limits Hall of Fame in 2021. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucinda_Williams

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