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Law Society of Upper Canada

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  • Corporate body
  • 1989-

The Law Society of Upper Canada, admitted its first students in 1889, and affiliated with York University in 1968 beginning classes on the York campus in September 1969.

Laverty, Eileen

  • http://viaf.org/106219885
  • Person
  • 1966-

Originally from Belfast, North Ireland, her music career began with a traditional celtic band before she left to perform solo.

Laurence, Margaret, 1926-1987

  • https://viaf.org/viaf/44317974
  • Person
  • 1926-1987

Margaret Laurence (1926-1987), writer, was born in Neepawa, Manitoba and educated at United College in Winnipeg, Manitoba (BA 1947). Following her marriage to John Laurence (1947), she lived in Somaliland and the Gold Coast (now Somalia and Ghana), in the 1950s. Laurence returned to Canada in 1957. She moved to England in 1962 and returned to Canada in 1969. In 1974 she settled in Lakefield, Ontario. Laurence served as a writer-in-residence at the University of Toronto in 1969 and was named chancellor of Trent University (Peterborough, Ontario) in 1981. Laurence was a founding member of the Writers Union of Canada, but left the organization in a dispute over its acceptance of money from the Canadian government. Active in peace organizations and intensely interested in women's concerns, Laurence views and works did cause controversy. Her books drew criticism from certain elements in Laurence's adopted community. This group tried to have books removed from the school curriculum because of their alleged pornographic content.

Margaret Laurence was the author of five novels, including the Manawaka quartet (The Stone Angel, A Jest of God, The Fire Dwellers, The Diviners), short stories, essays, travel memoirs and children's books. She was named a Companion of the Order of Canada (1971) and was awarded the Molson Prize in 1975.

Latin American Working Group

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  • Corporate body
  • 1966-1997

The Latin American Working Group (LAWG) was an independent, grassroots organization in Toronto, Canada, which carried out Canadian-Latin American solidarity activities from 1966-1997. Formed in response to the military coup and invasion of the Dominican Republic by the United States of America in 1965, LAWG's mission was to educate Canadians, develop solidarity links between Canadians and the peoples of Latin America, and advocate for an independent Canadian foreign policy. LAWG carried out activist research regarding the roles played by Canadian corporations and government aid policies in Latin America by working closely with union, churches, non-governmental organizations and academics in the North and the South hemispheres committed to human rights and social justice. It contributed to the creation and work of the Taskforce on Churches and Corporate Responsibility, the Inter-Church Committee on Human Rights in Latin America (ICCHRLA), the Central American Policy Alternatives (CAPA), the Roundtable for Peace, Mission for Peace, Canada-Chile Solidarity, Tools for Peace, Linking Ontario and Central American in Labour Solidarity (LOCALS), Common Frontiers, and other initiatives aimed at changing Canadian foreign policy. LAWG worked with several Canadian trade union humanity and social justice funds to facilitate north-south educational tours involving workers, teachers, Christians, health workers, and those from other sectors, as a way of deepening Canadians' understanding of, and mutual solidarity with, others living in this hemisphere. LAWG worked to provide insights into the reality of Latin America that it felt was not being provided by either the Canadian government nor mainstream media. Its first-hand information and primary research was published in its newsletter "the LAWG letter," "the Central America update," "LAWG labour report," and several books critically examining the role of Canadian corporations such as Falconbridge and INCO in Latin America. Over its 30 year existence, LAWG played a significant role in influencing Canadian public opinion, and that of churches, trade unions, and government policy-makers in relationship to Latin America. There is no connection between this group and the group with the same name in the United States.

Lathbury, Daniel Connor

  • http://viaf.org/viaf/72857610
  • Person
  • 1831-1922

Daniel Connor Lathbury (1831-1922) was an editor at The Guardian (1883-1889) and The Pilot (1900-1904) edited "Gladstone's Correspondence on Church and Religion (1910).

Lasserre, Madeleine Boss, 1901-1998

  • Person
  • 5 Oct. 1901 - 17 Aug. 1998

Madeleine Boss Lasserre (5 Oct. 1901 - 17 Aug. 1998) was a music educator and the first teacher of Dalcroze Eurhythmics in Canada. Lasserre was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, where she spent her childhood and adolescence. At age eighteen, Lasserre moved to Geneva at the behest of her piano teacher to study under the composer Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, founder of Dalcroze Eurhythmics. Variously known as Dalcroze Eurhythmics, the Dalcroze Method, or simply eurhythmics, the practice utilizes bodily movements and processes—such as walking, clapping, and breathing—to explore and teach musical rhythm. It consists of three main elements: eurhythmics, solfège, and improvisation. Lasserre trained with Jaques-Dalcroze until 1923, at which time she became sufficiently qualified to teach all three elements. In 1924, she emigrated to Canada, initially living with and teaching the child of a wealthy Toronto family. Lasserre married her Swiss compatriot, Henri Lasserre—a wealthy lawyer, amateur cellist, and founder of the Robert Owen Foundation—who taught French at the University of Toronto.

Lasserre began teaching classes in eurhythmics to both adults and children in the Departments of Physical Education and Drama at the Margaret Eaton School in Toronto in 1925. Two years later, she left the school to join the Toronto Conservatory of Music (later the Royal Conservatory of Music), where she taught Dalcroze Eurhythmics for over half a century. In 1928, Lasserre began organizing demonstrations of the Dalcroze Method—performed by students and guest artists—to various groups and associations throughout Toronto and its environs. Soon after, she returned to Geneva to officially complete her Dalcroze training, earning a Dalcroze diploma in 1932. In 1934, Lasserre was approved to grant elementary certificates to her students through the Dalcroze Centre in New York City. Over the course of her career, she taught classes at the University Settlement School of Music, Hart House Theatre, the Women’s Art Association, and various teachers’ and music organizations within Ontario. Her students included pianist Donald Himes, childhood educator Donna Wood, dancer-choreographer Saida Gerrard, and artists Temma Gentles and Tim Jocelyn. In 1977, Lasserre retired from the Royal Conservatory of Music. The Madame Lasserre Dalcroze Pedagogy Scholarship was established at the Conservatory in her honour.

Lasserre, Henri, 1875-1945

  • Person
  • 4 Jul. 1875 - 26 May 1945

The Robert Owen Foundation was begun in 1932 by Henri Lasserre, with the goal of promoting cooperative enterprises in Canada. Taken from the name of the eighteenth-century English social reformer, the Foundation was modeled on a similar body that Lasserre had established in his native Switzerland in 1928. The Foundation offered financial support to co-operative ventures in Canada and the United States, including the Llano Colony of California, the Columbia Conserve Company, Work Togs, the Fellowship for a Christian Order, the Co-operative Rural Community, and other groups and businesses. In addition, Lasserre established the Canadian Fellowship for Cooperative Community, a study group which investigated the manner of operating co-operatives in modern society. Lasserre died in 1945, but the Foundation remains active in the 1990s.

Lasserre was born in Geneva, Switzerland. Son of a Swiss lawyer, he studied in Berlin and Paris, and practiced as a notary in Switzerland before emigrating to Toronto, Canada. He married music educator and fellow Swiss, Madeleine Boss Lasserre, and taught French at Victoria College, University of Toronto. He also performed as an amateur cellist.

Larkin Poe

  • http://viaf.org/39145970136932251233
  • Corporate body
  • 2010-

“Larkin Poe is an American roots rock band originally from north Georgia, currently based in Nashville, Tennessee, and fronted by sisters Rebecca Lovell and Megan Lovell. Featuring strong southern harmonies, heavy electric guitar riffs, and slide guitar, they are often touted as "the little sisters of the Allman Brothers". [...] The sisters have also toured as backing musicians for a variety of other bands, most notably Elvis Costello, Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes, Kristian Bush of Sugarland, and Keith Urban.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larkin_Poe

Laredo, Prof. Thamara

  • Person

Professor Thamara Laredo is an associate professor at Lakehead University, in the department of Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Mining & Exploration Chemistry and Sustainablity Sciences."Her research interests are Environmental Chemistry, food science, spectroscopy, surface science, and electrochemistry." http://www.lakeheadu.ca/users/L/tlaredo1/node/17473

Lapell, Abigail

  • http://viaf.org/13160423073168032406
  • Person

“Abigail Lapell is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter, who won the Canadian Folk Music Award for Contemporary Album of the Year at the 13th Canadian Folk Music Awards in 2017 for her album Hide Nor Hair] and again for English Songwriter of the Year at the 15th Canadian Folk Music Awards in 2020 for her album Getaway. Based in Toronto, Ontario, Lapell released her debut album Great Survivor in 2011. In 2016, she won the Colleen Peterson Songwriting Award for her song "Jordan".” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abigail_Lapell

Lanois, Daniel

  • http://viaf.org/85608229
  • Person
  • 1951-

"Daniel Roland Lanois CM (born September 19, 1951) is a Canadian record producer, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. He has produced albums by artists including Spoons, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Peter Gabriel, Robbie Robertson, Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, and Brandon Flowers. He collaborated with Brian Eno to produce several albums for U2, including The Joshua Tree (1987) and Achtung Baby (1991). Three albums produced or co-produced by Lanois have won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Four other albums received Grammy nominations. Lanois has released several solo albums. He wrote and performed the music for the 1996 film Sling Blade." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Lanois

Lankester, Sir E. Ray

  • http://viaf.org/viaf/73927993
  • Person
  • 15 May 1847 - 13 August 1929

Sir E. Ray Lankester KCB, FRS (15 May 1847 - 13 August 1929) was a British zoologist, born in London.

An invertebrate zoologist and evolutionary biologist, he held chairs at University College London and Oxford University. He was the third Director of the Natural History Museum, and was awarded the Copley Medal of the Royal Society. E. (Edwin: his first name was never used) Ray Lankester was the son of Edwin Lankester, a coroner and doctor-naturalist who helped abolish cholera in London. Ray Lankester was probably named after the naturalist John Ray: his father had just edited the memorials of John Ray for the Ray Society.

In 1855 Ray went to boarding school at Leatherhead, and in 1858 to St Paul's School. His university education was at Downing College, Cambridge and Christ Church, Oxford; he transferred from Downing, after five terms, at his parents' behest because Christ Church had better teaching in the form of the newly appointed George Rolleston.

Lankester achieved first-class honours in 1868. His education was rounded off by study visits to Vienna, Leipzig and Jena, and he did some work at the Stazione Zoologica at Naples. He took the examination to become a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, and studied under Thomas H. Huxley before taking his MA.

Lankester therefore had a far better education than most English biologists of the previous generation, such as Huxley, Wallace and Bates. Even so, it could be argued that the influence of his father Edwin and his friends were just as important. Huxley was a close friend of the family, and whilst still a child Ray met Hooker, Henfry, Clifford, Gosse, Owen, Forbes, Carpenter, Lyell, Murchison, Henslow and Darwin.

He was a large man with a large presence, of warm human sympathies and in his childhood a great admirer of Abraham Lincoln. His interventions, responses and advocacies were often colourful and forceful, as befitted an admirer of Huxley, for whom he worked as a demonstrator when a young man. In his personal manner he was not so adept as Huxley, and he made enemies by his rudeness. This undoubtedly damaged and limited the second half of his career.

Lankester appears, thinly disguised, in several novels. He is the model for Sir Roderick Dover in H.G. Wells' Marriage (Wells had been one of his students), and in Robert Briffault's Europa, which contains a brilliant portrait of Lankester, including his friendship with Karl Marx. He has also been suggested for Professor Challenger in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World, but Doyle himself said that Challenger was based on a professor of physiology at the University of Edinburgh named William Rutherford.

Lankester never married. A finely decorated memorial plaque to him can be seen at the Golders Green Crematorium, Hoop Lane, London.

Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912

  • http://viaf.org/viaf/7406545
  • Person
  • 31 March 1844 - 20 July 1912

Andrew Lang (31 March 1844 - 20 July 1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him. Lang was born in Selkirk. He was the eldest of the eight children born to John Lang, the town clerk of Selkirk, and his wife Jane Plenderleath Sellar, who was the daughter of Patrick Sellar, factor to the first duke of Sutherland. On 17 April 1875 he married Leonora Blanche Alleyne, youngest daughter of C. T. Alleyne of Clifton and Barbados. She was (or should have been) variously credited as author, collaborator, and/or translator of Lang's Color/Rainbow Fairy Books he edited.

He was educated at Selkirk Grammar School, Loretto, and at the Edinburgh Academy, St Andrews University and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took a first class in the final classical schools in 1868, becoming a fellow and subsequently honorary fellow of Merton College. As a journalist, poet, critic and historian, he soon made a reputation as one of the most able and versatile writers of the day. In 1906 he was elected FBA.

He died of angina pectoris at the Tor-na-Coille Hotel in Banchory, Banchory, survived by his wife. He was buried in the cathedral precincts at St Andrews. Lang is now chiefly known for his publications on folklore, mythology, and religion. The interest in folklore was from early life; he read John Ferguson McLennan before coming to Oxford, and then was influenced by E. B. Tylor. Lang was one of the founders of "psychical research" and his other writings on anthropology include The Book of Dreams and Ghosts (1897), Magic and Religion (1901) and The Secret of the Totem (1905). He served as President of the Society for Psychical Research in 1911.He collaborated with S. H. Butcher in a prose translation (1879) of Homer's Odyssey, and with E. Myers and Walter Leaf in a prose version (1883) of the Iliad, both still noted for their archaic but attractive style. He was a Homeric scholar of conservative views. Other works include Homer And The Study Of Greek found in Essays In Little (1891), Homer and the Epic (1893); a prose translation of The Homeric Hymns (1899), with literary and mythological essays in which he draws parallels between Greek myths and other mythologies; and Homer and his Age (1906). Lang's writings on Scottish history are characterised by a scholarly care for detail, a piquant literary style, and a gift for disentangling complicated questions. The Mystery of Mary Stuart (1901) was a consideration of the fresh light thrown on Mary, Queen of Scots, by the Lennox manuscripts in the University Library, Cambridge, approving of her and criticising her accusers. Lang's earliest publication was a volume of metrical experiments, The Ballads and Lyrics of Old France (1872), and this was followed at intervals by other volumes of dainty verse, Ballades in Blue China (1880, enlarged edition, 1888), Ballads and Verses Vain (1884), selected by Mr Austin Dobson; Rhymes

Land of Talk

  • http://viaf.org/158234376
  • Corporate body
  • 2006-2011, 2015-

“Land of Talk is a Canadian indie rock band formed in 2006 from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The band is led by singer and guitarist Elizabeth Powell.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_Talk

LaMarsh Research Program on Violence and Conflict Resolution

  • Corporate body
  • 1980-

The LaMarsh Research Program on Violence and Conflict Resolution was established at York University in 1980 with the assistance of the Ontario Government. The Programme is dedicated to encouraging research which explores the themes of violence and conflict resolution in Canadian society. The Program has an administrative staff and cross-appointed York faculty serve as core members of the Program. Faculty and external experts are engaged to conduct original research in these two areas, and the Program acts as a sponsor of research, conferences and seminars and is an active
publisher of the research results of those it sponsors. The Program developed a strong interest in family violence in the 1980s.

Lalande, Pierre Andr

  • http://viaf.org/viaf/34490023
  • Person
  • 19 July 1867 -15 November 1963

Pierre Andr

Lakeshore Teachers ' College (Toronto, Ont.)

  • Corporate body
  • 1959-1975

Lakeshore Teachers' College was established by the Ministry of Education in 1959 and became affiliated with York University in 1971. The college was administered by a principal. Most of the teaching staff joined York's Faculty of Education in 1971. The Lakeshore name continued to be used until 1975.

La Ligue du Bonheur

  • Corporate body

"Born as a result of a lucky chance meeting between Louis Racine (storyteller, singer and famous dance caller) and the group Deux Saisons (ambassadors of traditional Franco-Ontarian music), La Ligue du Bonheur (aka “The League of Happiness”)  fights apathy and misfortune with tales, songs and dances. This formidable force of good old-fashioned joie de vivre includes Jason Hutt (violin, accordion, podorythmie), Jean-Marc Lalonde (accordion, voice, dulcimer, snare), Simon Mercier (guitar) and Martin Newman (bass) along with Racine." http://www.festivaldubois.ca/la-ligue-du-bonheur-2/

Kunle

  • Corporate body

“Nigerian-born and currently based in Toronto, Kunle brings together his rich vocals, guitar tapping, harmonica and talking drum to take audiences into what he terms ‘music with no boundaries’.” https://kunlemusic.com/

Kuin, Roger

  • http://viaf.org/viaf/70070595/
  • Person
  • 1941-

Rutger Johannes Pieter (Roger) Kuin (1941- ), a native of The Hague, joined the Department of English at York University in 1969 as a lecturer, being named associate professor in 1975. Kuin is a Renaissance scholar and has written extensively on Sir Philip Sidney and the sonnet form. He served as chair of the Inter-College Curriculum Committee (1975-1976) and as chair of the Tenure and Promotions Committee of his department (1976-1978).

Kuhns, William

  • http://viaf.org/viaf/30254423
  • Person

Kucharzk, Henry

  • http://viaf.org/viaf/21359188
  • Person
  • 1953-

Kubota, Nobuo

  • http://viaf.org/viaf/7701983
  • Person
  • 1932-

Kowald, Peter

  • http://viaf.org/viaf/9145971333932331302
  • Person
  • 1944-2002

Koller, George

  • http://viaf.org/viaf/79815351
  • Person
  • 1958-

Kolko, Gabriel, 1932-2014

  • Person

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

Kohalmi, Lester

  • Person

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

Koenig, Kathryn Krik

  • Person

Kathryn Koenig was a professor with the Department of Psychology and was involved in the Advising Centre for the Faculty of Arts when it began in 1972.

Koch, Eric, 1919-2018

  • http://viaf.org/viaf/115531790
  • Person
  • 1919-2018

Eric Koch (1919-2018), writer, broadcaster and professor, was born on 31 August 1919 in Frankfurt, Germany. He left Germany for England as a refugee in 1935 where he attended Cranbrook School in Kent from 1935 to 1937 and later St. John's College, Cambridge from 1937 to 1940. In May 1940, he was interned as an "enemy alien" and later transported to Canada where he remained interned until 1941, following which he continued his studies at the University of Toronto. He began his career as a broadcaster with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in 1944 when he joined the German Section, International Service (RCI) based in Montreal. From 1953 to 1967, he was a member of the Department of Talks and Public Affairs in Toronto. He was promoted in 1967 to Area Head, Arts and Science and was responsible for the creation of a large number of radio and television programmes. From 1971 to 1977, he served as regional director (Montreal). He retired from the CBC in 1979 to devote himself to writing. He is the author of ten books of fiction, many of which were published in Germany, and four books of non-fiction including "Hilmar and Odette", which was awarded the Yad Vashem Prize for Holocaust Writing in 1996. He was a course director at York University in the Social Science Division where he taught a course on The Politics of Canadian Broadcasting for over 15 years.

Kobo Town

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  • Corporate body
  • 2004-

"Kobo Town is a Juno-winning Canadian Caribbean music group, led by Trinidadian Canadian singer and songwriter Drew Gonsalves. Based in Toronto, Ontario, the band blends calypso music with a diverse mix of Caribbean and other musical influences, including ska, reggae, dub, rapso, zouk and hip hop. Other band members include percussionist Derek Thorne, guitarists Cesco Emmanuel and Patrick Giunta, drummer Robert Milicevic, saxophone and flute player Linsey Wellman, bassist Don Stewart, trombonist Terence Woode and trumpeter Jan Morgan." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobo_Town

Knight, Charles, 1791-1873

  • Person
  • 1791-1873

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

Knechtel, Richard

  • http://viaf.org/168292185
  • Person

Richard Knechtel is a Canadian singer-songwriter and performer from Walkerton, Ontario. Knechtel "performs swing, pop, novelty, blues, country, comedy, and folk", as well as playing the guitar and harmonica. Knechtel also performs as "his alter-ego Dickie Bird, a children's performer with action packed shows filled with magic, props and lots of audience participation.' http://richardknechtel.wordpress.com/about/

Kleztory

  • http://viaf.org/156296793
  • Corporate body
  • 2000-

"Kleztory is a klezmer and world music ensemble founded in 2000 and based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. While remaining respectful of the rich heritage of klezmer, Kleztory takes the liberty of arranging parts of the traditional repertoire. This gives their music their own personal uniqueness and flavor. Kleztory is influenced by many sources of inspiration including jazz, classical, gypsy, country, folk and blues. The ensemble were awarded both the Opus Prize in 2007 as the best Jazz / World Music album of the year in Québec for Nomade, and the Fürth Klezmer Prize at the 3rd International Jewish Music Festival in Amsterdam in 2012. Current members include Elvira Misbakhova (violin), Airat Ichmouratov (clarinet, bass clarinet, duclar), Mark Peetsma (double bass), Dany Nicolas (guitar) and Melanie Bergeron (accordion). Three of the original founding members remain in the group with Melanie Bergeron replacing Henri Oppenheim (accordion) and Dany Nicolas replacing founding guitarist Alain Legault. During 2013-2014 Kleztory collaborated with Alexandru Sura (cimbalom)." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleztory

Kiwenzie, Bryden Gwiss

  • http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28925210
  • Person
  • 1984-

“Bryden Gwiss Kiwenzie is a Pow-Wow singer/song maker and Men’s Traditional Dancer. He has grown up on the Pow-Wow Trail learning songs, drum teachings and has been dancing Mens Traditional Style for 30 years. He is Originally from Neyaashiinigaming (Cape Croker) but currently residing in Sudbury, Ontario. He works at Shkagamik Kwe Health Centre in Sudbury giving drum teachings to the youth about proper drum etiquette and pow wow songs. Bryden was also nominated for a Juno, Indigenous Album Of The Year 2017, on his debut album release entitled Round Dance & Beats. Which fuses Traditional pow wow songs with modern hip hop production. He has also been nominated for Best Hand Drum Album and Best New Artist at the Indigenous Music Awards held in Winnipeg May 19, 2017.” https://summerfolk.org/performers/bryden-gwiss-kiwenzie/

Kingsley, Frances (Fanny) Eliza Grenfell

  • http://viaf.org/viaf/74734046
  • Person
  • 1814–1891

(based on ODNB entry by Norman Vance)

Frances "Fanny" Eliza Grenfell was born in 1814, the daughter of Pascoe Grenfell, MP for Great Marlow, and his second wife, Georgiana St Leger.
Fanny was educated privately and in the mid 1830s she lived with three of her religious, unmarried sisters. The group was attracted the Catholic revival within the Church of England and were involved in joining an Anglican sisterhood, similar to Puseyite Park Village (established in 1845).
On July 6, 1839 Fanny met Charles Kingsley (1819-1875), a Cambridge undergraduate. The two began a protracted courtship, which the Grenfell family strongly disapproved of. Fanny introduced Kingsley to writers such as Coleridge, Carlyle, and F. D. Maurice and exercised a strong influence of his subsequent career in the Anglican Church. The two were finally married on 10 January 1844.

The couple settled in Hampshire, where Charles Kingsley took up the curacy of Eversley. The couple had four children and Fanny was heavily involved in her husband's parish work.
Following Charles' death, Fanny took up the writing and editing of his correspondence, publishing "Charles Kingsley: his Letters and Memoir of his Life" in 1877, as well as four volumes of his selected writings.
She died on 12 December 1891.

For more information, see Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry by Norman Vance. Available at http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/47583.

Kinglsey, Rev. George

  • Person

See George A. Macmillan file concerning the published memoir of George H. Kinglsey by his daughter Mary

King, Edward C.

  • http://viaf.org/viaf/16257211
  • Person
  • 29 December 1829 - 8 March 1910

Edward King (29 December 1829 - 8 March 1910) was an Anglican bishop. He was the second son of the Reverend Walker King, Archdeacon of Rochester and rector of Stone, Kent, and grandson of the Reverend Walker King, Bishop of Rochester; his nephew was the Reverend Robert Stuart King, who played football for England in 1882.
King graduated from Oriel College, Oxford, was ordained in 1854, and four years later became chaplain and lecturer at Cuddesdon Theological College (now Ripon College Cuddesdon). He was principal at Cuddesdon from 1863 to 1873, when Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone appointed him Regius Professor of Pastoral Theology at Oxford and canon of Christ Church. King became the principal founder of the leading catholic theological college in the Church of England, St Stephen's House, Oxford, now a Permanent Private Hall of the University of Oxford. To the world outside, King was known at this time as an Anglo-Catholic and one of Edward Pusey's
most intimate friends (even serving as a pall-bearer at his funeral in
1882), but in Oxford, and especially among the younger men, he exercised
influence by his charm and sincerity. King had also been devoted to his
mother, who assisted him at Cuddleston and Oxford by keeping his house
and entertaining guests as his position required. King never married and
his mother died in 1883.
A leading member of the English Church Union, Dr. King fought prosecutions in lay courts under the Public Worship Regulation Act 1874 (which Archbishop of Canterbury Archibald Campbell Tait and Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli had secured over the Gladstone's opposition, in order to restrict the growing Oxford Movement). In 1879 King's writings concerning Holy Communion were criticized as Romish in a pamphlet by a local vicar.
In 1885, upon Gladstone's invitation when he again became Prime Minister, King accepted consecration as Bishop of Lincoln, which he noted had been the diocese of John Wesley. The consecrating bishops included Archbishop of Canterbury Edward White Benson, with presenting Bishops John Mackarness
of Oxford and Woodford of Ely. Other consecrating bishops were Bishop
Temple of London, Bishop Thorold of Rochester, Bishop Wilberforce of
Newcastle, Bishop Trollope of Nottingham, Bishop How of Bedford, Bishop
Carter of Ripon and Bishop Bousfield of Pretoria.
Although Tait had died in 1882, the Puritan faction continued,
including at Lincoln where J. Hanchard published a sketch of King's
life, criticizing his Romish tendencies. Beginning in 1888, based on a churchwarden's complaint concerning a service conducted at Cleethorps, funded by the Church Association, King was prosecuted before Archbisjop Benson for six ritualistic practices.
In his "Lincoln Judgment", Archbishop Benson found Bishop King guilty
on two counts and also required him to conduct the manual acts during
the prayer of consecration during the Holy Communion service in such a
way that the people could see them.
Archbishop Benson specifically allowed the use of lighted candles, and
mixing of elements, as well as the eastward position during the service.
The Church Association appealed the Bishop's process to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, but was denied in 1890.
Bishop King loyally conformed his practices to the archbishop's
judgment. Some considered the process a repudiation of the
anti-ritualism movement,
though it proved physically and emotionally taxing for King, whose
physique had never been particularly robust. Moreover, a decade later,
after Frederick Temple
succeeded Benson as Archbishop of Canterbury, he and the Bishop of York
prosecuted two priests for using incense and candles, and notified
Bishop King of Lincoln of their condemnation, which he abided.
Later, many of King's liturgical practices became commonplace,
including making the sign of the cross during the absolution and
blessing, and mixture of elements during the service, for which the
criticisms had been upheld as an innovation.
As Bishop, King devoted himself unsparingly to pastoral work in his
diocese, particularly among the poor, both farmers and industrial
workers, as well as condemned prisoners. He supported the Guild of
Railway men, as well as chaplains in the Boer War and missionaries. In 1909 he visited Oxford in his episcopal capacity for the 400th anniversary of Brasenose College. Irrespective of his High Church views, he won the affection and reverence of all classes by his real saintliness of character.

Kilbourn, William

  • http://viaf.org/viaf/163979153
  • Person
  • 1926-1995

William Morley Kilbourn (1926-1995), educator, author, and politician, was born in Toronto, and educated there, in Great Britain (Oxford MA 1954), and in the United States (Harvard PhD 1957). He taught at Harvard (1953-1955) and McMaster University (1955-1962), prior to joining York University in 1962 as chair of the Division of Humanities and professor of history. In addition to his academic career, Kilbourn has served on the boards of several community organizations, including the Art Gallery of Ontario (1970-1976), the Young People's Theatre, and the Toronto International Festival. Kilbourn was an alderman in the City of Toronto (1970-1976), and sat on the Metropolitan Toronto Council (1973-1976). He is the author of several books including, "The firebrand: William Lyon Mackenzie and the rebellion in Upper Canada" (1956), "The elements combined: a history of the Steel Company of Canada" (1960), "The making of the nation" (1966), "Canada: a guide to the peaceable kingdom" (1970), "C.D. Howe: a biography" (with Robert Bothwell, 1979), "Toronto remembered" (1984), and "Intimate grandeur: 100 years at Massey Hall" (1993). He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1980), and was named a Member of the Order of Canada (1993). He died on 4 January 1995.

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.

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.

Kidd, J.R. (James Robbins), 1915-1982

  • Person

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

Kiani, Majid

  • http://viaf.org/viaf/200980
  • Person
  • 1953-

Khush : South Asian Gay Men of Toronto

  • http://www.archeion.ca/khush-south-asian-gay-men-of-toronto-2
  • Corporate body
  • 1987-1998

Khush: South Asian Gay Men of Toronto was founded in 1987. The group organized meetings for queer South Asians, and later broadened their membership to include women, becoming Khush: South Asian Lesbian and Gay Association. Remaining active until 1998 the organization ran a variety of queer South Asian community events, one being the annual Desh Pardesh (until 2001), spotlighting South Asian culture, art, and politics. In 1989 Khush founded the first South Asian gay and lesbian newspaper in Toronto, and Avec Pyar, a quarterly zine.

For more information see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khush:_South_Asian_Lesbian_and_Gay_Association .

Khayatt, Didi

  • http://viaf.org/viaf/104712415
  • Person
  • 1944-

Madiha Didi Khayatt was born in Egypt and spent her early years in Cairo. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the American University in Cairo before emigrating to Canada in 1967. Khayatt became a secondary school teacher, and continued her education by earning a Master of Arts degree from McMaster University, and a Master of Education degree from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto. She quit teaching to pursue her doctorate at the University of Toronto, where her course work awakened a commitment to feminism. Khayatt's thesis examined the lives of nineteen lesbian teachers within the context of an education system intended to deliver mainstream societal values, as well as issues of sexual identity within public and private spheres and protection of equal rights to employment. This work was published by the State University of New York Press in 1992 as "Lesbian teachers : an invisible presence." Khayatt was appointed to York University's Faculty of Education with a cross appointment with Women's Studies. Her teaching focused on feminist pedagogy, and her research included topics such as race, class, sexuality, social justice, and same sex love between women in Egypt. Khayatt served as Co-ordinator of the Women's Studies Programme at Glendon College from 1991 to 1993, Director of the Centre for Feminist Research from 1998 to 2001, and Advisor to the President on gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual, and queer issues from 2002 to 2005. Professor Khayatt received the Canadian Association for the Study of Women and Education Achievement Award in 2008 her her contributions to feminist education and theoretical knowledge production.

Keynes, J.N. (John Neville)

  • http://viaf.org/viaf/10754331
  • Person
  • 31 August 1852 - 15 November 1949

John Neville Keynes (31 August 1852 - 15 November 1949) was a British economist and father of John Maynard Keynes. Born in Salisbury, he was the son of Dr John Keynes (1805-1878) and his wife Anna Maynard Neville (1821-1907). He was educated at Amersham Hall School, University College London and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he became a fellow in 1876. He held a lectureship in Moral Science from 1883 to 1911. He was elected as Registrary in 1910, and held that office until 1925.
He divided Economy into "positive economy" (the study of what is, and
the way the economy works), "normative economy" (the study of what
should be), and the "art of economics" (applied economics).
The art of economics relates the lessons learned in positive economics
to the normative goals determined in normative economics. He tried to
synthesise deductive and inductive reasoning as a solution to the "Methodenstreit". His main works were:
Studies and Exercises in Formal Logic (1884)The Scope and Method of Political Economy (1891)
He married, in 1882, Florence Ada Brown (who was later a Mayor of Cambridge). They had two sons and a daughter:
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), the economist.Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), a surgeon.Margaret Neville Keynes (1885-1974), who married Archibald Hill (winner of the 1922 Nobel Prize for Physiology) in 1913.
He outlived his elder son by three years; he died in Cambridge, aged 97.

Keteku, Ian

  • http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5981971
  • Person

“Ian Keteku is a poet, musician and freelance journalist. Born as Ian Nana Yaw Adu Budu Keteku, his birth name mimics his diverse talents and interests. Raised in Canada and of Ghanaian heritage, Keteku earned the title of World Slam Poetry champion in France in the summer of 2010.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Keteku

Kerr, Mary

  • Person

Canadian theatre professional who has worked in theatres across Canada and abroad. Since then, she has designed for theatre, dance, opera, cabarets and film, including Toronto Free Theatre; Buddies in Bad Times; Canadian Stage ( George F. Walker’s Nothing Sacred 1988); Grand Theatre, London; Vancouver Playhouse (If We Are Women by Joanna McClelland Glass 1993); Citadel Theatre (Into the Woods 2000); National Arts Centre ( Marie Clements’s Copper Thunderbird 2007); Stratford Festival, and Shaw Festival (Desert Song).

Kerr, Don

  • http://viaf.org/viaf/24879463
  • Person
  • 1963-

Kenyon, Sir Frederic George

  • http://viaf.org/viaf/27137807
  • Person
  • 15 January 1863 - 23 August 1952

Sir Frederic George Kenyon, GBE, KCB, TD, FBA, FSA (15 January 1863 - 23 August 1952) was a British paleographer and biblical and classical scholar. He occupied from 1889 to 1931 a series of posts at the British Museum. He was also the president of the British Academy from 1917 to 1921, and from 1918 to 1952 he was Gentleman Usher of the Purple Rod.
Kenyon was born in London, the son of John Robert Kenyon, the Vinerian Professor of English Law at Oxford. After graduating B.A. from Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was later a fellow, he joined the British Museum
in 1889 and rose to be its Director and Principal Librarian by 1909. He
was knighted for his services in 1912 and remained at his post until
1931.
In 1891, Kenyon edited the editio princeps of Aristotle's Constitution of Athens. In 1920, he was appointed president of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem. He spent most of his retirement researching and publishing ancient papyri. He died on 23 August 1952.
Kenyon was a noted scholar of ancient languages, and made a lifelong study of the Bible, especially the New Testament as an historical text. His book Our Bible and the Ancient Manuscripts (1895) shows one way that Egyptian papyri and other evidence from archeology
can corroborate the narrative of historical events in the Gospels. He
was convinced of the historical reality of the events described in the
New Testament:

Kent, Enoch

  • http://viaf.org/63779732
  • Person

Kenney, Mo

  • http://viaf.org/300886180
  • Person
  • 1990-

“Mo Kenney is a Canadian singer/songwriter based in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Catching the ear of noted Canadian rocker Joel Plaskett while still in school, Kenney released their first album in 2012, which Plaskett produced. Kenney is known for their lyrical prowess and engaging stage presence.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo_Kenney

Kenedy, Robert A.

  • Person

Robert A. Kenedy is a sociologist and sociology professor at York University where he also completed his B.A. (1986), M.A. (1988) and his PhD (1995). He has been studying social movements and social movement theory since 1984 with much of his research focussing on activists and collective identity, as well as ethnic communities and identity formation. He has conducted graduate research into the men's rights movement in general, and into 'Fathers for Justice' in particular, and is the author of 'Fathers for Justice: The Rise of a New Social Movement in Canada as a Case Study of Collective Identity Formation.' Professor Kenedy also attended conferences of the National Orientation Directors Association as a representative of York University.

Ken Whiteley and the Beulah Band

  • Corporate body

“Ken Whiteley and The Beulah Band are creating exciting new music that is deeply rooted in traditional North American folk forms. You’ll hear echoes of blues, gospel, swing, string and jug band sounds. They are all outstanding and versatile instrumentalists and great harmony singers. And if anyone can match the youthful energy of his bandmates it is Ken Whiteley. It’s been 10 years since Ben Whiteley first began performing with his Dad, Canadian folk legend Ken Whiteley. This past winter they decided to share the producer role for Ken’s new cd and Ben began sharing his insight about where he thought his father’s work might best focus. That shaped a winter of songwriting with definite funky, folky elements. As spring returned, they began talking about who best to play this new material with. When they got together with banjoist extraordinaire, Frank Evans and fantastic fiddler, Rosalyn Dennett, not only did the arrangements come alive, but they found they had that most special of things – a marvelous, 3 part vocal blend. And so was born Ken Whiteley and The Beulah Band!” https://ottawagrassrootsfestival.com/performer/ken-whiteley-and-the-beulah-band/

Kemp, Albert Edward

  • http://viaf.org/viaf/104486861
  • Person
  • 1858-1929

Albert Edward Kemp (1858-1929) was a Toronto sheet metal manufacturer. He served as the Conservative Party Member of Parliament for East Toronto, 1900-1908, and 1911-1921. He was chair of the Purchasing Commission (1915-1916), Minister of Militia and Defense (1916-1917), and Overseas Military Forces (1917-1920). He was appointed to the Senate in 1921.

Kelneck, Grady

  • Person

"Brought up in a show biz family, Grady Kelneck spent his childhood and adolescence playing in a band with his mother, father, and brother. One of his earliest musical memories is singing in front of 20,000 people for Toronto’s 150th birthday at City Hall. His grandfather, Henry Kelneck, is a musical legend in the Ontario north; Stompin’ Tom Connors even penned a song inspired by him. Over the years, Grady has played in a number of musical outfits, playing multiple instruments, and adding vocals, and songwriting to the projects." https://www.last.fm/music/Grady+Kelneck/+wiki

Keith Kendrick and Sylvia Needham

  • Corporate body

“Keith and Sylvia have a very wide-ranging repertoire, strong voices and an uncannily compatible and complimentary styles of delivery, affording an exciting enhancement in duo and produce striking acapella harmony. Keith Kendrick, described as “the man with a voice as sturdy as a five-bar gate” is proud of his Derbyshire roots. Keith and Sylvia also frequently accompany themselves and play lively dance tunes on three different systems of the only English invented musical instrument – the Concertina.” https://broadstairsfolkweek.org.uk/artist/keith-kendrick-sylvia-needham-2/

Kehlerm, James Howard

  • Person
  • fl. 1890-1923

James Howard Kehler was a successful and innovative advertising executive based in Chicago.
He married Keith Ransom in October 1910. Born Nannie Keith Bean, she was previously married to painter Ralph Ransom, who had died 1908.
He had three children from a previous marriage, two sons Stewart and Gordon and a daughter Elizabeth.
Jim Kehler opened an advertising agency on Fifth Avenue in New York City by 1915.
Described by Nina Cust as "[o]ne of Stanley Lee's 'inspired millionaires'" (OD, 347).
Kehler died 19 June 1923.

Keelaghan, James

  • http://viaf.org/65694112
  • Person
  • 1959-

"James Keelaghan is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter. Many of the lyrics in his songs display a concern about social problems and justice in society. In 1994, he won the Juno Award for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year - Solo for My Skies." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Keelaghan

Keehn, J.D., 1925-1995

  • http://viaf.org/viaf/25887050
  • Person
  • 1925-1995

J.D. (Jack) Keehn, author and psychology professor, was born in England in 1925. He married Nancy L. Cooper in 1953. His education included a B.Sc. from the University of London (1945), an M.A. from Stanford University (1950), and a Ph.D. from London University (1953). He taught psychology at American University, Beirut; Washington State University; University of Montana; Lethbridge University; and York University, Atkinson College (1967-1990). He died in 1995.

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