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Susan Ioannou, teacher, editor and writer, was born in Toronto in 1944 and educated at the University of Toronto where she received a B.A. and an M.A. in English Literature in 1966 and 1967, respectively. She has worked as an English Specialist for Bloor Collegiate Institute and has served in various editorial positions for publications including "Coiffure du Canada", "Cross-Canada Writers' Quarterly/Magazine" and "The Arts Scarborough Newsletter. She has given numerous presentations to writers' groups, as well as workshops for the Toronto Board of Education, Ryerson University, and the University of Toronto School of Continuing Education. She founded Wordwrights Canada in 1985 and from 1988 to 2001 ran The Poetry Tutorial writer's correspondence course. She now works as Executive Editor of ClearTEXT Rewriting and Editing. She is the author of numerous collections of poetry including "Clarity Between Clouds" and "Where the Light Waits" as well as the literary study "A Magical Clockwork: The Art of Writing the Poem". Her poems have also been published in various anthologies, magazines and journals.

"The International Theatre Institute ITI is the world’s largest performing arts organization founded in 1948 by theatre and dance experts and UNESCO. Dedicated to performing arts, ITI advances UNESCO’s goals of mutual understanding and peace and advocates for the protection and promotion of cultural expressions, regardless of age, gender, creed or ethnicity. It works to these ends internationally and nationally in the areas of arts education, international exchange and collaboration, and youth training.[2] ITI organizes the International Dance Day and World Theatre Day every year at the UNESCO, Paris.[3][4]" (Wikipedia)

Information York was an internal information service to members of the York community on services, faculties departments and activities in the university, that operated from 1975 to 1981.

1848-1915. Anglican clergyman. His rectory at Longworth was the centre of the Lux Mundi group. Lux Mundi: A series of Studies in the Religion of the Incarnation is a collection of 12 essays from liberal Anglo-Catholic theologians and edited by the future Bishop of Oxford, Charles Gore, in 1889.

Gore's article ('The Holy Spirit and Inspiration'), which showed an ability to accept discoveries of contemporary science, was challenged in conservative Anglo- Catholic circles. He subsequently remedied Christological deficiency in his 1891 Bampton Lectures, 'The Incarnation of the Son of God'.

Many of the contributors included the word 'Incarnation, in the titles of their articles, i.e. R.C Moberley, E.R.Talbot, J.R. Illingworth ('Incarnation and Development'),R.L.Ottley ('Incarnation and Christian Ethics'), Francis Paget ('Incarnation and Sacraments'), Walter Lock ('Incarnation, union of human and divine'). Other contributors were Arthur Lyttelton, Aubrey Moore and W. J. H. Campion .

Idlers is a Canadian ska and reggae group from St. John's, Newfoundland.

Ron Haynes was a Canadian traditional folk and country music singer-songwriter and actor from Newfoundland. Haynes was a part of the Canadian comedy and music group "Wonderful Grand Band". "In 2010, a feature film about Ron's life, "The Man of a Thousand Songs", debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival to sold-out audiences and critical praise.

Thomas Henry Huxley PC FRS FLS (4 May 1825 - 29 June 1895) was an English biologist (comparative anatomist), known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

Huxley's famous debate in 1860 with Samuel Wilberforce was a key moment in the wider acceptance of evolution, and in his own career. Huxley had been planning to leave Oxford on the previous day, but, after an encounter with Robert Chambers, the author of Vestiges, he changed his mind and decided to join the debate. Wilberforce was coached by Richard Owen, against whom Huxley also debated about whether humans were closely related to apes.

Huxley was slow to accept some of Darwin's ideas, such as gradualism, and was undecided about natural selection, but despite this he was wholehearted in his public support of Darwin. Instrumental in developing scientific education in Britain, he fought against the more extreme versions of religious tradition.

In 1869 Huxley coined the term 'agnostic' describing his own views on theology, a term whose use has continued to the present day (see Thomas Henry Huxley and agnosticism).

Huxley had little formal schooling and was virtually self-taught. He became perhaps the finest comparative anatomist of the latter 19th century. He worked on invertebrates, clarifying relationships between groups previously little understood. Later, he worked on vertebrates, especially on the relationship between apes and humans. After comparing Archaeopteryx with Compsognathus, he concluded that birds evolved from small carnivorous dinosaurs, a theory widely accepted today.

The tendency has been for this fine anatomical work to be overshadowed by his energetic and controversial activity in favour of evolution, and by his extensive public work on scientific education, both of which had significant effects on society in Britain and elsewhere.

Leonard Huxley (11 December 1860 - 2 May 1933) was an English schoolteacher, writer and editor. His father was the zoologist Thomas Henry Huxley, commonly referred to as 'Darwin's bulldog'. Leonard was educated at University College School, London, St. Andrews University, and Balliol College, Oxford. He first married Julia Arnold, daughter of Tom Arnold. She was a sister of the novelist Mrs. Humphry Ward, niece of the poet Matthew Arnold, and granddaughter of Thomas Arnold, the headmaster of Rugby School (immortalised as a character in Tom Brown's Schooldays).

Their four children included the biologist Julian Huxley (1887-1975) and the writer Aldous Huxley (1894-1963). Their middle son, Noel Trevenen (born in 1889), committed suicide in 1914. Their daughter, Margaret Arnold Huxley, was born in 1899 and died on 11 October 1981. Julia Arnold died of cancer in 1908.

After the death of his first wife, Leonard married Rosalind Bruce, and had two further sons. The elder of these was David Bruce Huxley (1915-1992), whose daughter Angela married George Pember Darwin, son of the physicist Charles Galton Darwin. The younger was the 1963 Nobel Prize-winning physiologist Andrew Huxley (1917-2012). Huxley's major biographies were the three volumes of Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley and the two volumes of Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM GCSI. He also published Thomas Henry Huxley: a character sketch, and a short biography of Darwin. He was assistant master at Charterhouse School between 1884 and 1901. He was then the assistant editor of Cornhill Magazine between 1901 and 1916, becoming its editor in 1916.

Richard Holt Hutton (2 June 1826 - 9 September 1897) was an English journalist of literature and religion.The son of Joseph Hutton, a Unitarian minister, Richard Holt Hutton was born at Leeds. His family moved to London in 1835, and he was educated at University College School and University College, London, where he began a lifelong friendship with Walter Bagehot, whose works he later edited. He took his degree in 1845, and was awarded the gold medal for philosophy. Meanwhile he had also studied for short periods at Heidelberg and Berlin, and in 1847 he entered Manchester New College with the idea of becoming a minister like his father, and studied there under James Martineau. He was not, however, called on by any church, and for some time his future was unsettled. In 1851, he married his cousin, Anne Roscoe, and became joint-editor with J. L. Sanford of the Inquirer, the principal Unitarian organ. His innovations and unconventional views about stereotyped Unitarian doctrines caused alarm, and in 1853 he resigned. His health had broken down, and he visited the West Indies, where his wife died of yellow fever. In 1855 Hutton and Bagehot became joint editors of the National Review, a new monthly which lasted for ten years. During this time Hutton's theological views, influenced directly by Frederick William Robertson and John Frederick Denison Maurice, gradually came closer to those of the Church of England, which he ultimately joined. He brought to his study of theology a spirituality of outlook and an aptitude for metaphysical inquiry and exposition which made his writings more attractive. In 1861 he joined Meredith Townsend as joint editor and part proprietor of the Spectator, then a well-known liberal weekly, but it did not pay. Hutton took charge of the literary side of the paper, and gradually his own articles became one of the best-known features of serious and thoughtful English journalism. The Spectator, which gradually became a prosperous property, was an outlet for his views, particularly on literary, religious and philosophical subjects, in opposition to the agnostic and rationalistic opinions then current in intellectual circles, as popularized by T. H. Huxley.

Hutton had many friends, and became one of the most respected and influential journalists of the day. He was an original member of the Metaphysical Society (1869). He was an anti-vivisectionist, and a member of the Royal Commission (1875) on that subject, which led to the Cruelty to Animals Act 1876. In 1858 he married Eliza Roscoe, a cousin of his first wife; she died early in 1897, and Hutton's own death followed in the same year.

Among his other publications may be mentioned Essays, Theological and Literary (1871; revised 1888), and Criticisms on Contemporary Thought and Thinkers (1894); and his opinions may be studied compendiously in the selections from his Spectator articles published in 1899 under the title of Aspects of Religious and Scientific Thought.

Laurence Hutchman, poet and professor, was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and moved to Canada in 1957. He lived in Toronto and attended Gulfstream Public School and Emery Collegiate before enrolling in the University of Western Ontario, where he received a BA in English in 1972. Hutchman continued his education in Montreal, with a MA in English from Concordia University in 1979 and a PhD from Université de Montréal in 1988. He has published eight books of poetry: The Twilight Kingdom (1973), Explorations (1975), Blue Rider (1985), Foreign National (1993), Emery (1998), Beyond Borders (2000), Selected Poems (2007) and Reading the Water (2008). Hutchman is also the co-editor of Coastlines: the Poetry of Atlantic Canada (2002) and the author of In the Writers' Words: Conversations with Eight Canadian Poets (2011).

In 2007, Hutchman received the Alden Nowlan Award for Excellence in English-language Literary Arts. He has been a member of the League of Canadian Poets and was the president of the Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick between 2002 and 2004. From 1990 to 2013, he was a professor in the Department of English at the Université de Moncton, Edmundston Campus, in New Brunswick.

“The duo of Bill Nesbitt (concertinas, harmonicas, vocals & jaw harp), and Brad McEwen (citterns & vocals) chose [the name of Hunter’s Corners] because the cross-roads is close to where they met, and represents the continuing intersection of their musical ideas and experiences. Bill loves traditional music of all kinds, and plays for Contra, Morris and Ceili dances throughout southern Ontario. He has a particular interest in songs and tunes from Newfoundland. Brad has been immersed in traditional folk music for over four decades as a keen student and performer and as the founding and only Artistic Director of Cambridge's Mill Race Festival of Traditional Folk Music for its entire 26 year run.” https://hunterscorners.yolasite.com/

Herbert William Hunt served in the artillery for the British Army during the First World War while his wife, Jessica, served in the Voluntary Aid Detachment. Hunt and his wife tried to build an agrarian life for themselves in England for six year after the war, without success. Disappointed, Hunt applied to the 3,000 Family Settlement Scheme, a joint initiative by the governments of the United Kingdom and Canada to resettle British families on farmland in central and western Canada. Canada’s Department of Immigration and Colonization accepted Hunt’s application to participate in the Settlement Scheme in March 1926. By the end of May, Hunt and his wife began their migration to their settlement, which was located north of Spruce Lake and east of St.Walburg in Saskatchewan. After completing the probationary apprenticeship of one year, during which time new settlers were required to demonstrate their fitness by working as farm hands, Hunt purchased 160 acres of farmland from the Soldier Settlement Board. On this farm, Hedgerows, Hunt primarily cultivated wheat. Hunt and his wife struggled to acclimatize to Canada, the harsh prairie weather in particular. His crops also suffered under frost and drought. The family’s financial hardship was compounded by the low market prices of grains during the depression. After spending a challenging decade in Saskatchewan, Hunt and his wife returned to England in 1936. Hunt died in Benfleet, Essex, England in 1985.

Margaret Lindsay, Lady Huggins (born in August 14, 1848 in Dublin; died in March 24, 1915 in London), born Margaret Lindsay Murray, was an Irish scientific investigator and astronomer. With her husband William Huggins she was a pioneer in the field of spectroscopy and co-authored the Atlas of Representative Stellar Spectra (1899).

When Huggins was young, her mother died and her father remarried, leaving her on her own much of the time. Obituaries written by her friends attribute her interest in astronomy to her grandfather, a wealthy bank officer named Robert Murray. According to these sources, Margaret's grandfather taught her the constellations, and as a result of this she began studying the heavens with home-made instruments. She constructed a spectroscope after finding inspiration in articles on astronomy in the periodical Good Words. Her interest and abilities in spectroscopy led to her introduction to the astronomer William Huggins, whom she married in 1875. Evidence suggests that Huggins was instrumental in instigating William Huggins' successful program in photographic research.

Videographer with 2009 Mariposa Folk Festival.

Douglas George How (1919- ), journalist and author, was born and educated in Canada. He worked as a reporter with the Moncton 'Times' before joining the Canadian Press bureau in Halifax (1940). Following service as a war correspondent for CP, How joined then in the- Parliamentary Press Gallery as a CP reporter (1945-1953). He served as executive assistant to Robert Winters, minister of Public Works (1955-1957), then with 'Time' magazine in Canada and United States. How was managing editor in Canada for 'Reader's digest' (1959-1969). How is author of a regimental history, 'Canada's mystery man of high finance,' (Izaak Killam), and of other works.

William Walsham How (always called Walsham; 13 December 1823 - 10 August 1897) was an English bishop.It was during his period at Whittington he wrote the bulk of his published works and founded the first public library in Oswestry. In 1863-1868 he brought out a Commentary on the Four Gospels and he also wrote a manual for the Holy Communion. Published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge during the 1890s under the title "Holy Communion, Preparation and Companion...together with the Collects, Epistles and Gospels" this book was widely distributed and many copies still survive today. In the movement for infusing new spiritual life into the church services, especially among the poor, How was a great force. He took a stand against what he regarded as immoral literature and Thomas Hardy claimed that he had burned a copy of his novel Jude the Obscure. How was much helped in his earlier work by his wife, Frances A. Douglas (died 1887).

The son of a Shrewsbury solicitor, How was educated at Shrewsbury School, Wadham College, Oxford and University College, Durham. He was ordained in 1846, and after a curacy at Kidderminster, began more than thirty years actively engaged in parish work in Shropshire, as curate at the Abbey Church in Shrewsbury in 1848. In 1851 he became Rector of Whittington and was at one point Rural Dean of Oswestry in 1860.

translator of works of philosophy

Gladys Anne Hoskins (1900-1979), known as "Froanna" married Wyndham Lewis in 1930. Various sources indicate the couple met shortly after the death of Lewis' mother in 1920. Froanna lived as Lewis`mistress (he continued to have relationships with other women) until they married in 1930 (in order for Froanna to secure a passport to Germany). She lived in seclusion and many of Lewis' associates were not aware that he was married until later in life when his blindness required that she be more public to assist and nurse him. The couple had no children.

An American dancer, choreographer, and teacher (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Horton)

Translator of botony books?

Secretary of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of London??

Ellice Hopkins (30 October 1836 - 21 August 1904) was a Victorian social campaigner and author, who vigorously advocated moral purity while criticizing contemporary sexual double standards. In 1874 she established the Soldier's Institute at Portsmouth, and in 1876 toured several British towns, recruiting thousands of women to the Ladies' Association for the Care of Friendless Girls. Her biographer describes her as 'instrumental' in the passing of the Industrial Schools Amendment Act of 1880. Her works, such as A plea for the wider action of the Church of England in the prevention of the degradation of women, criticized the contemporary double standard by which women were disproportionately blamed for sexual immorality. In 1883 she co-founded the White Cross Army, and continued her political campaigning. The historian Frank Mort has described her as a "central figure in the feminist agitation for criminal law regulation in the 1880s".

“Holmes was born and raised in Northern Ireland.In his early 40’s he became the lead singer for the very successful Celtic band, Brean Derg Muc. He also began writing and took to the stage as a spoken word artist. Before long he was touring the UK, Canada and the USA. He has won numerous awards including the Stan Rogers Golden Quill and his work has been set to music and performed by more than 40 artists.” https://summerfolk.org/performers/holmes-hooke/

Evelyn J. Hone was the only son of Archedeacon Home.
He married Constance Jane Munro, the eldest daughter of Henry Monro, a medical doctor on 28 July 1870.
He was listed as the head of St. John's Parish in the Diocese of Rochester in Kent in 1897.
His son, Campbell Richard Hone (1873-1967), became an Anglican bishop.

Constance Jane Munro was the eldest daughter of Henry Monro, a medical doctor. She married Rev. Evelyn J. Hone on 28 July 1870.
Her son, Campbell Richard Hone (1873-1967), became an Anglican bishop.

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

Frederick Hollyer was an English photographer and engraver known for his photographic reproductions of paintings and drawings, particularly those of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and for portraits of literary and artistic figures of late Victorian and Edwardian London.

Henry Scott Holland (27 January 1847 - 17 March 1918) was Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford. He was also a canon of Christ Church, Oxford. The Scott Holland Memorial Lectures are held in his memory. He was born at Ledbury, Herefordshire, the son of George Henry Holland (1818-1891) of Dumbleton Hall, Evesham, and of the Hon. Charlotte Dorothy Gifford, the daughter of Lord Gifford. He was educated at Eton where he was a pupil of the influential Master William Johnson Cory, and at the Balliol College of the University of Oxford where he took a first class degree in Greats. During his Oxford time he was greatly influenced by T.H. Green. He had the Oxford degrees of DD, MA, and Honorary DLitt.

Henry Scott Holland (January 27, 1847 – March 17, 1918) was Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford. He was also a canon of Christ Church, Oxford.

author (b. 23 December 1856 and died 25 May 1926.) Married 3 January 1895 Florence Helen Duckworth (18??-1933). Son of Rev Francis James Holland (1828-1907) and Mary Sibylla Lyall (1836-1891). Author of "A Reported Change in Religion" (1899) and "Imperium et Libertas: a study in history and politics" (1901).

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

Samuel Reynolds Hole (5 December 1819 - 27 August 1904) was an Anglican priest, author and horticulturalist in the late 19th century and the early part of the 20th.

Hole was born in Newark and educated at Brasenose College, Oxford. He was ordained in 1844 and spent 43 years at his father

Janet Elizabeth Courtney (born Barton-on-Humber 27 November 1865; died London 24 September 1954) was a scholar, writer and feminist. She was a daughter of the Revd George Hogarth and Jane Elizabeth Uppleby; sister of the archaeologist David George Hogarth. She was educated at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, 1885-1888 and was awarded a first class degree in Philosophy. She first had a part-time teaching post at Cheltenham Ladies' College, then worked as a clerk for the Royal Commission on Labour, 1892-94; was the first superintendent of women clerks of the Bank of England, 1894-1906; Librarian of The Times Book Club, 1906-1910; and on the editorial staff of the Encyclop

David George Hogarth (23 May 1862 - 6 November 1927) was a British archaeologist and scholar associated with T. E. Lawrence and Arthur Evans.D.G. Hogarth was the son of Reverend George Hogarth, Vicar of Barton-upon-Humber, and Jane Elizabeth (Uppleby) Hogarth. He had a sister three years younger, Janet E. Courtney, an author and feminist. In one of his autobiographical works, Hogarth claimed to be an antiquary who was made so rather than born to it. He said, "nothing disposed me to my trade in early years." Those years included a secondary education, 1876-1880, at Winchester College, which claims to be, and was labeled by Hogarth as, "our oldest Public School."

Between 1887 and 1907, Hogarth travelled to excavations in Cyprus, Crete, Egypt, Syria, Melos, and Ephesus (the Temple of Artemis). On the island of Crete, he excavated Zakros. Hogarth was named director of the British School at Athens in 1897 and occupied the position until 1900. He was the keeper of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford from 1909 until his death in 1927. In 1915, during World War I, Hogarth joined the Geographical Section of the Naval Intelligence Division. He also was the acting director of the Arab Bureau for a time during the war, with Kinahan Cornwallis as his deputy.[citation needed] Hogarth was close with T.E. Lawrence. He worked closely with Lawrence to plan the Arab Revolt.

From 1925 to 1927 he was President of the Royal Geographical Society

On 7 November 1894, D. G. Hogarth had married Laura Violet Uppleby, daughter of one George Charles Uppleby. Laura and Jane Elizabeth Uppleby shared a common great great grandfather, one John Uppleby of Wootton, Linconlnshire. Laura Violet was 26 at the time; David George, 32. They had one son, William David Hogarth (1901-1965). Author of 'A Wandering Scholar in the LEvant", "Accidents of an Antiquary's Life", "The Nearer East".

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

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

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

Arnold Hoffman (1903-1962) was a geologist, prospector, author, and New York executive. He was born in East Boston, Massachusetts, one of four sons of a Russian immigrant tailor. He was educated at Roxbury Latin School and graduated from Harvard University with a degree in geology in 1925.

Arnold first visited Canada in June 1922, accompanying his brother Robert, to prospect for gold near Larder Lake in northeastern Ontario. Arnold and Robert prospected together for several years and staked many claims across Canada. They became involved in early gold mining efforts in Eastern Quebec. In 1923, they staked several acres in Joannes Township, near Bousquet, Quebec. Hoffman discovered gold there in 1924 but was initially hindered by a lack of resources. This strike eventually became the property of Arrowhead Gold Mines Limited and was one of Hoffman's most profitable ventures. The brothers became associated with the gold mining industry in Quebec, Manitoba, British Columbia and the Northwest Territories, especially the Thompson-Lundmark Gold Mines, near Yellowknife.

In 1947, Hoffman published a book, Free Gold: The Story of Canadian Mining (New York: Rinehart & Company, 1947, 420 p.; reissued by McGraw-Hill, in 1982). Free Gold describes Hoffman’s early experiences as a prospector and details the history of the Canadian gold mining industry.

Hoffman was primarily involved in the financial side of gold mining as a stockholder in New York. In 1936, he and his brother, Robert, were elected as Secretary-Treasurer and President of Gold Operators (Canada) Limited, and in 1948, Arnold was made a director of the company. Arnold Hoffman was a major shareholder of the Thompson Prospecting Syndicate and became president of Arrowhead Gold Mines Limited in 1936. Gold Operators Inc. and Arrowhead Gold Mines entered an agreement in 1936 to create Syndicate Options Limited, with Arnold Hoffman as Secretary-Treasurer. As secretary of Gold Operators (Canada) Inc. and shareholder of the Thompson Prospecting Syndicate, Hoffman managed investments in many mines which included: Stadacona Rouyn, Sunset Yellowknife, Junior Frood, Coniaurum, Algood, Pershon, Resenor, Michipicoten, and Croydon Rouyn. In 1939, Hoffman attempted to create the Hoffman-Russell Molybdenum Syndicate to explore molybdenum deposits in Ontario, but the syndicate dissolved in 1941 due to economic issues related to the Second World War. In 1958, Hoffman was elected president of Mesabi Iron Company. By 1962, he was also president of Quebec Cobalt and Exploration, Ltd., and the Towne Mines Corporation.

The Hoffman Laboratory of Experimental Geology at Harvard University is named after Hoffman and his eldest brother, David. The building opened in 1963 following donations made by Hoffman and his brother Robert.

Paul Hoffert (1943-), composer, musician, author and administrator, was born in Brooklyn, New York on 22 September 1943 and educated at the University of Toronto where he received a B.Sc. in 1966. He mastered classical and jazz piano at a young age and made his first recording, "Jazz Routes of Paul Hoffert" in 1959. He also performed on the TV series "While We Were Young" with Gordon Lightfoot and Tommy Ambrose from 1960 to 1962. As a musician, Hoffert is best known for his work with the musical group Lighthouse that he co-founded in 1969. Lighthouse was the first rock group to feature jazz horns and classical strings. Lighthouse sold millions of records, toured the world and was awarded three Juno awards as Canada's top pop band for the years 1971, 1972 and 1973. Hoffert was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of Lighthouse in 1995. In 1975, Hoffert began focusing on composing film and television music and penned dozens of feature film and hundreds of television program scores. His film music earned him a San Francisco Film Festival and three SOCAN Film Composer of the Year awards. His concert music includes a Juno-award winning violin concerto. In many of his musical endeavours, Hoffert collaborated with his wife, Brenda. Hoffert has parallel achievements in science and technology. He was a researcher at the National Research Council of Canada in the early 1970s and returned to research in 1988 as Vice President of DHJ Research, where he invented digital audio technology for Newbridge Microsystems telephone circuits, Mattel Cabbage Patch Dolls, and Akai and Yamaha musical instruments. In 1992, Hoffert founded CulTech Research Centre at York University, where he developed advanced new media such as digital video telephones and networked distribution of CD-ROMs. From 1994 to 1999, he directed Intercom Ontario, a $100 million trial of the world's first completely connected broadband community that landed him on the cover of the Financial Post and in the Wall Street Journal. Hoffert has been an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts at York University since 1984. As an author, Hoffert has written numerous articles in newspapers and magazines as well as several books including "The New Client", "All Together Now", and "The Bagel Effect", which detail recipes for living in the Information Age. Hoffert is Chair of the Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund, Chair of the Guild of Canadian Film and Television Composers and a Board Director of the Glenn Gould Foundation, the SOCAN Foundation, Ontario Foundation for the Arts, Virtual Museum of Canada, United Nations World Summit Award (Information Society), Ontario Cultural Attractions Fund, and Ontario Arts Council Foundation. He is former President of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, Chair of the Ontario Arts Council (1994-1997), and former Board Director of Canadian Independent Record Producers Association (CIRPA), Encyclopedia of Music in Canada, Smart Toronto, Performing Rights Society of Canada, and Music Promotion Foundation. He is the recipient of numerous awards for his work including the Pixel award as the New Media industry's "Visionary of the Year" in 2001, and the Order of Canada in 2005.

Harald Høffding (11 March 1843 - 2 July 1931) was a Danish philosopher and theologian.
Born and educated in Copenhagen, he became a schoolmaster, and ultimately in 1883 a professor at the University of Copenhagen. He was strongly influenced by Søren Kierkegaard in his early development, but later became a positivist, retaining and combining with it the spirit and method of practical psychology and the critical school.
The physicist Niels Bohr studied philosophy from and became a friend of Høffding.

Høffding died in Copenhagen.

(from Wikipedia entry)

Harald Høffding (11 March 1843 – 2 July 1931) was a Danish philosopher and theologian.

Born and educated in Copenhagen, he became a schoolmaster, and ultimately in 1883 a professor at the University of Copenhagen. He was strongly influenced by Søren Kierkegaard in his early development, but later became a positivist, retaining and combining with it the spirit and method of practical psychology and the critical school. The physicist Niels Bohr studied philosophy from and became a friend of Høffding. The philosopher and author Ágúst H. Bjarnason was a student Høffding.

Høffding's great-nephew was the statistician Wassily Hoeffding.

Høffding died in Copenhagen.

His best-known work is perhaps his Den nyere Filosofis Historie (1894), translated into English from the German edition (1895) by B.E. Meyer as History of Modern Philosophy (2 vols., 1900), a work intended by him to supplement and correct that of Hans Brøchner, to whom it is dedicated. His Psychology, the Problems of Philosophy (1905) and Philosophy of Religion (1906) also have appeared in English.

Among Høffding's other writings, most of which have been translated into German, are: Den engelske Filosofi i vor Tid (1874); Etik (1876); Psychologi i Omrids paa Grundlag af Erfaring (ed. 1892); Psykologiske Undersøgelser (1889); Charles Darwin (1889); Kontinuiteten i Kants filosofiske Udviklingsgang (1893); Det psykologiske Grundlag for logiske Domme (1899); Rousseau und seine Philosophie (1901); Mindre Arbejder (1899).

For more information, see Wikipedia entry at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_H%C3%B8ffding .

(from ODNB entry by William Sweet)

Reinhold Friedrich Alfred Hoernlé (1880-1943), philosopher and social reformer in South Africa, was born in Bonn, Germany, on 27 November 1880.

His parents were the Indologist and philologist (Augustus Frederic) Rudolf Hoernlé (1841–1918) and Sophie Fredericke Louise, daughter of R. Romig of Bonn.
R. F. A. Hoernlé was their only son and spent his early years in India, later being educated in Germany before attending Balliol College, Oxford in 1899 where he was encouraged to pursue philosophy. In 1904 he was elected to a senior demyship at Magdalen College, where he studied for a BSc (completed in 1907), but in late 1905 moved to the University of St Andrews to serve as assistant to the professor of moral philosophy, Bernard Bosanquet.

Recommended by Caird, Bosanquet, and Smith, as well as by F. H. Bradley and Henry Jones, Hoernlé was appointed professor of philosophy at the South African College in 1908. From 1912 until 1914 he held the newly established professorship at Armstrong College, Newcastle (England).

On 23 March 1914 Hoernlé married Agnes Winifred Tucker (1885–1960), a former philosophy student at South African College, and the daughter of the South African senator William Kidger Tucker. She later became a leading ethnographer and the doyenne of South African anthropologists. They had one son, Alwyn (1915–1991).

In the summer of 1914 Hoernlé was appointed assistant professor of philosophy at Harvard University, where he was able to engage at first hand some of the leading American philosophers. In 1920, however, he returned to his former chair at Newcastle.

Hoernlé left Newcastle in 1923 to succeed John Macmurray as professor of philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, where Winifred Hoernlé was appointed to a post in anthropology. With the exception of visiting professorships at Bowdoin College, Maine (1926), and at the University of Southern California (1930), he spent little time outside South Africa until his death.

Hoernlé's early work was in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophical psychology, and in 1916 he and his wife completed an authorized translation of Rudolf Steiner's Die Philosophie der Freiheit (‘The philosophy of freedom’). Hoernlé was particularly concerned with two issues: the relation between the mental and the physical (focusing on volition and mental states), and the current debates between idealists and the ‘new’ realists. He believed he could address these issues through the ‘empirical’ statement of idealism or ‘speculative philosophy’ represented by Bosanquet. In his Studies in Contemporary Metaphysics (1920) Hoernlé presented essays on scientific method and the ‘mechanism versus vitalism’ controversy, insisting that, in biology at least, teleology is dominant over mechanism. His Studies reflected a systematic philosophy, showing that ‘experience, taken as a whole, gives us clues which, rightly interpreted, lead to the perception of … a graded order of varied appearances [in the universe]’ (p. v). It also exhibited his ‘synoptic’ approach, ‘which itself rests on the assumption that truth has many sides, and that to the whole truth on any subject every point of view has some contribution to make’ (‘On the way to a synoptic philosophy’, 138).

Hoernlé's Matter, Life, Mind, and God (1923), based on extramural lectures given in Newcastle to a popular audience, similarly discussed the limitations of both mechanistic and contemporary behaviouristic theories. Critics were somewhat receptive of the book, noting especially Hoernlé's ‘limpid clearness’ in style. In 1924 he published a short volume, Idealism as a Philosophical Doctrine, expanded in 1927 as Idealism as a Philosophy. Designed initially as a ‘map’ to guide students through the different schools of ‘idealism’ still current in Anglo-American philosophy, the key chapters trace the distinction between the idealism of Berkeley on the one hand and of Kant, Hegel, and their successors on the other.

When Hoernlé arrived at Witwatersrand in 1923 his teaching included courses in logic and psychology. He and his wife soon became actively involved in social issues. His wife was a pioneering social anthropologist and one of the first scholars of Bantu studies in South Africa, and Hoernlé himself developed an interest in the black peoples of the region and the impact of western civilizations on them.

Hoernlé was heavily involved in the South African Institute of Race Relations during the 1920s and 1930s. He was also chairman of the Bantu Men's Social Centre in Johannesburg, of the Johannesburg Joint Council of Europeans and Natives, and of the Society of Christians and Jews. In addition from 1934 he was a government-appointed member of the South African Council for Educational and Social Research. During the Second World War he was the initiator of the Army Educational Corps of which he became honorary lieutenant-colonel.

A ferocious critic of the policy of racial segregation proposed by the government of J. B. M. Hertzog from 1924 onwards, Hoernlé viewed segregation as entrenching white domination and the exploitation of the non-European peoples.

In 1941 he had an important correspondence with Geoffrey Hare Clayton, Anglican archbishop of Cape Town.

Hoernlé's death, following a heart attack and brief illness, in Johannesburg on 21 July 1943, was attributed largely to the stress of his extensive administrative work.

For more information see: William Sweet, ‘Hoernlé, (Reinhold Friedrich) Alfred (1880–1943)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, May 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com.ezproxy.library.yorku.ca/view/article/94419 .

Philosopher Alfred Hoernl

Shadworth Hollway Hodgson (1832-1912) was an English philosopher.

He worked independently, without academic affiliation. He was acknowledged by William James as a forerunner of Pragmatism, although he viewed his work as a completion of Kant's project. Hodgson was a member of a London philosophy club with James, called the "Scratch Eight." Hodgson regarded the poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge as his chief inspirations, and had no academic background, though he was a member of the Metaphysical Society.

He was the first president of the Aristotelian Society and held that post from 1880 to 1894.

His principal work was The Metaphysic of Experience (1898) which prepared the way for New Realism. He objected to the stance of empiricism in its postulating of persons and things, and insisted that neither subject nor object are warranted as initial considerations of philosophy.

Attention to Hodgson was briefly enlivened by an article by Wolfe Mays in a British Phenomenology journal in the 1970s.

The volumes of Hodgson's principal work were often shipped with uncut pages and visits to libraries with these volumes has revealed that sometimes most pages of all 4 volumes remained uncut even one hundred years later.

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

Thomas A. Hockin, educator and politician, was born in London, Ontario in 1938. He was educated at the University of Western Ontario (B.A. hons., 1961), and Harvard University (M.Pub. Admin., 1963; Ph.D., 1966). He married Marion V. Schaefer in 1967. He began teaching Political Science at York University in 1973 and subsequently Business Administration in the University of Western Ontario’s School of Business. He was first elected to the House of Commons in 1984 as a Progressive Conservative member for London West and was re-elected in 1988. He was appointed Minister of State (Finance) on 30 June 1986, became Minister of State (Small Business and Tourism) on 31 January 1989, and Minister for Science on 4 January 1993. On 25 June 1993 he was appointed Minister of International Trade in the Kim Campbell cabinet. After his defeat in the 1993 general election he became President of the Invesment Funds Institute of Canada. Hockin led the trade association’s efforts to enhance public understanding of mutual funds and to shape the federal regulatory framework for investment funds until his retirement in 2005. He was also President of the Canadian Institute of Financial Planning until 2005, and serves on the board of the Institute of Corporate Directors and as Chair of the Canadian Educational Standards Institute. After serving as a strategic advisor with Deloitte, Hockin was elected as Executive Director of the Canada, Ireland, and Caribbean Constituency of the International Monetary Fund in December 2009 after his nomination by Jim Flaherty, Canada’s Minister of Finance. He is the author of four books, and several scholarly articles and chapters.

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse (8 September 1864 - 21 June 1929) was a British liberal political theorist and sociologist, who has been considered one of the leading and earliest proponents of social liberalism. His works, culminating in his famous book Liberalism (1911), occupy a seminal position within the canon of New Liberalism. He worked both as an academic and a journalist, and played a key role in the establishment of sociology as an academic discipline; in 1907 he shared, with Edward Westermarck, the distinction of being the first professor of sociology to be appointed in the United Kingdom, at the University of London. He was also the founder and first editor of The Sociological Review. His sister was Emily Hobhouse, the British welfare activist. Hobhouse was born in St Ive, near Liskeard in Cornwall, the son of Reginald Hobhouse, an Anglican clergyman, and Caroline Trelawny. He attended Marlborough College before reading Greats at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he graduated with a first-class degree in 1887. Upon his graduation, Hobhouse remained at Oxford as a prize fellow at Merton College before becoming a full fellow at Corpus Christi. Taking a break from academia between 1897 and 1907, Hobhouse worked as a journalist (including a stint with the Manchester Guardian) and as the secretary of a trade union. In 1907, Hobhouse returned to academia, accepting the newly created chair of sociology at the University of London where he remained until his death in 1929.

Hobhouse was also an atheist from an early age, despite his father being an Archdeacon. He believed that rational tests could be applied to values and that they could be self-consistent and objective.

Austin Hinton was a Newcastle librarian. He was an officer of the Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society.

"James Hill is a classically trained Canadian musician who has focused on the ukulele, both as his primary instrument and as a method of music instruction for school children." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hill_(Canadian_musician)

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

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

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

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

“Little Miss Higgins is the stage name of Jolene Yvonne Higgins, a Canadian folk and acoustic blues singer-songwriter who has performed both as a solo artist and as the lead singer of Little Miss Higgins and the Winnipeg Five. [...] In 2020 Higgins announced plans to cease recording music, arguing that the contemporary era of streaming music services have made recorded music no longer a viable source of income for most musicians, although she plans to continue performing live and touring.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Miss_Higgins

"Hey Ocean! is a Canadian indie alternative rock and synthpop band formed in 2004 in Vancouver. David Beckingham and Ashleigh Ball had been friends since grade 6, joining with David Vertesi in the 2000s to form the band. The band consists of Ashleigh Ball (vocals/flute), David Beckingham (vocals/guitar), and David Vertesi (vocals/bass). Their music draws from many genres, including pop and acoustic, and the group tours Canada widely." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Ocean!

Maurice Henry Hewlett (1861-1923), was an English historical novelist, poet and essayist. He was born at Weybridge, the eldest son of Henry Gay Hewlett, of Shaw Hall, Addington, Kent. He was educated at the London International College, Spring Grove, Isleworth, and was called to the bar in 1891. He gave up the law after the success of Forest Lovers . From 1896 to 1901 he was Keeper of Lands, Revenues, Records and Enrolments, a government post as adviser on matters of medieval law.

Hewlett married Hilda Beatrice Herbert on 3 January 1888 in St. Peter's Church, Vauxhall, where her father was the incumbent vicar. The couple had two children, a daughter, Pia, and a son, Francis, but separated in 1914, partly due to Hilda's increasing interest in aviation. In 1911, Hilda had become the first woman in the UK to gain a pilot's licence.

He settled at Broad Chalke, Wiltshire. His friends included Evelyn Underhill, and Ezra Pound, whom he met at the Poet's Club in London. He was also a friend of J. M. Barrie, who named one of the pirates in Peter Pan "Cecco" after Hewlett's son.

Hewlett was parodied by Max Beerbohm in A Christmas Garland in the part titled "Fond Hearts Askew".

“George Hewison is a Canadian folk singer, trade unionist and former politician. He was formerly a long-time member of the Communist Party of Canada and served as the party's general secretary from 1988 to 1992. [...] He has continued to link music with labour and social activism and is the founder and lead singer of the "Rank n File Band", created by the Canadian Auto Workers union. He has produced five albums over a fifty years span, and has written scores of songs for, and performed at, conventions of virtually every major labour organization in the country. Hewison has toured extensively and most recently performed at the Illawarra Folk Festival in Australia and the Mariposa Folk Festival and Miners Memorial weekend in Canada as well at Joe Hill's birthplace in Gavle in Sweden.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hewison

Paul Herzberg is Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar at York University. He was born on 23 September 1936 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and educated at Queen's University (B.A., Physics and Mathematics, 1958), Princeton University (A.M., Physics, 1961), and the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana (Ph.D., Psychology, 1967). Herzberg joined York University in 1966 and served in various teaching and administrative capacities. His teaching and research have focussed on statistics, including studies of the development of visual techniques, simulations of statistical phenomena, geometrical interpretations of multivariate statistics, etc.; notably, he developed a psychology statistics course with Professor Ron Sheese using the Keller Plan of teaching, which Herzberg taught and refined at York University for over 25 years. With the Keller Plan, students must master, to 80 per cent, each of the course modules before advancing to the next, and complete the required quizzes at their own pace. Herzberg was recognized for his exemplary teaching skills in 1996 when he was awarded the Parents' Association University Wide-Teaching Award.

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.

The Hepatitis C Society of Canada (HeCSC) is a non-profit, national voluntary health organization. Its mission is to fight hepatitis C through prevention, early detection, support, appropriate treatment and comfort. It does this through 40 chapters across Canada that offer support groups, local peer counseling, publications and seminars. In addition, mainly through its intervenor status at the Krever Commission, the society advocated for just compensation for those who developed hepatitis C through tainted blood transfusions. HeCSC was founded in May of 1994 by Dr. Alan T.R. Powell of Toronto. The first volunteers started working with the organization in June 1994. By October, chapters were established in Victoria, Edmonton, Regina, Hamilton, Toronto and Ottawa. With the national office open in Toronto and the 1-800 number up and running, HeCSC was providing support and resources for hepatitis C carriers all across Canada and became registered as a charitable organization in January of 1995 and incorporated by Industry Canada as a non-profit group in April of the same year. HeCSC is funded by Health Canada’s National Voluntary Health Organizations and Hepatitis C Division, Ontario Ministry of Health’s Healthy Communities, and donors.

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

George Stewart Henry (1871-1953), farmer and politician, was premier of Ontario, 1930-1934 and minister of Highways and Public Roads in the Ferguson Cabinet (1923-1930). He was the Conservative member of the Legislature for Simcoe North (1913-1943) and leader of the party (1930-1937).

The Tri-Service Identities Organization (TRIO) was founded in Toronto, Ontario in August 1966, to represent the views of former military personnel and the public opposed to the unification of the three branches of the armed services (Army, Navy, Air Force) in Canada in 1968. The organization was disbanded in 1969. Among its chief officers were Charles McNair formerly of the navy, Douglas Harvey (RCAF), Air Marshall Curtis (first chancellor of York University), and Robert Hendy. Many of the same personnel active with Tri-Service had been involved earlier with a predecessor body known as the Canadian Defence Advisory Committee, which began protesting against the Liberal government of the day when the unification plan was first announced in 1965.

Dorothy Henderson was born in 1916. She was a long time member of the Margaret Laurence Home Committee Inc., serving at various times as its Secretary, Curator and President. She also authored two books about Laurence, 'Margaret's Special Places in Neepawa' and 'Writer in Residence'.