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Fr. Morrisey was born in Charlottetown, P.E.I., on Feb. 13, 1936, the oldest of Col. E.J.H. Morrisey, OBE, and Lucy Rita Coady’s five children. His family moved frequently as the army moved his father around. But the constant in his life was daily Mass with his mother. He entered the Oblate novitiate Aug. 14, 1955 in Richelieu, Que., and was ordained a priest in 1961 in Ottawa. In 1972 he was awarded two PhDs, one in philosophy at the University of Ottawa and the other in canon law at Saint Paul University, where he was already teaching the subject.

He was dean of the Saint Paul University faculty of canon law from 1972 to 1984, a founder of the Canadian Canon Law Society and an honorary life member of every canon law society in the English-speaking world. From 1985 to 2001 he advised the Vatican as a consultor to the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts.

NORTEP was established in 1976 and developed by Keith Goulet, who was contracted by Northern School Boards, now the Northern Lights School Division. At the time, the teacher turnover rate in northern Saskatchewan was more than 80 per cent and the frequency of teacher departures was causing instability for students.

The new program was designed to make teacher training available to people who would stay in the North, without forcing them to leave for their studies.

Born 4 November 1913 in Rochester, Alberta; daughter of Anthony Dulaska and Veronica Pylypas; entered 12 January 1933; first vows 15 August 1934; final vows 15 August 1940; died 18 February 1978.

Born in the rural Athabasca village of Rochester, she was the daughter of immigrants - a Polish father and Eastern Slavic mother. Baptized and confirmed in the Greek rite, Jessie attended the public school for nine years in Rochester and then remained at home to help with the family. In January 1933 at the age of 20, she travelled east to join the Sisters of Service. A dilemma arose about her Eastern Rite baptism. The Apostolic Delegate decided that she did not require a dispensation from the Eastern Rite for first vows, which she made on August 15, 1934 and final vows in Halifax six years later.

Fluent in eight European languages, including Polish, Ukrainian and Slovak, Sister Dulaska was assigned immediately to the Halifax mission to assist and welcome the newly-arrived immigrants at the city’s Pier 21. When she arrived in the 1934, immigrants were arriving from Slovakia, Poland, Germany, Ukraine, Yugoslavia, Hungary and Greece before the Second World War (1934-1942) and after the war (1947-1962). She also met immigrants at the port in Quebec City during the summer of 1949.

In Halifax for more than two decades, she worked with newcomers, waiting for the ships to arrive, welcoming and helping the European immigrants, perhaps remembering the experience of her parents. Through her languages and dedication, she acted as a bridge between the unfamiliar Canadian customs and old-world conditions, offering sympathy and kindness, often in their native language. . Assistance involved finding baggage, sending telegrams, making telephone calls, procuring food, distributing Catholic literature in appropriate languages, visiting the detention quarters, immigration hospital, giving rosaries, medals, religious cards, prayers books, newspapers and magazines.

During the Second World War, Sister Dulaska returned to Western Canada from wartime Halifax to resume her education under Sister Catherine Donnelly in Edson (1942-1943) and in Sinnett, Saskatchewan (1943). After an illness, she was assigned to the catechetical mission in Regina (January-June 1944) and the Winnipeg residence for the summer of 1944 before returning to Edson (1944-1947) for hospital duties.

After the Second World War, immigration increased. In September 1948, the sisters assisted 12,373 Catholic passengers landing in Halifax. By December 1954, the numbers rose to 28,113 Catholic passengers from 183 ships. Off the port, Sister Dulaska was much in demand to interpret for Displaced Persons seeking employment under a federal government program.

With the declining numbers of immigrants, she departed Pier 21 in 1962. Back in Western Canada, Sister Dulaska as the housekeeper at the teaching mission of Rycroft, Alberta (1962-1972), also visited non-English-speaking Canadians, enjoyed the pleasures of gardening and baked a generous supply of cookies for the altar servers. When the Rycroft mission was closed in 1972, she served in Regina and Edmonton (1973-1974) and in Spirit River, Alberta (1974-1977) with Sister Madge Barton. The pair visited many pioneer families and assisted in the research in the history of this Northern Alberta area. Diagnosed as a diabetic in 1947, she underwent a foot amputation in fall of 1977. Back at the community's Edmonton residence, she died from an insulin shock on February 18, 1978 at the age of 67. A funeral Mass was held in St. Joseph’s Cathedral with Fr. John Spicer, C.Ss.R. concelebrating with Archbishop Anthony Jordan, OMI., Frs. C. Landrigan, J. Holland and J. Hesse. Her body was buried in the community’s plot in St. Joachim’s cemetery in Edmonton.

Ian Cronyn Parker (1945-2017) was a political economist and professor at the University of Toronto, born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His work centred on Marxist economics and the influence of communication media on economic development, and he was closely affiliated with the Harold Innis school of thought.

After leaving Winnipeg, Parker received a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from the University of Waterloo before attending the University of Toronto, where he received a Master of Economics and English in 1968. During this degree, his studies focused on the work of seventeenth-century English poet Andrew Marvell. As a volunteer with Canadian University Service Overseas (CUSO), he worked with the National Development Corporation of Tanzania for three years. He then pursued a PhD in Economics at Yale, submitting of his thesis Studies in the Economics of Communication in 1977. Parker began teaching in the Economics Department at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) campus shortly thereafter in 1981, where he continued until his retirement in 2016. He regularly taught courses on the history of economic theory and thought, and on Marxist economics. Parker has stated that he considered teaching his “true calling” (“Ian Cronyn Parker.” Dignity Memorial. March 2017).

Parker authored numerous publications as both a student and a professor, ranging from reports for the Government of Manitoba, conducted during his master’s degree at U of T, to several editions of the textbook Microeconomics and Behaviour in the 2010s. Much of his work focused on specific research interests such as Keynes's theory of probability in relation to economics, the economics of the Internet, and implications of fixed capital for the economics of communications systems. Later in his career, from the early 2000s until his retirement, he returned to writing predominantly about Andrew Marvell and early modern poetry.

Parker had been a student and friend of William Thomas James Easterbrook, an influential chairman of the U of T Department of Political Economy and protegé of Harold Innis. Prior to his passing, Easterbrook had been working on a book, North American Patterns of Growth and Development: A Continental Approach. Parker adopted Easterbrook’s manuscript and acted as editor to publish this project posthumously in 1990.

The ways in which the creators of archival records identify themselves and are identified by others is a key contextual aspect of understanding their perspectives and approach. Ian C. Parker identified as a Caucasian, heterosexual man of Scottish and English descent. This information has been sourced from Parker’s partner.

Grace Butler Yeats (fl. 192-) was a student of McGill University’s Institutional Administration class at Macdonald College, now known as Macdonald Campus. She was president of the Administrator class during her junior year, and graduated in 1923.

Frank Butler Yeats was a student of the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, Chemical Engineering program, graduating in 1924. He was a member of the North House University Residences from 1922-1924.

Vernon Hope Emory was born in Toronto in 1897, the son of Vernon H. Emory, an Anglican clergyman, and his wife, Margaret Adams. He attended Harbord Collegiate and spent a year in St. Kitts before entering Victoria College in 1915. In 1917 he transferred to the Applied Chemistry program in the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, obtaining his BASc degree (honours) in 1921. After graduation he obtained employment with Abitibi Pulp and Paper Company in Iroquois Falls and in the 1932 was hired by the Fraser Paper Manufacturing Company in Edmunston, New Brunswick. At the time of his retirement in 1962 he was manager of manufacturing, pulp and board. He died in Edmunston on 10 February 1970. His sister was Florence Helen Maud Emory.

Audrey Yvonne Morris was a writer, civil servant, and one of the first women to receive undergraduate and Master’s degrees in Political Studies at the University of Toronto. She attended the university from 1948 to 1954, and lived in the women’s residence at Whitney Hall for the duration of her undergraduate degree. After completing her Master’s degree in 1954, she wrote her book about Susanna Moodie and Catherine Parr Traill entitled Gentle Pioneers: Five Nineteenth-Century Canadians, which was first serialized in Chatelaine Magazine before being published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1968.
As a young woman, Audrey lived and worked as a civil servant and speech writer in Ottawa before moving to Winnipeg, where she established her own consultancy, Morris Associates. She also worked as a ghost writer throughout her career.

David Lewis Stein (1937-2019) was a journalist, novelist, adjunct professor at the University of Toronto, and a Toronto political activist. Stein’s journalism and other writings often centred around civic politics and life in Toronto, which positioned him at the forefront of local political movements throughout his career. He was a founding member of The Writers Union of Canada.

Stein graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and English in 1960, after which he began a long career in journalism. He wrote for Macleans Magazine in the early 1960s before moving to Paris to write for The International Herald Tribune from 1965-1967. In 1969, he moved back to Toronto and began working for The Toronto Star, where he would write as a municipal affairs columnist for over 30 years. He also returned to U of T to begin a Master of Science, Urban and Regional Planning, which he completed in 1974. During his Master’s degree, he became a Fellow and part-time lecturer at Innis College, where he would return to teach as an adjunct professor after his retirement from The Toronto Star in 2001.

Through his work and personal life, Stein became a central figure in Toronto’s municipal politics, reporting on issues such as the development of the Spadina Expressway and the Eaton Centre. He had served as a board member for the Housing Design Council of Canada, the Annex Ratepayers, the Jewish Community Centre, the Southern Ontario Newspaper Guild, and was an active member of the Shaarei Tzedek Synagogue.

Outside of journalism, he authored both fiction and non-fiction, including four novels, numerous short stories, three non-fiction books, and a play.

How creators of archival records identify themselves and are identified by others is a key contextual aspect of understanding their perspectives and approach. David Lewis Stein identified as a Caucasian, heterosexual man of Jewish ethnicity. This information has been sourced from Stein’s family.

Joseph Boyle was born on July 30th, 1942, in Philadelphia, PA to a devoutly Catholic family. His early education, including primary and secondary, was done in a Catholic environment where he would continue this streak by attending the college division of St. Charles Seminary located in Philadelphia in 1960, learning Latin and introducing him to philosophy, before eventually transferring to LaSalle University where he completed his Bachelor of Arts. In his final year of his B.A. he applied to Georgetown University’s graduate program in philosophy, and began his doctorate at Georgetown in 1965, where he met his lifelong collaborator and friend, Germain Grisez, then a professor there who taught Boyle in a course on the ethical theory of St. Thomas Aquinas in the Spring of 1966. In the same year, Boyle would marry his wife, Barbara Dean, having four children over the course of their marriage, Marion, Thomas, Deirdre, and MaryAnne.

In the summer of 1966, Boyle undertook a direct readings course on Longeran under Grisez and would continue to have him as a tutor and director for when he completed his dissertation titled “The Argument from Self-Referential Consistency: The Current Discussion” between the spring of 1968 and fall of 1969, receiving honors for his dissertation and earning his PhD in 1970.

While completing his PhD, he worked a temporary college-level teaching job at St. Fidelis College where he taught philosophy to Capuchin seminarians in small classes, providing a good foundation and learning space for Boyle to begin his career as a philosophy professor. In 1970, he would be hired as an assistant professor at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan where he would teach for five years, becoming active in founding and leading the local pro-life group which pushed Boyle to work more in bioethics and moral philosophy. It was also during this time that him, Grisez, and another friend, Olaf Tollefsen, would collaborate on a book on free choice which was finished in 1975.

For the 1975-76 academic year, Boyle would complete a one-year residency at Brown University, working under Roderick Chisholm and begin seriously working on the philosophical topic of intention. Through another resident, Thomas Sullivan, Boyle would be hired at the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul Minnesota, in 1976 where he would continue to collaborate with Grisez, most notably in a co-authored volume on euthanasia and Boyle’s assistance with Grisez’s large project on moral theology, finished in 1980.

In 1981, Boyle left his position at the College of St. Thomas to work at the Centre for Thomistic Studies at the University of St. Thomas in Houston. During this time, Boyle would collaborate once again with Grisez and another friend, John Finnis, on common work, eventually culminating in the publishing of a co-authored book on nuclear deterrence, published in 1987.

In 1986, Boyle would be offered a position at St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto. Before his movie to Toronto, Boyle participated in a conference on moral theology, meeting and becoming friends with the famous philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe. By 1989, Boyle was elected president of the American Catholic Philosophical Association and in 1991, became Principal of St. Michael’s College filling the position for two terms from 1991-2002. After his terms as Principal, Boyle returned to the classroom and research, publishing works on theory of action and practical reason, while also completing two shorter administrative tasks as interim and acting chair of the University of Toronto’s Philosophy Department from 2008-2009.

Boyle would also act as a Fellow in the James Madison Program at Princeton from 2010-2011 and lead a philosophy of religion reading group at the Department of Philosophy of UofT from 2013-2016 after his retirement.

Boyle’s philosophical work focused on a variety of different topics including end of life issues such as provision of nutrition and hydration at end of life, palliative sedation, allocation of scarce resources, and the distinction between ordinary and extraordinary care. His other work on nuclear deterrence as well as end-of-life ethics, bioethics, and new natural law theory relied heavily on his work on intention, side effect, and the principle of double effect which have been widely cited and discussed.

Boyle died in Toronto, Ontario on September 22nd, 2016 surrounded by his family.

Terry Gadsden is a composer of music for films – including Brokeback Mountain, Charlie's Angels-Full Throttle; commercials including - Kellogg's cereals, Infiniti Automobiles; and television including Sesame Street, Better Call Saul, Lil Glooscap And The Legends Of Turtle Island.
Gadsden’s career in the film industry began in 1968. He has worked as a director, editor, composer, producer, writer, art director, assistant director, location sound recordist, lighting, voice talent director, budgeting, camera assistant, translator, cinematographer, sound designer, postproduction supervisor, production planner, scheduling, cost estimating, advertising agency producer, title designer, special effects, casting, sound mixer, ACTRA signator, and client liaison.
Gadsden has worked for many years out of Toronto, Canada but then moved to Miramichi, New Brunswick. He started off in the film business as a full time film editor and part time composer and then transitioned into a full time composer of music tracks and part time film editor.
Gadsden has composed over 750 stock music tracks for BMG (New York), Sound Ideas (Toronto), and DeWolfe Music Ltd (London England).

Lenny Stoute was a prolific writer who mainly focused on music journalism but also wrote travel articles and fiction. He was born on September 28, 1945 in Georgetown, Guyana. He moved to Montreal where his brother was for a few years as a young man and then moved to Toronto in the 1970s. He never married but had two children.
According to Stoute, he got his break into music writing in 1970 when he travelled to Detroit on assignment for a small music magazine to cover a Canadian band and ended up landing an interview with Bob Seeger. In the next fifty years he continued to write numerous articles for newspapers like The Globe & Mail, Eye Weekly, and the Toronto Star. In the 1990s he wrote a weekly column for the Star entitled Club Crawl. He wrote about all genres of music from rock to pop to hip hop. He even wrote about opera and classical music. He was known for his distinctive writing style and for championing indie artists.
Stoute also travelled widely and wrote travel articles about places such as Mexico, Paris, and Greece. He was a prolific photographer and wrote fiction. He self-published three fiction books: This Plague of Love, Getting to Human, and Lockdown, Tales from the Pandemic.
Stoute passed away on September 22, 2024 at the age of 78.

The School of Hygiene was initiated in 1924 and opening in 1927. The School was dissolved in 1975 and partially succeeded by the Division of Community Health of the Faculty of Medicine. Several public health crises, including the SARS epidemic of 2003, spurred a resurgent interest in public health in Canada. The School was reborn in 2008 and renamed the Dalla Lana School of Public Health.

Dr. Harvey Moldofsky is a world-renowned specialist on sleep disorders, chronic pain and fatigue, and chronobiology. He is Professor Emeritus of the Faculty of Medicine and Member Emeritus, Institute of Medical Science, School of Graduate Studies at the University of Toronto, and formerly Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine. From 1993-2000 he served as the founding Director of the University of Toronto Center for Sleep and Chronobiology. In addition to serving in various administrative positions at the university, university-affiliated hospitals and institutions, national and international scientific organizations, and professional organizations, he served from 1998-2003 as a medical assessor for the Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal of Ontario.

Born in Toronto, he attended Harbord Collegiate Institute and then earned his M.D. from the University of Toronto in 1959. He subsequently pursued postgraduate training in psychiatry in Vancouver, Toronto, London and San Francisco. In 1966, he was appointed Staff Psychiatrist at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry of Toronto, the first in a long line of appointments within hospitals in Toronto and at the University of Toronto.

Throughout much of his career together with his colleagues and students, he has been studying sleep physiology and biological rhythms. His interests have included sleep/wake-related immune, cytokine and neuroendocrine functions in various conditions including long-term space flight. Early research studies were devoted to eating disorders, Tourette's Syndrome, and rheumatic disease. For more than 30 years he has studied the cause and treatment of illnesses characterized by chronic musculoskeletal pain, fatigue, and nonrestorative sleep, which became known as fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome.

In the 1990’s, he was the Principal Investigator on a team that worked with NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to study the effects of spaceflight, microgravity, and sleep/wake immune functions (SWIF) in humans. This research included numerous sleep experiments with astronauts and cosmonauts on the Mir Space Station.

He has received many local, national and international awards and honors, including the regional award of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada for his long-standing contributions as a medical educator. In honour of his contributions, in 1989 his friends and associates established The Dr. Harvey Moldofsky Scholarship for Psychiatric/Neuroscience Research, which is awarded annually to a medical student of the University of Toronto.

He died in Toronto on August 15, 2025.

Dr. James M. Estes is a historian of early modern European history and Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Toronto, Victoria College.

Peter Yeung (楊國雄) was born and raised in Hong Kong. He graduated from the School the Chinese in The University of Hong Kong. Afterwards, he began working in The University of Hong Kong Libraries. Later on, he pursued a second degree in Librarianship in the University of Hawaii. Upon returning to Hong Kong, he was appointed the first hon. librarian of the Hung On-To Memorial Library (孔安道紀念圖書館) in 1974. Yeung migrated to Canada in 1990. He became an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto and also made the first Coordinator of the Canada-Hong Kong Resource Centre between 1994 and 2005.

Yeung is respected for his dedication in collecting and researching the history of Hong Kong in books and newspaper. Both the Hung On-To Memorial Library and Canada-Hong Kong Resource Centre are well-known for their significant newspaper microfilm collection. Important publications of Yeung include 舊書刊中的香港身世, 香港身世:文字本拼圖, 香港戰前報業 etc.

Sir Kan Yuet Keung (簡悅強爵士) was born in Hong Kong on July 26, 1913 in a family of banker. His father Ka Tong Po (簡東浦) is one of the founder of The Bank of East Asia (東亞銀行). He went to Diocesan Boy's School in 1925 and and the University of Hong Kong in 1930 where he acquired a Bachelor of Arts degree. With the hope of helping with his father's bank business, he pursued a law degree in The London School of Economics and Political Science in 1935. In 1940, he earned the practicing qualification as a solicitor in the UK and Hong Kong alike. After his return to Hong Kong, he joinned Lo & Lo as a senior partner. With his father passing away in 1963, he shouldered the responsibility of Chairman of Bank of East until 1983.

But Sir Kan was more well known for his career dedicated to civil services in Hong Kong. Between 1960 to 1980, he served muiple positions in his capacity as Unofficial Member (非官守議員) in the Executive and Legislative Councils, including as Deputy Commissioner of Civil Aid Service (民眾安全服務隊); chairman of Finance Committee of the Legislative Council (立法局財務小組委員會), Transport Advisory Committee (交通諮詢委員會), The Consumer Council (消費者委員會), and Standing Commission on Civil Service Salaries and Conditions of Service (公務員薪俸及服務條件常務委員會); and member of Hong KOng Housing Authority (香況屋字建設委員會), Chinese Temples Committee (華人廟宇委員會), and The Hong Kong Council of Social Service (香港社會服務聯會). Kan was one of the most outspoken Chinese representatives in the Legislative Council and his contributions were instrumental to social growth in the 1960s to 1970s. His career witnessed critical issues such as transportation policy, establishment of ICAC, and right of abode in the UK. Other than internal affairs, Sir Kan represented Hong Kong in the international landscape. From 1970 to 1975 and 1979 to 1983, he was appointed the Chairman of the Hong Kong Trade Development Councils. He spearheaded numerous trade talks in Asia, Europe, and North America furthering Hong Kong's trade interests. He also led delegations to China to negotiate for Hong Kong's future. In particular, he accompanied Governor Murray MacLehose (總督麥理浩) first visit to Deng Xiaoping (鄧小平) in 1979.

Sir Kan achievement were recognized by the many honour he received from the royal family. He was first awarded the OBE medal in 1959, Knight Bechelor in 1972, and then he was the only one of two Hong Kongers granted the Knight Grand Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1979. He retired from most of his positions in 1983. living a low-profile life afterwards. He passed away on September 14, 2012 in Hong Kong.

Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library (利銘澤典宬), officially launched on March 6, 2008, is the successor of the Canada-Hong Kong Resource Centre (加港文獻館). CHKRC was established in November 8, 1994 to house the data and reference materials collected by the Canada-Hong Kong Resource Project (加港研究計劃). Initially operating under the Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies (JCAPS), the Resource Centre became a part of the University of Toronto Libraries as JCAPS dissolved and transitioned to the York Centre for Asian Research. The Resource Centre first relocated to Room 8001 in the John F. Robarts Library [in 2003]. Following a generous endowment by hon. Vivienne Poy, it became the Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library, opening in its current location on March 6, 2008. It was supervised by founding Director Jack Leong (梁恒達) between 2007 to 2020 and second director Maria Lau (劉麗芝) from 2022.

The Library inherited the Canada-Hong Kong Project database and had collected extensively on materials related to the history and culture of Hong Kong. It provides resources and space to accommodate the continuous growth of research interest in Hong Kong and its relation to Canada. Its holding includes over 40,000 books, 5000 periodicles, and archival materials, making it the largest research library of its kind outside of Hong Kong.

Bernard Luk (陸鴻基) was born and raised in Hong Kong. He earned a BA in the Department of History in The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1969 and a PhD in History from Indiana University in 1977. He took on multiple public and educational roles. He taught at the Faculty of Education of The Chinese University of Hong Kong before immigrating to Canada in 1990. In 1990, he initiated and co-directed the Canada-Hong Kong Project (加港研究計劃) with Diana Lary in 1990. The project studied impact of Hong Kong migration to Canada and the process of acculturation of Hong Kong immigrants, which later led to the birth of the Canada-Hong Kong Resource Centre (加港文獻館) that provided access to reference materials collected by the project. The Resource Centre eventually became the RIchard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library at the University of Toronto. In 1991, Luk joined the History Department at York University.

On leave from York between 2003 and 2007, he servced as the vice-president of Hong Kong Institute of Education (香港教育學院). During a dispute against then Education Minister Arthur Li Kwok-cheung over government interventions, Luk stood firm defending of the soverignty and academic freedom of the Institute. Luk was widely praised for his devotion to justice and social principles. After the incident, Luk returned to York University as professor in History.Luk was an internationally recognized authority on the history of Hong Kong. He authored and co-edited 14 books and numerous articles on Hong Kong.

Luk passed away in Sunnybrook Hospital, North York, Ontario after suffering a stroke on March 23, 2016.

Stanley Kwan (關士光), best known as the "Father of Hang Seng Index" (恒指之父) is a Hong Kong banker, writer, and history enthusiasts. Kwan was born in a traditional Chinese banker family in January 10, 1925. His uncle Kwan Wai Chow (關懷州) owned two money shop (銀號) in Sheung Wan, where his father Kwan Tsai Tung (關濟東) worked. In 1931, Kwan went to Western District School (西環小學), which was registered as an "overseas Chinese" school with the Nationalist government's Ministry of Education (南京國民政府教育部). In every morning assembly, he would sing San Min Zhu Yi (三民主意) and recite Sun Yat-sen's Last Will and Testament. This upbringing nurtured his sense of patriotism and care for the motherland. In 1937, he began attending King's College, but the second world war broke out before he could finish high school education.

In 1943, he finished a translator training of the Military Affairs Commission (國民政府軍事委員會), acquiring Lieutenant title. He was dispatched to the Burma campaign to helped train driver and supervise the building of the Burma Road (滇緬公路). After the war, Kwan had gone through different careers until he entered Hang Seng Bank in February 1962 to lead a the research department. Under the direction of Ho Sin Hang (何善衡), Kwan researched and created the Hang Seng Index (恒生指數) that was officially published on November 24, 1969. In 1974, he was commissioned by the Hong Kong government to research and further release released the Hang Seng Consumer Price Index (恒生消費物價指數). To this date, the Hang Seng Index is still the ultimate capitalist measurement of Hong Kong's market.

Kwan retired in 1984 and immigrated to Toronto, Canada in the same year. Other than enjoying the new life in his apartment in Scarborough, he began writing miticulously. He published his Chinese autobiography 七十年來家國: 一個老香港的回憶 in 1999 and English bautobiography The Dragon and the Crown: Hong Kong Memoirs in 2011. He also wrote several private papers on Battle of Hong Kong, China's issues, and his new found faith in Christianity. He passed away in Scarborough Grace Hospital on December 31, 2011.

David Hui (許之遠) was born in 1935 in Kaiping, Guangdong Province, China. During the Korean War in 1950, he went to Hong Kong with his father where he worked as a shoemaking apprentice until he was 18 years old. In 1957, he passed Taiwan's Joint College Entrance Examination (大學聯合招生考試) and entered the College of Law, National Taiwan University (國立臺灣大學法律學院), where he earned a Bachelor of Laws degree in Economics. After graduating in 1961, he spent a year working as a Chinese and History teacher in Wellington College (威靈頓英文中學). In the next year, he flew to Canada on September 1962 to pursue another degree in marketing reserach in McMaster University, Ontario. But after a few gap years working in Shell Oil Canada to make a living, he decied to complete a Master of Arts degree at the Department of East Asian STudies, University of Toronto instead, which he compelted in 1979.

Hui is a writer, editor, artist, and public intellectual whose works span across literature, poetry, memoir, visual art, and cultural history. Active across mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Canada, he contributed extensively to Chinese-language print culture, including as a contributor to Sing Tao (星島報業), Hong Kong Times (香況時報), 中央日報 (Central Daily News), Taiwan Shin Sheng Daily News (新生報), Youth Daily News (青年日報), China Daily News (中華日報), Great News (大成報) etc. Publishing more than 50 books, his writings and artistic practice address subjects ranging from the history of Toronto’s Chinatown to Chinese calligraphy and painting and personal and collective memory. His literary work has been recognized for its expressive range and stylistic depth, drawing on classical Chinese literary traditions while combining emotional resonance, lyrical clarity, and incisive critical voice. He is recognized as an early and influential advocate of “Chinatown literature” in the Canadian Chinese literary context.

Hui also played significant public roles in the cultural and political sector. He served as a legislator in Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan (立法院) from 1990 to 1993 and later as an advisor to the Mayor of Taipei from 1995 to 1998. He taught briefly at Shih Hsin University (世新大學) in Taipei and held leadership roles in several literary and artistic organizations, including the World Poets Conference, the Ontario Chinese Artists Association, and the Toronto Chinese Writers Association (多倫多華人作家協會). He represented the Hong Kong Chinese PEN Club (香港筆會) on multiple occasions at PEN International congresses. Now retired and residing in Markham, Ontario, Hui remains active in literary and cultural circles through writing, public engagement, and artistic practice.

Huang Chen-ya (黃震遐) is a neruologist and pro-democrat politician of Singaporean decent. Huang was born in Shanghai on November 4, 1939 and moved to Singapore with his father on 1949. He spent his adolescence in Singapore, subsequently acquiring a Bachelor of Science from The University of Sydney in 1961 and a Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery from The Hong Kong University in 1966, and a Master of Medicine from the University of Singapore in 1971. Afterwards, he spent 10 years in Australia furthering his studies in neurology until 1981, when he returned to as a lecturer in The Hong Kong University. He held multiple public roles that include President of Federation of Medical Societies (香港醫學組織聯會), member of the Preparatory Committee for Hong Kong Academy of Medicine (香港醫學專科學院籌委會), and also member of Law Enforcement and Crminal Injuries Compensation Board (暴力及執法傷亡賠償董事會).

With the handing over of Hong Kong to China in the horizon, Huang became increasingly active in politics. In 1984, he founded the Hong Kong Affairs Society (太平山學會) and served as its first president. The Society rallied for progress in democracy and the constitutional implementation of the Sino-British Joint Declaration (中英聯合聲明). In April 1990, The Society dissolved and Haung, together with the majority of his associates, joined the United Democrats of Hong Kong (香港民主同盟). This party would later become the Democratic Party (民主黨) in a merger with Meeting Point (匯點) in 1994. Huang was elected to the Legislative Council in the first dircet elections through the Hong Kong Island West constituency in 1991, and then re-elected again in 1995 until the democrat legislator boycotted the Legislative Council in 1997. He also ran for the 1991 District Board elections and won the seat at the Southern District (南區區議會), which he held until 2003. Since then he stepped back from his career, but he remained active in medicine and wrote on topics related to culture, society, and healing. His publications include 醫說樂韻: 從醫學角度看音樂及文化歷史 and Paintings and Medicine (醫與醫—一位腦科醫生的視點).

The Hong Kong Federation of Women's Centres (香港婦女中心協會) (HKFWC) is a non-partisan organization that supports grassroots women and promote gender equality in Hong Kong through an array of services, education, and advocacy. It was created and operated by women, with the mission of promoting Women's rights, developing women's individual potential, advising decision-making bodies through collaborative efforts, and pioneering women-focused resources and services.

HKFWC was initially founded as a subsidiary organization of the Hong Kong Council of Women (HKCW). Following the War on Rape Campaign in 1979, the HKCW set up a Steering Committee to assess the needs and feasibility for a community centre that offers social services to grassroot women. This nurtured the establishment of the Women's Center, marked by the opening of a telephone helpline on May 5, 1981. The centre operated in the back office of former Urban Councilor, Elsie Elliot, until 1985 when it moved into the ((Lai Kok Estate (麗閣邨)** premises in Shum Shui Po. Its distinctive identity and directives eventually led to its independence from the HKCW in 1992, after which the Centre renamed to the Hong Kong Federation of Women's Centres.

Following its independence, HKFWC continued to expand its network of services to other districts in Hong Kong. In 1996, a second centre was opened in Tai Wo Estate, Tai Po (大埔太和邨). In 2014 and 2016 respectively, two new centres premiered in Fanling (Women in Self Enhancement centre) and Sheung Shui to extend the reach to North District. 2019 witnessed another milestone when Jockey Club Wah Fu Centre, the first service unit on Hong Kong Island, was set up.

HKFWC's contribution to women's welfare were recognized by governing bodies locally and abroad. In 1989, it was granted membership of the Community Chest (公益金). In 2002, it acquired Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.

To obtain charitable status with tax exemption, Hong Kong Federation of Women's Centres Limited was established in 2015. The transfer of HKFWC to the compnay limited by guarantee was completed in 2023, and the existing HKFWC formed under Societies Ordinance was dissolved.

Hong Kong Council of Women (香港婦女協會) was formed as a non-governmental organization in August 1947 to help coordinate the efforts of individual women and existing women's organizations in terms of social and civic affaris of the colony. Being affiliated with the International Council of Women, HKCW followed its footsteps in striving for the rights and wellbeing of women. The constitution of HKCW mandated that its objectives are to promote welfare and human rights of women, promote conditions of life of children, removing legal, social, and economic barriers on women, coordinate organizations within boundary of these purposes, and raise funds for the said objectives. HKCW extended its influences through holding meetings on subjects of interests, forming sub-committees, convening conferences and inquiries, and submitting recommendations to the colonial government.

HKCW has carried numerous campaigns that led to legislative changes in Hong Kong. In 1950s, they began rallying for separate taxation, which allows married couples to undergo taxing assessment individually. In 1960, a joint campaign with 140 other groups was launched to change marriage laws, demanding complete eradication of the concubinage system. HKCW joined the Federation of Asian Women's Association (FAWA), creating a presence not just in Hong Kong, but also South east Asia. In the following decades, HKCW continued to strive for women's benefits, including relaxation of abortion laws, introduction of maternity benefits, increased employment opportunities and vocational trainings for married women.

In 1981, HKCW set up a Steering Committee to assess the needs and requirements for a community centre that provides women-focused social services. This led to the establishment of the Women's Center, that would later become the Hong Kong Federation of Women's Council. In 1984, several office and storage facilities were acquired from Union Church in Kowloon to provide venues for women's refuge. The Harmony House for battered women opened in April 1985, and Lai Kok Estate was fitted as the premise for the Women's center.

HKCW gradually ceased to operate from mid-1980s. The records of the organization was partially deposited in the Government Records Service of Hong Kong in 2000, and partially transferred to the Hong Kong Federation of Women's Centres.

Chan Kiu (陳橋) is a Hong Kong photojournalist best known for his esteemed career at the South China Morning Post (SCMP), where he was a key figure in the development of contemporary photojournalism in Hong Kong. Born in Hong Kong to a working-class family, he received a primary-level education. He entered photography in the early 1950s, taking instant photographs of tourists at Tiger Balm Garden using box cameras. In 1956, he joined The English Tiger as a darkroom technician and later undertook photographic assignments, particularly at sports events, while studying English part-time.

Chan joined the South China Morning Post in 1959 as a full-time staff photographer, becoming one of the first generation of Chinese photojournalists in Hong Kong’s English-language press. He was promoted to Chief Photographer in 1976, a position he held until his retirement in 1987. Known for his exceptional news sense and sound judgment, Chan received numerous awards for his photojournalism, including six Certificates of Honour from the World Press Photo Contest, as well as recognition from industry organizations such as the Newspaper Society of Hong Kong and Nikon Corporation.

During nearly three decades at SCMP, Chan documented many of the most significant political, social, and cultural events in Hong Kong’s postwar history, including refugee movements from mainland China, the 1967 disturbances, major anti-corruption investigations, royal visits, the arrival of Vietnamese boat people, and the Sino–British negotiations over Hong Kong’s future. The South China Morning Post estimated that he produced more than 40,000 rolls of film during his career.
Chan’s photographs were widely published and professionally recognized, and his work remains an important visual record of Hong Kong during a period of rapid transformation. After retiring in 1987, he emigrated to Canada in 1993 and settled in Vancouver, where he died on 6 April 2024 at the age of 96.

The Canada-Hong Kong Resource Centre (加港文獻館) (CHKRC) began as a joint facility of University of Toronto and York University, operating under the Canada and Hong Kong Project (加港研究計劃) of the Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies (JCAPS). The project was initiated in 1990 by Diana Lary and co-directed by Bernard Luk. By a grant from the Donner Canadian Foundation to York University, the project is able to conduct a longitudinal study of the impact of the Hong Kong migration to Canada and the process of acculuration of Hong Kong immigrants. In light of Hong Kong reunification to China after 150 years of free enterprise, it also collected and provided information to the public on the unfolding situation.

Establishment of the CHKRC in 1994 marked the completion of phase 1 of the project, when over 40,000 volumes of monographs, periodicalsand 780 reels of microfilm had been collected. Thanks to a set-up grant from the Hong Kong Bank of Canada (HSBC), a physical location in 1 Spadina Crescent officialy launched on 1994-11-08. It incorporated the database created in Phase 1 and provided a venue for research into Hong Kong, its citizens and immigrants in Canada. With Peter Yeung appointed Coordinator of the CHKRC, collecting efforts developed exponentially. Holdings at the CHKRC soon outgrew the space in 1 Spadina Crescent. In 2001-02-01, CHKRC moved into the new location in Munk Centre for International Studies. The space was named Ming Chak Hin" (銘澤軒) to honour the father of Hon. Vivienne Poy, who pledged a generous donation.

In 2002, the University of Toronto and York University ended 29 years of collaboration at the Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies. JCAPS transitioned to the York Centre for Asian Research and the Canada-Hong Kong Resource Centre was incorporated into the University of Toronto Libraries. It temporarily moved to Room 8001 in the John F. Robarts Library around 2003. With an additional endowment from Hon. Vivienne Poy, CHKRC offically became the Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library (利銘澤典宬) on March 6, 2008 and relocated to its current location opposite Room 8001 on 8th floor of the John F. Robarts Library.

The Hong Kong Affairs Society (太平山學會) was a pro-democracy groups that was formed by a group of middle class professionals in 1984. It began as a political commentary entity with a primary focus on Hong Kong's future and constitution in face of the handover to China in 1997. With around 20-strong likeminded democrats in the beginning, its notable members include Doctor Huang Chen-ya (黃震遐醫生), Chwo Wai-keung (周偉強), Albert Ho (何俊仁), Carson Wen (溫嘉旋), Man Sai-cheong (文世昌) etc. The Society is one of the three most prominent political parties in its time, along with Meeting Point (匯點) and Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood (香港民主民生協進會). It published the *Our Views on the Basic Law of Hong Kong (我們對基本法的意見) on August in the same year. In 1986, the Society joined the Joint Committee on the Promotion of Decmocratic Government (民主政制促進聯委會) advocating for direct election in 1988 Legislative Council election. Around the same period, the Society also became increasingly active in local and district board elections. They participated in the 1986 and 1989 Urban and Regional Council elections, as well as the 1985 and 1988 District Board elections. They earned total of 4 seats in local elections and 11 seats in district board elections through the Society's history. The Society faded out of existence in April 1990 as most of its leaders and members joined the newly established United Democrats of Hong Kong (香港民主同盟), which was a forerunner of the Democratic Party (民主黨).