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Scarborough Campus Students’ Union (SCSU) (formerly Scarborough Campus Students’ Council SCSC) was established in 1966, and is an elected student body that represents the undergraduate student body of the University of Toronto Scarborough. The union consists of an executive team that oversee the main activities and a board of directors composed of students from different disciplines to represent a larger student interest. Yearly elections are held to vote in student members for the school year. The SCSU also operates different committees that allow students to have a forum to be able to drive the work done by the union. Throughout its time there have been changed to the structure of the union to better support students.

Through campaigns and advocacy, cost-saving services, and events and programming, the SCSU aims to support students’ needs, interests, and overall experience while at UTSC. Campaigns and advocacy by the SCSU led to the development of the UTSC residences, creating of a library and the student center, and working to reduce fees for students. There are also a range of bursaries, a health and dental plan and other savings that are offered for students. Events such as cultural and spirit days, and first year frosh are organized by SCSU to promote student interactions and unity within the student body. Currently, the SCSU also operates and manages the Student Centre and a restaurant 1265 Bistro, to aid in providing services and support for students.

Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe was born in 1762, the daughter of Thomas Gwillim and Elizabeth Spinkes. Her father died seven months prior to her birth, and her mother died in childbirth. She was in the care of her mother’s sister, Margaret, who was married to Admiral Samuel Graves. Through this connection, she met John Graves Simcoe. Through a sizeable inheritance from her mother and father, she was able to purchase and restore Wolford Lodge, which would serve as the Simcoe family estate. She accompanied her husband to Upper Canada in 1791, alongside her two youngest children, Sophia, aged 2, and Francis, aged 3 months.
Throughout her five years in Upper Canada, Elizabeth Simcoe maintained an active social and artistic life. She was a leader in the social life of the province and served as an unofficial secretary and cartographer for her husband. She was an accomplished artist, and the time spent in Upper and Lower Canada was well-documented through her sketches and water colours. She was also an avid diarist, recording many of her experiences in the province.
In 1796, she returned to Wolford Lodge, where she would live for the remainder of her life. She remained active as an artist, and although she maintained active correspondence with friends in Upper Canada, she never returned. She died in 1850 at the age on 87.

The Simcoe family was part of the landed gentry of Great Britain. The family first came to prominence during the 1750s when Captain John Simcoe commanded the British vessel HMS Pembroke, which took part in the British military’s expedition to Quebec. Simcoe died of pneumonia on the vessel prior to the sieges of Louisbourg and Quebec. During his career he established connections with leading naval officers including Admiral Samuel Graves, who served as godfather for his eldest son, John Graves Simcoe.
John Graves Simcoe was born at Cotterstock, England in 1752 as the only surviving child of John and Katherine Simcoe. He was educated at Oxford and entered the army as ensign of the 35th Foot in 1770. He was posted to Boston at the beginning of the American Revolution in 1775, arriving two days after the Battle of Bunker Hill. His agitation for the creation of a special formation of light infantry led to the creation of the Queen’s Rangers in 1777, which he commanded with the rank of Major. The Rangers were active in campaigns in Pennsylvania, Richmond and Yorktown. He was invalided home in 1781 as a Lieutenant-Colonel.
Simcoe married Elizabeth Posthuma Gwillim in 1782. He spent nine years as a half-pay officer, during which time he managed the newly-purchased Wolford Lodge, pursued military promotions and appointments, and corresponded with members of his former command about land claims and problems faced by loyalists. He briefly served as a member of British Parliament from 1790 until 1791 but took little part in debates. On September 12, 1791, Simcoe received a commission to become the first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada. The position was established following the Constitutional Act of 1791, in which the western portion of the Province of Quebec was established as a separate entity—Upper Canada—with its own Lieutenant-Governor and Assembly. Simcoe, however, was still made subordinate to Guy Carleton, who was commissioned as governor-in-chief of both Upper and Lower Canada.
Simcoe arrived in Newark (now Niagara-on-the-Lake), the capital of Upper Canada at the time, in 1792. In his capacity as lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada, Simcoe was instrumental in organizing the first civil government of the colony. In his first legislative session, he passed bills establishing British civil law, trial by jury, and a provision for jails and courthouses. Additionally, Simcoe began the process of road construction and the survey of town and rural lots on which British settlement were to be based. Simcoe passed the Act Against Slavery on July 9th, 1793, aimed at ending the sale of enslaved people by Canadians to Americans, and liberating freedom seekers entering from the United States. It did not, however, free adults who were enslaved already residing in Canada. Simcoe’s other duties included maintaining good relations with the Indigenous nations in territory ceded to the United States in 1783 .
In 1796, Simcoe returned to England on leave, and in 1797, was appointed as commander of a British expeditionary force dispatched to capture the French colony of Saint-Domingue (present day Haiti) during the Haitian Revolution. In Saint-Domingue, he was tasked with fighting against the rebellion of the island’s enslaved population that was working with the French Republic. He only spent eight months in this position and returned to England in the same year. In 1799, Simcoe accepted command of the Western District, where he organized and planned defensive measures against an expected invasion from France. In 1806, he was then appointed as commander-in-chief of India but became seriously ill during a diplomatic mission to Portugal and died shortly after returning to England.

Eliza Simcoe was the eldest daughter of John Graves and Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe. She was born ca. 1784 and lived until 1865. She resided at Wolford Lodge throughout her life, alongside her three younger sisters born before Simcoe’s term in Upper Canada. Simcoe took an active part in the promotion of the careers of other members of the family, particularly John K. Simcoe, an officer in the Royal Navy. She also worked to preserve the papers and memory of her parents. Eliza may have been responsible for the arrangement of her mother’s sketches into binders and scrap books.

Francis Gwillim Simcoe was born in 1791, accompanying his parents—John Graves Simcoe and Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe—to Upper Canada, where he spent his infancy and early childhood. In 1793, John Graves Simcoe purchased a tract of land east of the town of York, and built a summer residence, naming it Castle Frank in his son’s honour. At age 17, he entered the British army as an Ensign, and in 1809, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant and assigned to Wellington’s army in Iberian Peninsula. He took an active part in the campaigns in Portugal and Spain and was fatally wounded during the assault on the Portuguese town of Adajos in 1812.

Albert Jackson was born November 2, 1857, in Delaware, US. The son of an enslaved mother and free father, Jackson was also born into enslavement. Jackson’s father died before he was born, stricken with grief after his two oldest sons were sold by their enslaver. In 1858, when Jackson was less than one year old, his mother, Ann Maria Jackson, escaped enslavement, and travelled with him and his six remaining siblings on the Underground Railroad. They initially landed in St. Catharine's before making their way to Toronto. In Toronto, the family stayed briefly in St. John’s Ward with Thornton and Lucie Blackburn, fellow freedom seekers who had established Toronto’s first taxi business.
On May 12, 1882, Jackson was appointed as a letter carrier and was to work at the Toronto General Post Office. On his first day, however, his White colleagues refused to train him due to anti-Black prejudice. He was subsequently demoted to the position of caretaker. Canadian media discussed Jackson’s demotion widely in the following weeks. On May 29, members of Toronto’s Black community, including members of Jackson’s family, held a public meeting at the Richmond Street Methodist Church to protest the demotion. On May 30, a group of five Black Torontonians led by community spokesperson George Washington Smith met with Prime Minister Sir John A. MacDonald to demand that Jackson be reinstated in his position. MacDonald complied and reinstated Jackson as a letter carrier three days later.
Jackson married Henrietta Jones in 1883, and the couple had four sons: Bruce, Richard, Alfred, and Harold. They purchased several homes in Toronto. Throughout his life, Jackson also participated in several Black community groups, including the British Methodist Episcopal Church at 94 Chestnut St., and the Black fraternal organization, the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, Peter Ogden Lodge.
Jackson remained a letter carrier until his death in 1918. In 2024, the Government of Canada recognized Jackson as a person of national historic significance.

Widow of Ambrose Small, a wealthy Canadian businessman who disappeared in 1919, Theresa Small (nee Kormann) was a Catholic and financial supporter of the Sisters of Service.

O'Connor served as the senator for Scarborough Junction, Ontario, December 6, 1935 – August 21, 1939, as part of the Liberal Party of Canada. He was the Founder and President of Laura Secord candy company.

The Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart, was founded in Penola, South Australia in 1866 by an Australian woman Mary Helen MacKillop and an English priest Reverend Julian Edmund Tenison Woods. The Sisters of Saint Joseph were different from other religious congregations living in Australia during the late nineteenth century. The sisters lived in small groups of two or three in country areas often where there was no established Catholic Church structure.

A of 2025, there are over 600 Sisters of Saint Joseph living in communities in Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, Ireland, Peru, Timor-Leste and Brazil. The sisters are engaged in pastoral work as well as in professional roles which include teaching, administration, social services, law, psychology, nursing, aged care, community development, adult education and support for new arrivals in Australia and New Zealand.

Founded by Fr John Corcoran Wallis to serve in rural and outback communities of Tasmania, those "beyond the reach of the care and supports so readily available to others", the Missionary Sisters of Service are an Australian group of Catholic women religious. Over the years the community expanded its outreach to include those marginalized in more urban areas.

The International Union of Superiors General was canonically established in 1965, inspired by Vatican Council II, in order to promote deeper collaboration between women’s congregations of Apostolic Religious Life. The history of the UISG began in 1951, when Pope Pius XII called an extraordinary meeting of Superiors General who had their generalate houses in Rome. The purpose of this meeting was to initiate a national council of religious. As a result of this meeting the sisters based in Rome continued to meet on a regular basis.

The first visible fruit of those encounters was the establishment of Regina Mundi - the Pontifical Institution which allowed Women Religious to study theology in Rome. The organization that subsequently emerged, called the International Union of Superiors General was officially approved by the Vatican Council on its final day, December 8, 1965. The aim of UISG was to create ways for women religious to be in dialogue with one another, with the Church authorities and with global organizations. Between March 1st and 12th 1967, 104 Superiors General representing 65 countries gathered in Rome for the first International UISG General Assembly with the theme "The Church View of Religious Life Today".

Raymond Yew Kwong JAI 謝耀光 was born on January 29, 1916, in Vancouver to JAI Kee, a tailor from Panyu (Punyu番禺) county in Guangzhou (Canton廣州), and QUON (?) See. He was the youngest of 5 children and his father passed away when he was little. Unable to support the family on her own, Raymond’s mother decided to take the children back to China, where the Jai family clan could help raising them. Raymond lived in Canton with his family and received classical Chinese education, developed deep interests in Cantonese Opera and music, calligraphy and martial arts, which he carried on for the rest of his life. He could sing, play the violin, banjo, flute, as well as a variety of Chinese instruments, such as erhu, pipa, yangqin (yong kum揚琴), and other percussion instruments.

Being Canadian-born, Raymond was able to return to Vancouver in 1934 at the age of 18 despite of the Chinese Exclusion Act in effect. He found a job in a restaurant for living and soon joined the Vancouver Ching Won Musical Society as a music teacher and violinist. He met his singing student Beatrice Lew there, who would become his future wife. Beatrice relocated to Toronto with her sister in 1950, a move that she never regretted because there was less racism and better opportunities. Raymond decided to join Beatrice, and they got married in Toronto on June 1,1951. Together, the couple raised their only daughter, Julie Jai, whom they adopted in 1961.

Raymond continued to work in Chinese restaurants to support this small family. His photographic memory of faces and great personalities made him liked and respected by everyone he met. When he retired at the age of 70, he was the maître d' at Lichee Gardens restaurant where he had worked for many years.

Besides work, the couple was very involved in Cantonese Opera communities both locally and back in Vancouver and helped found the Yet Hoy Cantonese Music Club in 1964. Raymond mostly took roles in the music department, in various positions such as music director, conductor and principal percussionist. He prepared role-specific notations on music scores and libretti, wrote tailor-made scores for Julie to inspire her interest in Cantonese Opera, as well as numerous educational materials for teaching traditional Chinese music and instruments. When new ideas came, Raymond would jot them down on any scrap paper that he could find handy, including the back of flyers, menus, guest check slips from the restaurant he worked at, as well as drafts that Beatrice made for her work.

Raymond had good manners on stage, a great sense of humor and exceptional public speaking skills. He was often asked to be the emcee for different celebrations and banquets, both for Yet Hoy performances and social events held by other groups and associations. Raymond also remained close connection to his Jai (謝, also spelled as Tse/Der/Xie in different pronunciations) family clan since he returned to Canada. He actively participated in gatherings and other activities at the Chau Luen Kon Sol (association for five family clans of Tan/Tam 談, Tan/Tam/Hum/Hom 譚, Xu/Hoi/Hui/Hoy許, Xie/Jai/Tse/Che/Der 謝 and Ruan/Yuen/Ngen阮) in Vancouver and Toronto, and became the leader of the Jai family clan later in life. Julie recalls that “I now recognize how significant his accomplishments were in keeping Cantonese opera alive in Canada and supporting the Chinese community in Toronto, all while working six days a week at a restaurant job and supporting a family.”

Raymond passed away peacefully in his sleep at the age of 88 on September 15, 2004.

Born 5 September 1920 in Windsor, Ontario, daughter of Edward Kelly and Emma Fischer; entered 2 August 1942; first vows 2 February 1945; final vows 2 February 1950; died 11 January 1999.

Beatrice Jai 廖瑤華 was born LEW Yew Wah into a Chinese immigrant family in Vancouver on January 30, 1928 to Bak-Ho LEW 廖崇岳 (1880-1960), a farmer from Xinhui county in Guangdong province, and Lily Hong Far LEW 廖黃杏花 (1893-1990). Beatrice was the second youngest of eight children: Chew (1914-1985), Chuck, Henry, Arthur (1926-2019, often referred to as Art), Pat, Florence (often referred to as Flo), Beatrice herself and Betty.

She grew up during a time when the Great Depression and anti-Chinese sentiment severely influenced the Chinese communities in North America. For many Chinese laborers that were stranded in this foreign land and had little hope of reunion with family ever again, Cantonese Opera was one of the very few things, that could bring comfort and a sense of belonging after longs days of repetitive, hard labor. Like many other Chinese people in Canada during this time, the Lews poured a lot of passion and devotion to Cantonese Opera activities.

Following in the footsteps of elder siblings, Beatrice and Betty started performing on stage in Cantonese Opera and music societies (namely the Vancouver Ching Won Musical Society) at a young age, mostly doing acrobatics and singing; here Beatrice developed a lifelong passion for Cantonese Opera and met her music teacher Raymond Jai, who later became her love of life. Beatrice’s beauty, confidence, and charming characteristics made her stand out even amongst a group of stars within the Chinese community. As a child performer, she was fondly referred to as “the Chinese Shirley Temple” by the local mainstream media; people today still remember her as “the Chinese Audrey Hepburn” who always had a beautiful infectious laugh. Beatrice studied at both the Vancouver Chinese Public School (primary school) and a local middle school for girls where most students were white. She was one of the few people that were more Westernized amongst Canadian-born Chinese group, and “seemed equally at home in Chinatown or in English Canadian society”.

Beatrice didn’t have a chance to go to university after finishing high school. Around 1950, she decided to move to Toronto with her sister Flo, where they believed would have less racial discrimination and better opportunities. Raymond moved to Toronto a year later and they got married in 1951.

Beatrice worked for many years as an educational assistant at Church Street and Lord Landsdowne Public Schools where she was famous for her creative bulletin boards and craft projects with the kindergarten class. Outside of work, she and Raymond actively participated in local Cantonese Opera groups (and remained close connection with back in Vancouver too) and were the founding members when the Toronto Yet Hoy Cantonese Music Club was first established in 1964. Beatrice often played the leading actress role in various Yet Hoy events, putting on full makeup and wearing traditional Cantonese Opera costumes; sometimes she would play Yangqin 揚琴 (Yong Kum) or sing Cantonese operatic songs for non-acting events, wearing Cheongsam (旗袍) or suits instead of traditional costumes.

Beatrice and Raymond worked hard and were determined to establish their new life in Toronto: they managed to purchase a home in Rosedale and had great joy raising their daughter Julie together, whom they adopted in 1961. They brought young Julie to all their Cantonese Opera rehearsals and performances and taught her to sing and act Cantonese Opera. Beatrice tried every effort to make sure that Julie had the opportunities in life that she had missed, including university education. They were especially proud to see Julie’s professional achievements and personal adventures. Beatrice enjoyed gathering with extended family and close friends regularly and was always remembered as the beautiful, elegant and gifted Auntie Bea by her nephews, nieces and other children of friends, as a “role model for [the children] growing up in [both the Chinese and the English-speaking world]”.

After retirement, Beatrice enjoyed reading, knitting, playing mahjong and card games with friends. She would proudly speak of Julie to her friends and show them Julie's Yukon photographs. On August 24, 2017 , she passed away peacefully at the age of 89.

Neil McNeil, was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vancouver from 1910 to 1912 and Roman Catholic Archbishop of Toronto from 1912 to 1934. As the Archbishop of Toronto, he helped guide the canonical establishment of the Sisters of Service and is recognized as a Co-Founder of the Institute.

Vicariate Apostolic of the Oregon Territory, 1843-1846
Diocese of Vancouver Island, 1846-1863
Vicariate Apostolic of British Columbia, 1863-1890
Diocese of New Westminster, 1890-1908
Archdiocese of Vancouver, 1908-1936

On February 22nd 1936, His Holiness Pope Pius XI erected the Diocese of Nelson to cover the Kootenay and Okanagan regions of southeastern British Columbia.

In 1862, the Apostolic Vicariate of Athabaska-Mackenzie covered most of northern Alberta, part of northern Saskatchewan, and Northwest Territories. In 1890, Bishop Emile Grouard was appointed the Apostolic Vicar and remained in that post until his retirement in 1929. In 1901, the Vicariate of Athabaska-Mackenzie was split into two: the northern portion became the Vicariate of Mackenzie (Northwest Territories) and the southern portion became the Vicariate of Athabasca (northern Alberta). The Vicariate of Athabasca was renamed the Vicariate of Grouard in 1927. Finally, on July 13, 1967, the Vicariate of Grouard was renamed and elevated to the Archdiocese of Grouard-McLennan, by Saint Pope Paul VI.

On April 16, 1838, Father (Bishop) Blanchet received ‘Letters of Appointment’, designating him as ‘Vicar General’ of the Columbia Territory, all the lands and settlements between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. This later became the Diocese of Vancouver Island, and renamed the Diocese of Victoria.

Boyd Raeburn (1927-2001) was a Canadian science fiction fanzine writer. Born in New Zealand, Raeburn relocated to Toronto as an adult, where he joined the Toronto Science Fiction Society, also known as the Toronto Derelicts. Raeburn, Ron Kidder, Howard P. Lyons, Pat Patterson, and Ger Stewart helped to revitalize the Toronto Science Fiction Society in 1953 and called themselves the Derelict Insurgents.

Raeburn’s first fanzine, Á Bas, began as a publication of the Derelict Insurgents in 1954. After the first issue, however, Raeburn served as the sole editor of the zine until its final issue in 1959. Á Bas was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Fanzine in 1956.

Raeburn also published Le Moindre for FAPA (the Fantasy Amateur Press Association), of which he was a member from 1955 until his death in 2001. From 1963 to 1967 he worked alongside Ontario fans Norm Clarke and Georgina Ellis to publish Queebshots.

Besides his fanzines, Raeburn also gained repute within fandom for being one of the “Balcony Insurgents” at NYCon II in 1956, who occupied a balcony to hear cartoonist Al Capp speak without having to pay for the convention’s dinner, and for coining the term “sercon,” or “serious constructive,” to refer to fans more interested in critical discussion of science fiction, as opposed to those primarily interested in discussing fan activity itself.

Established in 2003, the Catherine Donnelly Foundation is the human and financial legacy of the Sisters of Service, a group of women religious. The Foundation is a living testament to the Sisters' tradition of response to need in communities across Canada.

The Foundation honours and builds upon the spirit of service and dedication that inspired Catherine Donnelly, the founder of the community. It affirms the inherent dignity of every person and the sacredness of creation. It seeks to extend the Sisters' radical commitment to social change and to empower the marginalized.

The Foundation is a lay-religious alliance that supports projects and programs designed to promote social and ecological justice and to engage those that have been overlooked and excluded.

Born 19 May 1922 in North Bay, Ontario; daughter of James Patrick Allen and Olive Walden; entered January 1952; first vows 15 August 1954; final vows 15 August 1959; died 14 June 2005.

One of 10 children, Katie grew up in North Bay, attending St. Mary’s Academy and graduating from St. Joseph’s School of Nursing in North Bay in 1944. After graduation, she worked as a registered nurse at St. Joseph’s hospital, North Bay, where she cared for the Dionne quintuplets and their mother and became head of the maternity ward. Nurturing a vocation, she was encouraged to join the Sisters of St. Joseph. Instead, she decided entered the Sisters of Service at the age of 29 in January 1952, she professed first vows on August 15, 1954 and final vows four years later on that day. A brother, Richard, was ordained in the Diocese of Sault Ste. Marie.

Arriving in August 1953 at St. John’s Hospital in Edson, Sister Allen began a 36-year association with the Edson mission, earning the distinction of being the longest-serving Sister of Service in the railway community of central Alberta. As a staff nurse, Sister Allen was Director of Nursing Services and Director of Patient Care at the community's two hospitals. Her assignment in Edson was interrupted once with an appointment to Our Lady’s Hospital (1963-1970), Vilna, the community's other hospital in Alberta. During that time, she studied at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, earning a diploma in Hospital Administration. Appointed superior in 1967, Sister Allen facilitated the negotiations of the community's withdrawal from the management of the hospital in June 1970. Returning to Edson as the administrator of St. John’s Hospital (1970-1989), she also oversaw the transfer of St. John’s Health Care Complex to the Edson Municipal District.

After retiring from nursing in 1989, Sister Allen devoted her time to Sacred Heart parish and the people of Edson. Visiting in the hospital and nursing home as a volunteer and as a Eucharistic minister, Sister Allen also conducted ecumenical funeral services in Roman Catholic, Anglican, United Church and Presbyterian churches due to the clergy shortage. In 1995, the town of Edson named Sister Allen its Senior Citizen of the Year.

When the Edson mission was closed in 1996, Sister Allen and Sister Dorothy Daley joined the community's retired Sisters in Toronto at Scarborough Court (1996-2005) and LaSalle Manor for a few months before she died of a heart attack on June 14, 2005 at the age of 83. The wake service and the Mass of Christian Burial were held in the chapel of LaSalle Manor. Her brother Father Richard Allen concelebrated the Mass with Father Roger Keelor, former pastor of Sacred Heart Church in Edson. Burial followed in the community's plot at Mount Hope cemetery in Toronto.

Gerard Brender à Brandis (1942 - ) is a Canadian wood engraver and bookwright. He was born in the Netherlands in 1942 and moved to Canada with his family in 1947 at the age of 5, living in British Columbia and Nova Scotia before moving to Burlington, Ontario. Brender à Brandis obtained a Bachelor in Fine Arts from McMaster University in 1965. During this time, he began wood engraving. After graduation, he moved to Carlisle, Ontario, where he established the Brandstead Press in 1969. In early books printed by Brandstead Press, Brender à Brandis’ wood engravings would accompany poetry and short texts written by family members or other poets. In 1980, The Porcupine’s Quill published Wood, Ink and Paper, containing 80 reproductions of Brender à Brandis’ engravings. Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, he provided wood engraving illustrations for publishers such as The Borealis Press, McClelland and Stewart, and the Quarry Press. In 1986, Brender à Brandis closed the Brandstead Press, and moved to Stratford, Ontario in 1991, where he currently resides and maintained an open studio until 2019.

During the Fall of 2003 Sister Margaret Myatt, CSJ, Congregational Leader of the Sisters of St.Joseph of Toronto, and members of her Leadership Team invited the leaders of other women and men Roman Catholic Religious Congregations to gather and to explore how together they could collaborate to respond to some of the greatest unmet needs in the Archdiocese of Toronto. Nineteen religious congregations established Becoming Neighbours, a Joint Apostolic Ministry (JAM) in the form of a 2-year, Host Program Pilot Project in November 2005. The first Ministry Director was hired April 24, 2006. In September 2007, Becoming Neighbours, a Joint Apostolic Ministry was established as their permanent ministry. Consultation with settlement agencies revealed that there is a tremendous need of assistance for new comers during the first stage of settlement in Toronto.

Becoming Neighbours' Vision: [as per their website]
-Provision of a companionship program that matches newcomers to Toronto with established Canadians who provide a presence and act as friends, guides and mentors during their initial adjustment in Toronto to Canadian society.
-Promotion of cultural integration and enrichment while assisting immigrants/refugees to become active and fully participating members of the community.
-Provision of opportunities for formation through in-service and reflection.
-Engagement in theological reflection and analysis as a guide in addressing both the immediate needs of newcomers to Canada and issues that require systemic change.

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.