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Bruce Kidd is a Canadian athlete, scholar, teacher, university administrator, and social justice advocate. He was born July 26, 1943 in Ottawa and grew up in Toronto in a family deeply committed to education and children’s rights. He excelled academically and athletically from an early age. As an amateur runner between 1958 and 1964, Kidd achieved international prominence, holding multiple world junior records, winning 18 national championships, earning gold and bronze medals at the 1962 Commonwealth Games, and representing Canada at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. His athletic success brought early national recognition, including the Lou Marsh Trophy (1961) and induction into Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame (1968), setting the stage for a lifelong engagement with sport beyond competition.

Kidd pursued an extensive academic path, earning degrees from the University of Toronto (BA, 1965), the University of Chicago (A.M., 1968), and York University (MA, 1980 and PhD, 1990). After early work in journalism, international education in India, public service in the Ontario government, and political activism with the NDP, he began a long academic career at the University of Toronto. From 1970 to 2025, he held numerous teaching, research, and leadership roles, including Director (1991-1997) and Dean (1997-2010) of what became the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education, Warden of Hart House (2011-2015), Principal of the University of Toronto Scarborough (2014-2018), and University Ombudsperson (2021-2025). His scholarship spans Canadian sport history, the political economy of sport, human rights, gender equity, and the Olympic movement, and includes more than a dozen books and hundreds of articles and lectures.

Alongside his academic work, Kidd has been a volunteer and advocate at the local, national, and international level, shaping sport policy, athlete rights, and development initiatives for decades. He played key roles in campaigns for athlete funding, the anti-apartheid sport movements, Olympic education, dispute resolution in Canadian sport, and leadership development across the Commonwealth. His contributions have been recognized with numerous honours, including the Order of Canada (2004) and the Canadian Olympic Order (2005).

In 2021, he published his memoir A Runner’s Journey (Toronto: University of Toronto Press)

For a complete timeline of Kidd's career, see the biographical note in the PDF finding aid for the Bruce Kidd fonds.

Pope Paul VI established the Secretariat for non-Christians, which would later be called the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, and then the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue. The goal of this body is to support dialogue and cooperation with peoples of non-Christian faith traditions.

The Pontifical Council COR UNUM ("one heart") for Human and Christian Development was established by Pope Paul VI with his Letter of Institution Amoris officio, dated 15 July 1971. The goal of this body was to express "the care of the Catholic Church for the needy, thereby encouraging human fellowship and making manifest the charity of Christ".

Beverley Jones was a lawyer who was born 11 June 1839 in Brockville, Ontario, one of three children of Sidney Jones and Susan Ford. Jones was educated at Brockville Grammar School and Upper Canada College before graduating with a BA in 1860 and an MA in 1877, both from Trinity College. He was called to the bar in 1864 and began working in the office of his cousins, Jones Brothers. In 1861 he enlisted in the volunteers at Brockville during the Trent Excitement and served in the Queen’s Own Rifles during the Fenian Raid of 1866.

In 1864 Jones joined the Canada Permanent Mortgage Co. as a solicitor and remained in an advisory role there until his death. In 1873 Jones became the bursar of Bishop Strachan
School, a private school for girls in Toronto. Jones served as a delegate to the diocesan synod for nearly 50 years as a representative of the congregation of St. George’s Church. He also served as secretary of the Canada Law Amendment Association, and was one of the founders of the Industrial Schools Association, serving as treasurer for 30 years. Jones was
committed to providing homes for children and established industrial schools for boys and girls, founding the Victoria and Alexandra schools in Mimico and East Toronto. In Jones 1888 drafted the bill known as the Juvenile Offenders Act which provided for a separate trial for juveniles and allowed children under age fourteen to be committed to certain institutions or charitable societies to be taken care of and educated.

Beverley Jones died in Toronto, Ontario in 1934, at age 95.

The Apostolic Signatura is the supreme tribunal responsible for the administration of justice within the Catholic Church.

The Apostolic Penitentiary is the body in the Catholic Church responsible for overseeing all matters of indulgences. It also responsible for the absolution of excommunications, sacramental impediments, censures, dispensations, commutations, validations, remissions and other favours.

In 1967, the Congregation for the Erection of Churches and Consistorial Provisions was renamed the Sacred Congregation for Bishops. It was changed to a Dicastery in 2022. This body is responsible for appointing new bishops to the Catholic Church, except in mission areas and Eastern Catholic Churches.

Dr. Cornelia Baines and Dr. Anthony Miller led the National Breast Screening Study (NBSS), a randomized controlled trial aimed at evaluating the role and impact of screening mammography and physical examination in reducing mortality from breast cancer for women aged 40-49. The study also aimed to determine whether mammography provides additional benefit beyond routine physical breast examinations for women aged 50–59. This study, which involved the participation of nearly 90,000 women across Canada, influenced public policy around the implementation of breast cancer screening programs in Canada and abroad.

Professor Emerita at the University of Toronto's Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Dr. Cornelia “Corrie” Johanna Baines (1935-2025), née van Erk, was a physician, epidemiologist, researcher, and educator. Most notably, Dr. Baines was one of the two lead investigators of the Canadian National Breast Screening Study, and an expert witness on the health impact of wind turbines for the Ontario Task Force for Environmental Health.

Dr. Baines completed her Medical Degree (MD) at the University of Toronto in 1960 before practicing as a physician at the Toronto Western Hospital. After her time at the Toronto Western Hospital, she completed a Master of Science (MSc) in Epidemiology, specializing in Design, Measurement and Evaluation, at McMaster University, Hamilton in 1980. Her areas of research included the effect on health of wind turbines, the influence of conflicts of interest on health policy, and the efficacy of breast cancer screening.

Dr. Baines was a Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences for 40 years until her retirement. She also held positions at the University of North Carolina, Toronto Western Hospital, and Oxford University. In addition to her academic career, she was a Senior Fellow of Massey College and a Director of the Canadian MedicAlert Board for over a decade. Dr. Baines also volunteered her time to many organizations including the Ontario Forestry Association, Canadian Professors for Peace in the Middle East, and the Grey County Historical Society, amongst others.

Dr. Baines was married to Dr. Andrew D. Baines who is best known for his nephrology research and for developing the Stowe-Gullen Stream of the Vic One Program at Victoria College. The couple met and married while in medical school at the University of Toronto. They have two kids: Nicole and Nigel. Dr. Baines passed away in August 2025.

UAWC (founded in 1929) and UTWA (founded in 1982) were amalgamated in March 2020. The University Arts Women’s Club-University of Toronto Women’s Association (UAWC-UTWA) ceased operation as of June 30, 2024

David Laurence is a Toronto based photographer / photo-illustrator, whose work has appeared in numerous publications over the years, including; the Globe & Mail, Toronto Life, Elle Decoration, Saturday Night Magazine, NOW Magazine, Canadian Art Magazine, Air Canada’s enRoute Magazine, Chatelaine, Canadian Screenwriter Magazine, Information Highways Magazine, Canadian Business Magazine, Quill and Quire, Maclean’s Magazine. Corporate publication clients have included Royal Trust, HSBC, Hydro-One and Ontario Place.
His work has been exhibited in Mexico City, San Francisco and Canada, including representation by the former Jane Corkin Photography Gallery, Toronto and his photo-illustration has been represented by stock agency First Light Associated Photographers. Awards include a National Magazine (Canada) Gold Award for portrait photography and several CAPIC awards for digital imaging.

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.

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).

In 1908 St. Pope Pius X renamed the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition to the Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office.

This body continued the work of its predecessor and was responsible for the religious discipline of the Catholic Church. This included defense against heresy and promulgating Catholic Doctrine.

The Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is the body intended “to promote and defend the doctrine of the faith and its traditions in all of the Catholic world”. When the name was changed in 1965 from the Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office, its methods for doctrinal examination were updated: " over the punitive tendency of condemnation, the positive disposition of correcting from the errors, together with protection, preservation and promotion of the faith, prevailed." The Index of Prohibited Books was also ended at this time.

With the Apostolic Letter Fidem serve (11 February 2022) and the Apostolic Constitution Praedicate Evangelium on the Curia Romana and its service to the Church and the World (19 March 2022), the Congregation was renamed a Dicastery.

This body was established by Pope Gregory XV with the publication of the Papal Bull Inscrutabili Divinae Providnetiae (June 22, 1622). Soon after, other foundational papal documents followed: Romanum decet (published on the same day), Cum inter multiplices (December 14, 1622), Cum nuper (June 13, 1623), and Immortalis Dei (August 1, 1627).

This body was responsible for the transmission and dissemination of the Catholic faith throughout the world, particularly, coordinating and guiding the Church's missionary efforts.

Following the renaming of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples was established.

This body is responsible for the transmission and dissemination of the Catholic faith throughout the world, particularly, coordinating and guiding the Church's missionary efforts.

In 2022, the Congregation was renamed a Dicastery.

"The competence of the Dicastery is to promote, encourage and regulate the practice of the evangelical counsels, how they are lived out in the approved forms of consecrated life and all matters concerning the life and activity of Societies of Apostolic Life throughout the Latin Church."

With the Apostolic Constitution Praedicate Evangelium, dated 19 March 2022, the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life was renamed a Dicastery.

This body was responsible for the oversight of institutes of consecrated life (both men and women) as well as secular institutes and societies of apostolic life. The Congregation was responsible for promoting and regulating their governance, disciplines, constitutions, etc.

In 1908, Pope St. Pius X, by the Apostolic Constitution Sapienti Consilio, separated the Congregatio pro consultationibus episcoporum et aliorum prelatorum into two insititutions, forming the autonomous Congregation for Religious.

This body was responsible for the oversight of institutes of consecrated life (both men and women) and societies of apostolic life. The Congregation was responsible for promoting and regulating their governance, disciplines, constitutions, etc.

In 1967, Pope Paul VI renamed the Congregatio de Seminariis et Studiorum Universitatibus (Congregation for Seminaries and University Studies) to the Sacra Congregatio pro institutione Catholica. This body, as the Congregation for Catholic Education (for Seminaries and Institutes of Study) was responsible for overseeing Catholic universities and seminaries.

In 2013, Pope Benedict XVI transferred to the Congregation for Clergy "he competences related to the promotion and governance of everything pertaining to the formation, life and ministry of priests and deacons, to vocation ministry and to the selection of candidates for Sacred Orders, including human, spiritual, doctrinal and pastoral formation in seminaries and in centers for permanent deacons, as well as those that concern their ongoing formation. As regards priestly formation, the Congregation for Catholic Education continues to be responsible for the organization of academic studies in Philosophy and Theology." At this time, the Congregation's name was changed to Congregatio de Institutione Catholica (de Studiorum Institutis).

In 2022, the Congregation for Catholic Education was merged with the Pontifical Council for Culture to form the Dicastery for Culture and Education.