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Abel, Albert Salisbury

  • https://viaf.org/viaf/35771325
  • Person
  • 1906-1978

Albert S. Abel was born in Iowa and studied at Harvard University. He was professor of law at the University of West Virginia before coming to the University of Toronto in 1955. He was known as a specialist in constitutional law and on environmental issues such as pollution. He died May 6, 1978

Aberdam, Alfred

  • https://viaf.org/viaf/55037491/
  • Person
  • 1894-1963

Abingdon Press

  • http://viaf.org/viaf/138484018
  • Corporate body

Abols, Gesta Janie "Gus"

  • Person

President, Students' Administrative Council, University of Toronto, 1969-1970.

Acker, Mark

  • http://viaf.org/viaf/11838157
  • Person

Acland, James Headly

  • https://viaf.org/viaf/89947492
  • Person
  • 1917-1976

James Acland was professor of architecture in the University of Toronto School of Architecture from 1958 until his death in 1976. His main research and teaching interest was in historical architecture of the medieval period.

James Acland was born in Toronto in 1917. After attending Ecoles des Beaux Arts and McGill University in Montreal, he graduated from Syracuse University New York with a B.A. in Architecture in 1942. During World War II, he worked on factory designs and from 1942-1945 was with Canadian Army Photo Intelligence. After obtaining an M.A. in Philosophy from Harvard University in 1952, he returned to the study and teaching of architecture and held positions at the University of Utah and the University of British Columbia. In 1956, he returned to his hometown to become associate professor and later professor at the University of Toronto’s, School of Architecture.

Both his research and teaching focused on the history of architecture. Much of his research related to land use and how it affects architecture, the development of complex towns in the medieval period and early European building traditions. His study in these areas resulted in several articles and culminated in his book Medieval Structure: The Gothic Vault, University of Toronto Press, 1972. The subjects he taught related directly to his interest on the history of architecture and included courses such as the History of Medieval Architecture, Renaissance Architecture, European Tradition of Framed Building, Mediterranean Tradition of Mass and Shell Building, Medieval Structures, to list a few.

Starting in 1962, Acland popularized his ideas on the history of architecture by appearing in two CBC television series Man in a Landscape and Wall and Window. In these shows, and many to follow, he was the speaker, actively developed the script and provided photographs, and drawings. Through the 1960s, he continued to be involved in television programming and educational films.

Acland’s interest in the history of architecture led him to become an advocate of architectural and heritage conservation. In the 1960s, he was active in the Stop the Spadina Committee and, as chair of the Friends of Old City Hall, he was instrumental in saving Toronto’s Old City Hall (now the City Court House) from demolition. From 1969-1971, he was president of the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario and organized a computer inventory of historic buildings through the National Historic Sites Service. Many of his articles related to his conservation work. His work with Eric Arthur on maritime architecture most certainly did – Building by the Sea, University of Toronto Press, 1962. James Acland died on June 22, 1976. He was still teaching in the School of Architecture and was writing a history of house and street.

Acres, Henry G.

  • Person

Student in mechanical and electrical engineering at the Ontario School of Practical Science from 1900-1903.

Adam Chapnick

  • F2341
  • Person
  • 1976-

Adam Chapnick was born in Boston, Massachusetts on 1 August 1976, the son of Lorne and Sharon Chapnick (née Ritter). He was the first of three children. He was educated at the University of Toronto Schools, Trent University, the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (Carleton University), and the University of Toronto. He was a co-director of the University of Toronto’s Teaching Assistants’ Training Programme, 2003-2005. He was a sessional instructor at the University of Toronto between 2003 and 2006, and a sessional instructor at Ryerson University between 2007 and 2009. He has taught defence studies at the Canadian Forces College, a part of the Royal Military College of Canada, since 2006. He is the author or editor of numerous books and scholarly publications.

Adamis, Michael

  • http://viaf.org/viaf/206311197
  • Person
  • 1929-

Adams, Manette Fishwick

  • Person
  • 1926-2016

Manette Fishwick Adams was born in Roanoke, Virginia on January 5, 1926. She received her BA degree from Hollins College and her MA degree from Yale University. She died at Whitney Center in Hamden, Connecticut on November 17, 2016.

Adaskin, John

  • https://viaf.org/viaf/104827481
  • Person
  • 1908-1964

John Adaskin, conductor, radio producer, administrator, and cellist, was born in Toronto on June 4, 1908 and died in Toronto on March 4, 1964. He was the first program director of the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission in 1934 and an ardent supporter of Canadian composers and young musicians. In 1961, he was appointed executive secretary of the Canadian Music Centre where he established the "Graded Educational Music Plan" to promote Canadian music in schools. After his death, this project was renamed the "John Adaskin Project".

Adaskin, Murray

  • http://viaf.org/viaf/114551502
  • Person
  • 1906-2002

Addison, Margaret Eleanor Theodora

  • http://viaf.org/viaf/47099800
  • Person
  • 1868–1940

Margaret Eleanor Theodora Addison was born in 1868 in Horning's Mills, Ontario. She graduated from Victoria College in 1889 with a B.A. and was awarded the silver medal and 1st class honours in Modern Languages. After graduation, she taught in high schools and at the Ontario Ladies' College in Whitby. In 1900 she travelled to Europe to study educational methods and was inspired by women's higher education there, particularly with the sense of college life that women students had; made possible through ensuring that they had space on campuses, something that Victoria College had lacked when Addison had attended. Back in Toronto, one of her goals to make a residence for women at Victoria had become a reality. Annesley Hall, the first women's residence was opening in 1903 and Addison had been asked by Mrs. Burwash, the President of the Victoria Women's Residence and Educational Association (later the V.W.A), to serve as Dean of Annesley Hall. In 1920, she was appointed as and Dean of Women at Victoria University, to reflect that not all women lived on campus. She served in this role until 1931 when she retired. Addison was also involved with the International Y.W.C.A., the Student Christian Movement, and the University Club. Margaret Addison died in 1940.

Adlen, Michel

  • https://viaf.org/viaf/15983243/
  • Person
  • 1898–1980

Adler, Jankel

  • https://viaf.org/viaf/2480239/
  • Person
  • 1895-1949

Aerts, Yvonne

  • http://viaf.org/viaf/3154440036235340740
  • Person
  • 1928-

Agee, William M.

  • http://viaf.org/viaf/18585215
  • Person
  • 1938-2017

Aguayo, Sergio

  • http://viaf.org/viaf/110616728
  • Person
  • 1947-

Ahern, Niall

  • http://viaf.org/viaf/169278968
  • Person

Ahmad, Aziz

  • https://viaf.org/viaf/4952470
  • Person

Professor of Middle East and Islamic studies, University of Toronto.

Aide, William

  • https://viaf.org/viaf/91227781
  • Person
  • 1938-

William (John) Aide is a pianist, teacher, and writer born March 27, 1938. He received is LRCT (1959) and Artist Diploma (1959) from the University of Toronto and a B SC in music from Juilliard (1962), studying with Alberto Guerrero and Beveridge Webster respectively.

Aide joined the faculty at the University of Toronto in 1978, and in 2000 became the inaugural holder of the University's R.E. [Rupert E.] Edwards Chair in piano performance, a position that he hed until 2013. Aide was appointed a member of the Order of Canada in 2012.

Aird, John Black

  • Person

Chancellor of the University of Toronto.

Aitken, Robert

  • http://viaf.org/viaf/102407278
  • Person
  • 1939-

Aitken, William Ewart Maurice

  • Person

William Ewart Maurice Aitken, B.A. (University College, 1908), M.A., 1909, was head of the department of English at Western Branch Technical School, Toronto, from 1928 to 1931, when he resigned to take up an appointment at the Normal School in the city.

Albert College (Belleville, Ont.)

  • http://viaf.org/viaf/265693073
  • Corporate body
  • 1857-

Albert College was established as Belleville Seminary in 1857. Its name was changed to Albert College in 1866, and when it later affiliated with Victoria University in 1884, it gave up its right to grant degrees.

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