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Weinzweig, Helen

  • Person
  • 1915-

Helen Weinzweig was born May 21, 1915, in Radom, Poland, emigrating to Canada in 1924. Her parents were Joseph and Lily (a hairdresser, maiden name Wekselman) Tenenbaum. On July 19, 1940 she married Canadian composer John Weinzweig, and together they have two sons, Paul and Daniel. She died in February of 2010 at the age of 94. Her works include: Passing Ceremony; Basic Black with Pearls; A View From the Roof, and many short stories.

Weinrich, Max

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  • Person
  • 1894-1969

Weingart, Joachim

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  • Person
  • 1895-1942

Weinbaum, Abraham

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  • Person
  • 1890-1943

Weber, Anthony

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Webb, Lance

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  • 1909-1995

Weare, Kenneth M.

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  • Person
  • 1947-

Weait, Christopher

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  • Person
  • 1939-

Christopher (Robert Irving) Weait is a bassonist, teacher, and composer. He was co-principal bassoonist of the Toronto Symphony (1968-1985), and was a member of the Toronto Winds (formerly known as the Toronto Woodwind Quintet), the Toronto Baroque Trio, Canzona Trio, and the Toronto Chamber Winds (1979-1985). He taught at the University of Toronto from 1973 to 1984.

Wayman, Morris

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Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Toronto.

Watson, Wilfred

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  • 1911-1998

Wilfred Watson was born in Rochester, England in 1911 and at the age of fifteen immigrated to Canada with his family, settling in Duncan, British Columbia. Watson attended the University of British Columbia from 1940 to 1943, earning a B.A. in English literature. During the Second World War, he served in the Canadian navy and after the war he continued his education at the University of Toronto, receiving an M.A. in 1946 and a Ph.D. in 1951. In 1949, Wilfred Watson was employed as a special lecturer in English at the University of British Columbia and from 1951 to 1953 he was a professor in the Department of English at the University of Alberta, teaching at the Calgary campus. In 1954, he transferred to the Edmonton campus, remaining there as Professor of English until his retirement in 1977. In 1980 Watson moved to Nanaimo, B.C. with his wife, author and professor, Sheila Watson. He passed away in Nanaimo in 1998, at the age of 87.

Wilfred Watson's writing career was prolific and continuously evolving and developing. T.S.Eliot accepted his first volume of poetry, Friday's Child, for Faber and Faber, publishing it in 1955, and Watson received the 1955 Governor General's Award for it. Between 1955 and 1956, Watson lived in Paris as the recipient of a Canadian Government Overseas Fellowship. Here he was introduced to the theatre of the absurd, and in the following years explored this interest with his own writing and directing activities. In the early 1960s, Watson made contact with Marshall McLuhan and developed a growing interest in McLuhan's theories, culminating with their collaboration on the study, From Cliche to Archetype. Watson started work on his first major play, Cockcrow and the Gulls, in the mid-1950s, and it was first performed at the University of Alberta's Studio Theatre in March 1962.

During the 1960s Watson had his most prolific period of playwriting; Trial of Corporal Adam was produced in 1963; Wail for two Pedestals in 1964; and Let's murder Clytemnestra according to the principles of Marshall Mcluhan in 1969. A play for Canada's centennial, O holy ghost, dip your finger in the blood of Canada, and write, I love you was produced in 1967. During the 1970s, Watson concentrated on writing poetry, and his second volume of poetry, The Sorrowful Canadians and Other Poems, was published in 1972. This volume of poetry experimented with using different typefaces and repetitions, and Watson later introduced number-grid verse in a volume titled I Begin With Counting. A second volume of number-grid verse, Mass on Cowback, was published in 1982.

The 1980s also saw Watson return to writing for the stage; The Woman Taken in Adultery, a short play, was performed at the Edmonton Fringe Festival in 1987 and a major play trilogy, Gramsci x 3 was produced by Studio Theatre in 1986. Wilfred Watson also wrote some short stories, essays, and a novel, although most went unpublished.

Watson, Sheila

  • Person
  • 1909-1998

Sheila Martin Watson (nee Doherty) was an author, teacher and professor of English, living between 1909 and 1998. Born in New Westminster, British Columbia on October 25 1909, Sheila was the second child of Dr. Charles Edward Doherty and Mary Ida Elwena Martin. Sheila attended St. Ann's Academy in Victoria, B.C. for her elementary and secondary schooling and attended the University of British Columbia, earning a B.A. Honours in English in 1931 and her Academic Teaching Certificate in 1932. In 1933 she received her M.A. in English, her thesis concerning Addison and Steele, editors of the eighteenth-century periodical "The Spectator." Watson would go on to teach in Dog Creek (1934-1935) in Cariboo Country and Langley Prairie High School (1936-1940) in the Fraser Valley and in Duncan on Vancouver Island from 1940-1941, where she met and married the poet and dramatist Wilfred Watson.Marrying December 29, 1941, Sheila remained in Mission City, in the Fraser Valley, where she taught from September 1941 to the spring of 1945. Wilfred remained in Vancouver, completing his undergraduate degree in 1943. Following World War II, the couple settled in Toronto, where Wilfred pursued his M.A. in English at the University of Toronto, while Sheila taught at Moulton Ladies College (1946-1949). The Watsons remained in Toronto from 1945-1948/49. From 1949-1951, Sheila taught at the University of British Columbia, and for the academic year of 1951/52 she taught at a public high school in Powell River, BC. Watson lived with her husband in Calgary from 1952-54, after which they briefly separated but then spent a year in Paris on a Royal Society of Canada fellowship between 1955-1956.Sheila returned to Toronto from September 1956 to August 1961 to pursue her Doctorate of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, supervised by Marshall McLuhan. Her thesis was titled "Wyndham Lewis and Expressionism." Sheila went on to teach at the University of Alberta as a Professor of English, teaching from 1961 to her retirement in August, 1975. From the early 1970s, Watson was a member of several juries of The Canada Council for arts grants and the Governor General's Awards for poetry and fiction. She and her husband moved to Nanaimo, B.C. in 1980, where she continued to advise former students and aspiring writers, and occasionally giving public readings of her work. She died Sunday, February 1, 1998. Watson is best known for her novel "The Double Hook", published in 1959, her series of short stories based around the character of Oedipus and her novel "Deep Hollow Creek", which was written in the 1930s but was not published until 1992, when it was nominated for a Governor General's Award for best new fiction. Watson was also co-founder of the literary journal "White Pelican."

Watada, Terry

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  • Person
  • 1951-

Terry Watada is a well-known writer, poet, journalist, playwright and musician. He was born on 16 July 1951 in Toronto, Ontario after his parents and older brother were interned in British Columbia during WWII. Watada received his Master of Arts in English at the University of Toronto and was a Professor of English at Seneca College for 32 years until his retirement in 2012.
He is well-known for his monthly column in The Nikkei Voice, a Japanese-Canadian newspaper, in addition to his poetry, fiction and essays. His publications include Daruma Days: A Collection of Fictionalised Biography (1997), Ten Thousand Views of Rain (2001), Obon: The Festival of the Dead (2006), Kuroshio: The Blood of Foxes (2007), The Game of 100 Ghosts (2014) and The Three Pleasures (2017). He has currently published two volumes of a planned trilogy of manga on the Japanese Canadian experience, beginning with The Sword, the Medal and the Rosary (2013) followed by Light at a Window (2015). He has also contributed to and edited various anthologies, including a collection of Asian-Canadian short stories written for the York District School Board in 1993 and Vancouver Confidential (2014). As a playwright, he has had a number of plays staged, beginning with Dear Wes/Love Muriel, which premiered during the Earth Spirit Festival at Harbourfront in 1991. His best known play, Vincent premiered in 1993 and has been subsequently restaged including for the Madness and Arts World Festival. In addition to his literary work, Watada is known as a singer and songwriter, his most-well known album, Runaway Horses (1977) was re-released in CD format in 2015.
For Watada’s efforts as an activist for the Japanese-Canadian community, he has been presented a number of awards including the William P. Hubbard Race Relations Award from the City of Toronto, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal and the Dr. Gordon Hirabayashi Human Rights Award.

Wasteneys, Hardolph

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  • Person
  • 1881-1965

Hardolph Wasteneys, biochemist and university professor, was born in Richmond, England, in April 1881. He received his PhD in biochemistry (1916) from Columbia University in New York City. Before he was hired as a Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Toronto in 1918, he held various positions including Assistant Government Chemist in Queensland, Australia (1900-03), Chemist and Biologist, Board of Waterworks, Brisbane, Australia (1903-09), Assistant, Rockefeller Institute (1910-13), Associate, Rockfeller Institute (1913-1916), and Assistant Professor, Pharmacology, University of California (1916-18). Wasteneys was Head of the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Toronto between 1928 and 1951.

From 1918 until his death, Wasteneys lived in Toronto’s Annex neighbourhood and kept a country house, Headon, in West Hill, Ontario. He was extremely active in Toronto community organizations. Positions he held include: Chairman, Central Committee on Education and Recreation for Unemployed (1929-34); Chairman, Community Gardens Association (1932-43); and Chairman, Board of Directors, University Settlement (1938-53).

Hardolph Wasteneys was married to Clare Miller. They had four children: Hardolph, Geoffrey, Hortense, and Gervase. He died at Toronto on 1 February 1965.

Warren, George

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  • Person
  • 1862-1946

George Warren was an Anglican clergyman who was born in 1862 in Banbury, England. He received his early education at Banbury Academy before travelling to the United States for three years. He received his BA from Trinity College in 1888. He was ordained in 1889 and until 1906 served as rector at Lakefield. From 1905 to 1920 he served as the Archdeacon of Peterborough while also serving as the Organizing Secretary of the Diocese of Toronto. In 1920 he was named Archdeacon of York and in 1932 was presented with a Doctor of Divinity, honoris causa by Trinity College. In his career with the Anglican Church Warren was involved in the debate over the existence of separate schools in Ontario and wrote an article entitled “The Separate School Question” in the 18 July 1935 issue of the Canadian Churchman.

In 1889 George Warren married Ada Emily Hutcheson (daughter of Ada Louise and John Howell Hutcheson). They had two children: Edward Warren and Ada Mary Warren (who married James Matthias Snetsinger). Emily Hutcheson died in 1916 in Toronto and George Warren died on 16 April 1946 in Toronto.

Warren, Emily

  • Person
  • 1869-1956

Emily Warren was born in Exeter, Devon, in 1869. Notably, she was John Ruskin's last pupil. She graduated from the College of Art, South Kensington, and also took certificates in biology, botany and geology to obtain the kinds of knowledge considered necessary for an artist's career. She came to Canada in 1921 to complete two very large canvasses which had been commissioned by Sir Robert Borden in London during the first World War. She travelled back and forth across Canada delivering lectures illustrated by handcoloured glass slides reproducing her own paintings. Her Canadian work sold well, and there was also a demand for her paintings of England and the continent of Europe. This and her need for additions to her slide collections necessitatd many painting trips abroad, and she continued to travel until she was 84 years old. She died in 1956 at the age of 87.

Warren, David

  • Person

David Warren was a graduate student invited to sit on the committees relating to library services provided by University College Library and Robarts Library.

Warkentin, Germaine

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  • 1933-

Germaine Warkentin was born in Toronto in 1933 and received her B.A. (hons.) in English from the University of Toronto in 1955. Upon her graduation she engaged in freelance writing for radio, television, and the University of Toronto Press. Two years later she and her husband moved to Winnipeg where he had accepted a position in the Geography Department at the United College (now the University of Winnipeg). Germaine entered the graduate programme at the University of Manitoba, receiving her M.A. in English in 1965. She returned to Toronto and joined the Department of English as a lecturer in 1970. After completing her Ph.D. in 1972 from the University of Toronto, she became Assistant Professor, rising through to ranks to become Professor in 1990. She was director of the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies from 1985 to 1990 and was cross-appointed to the Centre for Comparative Literature beginning in 1990. Upon her retirement in 1999, she was honoured as Distinguish Senior Fellow of the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies and continues to be an active member of the academic community.

Professor Warkentin research interests include the history of the book, English Canadian literary pre 1914, the renaissance sonnet sequence from Petrach to Shakespeare and Sir Philip Sidney and family members to 1743.She has written numerous articles, chapters in books, reviews and has been the editor of many books including "Poems" (1972) as well as other publications by James Reaney, "The White Savannahs" (1975) by W.E. Collin, "Set in Authority (1906)" (1996) by Sara Jeannette Duncan. She also co-edited "The New World Journal by Alexander Graham Dunlop" with David Sinclair. Her interest in early exploration writings led to her efforts on "Canadian Exploration Literature: An Anthology" and "Critical Issue in Editing Exploration Texts" and later a two volume work for the Champlain Society "The Collected Writings of Pierre-Esprit Radisson" (2102 and 2014). "Decentring the Renaissance: Canada and Europe in Multi-Disciplinary Perspective 1500-1700" (2001) was co-edited with Carolyn Podruchny arose out papers presented at a conference in 1976, organized by Warkentin and sponsored by the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies at Victoria College. In 2013 she co-authored with Joseph L. Black and William R. Bowen, "The Library at Penhurst Place.ca 1665".

Ware, Kallistos

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  • 1934-

Ware, Browning Worth

  • Person
  • 1928-2002

Browning Worth Ware was born in Fort Worth, Texas on November 5, 1928. He held degrees from Baylor University and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and was a Merrill Fellow at Harvard Divinity School. He served pastorates in Satin, Denton, Hubbard, Cleburne, Beaumont, and Austin, Texas, and taught briefly at Southwest Texas University in San Marcos. He died on October 29, 2002.

Wardlaw, Don M.

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  • 1932-

Ward, Muriel Alma

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  • 1925-1998

Muriel Alma Ward was born on September 6, 1925. She graduated in 1947 from the School of Nursing, Hamilton General Hospital. Her nursing career included being an operating room nurse, and both teaching and nursing at the Toronto Western Hospital and the Nightingale School of Nursing. She held a Bachelor of Science of Nursing and a Master's degree both from the University of Toronto. She died on January 9, 1998.

Ward, Donald B.

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  • 1952-

Wansbrough, Frederick Arthur

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  • 1906-1988

Born Grand Valley, Ontario, 31 July, 1906; BA, Victoria College, 1928; Secretary of Hart House, 1928-1930. Mr. Wansbrough later served on the Board of Regents of Victoria College in various capacities, including chairman for the period 1972-1974. Died 6 December, 1988 in Toronto.

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