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Bauer, Walter

  • VIAF ID: 17328454
  • Person
  • 1904-1976

German poet and writer emigrated to Canada in 1952. Professor of German at the University of Toronto. Won the Albert Schweitzer prize for his biography of Fritjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer. Published over 60 books.

Bata Shoe Company

  • Corporate body
  • 1894-

The Bata Shoe Company was founded in Zlin, Czechsolovakia in 1894 by Tomáš Baťa (1876-1932).

Batten, Jack

  • Person
  • 1932-

Jack Batten is a Toronto-based writer and journalist. Born in Montreal, Batten practiced law from 1959 to 1963, before turning his full attention to writing. He is the author of over thirty books, including non-fiction on biographies, history, sports, law, as well as young adult and crime novels. As a freelance journalist, Batten has written for magazines including Maclean’s, Rolling Stone, Chatelaine, Toronto Life and Reader’s Digest. He reviewed Jazz in the Globe and Mail in the 1970s, reviewed movies on CBC radio for 25 years and since 1998 has contributed a biweekly whodunit column in the Toronto Star.

Beckerman, Miriam

  • Person

Miriam Beckerman is an award-winning Yiddish translator who was born in Toronto where she has lived all her life except for five years in Israel (1947-1952). She has had five books published: (1) Wartime Experiences in Lithuania by Rivka Lozansky Bogomolnaya, Vallentine Mitchell, 2000; (2) Nightmares - Memoirs of the Years of Horrors Under Nazi Rule in Europe, 1939-1945, by Konrad Charmatz, Syracuse University Press, 2003; (3) Haftling (Prisoner) No. 94771, Experiences in German Lagers (camps), 1941-1945, Concordia University, http://www.migs.concordia.ca/survivor.html 2003; (4) The Book of Borszcow, a yizkor book, http://www.jewishgen.org 2005; and (5) A Thousand Threads - a story told through Yiddish Letters, Remembrance Books, Washington, DC, 2005. Miriam's translations have also appeared in the Canadian Jewish News, Pakn Treger, Parchment, Lifestyles International, as well as translations into Yiddish in the Yiddish Forward. Miriam Beckerman is a graduate of York University, Toronto, earning a Bachelor of Arts in 1973 and a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in 1995.

Bell, Naomi

  • Person
  • [1923?]-

Naomi Bell is a musicologist, teacher, accompanist and lecturer. She has presented musical lectures and courses to synagogues and public libraries, women’s and seniors’ organizations, study groups and educational conferences, and at The Institute for Jewish Learning. She has lectured at the University of Toronto, the Royal Ontario Museum, the Second International Yiddish Conference, and has been Scholar-in-Residence at Temple Sholom in Chicago. She was a performer at the Israel at Fifty pavilion at the Canadian National Exhibition in 1998 and at the 1996 convention of the American Conference of Cantors, receiving a standing ovation for her two workshops on Yiddish song. For more than twenty years she taught music at various Hebrew and Yiddish schools, and was Music Director of Bialik Hebrew Day School for ten years.

Bernhardt, Karl Schofield

  • Person
  • 1901-1967

Bernhardt was educated at Orillia Collegiate, the University of Toronto (B.A., 1926 and M.A., 1929) and the University of Chicago (Ph.D., 1933). He was a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto (1943-1964), and assistant director (1936-1960) and then director of the Institute of Child Study (1960-1964). After his retirement in 1964, he was named professor emeritus and director emeritus.

Best, Charles Herbert

  • Person
  • 1899-1978

Charles Herbert Best was a Canadian physiologist and one of the co-discoverers of insulin. Born in Maine in 1899 to Canadian parents, Best moved to Toronto in 1915, where he completed a degree in physiology and biochemistry. In 1921, as a medical student at the University of Toronto, he worked as an assistant to Dr. Frederick Banting. Together they discovered the pancreatic hormone insulin, which became a treatment for diabetes. In 1923, Banting and J.J.R Macleod were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of insulin, while Best was not named in the award, Banting chose to give half of the prize money to Best. Best became a professor of physiology at the University of Toronto in 1927. During his time in the department, he co-authored the textbook The Physiological Basis of Medical Practice (1937) with Norman B. Taylor. After Banting’s death in 1941, Best also became the head of the Banting and Best Department of Medical Research at the University of Toronto. During WWII, Best developed a method of separating and drying blood plasma serum, which could be sent to the front, reconstituted and transfused into wounded soldiers. Best served as an adviser to the Medical Research Committee of the United Nations World Health Organization, and was made a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1967. He retired in 1965 and died in 1978.

Bienkowska, Danuta Irena

  • Person
  • 1927-1974

Danuta Irena Czech was born in Torun, Poland, into the family of a noncommissioned officer. With the outbreak of war, she was evacuated with the rest of her family to Eastern Poland, spending a few months under Soviet occupation in a small town near the Toumanian border. Later the family was deported, first to the Komi republic, in the north of European Russia, and then to Uzbekistan, ending up in a Polish refugee camp in India. After the war, the family emigrated to England. As a brilliant student, Danuta had no difficulty continuing her education at the University of London, from where she received an honours B.A. in Russian and English literature in 1952. She had married in 1951, but the marriage was not a success, and after spending two years as a Russian specialist with the National Central Library in London, she emigrated to Canada, and continued her studies at the University of Toronto. Here she simultaneously worked on an M.A., and on a B.A. in Polish literature from the University of London. After receiving her M.A. in 1958, she worked briefly with the Catholic Children's Aid Society, until she was granted a two year Ford Foundation fellowship to study for a Ph.D in Polish literature at the School of Slavonic Studies (University of London). She chose as her topic the early work of Stefan Zeromski, successfully defending her thesis in 1965.

Birdsall & Son Bookbinders and Stationers

  • Corporate body
  • 1792-1961

The firm began in 1792 when William Birdsall purchased the small bookbinding business of John Lacy in Northampton, England. In the 1840's, Anthony Birdsall, great-nephew of the founder, bought the business and with his son, Richard, made it into one of the better known firms in the trade. The firm did the standard bindings which the general public requested as well as specializing in relieures-de-luxe and restoration work. Business continued to thrive until after the Second World War. When the factory closed its doors in 1961, it was the olderst firm in Northampton, with an international reputation for fine binding and restoration work. In 1968 the University of Toronto Library was able to purchase from Anthony Birdsall, 1877-1972, the last head of the firm, a collection of over 3,000 finishing tools. These are in constant use in the Rare Book Library Bindery, and have been described in 'The Birdsall Collection of Bookbinder's Finishing Tools', a pamphlet published by the University Library in 1972. Mr. Birdsall also gave the Library the Birdsall Book of Rubbings.

Bland, J. O. P. (John Otway Percy)

  • Person
  • 1863-1945

John Otway Percy Bland was born in Malta, second son of Major-General E.L. Bland of County Antrim, Ireland. He was educated in Switzerland, at Victoria College, Jersey, and at Trinity College, Dublin. In 1883 he joined the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs and for some years was also private Secretary to Sir Robert Hart, resigning in 1896 to become Secretary to the Municipality for the Foreign Settlements at Shanghai. He became representative in China of the British and Chinese Corporation Ltd. in 1906, and negotiated four railway loans with the Chinese Government. In 1910 he resigned and left China. He had been Times Correspondent in Shanghai from 1897-1907 and in Peking, 1907-10. After his return to England he engaged chiefly in journalism. He published ten books under his own name, mainly on eastern affiars and current events. He is chiefly renowned for his collaboration with Sir Edmund Backhouse in China under the Empress Dowager, 1910, and Annals of the Court of Peking, 1913.

Blatz, William E.

  • Person
  • 1895-1964

W.E Blatz was a developmental psychologist, who observed, advised and conducted research into the topics of infancy and early childhood. He was born in 1895 in Hamilton and received his B.A, M.A in Physiology and M.B at the University of Toronto and received his PhD in Psychology from the University of Chicago. He served as the research director of the Canadian National Committee of Mental Hygiene (1925-1935), and was the director of the University of Toronto’s Institute of Child Study (1925-1960). He also was appointed as the educational consultant for the Dionne Quintuplets between 1935 and 1938. He traveled to England in 1941 under the auspices of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene of Canada to survey the need for children welfare and other services in war-time, as a result of this visit, the Canadian Children’s Services was founded in 1942. Noted publications include The Management of Young Children (1930), Collected Studies on the Dionne Quintuplets (1937), the Five Sisters (1938), Hostages to peace (1940), Understanding the Young Child (1944), Twenty-Five years of Child Study (1951), Human Security: Some Reflections (1964).

Bliss, Michael

  • VIAF ID: 110214953
  • Person
  • 1941-2017

Michael Bliss was born in Kingsville, Ontario, in 1941. He is a professor of Canadian history at the University of Toronto and a prolific writer on a wide range of Canadian topics. He has received national prizes for both his literary journalism and his scholarship. His book, 'A Canadian Millionaire: The Life and Business Times of Sir Joseph Flavelle' (Macmillan of Canada: 1978), established his reputation as a distinguished historian and biographer. His next two books on the insulin discovery and on Banting are recognized as definitive works and have received much acclaim since their publication. Both have utilized extensively the collection of Banting's papers in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.

Blunt, Giles

  • Person
  • 1952-

Giles Blunt (1952-) is a Canadian novelist, poet and screenwriter. He grew up in North Bay, Ontario. In 1980, he moved to New York City where he spent 22 years as an author and screenwriter before returning to Canada to settle in Toronto. He holds a degree in English literature from the University of Toronto and (as of 2014) an honorary doctorate of Education from Nissiping University (in North Bay, Ontario). Blunt began his career writing poetry, some of which was published in small Canadian magazines including Grain and Poetry Journal. As a screenwriter, Blunt wrote for the Canadian television crime series Diamonds (which aired from 1987-1987), and has written scripts for American-produced series, including Law & Order, Street Legal and Night Heat. According to Giles Blunt’s website as of September 2014, Canadian Television (CTV) is developing a television series based on his ‘ John Cardinal’ series of crime fiction books. Blunt is best known for his Canadian crime fiction novels. He is the author of nine books (four of which make up the John Cardinal series). His works have been published in Canada, the United States and the U.K. In 2001, Forty Words for Sorrow was awarded the British Crime Writers Silver Dagger Award, and two of his later novels The Delicate Storm and Until the Night won the Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel (in 2003 and 2013).

Borden, Robert Laird, Sir

  • Person
  • 1854-1937

Sir Robert Laird Borden was a Canadian political leader and prime minister between 1911-1920. He guided Canada through World War I and, through astute bargaining, achieved equal status for Canada with England within the Commonwealth.

Brown, Russell

  • Person
  • [19–?]-

Russell Brown is professor emeritus of English at the University of Toronto, where he teaches Canadian literature. He formerly served as editor of the Lakehead University review (1972-1975), co-editor of Descant (1979-1983) and Editorial Director at McClelland and Stewart (1983-1988). He is the editor or co-editor of The Collected Poems of Al Purdy (1985); The Collected Poems of Patrick Lane (2011); An Anthology of Canadian Literature in English (2010); and The Penguin Book of English-Canadian Short Fiction (2005).

Bryden, Ronald

  • Person
  • 1927-2004

Ronald Bryden, who devoted much of his professional life to writing and teaching about the theatre, was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad in 1927. He came to Canada as a teenager and completed his high school education in St. Catherines, Ont. He attended Trinity College at the Univ ersity of Toronto, where he became involved with the thriving theatre community at the university. After graduating with a bachelor of arts in English language and literature in 1950, he moved to England and attended Cambridge University. He earned a second bachelor’s degree in 1953, followed by an MA in 1958.

It was at Cambridge that Bryden began a career in journalism, writing book reviews. After graduating, he worked for the BBC before moving to The Spectator in 1961 to become its literary editor for three years. In 1964, Bryden turned his critical attentions to the world of theatre, beginning a period where he became one of the leading theatre critics of his generation. He was the drama critic for the New Statesman from 1964 to 1966, and followed that with a five-year stint as the drama critic at The Observer. It was at The Observer that he famously kick-started the career of Tom Stoppard when he wrote a glowing review of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead after seeing it at the 1966 Edinburgh Festival. It had been dismissed by other critics, but Bryden’s high praise (“punning, far-fetched, leaping from depth to dizziness”) led to it being staged the following year by the National Theatre at the Old Vic in London.

He left The Observer in 1971 to be the dramaturge for the Royal Shakespeare Company. While there, he commissioned his fellow Trinidadian Derek Walcott to write a ‘Caribbeanised’ version of the Don Juan legend entitled The Joker of Seville, which premiered in the Port of Spain in 1974. In 1976, he accepted an invitation to return to Canada to be a visiting professor at the University of Toronto’s Graduate Centre for Study of Drama. He eventually became a full professor and the Centre’s director. He’s the only person to have served ten years as director, from 1981 to 1991. He retired in1993. In addition to his academic work, he served on the boards of several Canadian theatre organizations, including the Stratford and Shaw Festivals (he was also a literary adviser for the Shaw in 1990s), and the Canadian Stage Company. He also continued to be a prolific writer, contributing articles and reviews to numerous publications (including Maclean’s magazine and the Globe and Mail), as well as authoring two collections of essays, The Unfinished Hero and Other Essays (1969) and Shaw and His Contemporaries (2002). Bryden died of complications following heart surgery in 2004 at the age of 72.

Buckler, Ernest

  • Person
  • 1908-1984

Ernest Buckler was born in Nova Scotia and received his BA from Dalhousie University in 1929 and his MA in philosophy from the University of Toronto in 1930. From 1930 to 1936, he worked at the Manufacturers Life Insurance Company but then, due to failing health, returned to the valley, where he remained for the rest of his life. His writing career began in 1937 with contributions to the American magazine Esquire. Although he had published a story in the Trinity University Review in 1933 ("No Second Cup"), his first story to receive wide circulation was "One Quiet Afternoon," published in Esquire in April 1940. Other stories, articles, letters and poems followed, in magazines such as MacLean's, Saturday Night, The Canadian Home Journal, and Chatelaine. Novels and plays, including radio scripts, followed. Buckler's fame largely rests with his first novel, The Mountain and the Valley (1952), which is recognized as a Canadian classic.

Burns, Mary

  • Person
  • 1944-

Mary Burns was born and raised in Joliet, Illinois, near Chicago, emigrated to Canada in 1970, and now lives in Gibson's Landing, British Columbia. She has worked as a newspaper editor in northern British Columbia and the Yukon Territory before moving to Vancouver with her daughters in 1977. A former journalist and documentary film researcher/writer/director, she is now Chair of the Creative Writing Department at Douglas College, New Westminster, British Columbia, where she has taught fiction, play writing and personal narrative courses since 1989. Her stories have been published in a variety of literary magazines and broadcast on CBC and BBC Radio 3 Scotland.

Buttrick, Ann

  • Person

Ann Buttrick is an artist and curator of art & architecture at the University of Technology in Jamaica.

Brabant, Joseph A. (Joseph Anthony)

  • Person
  • 1925-1997

Born in Saskatchewan in 1925, Joseph Brabant moved to Montreal to attend McGill University, where he majored in classics and received a law degree. For forty years, he worked for the Sun Life Canada financial services company, a career that provided for a great deal of travel. He took advantage of his many business trips throughout North
America, Great Britain, Europe, and Asia to search antiquarian book shops for Carrolliana, a passion that began to gain momentum in the late 1960s. The diplomacy, judgment, and diligence that made him an excellent lawyer engendered his success as a collector. In addition to travelling, Brabant received a dozen catalogues each week and spent each morning writing an average of ten letters, establishing a global network of bookselling contacts. Required to relocate to Toronto in 1979, when Sun Life moved its corporate headquarters, Brabant stayed on there after retiring as Sun Life's House Councillor in 1990. In retirement, he was able to dedicate himself fully to his interest in Lewis Carroll, pursuing projects such as his Cheshire Cat edition of Alice in Wonderland, illustrated by George Walker and printed by Bill Poole, in addition to participation in conferences, scholarly
consultation, and, of course, collecting. Brabant's dedication ultimately yielded breathtaking results some ten thousand items that he tracked down individually, repaired, catalogued and shelved. Twenty years after his death, Joe, as he was known to his friends, is still remembered warmly in the Toronto book world for his geniality as well as his determination.

Yates, Peter

  • Person
  • 1924-1992

Born in 1924 in Essex England, Dr. Peter Yates received degrees from the University of London, Dalhousie University and Yale University. After teaching at Harvard from 1952-60, he was appointed Professor of Chemistry at the University of Toronto where he remained throughout his accomplished career. In addition to numerous prestigious lectureships, editorial positions and awards, he was appointed University Professor in 1986 and later University Professor Emeritus in 1990. Believing that his students and his collaborators were testimony to the success of his work, he supervised over 50 doctoral theses. He was widely recognized for his pioneering research in the photochemistry of organic molecules, publishing over 230 articles in refereed journals and a book on the structural implications of spectroscopic data, which became the standard reference source in that field. Dr. Yates died on November 16 1992.

Lemon, James Thomas

  • Person
  • 1929-2012

Raised in West Lorne, Ontario, James (Jim) Thomas Lemon attended the University of Western Ontario where he received his Bachelor of Arts in Geography (1955). He later attended the University of Wisconsin where he received a Master of Science in Geography (1961) as well as his Ph.D. (1964). In 1967, after having worked as an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Prof. Lemon joined the University of Toronto Geography Department, where he remained until his retirement in 1994. He died in Toronto on 31 January 2012.

His career has been spent in the field of urban historical geography of which he has written numerous articles, papers and chapters in books. He also has three books to his credit: The Poor Man's Country: A Geographical Study of Early South eastern Pennsylvania (1972), and Toronto Since 1918: An Illustrated History (1985). The former work, based on his Ph.D. thesis, won the Albert J. Beveridge Award in 1972 given by the American Historical Association. The latter was a finalist in the Toronto Book Awards in 1986. His most recent work Liberal Dreams and Nature's Limits: Great North American Cities since 1600 was published in 1996. His time at the University was also spent in several administrative positions including Graduate Secretary in the Department of History (1968-1971 & 1979-1980), Member and intermittent Chair of the Urban Studies Programme Innis College (1973-1978) as well as Director of the Community Living Programme at Innis College from 1975-1978.

Throughout his career, Prof. Lemon was an active member of several professional associations including the Canadian Association of Geographers, the American Association of Geographers, the Institute of Early American History and Culture, and the Organization of American Historians. Prof. Lemon, who remains a community activist, was chairman of the Annex Residents' Association in 1973 and the Confederation of Resident and Ratepayer Associations which led the fight against the Spadina Expressway. In 1975, he ran for the New Democratic Party in the provincial election and from 1976-1978 served on the Toronto Board of Education.

James Lemon died at his home in Toronto on 31 January 2012.

McCarthy, Douglas Findlay

  • Person
  • 1907-1997

Douglas Findlay McCarthy was born August 5, 1907 in North Bay, Ontario, the son of George A. McCarthy. When the family moved to Toronto, he attended Malvern Collegiate Institute from 1922-1924. Following graduation he enrolled in the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto. He graduated with a Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc) in civil engineering in 1929. During his varsity years, he participated in a number of sports including both junior and senior water polo teams, rowing and rugby. On Dec. 31, 1929 he married Audrey Dale.Like his father, G.A. McCarthy, he worked for many years for the City of Toronto, starting as a sewer engineer in the early 1950’s, gradually moving up the ranks to Director of the Engineering Division of the Department of Public Works, a position he held from 1957 to 1964. In October 1964, the Division was reorganized and Mr. McCarthy requested that he return to his position as Senior Engineer for health reasons. He remained in that position until his retirement in 1976. He died September 19, 1997.

McCarthy, Douglas Dale

  • Person
  • 1931-2007

Douglas Dale McCarthy was born on March 6, 1931 while his father, Douglas Findlay, was working in Kapuskasing, Ontario. He graduated from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine with an M.D. in 1955. Like his father, Dale was a member of the fraternity, Alpha Omega and Kappa Sigma. Following his graduation he was a pioneering member of the Ontario March of Dimes (OMD) Northern Medical Clinics Program. He was involved in the OMD for over 30 years traveling through Ontario’s North visiting such areas as Kirkland Lake District Hospital to Notre Dame Hospital in Hearst. He was also member of the University’s Department of Medicine from which he retired in 1999.His obituary, appearing on the Ontario March of Dimes web site on April 30, 2007, records his other activities among which were his participation on a variety of boards and committees including Hart House, and the Gay Counseling Centre of Toronto. He also was an advisor to the Workers’ Compensation Board Tribunal as well as a founding member of the AIDS Committee Toronto.

McCarthy, George Arnold

  • Person
  • 1871-1930

George Arnold McCarthy (McGill 1898; b. 1871. d. Nov. 29, 1930.) was born in Moncton, N.B. and attended McGill University where he graduated with a degree in engineering in 1898. He was employed for 14 years with the City of Toronto Works Department where he “had charge of many important works in the railway and bridge section before taking control of the sewers. He supervised the construction of the Bloor Viaduct and the civic street railway lines before the old Toronto railway system was acquired by the city…” His funeral on November 15, 1930 was attended by prominent officials of the City of Toronto, including R.C. Harris, Commissioner of Public Works. Family members attending included his two sons, Dr. K.C. McCarthy and Douglas McCarthy, his widow, Jennie C. Moffatt McCarthy, her father, A.W. Moffatt and Dr. C.F. Moffatt of Montreal.

Morley, Thomas Patterson

  • Person
  • 1920-2012

Thomas Patterson Morley was born in Manchester, England in 1920. He graduated in medicine (B.M., B. Ch.) from University of Oxford in 1943. He served in the Medical Branch of the Royal Air Force from 1944 to 1947. Following the war, he practiced medicine in England where he was a neurosurgical resident to Sir Geoffrey Jefferson, Manchester Royal Infirmary. associate professor at the University of Toronto in 1953. From 1953 to 1960 he was on the staff of Sunnybrook Hospital (neurosurgery). In 1962 was was promoted to assistant professor and the following year was named senior surgeon and chief of the Division of Neurosurgery, Toronto General Hospital. He was promoted to full professor in 1973. Dr. Morley was secretary of the Canadian Association of Neurosurgeons of the Canadian Neurological Society form 1959-1964, member and councilor of the Canadian Neurosurgical Society in 1965-1966 and president in 1971-1972. Dr. Morley retired from practice and the University of Toronto in 1985.

During his career, Dr. Morley was the author (or co-author) of numerous scientific articles relating to neurosurgery published in scientific journals such as the British Medical Journal, Canadian Medical Association Journal, the Canadian Journal of Surgery. Following his retirement he continued to publish articles on neurosurgery, as well as on medical history. From 1987-2000 he was editor for the series Canadian Medical Lives produced by the Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine. In 2004 he published his biography of Dr. Kenneth G. McKenzie relating to the founding of neurosurgery in Canada.

Nosyk, Irene Romana

  • Person
  • 1928-2016

Irene Romana Nosyk was born in Chortkiv in Western Ukraine on May 30, 1928. Following the war, she and her parents moved to Prague, Czech Republic and later Innsbruck, Austria where she received her early education and developed her artistic talent. She studied art at the University of Innsbruck from 1945-1949 and in 1949 at The Art Academy of the well-known Austrian artist Kirchmayer. According to a Toronto Star article published in January 1957, “In 1947 three of her portraits were included in a collection at the Innsbruck gallery. A year later they were sent to Switzerland exhibits.” While attending the University she was offered a scholarship to study art in Rome by the international organization Pax Romana. But her family had already decided to move to Canada, and the fall of 1949, Irene, with her parents, Ivan and Lydia, arrived in Winnipeg.

The following year they moved to Toronto, and her father soon found work as a Lab assistant with the Department of Zoology at the University of Toronto. Irene resumed her art studies at the Ontario College of Art, but did not graduate. It was during this time that the University’s Department of Zoology was looking for a staff artist to produce drawings of specimens to illustrate lectures and publications. Professor Coventry, and the then Chair of the department, Prof. J. R. Dymond interviewed Irene and on seeing samples of her art work, hired her immediately in 1952. During her more than twenty years with the department, Ms Nosyk produced over 2000 wall charts and numerous illustrations as teaching aids and for publications.(See A2007-0019) The wall charts, measuring an average of 6 feet by 4 feet, were used for more than 35 years by academic staff to illustrate lectures. As the only scientific staff artist, Ms Nosyk sketched frequently from live specimens viewed through her microscope. For the first ten years, her studio was located in the old Botany building at 6 Queen’s Park Crescent. When the new Ramsay Wright Zoological Laboratories building opened in 1965 she moved to the new building and as well, produced a number of paintings in celebration. The Department, however, did not acquire any of these for the new building.

Irene remained with the department for more than twenty years, resigning in 1976 to take a position as staff artist at a medical clinic in New York. Unfortunately, her parents’ advanced age and fragile health, forced her to return to Toronto within months of her appointment.

Irene also specializes in oil, acrylic, color inks and mosaics. Over the years she has participated in numerous art exhibitions and shows. Her art is found in many private collections in North American and remains an active member of The Ukrainian Association of Visual Arts in Canada.

Howard, Edward Nelson

  • Person

Edward Nelson Howard was a cousin of Charles Phelps, and went to the University of Toronto as an undergraduate in civil engineering at the same time that Charles did. He did not complete his program, and moved to Montreal where he drowned on 24 January, 1935.

Phelps, Charles Stewart

  • Person

Charles Phelps, a native of Sarnia, enrolled in electrical engineering at the University of Toronto in the fall of 1930. He graduated in the spring of 1934 with a BASc.

Richardson, G. Peter

  • Person
  • 1935-

George Peter Richardson was born in Toronto on January 6, 1935, the son of George Grainger Richardson and Margaret Louise Everett. His early education was spent at Upper Canada College where he graduated in 1952. As an undergraduate at the University of Toronto he studied architecture, receiving a Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1957. This was followed by two years of work in the Design Department of John B. Parkin Associates.

In the fall of 1959 he returned to university, this time to study divinity at Knox College, an affiliated college in the University of Toronto. He graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1962. As he completed this degree he began to apply to graduate schools in both the United States and Britain to study for a doctorate degree. In April 1962 he was accepted into the Faculty of Divinity at Clare College, Cambridge University in England. By this time, he had married Nancy Jean Cameron (1959) and started a young family. He received his PhD in 1965.

Following his return to Canada, he was appointed Campus Minister (unordained) at the Knox Presbyterian Church in Toronto. In 1969 he received his first academic appointment as Assistant Professor, Theological Studies at Loyola College (now Concordia University) in Montreal. During that period he also served as Assistant to the Dean of Arts (1971-1972), and Assistant to the Academic Vic-President (1972-1973). In 1974, he returned to Toronto to join the University of Toronto and was appointed associate professor of religious studies and Chairman of the Division of Humanities at Scarborough College.

In 1977 he was appointed Principal of University College on the St. George Campus, a position he held until 1989. During this period he was also involved in various University-wide committees relating to planning, research and budgeting. He also sat on several search committees to select deans of the Faculty of Architecture, and Faculty of Arts and Science as well as chairs of departments in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Within the Department of Religious Studies, he was active on committees relating to the development of graduate and undergraduate programmes.

As busy as Prof. Richardson was with his administrative responsibilities, he maintained a steady stream of articles, papers and presentations of scholarly work. He was involved in the writing of 13 books either as sole author, editor, or co-editor, and has published more than 150 articles. Among the earliest of these was the publication of his thesis in 1969 (reprinted in 2005.) From 1986-1996 he was Managing Editor of Studies in Religion, a scholarly journal published by the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion, and was editor from 1990-2005 of the monograph series Studies in Christianity and Judaism/Etudes sur le christianisme et le judaïsme.

In addition to scholarly works, Prof. Richardson has prepared many informal works and presentations relating to religious studies and architecture to general audiences at churches such as the Yorkminster Park Baptist Church and the Temple Emmanu-El and other community groups.

His continuing interest in architecture has led to a wide variety of activities, including site architect at archaeological excavations in Israel, a government appointment as Chair, Joint Practice Board (Ontario Association of Architects and the Association of Professional Engineers) and several publications including City and Sanctuary: religion and architecture in the Roman East (2002) and Canadian Churches, an architectural history (2007). From 1994-2000 he served as a member of Board of the Ontario Heritage Foundation where he participated as member and/or chair of committees relating to revenue generation, audit and properties.

Following his retirement in 2000 Professor Richardson was appointed professor emeritus. He has continued to be in demand by organizations seeking his expertise in religious studies. From 2002-2005 he was a member of the Board of Visual Bible International, Inc. (VBI) in which he advised producers of a film on the Gospel of John and other projects.

Prof. Richardson continues to work and live in Toronto.

Shaw, Joseph W.

  • Person
  • 1935-

Joseph Winterbothams Shaw was born on 6 July 1935 in Chicago, Illinois. Some of his professors at Brown University, from which he received a BA in 1957, awakened in him a lifelong interest in the Classical world. After graduating, he took a Master of Arts in Teaching degree from the Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut (1959). He then enrolled in the 1959 winter program at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, where he got to know many who would become eminent scholars in various aspects of ancient Greek and Roman culture. In the spring of 1960 he was hired as an assistant draftsman (but immediately promoted) by Oscar Broneer of the University of Chicago who in 1952 had begun excavations of the sanctuary of Poseidon at Isthmia. Here Professor Shaw received a crash course in architectural surveying, and his subsequent two years of military service did not dim his enthusiasm. After discharge he went to the Illinois Institute of Technology to learn drafting techniques and aspects of Greek architectural construction. In 1962-1963 Robert Scranton, Broneer’s successor, hired Professor Shaw to make architectural plans and drawings during an expedition to Kenchreai, the eastern port of Corinth. (His association with Kenchreai was to continue until 1972.) The result was several summers of work in Greece until 1969. Shaw gained experience as an excavation architect at Thebes (with E. Stasinopoulou Touloupa), Isthmia (with Professors Oscar Broneer, Paul Clement), Corinth (with Professor Henry Robinson, Gladys Weinberg, Charles Williams), Mycenae (with Professor George Mylonas), Amnisos (with Dr. Stylianos Alexiou), and Thera (with Professor Sypridon Marinatos). The opportunity to remain in Greece during the winter also allowed him further to develop his skills through apprenticeship and, in 1964, to go to the island of Crete where he was hired by the Greek Department of Antiquities as excavation architect at the Minoan palace of Zakros. In the summer of 1965, he also visited the Kommos site on Crete; it was to be the focus of much of his future archaeological work.

By then he had met Maria Coutroubaki, an excavator at Corinth, who he married in February 1965. They returned to North America later that year, where Maria completed her doctoral dissertation at Bryn Mawr College and Joseph enrolled in the PhD program at the University of Pennsylvania where he took a course in nautical archaeology and wrote his thesis on the history of port establishments in the Mediterranean. He received his PhD in 1970 and was immediately hired by the University of Toronto as an assistant professor in the Department of Fine Art.

At the University of Toronto Professor Shaw quickly moved up through the ranks to associate professor (1973) and full professor in 1977. He served three terms as associate chair and graduate co-ordinator in the Department of Fine Art (1977-1978, 1983-1985 and 1986-1987) before becoming chair in 1987, a position he held for two years. In 1991 he became director and co-founder of the Ancient Studies Program, which he headed until 1996. During the spring term of 1992 he served as acting graduate co-ordinator in the Department and as acting chair for the 1992-1993 academic year. In 1995-1996 he was associate chair and graduate co-ordinator of the Department, again becoming acting chair for the spring term. His final stint as acting chair was in the fall of 1997. Over a period of thirty years, beginning in 1976, Professor Shaw has received grants totalling over $3,000,000 for his Kommos excavation projects, part of which has gone toward yearly attendance of qualified students at the excavation in Crete. He has taught at least seventeen courses and has supervised eight doctoral students.

Other academic positions have included adjunct professor at the American Institute of Nautical Archaeology (1972-1983); research associate at the Royal Ontario Museum (from 1972); Special Research Fellow, at the American School of Classical Studies, 1982 83; and George Mylonas Memorial Lecturer at the University of Missouri at St. Louis in1992.

Professor Shaw has been very active in professional organizations. With the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, he was a member of its alumni council (1976 -1979) and served on its managing committee, beginning in 1991. From 1980-1986 he was a member of its executive committee. He was, at the Archaeological Institute of America, a member its executive committee and chair of its committee on affiliated institutions from 1973 to 1976 and vice-president from 1985 to 1987. He later served on its nominating committee (1992) and its fellowship committee (1992-1994). From 1986 to 1988 he chaired its gold medal award committee. He was also president of the Institute’s Toronto chapter from 1979 to1982 and from 1984 to 1989, and treasurer, beginning in 1990. From 1982 to 1984 he was vice president of the National AIA Organization.

Professor Shaw’s familiarity with grant applications (over 30 of his were successful) and his expertise in his field meant that he was much in demand on adjudication boards and panels. From 1980 to 1984 he was a member of the academic committee of the Canadian Mediterranean Institute, and in 1985 became a member of the panel committee of its Athens branch. From 1992 to 1999 he was member of the application review committee of the Institute for Aegean Prehistory. In 1981 he sat as a panellist for the National Endowment for the Humanities. At the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, he was a member of its adjudication committee for 1981-1982 and later (1992, 1993) served as a panellist on the adjudication board for Committee 6.

Professor Shaw has also served in many editorial capacities. In 1975 he was consulting editor to The Lost World of the Aegean, and from 1975-1985 he was a member of the editorial advisory board of The Journal of Field Archaeology. He followed this with a decade on editorial board of the American Journal of Archaeology. In 1987-1988 he served as a consultant for volume 1 of Time-Life Books’ Time Frame project.

From an early age, Professor Shaw has been writing about the results of his archaeological excavations and related research projects. These have appeared, beginning in 1967, as some 80 articles and chapters of books, and 11 books, of which he is the sole author, joint author, or a co-editor. A few manuscripts have not found publishers. Some of these publications are products of addresses at conferences, where Professor Shaw has been a popular and familiar figure.

Professor Shaw has been widely recognized for his work. In 1981 he was elected to the excavation committee of the Canadian Mediterranean Institute and a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (London). In 1987 he received a Doctor of Humane Letters, from Brown University. In 1990 he was elected a Fellow of Trinity College, University of Toronto, and in 1993 a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 2006 he received, with Maria Coutroubaki Shaw, the Gold Medal of the Archaeological Institute of America for Lifetime Achievement.

Library Oral History Programme

  • Corporate body
  • 1973-

The Library Oral History Programme was an effort to interview key administrators, faculty members, and students who were involved in university affairs at the University of Toronto. Over 100 interviews were conducted with a wide range of individuals. The interviews provide accounts, opinions, and impressions of individuals who have contributed in a variety of ways to the life and history of the University of Toronto. As such their recollections can complement and enhance other forms of evidence preserved and made available for use in the University of Toronto Archives.

PREFACE TO THE ORAL HISTORIES, by R.H. Blackburn, Librarian Emeritus

The University Library's oral history project had a long gestation. I had been interested in the idea for several years, and had gathered information about the technique and costs of such projects in some American universities. When as a member of the Presidential Advisory Committee on University History I suggested, about 1970, that a start be made here, the Committee was interested but had no funds at its disposal for the purpose. The idea was raised again in the Advisory Committee on University Archives, in 1972, and I was urged to proceed on the grounds that we had been through a golden decade which had transformed the university in size and nature, and that we should not miss the chance to record the personal impressions of a number of people who had played important parts in the drama.

There was still no money for the purpose, except a few scrapings from the Library's budget for supplies and services. However, I assigned the task to the University Archives section of the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, and in 1973 a brave beginning was made with advice and help from Professor Robin Harris who had been appointed University Historian. Twenty-four interviews were recorded during the first two years. At first we attempted to have all the tapes transcribed, to provide a version in type as well as in voice, but mainly because of the cost had to give up that attempt. By the late seventies, when shrinkage of the Library budget had obliged us to reduce staff in all sections including Archives, other work claimed priority and the oral history project came almost to a halt. By then nearly fifty interviews had been taped, with people from most parts of the University, but a list of others which we wanted to do remained, and was growing.

In 1981, after his retirement from the President's office, Dr. Jack Sword agreed to become director of the project on apart-time basis; his long acquaintance with the University and all its parts, through experience in a succession of senior administrative posts, made him uniquely qualified for the task. We also managed to obtain for the Library a modest grant from the "up-date" fund, which put the project on a firm footing for the first time. On this basis the project was rejuvenated, and the tally of interviews completed and ready for use has passed the hundred mark. I hope it will continue, at a deliberate but steady pace, from now on.

FOREWORD TO THE ORAL HISTORIES, by J.H. Sword, Director Library Oral History Project, 30 June 1988

I was a willing mid-stream entrant to responsibility for the Library Oral History Project. The already established policy of seeking institutional inclusiveness in compiling lists for interviews made good sense. However, such an ambitious goal required either a lengthy time frame or substantial financial resources. Since the latter option was not available, the project has evolved at a modest pace.

It was Dr. Blackburn's enthusiasm and the availability of unused fragments from Library budgets that made possible the now significant collection of interviews. To assure continuation of the interviews beyond the date of his retirement, he took the initiative in seeking from the University administration an allocation of non-specific bequest money to assure the continuation of the Project. Funds for this purpose were subsequently provided through a bequest carrying the benefactor's name....

Not only did this money permit continuation of the interview,s it also allowed purchase of essential equipment and, of greatest importance, the employment for one year of an archivist, Sandra Guillaume, to accession and describe the growing collection of oral history interviews. The prohibitive costs of providing written transcripts of the tapes resulted in the preparation of tape summaries a research aid for users. Such finding aids as have been made are available in the University Archives.

For the first ten years, interviews were conducted by half a dozen University people. Since 1980 Paul Bator, Ph.D. (History) and Mrs. Valerie Siren Schatzker, M.A. (English) have done all the interviewing. Mrs. Schatzker has also completed nearly fifty interviews with faculty and staff from the Faculty of Medicine for Associated Medical Services. Copies of these cassettes, along with complete transcripts, are available in the University Archives.

The topics covered in the interviews have been, in general, terms, related to the history of the University, through a form of oral autobiography, tracing personal experiences at the University by means of anecdotes and memories of specific University issues over their career. One experiment with a theme was tried: the evolution to unicameralism. A format experiment -- talking with four retired senior members of the Department of Philosophy at the same sessions -- was well worth doing, but s not often practical. Other ideas,such as bringing two or more people together to elicit, by interaction, memories of a particular time or personality, have been talked about, but not tried.

Examination of the list of interviews reveals a cross section of faculty members, academic administrators, students, Governors and Council Members, and non-academic administrators -- in all, a good beginning to a widely representative recording of University voices and experiences. The Project continues.

Irving, William Nathaniel

  • Person
  • 1927-1987

William Nathaniel Irving was born in Toronto on November 11, 1927. At the age of 10 his family returned to the United States where he received most of his education. After military service with U.S. forces during World War II, he entered the University of Alaska in 1948 and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology in 1952. Graduate study was undertaken at Harvard University from 1953-1957 and University of Wisconsin at Madison (1959-1964). His Ph.D. in Anthropology was awarded in 1964 with a thesis on Arctic small tool tradition. “His academic training, a mixture of anthropology and natural sciences, was essential for his subsequent directorship of the Northern Yukon Research Programme…”[1]In 1964 Professor Irving moved his family to Ottawa where he took a position as Head, Western Canada Section, Archaeology Division, National Museum of Man. From 1965 to 1968 he was head of the Northern Canada Section. His interest in the Canadian north continued as he conducted archaeological reconnaissance, survey and excavations at sites in the Yukon from 1965-1968. In 1968 he was appointed Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, a position he held until his death on November 25, 1987.During his career Prof. Irving published extensively on archaeology and anthropology of Alaska, District of Keewatin and Northern Yukon. In 1975 he assumed the directorship of the Northern Yukon Research Programme, based at the University of Toronto. This was a multi-disciplinary programme involving scientists from many different fields. “Under Bill’s direction the Northern Yukon Research Programme focussed not only on the Old Crow Basin but also adjacent portions of the Porcupine River drainage and upland sites such as Bluefish Caves in the surrounding mountains. Most aspects of prehistoric human use of the region were investigated, from caribou fences to Pleistocene archaeology, as well as questions regarding the faunal, climatic, geological and vegetational history of Eastern Beringia”.[2]Prof. Irving was active in many professional organizations including the Canadian Archaeological Association, Council for Canadian Archaeology, American Anthropological Association, Society for American Archaeology, Arctic Institute of North America and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.1. P. Julig and W.Hurley, University of Toronto. “Obituary: William Nathaniel Irving (1927-1987)” Canadian Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 12, 1988.p. 210-2172. Ibid., p. 212

Aird, John Black

  • Person

Chancellor of the University of Toronto.

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