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Morris Hayne Austin 'Boy' Drury, OBE, CD, was born in Sherbrooke, Quebec on 10 October 1896. Drury was a member of the Royal Canadian Dragoons Permanent Force when he enlisted with the Canadian Over-Seas Expeditionary Force in December 1915. Prior to enlisting Drury also had experience as a Lieutenant with the 11th Hussars and had completed one year at the Royal Military College as a cadet. After the First World War, he formed the Canadian Army Equestrian Jumping Team, which entertained spectators throughout the Great Depression. He retired from the military in 1946 and became Commandant of the Toronto Division for twenty-two years. He died in 1977.

Alfred Langsford Robinson was a member of the Canadian Engineers of the 2nd Division of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. The 2nd Division officially came into existence on 25 May 1915. The engineers were very important to the war effort, constructing huts, digging trenches, facilitating transportation, and creating equipment to deal with hazards like poison gas. The division participated on many fronts, including the Second Battle of Ypres, Robecq, St. Eloi Craters, Somme, Courcelette, Regina Trench, Vimy, Hill 70 and Passchendaele.

Harold LeRoy Ward was born in the environs of London, Ont. on 10 July 1921. He attended Dorchester School. During World War II, he was a flying officer, specifically a wireless air gunner, in the Royal Canadian Air Force. After the war he worked for the CPR as a train dispatcher. He was the husband of Violet Jean (née Wright) for 67 years. They had two daughters, Sharon (later Kormendi) and Cicily (later Squire). He died in his eighty-ninth year at Victoria Hospital in London on 21 May 2010.

AC/2 H. Milligan, No. 979793, served in the Royal Air Force of Great Britain.

Pte Ronald Broadbent served with the British 21st Army Group at the Number 8 General Hospital in Germany. He was certified as an Army Orderly in the Royal Army Medical Corps on 24 November 1938. He married Bessie Denham in 1944.

The members of Local 5328 are employees of the Parkdale Works of the Steel Company of Canada (Stelco).

Eric Aldwinckle was born in Oxford England on 22 January 1909. He came to Canada in 1922. He was an instructor at the Ontario College of Art from 1936 to 1942. In 1943 he went to Europe as an official war artist, serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force as a Flight Lieutenant. The paintings and drawings he created are part of the collection of the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. After the war he returned to the OCA, later working for the Stratford Festival. He became a noted designer of heraldic crests and medals for several Canadian universities and a life-time member of the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto. Although known for his art, he did publish one musical composition in 1968. He died in January 1980.

The first issue of the Canadian Fiction Magazine (CFM), edited by Janie Kennon and R.W. Stedingh, appeared in 1971 as a student publication at the University of British Columbia. Geoff Hancock took over as editor in summer 1975 after Stedingh retired. Published as a quarterly, CFM was probably the foremost literary vehicle of its kind during this period for the Canadian short story in English and for its specialty issues on Native fiction, magic realism, Latin fiction, and fiction in translation, all of which were later turned into anthologies by Hancock. During its peak years, CFM published works by some of Canada's best-known writers and artists, including: Margaret Atwood, Michael Bullock, Matt Cohen, Mavis Gallant, Alberto Manguel, Eugene McNamara, Alice Munro, Susan Musgrave, Rikki, Leon Rooke, Jane Rule, Josef Skvorecký, Jane Urquhart, Miriam Waddington, bp Nichol, David Watmough, George Woodcock, Ann Copeland, and Sam Tata. Published for twenty-seven years primarily under Hancock's editorship, CFM ceased in 1998 when government grants and other funding were not available as a subvention for publication.

Margaret Marshall Saunders was born on 13 April 1861 in Milton, Nova Scotia. She was educated at an Edinburgh, Scotland finishing school, followed by a year in France. She wrote about this experience in Esther de Warren: The Story of a Mid-Victorian Maiden (1927). This was her last published work and her personal favourite. Her most successful book was Beautiful Joe: The Autobiography of a Dog (1893). Saunders was awarded an honorary M.A. from Acadia University in 1911. For the last thirty-three years of her life she lived in Toronto. She died on 15 February 1947.

William V. Havens was born in 1829. He lived much of his life in Aldborough, Elgin County, Ontario, with his wife Mary and daughter Ciscelia.

Lord Alfred Spencer Churchill was the second son of the sixth Duke of Marlborough (1793-1857). He was born on 24 April 1842. He served in the military and also as Member of Parliament for Woodstock, 1845-1847 and 1857-1865. He was a member of the Society of Arts, serving as chairman, 1875-1880. He married Harriett Gough-Calthorpe in 1857. Their daughter, Adeline ("Daisy") Spencer Churchill was born in 1861. Lord Alfred died in London on 21 September 1893. His daughter married Colonel William Hugh Williams on 1 August 1895. They had two sons, Herbrand Alfred Collam ("Sam") Williams, born 30 June 1896, and Geoffrey Williams. Both sons served during World War I. Herbrand was a Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion, Kings Royal Rifle Corps. He later rose to the rank of Captain. Herbrand married a Russian, Xenia Poushkine, on 8 April 1927. Geoffrey served on H.M.S. Queen, H.M.S. St. Vincent and H.M.S. Dragon.

The International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades was chartered on 29 June 1956 for all the union painters, glaziers and allied trades in the area of Kitchener and Waterloo, Ontario. It officially changed its name to International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, in August 1999, to better reflect its membership of men and women.

During the mid-1960s, Paul André Ladouceur attended Loyola College in Montreal and was active there in student politics, serving as vice-president of the Students Administrative Council in 1965. He also held positions with the Canadian Union of Students (CUS) between 1964 and 1966 as Quebec regional president and as associate secretary for international affairs within the CUS Secretariat. As a result of the international scope of his duties, Ladouceur was also responsible for CUS involvement in the Fédération Internationale du Sport Universitaire (FISU).

After graduating, he completed a Master’s degree in international relations at Carleton University’s School of International Affairs between 1966 and 1968, producing a research essay on the International Union of Students (IUS). After further studies in Geneva, Switzerland, he began a doctorate in political studies in 1969 at the University of Sussex, specializing in African politics. His thesis was published by Longman in 1979 under the title Chiefs and Politicians: The Politics of Regionalism in Northern Ghana. During his studies in Geneva in 1968, Ladouceur became closely involved with the development of the IUEF, a non-governmental organization dedicated to assisting African and Latin American refugee students through scholarships. He sat on the international board of the IUEF from 1969 until 1980, and from 1977 was its secretary-treasurer. In 1980 the IUEF was troubled by the revelation that its deputy director since July 1978, Craig Williamson, was a spy for the South African police force. The aftermath of the “Williamson Affair” resulted in the dissolution of the IUEF.

From 1972 to 1992 Paul Ladouceur was a public servant with the Canadian government, initially with the Canadian International Development Agency. He was on leave of absence with the World Health Organisation in Geneva from 1985 to 1993. He returned to Canada in 1996 and since then has been involved with the Orthodox Church.

Lorne A. Brown, who taught political science at the University of Regina in the 1980s, was active in the Central America Solidarity Movement. He was also a member of the Central America Working Group in Regina. In 1986 he decided to edit an anthology, assisted by Janice Acton and Miaja Kagis, to reflect the experiences of “Canadians who have worked in, travelled to, observed or been associated with developments in several Central American countries”, with an emphasis on Nicaragua. To accomplish this task, he contacted Canadian “solidarity activists in trade unions, the National Farmer’s Union, churches, teachers’ association” and other groups, including Tools for Peace. Although the anthology was never published, many activists were interviewed.

Thomas Arnold (1795-1841), theologian and historian, was born on 13 June 1795 on the Isle of Wight. Educated at Winchester College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he is best known as the headmaster of Rugby School which he turned into one of the best schools in Britain. He was appointed Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford in 1841. He died at Rugby on 12 June 1842.

Born on 18 March 1905, Alfred Goldsworthy Bailey was an historian, poet, and university administrator. In 1934 he graduated with a doctorate from the University of Toronto with a specialization in ethno-history and aboriginal culture. He taught history at the University of New Brunswick from 1938 to 1970. At UNB he was Dean of Arts from 1946 to 1964, Honorary Librarian and Chief Executive Officer of the Library from 1946 to 1959, and Vice-President Academic from 1965 to 1970. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1951 and an officer of the Order of Canada in 1978. In addition to his scholarly work, he was a founder of the Fiddlehead and published six books of verse between 1927 and 1996. He died on 21 April 1997.

Laura Beecroft, a missionary with the Christian and Missionary Alliance, began a period of work with the Christian and Missionary Alliance Girls' Training School in Jerusalem, Palestine during the year of 1912. Laura was a missionary and teacher of several subjects including history, Bible studies, and English grammar, composition, spelling and reading. Laura remained in this position until 1915, when in January of that year she relocated to Cairo, Egypt and studied Arabic. Later that year, Laura joined her mother and sister in New York until 1920 when she returned to the American Missionary School in Jerusalem for an unknown period of time.

Alexander Brady and others were charged with treason on 1 June 1838 in the township of Pelham where they were accused of gathering together in an unlawful manner with rifles, pistols, and swords. Only John W. Brown was found guilty.