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George Arnet was appointed as the vicar of The Cathedral Church of All Saints, Northgate, Wakefield , West Yorkshire on 12 May 1729. He resigned from that post in October 1750 and died in December that year. Arnet became a deacon in 1702, first serving at Dorrington, and then as vicar at Holbeach from 1711 to 1729. He left Lincolnshire for Wakefield and while serving at All Saints was also the rector at Wheldrake parish and the domestic chaplain of the Lord Archbishop of York.

Andrew Lang, classicist, translator, folk-lorist, journalist, poet, historian, and critic was born on 31 March 1844 in Selkirk, Scotland. He was educated at the University of St. Andrews, Glasgow University, and Balliol College, Oxford. He obtained a first-class degree in Classics and was elected a Fellow of Merton College in 1868. In 1875 he moved to London to begin his career in journalism. Shortly thereafter he was elected to the first governing council of the new Folklore Society. His published works are numerous and in many genres. He died on 22 July 1912 in Banchory, Scotland.

Dr. Myers Coplans was sanitary officer to the Second Army of the British Expeditionary Force during the First World War.

William Halse Rivers, psychologist and anthropologist, was born on 12 March 1864 in Luton, near, Chatham, Kent. He was educated at Tonbridge School and St. Bartholomew's Hospital. In 1897 he became a lecturer in psychology at Cambridge; in 1902 he was elected a fellow of St. John's College. He was most interested in the relationship between mind and body, playing a fundamental role in the establishment of both experimental psychology and social anthropology as academic disciplines in Britain. He was made a fellow of the Royal Society in 1908 and won the Society's gold medal in 1914. He died on 4 June 1922. His father Henry Frederick Rivers was a speech therapist.

Elizabeth Gwillim, gentlewoman, author and artist, was baptized on 22 September 1762 in Aldwincle, England according to the Dictionary of Canadian Biography. She married John Graves Simcoe on 30 December 1782, at the age of twenty, if the date of birth given by the DCB is correct. From 1791 to 1796 she lived with her husband in Upper Canada as he served out his term as Lieutenant Governor. While there she kept diaries and painted water colours of Canadian scenes. Her writings were published as The Diary of Mrs. John Graves Simcoe in 1911. She died at Wolford Lodge near Honiton, England on 17 January 1850.

C.T. Atkinson held the rank of Captain with the Oxford University Officers Training Corps, and served in the Seventh Division which was created in the autumn of 1914, and ceased to exist in the winter of 1918, after its demobilization in December. Its units were assembled from home stations, from Gibralter, Malta, Egypt and included the regulars remaining in England after the departure for France of the Sixth Division in 1907. In 1926, C.T. Atkinson undertook the writing of the history of the Seventh Division, which was published in 1927, under the title The Seventh Division 1914-1918. by John Murray.

Bernadette Ryan is a writer, academic teacher, radio host, and poet who predominantly publishes under the pen name Bernadette Rule. Born in 1951, Ryan grew up in Kentucky. In 1973, she received a B.A. from Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky with a double major in English and History and a minor in Education. In 1975, she received an M.A. in English from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. After graduating, she moved to Ontario, Canada, where she began writing, editing, and teaching.

Ryan has published ten collections of poetry, most recently, The Window Washer of Chartres (Paradise North Press, 2023) and Deep Breath (Frog Hollow Press, 2021). In 2021, she released her first non-fiction novel, Dark Fire (Ironing Board Press, 2021), which was shortlisted for a 2022 Hamilton Literary Award and a Whistler Independent Book Award. In 2023, she published her second non-fiction novel, The Arithmetic of Color (Ironing Board Press, 2023). She has received two Short Works Prizes, one for poetry and one for creative nonfiction, and the 2017 City of Hamilton Arts Award for Writing.

In addition to writing, Ryan taught at McMaster University in the Continuing Education Writing Certificate Program from the 1990s to 2006. She also taught English as a second language at Mohawk College from 2006 to 2019, as well as various community workshops and events around the Greater Hamilton Area.

Ryan has been involved in many local Hamilton arts organizations and activities, including hosting the Art Waves podcast series from 2008 to 2021 on the Mohawk College radio station (101.5FM). For the Art Waves program, Ryan interviewed artists, photographers, musicians, authors, and event organizers from the Greater Hamilton Area. Ryan was also an executive at the Hamilton Poetry Centre, and from 2018-2025, she served as president of the Hamilton Association for the Advancement of Literature, Science and Art (HAALSA).

Sources:

Art Waves: “A History & Some Highlights”. Article by Bernadette Rule. Issue 14.1, 2021. https://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/201/300/hamilton_arts_and_letters/2021_14-1/samizdatpress.typepad.com/hal_magazine_issue_14-1/art-waves-by-bernadette-rule-7.html

HA&L Biographical Sketch: “Bernadette Rule”. Issue 14.1, 2021. https://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/201/300/hamilton_arts_and_letters/2021_14-1/samizdatpress.typepad.com/hal_magazine_issue_14-1/hal-biographical-sketch-bernadette-rule.html

Bernadette Rule “Radio”. https://www.bernadetterule.ca/radio

Library of Congress Authorities. https://authorities.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?AuthRecID=2117922&v1=1&HC=1&SEQ=20241108113011&PID=GUVdRyZBwRzG7UAVJeBAJFag-1RBf

The Arty Crowd. “Bernadette Rule”. https://theartycrowd.ca/artist_profile/bernadette-rule/

Bernadette Ryan (Rule) Fonds, Box 1, Files 3, 8-17; Boxes 2-3.

Elva Celesta Taylor was born and lived most of her life in Quebec’s Eastern Townships. Born to Edward and Abi Oakley in Iron Hill on the 27th of June 1860, she was one of a number of children (including Gilford, Alice, Clara, Alma, and others). Edward, Celesta’s father, died while she was still young.

Around the age of twenty, Celesta married Frank D. Taylor, and they had two sons, Clifton (b. 31 July 1882) and Albion (b. 15 Jan. 1886). Frank died 21 Feb. 1897. Celesta did extra sewing and knitting, took in boarders, and even raised canaries. This was done not just to support her and her family but to ensure that both boys could both go to school.

In 1903, with both sons away, she was invited to live with her cousin, Henry Miles, a widower, and help raise his two sons (Earl H., b. 1893 and Carroll, b. 1895) and young daughter, Evelyn. Henry owned a sawmill and timber lots in New Brunswick, as well as the farm where they lived. He travelled often. For a time, Celesta and Henry seemed to be in love and discussed marriage, but over time he grew distant, finally eloping with a woman in New York in 1916. Celesta remained on the farm for another five years until Evelyn, whom she had raised since infancy, was grown. After Evelyn married (Tenney Call), Celesta moved to California to live with her sister Alice. She died in 1937.

Charles Henry (Marty) Gervais was born in Windsor in 1946. He received a BA degree from the University of Guelph and later studied writing under Morley Callaghan at the University of Windsor, where he received an MA in Creative Writing. Gervais has undertaken many roles in the arts community. He established Black Moss Press in 1969, one of the earliest and most enduring literary publishers in Canada. Gervais continues to lead Black Moss Press in publishing new titles of poetry, novels, non-fiction, and anthologies.

He was also an award-winning journalist with the Windsor Star, for 35 years, beginning his career in 1974 and retiring in 2008. He was a special correspondent, based in Iraq for three months in 2007. He continues to write "My Town" column on a freelance basis. His books, often concerned with the history of the Windsor area, including Baldoon (1976, a play written with James Reaney), The Rumrunners (1980), The Fighting Parson (1983), The Border Police (1992), and, more recently, Keeping with Tradition: The Working Man's Choir, Forty Years of Song with Il Coro Italiano (2002). His first published novel, Reno, appeared in 2005 from Mosaic Press. Another book, Taking My Blood, charting his time in a hospital, and including photographs he took while he was there, came out in 2005. In addition to being the author of many books of poetry (the most recent The Sky Above [2024]), he was named the first Poet Laureate of the City of Windsor in 2011. He was the resident writing professional at the University of Windsor and managing editor of the Windsor Review. Gervais is also a trained photographer. His exhibition entitled "A Show of Hands: Boxing on the Border" documented the life of young boxers on the Canada-U.S border.

Marjorie Stibbards Harris Batten, freelance writer, editor, and noted Canadian gardening authority, was born in Shaunavon, Saskatchewan, in 1937, the eldest of Bernard and Kay Stibbards ’s three children. Her father was a Baptist minister and the family moved frequently across Canada. She was tragically orphaned in her teens, losing her mother to cancer and her father soon after in an airplane crash. Harris graduated from McMaster University in 1959 with an Honours BA in English, and began graduate studies at University of Toronto, studying with Northrop Frye.

She married musician and TV producer Barry Harris with whom she had two children, Christopher and Jennifer. After separating from Harris, she met fellow writer Jack Batten, to whom she has been married since 1968. The couple resided in their Toronto Annex home until 2024. Harris gardened on this property for over fifty years. Her garden features in many of her publications and speaking engagements.

In the early 1960s Harris worked for Toronto art dealer Dorothy Cameron which led to a position as modern-living editor and writer at Maclean’s magazine. Well into the1980s, Harris continued as a freelancer, writing on a wide range of topics for nearly every major Canadian magazine. In the early 1970s Harris was also a writer, producer, and commentator for CBC Radio on such shows as “Gerussi,” “This Country in the Morning,” and “Ideas”. In addition, she wrote and co-authored numerous general interest books in the 1970s and 1980s.

What Harris describes as her “epiphany” occurred in 1988 when she combined her writing talents and passion for gardening to create The Canadian Gardener. Published in 1990, it launched Harris into a new career and was the first of over 20 gardening monographs she has written. Recognition for her expertise led to gardening columns in Chatelaine and The Globe & Mail, and to editorship roles with Toronto Life Gardens and Gardening Life.

By 1991, Harris also had a garden design business. Doris Giller, journalist, editor, and namesake of the Giller Prize, was one of her first clients. Harris worked primarily on residential landscapes in the Toronto metropolitan area. She provided clients with a written document containing garden design plans and plant recommendations. Occasionally, she provided both written documents and technical drawings. She continued this business through 2023.

She continued to be much sought-after for speaking engagements, public appearances, and local and international garden tours, and is a regular garden commentator on television and radio programs and online forums.

Stanley J. White was a British Canadian industrial photographer and writer.

Born in Birmingham, England in 1929, White’s first job was as a letterer for a commercial photography studio. Following wartime service in the Royal Air Force, he returned to the same company as an industrial photographer focusing on the Midlands. Further information about this period of Stanley White’s career is available in his article “Annals of a 1940s-50s Industrial Photographer in England” (Photographic Canadiana 39, no. 3).

White moved to Toronto in 1957, where he worked as a commercial and advertising photographer. From 1971-1993, he taught photography at Sheridan College (Oakville), with a focus on lighting and product illustration. White was also involved in the Photographic Historical Society of Canada and the National Stereoscopic Association.

White began writing poetry at the age of 51. He was a member of the Brantford Writers’ Circle, the Cambridge Writers Collective, and the Hamilton Poetry Centre. He self-published numerous chapbooks under the press names ““Third Dimension Press,” “Third Dimensions Press,” and “Beyond the Third Dimensions Press.” In 2022, he self-published two larger collections: Ars Poetica (poetry) and Short Tall Stories (short fiction).

White passed away in 2023.

The head of McMaster University was given the title of Chancellor until 1950 when George P. Gilmour was given the title of President and Vice-Chancellor and a new Chancellor, E. Carey Fox was chosen. Gilmour had been Chancellor of McMaster University since 1941.

Since 1950, the following individuals have served as presidents of McMaster University: George P. Gilmour, 1950-1961; Henry G. Thode, 1961-1972; Arthur N. Bourns, 1972-1980; Alvin A. Lee, 1980-1990; Geraldine A. Kenney-Wallace, 1990-1995; Peter J. George, 1995-2010; Patrick Deane, 2010-2019; David H. Farrar, 2019-2025; Susan Tighe, 2025-present.

John Terpstra was born in Brockville, Ontario in 1953 and moved to Edmonton as a child. He has spent most of his life in Hamilton, Ontario. Terpstra was educated at Trinity Christian College in Chicago and the University of Toronto. He has published several books of poetry including the Governor-General Literary Awards’ nominee, Disarmament (2003). His prose works include The Boys, or Waiting for the Electrician’s Daughter (2005) which was a finalist for the Charles Taylor Prize and Falling into Place (2002 and 2011 reprint). His selected poetry has been collected in Two or Three Guitars (2006), Brilliant Falls (2013), This Orchard Sound (2014), Mischief (2017), and Call Me Home (2021).

Robert Ezergailis is a McMaster alumnus. He completed a B.A. (Hons) in Religious Studies and graduate courses in Philosophy.

Ezergailis wrote poetry through the late 1980s to 2023, much of which was posted to bulletin board systems (BBSs) and Usenet forums.