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Stephen Lewis is a politician, humanitarian, global activist, diplomat, and public speaker. He is a Companion of the Order of Canada, was named “Canadian of the Year” by Maclean’s in 2003 and has received countless awards and recognition for his humanitarian work in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Africa.

Stephen was born in Ottawa on November 11, 1937. He is the son of Sophie and David Lewis, the former leader of the federal New Democratic Party. He is married to Michele Landsberg, author and columnist for the Globe and Mail and Toronto Star, with whom he has three children, Ilana Landsberg-Lewis, Avi Lewis, and Jenny Lewis.

Stephen received post-secondary education at the University of Toronto and the University of British Columbia. Before he could finish his degree, he entered politics and was elected to the Ontario Legislature in 1963 as a member of the New Democratic Party.

Between 1970 and 1978, Stephen was the Provincial Leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party. Following his political career, he became involved in broadcasting. He received the Gordon Sinclair ACTRA Award for broadcasting in 1982 and his CBC radio documentaries were published as Art Out of Agony: The Holocaust Theme in Literature, Sculpture and Film (Toronto: CBC Enterprises, 1984).

In October 1984, Stephen was appointed as Canada's Ambassador to the United Nations by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. He chaired the committee which drafted the five-year UN Programme on African Economic Recovery and the first International Conference on Climate Change in 1988. In September 1986, the UN Secretary General appointed Stephen as his Special Advisor on Africa.

In July 1988, Lewis resigned from his ambassadorship. He continued to act in a personal capacity as Special Advisor to the UN Secretary General on Africa.

In May 1992, Stephen was appointed as Special Advisor on Race Relations to the Premier of Ontario. In 1993, Stephen joined the UN Secretary General’s Advisory Group on the Fourth World Conference on Women, which was held in Beijing in September 1995.

Between 1994 and 1996, Stephen was coordinator of a two-year study commissioned by the UN on the impact of armed conflict on children, led by Graça Machel.

On October 25, 1995, Stephen was appointed Deputy Executive Director (External Relations) of the United Nations Children’s Fund. He resigned January 6, 1999.

In 1998, Stephen was selected by the Organization of African Unity to participate on the International Panel of Eminent Personalities to Investigate the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda and the Surrounding Events. Between 1999 and 2001, Stephen acted as Consultant to UNAIDS, UNIFEM, and the Economic Commission for Africa.

Between 2001 to 2006, Stephen was appointed as the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa.

Stephen is board co-chair of the Stephen Lewis Foundation, a charity he co-founded in 2003 that supports community-based organizations working on the frontlines of the AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa. From 2007 to 2021, he was co-director of the advocacy organization AIDS-Free World which he co-founded with Paula Donovan.

Stephen is the author of Race Against Time (Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 2005), a publication of lectures delivered during his Massey Lecture Tour.

On July 1, 2006, Stephen was named McMaster University’s first Social Sciences Scholar-in-Residence. Stephen held 40 honorary degrees from Canadian and American universities. His first honorary doctorate was given at McMaster University in 1979.

Stephen was diagnosed with inoperable abdominal cancer, which recurred despite treatment. He died at the age of 88 on March 31, 2026 in Toronto.

Ruth Nichols, author, was born on 4 March 1948 in Toronto. She was educated at the Universities of British Columbia and McMaster. For a number of years after 1974 she lectured at Carleton University in Ottawa. She is primarily a writer of juvenile novels although she has written some historical novels as well. Nichols passed away in August 2023.

Tim and Elke Inkster started The Porcupine’s Quill press, commonly referred to as PQL, in 1974 in Erin, Ontario. Their mandate was “to preserve the culture of the printed word by applying our expertise in the art of 20th-century offset printing technology in the creation of high-quality books that look and feel like 19th-century letterpress products.”

The Inksters approached crafting a high-quality book through careful attention to detail and in-house production of almost all aspects of the publications. Tim Inkster, a member of the Association of Registered Graphic Designer of Canada, designed the books. The publication was then printed in-house on a Heidelberg KORD press, an offset printer. Elke Inkster was the bookbinder, creating sewn bindings on a 1905 Smyth Book Sewing Machine.

They were a small press, averaging between 10 to 20 publications a year. They published newer voices, some of whom rose to critical acclaim or were already highly acclaimed including Jane Urqhuart, Elizabeth Hay, Russell Smith, P.K. Page, Margaret Avison, Clark Blaise, Richard Outram, and Helen Humphreys. They also produced two bi-annual serial publications, The Devil’s Artisan: Journal of the Printing Arts and Canadian Notes and Queries.

PQL’s printing and literary achievements received acclaim on a national level. Between 1981-2006, Tim Inkster’s book designs received approximately 43 awards from the Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Designs in Canada and the Malahat Design Awards. In 1984, PQL won the Leipzig Book Fair Award bronze medal and a silver medal in 1988.

In 2008, the Inkster’s received the Order of Canada for their “important and enduring contribution to Canadian literature”. In 2012, the Inksters each received a Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee Medal. In 2019, they were awarded the Robert R. Reid Medal for Lifetime Achievement in the Book Arts in Canada, also from the Alcuin Society.

The authors they have published have also won awards including the Governor General’s Award, the Trillium Book Award, the Art Directors Club of New York Award of Distinctive Merit, and several IPPYs (Independent Press Book Award).

John Metcalf, a highly regarded short story author and Canadian literary collector, was Senior Editor from 1989 until 2005.

In 2023, the Inksters sold PQL to Gordon Hill Press. As of November, 2024, Gordon Hill Press and The Porcupine’s Quill are imprints of the corporate entity GHP-PQL Inc.

Magook Publishing Ltd. was a Canadian children’s publisher. Headed by Marilyn Day, the company operated from roughly 1974-1985, with the peak of their activities in the late 1970s and early 1980s. They published standalone children’s books as well as a small, paperback-sized magazine, “Magook”, part book, part magazine. They published works by numerous well-known authors, including Margaret Laurence, Madeline Engel, and Farley Mowat, while also championing several new authors. Similarly, they featured unknown artists and well-known creators, such as political cartoonist, Jim Phillips, and animator, Don Arioli.

McClelland and Stewart had involvement with Magook, but the nature of this relationship is not well attested in the documentary record. M&S and other Canadian publishers were looking to cut back on children’s works, which were not profitable, and Magook was started. Despite good press and reviews, the company couldn't continue beyond the mid-1980s.

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.

Maggie Helwig was born in England in November 1961. She is the daughter of prominent Canadian writer David Helwig and theatre director and actor Nancy Helwig of Kingston, Ontario. She is married to editor Ken Simons and has one daughter, Simone.  She received her BA in Classical Studies from Trent University in 1983 and earned her Master's of Divinity at the University of Toronto, Trinity College in 2011.

Maggie Helwig has published six books of poetry, two books of essays, a collection of short stories and three novels, Where She Was Standing (2001), Between Mountains (2004), and Girls Fall Down (2008). A human rights activist as well as a writer, she has worked for the East Timor Alert Network in Toronto, the Women in Black network, and War Resisters' International. She is also an Anglican priest and has been at the Church of St Stephen-in-the-Fields in Kensington Market since 2013.

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.

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.

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.

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).

Jeffery Donaldson is a professor in McMaster University’s department of English Literature and Cultural Studies and an author of poetry and non-fiction.

In 1960, Donaldson was born in Toronto; he developed an interest in creative writing at a young age. His early education was at Gosford Boulevard Public School, Jane Junior High School, and Huron Heights Secondary School. He completed his post-secondary education at Victoria College, University of Toronto, where he obtained his Bachelor of Arts and Certification in English Language and Literature (1983), Master of Arts (1985), and lastly, his Doctorate (1990).

Donaldson’s academic research focuses on metaphor and metaphoric thinking. He is the author of Missing Link: The Evolution of Metaphor and the Metaphor of Evolution (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015). He has contributed to numerous academic journals and anthologies. Many of his scholarly articles are focused on psychology, the philosophy of language, religion, cognitive sciences, and English language and literature. Donaldson is also the editor of The Essential John Reibetanz (The Porcupine’s Quill, 2017) and co-editor, with Alan Mendelson, of Frye and the Word: Religious Contexts in the Writings of Northrop Frye (University of Toronto Press, 2003).

Donaldson is also the author of seven poetry collections, including Once Out of Nature (McClelland & Stewart, 1991), Waterglass (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1999), Palilalia (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008), Guesswork (Goose Lane Edition, 2011), Slack Action (The Porcupine’s Quill, 2013), Fluke Print (The Porcupine’s Quill, 2018), and Granted (Gordon Hill Press, 2023). Palilalia was nominated for the Canadian Author’s Association Poetry Prize in 2008.

Donaldson has also published three non-fiction volumes, including Echo Soundings: Essays on Poetry and Poetics (Palimpsest Press, 2014), Viaticum: From Notebooks (The Porcupine’s Quill, 2019), and Momento: On Standing in Front of Art (Gordon Hill, 2023). Viaticum: From Notebooks received the Hamilton Arts Council award for non-fiction in 2021.

In addition to writing, Donaldson has taught American literature, poetry, creative writing, and literary criticism at McMaster University since July 1989. He hosted an online podcast called “Jeweller’s Eye” from August 2015 to September 2018.

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.

Ellen Seligman was an editor of Canadian fiction who served as McClelland & Stewart’s Editorial Director of Fiction from 1987 on, and eventually, Vice-President (2012). Seligman edited many of McClelland & Stewart’s most noteworthy books during her tenure, including works by Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Leonard Cohen, Rohinton Mistry, Anne Michaels, and others.

Seligman was born and raised in New York City (Manhattan). She attended the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in English. She began her publishing career in New York City, continued it in London, England, and moved to Canada in 1976. By 1977, she was hired as a senior editor at McClelland and Stewart, where she was responsible for a range of books, including non-fiction, memoirs, poetry, and art.

Seligman became Editorial Director of Fiction in 1987. Following this appointment, she took on primary responsibility for acquiring and editing much of McClelland & Stewart’s fiction list. Books Seligman worked on won Canada’s top literary prizes, including the Governor General’s Award, the Trillium Prize, and the Giller Prize. Seligman’s books also won or were shortlisted for prestigious international prizes such as the Booker Prize, the Orange Prize, and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Seligman worked with Sandra Birdsell, David Adams Richards, John Steffler, Shyam Selvadurai, Jane Urquhart, M.G. Vassanji, Guy Vanderhaeghe, and many others.

In 2000, McClelland & Stewart donated 75% of their shares to the University of Toronto; the remaining 25% were sold to Random House of Canada Ltd. In the same year, Seligman was promoted to the position of Publisher (Fiction). In 2011, Random House purchased the remaining 75% of the company to become the sole owner. By 2012, Seligman was named Vice-President of McClelland & Stewart, a position she held until her death in 2016.

In addition to her work in publishing, Seligman was an active member of PEN Canada, and from 2009-2011 she served as the organization’s president.

Seligman won many editorial and professional awards throughout her career, including the Order of Ontario (2008) and the Canadian Booksellers Association’s Editor of the Year award.

Seligman was married to James Polk.

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).

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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.

Sylvia Nickerson is an award-winning comic artist and writer, as well as a historian of mathematics and science.

Nickerson trained in visual arts at Mount Allison University and Etobicoke School of the Arts. In her early career, she worked as a freelance illustrator for clients such as The Globe and Mail, The National Post, The Washington Post, and others. From 2004 to 2010, she also contributed monthly illustrations to The Dominion, a co-operatively run media organization publishing grassroots Canadian journalism online.

Nickerson’s first book, All We Have Left, Is This (Ca$ino Press) was released in 2018. The book is a collection of fourteen short comic stories about daughterhood, marriage, motherhood, desire, religion, assault, loneliness, and aging. Following the publication of this volume, Nickerson was nominated for the Doug Wright Spotlight Award (“the Nipper”) for best emerging comic talent in 2019.

In 2019, Nickerson published Creation (Drawn & Quarterly), an exploration of gentrification in Hamilton, Ontario from the perspective of an artist and mother. Subsequently, Nickerson received the Nipper Doug Wright Award in 2020. Nickerson has since served as the artist in residence at the Art Gallery of Hamilton (2020-2021).

Nickerson is also a historian of mathematics and science; in 2014, she completed a Ph.D. at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto. She was a postdoctoral researcher at York University from 2014-2017, where she worked on the editorial project “The Correspondence of John Tyndall and Science and Religion: Exploring the Spectrum.” Nickerson teaches courses at the University of Toronto and McMaster University.

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).

McMaster University was founded in 1887 in Toronto, Ont. and named after Senator William McMaster who had bequeathed sufficient funding to endow an Christian institution of higher learning. It opened in Toronto in 1890. Inadequate facilities and the gift of land in Hamilton prompted the institution to relocate in 1930. Until 1957 the Governors of the University were elected by the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec. In that year, the University became a non-denominational institution.

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.

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.

Dianne Woodman began her work in the publishing industry in 1964 when she was hired as the Edmonton representative for McClelland & Stewart. From 1972-1974 she worked as their publicity director in Toronto, before becoming the Western rep for Stanton, MacDougall and Hunt. In 1976 she opened Village Bookshop and Volume Two in Edmonton.

Beginning in 1984, she began to record interviews with authors and others in the industry in an effort to preserve their memories and experiences.

George Bernard Shaw, playwright, was born on 26 July 1856 in Dublin, Ireland and educated at the Wesley Connexional School. He began his writing career as a novelist. His first play, Arms and the Man, was produced in 1894. He went on to become a prolific playwright and the chief dramatist of the twentieth century in the English language. He died at his home, Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire, on 2 November 1950.