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http://viaf.org/viaf/126626356 · Corporate body · 1899-

Brookfield Corporation is a Canadian multinational company that is one of the world's largest alternative investment management companies. It focuses on direct control investments in real estate, renewable power, infrastructure, credit and private equity.

Brown, H.H., 1870-1951
Person

Hubert Hartfield Brown (1870-1951) was an active member of the Ornithological Subsection of the Biological Section of the Canadian Institute who conducted field observations in the Toronto area. His bird specimens and journals were among the early acquisitions of the Royal Ontario Museum. In addition to his ornithological observations, Brown collected numerous plant specimens from southern Ontario, depositing them with ROM.

Burnham, Dorothy K.
Person · 1911-2004

Dorothy Kate Burnham was born 1911 and educated in Toronto. She joined the staff of the Royal Ontario Museum as a draftsman in 1929. She studied archaeological drafting and general museum work, and trained in spinning, weaving, textile chemistry and costume pattern drafting. When the Textile Department was created in 1939 she was named Deputy Keeper of Texiles. She married Harold B. Burnham in 1944, and left the ROM in 1949 to raise her family. When Harold was hired as a textile curator at the ROM in 1959, Dorothy returned to work as a volunteer in the Ethnology Department. She later became a research assistant in the Textile Department. Upon Harold's death in 1973 she returned to full-time employment as Associate Curator and later Curator of the Textile Department. She retired from the ROM in 1976, and was appointed Curator Emeritus in 2000. She was awarded the Order of Canada in 1984 and an honourary doctorate from Trent University in 1998. She died in Toronto on October 24, 2004.

Cain, R.F. (Roy Franklin)
http://viaf.org/viaf/537742 · Person · 1906-1998

Roy Franklin Cain was born in Paris, Ontario, in 1906. He received his Ph. D. from the University of Toronto in 1933, specializing in mycology. He was appointed to the Department of Botany in 1946 and retired as associate chairman of the Department in 1975. His area of specialization was coprophilous (dung-inhabiting) fungi. He received the Distinguished Mycologist Award from the Mycology Society of America in 1983. He died in Toronto in 1998.

Calder, Dale R.
http://viaf.org/viaf/104630494 · Person

Dale Calder did his graduate training (both A.M. and Ph.D.) in Biological Oceanography at the School of Marine Science of the College of William and Mary in Virginia (USA). After holding a National Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship at the National Museum of Natural Sciences, National Museums of Canada in Ottawa (1968-1969), he returned to Virginia and to the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, for four years (1969-1973) as an Associate Marine Scientist. From 1973-1981 he was an Associate Marine Scientist at the Marine Resources Research Institute, South Carolina Wildlife and Marine Resources Department, in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. In 1981 he joined the staff of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) as Associate Curator-in-Charge of the Department of Invertebrate Zoology. In 1991 he was appointed a Research Associate of the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum, and Zoo, and from 2000 to 2006 he served as a Commissioner on the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Other academic positions include the College of William and Mary in Virginia (Assistant Professor of Marine Science, 1970-1973), the University of Virginia (Assistant Professor of Marine Science, 1971-1973), the College of Charleston (Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biology, 1974-1981), and the University of Toronto (Associate Professor of Zoology, 1983-2003).

Campbell, Craig
Person · 1939-2018

Craig Campbell, a resident of Waterloo, was active in the Ontario field naturalist community, and made significant contributions to conservation efforts in Canada through his field research and collaborative work with scientists, academics and conservation agencies. Campbell studied Ontario’s natural heritage (mammals, herpetofauna, plants and butterflies) for more than 50 years, and is responsible for documenting the occurrence of many of Ontario’s threatened and endangered species. He was a member of the Kitchener-Waterloo Field Naturalists (Waterloo Region Nature as of 2014), and served as Chairman of their Conservation Committee from 1964-1971. He also served as Vice President of the Canadian Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Society (CARCS). Campbell received the W.W. H. Gunn Conservation Award in 2014 and the Lieutenant Governor’s Ontario Heritage Trust Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016.

Campbell, Iva
Person · 19-

Iva Campbell was a Canadian fashion illustrator. In the 1940s, Campbell worked with Madame Martha, Canadian fashion designer and creator of the Fashion Creators of Canada.

Carrick, William H.
Person · 1920-2002

William Henesey Carrick was born on November 14, 1920 in Toronto, Ontario. He was a cinematographer and director, known for World in a Marsh (1956), Wildlife of the Rocky Mountains (1957) and Ducks, of Course (1966). He was married to Mary Hearst. He died on October 7, 2002 in Toronto.

Chittenden, Roger
Person · 1909-2016

Roger Fooks Chittenden was born in Bristol England in 1909. He immigrated to Canada in August of 1932. He worked in printing including working for the Queen's Printer for Ontario. After retiring from the Queen's Printer he returned to university studying at the University of Toronto's Woodsworth College. He took courses with Jock McAndrews and later became a research associate with the Royal Ontario Museum. His work as a research associate included undertaking pollen studies with Jock McAdrews. In 1933 he married Marjorie Smith, together they had two daughers Sheila and Gillian. Roger Chittenden died in Toronto on September 6, 2016 at the age of 107.

Clairtone Sound Corporation
http://viaf.org/viaf/135961625 · Corporate body · 1958-1979

Clairtone Sound Corporation was a Canadian stereo company operating in the 1950s and 1960s. The company identified that innovative design, technology and marketing were critical strategies for exporting products and services. Clairtone became a market leader in top of the line stereos and televisions, exporting through retail outlets like Bloomindales and Macys in New York City, USA and Selfridges in London, UK. Company designers and marketing directors brilliantly positioned the G series as a Pop design. Clairtone, however, became a victim of its own success. The company suffered a spectacular fall, caused by over-expansion, lack of capital and excessive government intervention, leading to bankruptcy in 1970. Marketed as avant-garde, the Project G was the first stereo to break the console box with its globe speakers, setting the trend for "sound in the round" hi-fi listening. Winner of the Milan Triennial Silver, the use of space-age transistors over tubes allowed the cabinet to be finished on all sides without the need for ventilation ducts. The Project G and its spin off line were never big sellers. Extremely labour intensive to produce, it retailed for as much as $1600 USD. The Project G served more as a sensual three-dimensional logo for Clairtone to be promoted by such celebrities as Frank Sinatra, Tuesday Wel, and Dizzy Gillespie.

Couper, William
Person · d. [ca. 1890]

William Couper (d. ca. 1890) was an entomologist with an interest in other aspects of natural history, especially ornithology. While living in Toronto from 1842-1859, Couper published a number of papers on various topics in natural history, including nature calendars with bird migration and nesting dates. During this time, he also prepared study skins and mounts for University College. In 1859, Couper moved to Quebec City, where he continued to study birds as well as other fields of natural history. In 1868, he was hired to overhaul the specimens in the museum of the Ottawa Natural History Society, where he spent the next three years. In 1881, Couper founded the Canadian Sportsman and Naturalist in Montreal, but ceased publishing when he moved to New York in 1884. He died in New York in 1890.

Crofts, George
Person · 1871-1925

George Patrick Joseph Crofts was born on November 22, 1871 in Bermondsey, London. He worked as a fur trader in Tientsin, China in the early 1900s where he developed an interest in Chinese antiquities. Between 1918-1924 he provided the Royal Ontario Museum with a major collection of Chinese artifacts. In recognition of his contributions to the Museum, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Toronto in 1922. Crofts eventually returned to England in 1924 and died in London on April 5, 1925.

Crofts married Margaret Hardie Wilson on April 19, 1902. It is unclear whether or not they had any children, but they may have had a daughter, Elizabeth Alcamia Crofts Rendall.

http://viaf.org/viaf/1254175 · Person · 1925-2016

John Alexander Crosby, born in 1925, was the staff artist at the Canadian Museum of Nature, and illustrated many pamphlets and books. Among the books illustrated by Crosby are Tufts 'Birds of Nova Scotia,' (1961) and Godfrey's 'Birds of Canada' (1966).

Cruise, James E. (Edwin)
http://viaf.org/viaf/106691643 · Person · 1925-2021

James Edwin Cruise was born on June 26, 1925 in Port Dover, Ontario. He attended Port Dover High school and Simcoe High School. He served in the Royal Canadian Air Force between 1943 and 1946 achieving the rank of Flying Officer at his discharge.

Following his military service James Cruise obtained a B.A. in biology from the University of Toronto in 1950, a M. S. from Cornell University in 1951, and a Ph. D. in plant taxonomy from Cornell University in 1954. He taught at Cornell University, the State University of New Jersey and Princeton University before going to the University of Toronto as associate professor in the Department of Botany in 1963. He later became the Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science. Cruise became Director of the Royal Ontario Museum in 1975. He served as Director for 10 years.

Cruise died in 2021 at the age of 97.

http://viaf.org/viaf/79258341 · Person · 1876-1957

Charles Trick Currelly (Jan. 11,1876 – Apr. 10, 1957) was the first Director of the Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology and Professor of the History of Industrial Art (later changed to Archaeology) at the University of Toronto from 1914-1946.

Currelly was born in Exeter, Ontario, attended Harbord Collegiate Institute in Toronto and then Victoria College, graduating with his degree in 1898. He then went to Manitoba to work as a missionary for two years, before returning to Toronto to do an M.A. at Victoria College. In 1902 he travelled to Europe and joined the staff of the Egypt Exploration Fund as an assistant to the famous archaeologist, Flinders Petrie.

Currelly established a reputation as a well-respected archaeologist and collector. In 1906 the University of Toronto appointed him official collector of antiquities, and later, Curator of Oriental Archaeology. Around this time Currelly and Sir Edmund Walker, president of CIBC, joined forces to petition the Ontario Government to provide the money to establish a museum in Toronto. They were guaranteed this support in 1908 and in 1914 the Royal Ontario Museum was opened to the public.

Charles Currelly retired from the ROM as of July 1, 1946 . In 1956, he published his memoirs, I Brought the Ages Home, in which he tells the stories of his travels and his work at the ROM.

Deacon, Edward J.
Person

Edward J. Deacon was a member of the Toronto Ornithological Club; he died in 1946. No other biographical information is available.

Design Exchange (DX)
http://viaf.org/viaf/150040747 · Corporate body · 1994-2019

The Design Exchange (DX) began collecting Canadian industrial design in 1994. The lead Curator was Rachael Gottleib. In 2019 the DX ended its collecting efforts and deaccessioned its entire collection. The majority of the objects were sent to the Royal Ontario Museum and the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau Quebec.