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The writer Virginia Woolf was born to Leslie Stephen and Julia Princip in 1882. Her father’s conventional views on education precluded her from attending university; however she began to review books for the Times Literary Supplement, and in 1905, along with friends and relatives, including Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell, Leonard Woolf, and John Maynard Keynes, formed what became known as the Bloomsbury Group. She married Leonard Woolf in 1912, and five years later they founded the Hogarth Press. Woolf’s first novel, The Voyage Out, was published in 1915, and was followed by a number of critically acclaimed others; she also gained renown as a journalist and literary critic, and as a writer of non-fiction works such as A Room of One’s Own (1929). A victim of recurring depression, Woolf’s mental condition was exacerbated by the Second World War. She committed suicide by drowning in March 1941.

Victoria University Library holds a research collection of international importance containing manuscripts, papers and printed books belonging to Samuel Taylor Coleridge and others of his circle, including Wordsworth, Southey and Lamb. It provides an especially rich resource for the study of Coleridge's private papers and informal conversation.

Extensive secondary materials are also held in the collection to support Coleridge studies.

Most specialists know of the existence of the S. T. Coleridge Collection of manuscripts and rare books at Victoria University, but probably few are familiar with the scope and depth of materials which place the collection, according to The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, second in importance for Coleridge studies only to that of the British Museum

In 1949, while serving as Director of Research for LCBO, H. David Archibald was commissioned by Ontario’s Premier Frost to study the problem of alcoholism in Ontario. Archibald concluded that an organization independent of liquor interests should be established. A delegation studied treatment centres established by the Yale School of Alcohol Studies and agreed that Ontario should create a similar program. In 1949, the Ontario government passed legislation establishing the Alcohol Research Foundation (ARF); Bill 173 empowered the Foundation as an independent agency. Although primarily funded by Ontario’s Ministry of Health, ARF had its own board of trustees which established Foundation policies. In 1951, ARF located regular quarters at 28 Avenue Road and then took over Brookside Hospital as its first alcoholic convalescent treatment unit. Later selling the hospital, ARF established a treatment unit, outpatient clinic and research unit at 9-11 Bedford Road. In 1954, ARF’s first branch offices offering treatment were opened in London and Ottawa. Ultimately 30 regional offices opened in the 1950s and 1960s throughout Ontario. By the end of the 1960s the Ministry of Health took over responsibility for treatment, and the regional offices became centres of community development and health promotion. In 1961 the government changed the name of the foundation to the Alcoholism and Drug Addiction Research Foundation (ADARF) while expanding the Foundation’s mandate beyond alcohol. Initially ARF’s research program involved making grants to universities and hospital for specific projects. By 1954, Professor John R. Seeley set up a formal research department at ARF. Beginning in the 1950s, training and education activities evolved to provide continuing education for treatment staff. The Clinical Institute, which began operations on April 5, 1971, was the Foundation’s centre for clinical research and teaching as part of ARF’s new headquarters at 33 Russell Street. In the 1960s and 1970s, ARF operated an acclaimed summer school. Dr. Don Meeks started ARF’s School for Addiction Studies at 8 May Street in Toronto in 1978. ARF’s education program also included publication of newsletters, pamphlets, and booklets, involvement with film preparation, and radio public service broadcasts. As well, seminars and workshops were developed for community groups including schools. ARF established training and treatment programs throughout the world including the Caribbean and Thailand. In 1977, the World Health Organization designated ARF as a WHO Collaborating Centre and a Centre of Excellence for Research and Training, recognizing the international value of the Foundation. In the spring of 1998, ARF, Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, Donwood Institute and Queen Street Mental Health Centre merged to form the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), consolidating and improving access to services while continuing with research, public and professional education. ARF CEOs/Presidents from 1951 to 1998 were as follows: H. David Archibald February 1951 to August 1976 John B. Macdonald September 1976 to August 1981 Joan A. Marshman September 1981 to September 1989 Mark Taylor October 1989 to May 1994 Robin Room (Acting President) 1994 Karen Goldenberg (Acting President) 1994 Perry R.W. Kendall March 1995 to January 1998

Pleasance Crawford was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on 26 July 1938 and was raised in the state of Maine. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in the History of Art from Oberlin College (Ohio) in 1960. Moving to Toronto, Ontario in 1970, she completed Plant Materials Courses A and B at the University of Guelph for the Ontario Diploma in Horticulture Correspondence Program. She subsequently obtained a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture degree from the University of Toronto, graduating with First Class Honours in 1979. She was also the recipient of the Jules F. Wegman Fellowship in 1979. Following her graduation from the University of Toronto, Ms. Crawford began her career as a landscape design historian, which in Canada was a nascent field at that point in time. During the past 25 years, Ms. Crawford has acted as a consultant to governmental (i.e., the Province of Ontario, and the City of Toronto, among others) and non-governmental clients (i.e., Humber College, Royal Botanical Gardens, and various architectural firms) and has helped prepare, often on interdisciplinary teams, heritage significance studies and conservation guidelines for projects of varying sizes and relating to various time periods. Ms. Crawford has also taught at the University of Toronto and has written extensively on Canadian landscape history. She was co-editor with Edwinna von Baeyer of the 1995 anthology Garden voices : two centuries of Canadian garden writing and served as editor as Landscape Architectural Review / Revue d’architecture de paysage from 1987-1992. During her career, Ms. Crawford has been active with many professional associations, such as the Ontario Association of Landscape Architects. She served as its Registrar and Secretary (1996-1997) and was appointed as layperson on council (1994-1998). Prior to that time, she was a member of the Sharon Temple Board of Trustees and Sharon Temple Master Plan Steering Committee (1987-1990) and she was a member and historical landscape advisor for the Grange (Board) Committee of the Art Gallery of Ontario (1986-1991). She has also volunteered her services as a member of the Advisory Committee for the Allan Gardens Revitalization Study (2000), and as the Recording Secretary for the Friends of the Archives of Ontario (2002-present), and has served as a board member and newsletter editor of the Canadian Association of Professional Heritage Consultants (1998-2002). Further, she has been a landscape and garden book reviewer for Canadian Book Review Annual since 1981and an honourary member of the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects and the Ontario Association of Landscape Architects since 1993.

Douglas Gordon Campbell was born on 1 Feb. 1902 to George H. Campbell and Jean Russell Campbell in Toronto, Ontario. He attended primary school at the Froebel Educational Institute in London, England (1908-1913) and secondary school at the University of Toronto Schools (1913-1918). Following that, he attended the University of Toronto Medical School (1919-1925), graduating with a Bachelor of Medicine degree (M.B.) in 1925. He also obtained his professional certification from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario in that year. Later in 1925, Dr. Campbell began a rotating internship at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. Moving back to Canada in 1926, he served as Resident Psychiatrist in charge of male patients at the Ontario Hospital, Mimico (now part of Toronto) until 1927. From 1927 to 1929, Dr. Campbell was employed as a Research Psychiatrist at the Institute for Juvenile Research in Chicago, Illinois. He obtained a medical licence from the State of Illinois in 1927. Dr. Campbell married for the first time in 1928 to Berta Ochsner, a dancer. However, the marriage did not last. Berta died shortly after their divorce from a brain hemorrhage due to an aneurysm that had ruptured. Putting aside the difficulties in his personal life, Dr. Campbell focused on his career and continued his education from 1929 to 1931 by pursuing graduate courses in internal medicine and neurology in London, England and Vienna, Austria. This included clerkships at the Queen’s Square Hospital and St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London and at the Pözl Neurological Clinic at the University of Vienna. He also completed various courses of graduate instruction at the Universities of London and Vienna in addition to spending approximately nine months under the personal supervision of Dr. Alfred Adler in Vienna. At the end of his time in Europe, Dr. Campbell attained professional certification from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in London in 1931, and after moving back to the Canada, he completed a second medical degree (M.D.) at the University of Toronto in 1932. Moving again to Chicago in 1932, Dr. Campbell took up the position of Psychiatrist to Student Health Services at the University of Chicago, after having spent some time working in that capacity as an intern. While working in this position until 1938, Dr. Campbell became acquainted with the field of general semantics, a movement that was founded by Alfred Korzybski. Dr. Campbell first used general semantics as a method of re-educating the students who came to the Health Service for help. He also helped organize early seminars given by Korzybski at the University of Chicago and played an important role in the founding of the Institute for General Semantics in New York City in 1938. Having made the decision to reside permanently in the United States, Dr. Campbell became a naturalized American Citizen in July 1938. Temporarily moving to New York City, Dr. Campbell completed examinations at the American Board of Neurology and Psychiatry (1938), obtaining a certificate in Neurology in Psychiatry. He also undertook training analysis under Dr. Karen Horney (1938-1940) and took post-graduate courses at the New York Psychiatric Institute. Aside from his private practice in New York City, Dr. Campbell also served as an Attending Physician at the Cork County Psychiatric Hospital (1938-1939). He obtained a medical licence from New York State in 1939. Dr. Campbell was married for the second time on 20 June 1940 in Virginia City, Nevada, to Marian van Tuyl, a well-known dancer. They subsequently had three children. Douglas and his new wife moved to San Francisco, California in 1940 at which time he obtained his medical licence from California. Aside from private practice, he was Consulting Psychiatrist at Mills College in Oakland and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California Medical School at Berkeley. He was also a Lecturer in Neuroanatomy (1942-1946) and in Social Welfare (1944-1953) at the medical school. Dr. Campbell had previously been a Visiting Lecturer and Director of an Education Workshop in Psychiatry at Mills College from 1939-1940. He worked at Mills College as a Lecturer in Psychiatry until 1941. While in California, Dr. Campbell held many other appointments over the years including being a Research Psychiatrist at the Head Injury Clinic and the Langley Porter Clinic in San Francisco, being a Consulting Psychiatrist for the United States Veterans Hospital in Palo Alto as well as for other regional hospitals, being a Senior Scientific Officer for the United States Embassy in London (1949), and being the Advisor for Psychiatry and Neurology with California Blue Shield. In 1956 Dr. Campbell was promoted to Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University California Medical School at Berkeley and obtained Emeritus status there in 1968. During his career, Dr. Campbell was also active in numerous professional associations and committees, notably the Institute for General Semantics, of which he was a Founding Trustee, the Director for a time, and later an Honorary Trustee. He was also a Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (1968) and the American Orthopsychiatric Association, and held memberships in the following organizations: American Medical Association, Alpha Omega Alpha (Honorary Medical Fraternity), San Francisco Medical Society, San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute and Society, San Francisco Association for Mental Health, Northern California Psychiatric Society, and the International Society for General Semantics. In addition, Dr. Campbell was granted life membership in the American Psychopathological Association (1967) and San Francisco Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (1977) as well as becoming an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Stress Disorders in 1971. He was also active in the movement against the use of harmful pesticides. Dr. Campbell’s research interests concerned the use of general semantics in the fields of psychiatry and neurology, human nutritional behaviour, psychosomatic medicine and dentistry, and neurological and psychiatric aspects of head and neck injuries. Aside from his medical career, Dr. Campbell also fostered a life-long interest in flying and was a member of the Flying Physicians Association. He also spent the last ten years of his life in a wheelchair because of a jubilant patient that he had released form the hospital who threw him over his shoulder only to break his back. Dr. Campbell died of cancer on 16 October 1983.

George Irwin was a resident of Gore Bay, Ontario, and was an amateur photographer.

John Lane (1862-1936) worked at the Imperial Bank in Toronto, and was an amateur photographer.

He spent most of his career in Toronto, although he lived in Burlington, Ontario for a number of years ca. 1912. Lane concentrated primarily on landscape photography, and was an early member of the Toronto Camera Club.

Rev. Charles A. McWilliams (d. ca. 1920) was a Roman Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Kingston in the late 19th and early 20th century and an amateur photographer.

Among his parishes were Railton (St. Patrick (1874- 1897), and the mission churches of St. Linus, Bath and St. Bartholomew, Amherst Island, (also 1874- 1897). Educated in the United States, McWilliams was a school acquaintance of M,tis leader Louis Riel, and later became a vocal opponent of Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald's handling of the Riel Rebellion in 1885. McWilliams is reported to have attended Riel's November 1885 execution in Regina. He wrote letters of protest to Macdonald and to Governor-General Lansdowne. In the outcry that followed, McWilliams was ordered by the Bishop of Kingston to make a public apology.

R.J. Russell (ca. 1890-1974) was a professional photographer, primarily based in Listowel, Ontario.

Born in England in either 1890 or 1891, Russell emigrated to Canada, and settled in the Canadian North, returning to England with the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War One. After the war, Russell returned to Canada, settling in Haileybury, Ontario. He moved to Listowel, Ontario after losing his home and business in the 1922 Haileybury fire, and in 1923 bought the negatives of Frank Lee's Kincardine, Ontario photography studio. Russell set up a new photo studio in Listowel, and continued to operate it until his death in 1974.

Harry Bernard Kohl (1923-1973) was a Toronto, Ontario architect.

Born in Toronto, Kohl received a Bachelor of Architecture degree the School of Architecture University of Toronto in 1947. Between 1943 and 1949, he apprenticed with J.E. Hoare Jr., J.J.I. English, James Haffa, Gordon S. Adamson, Earle Morgan and Mathers and Haldenby. From 1949 until his death in 1973, Kohl had his own practice and was known as a leading architect for the Toronto Jewish community.

In 1959, he practiced with John L. McFarland as McFarland and Kohl.

Henry J. McCracken was a pilot and base manager with Austin Airways of Sudbury and Timmins, Ontario.

William T. Clegg (1796-1894) was an artist and a Clerk of Cheque with the Royal Engineers for the Rideau Canada Construction active from 1826 to 1845.

Clegg emigrated to Canada from Ireland in 1827 with the Royal Engineers. Clegg knew and worked with John Burrows, the Clerk of the Works, on the Rideau Canal system who also documented the Rideau Canada Construction. Clegg remained in Ottawa until his death is 1894.

J.H. Black (b. 1874) was a teacher and amateur photographer in Colchester, Essex County, during the late nineteenth century.

James Henry Black, born on 11 September 1874 at Trenton, Ontario, was the son of James Black, grocer, and Jane Carlton. He became a school teacher and in 1901 was boarding with the family of John and Margaret Wilson. He was also an amateur photographer, his subjects being places and people in the area of Colchester, Ontario, including Grace Baldwin, daughter of the Wilsons' neighbours, Whitson and Georgiana Baldwin.

Duncan Campbell Scott (1862-1947) was a civil servant, poet and amateur photographer in Ontario active between 1880 and 1947.

He was born in Ottawa, Canada West. He was educated in various schools in Ontario and Quebec and at Stanstead College, Quebec. He became a clerk in the department of Indian Affairs in Ottawa at the age of seventeen. He remained in the department and in 1923 became Deputy Superintendent. In 1923 he was the Deputy Superintendent General for the federal government. His responsibilities included representing the Federal Government in intergovernmental negotiations with the aboriginal peoples in landholding agreements and establishing treaty settlements. As Commissioner in the first of two Commissioners' visit in 1905- 6 (the other in 1929-30) to Northern Ontario, Scott was instrumental in submitting Treaty No.9 to the Governor General for ratification in January, 1907.

Scott was also an amateur photographer and during the Commissioners' visit in 1905- 6 to the James Bay area he photographed the native population and scenery.

He was an author of poetry and fiction, and published many volumes of each. Throughout his career in Ottawa he actively corresponded with Melvin O. Hammond in Toronto, while the latter was literary editor of the Globe and contributed many essays to the newspaper.

In 1899, Scott was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada to which in 1921 -1922 he served as its president. In the same year, the University of Toronto conferred on him the degree of D.Litt.

He died in Ottawa in 1947.

Archibald Robertson was a prospector and amateur photographer.

William James Loudon (1860-1951) was a professor of physics and amateur photographer in Ontario.

Loudon was educated at Toronto's Upper Canada College and the University of Toronto. In 1881 he was appointed a demonstrator in the department of physics at Toronto, and retired in 1930 as Professor Emeritus of Mechanics.

Loudon was also the author of a number of publications, including "Fasti," "Standards of Length and Weight," "Lunar Tide on Lake Huron," amongst other writings. Loudon married Gertrude Richardson in 1882, and Elizabeth Lenahan in 1925, and was the father of one son and two daughters. In 1898 he co-founded the Madawska Club in Georgian Bay, Ontario with C.H.C. Wright. Mount Loudon in the Canadian Rockies was named after him in 1930 by the Canadian Geographical Board.

H. Peters (d. 1922) was a South Porcupine, Ontario-based photographer.