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Richards, Harold (C.H.)
Person · 1907-1983

Charles Harold Richards was born in Londesborough, Ontario on August 25, 1907 and grew up in Huron County. He attened normal school in Toronto during the 1920s, and upon his graduation he taught for three years in Ohsweken and Stroud before moving to Toronto where he worked as a teacher for 26 years. Richards was a teacher, school vice-principal and eventually Assistant Superintendent of Schools for the East York Board of Education. He retired in 1972.

In 1935, Richards married Gene Arnold.

Richards spent 25 banding waterbirds, most notably herons, gulls, and terns, at Presqu’ille Provincial Park, as well as banding water finches at his home in Toronto.

Richards was involved in many civic and church organizations, including the Masonic Lodge, the United Church and the Ontario Bird Banding Association (OBBA.)

He died on October 2, 1983 from heart failure.

Richardson, George Hubert
Person · 1912-1998

George Hubert Richardson was born in 1912 to physician Thomas Bedford Richardson and Anna (Butland) Richardson. He lived in Toronto with his parents, his brother and five sisters. Richardson attended Bloor Collegiate Instiute in Toronto.

Richardson was a founding member of the Toronto Ornithological Club in 1934. He was an artist and wrote a column published in newspapers "Nature Notes."

Richardson died in 1998.

Riotte, J. C. E.
http://viaf.org/viaf/263452642 · Person · 1901-2000

The Right Reverend Jules Charles Emile Riotte (1901-2000) was a Ukrainian Catholic priest born in Dresden, Germany. He was a research associate in entomology at the Royal Ontario Museum from 1962 to 1975, when he relocated from Toronto to Honolulu where he worked as an entomologist at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum. He published over 100 papers on the topic of entomology.

Corporate body · 1955-1963

The Division of Art and Aarchaeology was established out of the amalgamation of the Royal Ontario Museums, and the creation of a division structure in 1955. In 1958, it was renamed to the Art & Archaeology Division. The division structure at the ROM was held until 1964, when the museum was reorganized into a departmental structure.

[ROM] Canadiana Department
http://viaf.org/viaf/125187270 · Corporate body · 1948-

The Canadiana Department at the Royal Ontario Museum was established in 1948. In 1964, the ROM's division structure was eliminated and the museum was arranged into a departmental structure. The Canadiana Department was under the Art and Archaeology Department.

Corporate body · 1958-

The Conservation Department was established in 1958, when the Preparators Department was divided into the Display, Conservation, and Perparators’ Department.

Corporate body · 1977-

The Royal Ontario Museum of Zoology was one of the five original museums (Archaeology, Geology, Mineralogy, Palaeontology and Zoology) that constituted the ROM at its founding in 1914. In 1950, the separate museums of Zoology and Palaeontology were combined into one. And in 1955, all of the previously separate museums became research divisions, within an amalgamated Royal Ontario Museum. On July 1, 1955, the division was officially renamed the Division of Zoology and Palaeontology. There was administrative significance to this change in designation. The ROM gained a single director of a unified museum, who reported to a museum board, with divisional departments having their own administrative hierarchies. Departmental organization included research divisions and a curatorial chain of command to oversee collections management - assistant curator, associate curator and curator.

The current Department of Invertebrate Zoology dates from 1977, under the larger divisional designation of Life Sciences. By 1995, approximately the period in which this fonds is completed, the department oversaw the collection, preservation, and management of over 1,000,000 specimens.

The main functions of the department, throughout its history, have been research and education, for the benefit of both the scholarly scientific community, as well as that of the general public. It was specifically to serve the function of public education that a new gallery was proposed in the mid-1980s, as part of the broader expansion of the ROM during this period. The proposed gallery was to have occupied 5,327 sq feet of the western half of the Terrace Galleries, Level 2. The proposal was known as "Living Invertebrates Gallery Development Project." It was originally planned to be completed in 8 stages by the early 1990s. Only Stages 1 - 3 of preliminary design were completed when the project was postponed in the fall of 1987. By February 1988 a one-year deferral of gallery plans had been decided upon, due to budget cuts and thus, lack of resources. By June 1988 artifacts acquired for the new gallery were packed and shipped to the Weston Road facility storage.

Corporate body · 1957-

The Members Volunteer Committee was established in 1957 by Joan Randall, Dibs Rhind, and Nora McRae. The Committee began with 12 founding members. The MVC was instrumental to the success of the Seven Centuries of English Silver exhibition in 1958. The committee was eventually renamed the Department of Museum Volunteers.

Members of the DMV act as docents, guides (providing service in English and French). The DMV runs ROM Walks, ROM bus trips, ROM Travel, and other tasks which enrich the ROM’s services to museum visitors.

The DMV ran ROM Repro as an associate group within the DMV. ROM Repro’s mandate was to develop reproductions and adaptations from material in the ROM Collections and present them for sale in the shop.

Corporate body · 1919-1946

Public instruction began at the ROM in February 1919 when Margaret MacLean was appointed to act as a guide to groups and classes visiting the Museum. Dorothy Haines succeeded Ms. MacLean in February 1924, and was in turn succeeded by Ruth Home in January 1928. The next month, the Toronto Board of Education appointed Lillian Payne to be the Museum’s first official teacher.

In April 1938, Ella Martin was appointed as assistant to Ruth Home. In March 1940, the name ‘Division of Public Instruction’ was approved for the work carried on under Ruth Home’s direction. The titles ‘Supervisor’ and ‘Lecturer’ were given to Ruth Home and Ella Martin respectively. New terms of reference did not come with these titles and Home and Martin continued to operate under the close supervision of the Museum Board and the Committee of Directors. This arrangement remained in place until 1946, when it was decided to allow the education unit to function more autonomously within the newly-created Division of Extension.

[ROM] Egyptian Department
http://viaf.org/viaf/262029559 · Corporate body · 1947-

In the period between 1902 and 1909, private collections were acquired in Egypt. In 1945, the Egyptian Department was established. The Near Eastern Department was established in 1947, and between 1949 and 1959 there was an extensive acquisition of Egyptian sculpture by purchase. In 1966 the Egyptian and West Asian Departments became separate departments.

[ROM] European Department
http://viaf.org/viaf/140663733 · Corporate body · 1912-

The European Department was one of the six departments in the original Royal Ontario Museum of Art and Archaeology established in 1912.

http://viaf.org/viaf/142696826 · Corporate body · 1912-

The earliest acquisitions in the Department were purchased in 1902 by Charles Currelly while he was in Abydos, Egypt. The Greek and Roman Department was one fo the six original departments of the Museum of Archaeology in 1912. In 1920 the Classical collections were designated as a Department within the Museum of Archaeology and Cornelia Harcum was appointed Keeper.

Corporate body · 1912-

The Invertebrate Paleontology record group of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) began in the Department of Natural History at the University of Toronto in 1892. Materials were held in the University of Toronto Biology Building from 1892 and in the Chemistry and Mining Building from c. 1902 to c. 1912. The ROM was established by provincial Act of Parliament in 1912 (to be governed by the University of Toronto), and the Royal Ontario Museum of Paleontology (one of five components of the ROM) was created on April 3, 1913, by the ROM’s Board of Trustees. The primary function of the Royal Ontario Museum of Paleontology was to research, collect, catalogue, and exhibit paleontological samples.

Dr. W.A. Parks was the first director of the Royal Ontario Museum of Paleontology, from 1913 to 1936. When Parks died in 1936, Dr. Madeline A. Fritz became Acting Director until 1937, when the Royal Ontario Museum of Paleontology was subdivided into Vertebrate and Invertebrate Paleontology Departments, each under an assistant director. Fritz was appointed Assistant Director of Invertebrate Paleontology and Dr. Loris S. Russell became Assistant Director of Vertebrate Paleontology. The Royal Ontario Museum Act, 1947 put the University of Toronto and the Government of Ontario equally in charge of the ROM. In 1950 the Royal Ontario Museums of Zoology and Paleontology were combined. Dr. F.A. Urquhart became director of this new Museum, and Fritz became Associate Director. In 1955 all museums within the ROM were amalgamated under a single director (Gerard Brett). At this point Fritz became Curator in the Department of Invertebrate Paleontology. In 1957, one year after these records end, Fritz received a full professorship from the University of Toronto and resigned her position as Curator. She remained affiliated with the ROM in the capacity of research associate.

[ROM] Life Sciences Division
http://viaf.org/viaf/153525124 · Corporate body · 1955-1963

The Division of Zoology and Palaeontology was established out of the amalgamation of the Royal Ontario Museums, and the creation of a division structure in 1955. In 1958, it was renamed to the Life Science Division. The division structure at the ROM was held until 1964, when the museum was reorganized into a departmental structure.