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http://viaf.org/viaf/316901586 · Person · 1927-2001

R. R. H. (Roy Richard Henry) Lemon was born on July 13, 1927 in England. He served in the Royal Air Force at the end of World War n, working in air photo interpretation. Following his service, he pursued a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Wales, which he completed in 1951. Thereafter, he moved to Canada, where he completed both a Master of Arts degree (1953) and a Doctorate degree (1956) at the University of Toronto. He also became a Canadian citizen. Upon receiving his doctorate, Dr. Lemon served as a geologist for the British Colonial Geological Survey in Ghana from 1956 to 1957. He was also employed by Texaco, during which time he worked out of Trinidad, covering Central and South America. From 1958 to 1959 Dr. Lemon taught, as an assistant professor, at Queen's University in Kingston. In the spring of 1959 he married his wife, Mary Lemon, whom he had met overseas (she was teaching English). Together, they adopted Christopher, their only child. Following his employment at Queen's, Dr. Lemon worked as a curator with the Royal Ontario Museum, which he joined in September 1957. He began his work as an assistant curator and was later promoted to associate curator of the Department of Invertebrate Paleontology. While performing his duties as a curator, Dr. Lemon also taught courses at the University of Toronto as a special lecturer. In 1969, Dr. Lemon and his family moved to Florida where he joined the Geography Department at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. Dr. Lemon founded the University’s Geology Program and was chair of the Program (which later became a Department) [rom 1973-1992. He retired in 1998.

Dr. Lemon was a member of the Museums Association, the Geological Society of America, the Canadian Paleontological Association, the International Paleontological Union, and a fellow of the Geological Society of London. In the course of his career he published numerous articles in academic journals and authored several monographs. After his retirement, Dr. Lemon moved to the Gainesville area of Florida. He passed away on February 22, 2001 from complications following surgery.

Canadian mining journal
http://viaf.org/viaf/316892996 · Corporate body · 1879-

The Canadian Mining Journal is a bi-monthly publication with the self-professed aim to provide “Articles and information of practical use to those in the technical, administrative and supervisory aspects of exploration, mining and processing in the Canadian mineral exploration and mining industry.” The journal was founded in 1879 by a small group of individuals in Ottawa who published the fledging paper at irregular intervals. However, R.T.A. Bell took over the journal in 1883 and under the name Canadian Mining Review, consolidated it as the national journal of the mining industry. After the death of Bell in 1907, new ownership renamed the paper The Canadian Mining Journal, the name it has retained since that time.

Dymond, J.R.
http://viaf.org/viaf/316887887 · Person · 1887-1965

John Richardson Dymond was born in Middlesex, Ontario, 1887, his father being a farmer from England. He completed high school in Strathroy, 1906 and taught school until he entered Victoria College, U of T 1908. On graduation he was employed by seed branch, Dominion Department of Agriculture. He returned to U of T in 1920 for his MA, on animal feeds of grains plus weed seeds. In 1950, University of British Columbia conferred the degree of Doctor of Science on J.R. Dymond in recognition of his distinguished work.

Dymond was appointed lecturer of Systematic Biology. In 1922 he began a long association with the Royal Ontario Museum of Zoology, as secretary to director. His specialty being taxonomy of fishes, he expanded the collections, which became the basis of much subsequent work. Professor Dymond was appointed Head of Biology in 1948. His many years of administration at the ROM contributed to Diamond being a popular and able Head. He was concerned especially with the conservation of renewable resources and saw the role of the department as conducting the graduate level research, which would underpin conservation.

Professor Dymond had a great interest in students and was quick to help when needed. The bibliography of Dymond publications (1962) listed 19 on fish and wildlife topics, including monographs on lakes Erie, Nipigon, Abitibi, Ontario and Canada east of Rocky Mountains. Taxonomic groups of greatest interest were salmonids, coregonids, and centrarchids. In 1964 he published “History of Ichthyology in Canada”.

The two central themes of Professor Dymond’s professional life were the taxonomy plus biology of fishes and the conservation of fish and wildlife via public education. He was a founder of the Federation of Ontario Naturalists and in demand as an organizer of nature studies. He served on the Great Lakes Fishery Commission as chair of the Advisory Committee of Fisheries and Wildlife Research, Ontario and was named Officer of the British Empire for his many services to the Government of Canada.

As Head of Biology JR Dymond was able to expand the faculty with new hires, but the department was constrained greatly by lack of laboratory, teaching and office space. He began the process of defining these requirements plus preliminary plans for a new building and was effective at communicating to the university administration this need of the Biology Department. Professor Dymond retired in 1956 and died in 1964.

Lloyd, Hoyes
http://viaf.org/viaf/31276325 · Person · 1888-1978

Hoyes Lloyd was born on November 30, 1888 in Hamilton, Ontario to Henry Hoyes Lloyd and Lizzie Moore. His family moved to Toronto the next year, where Lloyd grew up. He received his university education at the University of Toronto where he specialized in chemistry. In 1910 he was appointed Assistant to the Head of the Chemistry Department. Two years later he became a chemist for the City of Toronto's Health Laboratories, having been the University of Toronto's official candidate. His task was to improve Ontario's milk supply by trying to eliminate tubercular cattle.

Throughout his life, Lloyd was an avid bird watcher and collector. On 11 December 1918 he became Canada's first Dominion Ornithologist. He was appointed game officer by the Justice Department and was given the powers of a Justice of the Peace throughout the Dominion. He was responsible for the enforcement of the Migratory Bird Regulations under the Convention Act. His responsibilities gradually expanded to include responsibility for all of the wild life in Dominion parks and for administering the Northwest Game Act. One year after joining the Parks Branch of the Department of Interior, his title was changed to Supervisor of Wildlife Protection in Canada.

In 1943 Lloyd retired from this position to pursue his ornithological interests around the world. Lloyd was a member and one time president of the American Ornithologist' Union. In 1923 he became President of the Ottawa Field Naturalists' Club. Throughout his career he wrote articles, pamphlets, gave public lectures and radio interviews to publicize the importance of bird conservation. Lloyd died in 1978.

Hahn, Paul
http://viaf.org/viaf/310519521 · Person · 1875-1962

Paul Hahn (1875-1962) was a businessman and musician, and an avid collector of bird specimens, particularly the extinct passenger pigeon.

Hahn was born in Wurttembeg near Stuttgart, Germany on May 11, 1875, and came to Toronto in 1898. A professional cello soloist in his younger days, he owned and operated Paul Hahn and Company, piano business in Toronto and acted as Canadian agent for Steinway's from 1927 to 1943. Married to Grace Bickford Delamare, they had two children, a daughter and a son. Hahn retired from his business in 1955, passing it to his son, Paul D. Hahn. The business is now run by his granddaughter, Alex Hahn.

Paul Hahn collected specimens of Passenger Pigeons, donating 70 birds to the Royal Ontario Museum between 1918 and 1960. He and his brother Emanuel also collected what was considered the largest private collection of Lepidoptera in Canada. For his contributions, he was made a patron of the ROM in 1955.

He also helped to acquire Fothergill’s natural history journal and other materials for the museum. His deep interest in extinct bird species led him to compile a list of the know locations of specimens of these extinct species from all over the world, which was published posthumously as “Where is that vanished bird?”

Paul Hahn died at his summer cottage at Balsam Lake, near Toronto, Ontario, on July 20, 1962, at the age of 87.

Bleakney, J. Sherman
http://viaf.org/viaf/272498614 · Person · 1928-2019

John Sherman Bleakley was born in 1928 to Ruby Isadore Mitchell and Guy Garfield Bleakley in Corning, New York. He spent his early childhood in Boston where his father was a Baptist minister, but his family moved to Wolfville, Nova Scotia before Bleakley began high school. He was educated at Acadia University where he hearned a B.Sc. (1949) and a M.Sc. (1951) and from McGill University with a Ph.D. (1956.) In 1957, Bleakley returned to Acadia University to work as a biology professor.

Bleakley’s main area of research was on sea turtles. But, the discovery of a sea slug on the Minas Basin mudflats peaked his research interest, and he morphed into a marine invertebrate zoologist specializing in nudibranchs, i.e. sea slugs. This research took the family for a year to the U.K. and Europe in the 1960s, where Sherman worked in marine labs in England, France and Scandinavia.

Bleakley’s sea slug collection were eventually donated to the ROM, and his research to the ROM Archives.

Bleakley passed away in Wolfville, Nova Scotia in 2019 at the age of 91.

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.

[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.

Ontario Provincial Museum
http://viaf.org/viaf/261164315 · Corporate body · 1896-1933

The Ontario Provincial Museum was a provincial museum established by the Federal Government in 1896, and was housed on the third floor of the Toronto Normal School building at St. James Square.

The collections of the Ontario Provincial Museum were transferred from the Canadian Institute (now the Royal Canadian Institute), after originally being donated in the 1880s by Canadian Institute Curator, David Boyle. Boyle would later become a Curator of Archaeology in 1896, after leaving the Canadian Institute in 1895. In 1901, Boyle would agree to become the Superintendent of the Museum, a position that was held by him until his death in 1911. That same year, Dr. Rowland B. Orr was named archaeological curator and Superindentant of the position. Orr held the positions until the closure of the Museum, and his death in 1933.

The Ontario Provincial Museum was a beacon of archaeological research and museum work between 1896 and 1930. In 1929, the museum began to financially struggle and was officially closed in 1933. Its collections were dispersed amongst the Royal Ontario Museum and other regional museums

Gaudreau, Guy
http://viaf.org/viaf/24826817 · Person · 1953-

Guy Gaudreau (1953- ) natif de Val D’Or en Abitibi, a obtenu une maitrise en histoire à l’université de Montréal, et détient un doctorat de l’université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). C’est en 1987 qu’il a un premier contrat d’enseignement à l’université Laurentienne de Sudbury. Il a enseigné au département d’histoire jusqu’à sa retraite en 2009. Installé à Montréal, il continue ses activités de recherche et publie. Ses principaux intérêts de recherche sont l’histoire culturelle, histoire de la mycologie et l’histoire des mineurs du Nord ontarien et québécois.

Guy Gaudreau est récipiendaire du Prix d’Excellence de l’enseignement de l’université Laurentienne pour l’année 1996-1997, et du Prix National 3M pour l’excellence en enseignement en 1997. Il a de nombreuses publications à son actif mais mentionnons entre autres les livres suivant : L'histoire des mineurs du Nord ontarien et québécois 1886-1945; Les récoltes des forêts publiques au Québec et en Ontario, 1840-1900; Conversation poétique, Correspondance littéraire entre Alfred DesRochers et Harry Bernard. Depuis sa retraite en enseignement il a publié entre autres : Des champignons et des hommes : consommation, croyances et science, Bière. Je voudrais bien être un homme. Correspondance littéraire entre Simone Routier et Harry Bernard.

Guy Gaudreau a toujours travaillé de pair avec ses étudiants en élaborant des projets de recherche pratique, pour fin de publication. Ainsi sous sa supervision ils ont publié des livres tel que : Le Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario : 20 ans; Bâtir sur le Roc. De l’ACFÉO À L’ACFO du Grand Sudbury (1910-1987) ; La mobilité des ouvriers-mineurs du Nord ontarien et québécois, 1900-1930; Du Centre des jeunes au Carrefour francophone 1951-1990: Quarante ans de vie communautaire et culturelle à Sudbury.

Mentionnons aussi qu’il a été co-fondateur du défunt regroupement de mycologues amateurs : l’Amical des mycologues de Sudbury. Gaudreau en a été le principal acteur et animateur.

http://viaf.org/viaf/22242465 · Person · 1899-1964

Thomas Forsyth McIlwraith was born April 9, 1899 in Hamilton, Ontario to Thomas Forsyth McIlwraith and Mary Stevens. On June 20th, 1917 McIlwraith enlisted in the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force.

McIlwraith graduated from McGill and Cambridge and, as field assistant at the National Museum of Canada, conducted research on the Northwest Coast, 1922-24. In 1925 he joined the University of Toronto and was a professor and head of the department of anthropology from 1936 to 1952. Thomas F. McIlwraith married Beulah Knox on June 17, 1925.
At the University of Toronto, McIlwraith built a department in which archaeological, linguistic, physical and ethnological anthropology all found a place. His own research interests lay in ethnology and, later, in the effects of change on Indigenous people. In 1939, he edited along with C.T. Loram, The North American Indian Today and in 1948 published the Bella Coola Indians.

McIlwraith served as Chairman of the Social Science Research Council, President of the Royal Canadian Institute and the Royal Society of Canada, fellow of the Royal Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, he remained a research associate of the National Museum and the Royal Ontario Museum.
McIlwraith died in Toronto on March 29, 1964.

Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario
http://viaf.org/viaf/213159397576519302449 · Corporate body · 1974-

Le début des années 1970 marque à Sudbury la création d’organismes artistiques francophones, nés sous l’influence d’un collectif d’artistes du Nord de l’Ontario : la Coopérative des artistes du Nouvel Ontario (CANO). L’idée de créer une galerie pour la diffusion des arts naît en 1974, suite à la 2e édition de la Nuit sur l’Étang. Dès lors, des expositions temporaires sont organisées en divers endroits de la ville de Sudbury et ce, jusqu’à la fondation officielle de la Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario (GNO), en 1976. Ses premiers locaux sont situés dans l’édifice de La Slague, diffuseur de spectacles et d’expositions, fondé par le Centre des Jeunes de Sudbury. Dès son ouverture, la GNO se voit confiée une mission précise par ses fondateurs, celle de « promouvoir les arts visuels et favoriser le développement des artistes franco-ontariens oeuvrant dans ce domaine ».

Six ans après sa fondation, la GNO est contrainte à re-localiser ses expositions car La Slague doit cesser ses opérations. La galerie emménage dès 1981 au Carrefour francophone de Sudbury sous la direction d’une conservatrice et d’un comité formé d’artistes de la région. L’équipe offrira durant la décennie qui suit, une programmation régulière de quelque 12 expositions par année. Les années 1980 marquent aussi un nouveau mouvement dans l’approche de la gestion de la GNO. En effet, la communauté d’artistes en arts visuels considère la transformation du lieu de diffusion et d’échanges qu’est la GNO en un centre d’artistes autonome.

L’aboutissement de ce projet aura lieu au milieu des années 1990 alors que la GNO, malgré la hausse de son achalandage, est aux prises avec des difficultés financières d’une part, et des divergences d’idées avec le Carrefour francophone d’autre part. Alors que le Carrefour francophone désire réorienter son rôle et devenir un centre communautaire, la Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario veut bénéficier d’un nouvel essor en réorientant ses activités artistiques. À cette époque, la galerie fait partie d’un groupe qui oeuvre pour la création du Centre artistique francophone à Sudbury, qui réunirait sous un même toit, les Éditions Prise de parole, la GNO et le Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario. Ce projet ne s’est jamais concrétisé, mais la Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario obtient sa pleine autonomie en mars 1995 et s’incorpore en tant que centre d’artistes autogéré à envergure provinciale. La galerie prend donc le plein contrôle de ses finances et de sa programmation et un an plus tard, en mars 1996, la GNO-Centre d’artistes ouvre ses portes au centre-ville de Sudbury.

Détenant son statut d’organisme sans but lucratif depuis 1999, la GNO-Centre d’artistes reste le seul centre auto-géré par des artistes francophones en Ontario. Avec une programmation qui met en valeur plusieurs disciplines, la GNO favorise les créations des artistes de la région mais aussi de la province. Elle provoque des échanges avec d’autres communautés artistiques et stimule les diverses formes d’art actuel.

Harcum, Cornelia Gaskins
http://viaf.org/viaf/205926045 · Person · 1878-1927

Cornelia Gaskins Harcum was born July 3, 1878 (or possibly 1881) in Lilian Virginia, United States of America. She came to Toronto, Canada in 1920 to take up the post of Associate Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Toronto and keeper of the classical section of the Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology. She died in 1927.

MacNamara, Charles
http://viaf.org/viaf/18894046 · Person · 1870-1944

Charles Macnamara (1870 – December 23, 1944) was an amateur photographer, entomologist, historian, and field naturalist born in 1870 in Quebec City, Quebec. He had a twin brother named Richard (Dickie), who died at the age of 10 due to typhoid fever. In 1880, his family moved to Arnprior, Ontario. When Macnamara left high school at the age of 14 in 1885, he joined his father in working for the McLachlin Brothers lumbering firm until 1936 where he worked six days a week as a bookkeeper. Despite his busy work schedule, he managed to maintain meticulously detailed documents on nature; including beavers, orchids, and soil insects.

Around late 1909 and early 1910, Macnamara built a log cabin to function as a stopping-off place he could use to study nature and the woods near Arnprior. Over the fireplace, he painted the Ojibway motto No-piming en-dad jawen-imid – "The dweller in the woods is always happy." This phrase later inspired the name of the Nopiming Game Reserve which was set up by Macnamara in 1920 near Arnprior so that the local and migratory wildlife would have a safe habitat. In August of that same year, he discovered and described a new species of Pseudachorutes (Collembola). He also spent 14 years observing and documenting a beaver colony near Marshall's Bay. The Macnamara Field Naturalist's Club, which was founded in 1984, was named after him.

He learned French and German, exchanged letters with European booksellers and scientists and took correspondence courses with Cornell University where he completed a science degree. While he participated in more social activities in his youth, most of his intellectual life took place over long distance and he became a recluse in his later years. This was made evident by the fact that he declined to meet a German scientist he had corresponded with when the scientist visited Montreal. Macnamara wrote many articles for the Ottawa Field Naturalist's Club and contributed to other publications such as the Canadian Field-Naturalist, the Journal of the American Museum of Natural History, and the British Journal of Photography.

Ireton, William Meredith
http://viaf.org/viaf/1717536 · Person · 1902-1986

William Thomas Meredith Ireton (1902-1986) was born March 4, 1902 in Lanark township, Ontario to John Graham Ireton and Lilian Maud Sheils. He married Gertrude Duncan of Smiths Falls and together they had one son, Verne.

After graduating in Pharmacy from the University of Toronto in 1925, Ireton moved to Connaught Station (northeast of Timmins on the south shore of Frederick House Lake) where he worked at the drugstore until 1929. Ireton then started work as an insurance salesman with the Confederation Life Insurance Company – his territory was Northern Ontario and Quebec. In the 1960s, Ireton was an active member of the Anglican Diocese of Moosonee. He died at the age of 85 in Smiths Falls, Ontario.

http://viaf.org/viaf/167426938 · Corporate body · 1967-

The Sudbury and District Historical Society (SDHS) was founded in 1967. The objectives of the society were to acquire, preserve, and study materials pertaining to the history of the Sudbury area, with the hope of understanding and appreciated the past. In 1977, the society’s constitution was revised to allow for the following standing committees: Programme, Publications, Social, Historic Sites, Genealogy, Education, Oral History, Publicity, Membership, Archives, and Museum. In 1980, the Sudbury and District Historical Society was incorporated through affiliation with the Ontario Historical Society.

http://viaf.org/viaf/159461816 · Corporate body · 1929-

The International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftsmen (IUBAC), founded in Philadelphia in 1885, now has approximately 600 National and International affiliated locals. Local 28 of IUBAC in Sudbury received its charter in 1929. In the early 1950s members of this Local, who worked on the construction of the International Nickel Co. of Canada Ltd. (INCO) smelter, made this union the largest in Sudbury with a membership of 400 men.