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Dr. Susan Dick was a professor emerita at Queen’s University and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Born in Michigan, she earned her doctorate at Northwestern University in Chicago. At Northwestern under the leadership of Richard Ellmann, she edited an annotated variorum edition of George Moore’s autobiographical novel “Confessions of a Young Man”. She joined the English Department at Queen’s University in 1967. Dr. Susan Dick is considered one of the most distinguished Virginia Woolf scholars of the twentieth century. She produced editions of Woolf’s novels, as well as numerous articles and an edition of Woolf’s short stories, such as an edited transcription of the holograph of To the Lighthouse in 1982, The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf in 1985 and 1989, and Between the Acts in 2002.

Lawrence Johnston Burpee, historian, author and public servant, joined the public service in 1890. He was private secretary to three successive Ministers of Justice in the Federal Government and Librarian of the Ottawa Public Library, 1905-1912. From 1912 until his death, he was Canadian Secretary of the International Joint Commission.

Burpee was one of the founding members of the Canadian Historical Association; National President of the Canadian Authors’ Association; editor of the Canadian Geographical Journal; founding member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Writers’ Foundation; Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1911), Honorary Secretary (1926-1935), and President (1936-1937). He received the Medaille de Vermeil award from the Académie Française for work in Canadian history and the Tyrrell Gold Medal from the Royal Society of Canada.

Burpee published extensively in the areas of Canadian bibliography, geography and history. His publications include: A Bibliography of Canadian Fiction (1904, co-editor: L.E. Horning), Canadian Life in Town and Country (1905, co-author: H.J. Morgan), A Little Book of Canadian Essays (1909), A Century of Canadian Sonnets (1910), An Index and Dictionary of Canadian History (1911, co-editor: Arthur G. Doughty), Humour of the North (1912), Sandford Fleming, Empire Builder (1915), An Historical Atlas of Canada (1927, editor), Journals of LaVerendrye (1927, editor)