Burns' Literary Society (Toronto, Ontario)
The Toronto Burns' Literary Society was founded in 1896 to celebrate the life and work of Scottish poet Robert Burns. About 1947 the name was changed from Burns' Literary Society to Burns' Club. Although the club was never formally dissolved it eventually succumbed to a lack of new members.
Melvin Ormond Hammond was born July 17th, 1876 in Clarkson, Ontario. He got his first newspaper job at a young age with the Oakville Star. He went on to work with the Toronto globe in various editiorial positions for the remainder of his career, covering both arts and politics. He passed away in 1934.
Justine MacLeod was an amateur poet from Toronto, Ontario. She lived at Elmsley Villa.
Carl Madsen (1898-1969), a poet, was born at Morrisburg, Ontario.
Antony Francis George Alpers (1919-), author, university professor and biographer of Katherine Mansfield, was born in Christchurch, New Zealand and attended Christ's College, Christchurch from 1932 until 1936. From 1936 until 1957 Alpers worked as reporter and writer for several publications including The Press, Christchurch (1936-1941), The New Zealand Listener (1941-1946) and The Auckland Star (1952-1957). During this period, he wrote a great deal of unsigned work, but also numerous articles and interviews related to music, over the initials "A.A." and contributed a column of music criticism, "Some Recent Music", to The New Zealand Listener. In 1956, he went to the Cook Islands and wrote a series of articles for The Auckland Star on the administration, public health, agriculture and education service in the group.
Mr. Alpers spent the years 1948 until 1951 in England where, with the aid of a grant from the New State Literary Fund, he was able to write his first biography of Katherine Mansfield. While an assistant editor with the New Zealand Department of Education (1958-1969), responsible for the monthly teachers' magazine, "Education," Mr. Alpers wrote Dolphins, the first book he published on the subject, and began work on Maori Myths and Tribal Legends, which was published in 1964.
In 1962, he was invited to the University of British Columbia under a Canada Council visiting lecturers' scheme, lecturing at various universities (Universities of Alberta and Manitoba, McMaster, Queen's and Carleton Universities) on such diverse subjects as New Zealand literature, Katherine Mansfield, biography, dolphins, and Polynesian mythology. Upon returning to New Zealand he was employed by the Caxton Press, Christchurch (1962-1968), and was the founding editor of the journal, Local Government.
In 1966, he was invited to join Queen's University, as an Assistant Professor, Department of English, where he completed his Legends of the South Sea and began work on a new biography of Katherine Mansfield. He retired as a Professor in 1982, and returned to New Zealand.
Sir Jeffery Amherst, first Baron Amherst (1717-1797) and military officer, was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the British Forces in North America in 1758. His great military services were all performed during the conquest of New France in the years 1758-1760 at Louisbourg, Fort Duquesne, Ticonderoga, and Montreal. He returned to England in 1763, and became Master General of the Ordnance in 1772.
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Allen Bristol Aylesworth (1854-1952) was born on a farm in Camden Township, Canada West, the descendant of original U.E.L. settlers. He attended school in Newburgh and graduated from the University of Toronto in 1874. He was called to the bar in 1878 and created Q.C., 1889. As a member of the Alaska Boundary Tribunal in 1903, he won prominence when he refused, along with Sir L.A. Jette, to sign the award for reasons set forth in their Minority report.
Mr. Aylesworth was first elected to the House of Commons in 1904 and the following year was appointed Postmaster General and Minister of Labour. From 1906 to 1911 he served as Minister of Justice, resigning from political life with the defeat of the Laurier administration. In 1911 he was knighted for his services at The Hague as British agent in the North Atlantic Fisheries Arbitration and in 1923 was called to the Senate where he served until his death in 1952.
William Louis Bailey was born in Losseau, Ontario in 1882 and attended Queen's University, graduating with an M.A. in 1904. He subsequently became Head of Sociology Department, Northwestern University, retiring in 1947 after fifty years teaching as Professor Emeritus. For the next six years he was Visiting Professor at the Universities of Maryland and Pittsburgh and at the Pentagon. He retired to Prince Edward Island in 1953.
Professor Bailey was well known for his two specialties: Metropolitan Suburbanism and the Sociology of Religion.