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President of Canada Life, Toronto, ON.

Mary Jean (Cameron) Gilmore, a prominent Australian socialist poet and journalist, was born on 16 August 1865 at Cotta Walla near Goulburn, New South Wales. After completing her teaching exams in 1882, she accepted a position as a teacher at Wagga Wagga Public School, where she worked until December 1885. After a short teaching spell at Illabo she took up a teaching position at Silverton near the mining town of Broken Hill. There Gilmore developed her socialist views and began writing poetry.
In 1890, she moved to Sydney, where she became part of the "Bulletin school" of radical writers. She followed William Lane and other socialist idealists to Paraguay in 1896, where they had established a communal settlement called New Australia two years earlier. At Lane's breakaway settlement Cosme she married William Gilmore in 1897.
Gilmore's first volume of poetry was published in 1910, and for the ensuing half-century she was regarded as one of Australia's most popular and widely read poets. In 1908 she became women's editor of The Worker, the newspaper of Australia's largest and most powerful trade union, the Australian Workers' Union (AWU). She was the union's first woman member. The Worker gave her a platform for her journalism, in which she campaigned for better working conditions for working women, for children's welfare and for a better deal for the indigenous Australians. Gilmore accepted appointment as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1937, becoming Dame Mary Gilmore.

Samuel MacLean Gilmour was born at Dauphin, Manitoba, in 1905. He was educated at the University of Manitoba where he recieved a B.A. in 1924. In 1928, he received a B.D. (Old Testament) from the union of Theological Seminary in New York City and in 1937 received a Ph.D. (New Testament) from the University of Chicago Divinity School. Dr. Gilmour had a long and distinguished career as a professor and scholar of theology at Queen's University, and as a minister, chaplain, author and translator. During his career he served as President of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies and of the Canadian Section of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis, 1960-1961. He was a member of the Editorial Committee of the Journal of Biblical Literature and a member of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas. He died in 1970.

Professor, Queen's University, Kingston, ON.

Eleanor May (Lin) Good (formerly Elliott, nee Rudd) received her B.A in 1942 and her Diploma of Education in 1943 from the University of London. She was a librarian at Queen's University, and also served as Chair of the Principal's Committee on the Status of Women. From 1974 to 1984, Good served on the Ontario Council of University Affairs, and also was the President of the Community Planning Association of Canada.

Physician, Newboro, Ont.

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Born in Nova Scotia, and educated at Glasgow University, George Monro Grant was ordained in the Church of Scotland ministry in 1860. After working as a missionary, he assumed charge of St. Mathew's Church in Halifax in 1863. He was moderator of the Church of Scotland in 1875 and he became moderator of the Presbyterian Church in 1889. From 1877 until his death he was principal of Queen's University. He was a member of the Imperial Federation League, a spokesman for ecumenicalism and the social gospel. He published works on imperialism, religion and travel.

Harold Greer (b. 1924) has a career as political columnist and researcher. In the sixties, he worked as a researcher for John Wintermeyer, Ontario Liberal Leader, until Wintermeyer's defeat in 1963. From 1961 to 1963 Greer worked for CBC and from 1963 to 1978 Greer was a Queen's Park Columnist on government affairs, his columns appearing in papers in Totonto, Ottawa, and Montreal. When Dr. Stuart Smith became leader of the Ontario Liberal Party, Greer became Special Advisor, in 1977, on Smith's research team. In 1981 Smith left the Legislature and Greer left Liberal employ.

Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Haldimand (1718-1791), a Swiss mercenary and close friend of Henry Bouquet , was born on 11 August 1718 at Yverdun, in the canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. He was the second of four sons of François-Louis Haldimand, the receiver for the town, and was himself baptized François-Louis-Frédéric. He entered the British Army in 1756 and served with considerable distinction through the period of upheaval in North America that included the Seven Years' War and the American Revolution.

Haldimand arrived at New York in June 1756 with a lieutenant-colonel's commission in the Royal American Regiment. In 1758, he joined Major-General James Abercromby's expedition against Canada, which failed at the cost of great bloodshed at Ticonderoga. In the following year, Haldimand conducted a distinguished defence of Oswego, and joined Major-General Jeffery Amherst's expedition against Montreal in 1760. After serving at Trois-Rivières as commander, and as acting governor, he was transferred to Florida. Recalled to England in 1775, he returned to Canada in 1778 and succeeded Sir Guy Carleton as governor and commander-in-chief. In 1784, he left for England on leave of absence, but retired in 1786 without returning to his post. He died, unmarried, at Yverdun, Switzerland, on 5 June 1791.