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Barrister and solicitor, Kingston, Ont.

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Edwin Ernest Horsey was a local historian in Kingston, Ontario.

Archibald W. Dingman (b.1850, Prince Edward Co., d.1936, Alberta), came to Alberta ca. 1900, 1905 founded Calgary Natural Gas, 1914 drilled Dingman well, Turner Valley.

David Wark Griffith, filmaker, was born in 1875 on a poor Kentucky farm. A quiet boy given to reading, Griffith had little formal education, but spent much of his free time in the library. As a young man he was determined to become a playwright and left home to learn his craft as an actor. For twelve years he crisscrossed the country, acting in minor productions, learning how to tell a story and how to sell it. Griffith played a number of roles as an actor before agreeing to move behind the camera as a director at the Biograph Company. . During his five years at Biograph, Griffith took the raw elements of moviemaking as they had evolved up to that time -- lighting, continuity, editing, acting -- and wrought a medium of extraordinary power and nuance. Determined to get beyond the short format films, he left Biograph and in 1915 made Birth of a Nation, acknowledged as the first masterpiece of cinema, bringing to film the status accorded to the visual and performing arts. Griffith’s next film, INTOLERANCE (1916), marked a new standard in film spectacle and in narrative complexity, intertwining four separate stories from four different historical eras. As the 1920s passed on, Griffith’s films seemed more and more old-fashioned, and no longer appealed to the younger audiences. A Victorian storyteller, he had become temperamentally and artistically out of sync with his times. Though he had almost single-handedly invented the art of modern cinema, Griffith spent the last fifteen years of his life unable to find work. On July 23, 1948 he died in a small Los Angeles hotel.

Canada's Visual History is a cooperative venture of the National Film Board and the National Museum of Man (National Museums of Canada). The project was designed to meet two specific needs: (1) to bring to teachers the most recent research on a variety of topics relating to the social and economic history of Canada, combining these insights with illustrations gleaned from collections not readily available to teachers and students and (2) to present this information in a dramatic format, carrying the student back into eventful times with all the impact the camera provides.

The Ontario Medical Secretaries Association was founded in 1950. The main impetus of the OMSA over the years was one of support, education, sharing, caring, and celebrating the chosen careers of its members. However, over the past number of years, the Association not only saw its membership decline, but it also lost the outside financial support which it had increasingly come to rely upon. This, combined with employers not supporting their staff by subsidizing membership fees, contributed to a declining attendance at conferences and AGMs, and as a result, it became more and more difficult for the organization to maintain financial viability. For these reasons, the decision was made that as of 31 December 2009, the OMSA-HCA would cease operations.

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