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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.

Shoe business, Brockville, Ont.

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William Roger Graham was born 19 March 1919, in Montreal. He earned a B.A. in 1941 from Union College (now the University of Winnipeg), an M.A. (1944) and a Ph.D. (1950) in History from the University of Toronto. He began his academic teaching career in 1943 at the University of Toronto and, in 1968, came to Queen's University's Depertment of History, by way of the University of Saskatchewan. While in Saskatchewan he completed his three volume biography of the former Progressive Conservative Prime Minister, Arthur Meighen. In 1973, he was named as the next holder of the Douglas Chair of Canadian and Colonial History. In 1984, he retired from the University, as Professor Emeritus, and remained actively engaged in historical research until his sudden death on 17 November 1988.

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The parents of Solomon Jones (1756-1822) emigrated from Wales to New Jersey around 1750 and later removed to Fort Edward, New York. Solomon attended medical school in Albany and in 1776-77 served as surgeon's mate with Sir John Johnson's corps. After the British surrender at Saratoga, Jones escaped to Canada where he served with the army, chiefly at Three Rivers and Montreal, until 1783. He then settled with his mother, sister and his brothers, Daniel, David, and John in the Township of Augusta, Grenville County. Here he farmed and practiced medicine (as one of the first doctors in Upper Canada). From 1796 to 1800 he sat in the Legislative Assembly as member for Grenville County. In 1800 he was appointed a judge of the Johnstown District Court and later served as Commissioner of Highways and member of the Land Board. Solomon Jones and his descendants were, and remained, influential members of the community: doctors, lawyers, farmers, businessmen.