Gordon Smithson was a researcher and historian based in Kingston, Ontario. Smithson focused his historical interests on the Pittsburgh community, becoming a founding member and first President of the Pittsburgh Historical Society. He was involved in authoring many local histories and cable TV productions, including "The View from Anglin Bay." Smithson passed away on 11 September 2013.
Joan M. Schwartz is a Professor Emerita from Queen's University. A specialist in photography acquisition and research at the National Archives of Canada for more than two decades prior to her faculty appointment, Joan M. Schwartz brought expertise in archives, materiality, memory, and institutional discourse to her teaching and writing. She was cross-appointed to the Department of Geography at Queen’s and was an Adjunct Research Professor in the Department of History at Carleton University, Ottawa. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Society of American Archivists, and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, she has just been made a Fellow of the Association of Canadian Archivists (2022).
Dr. Schwartz has published and lectured widely in the field of archives, historical geography, and the history of photography, and has served on the editorial boards of The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (2004) and the Encyclopedia of Nineteenth‐century Photography (2007). She co‐edited Picturing Place: Photography and the Geographical Imagination (with James Ryan for I.B.Tauris, 2003) and Archives, Record, and Power, two double issues of Archival Science (with Terry Cook in 2002).
Her research focuses on photography in nineteenth-century visual culture and on the relationship of photography and archives to notions of place, identity, and memory. She has a particular interest in photographically illustrated books and the role of photography in nineteenth-century Canadian nation‐building. With the support of an Insight Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, she is engaged in a four-year project entitled, “Picturing ‘Canada’: Photographic Images and Geographical Imaginings in British North America, 1839-1889.”
Carl Young was the Deputy Fire Chief for Kingston Township Fire Department. He was the son of Wesley and Myrtle Young, and husband of Thea Young (nee denOuden).
Composers, Authors and Publishers Association of Canada
The Composers, Authors and Publishers Association of Canada was a Canadian copyright collective for the right to communicate with the public and publicly perform musical works. CAPAC administered these rights on behalf of its members (composers, lyricists, songwriters, and their publishers) and those of affiliated international organizations by licensing the use of their music in Canada. Royalties were paid to the music creators after administration costs were deducted to pay for the operation of CAPAC.
CAPAC was established as a subsidiary of Great Britain's Performing Rights Society (PRS) under the name the Canadian Performing Rights Society (CPRS) in 1925. Its initial purpose was to administer the royalties of composers, lyricists and music publishers whose creations were performed in Canada, be they native Canadians or foreigners. The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers bought partial ownership of the CPRS in 1930. In 1945 CPRS became CAPAC through the Supplementary Letters Patent. In 1989 the organization merged with the Performing Rights Organization of Canada Limited to form the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada.
Donald Harman Akenson (born May 22, 1941, Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American historian and author. Notably prolific, he has written at least 23 book-length, scholarly monographs, 3 jointly-authored scholarly books, 6 works of fiction and historical fiction, and 55 scholarly articles. He is a fellow of both the Royal Society of Canada and the Royal Historical Society (UK). He is also a Molson Prize Laureate, awarded for a lifetime contribution to Canadian culture. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1984, and in 1992 he won the prestigious Grawemeyer Award, then the richest non-fiction book prize in the world. Akenson received his B.A. from Yale University and his doctorate from Harvard University. He is Distinguished University Professor and Douglas Professor of History at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and was simultaneously Beamish Research Professor at the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool (2006–10), and senior editor of the McGill-Queen's University Press (1982-2012). While mostly noted as a scholar of Irish migration, Akenson is also an award-winning scholar of religious history. His book "God's Peoples: Covenant and Land in South Africa, Israel, and Ulster," was named the winner of the 1992 Grawemeyer Award. He has received honourary degrees from: D. Litt (hon. causa) McMaster University, 1995; D. Hum (hon. causa) Lethbridge University, 1996; D. Litt (hon. causa) University of Guelph, 2000; D. Laws (hon causa) University of Regina, 2002; D. Litt (hon. causa) The Queen's University of Belfast, 2008; and D. Litt (hon. causa) Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, 2010
Murray Hogben was born in Toronto in 1935 and grew up in Ottawa. In 1957 he earned a bachelor's degree in English literature and then a journalism degree at Carleton University. There he met an Indian Muslim student, Alia Rauf, duly became a Muslim in 1956, and they married in 1959. Working for the CBC in Toronto, he became secretary in 1960 of the new Muslim Society of Toronto for years. Also, starting in 1965, he began to earn a doctorate in history from the University of Toronto, graduating in 1973. He then taught at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston and then at le College militaire royal de Saint-Jean, in Quebec. Murray then joined the Kingston Whig-Standard in 1979 as a reporter and columnist until 2000. Meanwhile, he had also become secretary of the Islamic Society of Kingston, a volunteer Muslim chaplain at several prisons, secretary of the Kingston Police race relations advisory committee, and for decades canoeing instructor and arts and crafts director at a camp for Muslim girls and boys.
John Virtue, a journalist and author, was born in Nelson, BC in 1935. He was a correspondent for United Press International (UPI), getting his start reporting on Castro in Havana in 1964. He later managed UPI bureaus in Sao Paolo, Brazil, and Mexico City, and covered wars in Central America and the Guatemala earthquake of 1976. In the 1980s, Virtue was executive editor for El Mundo in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He worked 25 years as director of Florida International University's International Media Centre. Virtue passed away in Miami, Florida in 2016.
Dr. Jonathan Dawrant is a physician and Associate Professor at the University of Calgary.