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Brown, Douglas Bruce
Pessoa · Born 1932

Douglas Bruce Brown was born in Toronto in 1932. His father was the architect F. Bruce Brown. He attended Whitney Junior Public School in Toronto (which was within walking distance from his home at 40 Bennington Heights Drive, a house his father, Francis Bruce Brown, designed) and secondary school at the University of Toronto Schools. He graduated with his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Toronto in 1958 and joined his father’s firm Bruce Brown & Brisley Architects. In 1962 he was admitted to partnership in the firm and the name changed to Brown, Brisley & Brown Architects. Following the retirement of his father and E.F. Ross Brisley in 1972, Douglas B. Brown became sole proprietor of the firm from 1973 to 1980. In 1981 Brown was joined by partners Fred W. Beck and Murray R. Ross and the name of the firm changed to Brown, Beck & Ross Architects (1981-2012).

Hall, James Richard
Pessoa · 1937-2024

James Richard “Jim” Hall, 1937-2024, was born in Revelstoke, British Columbia. He and his family moved to Fernie, British Columbia in 1940, and then to Millet, Alberta in 1953. During high school at age 16, Jim joined the Royal Canadian Air Cadets (RCAC) in Wetaskiwin, Alberta. The following year, he trained and received his private pilot’s licence at the Edmonton Flying Club through the RCAC Flying Scholarship Plan. At age 19, Jim received his commercial pilot’s licence and worked as a bush pilot until he was 21. He then left flying as a full-time occupation to begin a career as an air traffic controller. His first posting was at the Calgary International Airport in 1959. In 1983, Jim took up aerial photography as a hobby which he decided to pursue as a second career after retiring in 1985.

He set up a business called Hallmark Photos with an office in Jet Air hangar #59 at the Calgary International Airport. He purchased a medium-format (Pentax 6x7) camera, and developed a camera grip with a cable release which allowed him to both fly the plane and shoot the photographs. Customers from manufacturing, oil, construction, government, and the City of Calgary used his aerial photographs to market and promote tourism, industry, real estate, the film industry and development in Alberta and Canada. A montage of his photos was used for an official Calgary 1988 Olympic Winter Games poster called the “Aerial Venue”. Jim retired again to the interior of British Columbia where he is doing digital photography.

Cardinal, Douglas Joseph
Pessoa · 1934-

Douglas Cardinal is one of Canada’s most influential architects, widely recognized nationally and internationally for his distinctive curvilinear organic architecture. Cardinal was born in Calgary on March 7, 1934 and raised near Red Deer, Alberta. His father Joseph T. Cardinal was a game warden and forest ranger of Blackfoot ancestry and his mother Frances M. Rach was of German and Metis ancestry.

Cardinal studied architecture at the University of British Columbia from 1952 to 1955 while also working as a draftsman in Red Deer and Edmonton to gain experience. Cardinal then left UBC and travelled to Mexico. He worked in Austin, Texas, as a draftsman and in 1958 enrolled at the University of Texas. He received his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Texas at Austin in 1963 and returned to Red Deer where he established his practice in 1964. Among his first commissions was St. Mary’s Church in Red Deer, completed in 1968. St. Mary’s Chruch brought Cardinal national recognition and has since become an iconic work of Canadian architecture.

The Cardinal practice was an early adopter of digital technology and began using Computer-Aided Design while working on St. Mary’s Church. The expertise of the practice in the use of CAD grew and eventually led to the development of an in-house software program. By 1980, Cardinal used CAD to produce the entire set of construction drawings for the St. Albert Civic and Cultural Centre. Cardinal was among the first architects in the world to work extensively with digital technology.

In 1967 Cardinal moved his practice to Edmonton. Over the next 18 years, Cardinal designed over 100 projects across Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and the Northwest Territories. Major works include Grande Prairie Regional College, Alberta Government Service Centre (Ponoka), Hay River High School, La Ronge Elementary School, Spruce Grove Composite High School, and St. Albert Civic and Cultural Centre, as well as community development plans for several First Nations in Alberta and Saskatchewan.

In 1985 he moved his practice to Ottawa where he was commissioned to design the Museum of Man (Canadian Museum of History) in Gatineau, Quebec. The monumental Museum of Man design led to wide acclaim and recognition for Cardinal. Significant works followed for the practice in Ontario, Quebec, and the United States. Cardinal’s notable works from the Ottawa-based second phase of his career include the York Region Administrative Centre (Newmarket), National Museum of the American Indian (Washington, DC), First Nations University (Regina), Ouje-Bougoumou Village (Quebec), Oneida Hotel and Casino (Verona, NY), Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health (Ottawa), Goodyear Adelante Healthcare Centre (Mesa, AZ), and the Gordon Oakes Redbear Student Centre at the University of Saskatchewan.

Over course of his sixty-year career, Cardinal has received numerous awards and honours, including the Order of Canada (1989), Canada Council Molson Prize for the Arts (1992), RAIC Gold Medal (1999), Governor General’s Award for Visual and Media Arts (2001), United Nations Award for Sustainable Design (2002), IAA World Master of Contemporary Architecture (2006), IAA Grand Prix Crystal Globe (2009), RAIC Prix du XXe siècle (2013), and many others.

Douglas Cardinal lives in Ottawa.

Kemble, Roger Ian
Pessoa · 1929-2023

Roger Ian Kemble was born on 4 July 1929 in Hull, Yorkshire, England. He was educated at St. Peter’s, York, England’s oldest public school. Kemble migrated to British Columbia in 1951 and studied at the Architectural Institute of British Columbia from 1952 to 1956 and at the Jan Zach Atelier in Victoria from 1954 to 1957 where he studied design, painting, and sculpture. He received a master degree in urban design from the University of British Columbia School of Urban and Regional Planning in 1986. Kemble was a resident of Vancouver from 1958 to 1997 and then lived in Mexico City from 1997 to 1998 where he was guest lecturer at the Universidad Nacional. Following his two years in Mexico he moved to Nanaimo, B.C. Kemble established his own firm, Roger Kemble, Architect, in 1960. Among the leading early postmodern architects in Canada, Kemble’s creative approach to design in the 1960s and 1970s resulted in a series of colourful, plywood-box residences in the Vancouver area. The design was a sharp departure from the then popular post and beam style of residential design. Notable projects include his MacDonald Residence (1964), West Residence (1964), 16” Telescope Housing Dominion Astrophysical Observatory (1967), Milne Residence (1967), Gray Residence (1970), Culhane Residence (1974), and Smith Villa (1982). In 1989 he published The Canadian City: St. John's to Victoria: A Critical Commentary, University of Ottawa Press, which brings together his sketches, studies, and reflections on the state of urban design in Canada. Kemble travelled across Canada visiting sixteen cities as part of the research for the book and his master of urban design degree. Kemble was known as an enfant terrible in the Vancouver architecture scene and was recognized for his critical views of current architecture in his writings and public speaking. He was a regular contributor to The Canadian Architect magazine.

Kemble received one Massey Medal for Architecture in 1967 for his Telescope Housing Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Little Saanich Mountain, Victoria, B.C. He was also a finalist for the Massey Medals in 1964 for his Stuart MacDonald Residence David West Residence, both projects in West Vancouver. He also received a National Canadian Housing Design Council award in 1964 and the Canadian Architecture Yearbook award of excellence in 1981.

Kemble was a direct descendent of the famous English family of acting Kemble's. His uncle, Charles Kemble, was the last of the acting Kemble's to pass away in the early 1970's.

Roger Kemble passed away on 24 July 2023.

Munro, Alice Ann
Pessoa · 1931-

Primarily known for her exquisitely drawn narrative short stories, Alice Munro (née Laidlaw) is a critically acclaimed Canadian short-story writer who won the Man Booker International Prize in 2009 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013.

Born July 10, 1931, in Wingham, Ontario, Canada, Munro graduated from her local district high school with the highest standing in her class in 1949. She won a two-year scholarship to the University of Western Ontario (now Western University) but left after two years of studying English and journalism due to financial constraints. At age 20, in 1951, she married her first husband, James Munro, and moved to Vancouver and then Victoria, British Columbia where the couple opened a large, independent bookstore, Munro’s Books, and raised three daughters. During this time, she began publishing her work in various magazines and literary journals such as Chatelaine and Tamarack Review. In 1951, Munro's story The Strangers was purchased to broadcast on the CBC radio program Anthology. Produced by Robert Weaver, the show is credited with championing the work of Canadian writers.

Written over a 15-year span, Munro's first collection of stories (and first book-length work) was published in 1968 as Dance of the Happy Shades netting her first Governor General's Award for fiction. Munro has received this award three times during the course of her career.

Originally conceived as a novel but developed into a series of interrelated coming-of-age stories, her work Lives of Girls and Women (1971) captured tales of her native southwestern Ontario, an uncharted and ambivalent landscape that affectionately came to be known as “Alice Munro Country.” After her first marriage ended in 1972, she returned to Ontario and settled in Clinton, near her childhood home, where she lived with her second husband, geographer Gerald Fremlin, whom she married in 1976. (Fremlin died in April 2013.)

In 1979, Munro spoke out against banning books on CBC and in newspaper editorials after the school board in her native Huron County banned her book Lives of Girls and Women from the Grade 13 syllabus.

Her writing continued with Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You (1974), The Moons of Jupiter (1982), Friend of My Youth (1990), and A Wilderness Station (1994). The multifaceted Open Secrets, which appeared in 1994, ranged in setting from the hills of southern Ontario to the mountains of Albania; while her dark collection The Love of a Good Woman (1998) would go on to receive both Canada’s esteemed Giller Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award in the U.S.

In 2004, Munro released Runaway, a Giller Prize-winning effort that explored the depths of ordinary lives through realistic reminiscences, prompting Margaret Atwood to describe her as having achieved "international literary sainthood." Published in 2007, The View from Castle Rock saw Munro once again expertly weaving history and family memoirs into quizzical fiction. Her short-story collection Too Much Happiness arrived in 2009 with Munro claiming the UK’s Man Booker International Prize that same year. She told an interviewer that Dear Life (2012), her semi-autobiographical 14th collection, would be her last, although she did go on to issue several compilations of previously published material, including Selected Stories (1996) and Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995–2014 (2014).

Screenplay adaptations of Munro’s short stories include “The Bear Came over the Mountain,” originally published in Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001), which was made into the film about the domestic erosions of Alzheimer’s disease Away from Her (2006), directed by Sarah Polley. Other films based on Munro’s work include Liza Johnson’s Hateship Loveship (2013), the title story of her 2001 collection, and Pedro Almodóvar’s Julieta (2016), a mystery-drama movie inspired by a trio of stories — Chance, Soon and Silence from her 2004 collection Runaway. In 2015, her story Dear Life was re-imagined as a work for orchestra and soprano, by award-winning Canadian composer Zosha Di Castri, and performed at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.

In 2013, at age 82, Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Munro was the first Canadian—as well as the 13th woman—to be named the Nobel literature laureate, with the exception of Canadian-born American author Saul Bellow (who won the prize in 1976). The Royal Canadian Mint issued a commemorative Alice Munro coin in 2014 to celebrate her Nobel Prize win. The coin's design includes a passage from her short story Messenger. Established in honour of her many literary accomplishments, The Alice Munro Festival of the Short Story (Wingham) was launched in 2015.

"It's nice to go out with a bang," Munro stated after receiving a Canadian book award for Dear Life. When she was contacted by The Canadian Press about her Nobel Prize win, Munro remarked, "I knew I was in the running, yes, but I never thought I would win." The author later stated, "I would really hope that this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something that you played around with until you'd got a novel written."

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Hoffer, Art
Pessoa · 1934-

Art Hoffer was born in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba on May 25, 1934. Following high school, Hoffer moved to Winnipeg and worked at the YMHA and YWHA [Hebrew Association] Community Centre in the Membership Department. Following his BA Sociology from the University of Montana in 1958, Hoffer worked at the Children's Aid Society of Central Manitoba. Hoffer later received his BSW (1962) and MSW (1963) from the University of Manitoba.

Hoffer was hired at the University of Manitoba School of Social Work as a Field Instructor where he was involved with the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee. This experience was valuable when Hoffer moved to the University of Calgary where the School of Social Welfare was implementing the move from Social Work as a graduate course to undergraduate offerings. Hoffer worked at the University of Calgary for 20 years, retiring in 1989. His research focused on the development of Occupational Social Work as a viable field of practice.

Hoffer was a perpetual student himself, throughout his academic career, and later as a consultant. He attended courses at the Kairos Centre for Study of the Person, Vector Counselling, Esalen Institute and the Walden University Institute for Advanced Studies where he pursued post-graduate learning.

Baird, George
Pessoa · 1939-2023

Renowned architect, critic, educator, and author, George Baird was born August 25, 1939, in Toronto, Ontario. He was raised in Toronto and attended East York Collegiate. He graduated with his B. Arch from the University of Toronto School of Architecture in 1962. While a student, he had fellowships in Finland and Sweden, and his postgraduate research was at University College in London, England. He returned to Canada in 1967 to teach at the University of Toronto School of Architecture, where he was professor from 1967 to 1993 and dean from 2004 to 2009. In 1993 Baird left the University of Toronto to join the faculty at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design as the G. Ware Travelstead Professor of Architecture, where he taught design studio and architecture theory until 2004.

Baird established George Baird Architect and Associates in Toronto in 1972. His firm employed many of his University of Toronto students, including Bruce Kuwabara, Martin Kohn, Donald MacKay, Detlef Mertins, Barry Sampson, and John van Nostrand. In 1982 the office became Baird/Sampson Architects and in 1998 became Baird Sampson Neuert Architects Inc. Award winning projects include Cloud Garden Park in Toronto, the Erindale Hall on the campus of the University of Toronto at Mississauga, the Niagara Parks Butterfly Conservatory, and the French River Visitor Centre. The firm also specialized in urban design, and in its early years produced the first urban design plan for the City of Toronto, onbuildingdowntown.

Awards received by Baird include the Toronto Arts Foundation’s Architectural and Design Award in 1992, the order of Da Vinci Medal from the Ontario Association of Architects in 2001, the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Gold Medal in 2010, and the Topaz Medallion of the American Institute of Architects for Excellence in Architectural Education in 2012. Baird was inducted into the Order of Canada in 2016.

Baird’s published works include Meaning in Architecture with Charles Jencks in 1968, Alvar Aalto in 1969, The Space of Appearance in 1995, Queues, Rendevous, Riots with Mark Lewis in 1995, Public Space, Cultural/Political Theory: Street Photography in 2011, and Writing on Architecture and the City in 2015. A book of essays about Baird’s thought and writings was published in 2019, entitled The Architect and the Public: On George Baird’s Contribution to Architecture.

In 1963 George Baird married Elizabeth Davis, who became one of Canada’s most well-known food writers. The couple was married for close to 60 years. George Baird died on October 17, 2023, in Toronto.

Rees, Tony
Pessoa · 1948-2012

Archivist and author Tony Rees was born in Gt. Britain in 1948 and came to Canada in 1957. After obtaining a M.A. in 17th C English Literature at the University of Western Ontario, he was Archivist-Fine Arts and Supervisor of the City of Toronto Archives. He moved west in 1981 to become the first City Archivist of the City of Calgary. From late 1986 to February 1993 he was the Chief Archivist of the Glenbow Museum in Calgary.

Rees is the author of Polo, the galloping game; Hope's last home: travels in Milk River Country; and Arc of the medicine line: mapping the world's largest undefended border across the western plains.

Rice, Marjorie
Pessoa · 1923-2017

Marjorie Rice was an American amateur mathematician who is most famous for her discoveries in geometry. Born Marjorie Jeuck in St. Petersburg, Florida in 1923, Rice was inspired to explore geometric tessellations after hearing about the work of mathematician Martin Gardner. Despite having only a high-school education, the housewife and mother of five began devoting her free time to experimenting with pentagon tilings at her kitchen table. Using her own notation, Rice sketched out never-before-seen patterns and used her own notation style to describe the constraints on and relationships between the sides and angles of the polygons. By 1977, her extensive drawings and calculations had led her to discover four new types of tessellating pentagons (Types 9, 11, 12 and 13) and over sixty distinct tessellations by pentagons. Rice’s work was eventually examined by mathematics professor Doris Schattschneider, who deciphered Rice’s notation and formally announced her discoveries to the mathematics community. Rice went on to author/coauthor several articles and essays on geometry and has been recognized by the Mathematics Association of America. A mosaic created from one of Rice’s tiling patterns graces the Marcia P. Sward Lobby at the Dolciani Mathematical Center at Hunter College in New York, NY. Rice died in San Diego, California in 2017 at the age of 94.

“I thought, my, that must be wonderful that someone could discover these things which no one had seen before, these beautiful patterns.” - Marjorie Rice.

Rasporich, Anthony Walter (Tony)
Pessoa

Anthony Walter Rasporich was born in Port Arthur, Ontario on 9 January 1940. He attended Queens University in Kingston, receiving his BA (Honours) in 1962 and his MA in 1965. He taught at Kingston Collegiate and Vocational Institute (1962-1963) and University College, University of Manitoba (1964-1965) before joining the Department of History at the newly established University of Calgary in 1966. He received his PhD from the University of Manitoba in 1970, was promoted to Associate Professor at UofC the following year, and to Professor in 1977.

Dr. Rasporich served as Head of the History Department from 1973-1976, and than as Associate Dean of the newly created Faculty of Social Science from 1976-1981; he later served as Dean of the Faculty from 1986-1994. Dr. Rasporich held a CD Howe Post-Doctoral Fellowship (1969-1970), an External Affairs Fellowship at the University of Sussex (1979), and was a Killam Resident Fellow at the University of Calgary (1979). He has refereed and evaluated manuscripts for a number of journals and granting organizations, and was the co-editor of the Canadian Ethnic Studies/Etudes Ethniques au Canada journal from 1980-2002.

Dr Rasporich’s research interests encompass western Canadian history, Canadian social and political history, and Croatians in Canada. He has contributed to the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Canada’s Visual History, and edited or authored a number of books and monographs. In 2006, Dr. Rasporich wrote a history of the University of Calgary for the 40th anniversary, Make No Small Plans.

He retired from the University in 1997 as Emeritus Professor of History.