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Brown, Douglas Bruce
Personne · 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
Personne · 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.

Stansfield, Patricia

Patricia Krasinski was born in England, May 22, 1928 and received a BSc degree from London University in 1948. She then lived in Argentina teaching and carrying out scientific research until 1968 when she and her husband, [Joseph} Krasinski, and their four daughters emigrated to Canada. By 1974 she and her family had moved to Calgary where she worked in sales at United Trust and later Block Brothers Realty. From about 1975 to 1978 she was a student in environmental design at the University of Calgary. She became very involved with the Calgary Status of Women Action Committee in 1974 and the Matrimonial Property Law in Alberta. By 1983 Patricia had changed her surname to Stansfield. She passed away in Calgary November 28, 2023 at the age of 95.

The Status of Women Committee was established at the University of Calgary in the mid 1970s to advise the President on women's issues. In 1989, the position Advisor to the President on Women's issues was created with the mandate to advise the President on policy relating to the status of women at the university. The Advisor chaired the President's Advisory Committee on the Status of Women, participated in the development of employment equity policies and procedures, facilitated communication among university groups concerned with women's issues, encouraged research bearing on the status of women, organized special events related to the status of women at the university, acted as a liason with officers concerned with women's issues in other universities and organizations, and represented the President as requested in activities within and outside the university related to women's issues.

Advisors prior to 2011 include: Susan Stone-Blackburn (1990-1992), Mary Valentich (1991-1994), Eliane Silverman (1994-1998), Helen Holmes (1999-2000), Ann Katzenberg (2000-2002), Hermina Joldersma (2002-2005), Claudia Emes (2005-2009).

In 2011, Adrienne Kertzer was appointed Special Advisor to the President on Women's Issues. In 2012, she submitted a report advising that the university establish an Office of Diversity, Equity, and Human Rights to serve as a centralized resource to all members of the university community and provide educationand leadership on a wide range of equity issues. When Kertzer's three year term was up in 2014, she was appointed interim director of the newly created Office of Diversity, Equity and Protected Disclosure (ODEPD), an office with a far-reaching mandate that incorporated many of the former functions and responsibilities of the Advisor to the President on Women's Issues.

Davidson, James Wheeler family
Famille

James Wheeler Davidson was born in Austin, Minnesota in 1872 and educated at the Northwestern Military Academy. After a brief stint organizing tours for members of the local opera house, he was invited to join Peary’s second Greenland expedition in 1893. After this fifteen-month adventure was complete, he returned briefly to Minnesota and then went to Formosa as a war correspondent in the Sino-Japanese war of 1895. He was appointed US consul agent in Formosa in 1896, a position he held until 1903, when he was transferred to Manchuria and then to Shanghai the following year. He wrote extensively during this period, and his book The Island of Formosa, Past and Present, published in 1903, is still considered one of the primary authoritative books on Taiwanese history.

Davidson returned to the U.S. in 1905 suffering from typhoid and met his future wife, Lillian Dow, on the ship coming home. They married in 1906 and moved to Winnipeg, where he started his life as a businessman in Canada. The couple moved to Calgary in 1907 and in 1915, their daughter Marjory was born. Together with his brother, C.H. Davidson, and investors from the U.S., James was involved in a number of successful business ventures, including the Calgary Colonization Company, the Crown Lumber Company, and the Royalite Oil Company. He was also actively involved in a number of different initiatives in Calgary, including the construction of the Lougheed Building, the Calgary Symphony Orchestra, the Alberta Motor Association, and the Calgary-Banff Tourist Development Association.

Davidson began his involvement with Rotary in 1914. In 1919, he became the President of the Calgary District Rotary Club, and for the remainder of his life, Rotary would play an increasingly important role. In 1921, he travelled to Australia and New Zealand with James L. Ralston, and they were successful in generating enthusiasm for Rotary and instrumental in getting several new clubs chartered. After increasing involvement locally and nationally with Rotary, James, Lillian and Marjory embarked on a thirty-two month trip in 1928 to Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Jerusalem, India and the Far East. The purpose of the trip was to promote the expansion of Rotary clubs across the world, and they were successful in getting 23 Rotary clubs chartered in 12 different countries. Throughout this period, James submitted regular reports to Rotary International about his progress, and Lillian maintained detailed journals and contributed regular articles about their travels to The Rotarian magazine.

The Davidson family returned to Canada in 1931 and were enthusiastically welcomed home by their Rotarian family at a large formal dinner in Vancouver. In 1932, the family moved to Vancouver, as James was in failing health. In 1933, at the age of 61, James passed away. Tributes poured in from all over the world after his passing, as he had met and touched so many lives. A lasting tribute to James proposed by the Alberta Motor Association and the Royal Club of Calgary was the dedication of Mount Davidson, near Banff, Alberta.

Lillian and Marjory continued their involvement with Rotary for many years, and they kept an active correspondence with many of the people they met on their travels. Lillian was asked to speak at various Rotary events, and her articles about their Rotary extension trip were published in a book, Making New Friends, in 1934. Marjory also spoke at Rotary events, including the Rotary International Convention in Taiwan in 1994.

Cardinal, Douglas Joseph
Personne · 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.

Kroetsch, Robert
June 26, 1927 – June 21, 2011

Canadian author and poet Robert Kroetsch was born in Heisler, Alberta, on June 26, 1927. The author of nine novels, thirteen books of poetry, and seven non-fiction volumes, he was a major figure in the development and history of literature in Canada.

Kroetsch began his academic career at Binghamton University (State University of New York), winning the Governor General’s Award for Fiction for The Studhorse Man in 1969.

After returning to Canada in the mid-1970s he taught at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. He subsequently received honorary degrees from both the University of Winnipeg (1983) and the University of Alberta (1997). In 2001 Kroetsch was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Poetry for The Hornbooks of Rita K.

Kroetsch spent several years in Victoria, British Columbia, before returning to Winnipeg, then to retirement in Alberta, where he continued to write. In 2004, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

Robert Kroetsch stands as a seminal figure in the Canadian literary landscape. In his early fiction, he introduced postmodern techniques into the mainstream of Canadian fiction. He then moved on to writing poetry while still writing fiction, and created a new vision for poets across the country, defining the nature of the poetic experience by searching out the roots of his place in the Canadian landscape.

Blodgett, Edward Dickinson "Ted"
1935-2018

Edward Dickenson (E.D.) Blodgett was a professor of comparative literature, poet, literary critic and translator. He was born in Philadelphia on February 26, 1935. He earned a BA in English from Amherst College (1956), an MA in French from University of Minnesota (1961), and a PhD in Comparative Literature from Rutgers University (1969). He was an instructor at the Institute of American Universities, Aix-en-Provence, France from 1962-1963. From 1963 to 1966, he was an instructor at Rutgers. He was a professor at the University of Alberta from 1966 until his retirement in 2000.

Blodgett was a founder of the University of Alberta's Department of Comparative Literature (later integrated into the Department of Comparative Literature, Religion and Film/Media Studies). Post retirement he remained professor emeritus of Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta and was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Blodgett has published numerous books including Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano, which earned him the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry in 1996. He is also the recipient of the Henry Kreisel Award for Excellence in Teaching (1997) and the J. Gordin Kaplan Award for Excellence in Research (1998). In 1999, Blodgett's work Transfiguration which was translated by Jacques Brault, won the Governor General's Literary Award. Blodgett was the Writer in Residence at Grant MacEwan College from February to May 2004. In 2007, Blodgett was appointed Poet Laureate for the City of Edmonton and his work, "Poems for a Small Park" was mounted on panels at Riverfront Park. Blodgett's poetry has been performed to music such as "An Ark of Koans" (2003) and "The Only Face I Want is Yours" (2009).

Blodgett died in Surrey, British Columbia, on November 15th 2018.

Kemble, Roger Ian
Personne · 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.

Alberta Society of Artists

The Alberta Society of Artists was founded by a group of Calgary artists led by Alfred C. Leighton and incorporated in 1931. Objectives of the Society are to foster and promote the fine arts in Alberta. A.C. Leighton, the first president, was succeeded by a number of prominent Alberta artists including H.G. Glyde, Illingworth Kerr, Stan Perrot and Ken Sturdy. The Society published several issues of a newsletter Artometer in the 1930s, followed by Highlights, which began publication in the late 1940s. Highlights flourished under the editorship of Jim Nicoll, when it included original works of art and was published in limited editions of 100 issues, the average size of the membership at that time.

Additional information in Alberta Society of Artists : the first seventy years / by Kathy Zimon (Calgary : University of Calgary Press, 2000).