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Jakober, Marie

Canadian author. Born on a homestead farm near Fairview, Alta., M. Jakober obtained her early education through correspondence courses, later attending high school in Edmonton and graduating from Carleton University. Her published work includes eight novels, poetry and short stories published in Canada and abroad. At age twelve, the author won her first award, a prize for poetry in the International Children's Competition, winning the gold medal in the same competition the following year. A third-place finisher for her novel The mind gods in the 1974 Search-For-A-New-Novelist Competition, M. Jakober won the George Bugnet Award for Fiction (Novel) for Sandinista in 1985 and for Sons of Liberty in 2005, and the Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction for Only Call Us Faithful in 2002.

Birney, Earle

Canadian poet, author and educator Alfred Earle Birney was born May 13, 1904 in Calgary, Alberta (then the Northwest Territories). Died September 3, 1995. Biographical information available in The Oxford companion to Canadian literature, 2nd ed., p. 122-123; and in Earle Birney : a life, by Elspeth Cameron (Toronto: Viking, 1994).

Ross, Malcolm Mackenzie

Canadian literary critic, editor and educator Malcolm MacKenzie Ross was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on January 2, 1911. Died in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on December 4, 2002. Biographical information available in Encyclopedia of literature in Canada, p. 989.

Paris, Renée L.

Renée L. Paris was literary agent for George Ryga from 1969 to 1976.

Imago (Periodical)
Corporate body

Imago, a Canadian periodical published in Vancouver, British Columbia, by Talonbooks from 1964 to 1974, featured long poems and poem sequences. Edited by George Bowering, Imago published twenty issues.

Gentleman, William Donald
Person

Agricultural specialist and cattle buyer William Donald Gentleman attended West of Scotland Agricultural College in Glasgow, Scotland, from 1920-1922. Married Dorothy Gentleman in 1928 with whom he had four children. Settled in Lethbridge, Alberta, in 1943 when he accepted a position at the Lethbridge Research Station. Manager of Burns & Co. in 1946. Died suddenly on December 22, 1950.

Person

John Whitney Pickersgill, Canadian politician, public servant and historian, was born in Wycombe, Ontario, in June 1905. Died November 15, 1997. Biographical information available in The Canadian who's who, 1992, p. 845, and The Canadian encyclopedia, v. 3, p. 1415.

Organized in 1929 by conductor Glyndwr Jones, the Excelsior Glee Party was a male chorus which entertained Calgary and district audiences from its inception until 1941, when it was disbanded during World War II. Reorganized under the leadership of Frederick L. Newnham in 1947, the chorus, in addition to regular musical concerts, presented a series of radio broadcasts in 1948. F. L. Newnham was followed as conductor by Cyril S. Mossop in 1949.