Canadian author and screenwriter James DeFelice was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1937. He has lived in Edmonton, Alberta, since 1969. Biographical information available in Who's who in Canadian literature, 1992-93, p. 87.
Stanley Louis Dragland, literary critic, editor, novelist, poet (b Calgary, AB 2 Dec 1942). Born and raised in Calgary, Stan Dragland studied at the University of Alberta, where he received a BA and MA. He earned a PhD from Queen's University in 1970. He has taught at the University of Alberta, The Grammar School, Sudbury, Suffolk (England), the University of Western Ontario and the Banff Centre Writing Studio. While a professor at the University of Western Ontario, Stan Dragland published a number of revealing critical studies that explore how the racial politics of Duncan Campbell SCOTT'S sympathetic "Indian poetry" relate to Scott's role as the deputy superintendent of the Department of Indian Affairs. Retired to St. John's, Nfld. in 1999, Stan Dragland's extensive work creating, publishing, critiquing and teaching Canadian writing has made him an influential figure in Canadian letters.
Born in Calgary, Alberta, Christine van der Mark attended Normal School and spent five years teaching in rural Alberta schools. She then completed a B.A. and M.A. at the University of Alberta, studying creative writing under F.M. Salter; in 1946 she submitted her first novel, In Due Season, as her thesis.
In Due Season (1947), which explores the human costs of pioneering in northern Alberta through the 1930s, went on to win the Oxford-Crowell prize for Canadian fiction.
During three years of writing and teaching at the university, she married, and from 1953 to 1964 her husband's work led the family to Montreal, Pakistan, the USA, England, and the Sudan, before they settled in Ottawa. Throughout her many travels, van der Mark continued writing stories, articles, and a short novel with a Pakistani setting, Hassan (1960).
In 1960 she began Honey in the Rock (1966), which focused on a tightly knit community of ‘Brethren in Christ’ in southern Alberta in 1936–7.
The novel was completed in Ottawa and followed by three unpublished works: Where the Long River Flows, a Novel of the Mackenzie; Paul Goss, about a rural teacher in remote northern Alberta; and No Longer Bound, an autobiographical piece.
See ‘Afterword’ by van der Mark's daughter, Dorothy Wise, in the 1966 reprint of In Due Season.
Biographical information is available in The Oxford Companion to Canadian literature, 2nd ed., p. 1152.
Canadian author, educator, historian and public servant George Francis Gilman Stanley was born in Calgary, Alberta, on July 6, 1907. Educated at the University of Alberta and Oxford University, he served in the Second World War as director of the Canadian Army's Historical Section in London. He subsequently taught at Mount Allison University, University of British Columbia and Royal Military College. Dr. Stanley was a Companion of the Order of Canada, the recipient of twelve honorary degrees, Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick (1982-1987), designer of the Canadian maple leaf flag, and author of eighteen books and countless articles and book reviews. He died in Sackville, New Brunswick on September 13, 2002.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer Henry Webb Stallworthy was born in Winson, Gloucestershire, England, on January 20, 1895. Died in Comox, British Columbia, on December 25, 1976. Served most of his 31 years with the Force in isolated parts of the Canadian North including Bache Peninsula, Ellesmere Island, the most northerly detachment in Canada. An expert Arctic traveller and explorer, he completed a 65 day, 2250 kilometer trip around Axel Heiberg Island in 1932; the northernmost tip of the Island was later named Cape Stallworthy in his honour. He was part of the 1934-35 Oxford University Ellesmere Land Expedition under Edward Shackleton. Retired in 1946 but was called on to act as supervisor of security for the DEW Line in 1956-57. Owned and operated Timberlane, an exclusive resort on Saratoga Beach, Vancouver Island, with his wife Hilda for 21 years. Made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1976.
Canadian poet. G. L. Aitkens, née Chadderdon, born in Lexington, Minnesota in 1891. Emigrated to Alberta in 1914. Poetry published in periodicals and/or anthologies in the United States, England, Belgium and Italy and in poetry collection Ponderings in print.
Canadian artist, designer, teacher and writer Stephen Andrews was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, on May 16, 1922. Studied art at Winnipeg School of Art, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Camberwell School of Arts, London, England, privately with Martin Bloch in London, England, at the Académie Julian, Paris, France, and the Scuola del Mosaics, Ravenna, Italy. Died in Spain in 1995. Biographical information available in Biographical dictionary of Saskatchewan artists, v. 2, 1990, p. 5-8; Canadian art, v. 1, 1988, p. 12-13; Canadian who's who, v. 29, 1994, p. 22; and A dictionary of Canadian artists, 5th ed., v. 1, 1997, p. 122.
Canadian composer, teacher, trombonist and conductor Malcolm Forsyth was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, on December 8, 1936. Came to Canada in 1968. Died in Edmonton, Alberta on July 5, 2011. Biographical information available in Encyclopedia of music in Canada. 2nd ed., p. 488-489.
Abel Joseph "Jack" Diamond was born in Piet Retief, South Africa, November 8th 1932. He received his Bachelor of Architecture, with distinction, at the University of Capetown in 1956, where he was awarded the Thornton White Prize for design, an Italian State Bursary and the Marley Scholarship. Diamond holds a Master's degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University, completed in 1958. In 1962, with the help of a Graham Foundation Scholarship, he completed a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania where he studied with Louis Kahn. In 1964, Diamond immigrated to Canada to become the founding director of the Master of Architecture program at the University of Toronto, a position he held until 1970. He has held full professor rank at York University and the University of Texas, and has taught as a visiting scholar at Harvard, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, University of Michigan, and University of California Berkeley. Diamond was made a fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada in 1980, was named an Honourary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1994, was made an officer of the Order of Canada in 1995, and received a RAIC gold medal in 2001. Jack Diamond established his practice as A.J Diamond Architect in 1965. In 1969 Barton Myers joined the firm and the two practiced together as Diamond and Myers until 1975. A.J Diamond and Associates was formed when Diamond established his own firm in 1975.
Dr. Fred Terentiuk was born in Coalhurst Alberta 12 December 1927. He received his B.Sc in Physics from the University of Alberta in 1948 and his M.A. Physics (1949) and Ph.D. Physics (1953) from the University of British Columbia. Upon graduation, he worked as a Research Officer for the National Research Council in Ottawa before transferring to the University of Calgary in 1958 as the 2nd full-time faculty member of Department of Physics.| Throughout his career at the University, Terentiuk held a variety of academic and administrative positions. He was appointed the first Director of the newly created Division of Continuing Education in April 1965; the Acting Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts in March 1968; Acting Director of the School of Nursing in November 1972 and the Provost of University College in April 1976. In May 1982 Terentiuk was appointed Chief University Olympic Programme Coordinator, the lead coordinator for all the University’s involvement with the 1988 Olympic Winter Games. He resigned from the University in 1985.|Terentiuk was active in a number of professional organizations relating to his academic appointments: the Alberta Association for Continuing Education, Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT), Western Association of Summer Session Administrators (WASSA), and the Alberta Educational Communication Corporation (ACCESS). He was also active as a committee member and trustee of the Calgary Zoo.|He died 23 February 2013 in Maui, Hawaii.