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Famille O'Farrell
OF1 · Famille · 1820-

La famille O'Farrell est immigrée au Québec vers 1820 et s'est installée à Saint-Malachie, Québec.
James O'Farrell (1846-1893), fermier marchand, possédait et exploitait un magasin général à Saint-Malachie. Il a également été secrétaire-trésorier de la ville de Saint-Malachie. Il était marié à Catherine Reid (1849-1910). Leur fils, James T.A. O'Farrell (1886-1973), était fermier. Il épousa Susan Cassidy (1887-1946) en 1953. Ensemble, ils eurent quatre enfants, Francis (1919-1992), Norman Patrick (1924-2001), James J. J.A. (1928-2000) et Guillaume. L'aîné, Francis O'Farrell, était marié à Berthe Renaud (1923-2010). Ensemble, ils ont eu trois enfants, Kevin, Glenn et James. Francis O'Farrell a été élu député libéral à l'Assemblée législative de Dorchester, au Québec, en 1964. Son frère Norman O'Farrell était marié à Mary-Sarah Paulmert, et James J.A. O'Farrell était marié à Madeleine Selway. William O'Farrell était marié à Ruth O'Rourke. Mary Bridget O'Farrell était la nièce de James O'Farrell et la cousine de James T.A. O'Farrell.

Galerie d'art Optica
O2 · Collectivité · 1972-

La Galerie d'art Optica a été officiellement fondée en janvier 1972, par William E. Ewing lorsque des pressions d'artistes l'ont convaincu du besoin urgent d'un centre de diffusion de la photographie. Initiallement nommée Galeries photographiques du Centaur, elle logeait au sein même du théâtre, dans le Vieux-Montréal. Son mandat était la diffusion de l'art contemporain.

Après des rénovations en 1974, la galerie changea son nom pour Optica. Après des débuts exclusivement consacrés à la photographie, le centre ne tarda pas à amorcer, avec l'exposition Camerart (Decembre 1974 - Janvier 1975), une ouverture vers les autres disciplines. La galerie se consacra désormais la moitié de ses activités à la photo, et l'autre à d'autres courants d'art.

Pendant la saison 1976-1977, des changements de politiques internes permettent à la galerie d'ouvrir ses portes à l'art conceptuel, aux performances, à la peinture et à la sculpture. En 1977, la galerie ajoute à son nom «un centre au service de l'art contemporain». Durant la même période, sa programmation est aussi modifiée et une section de cinéma expérimental y fait son apparition.

Le centre est dirigé par un Conseil d'administration composé de quinze membres provenant majoritairement du milieu culturel. Ceux-ci sont appelés à participer de façon active, aux projets de la galerie et à s'impliquer auprès des associations dont la galerie fait partie, c'est-à dire le Regroupement des centres d'artistes autogérés du Québec, le Regroupement d'artistes des centres alternatifs et la Société des Musées Québécois.

La Galerie est maintenant subventionnée par les conseils des Arts (du Canada, du Québec et de la Communauté urbaine de Montréal).

Teboul, Victor
VT1 · Personne · 1945 -

Victor Teboul, écrivain, journaliste et enseignant, est né le 9 mai 1945 à Alexandrie, en Égypte. En 1956, avec ses parents et sa sœur Flora, il quitte ce pays pour la France à la suite de la guerre de Suez lorsque de nombreuses familles juives sont expulsées d’Égypte. Sa famille,
comme quelques centaines de réfugiés juifs, est hébergée au couvent de Notre-Dame-de-l'Osier dans l'Isère, avant de gagner la région parisienne où Victor Teboul fréquente de 1958 à 1962 l’école privée The English School of Paris située à Andrésy en Seine-et-Oise. Il poursuit ensuite à Paris ses études à l’École supérieure de journalisme (1962-1963).

La famille Teboul immigre au Québec en 1963. Victor s’inscrit à l’école de journalisme, Studio 5316, à Montréal. En 1965, il poursuit ses études d’abord au Sir George Williams High School, puis en 1966 à l’Université Sir George Williams (aujourd'hui Université Concordia) où il obtient un B.A. en 1969. Il s’inscrit la même année à l’Université McGill où il obtient en 1971 un diplôme de maîtrise en lettres françaises et québécoises et où il est chargé de cours de 1971 à 1973. Il est ensuite professeur invité au Collège universitaire de Hearst, affilié à l'Université Laurentienne, aux sessions d'été de 1974, 1975 et 1976 ; il y enseigne la littérature québécoise et les communications. Durant les 30 années suivantes, soit de 1977 à 2007, il enseigne la littérature au Cégep Lionel-Groulx de Sainte-Thérèse. Tout en menant sa carrière d’enseignant, il poursuit sa spécialisation en littérature québécoise à l’Université de Montréal où il complète en 1982 une thèse de doctorat sur l’hebdomadaire libéral Le Jour, fondé en 1937 par Jean-Charles Harvey. Il est également chargé de cours en histoire à l’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) entre 1989 et 1997.

À la fin des années 1960 et au début des années 1970, Victor Teboul est journaliste-pigiste auprès du Nouveau Samedi, de La Patrie et de la revue L'Actualité. Il collabore aussi au magazine Perspectives et au mensuel Nouveau Monde, premier magazine juif de langue française publié au Québec, dont il devient le rédacteur en chef en 1972. Il écrit également de nombreux articles dans le journal Le Devoir et également dans le quotidien anglophone The Gazette, dans lequel il signe une chronique sur l'éducation à la fin des années 1980.

Comme écrivain, Victor Teboul publie en 1977 Mythe et images du Juif au Québec (Éditions Lagrave), un essai qui provoqua un débat public puisqu’il remettait en question la représentation des Juifs et d'Israël dans la littérature québécoise et les médias. En 1984, il publie sa thèse de doctorat sous le titre : Le Jour : Émergence du libéralisme moderne au Québec (HMH Hurtubise). Plus tard, en 1999, il publie son premier roman Que Dieu vous garde de l'homme silencieux quand il se met soudain à parler (Les Intouchables), où est décrite l’intégration d’un jeune Juif sépharade dans la société québécoise. Suivront par la suite d’autres romans et essais tels que La lente découverte de l’étrangeté (Les Intouchables, 2002), et Les Juifs du Québec : in Canada we trust : réflexion sur l’identité québécoise (L’ABC de l’édition, 2016). De 1981 à 1986, Victor Teboul dirige la revue Jonathan, publication mensuelle qu'il a fondée au sein du Comité Canada-Israël, organisme dont il est le directeur régional. Cette revue visait à faire connaître le pluralisme de la communauté juive et de la société israélienne. Dans le cadre de ses fonctions de conseiller en communications au ministère des Communautés culturelles et de l’Immigration du Québec, poste qu’il occupe de 1989 à 1991, il réalise la publication «Une femme, un vote» parue à l’occasion du 50e anniversaire de l’obtention du droit de vote par les femmes québécoises.

En 1979 et 1980, Victor Teboul participe activement à la conception et réalisation d’une série d’émissions sur la communauté juive intitulée « En tant que Juifs » diffusées dans le cadre du programme « Planète » de Radio-Québec dont il est l’animateur et le recherchiste. En décembre 1981, il réalise une entrevue diffusée en mai 1982 à la radio de Radio-Canada, avec René Lévesque, alors premier ministre du Québec, portant sur les rapports entre Juifs et Québécois. L’entrevue fait partie d’une série de 14 émissions sur la Communauté juive du Québec, dont Victor Teboul est l’auteur, qui a été diffusée sur la chaîne culturelle de la radio de Radio-Canada en 1982. L’intégralité de l’entrevue avec René Lévesque est publiée en 2001 dans René Lévesque et la communauté juive (Les Intouchables). Victor Teboul est également l'auteur d’autres séries radiophoniques diffusées sur la chaîne culturelle de Radio-Canada, notamment d’une série sur le 40e anniversaire de l’État d’Israël, diffusée en 1988, et d’une autre sur la diversité intitulée «Le Québec au Pluriel» diffusée en 1989. Il est enfin l’auteur d’une série de 8 émissions radiophoniques sur le libéralisme au Québec, diffusée à la radio de Radio-Canada en 1988, inspiré de son ouvrage Le Jour : Émergence du libéralisme moderne au Québec.

De 1983 à 1987, il est membre du Conseil supérieur de l’éducation et de 1987 à 1989 du Conseil de presse. En 2005 et 2008, il est membre du jury des Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général du Canada pour la catégorie Essai ainsi que du Jury du Conseil des arts pour l'attribution des bourses d'écrivains dans la même catégorie.

Victor Teboul est le directeur du webzine Tolerance.ca qu’il a fondé en 2002 pour promouvoir un discours critique sur la tolérance et de diversité.

Dorrance, Stirling
SD1 · Personne

Stirling Dorrance was born in Sudbury. He left St. Mary’s University, in Halifax to join Loyola College to take charge in 1963 of the College’s tiny Development Office. A reorganization of planning and development operations at Loyola in 1970 resulted in new responsibilities for M. Dorrance when Loyola public relations, including information services and campus and alumni relations, were added to his development functions. Later (ca. 1973), he assumed additional responsibilities as the new Development Officer for Sir George Williams University (SGWU), replacing Brian Selwood whose resignation had been announced in December 1973, continuing to report to Malone, both in his continuing capacity as Director of Development at Loyola and as Development Officer for SGWU. Thus, he can be seen as one of the first employees of Concordia University. He began work on the organization of development and public relations plans for Concordia. He left Concordia University on July 1, 1977, to join the administration staff of St. Francis Xavier University, in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.

Malone, Moses C.
MCM1 · Personne · January 13, 1975 - January 14, 1922

Moses Charles Malone was born in Montreal 13 January 1875 and died in Los Angeles 14 January 1922.

Warren, Jean-Philippe
JPW1 · Personne · 1970-

Dr. Jean-Philippe Warren studied at Laval University, University of Montreal, and Concordia University. He is professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University. He lives in Montreal.
Jean-Philippe Warren published over 200 papers, articles, and books on a wide variety of subjects related to Quebec society, it's social changes and political movements. For his book "Honoré Beaugrand : La plume et l’épée" (Montreal, Boréal, 2015), he won the Governor General’s Award for French-language non-fiction.

Ménard, L. Jacques
LJM1 · Personne · 1946-2020

Succeeding David P. O’Brien, Loyola College graduate L. Jacques Ménard was named Chancellor in December 2010. His installation took place at the June 20, 2011 Spring Convocation Ceremony. A Chicoutimi native and former President of BMO Financial Group, Ménard sat on the Board of Governors as of 1994 and served as Vice-Chair from 1996 to 1999. He was named Deputy Chancellor in 2009 and stepped down as Chancellor after the completion of his term in December 2014.

  • L. Jacques Ménard was named Commander and a Great Montrealer to the Order of Montreal in 2016.
  • Ménard received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in November 2012.
  • Ménard was appointed Companion of the Order of Canada in November 2013. In 1995 he was named Member and was promoted to the rank of Officer in 2000.
  • In 2010 Ménard was named an Officer of the Ordre national du Québec.
  • At a 2007 announcement of BMO’s $2.5 million gift to Concordia, Ménard was introduced to Gabriel Bran Lopez (Concordia graduate and creator of the Youth Fusion Project), which inspired Ménard to later become Chair of the Project.
  • On June 13, 2006 Ménard received an honorary doctorate at the John Molson School of Business Spring Convocation ceremony.
  • At the October 1 Rector’s Dinner during 1999 Homecoming, Ménard received the Loyola Medal from the Loyola Alumni Association Inc. from then Rector Frederick Lowy.
  • Ménard generously hosted in his firm’s offices the March 10-11, 1996 Concordia Phone-a-thon fundraiser.
  • Ménard was Chair of the Campaign Leadership Gifts Division of Concordia’s Campaign for a New Millennium from 1996-1999.
  • From 1993-1994 Ménard chaired the Alumni Division of the Annual Giving Campaign. The following year he accepted the position of General Chair of the Campaign.
  • At the 6th Annual Faculty of Commerce and Administration Awards of Distinction Reception on November 12, 1993, Ménard was honoured for 23 years of professional accomplishments and community service.
  • Ménard was president of the Montreal Chamber of Commerce in 1990.
  • Ménard obtained an honours degree in Economics from Loyola College in 1967.
Kruyt, Peter
PK1 · Personne · [19-]-

Peter Kruyt graduated from Concordia University in 1978. As President of Power Technology Investment Corporation, Kruyt served on the Concordia Board of Governors since 2000 as representative of the community-at-large before being elected Vice-Chair in 2003 and appointed Chair on June 8 2005 for a one-year term ending June 30, 2006. Kruyt was subsequently reappointed Chair until he stepped down in 2012.

  • At the June 12, 2012 Board of Governors meeting Kruyt was presented with a memory book of photographs documenting his 7-years as Chair.
  • Along with other Concordia representatives, Kruyt was part of the Team Canada Mission, a Canadian delegation that traveled to China in February 2001 to create new partnerships opportunities.
  • Kruyt chaired the 1999-2000 Annual Giving program that raised $1.26 million for Concordia. He had previously been a special gifts canvasser for the 1998-1999 Campaign for a New Millennium.
Briscoe, Susan J.
SB1 · Personne · 1966-2018

Susan Jeanne Briscoe (November 13, 1966 - August 30, 2018) was a Canadian writer, teacher,artist, researcher, and mother who lived and worked in Montreal and Sutton, Quebec. She graduated from Dawson College in 1989, and obtained a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from McGill University in 1991. She completed her Master of Arts in English Literature and Creative Writing at Concordia University in 2005. Her thesis, ​Minor Arcana​, is a poetry collection that explores real events of violence and abandonment in the family, within a framework of tarot mysticism and contemplation of the natural world. Her first book of poetry, The Crow’s Vow ​(2010)​,​ chronicles the dissolution of a marriage through observances of nature and seasonal shifts. This work was met with considerable critical acclaim and attention, including interviews and a shortlisting for the Gerald Lampert Award. Susan’s other poetry and prose have appeared in ​Maisonneuve, Event, The Antigonish Review, Matrix, ​and ​Contemporary Verse 2. ​She was the recipient of the Lina Chartrand Award in 2001, a national prize for an emerging woman poet, and was shortlisted for the CBC Literary Awards in 2005. Her work is anthologized in ​Desperately Seeking Susans ​(2012) and a collection released by the Sutton Writer’s Group, ​Sprung ​(2005). She lived in Vancouver, British Columbia from 1991-1993 where she worked at Powell Place - a women’s emergency shelter, and volunteered as a Rape Crisis telephone worker with the Women Against Violence Against Women (WAVAW) Crisis Centre. Her two sons were born in Montreal in 1993 and 1997. From 1995-1998 she ran a mail-order alternative childrens’ book distribution service called Green House Books out of her home in Montreal. In 1999, she moved with her sons to Sutton, Quebec and began homeschooling. Susan was an active member of the community in Sutton; writing and editing for Le Tour, ​hosting creative writing workshops in her home, acting as an organizer for Tour des Arts, and giving poetry readings at local events. In 2010, she was granted a two week residency at the Banff Centre Wired Writing Studio to develop her work under the mentorship of Pasha Malla. Susan’s artistry was expressed in many mediums including painting, drawing ,photography, and sculpture. She completed a Certificate of Fine Arts Studio at Bishop’s University in 2007. Much of Susan’s work centers around experiences from her own life - her personal and family history, divorce, parenting, abandonment, and her youngest son’s addiction and subsequent career as a circus performer. Her commitment to feminism, environmentalism, and alternative pedagogy are passions which are displayed in her writing, her teaching approaches and her research contributions. She was an advocate for the welfare of women and children, with an emphasis on vegetarianism, breastfeeding, and holistic approaches to education and birth. Her various freelance articles and book reviews appear in publications such as ​Today’s Parent, The Record, Vegetarian Times, The Danforth Review, Books in Canada - The Canadian Review of Books, Matrix, and Kinesis. ​She was also dedicated to supporting and protecting the rights of marginalized groups - specifically the homeless, battered women and Indigenous youth. At Dawson College, where she taught from 2010-2018, Susan was involved in researching, leading, fundraising, and organizing within the First Peoples Initiative program and establishing the ​Journeys ​award.​​Diagnosed with cancer in 2017, she documented her experience and insights on her blog - ​The Death Project, ​which was created to serve as an ongoing resource for living while dying​. ​Upon her passing in 2018, she dedicated funds to the Canada Council for the Arts to establish an award for women writers who are over forty years of age and whose work supports and deals with feminist perspectives, themes, and philosophy.

Cavell, Charles G.
CC1 · Personne · [19-] -

Charles Cavell was appointed a member of the Board of Governors in 1999. He also sat on the Board of Governors’ Collective and Bargaining and University Advancement Committee. Cavell was appointed Vice-Chair of the Board of Governors during its meeting of June 18, 2003. He stepped down from this role in June of 2009 but continued to serve as an external community member until 2012.

  • As president and CEO of Imprimerie Québécor, Cavell won the $250 000 Abitibi-Consolidated gift during the Campaign for a New Millennium in 1999.
Sauvé, Jeanne
JS1 · Personne · 1922-1993

Jeanne Sauvé’s nomination as Chancellor was announced by the Board of Governors in June 1992. Her installation as Chancellor was delayed when she fell ill and she assumed her responsibilities on October 1st, 1992 for a five-year appointment. However, Sauvé passed away on January 26, 1993, before she could don the chain of office. Sauvé was former Governor-General of Canada (the first woman in the role), a seasoned journalist and accomplished politician.

  • Jeanne Sauvé was the first woman appointed Chancellor of Concordia University.
  • At the end of her mandate as Governor-General, Sauvé established the Jeanne Sauvé Youth Foundation to create a permanent international Canadian youth forum.
  • On April 13, 1973 Jeanne Sauvé delivered a conference on science and research policy in Canada at Sir George Williams University at the invitation of the Science and Human Affairs Program and the Associated Student Society.
  • In February 1993, memorials were placed on each Concordia campus in Jean Sauvé’s honour: in the Loyola Campus Administration Building and in the SGW Campus J. W. McConnell Building. The internal community was invited to sign a book of condolences which was presented to the Sauvé family.
Robinson, Ira
IR1 · Personne · 19XX-

Ira Robinson is a professor of Judaic studies in the department of Religion and Cultures of Concordia University. He received his BA in Humanities from the Johns Hopkins University in 1973. Robinson obtained his M.A. in Jewish History from Columbia University in 1975 before becoming a lecturer at the department of Religion of Concordia University in 1979. Harvard University awarded Robinson his Ph.D. in 1980. He was promoted to the Associate Professor rank in 1984 and was the Graduate Program Director of the M.A. in Judaic Studies from 1984 to 1991. He sat on the Council of the Faculty of Arts and Science from 1990-1991 to 1997-1998. Robinson was elected chair of the department of Religion in 1989, a position he would keep until 1997. He was finally promoted Full Professor in 1993. Robinson would be promoted Graduate Program Director again, from 2000 to 2009. Robinson was inducted into the Provost’s Circle of Distinction on May 30, 2013. He was designated Distinguished Professor Emeritus in 2022. Ira Robinson published more than 15 books and over 50 articles. His research interests are Canadian Judaism, Orthodox Judaism in North America, Hasidism, Judaism and science and Jewish mysticism.

  • Ira Robinson obtained his first award, the Louis L. Kaplan Prize in Hebrew Literature from the Baltimore Hebrew College, in 1970.
  • He was awarded the 1986 prize in the non-fiction category of the Kenneth B. Smilen Literary Awards as the editor of Cyrus Adler: Selected Letters.
  • In 1988, Robinson chaired the 3-day event Yiddish Montreal symposium, underlining Montreal as a world centre of Yiddish literary creativity.
  • He was elected president of the Canadian Jewish Historical Society (now the Canadian Society for Jewish Studies) in June of 1994.
  • Robinson was the president of the Jewish Public Library in Montreal from 1996 to 1998.
  • The Koffler Centre for the Arts in Toronto’s Jewish Book Awards Committee granted Robinson the Prize for scholarship on a Canadian Jewish subject for the book ‘Renewing Our Days: Montreal Jews in the Twentieth Century’ in 1995.
  • Robinson was instrumental in the creation of the Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies in 1999. He has acted as a director for the institute in 2005-2006, and 2012 to
  • He chaired the Canadian Jewish Studies Researchers’ Forum held March 2001 in Montreal.
  • In 2002, Robinson was elected to the Academic Council of the American Jewish Historical Society.
  • Robinson was awarded the Louis Rosenberg Canadian Jewish Studies Distinguished Service Award in 2013 for his continuous support of Jewish Studies.
Hoppenheim, Mel
MH1 · Personne · 1937-2022

Mel Hoppenheim was the founder, President and CEO of the Cité du Cinéma Mel. Hoppenheim attended the evening courses at Sir George Williams University. In 1996, he headed the Cinema Advisory Board, a group that aimed to address the long-term issues the cinema department was facing at the time. During the launch of the Campaign for a New Millennium on October 29, 1997, Hoppenheim pledged $1 million on his and his wife’s behalf to create the School of Cinema. Following the gift, the Department of cinema was re-named the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in December 1997. The Faculty of Fine Arts awarded Hoppenheim an honorary doctorate at its Spring 2009 Convocation ceremony. He passed away on July 27, 2022.

  • Panavision (now Panavision Canada), a company Hoppenheim founded in 1965 as a movie equipment rental service, won an Oscar in 1982, the first-ever award for technical achievement.
  • Since 1985, the annual Year-End Screenings of the cinema department is awarding the Mel Hoppenheim Award to the outstanding performance in film production to a student.
  • Hoppenheim was awarded an Award of Distinction from the Faculty of Fine Arts at their inaugural presentation ceremony, held on May 7, 2002.
  • In 2005, Hoppenheim was the special guest of the first edition of the Art Matters festival. He lead a panel of discussion on the future of Quebec cinema. He was presented with an Achievement Award (Builders Category) at the same event.
  • Mel Hoppenheim was presented the Motion Picture International Business Leader of the Year Award at the Consulate General of Canada in Los Angeles, in 2006.
  • Hoppenheim was appointed Member of the Order of Canada in 2015.
Buxton, William J.
WB1 · Personne · [19-] -

William Buxton was a professor at the department of Communication studies. He first graduated from the University of Alberta in 1969, before completing his MA in Philosophy at Oxford University and a MSc in Politics at London University. Buxton then obtained his doctorate from the Die Freie Universitat Berlin in 1980 and his post-doctorate from Harvard University the following year. Buxton joined Concordia’s Communication Studies department in 1990 and was promoted to full professor on June 1, 1992. He became a Fellow of the School of Community and Public Affairs and Lonergan University College shortly after. Buxton retired from Concordia University in 2017. He’s the author of more than 50 books, articles and papers.

  • While studying at the University of Alberta, Buxton Obtained the MacEachran Gold Medal in Psychology.
  • Buxton organized the Harold Innis and Intellectual Practice for the New Century: Interdisciplinary and Critical Studies conference held at Concordia in October 1994.
  • Buxton was scholar-in-residence at the Rockefeller Archive Centre, a division of Rockefeller University in the summer of 2004 to work on his research on the educational radio projects of the Rockefeller Foundation/General Education Board.
  • In 2008, Buxton was awarded a Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grant for his work ‘Civilizing Canada, Enacting Space, Binding Time: The Possibilist Practice of Harold Adams Innis 1920-1952’.
  • William Buxton was elected Secretary of the Rhodes Scholarship Committee for Quebec in 2008.
Panet-Raymond, Silvy
PRS1 · Personne · 19XX-

Silvy Panet-Raymond started her career at Concordia as a part-time lecturer in the dance department in the early 1980s and was promoted to tenure-track Assistant Professor in 1986, teaching choreography and the creative process. She was Chair of the Contemporary Dance department from 1989 to 2001 and again from 2015 to 2022. She obtained her Professor rank in 2008. Her research activities have received external funding and she has conducted masterclass and workshops all over the world. She retired from Concordia in 2022 but remains active especially with the Creative Approaches to Public Space (CAPS) program of the Université Rennes 2 where she is an International Chair in Humanities and Social Sciences.

  • In 1985, Panet-Raymond was co-winner (with René Richard Cyr) of a Best Direction of a Show ADISQ award for ‘Solide Salad’ by Michel Lemieux.
  • She coordinated the Zone of Silence project in 1987, an exchange program between Quebec and Mexican artists from the University of Juarez in Durango started in 1984 by sculptor Domingo Cisneros.
  • In 1988, she led a group of six students to the Olympic Arts Festival in Calgary, a five-nights program of modern dance taking place in conjunction with Danscene, a post-secondary dance festival and educator’s conference.
  • Panet-Raymond was commissioned by the Agora de la danse to give a public lecture on the international influence of Montreal dancers and choreographers at the Joint Conference of the Society of Dance History Scholars and the Association for Dance in Universities and Colleges in Canada in May 1995.
  • She led Concordia’s Thinking Out Loud: Robert Lepage and Silvy Panet-Raymond Are Being Instrumental candid conversation panel on March 30, 2016.
Verthuy, Maïr
MV1 · Personne · 19XX-

Maïr Verthuy started her teaching career at Concordia University as a Sessional Lecturer in French at Sir George Williams University in 1966, becoming Assistant Professor in 1969. After the merger of Loyola College and Sir George Williams University in 1974, she worked with other feminist scholars on the establishment of a college dedicated to Women’s Studies. She became the first principal of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute at its opening in 1978. Verthuy remained an Associate Professor at the department of Études françaises until being granted the rank of Professor in 1992. She would be getting the title of Distinguished Professor Emerita, in 2004 after announcing her retirement in 2003. She’s the author of many books and articles and presented at many colloquia around the world. Her domains of expertise are women’s rights and French literature.

  • Maïr Verthuy chaired Concordia’s Arts Faculty Council Committee on Experimentation and Innovation in Higher Education (or AFC Education Committee) in 1974.
  • Verthuy was a Democratic Alliance candidate in the St. Louis riding during the Quebec general election of 1976 (becoming Maïr Williams-Verthuy for the occasion as women running at the time had to use their maiden name tacked to their married names).
  • In 1978, Verthuy launched Les Cahiers de la femme/Canadian Women’s Studies of which she was an editor.
  • Verthuy gave the opening remarks at the Terre des Femmes ’79, a meeting of women’s groups from the Island of Montreal organized by the Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Loyola’s Campus Centre in March 1979.
  • On May 4, 1979, Maïr Verthuy was honoured at Salon de la femme for her extraordinary contribution to the status of Women in the province of Quebec especially in the field of education.
  • Maïr Verthuy was the chief organizer of the International Conference on Research and Teaching Related to Women, sponsored by the Simone the Beauvoir Institute and held July 26 to August 4, 1982. The conference attracted 342 participants from 82 different countries.
  • Maïr Verthuy received the John O’Brien Tenth Anniversary Distinguished Teaching Award in 1985.
  • A Maïr Verthuy Scholarship was established in 1986. Its first recipient was Kathy Silver.
  • Verthuy was one of the founders of the Centre de recherche et d’enseignement sur la francophonie et les femmes (CREFF) in 1988. Among other things, the centre aimed at promoting local research on women in francophone countries.
  • In September 1995, she represented Canada at the United Nations World Conference on Women held in Beijing.
  • The YMCA selected Verthuy as the recipient for the 1997 Women of Distinction Award for the Advancement of Women.
  • The three-day conference Les Femmes de lettres et le français hors frontière held at Concordia in May 15 to 17, 1998 was held in honour of Maïr Verthuy.
  • On the recommendation of Quebec’s Minister of Education, Verthuy was made Chevalière, Ordre des Palmes Académiques by decree of the prime minister of France in recognition of her long commitment to teaching and research in French language and culture in 2002.
  • Verthuy was granted a Governor General’s Award in Commemoration of the Persons Case on November 7, 2008.
  • She was named to the Order of Canada by the Governor General in 2012.
  • Verthuy was the subject of the 2014 movie Autour de Maïr, directed by Hejer Charf.
  • She was inducted in the Ordre national du Québec, becoming a Chevalière in 2019.
Roberts, Alfie
AR5 · Personne · 1937-1996

Alphonso (Alfie) Theodore Roberts est né à Saint-Vincent-et-les-Grenadines le 18 septembre 1937. Il a fréquenté l'école anglicane St. George et la St. Vincent Boy's Grammar School. Roberts a obtenu une bourse pour étudier au Queen's Royal College à Trinité-et-Tobago, où il a été sélectionné pour jouer au cricket au niveau international pour l'équipe de cricket des Antilles. Il a ensuite arrêté de jouer au cricket, car ses intérêts pour la politique et l'éducation l'emportaient sur le sport. Il a travaillé comme fonctionnaire à Sainte-Lucie entre 1958 et 1962 et est parti au Canada à l'âge de 23 ans pour étudier à l'université Sir George Williams de Montréal (Québec), où il a obtenu une licence en sciences politiques. Il a ensuite obtenu un diplôme d'études supérieures en administration publique à l'Université Carleton.

Roberts s'est impliqué dans plusieurs organisations communautaires à Montréal. Il est notamment l'un des membres fondateurs de la de St. Vincent and Grenadines Association of Montreal. Il a également contribué à la création du Bureau international des services aux Caraïbes et a été membre du comité Émancipation 150, qui a organisé la conférence Émancipation 150. Après avoir travaillé pendant 20 ans au service administratif de SIDBEC, une aciérie de Montréal, Roberts a décidé de retourner aux études et s'est inscrit au Collège Dawson comme étudiant adulte à temps plein dans le programme de sciences politiques.

Roberts est un activiste politique et avec des personnalités comme Franklyn Harvey et Rosie Douglas, Roberts a organisé des conférences et des événements qui ont soutenu plusieurs grands mouvements politiques dans les Caraïbes. Ces événements ont également permis de faire venir à Montréal des penseurs et des écrivains antillais de renom comme C.L.R. James et George Lamming.

Lors de l'indépendance de Saint-Vincent en 1979, Roberts a soumis au gouvernement une proposition soulignant l'importance d'ajouter les petites îles au nom du pays. Sa proposition a été acceptée par le gouvernement et le pays a été renommé St. Vincent et les Grenadines.

Alfie Roberts était marié à Patricia Cambridge avec qui il a eu une fille et deux fils. Il est décédé à Montréal le 24 juillet 1996.

Cambridge, Patricia
PC1 · Personne · 1939 - [1998 ?]

Patricia Cambridge est née le 18 novembre 1939 à Saint-Vincent-et-les-Grenadines. Elle a émigré au Canada dans les années 60 et a obtenu un baccalauréat en études urbaines de l'Université Concordia et une maîtrise en urbanisme de l’Université McGill. Cambridge s'est impliquée dans plusieurs organisations communautaires et a été pendant plusieurs années la coordinatrice du spectacle et de la danse annuels de l'Association Saint-Vincent-et-Grenadines de Montréal. Elle a également participé au projet Genesis, un organisme communautaire qui aide les personnes touchées par les inégalités sociales. Cambridge a travaillé comme urbaniste pour la Commission des droits de la personne du Québec, la ville de Châteauguay et le gouvernement de Saint-Vincent-et-les-Grenadines. Elle a également travaillé indépendantment pour l'Afro-Canada Citizens Enhancement Society et le Black Community Council of Quebec.

Patricia Cambridge et Alfie Roberts ont eu une fille et deux fils.

Sherman, Leah
LS1 · Personne · 1925-September 2, 2015

Leah Sherman was born in Montreal in 1925 and died on September 2, 2015. She graduated from Baron Byng High School in 1942. After completing her graduate studies at New York University, she joined Sir George Williams University in 1950 to teach part-time in the Faculty of Arts and became assistant professor in 1960. She was promoted to associate professor in 1965 and to full professor in 1969. Professor Sherman, along with Douglass Clarke and Alfred Pinsky, helped to found the Department of Fine Arts at Sir George Williams University which in 1974, became the Faculty of Fine Arts of Concordia University. With Alfred Pinsky and Stanley Horner, she conceptualized and implemented the original Fine Arts curriculum. She provided leadership in the development and implementation of the BFA in Art Education (1965), the MA in Art Education (one of the first two graduate programmes offered at SGWU), the PhD in Art Education (1967) and the Diploma in Art Education for Certification (1969). She obtained the first authorization to certify teachers for Québec schools for SGWU in 1969. Professor Sherman was the first director of graduate programs in Art Education. She was assistant Chair in the Department of Fine Arts in 1973-1974 and Director of the Visual Arts Division in 1975-1976.

Professor Sherman has served on many University Task Forces and committees. In recognition of her expertise in children’s artistic development, she has been a member of the Centre for Research in Human Development since 1981.

Her work in the history of Québec art education, particularly the work and legacy of Anne Savage, has provided an important source of archival information for teachers and researchers. She collaborated with Suzanne Lemerise of the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) on joint histories of art education in Quebec from English and French perspectives. She retired from Concordia University in 1994.

Duckworth, Martin
MD1 · Personne · 19XX -

Martin Duckworth is a film director, cinematographer and movie editor. He was a part-time instructor at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema between 1990 and 2012.

  • In 2015, at the Prix du Québec, Duckworth won the Prix Albert-Tessier for an outstanding career in cinema.
McKenna, Brian
BM5 · Personne · 1945-2023

Brian McKenna was born in Montreal on August 8, 1945, as the eldest of five children of Leo McKenna, descendant of an Irish family that immigrated to Canada around 1850, and Agathe Macdonell, whose ancestors came to Ontario around 1786. Brian McKenna worked as journalist, author, filmmaker, producer, and contributor to numerous local and national radio and television shows. He passed away on May 5, 2023, at age 77.

Brian McKenna grew up in downtown Montreal, where he went to a French elementary school of the Congregation of Notre-Dame, until his family moved to the Montreal suburb of Valois, and later to Beaconsfield. While a student at St. Thomas High School in Pointe-Claire, McKenna worked as sports editor of the high school paper, the St. Thomas News. After his high school graduation in 1963, McKenna enrolled in the Honours English program at Loyola College. There he joined both the debating society and the college weekly paper, the Loyola News, first as a reporter, then desk editor and subsequently news editor. McKenna took over as editor-in-chief in autumn 1966. He received his Bachelor of Arts in English literature in 1967. He was hired as a summer reporter at the Montreal Star to cover the Expo 67 World’s Fair. In autumn 1967 he returned to studies and to work as editor of the Loyola News. In 1968, Brian McKenna graduated in communication arts and became a full-time reporter at the Montreal Star. From 1969 to 1971 he was parliamentary correspondent in Ottawa. McKenna resigned from the Montreal Star in 1973, to become story editor for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Montreal local TV news and current affairs show The City at 6. At that time, he also became the Quebec correspondent for the CBC’s national radio current affairs show As It Happens. In 1975 McKenna joined the current affairs program The Fifth Estate as founding producer. He remained there until 1988. In addition, since 1972, he independently produced several films. In the fall of 1980 McKenna Purcell Productions Inc. was formed and subsequently McKenna’s services were contracted through the company. In 1989, the production company Wartime Productions was incorporated by Brian McKenna and Susan Purcell. The same year, McKenna was named the Max Bell Fellowship visiting professor at the University of Regina School of Journalism, where he taught documentary filmmaking. Brian McKenna also worked on various projects with his brother Terence McKenna.

Brian McKenna wrote articles for Saturday Night, Weekend Magazine, the Literary Review of Canada, Cité libre, and The Last Post and did book reviews for the Montreal Gazette and the Toronto Star. He co-authored a biography of Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau. He contributed to the profiles of Montreal mayors Camilien Houde and Jean Drapeau to The Canadian Encyclopedia.

Throughout his career, Brian McKenna received numerous honours, awards, and prizes. In 1968, he was named Grand Old Man of Loyola News, and honoured as Man of the Year at the annual student awards ceremony. In 1973 he won his first ACTRA award for television writing and directing The City at 6 film documentary Settling Accounts. He also won the Anik Award for reporting, two Gemini awards for And Then You Die, and five Gemini Awards for The Valour and the Horror, a Canadian military history film series. He received further ACTRA awards, including one for His Worship Jean Drapeau, three ribbons from the American Film Festival, two Golden Sheaf awards from the Yorkton Film Festival, a medal at the New York Film Festival, and a “Chris” plaque at the Columbus Film Festival. For The Killing Ground, which he co-wrote with his brother Terence McKenna, he received a Wilderness Award and an Anik award.