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Percival, Hugh
HP1 · Person · February 14, 1896 - April 19, 1992

Hugh Percival Illsley was born in Montreal February 14, 1896. He married Lilias Shepherd in 1940. They had twin daughters. Lilias Shepherd Illsley died 1978. Hugh Percival Illsley died April 19, 1992.

He began studies at McGill University School of Architecture in 1914. At the same time, he joined the Canadian Officers Training Corps at McGill. He left studies to fight in World War I as a machine gunner, then as observer and then pilot for the Royal Flight Corps. On his return to Canada in 1919, he was offered his first architectural job, with the firm Ross and MacDonald. He moved to John S. Archibald Architects in the 1930s. The firm changed names several times: in 1934, the architectural firm of Archibald, Illsley and Templeton was created. Illsley later began his own firm, H. P. Illsley, which eventually bought the Archibald firm. Among his architectural projects were the Montreal Forum, the Masonic temple on Sherbrooke St. in Montreal, Manoir Richelieu, and the Post Office building at University Ave. and Cathcart St. in Montreal. He retired in 1976.

Throughout his career, Illsley maintained involvement with the military. Poor health prevented him from serving as a pilot in World War II, but he helped organize the first air cadet squadron to be formed in Canada under the Air Cadet League. Illsley was the Commanding Officer. With over 300 members, the Squadron trained in Westmount High School, using the Royal Montreal Regiment Armoury for drill and recreation purposes. Illsley designed their first uniform. He tried to get money from Air Marshall Leckie for glider training for the squadron members, but was unsuccessful because Leckie wanted only power flight.

Source: Oral History-Montreal Studies Project -- Hugh Percival Illsley / Transcript

Montreal Gazette
MG1 · Corporate body · 1778 -

Montreal's English-language daily newspaper, The Gazette was founded by Fleury Mesplet in 1778. It began as a French-language paper, became bilingual toward 1800, and English in 1822.

The War Records Office of International News Agencies was founded during World War II by media baron Max Aiken, Lord Beaverbrook, and employed numerous British and Canadian photographers.

Clark, Gerald
GC1 · Person · 1918 - 2005

Gerald Clark was born in Montreal in 1918. He died in 2005. He was married and had a daughter, Bette. In 1939 he graduated from McGill University, where he had been editor of the college daily.

In 1940 he began his newspaper career working for The Standard of Montreal as a parliamentary correspondent in Ottawa. In 1943 he went overseas as a war correspondent and covered the Allied invasion of Normandy (D-Day) and the entry of Paris by the Free French. He was one of the 15 correspondents representing the world's press at the signing of the German surrender in Reims. Later he covered the Nuremberg and Pétain trials. A series of articles on the Soviet Union, accompanied by his own photographs, won a National Newspaper Award (1953). Gerald Clark took photographs on many of his trips, which served to illustrate his articles. For two years he was The Montreal Star's correspondent in New York, covering the United Nations. As the Star's Chief Foreign Correspondent, 1955-1960, he was based in London and traveled widely in Europe and the Iron Curtain countries. He was a frequent contributor to Weekend magazine. In 1954 he made a lecture tour of Canada under the auspices of Weekend, describing his experiences in Russia. He became the editor of the Montreal Star, retaining the post until 1979 when the paper ceased publication. He contributed many articles to the Reader's Digest.

Among many other travels, in 1955 he joined the Hon. Lester B. Pearson, then Minister of External Affairs, on a round-the-world flight which included Asia, Russia, the Middle East, and Europe. In 1956 he covered the NATO Foreign Ministers' Conference in Paris and the Poznan riots in Poland. He also visited Budapest and Prague and wrote a series on Hungary and Czechoslovakia. In 1957 he reported from Brussels, Algiers and Cairo. In 1958 he traveled to Red China; he was one of only two Western correspondents reporting on Communist China from the inside. His dispatches ran in newspapers in Canada and the United States, including The New York Times. Upon his return, he wrote Impatient Giant: Red China Today. It was translated into Danish and German. He won an Emmy and a Sylvania award as the co-author of the hour-long CBC documentary The Face of Red China.

His other books were The Coming Explosion in Latin America (1964); Canada: The Uneasy Neighbour: A Lucid Account of the Political Manoeuvers and the Social and Economic Pressures Which Shape Canada's Future (1965); Montreal: The New Cité in English and French editions (1982); and For Good Measure: The Sam Steinberg Story (1986). His memoir No Mud on the Back Seat: Memoirs of a Reporter was published in 1995 by Robert Davies Publishing.

Grescoe, Taras
TG1 · Person · 1966 -

Taras Grescoe was born in 1966 in Toronto, but grew up in Vancouver. His parents, Paul and Audrey Grescoe, are journalists who traveled across Canada while he was growing up. Grescoe received a B.A. in English from the University of British Columbia. In the early 1990s, he lived in Paris for four years, working as an English teacher and writing travel stories for English and Canadian newspapers. He lives in Montreal. His articles have appeared in The Times of London, the New York Times, Saveur, National Geographic Traveler, Wired, The Chicago Tribune Magazine, and Condé Nast Traveler, and other periodicals.

His first book, Sacré Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through Québec (Macfarlane Walter & Ross 2000), a detailed analysis of Quebec Society, won the Quebec Writer's Federation Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction and the Edna Staebler Award for Non-fiction. His second book, The End of Elsewhere:Travels Among the Tourists (McClelland & Stewart 2003) is an exploration of global tourism. In 2006, he published his third book, The Devil's Picnic: Around the World in Pursuit of Forbidden Fruit(HarperCollins) which is about prohibited foods and substances around the world. A vegetarian, Grescoe published Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood (Harper Collins Canada) in 2008.

Honeyman, A. James Murray
AJMH1 · Person · 1908-1965

A.J.M. Honeyman joined Sir George Williams University in 1947 as a part-time lecturer in biology. He was appointed a full-time lecturer in 1948, and promoted to assistant professor in 1949, to associate professor in 1951, and to professor in 1954. He retired from the university in 1965.

Bell, Don
DB1 · Person · November 17, 1936 - March 6, 2003

Donald Herbert Bell (known also as Don The Bookman Bell) was an author, dramatist, journalist-much of his writing was humorous-and a seller of used and rare books. He was born November 17, 1936 in Brooklyn, N.Y. In 1941 his family moved to Montreal. His parents were Sam Bell and Claire Bell (d. 1983). The family name at the time of Don Bell's birth was Belitzky. His brother was Arthur Bell (1932-1984), who worked in publishing in New York and then became a writer at the Village Voice. His sister was Doreen Bell (married name: Resnick). Don Bell studied at Baron Byng High School and Mount Royal High School and then at McGill University, graduating in 1957 with a degree in commerce with an English major. He married Céline Dubé in 1962. They had two children, Daniel and Valerie, and later divorced. In the 1980s he married Odile Perret and divided his time between Paris and Sutton, Quebec. He died in Montreal March 6, 2003, age 67.

In the 1960s he had a number of jobs as a journalist, working for a time at CBC International Services and then at newspapers including the Montreal Herald, the Calgary Herald, and the Montreal Gazette. From 1967 onward, he worked as a freelance writer of articles, fiction (short stories and novellas), and film and radio scripts for a wide variety of Canadian and American magazines, newspapers, and other media. He did photography to illustrate his articles. He wrote the Expo publicity booklet short book Film at Expo 67 (published by Expo 67, 1967). A collection of his short stories was published as Saturday Night at the Bagel Factory and Other Montreal Stories (McClelland and Stewart, 1972). It won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Award for Humour for 1974. His book Pocketman was published by Dorset Publications in 1979. In 1976, he won the Canadian Authors Association Air Canada award for humour. In 1978 he won a Jewish Book Month award. 1n 1986 he won the Molson Silver Award for the Best Canadian Sports Writing category of the National Magazine Awards. For a number of years he researched the life and death of magician Harry Houdini, creating a manuscript for a book that was published posthumously as The Man Who Killed Houdini by Véhicule Press in 2004. He wrote a number of other books, usually compilations and reworkings of his articles and stories, that were never published.

In the 1980s he opened a second-hand bookstore in Sutton, Quebec. During his travels he scouted books and in the summers he sold books at his store, La Librairie Founde Bookes in Sutton. He had a column, Founde Bookes, in Books in Canada magazine, dealing with his life as a book scout and dealer. Bookspeak, a chapbook based on his experience scouting and selling used and rare books, was published by Typographeum in 2000.

Buell, John
JB1 · Person · 1927-2013

John Buell was born in Montreal July 31, 1927 and died on December 29, 2013. In 1952 he married Audrey Smith. They had four children: Katherine, Frank, Andrea, and Tony. John Buell attended St. Aloysius Grammar School, Catholic High School, and Loyola College from 1944-1950, graduating with a B.A. cum laude. He began teaching English at Loyola College in 1950. He obtained an M.A. (1954) and a Ph. D. (1961) in English Literature at Université de Montréal. In 1965-1966 John Buell joined the newly created Department of Communication Arts (later Communication Studies) at Loyola College and, after the 1974 merger of Loyola College with Sir George Williams University to form Concordia University, he remained at Concordia University until retiring in 1987.

John Buell began writing radio dramas around 1947 for the St. Genesius Players Guild (the Genesians) in Montreal. He wrote four novels as well as short plays and other pieces. From 1955 to 1965 he was editor of Unity, the newsletter of Montreal's Benedict Labre House. He directed plays for the Loyola College Dramatic Society. He published the following novels: The Pyx (1959), Four Days (1962), The Shrewsdale Exit (1972), Playground (1976), and A Lot To Make Up For (1990). His novels have been published in some 40 editions and seven languages. Hollywood produced a film in 1973 from his novel The Pyx. A Canadian company produced a film version of Four Days in 1998. The Shrewsdale Exit was made into a film in France in 1973 under the title L'Agression, starring Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Louis Trintignant.

Savage, Anne
AS1 · Person · 1896-1971

Anne Savage was born in Montreal July 27, 1896. She died March 25, 1971. She was educated at Montreal High School. She studied art at the School of the Art Association of Montreal from 1914 to 1918 under William Brymmer and Maurice Cullen, and subsequently at the Minneapolis School of Art. In 1921 she was one of the founding members of the Beaver Hall Hill Group, a group of 10 Montreal women artists who came together in the 1920s. She began her teaching career the same year.

From 1922 to 1948, she taught at Baron Byng High School in Montreal, where she developed an exemplary and avant-garde art program which trained many future Canadian artists and art educators. She was appointed supervisor of art for the Protestant School Board of Montreal in 1948. She retired from full-time teaching in 1953.

She was instrumental in the founding of the High School Art Teaching Association and in 1955 inspired the formation of the Child Art Council which became the Quebec Society for Education through Art.

Source: The Anne Savage Archives finding aid, prepared by Leah Sherman.

Morley, Patricia
PM1 · Person · 1929-

Born in 1929, Patricia Morley joined Concordia University founding institutions Sir George Williams University in 1973 as assistant professor of English. In 1975, she was named assistant professor of English and Canadian Studies at Concordia University. In 1976 she was promoted to associate professor and, in 1982, to professor of English and Canadian Studies. In 1987 she was named professor of English, a position she held until her retirement in 1990. Patricia Morley was involved with the Simone de Beauvoir Institute of Concordia University for some 10 years.

McKeen, David
DM1 · Person · 1938-1982

David McKeen was born January 21, 1938 in Hamilton, Ontario, and died July 28, 1982. He received a Ph.D. at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. He joined Sir George Williams University in 1965 as an associate professor of English. For several years he served as the director of graduate studies for the Department. He switched to administration in 1975 when he became the acting assistant dean, academic priorities and budget, for the Faculty of Arts. In 1976 he became the associate dean of curriculum, a position he retained in Divison 1 of Arts and Sciences. He was author of the book A Memory of Honour on the life of William Brooke. The design of Concordia's armorial bearings is credited largely to McKeen, who attended London's College of Heraldry. At the time of his death, he was associate dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science.

Marsden, Michael
MM1 · Person · 1930-2009

Michael Marsden joined Sir George Williams in 1963 as part-time lecturer in geography. In 1965, he was appointed assistant professor of geography. He was appointed associate professor of geography in 1970, a position he held at Sir George Williams and, after its 1974 merger with Loyola College, at Concordia University, until 1995.

Thompson, Claude Willett
CWT1 · Person · 1888-1973

Claude Willett Thompson was born in Durham, England in 1888. He died in Daytona Beach, Florida February 20, 1973. He received B.A. and M.A. degrees from Oxford University. He moved to Canada in 1911. He fought in World War I. On returning to Canada, he entered the teaching profession at the Old High School for Boys in Quebec City. In 1923 he transferred to the High School of Quebec as senior master in the boys' section. In 1932, he moved to Ottawa and became housemaster at Ashbury College. Claude W. Thompson came to Sir George Williams College in 1933, and during a 25-year career on the full-time staff taught English literature and humanities, first as instructor in English and history, and after 1934 as professor of English. He was appointed senior professor of humanities in 1937. He was appointed assistant dean in 1952. He was the first chair of the English Department. After his retirement he continued to teach part-time for several years. Among other books, he wrote Humanism in Action, published in 1950. He played a major role in developing the Canadiana Collection of the Sir George Williams Library.

Finney, H. A.
HAF1 · Person · 1886-1966

H. A. Finney taught accounting in the 1930s in the Department of Accountancy of Concordia University founding institution Sir George Williams University. He was the author of two books on accounting: Solutions to Problems and Answers to Questions in Principles of Accounting, Vol. 1, Intermediate (1934) and Answers to Questions and Solutions to Problems in Introduction to Principles of Accounting (Revised edition) (1936). Both books were published by Prentice-Hall, Inc. of New York.

McLaren, Thomas
TM1 · Person · 1879-1967

Thomas McLaren, architect, was born in Perth, England, on July 22, 1879. He died in Montreal in 1967. He was a partner in the firm Peden and McLaren which designed the first Loyola College buildings on Sherbrooke St. West in the 1910s.

Fraser, Robert A.
RAF1 · Person

Robert A. Fraser joined Sir George Williams College in 1946 as a lecturer in political science. In addition to teaching, he worked as assistant registrar from 1947 to 1955. In 1955, he became a full-time lecturer in political science. In 1964, he was promoted to assistant professor, a position he held until 1983. From 1956 to 1963 he was secretary for the Faculty Council and from 1964 to 1973 he was secretary for its successor body, the University Council.

Saccá, Elizabeth
ES1 · Person

Elizabeth Saccá obtained a Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in 1970. She joined the Department of Art Education of Concordia University in 1975 and served as Department Chair 1975-1981. She was principal of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute 1983-1985. She held the rank of professor from 1994 onward. She participated in governance of the University, serving, among other positions, as Graduate Program Advisor 1975-1981. In 2000 she received the June King McFee Award for professional leadership, research and teaching of the Canadian Association for Graduate Studies. In 2002 she was appointed the Dean of Graduate Studies of Concordia University. She is the founder and editor of the Canadian Review of Art Education and the author of monographs and articles.

Gallery, John O'Neill
BOG1 · Person

John O'Neill Gallery graduated from Loyola College in 1917.

Sir George Williams Family
SGWF1 · Family · 1821-

George Williams was born in 1821 in the County of Somerset, England. He founded the movement known worldwide as the YMCA (the Young Men's Christian Association) in 1844.

The Montreal branch of the YMCA was formed in 1851, the first in North America. In 1873 the YMCA inaugurated evening courses in vocational and general education. The undertaking was first known as the Educational Program, and later the Montreal YMCA Schools. In 1926, it changed its name to Sir George Williams College in honour of the founder of the YMCA movement. S.G.W. was one of the founding institutions of Concordia University.

Cohn, Norman
NC1 · Person · 1915-2007

Norman Cohn was a professor at the University of Sussex and a fellow of the British Academy. He was a research fellow at Concordia University in 1982.

Stredder, Margaret
MS1 · Person

Margaret Stredder is the daughter of Frederick Owen Stredder and the granddaughter of Anson Walt Young. A.W. Young served as principal of the Montreal YMCA Schools (foreunner of Sir George Williams Schools, which in 1926 became Sir George Williams College, a founding institution of Concordia University) until his retirement in 1928, when F. O. Stredder became principal of the College. F.O. Stredder was married to the daughter of A.W. Young.

Horwood, Elizabeth K.
EKH1 · Person · ?-2002

Elizabeth Kirly Horwood was secretary to the chair of the Concordia University Department of Mechanical Engineering during the events which occurred August 24, 1992, the Fabrikant incident, during which she was injured. Ms. Horwood died on June 12, 2002.

CUIEAC1 · Corporate body · 1981-

The International and Ethnic Associations Council of Concordia is an umbrella organization representing (as of 2015) 9 international/ethnic associations at Concordia University. It was founded in 1981 and recognized by the Concordia Council on Student Life (CCSL) in October 1982. The IEAC has since established itself as the governing body of its member associations, representing them before the university’s administration, faculty, student population, other university bodies and student organizations, as well as the community at large.
The IEAC consists of one representative from each member association and an elected executive. As such, it oversees and coordinates the activities of its member associations, as it seeks to promote an alliance and improved relations between international/ethnic student associations and other student organizations. Its main objectives are to unite Concordia’s various ethnic communities, and provide a place for social and cultural integration for its member’s association.
Among the activities to promote cultural diversity, the IEAC has hosted over the years a Cultural Week event where each group gives the Concordia community the opportunity to experience firsthand foreign cultures with music, dance and food. Other cultural events include concerts, exhibits, workshops and lectures.

Brault, Mark P.
MPB1 · Person

Mark P. Brault graduated from Loyola College in 1950. He served as stage-crew for the Loyola College Dramatic Society in the late 1940s and 1950s.

Sparling, Clifford C.
CCS1 · Person · 1896-1983

Clifford Sparling joined Sir George Williams College in 1952 as assistant professor of mathematics. In 1956 he was appointed associate professor of mathematics. From 1965 to 1972, he occupied this position on a part-time basis. He died in 1983, at the age of 87.

Tobin, Donald
DT1 · Person

Donald Tobin graduated from Loyola College in 1936. He was president of the Loyola Alumni Association 1949-1950.

Wheeler, Orson Shorey
OSW1 · Person · 1902-1990

Orson Shorey Wheeler was born in 1902 in a farming family in Barnston in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. He died in October 1990. Orson Wheeler, R.C.A., S.S.C., was an artist and a well respected art teacher. He spent 55 years at Sir George Williams and its successor institution Concordia University.

His talent was discovered at a county fair and his development was encouraged by an American benefactor. He received a B.A. from Bishop's University in 1927. He studied at the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and the Monument national, both in Montreal, and at New York City's Cooper Union, Beaux Arts Institute, and National Academy of Design.

He began teaching at Sir George Williams in 1931. His professional career was multifaceted, but preeminent were his interests in sculpture and architecture. It is as a portrait sculptor that he will be remembered. All but one of the former rectors and principals of Sir George Williams sat for him. His major contribution to the field of architecture is a superlative collection of between two and three hundred architectural models in plasticine of many of the world's significant archictectural monuments. These were made as teaching aids for his classes in art and architectural history at Sir George Williams, Concordia, and McGill University. When viewed in series, they demonstrate the variances in how we perceive space. The unique collection makes possible more than 20,000 comparisons according to Wheeler's own calculations.

Wheeler's work was exhibited at the New York World's Fair, at the Tate Gallery in England, and in Canada at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the National Gallery in Ottawa, the Toronto Art Gallery, and the Winnipeg and Vancouver art galleries. At Concordia University his work is on public display in the library and the foyer of the Hall Building.

Kerner, Fred
FK1 · Person

Fred Kerner graduated from Sir George Williams College in 1942 with an arts degree. He was editor of The Georgian 1940-1942. He was a member of the musical revue Georgianticsin 1940, and its director in 1941 and 1942. He has been a member of the Alumni Association of Sir George Williams since 1943. He is (in 2003) an honourary member. He served as the Association's president in 1973 and 1974. In 1975-1976 he sat on the Board of Governors of Concordia University, which was created with the merger of SGW with Loyola College in 1974.

Kearney, John Doherty
JDK1 · Person · 1893-

John Doherty Kearney was born in Montreal February 28, 1893. He graduated from Loyola College with a B.A. degree in 1916, and from McGill University with a Bachelor of Civil Laws. In World War I he served with the Canadian Field Artillery and was awarded the Military Cross. In 1921, he married Winnifred E. Greenish of Cork, Ireland. He practised law in Montreal until 1941, when he joined Canada's diplomatic service, serving in Ireland, Norway, Denmark, India, and Argentina. In 1951, he was appointed judge of the Exchequer Court (predecessor of the Federal Court) in Ottawa. He was also chairman of the Board of Transport Commissioners for Canada until 1956. He received an honourary Ll. D. degree from Saint Mary's University, Halifax.

Pallen, Robert
RP1 · Person · 1930-2003

Robert H. Pallen was born in 1930. He was married to Anne, and they had children. He died in Montreal in 2003. Pallen graduated in Chemistry from Sir George Williams University in 1952. He pursured graduate studies and earned a Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario.

He joined Loyola of Montreal as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry. After Loyola College merged with Sir George Williams University to form Concordia University in 1974, he was Associate Professor of chemistry at Concordia University from 1975 to 1989 and then Associate Professor, chemistry and biochemistry, from 1990 to his retirement in 1996.

He held many administrative positions. He was secretary of the Loyola Science Faculty Council 1972-1973. From 1973-1979 he was Assistant Dean, Faculty of Arts and Science (Loyola). From 1977-1985 he was Associate Dean of Division III, Faculty of Arts and Science. From 1985 to 1996 he was Associate Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.

Following retirement he pursued his interest in music, registering as a student in the Faculty of Fine Arts. He was active in the Concordia University Pensioners' Association.

In 1983 he institute the annual Expo-Science, a collaboration between Concordia University and the Pointe Claire Cultural Centre, Stewart Hall.

Fulton, Fraser F.
FFF1 · Person · ?-1977

Fraser F. Fulton was born in St. John, New Brunswick. He died February 4, 1977.

He attended Mount Allison University and then graduated from McGill University in 1928.

He had a military career, beginning as a lieutenant with the Royal Canadian Signal Corps. Extensive overseas assignments followed during which he rose to the rank of brigadier general and a posting as chief technical officer, Canadian Army Overseas. He later became vice-president, administration of Northern Electric Company Limited (later Nortel).

Fraser Fulton joined the Sir George Williams University Board of Governors in 1961. He was vice-chairman in 1962-1963 and chairman of the Board of Governors from 1963 to 1969. He was active in fund-raising for the Henry F. Hall Building. In 1965 he was also appointed chancellor of Sir George Williams University, a position he held until his resignation in 1971.