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TVSG1 · Corporate body · 1966-1975

Television Sir George (TVSG) came into existence in October 1966, with the ratification by the Students’ Association of Sir George Williams University (later the Day Students’ Association) and made its home in the then newly erected Henry F. Hall Building. The first organization staff was composed of James Joyce as executive producer, Rob Joyce as creative director, and Barry Barnes as technical advisor. Membership was open to all undergraduate students. TV Sir George’s first show appeared on Channel 9 on November 21st 1966. TVSG became CUTV in January 1975.

Waugh, Thomas
TW1 · Person · 1948-

Thomas Waugh was born on April 24, 1948 in London, Ontario. He graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a BA (Honours) in English Language and Literature in 1970. He then attended Columbia University School of the Arts where he subsequently completed a MFA in Film in 1974 , a M. Phil. in film in 1976 and a Ph. D in Film in 1981 (with Distinction). In 1976, he joined Concordia University as assistant professor in Film Studies. He became associate professor in 1981 and was promoted full professor in 1994. In 1989, Waugh co-taught Concordia’s first gay film and literature course with Robert K. Martin. In 1992, he was instrumental in organizing La Ville en Rose, the first Québec lesbian and gay studies conference which drew over 1,500 activists, academics and media to Montreal from around the world. Professor Waugh was also active in departmental, Faculty and University committees such as the Faculty of Fine Arts’ Permanent Review Committee on the Status of Women, and Concordia’s Task Force on Lesbian and Gay Life.

In 1993, as head of the academic sub-committee of the Concordia HIV/AIDS Advisory Committee, he founded the HIV/AIDS Project. The same year, the HIV/AIDS Lecture Series was launched with contributions from leading academic thinkers, scientific experts, artists, and community leaders who have been diversely affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. In the fall of 1994, the course HIV and AIDS: Cultural, Social and Scientific Aspects of the Pandemic was introduced.

In the fall of 1998, he became the Director of a newly launched minor in Interdisciplinary Studies in Sexuality, which included courses on queer cinema, lesbian issues and realities, cultural, social and scientific aspects of AIDS/HIV. From 2000 to 2001, he was Chair of the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. Between 2008 and 2015, he was Concordia Research Chair in Documentary Film and Sexual Representation. In 2015, he established the Queer Media Database Canada-Quebec Project with filmmaker Kim Simard, an online catalogue of LGBTQ films made in Canada, and the makers involved in their creation. Thomas Waugh retired from Concordia in 2017.

Apart from his teaching activities, Thomas Waugh pursues research interests in sexual representation, documentary film and video, Canadian cinema, queer cinema, and photography. He published several articles and books on these subjects (anthologies, collections, monographs).

Véhicule Art Inc.
VA1 · Corporate body · 1972-1983

Véhicule Art Inc. was legally founded in March 1972 and the gallery opened at 61 Ste.Catherine St. West in the central core of Montréal on October 13, 1972. The first alternate space in the city, it was the creation of thirteen founding members who wanted a "non-profit, non-political centre directed by and for artists." The gallery was intended "to provide a space for the community in which to encounter art and art ideas through as many forms as these processes involve." This would hopefully, "rejuvenate public interest in the visual arts in Montréal, stimulating public consciousness and developing its interest."

Véhicule was conceived as both an exhibition space for visual artists and a locale for performance, video, film, dance, music, and poetry readings. As well, the founders stressed its essential role as an education and information centre with discussion groups, guest lectures, resource and documentation libraries as well as a liaison programme with public schools and universities within the city. Such aims were intended "to fill a gap in the community."

With some financial support from federal granting agencies, Véhicule embarked on its highly ambitious gallery programming and public information activities. The establishment of a press in 1973, at the back of the gallery, led to the production of artists' books, exhibition catalogues, newsletters, posters and poetry publications. Such Véhicule Press works reflected the multi-disciplinary atmosphere of Véhicule as various members of the group collaborated on specific projects. In addition, a slide bank and video collection were begun, adding to its informational resources.

In the early years, Véhicule's primary preoccupation was to bring to public attention the work of experimental local artists and in particular, their involvement with international trends. The opening exhibition of thirty-two works by twenty Montréal artists, chosen by nine Véhicule members, exemplified not only the concern for the new in the city but the spirit of a collectivity through the jury system. Although only four women artists participated in this show, two months later an exhibition of artwork by thirty-five young Montréal women was presented.

While Véhicule stated it espoused no single ideology, its orientation toward experimental aesthetic attitudes explains its strong support of anti-object art, with its particular emphasis on installation, performance and multi-media projects. During 1972 and 1973, about sixty events and exhibitions were presented, with three hundred participants, almost all from Montréal. A year later, approximately one half of the artists and performers were from outside of the local community. This shift reflected Véhicule's growing concern for becoming a vital part of a larger art milieu. The number of exhibitions and events remained quite constant through the 1970's, reaffirming the energy and ambition of its programming.

By 1975, Véhicule had gained official recognition by the inclusion of its members in two exhibitions organized by Montréal's Musée d'art contemporain. Public galleries outside Montréal also showed the works of Véhicule artists. Véhicule Press had expanded to form a cooperative printing company. The membership more than doubled and the gallery became involved in important exchanges with other alternative art centres in Canada, the United States, and Europe. Its programme of school visits, exhibitions of art students' work from local art schools and universities, as well as public events like the Kite Show (1973) and projects for the 1976 Olympics suggest Véhicule's determination to become an integral part of Montréal's cultural community.

As the membership expanded and the various disciplines represented at Véhicule became more consolidated, individual directions emerged. Véhicule Press developed a more extensive and ambitious publishing programme and became autonomous in 1977 when it moved to Chinatown. Dance and poetry readings increasingly became an essential part of Véhicule's activities. Gallery events and exhibitions were consistently reviewed in local newspapers and its public profile flourished. Video Véhicule, begun in 1976, established the gallery's importance as one of Canada's most active centres for the medium. During the late years of the 1970's video events dominated the gallery's programming and the large proportion of international artists at Véhicule attested to its solid reputation.

Despite these accomplishments, internal conflicts arose concerning the direction of Véhicule's programming and its administration. There was also increased polarization between the various disciplines involved with Véhicule. The original premise of a cohesive artists' collective had dramatically changed. In the summer of 1979, Véhicule moved to a larger space at 307 Ste. Catherine St. West and renamed Le Musée d'art vivant Véhicule.

During the final years, administrative and programming problems continued to plague the group. Memberships fell dramatically but became more restrictive. The separation of Video Véhicule (renamed Prime Video) from the umbrella organization was an example of the fallout from internal discord and conflicting ideologies within the cooperative. The art community which had supported Véhicule for almost a decade now believed that the alternate centre was neither responding to nor reflecting the needs of Montréal artists. That there were three generations of Véhicule artists in one decade demonstrates the shifts in the gallery's orientation and focus. As had happened often in the history of Montréal's art community, a coalition such as Véhicule eventually outlived its original mandate and purpose. As well, the city itself had become more responsive to new tendencies in art. Despite various stop-gap measures to renew interest in Véhicule, the last events took place in June 1982 and it was quietly disbanded in 1983. An era in Montréal's cultural history was over.

Véhicule Art Research Group
VARG1 · Corporate body · 1991-199-?

The objective of the Véhicule Art Research Group, created in 1991, is the documentation and analysis of avant-garde art in Montreal during the 1970s, through the examination and interpretation of the activities of the artists' cooperative, Véhicule Art (Montréal) Inc. within the period 1972-1983. Véhicule Art (Montréal) Inc. was the first and most important alternate art gallery, resource centre, and educational agency for the expression of experimental art in Montreal.

The Investigation of the Activities of Véhicule Art (Montréal) Inc., 1972-1983 project began with the analysis and evaluation of the Véhicule Art (Montréal) Inc. fonds (P0027) held by the Concordia University Archives. This was followed by the identification and collection of missing primary and secondary documentation. To gather information not available in printed form, oral history interviews were also conducted with artists who exhibited or performed at the gallery.

During the next few years, the full body of documentation will be interpreted through various art historical methodologies. The results of the research will be disseminated through publications, exhibitions, seminars, and graduate and undergraduate courses.

The Véhicule Art Research Group is composed of Sandra Paikowsky (Concordia University associate professor), Brian Foss (Concordia University associate professor), and Nancy Marrelli (director of Concordia University Archives).

Diniacopoulos, Vincent
VD1 · Person · 1886-1967

Vikentios “Vincent” Diniacopoulos was born in 1886 in Constantinople, Turkey. He died in Montreal in 1967. Vincent’s ethnic background was Greek, and he had French nationality. He studied at a Catholic college and then worked for an antiquarian in the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul, probably until the Turkish Revolution that took place prior to World War I. He probably immigrated to Egypt around that time.
He met Hélène Olga Nicolas. They got married in the mid- to late-1920s and moved to France after. Vincent did active work during the World War II. The Diniacopoulos family had a gallery that sold antiquities in Paris. The date of opening of the gallery is unknown, but it seems to have closed before they immigrated to Montreal in 1951.
After Olga, Vincent and their son Denis moved to Montreal, they opened the Ars Classica gallery. It was active in the 1950s and 1960s.

Gielgud, Val
VG1 · Person · 1900 - 1981
Isaac, Vernon
VI1 · Person · 1913-1999

Vernon Clarence Isaac, a jazz musician and bandleader, was born in Pittsburg, Texas on October 21, 1913 as the first child of the storekeeper Arthur Lee Isaac and Helen D. Isaac Williamson. In 1922, his family moved to Oklahoma City.

Vernon and his nine brothers and sisters grew up in a musical environment with their father and mother both playing mostly religious music on piano and organ. At age 14, Vernon Isaac was playing piano, violin and clarinet and started saxophone. With 16, he dropped out of high school, to travel around the United States for about ten years, playing alto and tenor saxophone with jazz musicians like Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie.

Vernon Isaac married Ester Geraldine Wonowity (Gerry Isaac) in 1942. They had three children : Richard, Jean and Francine. In 1942, Isaac was also drafted to the U.S. Army’s 92nd Colored Division. There he led the 37th Special Services Band. In 1946, after being discharged from the army, Isaac returned to Philadelphia where he formed the jazz group "Three Jacks and a Jill." Vernon Isaac came to Canada for the first time in 1948 while he was on tour with "Three Jacks and a Jill." Few years later, in 1951, Isaac moved to Canada, settling in Montreal where he remained for 25 years. Until "Three Jacks and a Jill" disbanded, he toured in Ontario and the Maritimes. Later, he played mostly in Montreal at the Montmartre and with Allan Wellman at Rockhead's Paradise. Also at Rockhead's Paradise, he helped organize the show ‘Ebony in Rhythm’ in 1964. At the same time, he led some smaller bands, like the L.V.J. Trio, named after Lem Neal, Vernon Isaac and Jimmy Valdez, and went on tour again.

In 1973, Vernon Isaac moved to Ottawa, where he became a founding member of the oldest non-profit organization in Canada to promote jazz, Ottawa jazz, in 1975. Ottawa Jazz helped to promote, preserve and present jazz in the Ottawa area until its dissolution in 1996. It had a major impact on the Ottawa Jazz scene, by organizing jazz sessions and supporting clubs like La Paloma, Beacon Arms Hotel, The Penguin, Mr. Keith’s MacDonald Club, as well as the Ottawa Jazz Festival.

In the 1980s, Vernon Isaac established the Vernon Isaac Big Band, and in 1985, he participated in the St. Michel All-Stars at Le Grand Café in Montreal.

Vernon Isaac died in Gatineau, Québec on December 16, 1999.

Kreipans Wilson, Veneranda
VKW1 · Person · 1938-2019

Veneranda Kreipans Wilson was born in Daugavpils, Latvia, on March 29, 1938. Her family fled from Latvia to Germany in 1944, and settled in Montreal, Canada, in 1948. Veneranda Kreipans attended Concordia University in the 1970s where she studied under Irving Layton and Wynne Francis. Wilson wrote her Master thesis in English literature on Irving Layton's poetry : “Love and Loathing: The Role of Woman in Irving Layton's Vision.” Wilson became good friends with Layton after she graduated and Layton was a frequent visitor at her parent’s house. Veneranda Kreipans married in 1970 and had a daughter. She worked from 1971 until her retirement in 2005 as an English and Drama teacher in senior high school in Dorval, Montreal. Veneranda Kreipans Wilson died on July 5th, 2019, in Montreal.

Nixon, Virginia
VN1 · Person · 1939-2015

Virginia Nixon studied English Literature (B.A.) at Carleton University and Art History (M.A., Ph.D) at Concordia University. She was a lecturer in art history and music history in the Concordia University Liberal Arts College. She published numerous articles on the arts and art-related topics in newspapers such as The Montreal Gazette and in magazines such as Montreal Calendar Magazine, The Canadian Forum, Art Magazine and Vie des Arts. Virginia Nixon died in Montreal on December 9, 2015.

Namaste, Viviane
VN1 · Person · 19XX -

Viviane Namaste has a BA from Carleton University, an MA in Sociology from York University and a doctoral degree from Université du Québec à Montréal in Semiotics and Linguistics. She began teaching at Simone de Beauvoir Institute in July 2002 and was Interim Principal from August 2006-May 2008 and Acting Principal from September-December 2018. Namaste was Research Chair in HIV/AIDS and Sexual Health from June 2008-May 2018. In 2016, Namaste was awarded an FAS Curriculum Innovation Fund grant to develop new interdisciplinary teaching for Humanities students. She is the founder of the Quebec Health Action, which began in the 1990s to improve health for Montreal’s transvestite and transsexual community. She was the principal investigator of Projet Polyvalence, which ran from 2004 to 2007, a community-based action research project seeking to contribute to HIV/AIDS and STD prevention of people with bisexual practices. The project resulted in a book “HIV Education and Bisexual Realities” (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012).

  • Namaste received the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence.  Concordia University Faculty of Arts and Science in April 2015.
  • She also received the Prix Honoris of the Conseil Québécois des Gais et des Lesbiennes in October 2013.
  • Namaste was inducted in the Provost’s Circle of Distinction of Concordia University, in June 2012
  • On October 25, 2010, she received the Grand prix du Conseil Québécois des Gais et des Lesbiennes.
  • Namaste was the recipient of the Award for Action on HIV/AIDS 2009 handed by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and Human Rights Watch, on June 12, 2009.

Namaste is the author of three books about transsexuality:

  • Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000) for which she won the Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center in 2001
  • Sex Change, Social Change: Reflections on Identity, Institutions, and Imperialism (Toronto : Women’s Press/Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2005)
  • C'était du spectacle! L'histoire des artistes transsexuelles à Montréal, 1955-1985 (Montréal : McGill Queen’s University Press, 2005)
Véhicule Press
VP1 · Corporate body · 1973-

Véhicule Press began in 1973 on the premises of Véhicule Art Inc. (Montreal), one of Canada's first artist-run galleries. The large space occupied by both the gallery and the press at 61 St. Catherine St. West was once the Café Montmarte, the renowned jazz club of the 1930s.

Guy Lavoie, Annie Nayer, Marshalore, and Vivian Jemelka-White established Véhicule Press. For printing purposes, they began using equipment inherited from Kenny Hertz's defunct Ingluvin Publications and an ATF Chief 20 printing press originally purchased by artist Tom Dean to print Beaux-Arts magazine. In 1973, Véhicule Press submitted their first Local Initiatives Project (LIP) grant.

In 1975 the press became Coopérative d'Imprimerie Véhicule - Quebec's only cooperatively-owned printing and publishing company. Coopérative d'Imprimerie Véhicule was officially incorporated in 1976. Members of the coop included Guy Lavoie, Simon Dardick, Marshalore, Léo Vanasse, Vivian White, and Willy Wood. Véhicule Press was the publishing imprint of the coop. In the same year, an editorial board was formed to allow the Press to apply for Canada Council grants. The editorial board was composed of poets Andre Farkas, Artie Gold, and Ken Norris. Véhicule Press was accepted into the lock Grant Programme of the Canada Council in 1979. The editorial board was dissolved int eh same year.

In late spring 1977, Véhicule Press moved to 1000 Clark St. in the heart of Chinatown, and in 1980 it moved to an industrial space located on Ontario St. East. In spring 1981, the coop was dissolved and Simon Dardick (who had joined the press in the summer of 1973) and Nancy Marrelli continued Véhicule Press from Roy St. East in the Plateau area of Montreal.

Véhicule Press publishes poetry, fiction, essays, translations, and social history. Simon Dardick and Nancy Marrelli are the publishers and general editors of Véhicule Press; Patrick Goddard is Administrative Assistant; and Maya Assouad is Marketing and Promotions Manager.

Poet Michael Harris was the founding editor of the Véhicule Press Signal Poetry Series, established in 1981. The collaboration has resulted in over 50 books by 35 authors. Additionally, Michael Harris was the editor of The Signal Anthology: Contemporary Canadian Poetry (Signal, 1993). Poet, critic, and essayist Carmine Starnino became the editor of Signal Editions in January 200. 123 titles have been published in the Signal Poetry Series since 1981.Carmine Starnino is the editor of The New Canon: An Anthology of Canadian Poetry (Signal, 2005).

Author Andrew Steinmetz is the founding editor of Véhicule's fiction imprint, Esplanade Books, established in 2003. Steinmetz was succeeded by author Dimitri Nasrallah, who has worked as the editor of the series since 2013.

Author Brian Busby is the editor of Ricochet Books, a series consisting of vintage noir mysteries, many of them set in Montreal.

Author Derek Webster became a Senior Editor of the press in 2018.

Covers for Signal and Esplanade Books are designed by David Drummond of Salamander Hill Design. John W. Stewart began designing covers for the press in the 1970s. At present, Stewart designs the Véhicule catalogue cover and occasional non-fiction.

Stewart, V
VS1 · Person · [19- ?]
Stanton, Victoria
VS2 · Person · 1970-

Victoria Stanton is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and educator. She studied Creative Arts at Dawson College, Montreal, until 1989, and continued thereafter at Concordia University, where she graduated in 1995 with a bachelor of Fine Arts.She works as part-time professor in Fibers and Materials Practices at Concordia University. Stanton has performed and exhibited at various spaces and events at the local, national, and international levels. Time, transaction, transition, the in-between, and liminal spaces are central to her time-based work. In the spring of 2007, Victoria Stanton founded, together with Sylvie Tourangeau and Anne Bérubé, the Montreal-based performance art trio TouVA Collective, that has been researching the practice of performance through multiple frameworks and approaches. Stanton is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2018 Prix Powerhouse. She has held numerous residencies, including at McGill University, DARE-DARE, and Artexte. "Impure, Reinventing the Word: The Theory, Practice and Oral History of Spoken Word in Montreal" (conundrum press, 2001), co-authored with Vincent Tinguely, was her first book.
Victoria Stanton lives and works in Montreal, Quebec.

Teboul, Victor
VT1 · Person · 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.

Tinguely, Vincent
VT2 · Person · 1959-

Vincent Tinguely is a writer and performance poet currently based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. In 2005, he self-published a novella titled Final Trainwreck of a Lost-Mind Summer. In 2006 he published a chapbook titled Parc Ave. Poems. Tinguely has also written extensively on spoken word and literary events and co-hosted a two radio shows on CKUT 90.3, Victorious & Invincible and Kitchen Kitchen Bang Bang.

Vogel, Vic
VV1 · Person · August 3, 1935-September 16, 2019

Musician Victor Stephan Vogel, of Austrian-Hungarian descent, known as Vic Vogel, was born in Montreal on August 3, 1935, as the second son of first-generation immigrants Emilia Zuelt and Mathias Vogel, who was of gypsy origin. Vic Vogel grew up on Bullion Street in Montreal. His father played accordion, and especially violin. Vic learned to play piano at the age of 5, by watching his older brother Frank as he studied piano. Vic also taught himself to play trombone, tuba, and vibraphone as well as arranging. At twelve years old, he dropped out of school. He started performing in Montreal Jazz clubs, and by the late 1950s he was playing in numerous orchestras. In 1960 he conducted his first ensemble at the Montreal night club Chez Paree. He went on tour with the orchestra Les Doubles Six de Paris in 1961 and with a CBC band in 1966. From 1965 to 1982, he was part of the staff creating the emission “Femmes d’aujourd’hui” at Radio-Canada, and has been musical director for a number of variety shows. At CBC radio, he conducted his own bands, including the Vic Vogel Big Band, which was formed in 1968. During its 50 years existence, this band became an important part of Montreal’s jazz scene. Every year from 1980 to 2015, Vic Vogel performed at the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal. He composed and arranged the music for the opening ceremonies for the Man and his World world's fair Expo 67, the Olympic Games held in Montreal in 1976, the Canada Games in 1985, as well as for the 1981 and 1985 Grey Cup football game half-time shows. Vogel’s other compositions include musicals for the Théâtre des variétés, program themes for CBC-TV and CTV, and film soundtracks. He has also created arrangements for jazz soloists and symphony orchestras. Vic Vogel released his first piano solo album in May 1993. In 2010, Vogel was awarded an honorary doctorate in music by Concordia University. In June 2019, he received the Medal of the National Assembly.
Vic Vogel died in Montreal on September 16, 2019.

Weeks Barker, Velma
VWB1 · Person · 1925-2016

Velma Weeks Barker, born Velma Carmen Weeks, was born in Montreal in 1925. She graduated from Westmount High School and later studied at the Canadian Kindergarten Institute, graduating in 1945. In 1949 she graduated from Dr. Eliot's Nursery Training School of Boston, later known as the Eliot Pearson Department of Child Study of Tufts University. When she returned to Montreal she established a preschool program at the YMCA in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.

Weeks Barker was Vice-President and Quebec representative to the Canadian Association for Young Children for several years and was a founder and lifetime member of the Nursery School Teachers of Greater Montreal. She is a highly regarded childhood educator and throughout her life, was a leader in the field of Early Childhood Education. In 1983, she received the Bothwell-Smith Award for Excellence in Early Childhood Education. In 1992, she received the Elks of Canada Academic Achievement Award. In 1993, she received an honorary doctorate from Concordia University for her contributions to the field (Doctor of Laws, honoris causa).

Weeks Barker attended the Negro Community Centre in Little Burgundy and Union United Church, where she married her husband Darnley Cecil Barker, with whom she had a son named Spencer. Velma Weeks Barker died in 2016.

Sources:
Clippings. Velma Weeks Barker collection. C039-001, folder 19. Concordia University Special Collections, Montreal, Canada

Jacobs, Ellen. (1993). Honorary degree citation – Velma Weeks Barker. Concordia University. https://www.concordia.ca/offices/archives/honorary-degree-recipients/1993/06/velma-weeks-barker.html

Buxton, William J.
WB1 · Person · [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.
Boudreau, Walter
WB1 · Person · October 15, 1947-

Walter Boudreau was born in Montreal October 15, 1947 to a musical family. His mother was a pianist; his father, who played alto saxophone in dance bands in Sorel, died just before Walter's birth. Walter Boudreau studied piano from age 7 to 13, then alto saxophone and later tenor saxophone. At 18 he led a jazz quartet. In 1968, with songwriter / poet Raoul Duguay, he founded the Montreal mixed-media music ensemble L'Infonie. Boudreau was the group's conductor and principal composer and arranger. He studied musical analysis at McGill University with Bruce Mather in 1968-1970, and analysis and composition with Serge Garant at Université de Montreal and with Gilles Tremblay at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal in 1969-1973. He had internships in Europe with Kagel, Ligeti, Stockhausen, and Xenakis, and with Boulez in Cleveland. A prolific composer, Boudreau has written for various types of musical ensembles and for Quebec films. He won first prize in the 1973 CBC National Competition for Young Composers. In 1982 he was the youngest-ever winner of the Jules-Léger Prize for his compositionOdyssée du Soleil. He has been the artistic director and conductor for the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec, and is invited to conduct other orchestras.