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Betty (MacRae) Harrison was born in Ottawa, February 2, 1928. A graduate of Queen's University, Arts '50, Harrison taught high school English and Phys-Ed. She died in Toronto on January 29, 2020.

Milly Ristvedt (b. 1942, Kimberley, BC) MA, RCA, began her career in Toronto in 1964 after studies with Takao Tanabe and Roy Kiyooka at the Vancouver School of Art.
At 24, her work was included in the Centennial Exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario and featured at the National Gallery of Canada. She was chosen for exhibitions in Winnipeg, Paris and Lausanne. By 1969, Ristvedt was painting large canvases, sharing a studio with Jack Bush and showing with the Carmen Lamanna Gallery. Since 1968 Ristvedt has had more than fifty solo exhibitions, including a travelling ten-year survey exhibition in 1979 organized by the Agnes Etherington Art Centre. She has been featured in multiple publications including Abstract Painting in Canada (Nasgaard, 2007).

Ristvedt has been continually involved in artists' organizations throughout her career. She co-founded and headed up the first Canadian artist-run centre, Vehicule Art, in Montreal in the 1970s. As an advocate for artist's rights, Ristvedt was awarded the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012 for her work with the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. She has served on many arts boards and committees, including those of Modern Fuel, the National Arts Service Organization and the Visual Arts Alliance.

Ristvedt has taught classes and studio courses and workshops throughout her career. In the 1990s, she organized the Sheffield Lake Workshop, an annual one-week retreat attended by more than 40 professional Canadian and American women.

Ristvedt's abstract, acrylic canvases are held in private, corporate and public collections including the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal and Harvard University. And most recently The National Gallery of Canada. She completed an MA in Art History at Queen's University in 2011.

Kim Ondaatje was born Betty Jane Kimbark in Toronto on October 2, 1928. Betty Jane took the name Kim after the death of her brother. Ondaatje studied painting under Yvonne McKague Housser from 1943 to 1947 at which point she began her studies as the Ontario College of Art. She then refocused her studies on literature at both McGill University (BA 1952) and Queens University receiving (MA 1954). Until 1964, Ondaatje served as a part-time lecturer at Wilfred Laurier University and Sherbrooke University. In the early 1960s, she returned to the visual arts and by 1965 was painting full-time. During this time Kim was working with London-based artists Jack Chambers and Tony Urquhart to found Canadian Artists Representation (CARFAC) in 1967. In 2009 Ondaatje along with Urquhart received the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts for this important work promoting artists' rights.

Ondaatje taught in the arts throughout her career, working for the London Public Gallery, the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and for the outreach program of the Emily Carr College of Art in British Columbia and the Yukon.

There have been many exhibitions of her paintings and prints in Canada and abroad, she has received national and international recognition. Her work has also been the subject of major retrospectives, including the University of Toronto Art Centre’s Kim Ondaatje: Paintings 1950-1975 (2008), and Kim Ondaatje Museum London (2013), as well as comprehensive exhibitions at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery (2014), the Agnes Etherington Art Centre (2015) and the Art Gallery of Ontario (2021). Ondaatje’s paintings and prints can be found in numerous collections, including The National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, and The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, among many others.

In addition to her artistic career, Ondaatje lived at her Blueroof Farm residence for over 40 years in Verona, just north of Kingston, Ontario. She called her home her “longest-running project... carefully tending to the land and animals living there". It was at Blueroof where Ondaatje bred Dalmatians, had a wedding venue business, and hosted many a retreat.

She was married to the poet D.G. Jones, and later was married to the writer Michael Ondaatje. She has six children.

Robert Cardwell was born on Oct 8th, 1936 to Herbert and Aileen Cardwell, and grew up at Wallace Point, Peterborough , where he, along with his two siblings, George Herbert, (deceased) and James William helped out with a multitude of family enterprises. In 1959, Robert married Maureen Madelon (Ward) (deceased 1995), and moved to Toronto to attend the Ontario College of Art. After a brief move to Belleville, a job offer at the Dupont Factory saw a final move to Kingston, and a few years later, a career long position with the Department of National Defense as a Graphic Artist. Robert and Maureen raised their 4 children, Robert Ward, James Kenneth (Hiromi Okano), Jonathon William, (Patricia Ongaro) and Jennifer Ann (Andy O’Donoghue) in the 1856 James Medley limestone house in Barriefield, which ignited a lifelong passion for historical architectural preservation.

A founding member of the Pittsburg Historical society, Robert authored, edited, contributed and published multiple papers and photographs in Historical Society Journals, books, essays and presentations, including co-editing the book "Barriefield, Two Centuries of Village Life" in 2015. Robert was a long standing member and past president of both the Pittsburg Historical Society and the Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee, and has received multiple honours and awards for his significant contributions to the preservation and promotion of the local historical record. In 2016, Robert was awarded the Lieutenant Governor’s Ontario Heritage Award for his commemorative work on the 200th anniversary of Barriefield. Robert is survived by his wife Elizabeth Lotton (Boyd), who has been his life partner since 1997.

Frances de Sales McAuley worked for the United Nations General Assembly in New York, NY.

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Alfred Thayer Mahan was an American naval officer and historian who was a highly influential exponent of sea power in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Mahan was the son of a professor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., in 1859 and went on to serve nearly 40 years of active duty in the U.S. Navy.

A Union naval officer in the Civil War, he later lectured on naval history and strategy at the Naval War College, Newport, R.I., of which he was president (1886–89, 1892–93). Out of his lectures grew his two major works on the historical significance of sea power—The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783 (1890) and The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire, 1793–1812 (2 vol., 1892). His books were quickly translated into several languages and were widely read by political leaders, especially in Germany, where they were used as a justification for a naval buildup. In the United States, Theodore Roosevelt and other proponents of a big navy and overseas expansion were much influenced by Mahan’s writings. Among his many works are biographies of David Farragut and Horatio Nelson and the autobiographical From Sail to Steam (1907, repr. 1968).

Peter Morris (born at Blackpool, UK 1937; died at Hamilton, Ont 2 Feb 2011). Peter Morris was an important and influential pioneer of Canadian film studies. He received a BA from the University of Nottingham in 1958 and an MA in science from the University of British Columbia in 1961. He was the author of Embattled Shadows: A History of Canadian Cinema 1885-1939 (1978), the first detailed history of Canadian cinema, and The Film Companion (1984). He translated and edited Georges Sadoul's Dictionary of Films and Dictionary of Film Makers (1972) into English. He wrote many articles and monographs on Canadian and world films, and published his book David Cronenberg: A Delicate Balance in 1994.

Peter Morris taught film at Queen's University, Kingston (1976-88) and was professor emeritus in film studies in the department of film and video at York University. He was founding curator of the Canadian Film Archives in Ottawa (now incorporated into the National Archives of Canada), the first Canadian institution ever admitted into FIAF (the International Federation of Film Archives). He was a member of its executive committee from 1966-69 and again 1973-74; from 1967-68 he was FIAF's treasurer. He was founding president of the Film Studies Association of Canada, an editor of the Canadian Journal of Film Studies (1989-93) and a member of its advisory editorial board. He also served as coordinator of the fine arts cultural studies program at York University.

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