- CA QUA12248
- Person
- n.d.
Samuel McLaughlin was a photographer based in Ottawa, ON.
Samuel McLaughlin was a photographer based in Ottawa, ON.
John Virtue, a journalist and author, was born in Nelson, BC in 1935. He was a correspondent for United Press International (UPI), getting his start reporting on Castro in Havana in 1964. He later managed UPI bureaus in Sao Paolo, Brazil, and Mexico City, and covered wars in Central America and the Guatemala earthquake of 1976. In the 1980s, Virtue was executive editor for El Mundo in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He worked 25 years as director of Florida International University's International Media Centre. Virtue passed away in Miami, Florida in 2016.
Murray Hogben was born in Toronto in 1935 and grew up in Ottawa. In 1957 he earned a bachelor's degree in English literature and then a journalism degree at Carleton University. There he met an Indian Muslim student, Alia Rauf, duly became a Muslim in 1956, and they married in 1959. Working for the CBC in Toronto, he became secretary in 1960 of the new Muslim Society of Toronto for years. Also, starting in 1965, he began to earn a doctorate in history from the University of Toronto, graduating in 1973. He then taught at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston and then at le College militaire royal de Saint-Jean, in Quebec. Murray then joined the Kingston Whig-Standard in 1979 as a reporter and columnist until 2000. Meanwhile, he had also become secretary of the Islamic Society of Kingston, a volunteer Muslim chaplain at several prisons, secretary of the Kingston Police race relations advisory committee, and for decades canoeing instructor and arts and crafts director at a camp for Muslim girls and boys.
Carl Young was the Deputy Fire Chief for Kingston Township Fire Department. He was the son of Wesley and Myrtle Young, and husband of Thea Young (nee denOuden).
Asterisk Film & Videotape Productions Limited
Asterisk Film & Videotape Productions Ltd. was a film production company based in Toronto. It was succeeded by Asterisk Productions Ltd, based out of Burnaby, BC.
Keith Lachance was a Science student at Queen's University.