Canada at 150

Spring 2017 + Canada at 150

Where Do You Come From? Student Refugees 16.

Charles Pachter Canada’s Artist 12.

Making History Ten Pivotal Moments 22.

Graham Fraser on Bilingualism 28.

UC and Residential Schools 32.

uc.utoronto.ca/magazine U of T Spring reunion May 31 to June 4, 2017 Celebrating graduating classes with years ending in 2 and 7

UC Class of 1967 Reception Reunite with your UC classmates to celebrate the 50th anniversary of your graduation, before the U of T medal ceremony in Convocation Hall. Friday, June 2, 2017 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. University College, Bissell House

Rethinking Canadian Nationalism: Autobiographical Reflections Come As Canada’s 150th birthday approaches, join Rick Salutin, a Toronto Star columnist and faculty member in the UC Canadian Studies program, as he explores the history of Canadian nationalism, with a personal touch. Friday, June 2, 2017 3:15 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. University College, Room 140 back Holding Power to Account Join Jim Williamson (BA 1982 UC), executive producer of CBC’s to University College for the weekend. The Fifth Estate, for a behind-the-scenes look at the increasingly high-stakes world of journalism. Saturday, June 3, 2017 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. University College, Room 140

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CLASS NOTES

12. 16. 36. CONVERSATION FOCUS News from alumni Iconic Canadian artist Charles Pachter For student refugees, “where do you (BA 1964 UC) come from?” is a loaded question BY Yvonne Palkowski BY Jennifer McIntyre Nota Bene

40. Making Campus news History 22. 28. TIMELINE PERSPECTIVES The ten most consequential events A decade as Canada’s Commissioner in Canadian political history of Official Languages BY Professor Nelson Wiseman BY Graham Fraser (BA 1968 UC) 32. REPORT 04 — UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE An exploration inspired by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission BY Professor John Marshall CONTENTS SPRING 2017 MASTHEAD Departments uc.utoronto.ca/magazine Volume 42, No. 2

EDITOR Yvonne Palkowski (BA 2004 UC)

SPECIAL THANKS Donald Ainslie Alana Clarke (BA 2008 UC) Naomi Handley Michael Henry Lori MacIntyre

COVER IMAGE The Painted Flag. Acrylic on canvas, 2006. Charles Pachter

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10. 50. CALENDAR Obituary What’s on at UC Remembering Chancellor Emerita Rose Wolfe (BA 1938 UC)

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Graham Fraser (BA 1968 UC) John Marshall Channel, Deutsche Welle Online, Dr. Graham Fraser (“Part John W. Marshall (“Univer- and CNIB.ca. Her work has also Cheerleader, Part Nag: A Decade sity College and Residential appeared in Grain Magazine, as Commissioner of Official Schools: An Exploration Seasons Magazine, The Journal of Languages,” page 28) was born Inspired by the Truth and Rec- the Canadian Association for the in Ottawa and graduated from onciliation Commission,” page Advancement of Women in Sport, University College with a degree 32) serves as Vice-Principal of Dandelion, Ms. Magazine, Xtra, in history. He worked as a jour- University College and Associ- and Lexicon. Her website nalist for the Toronto Star, The ate Professor in the Depart- is jenmceditor.com. Globe and Mail, Maclean’s and ment for the Study of Reli- The Montreal Gazette in Toronto, gion. His research centres on Nelson Wiseman Montréal, Québec City, Ottawa, diversity in the beginnings of Nelson Wiseman (“Making and Washington, and was a guest Christianity. After seeing First History: The Ten Most Conse- columnist for Le Devoir. He has Nations artist Ken Monkman’s quential Events in Canadian published five books:Fighting exhibition “Shame and Preju- Political History,” page 22) is a Back: Urban Renewal in Trefann dice: A Story of Resilience” at Professor in the Department of Court; René Lévesque and the the University of Toronto Art Political Science and Director of Parti Québécois in Power (nomi- Centre, he recommended it in the Canadian Studies program nated for a Governor-General’s every conversation he had. at University College. A special- award); Playing for Keeps: The The exhibition premiered at ist in Canadian government and Making of the Prime Minister; Vous U of T and is now travelling politics, elections, voting, and M’intéressez: Chroniques; and Sorry, across Canada as, in the artist’s political parties, he is a frequent I Don’t Speak French: Confronting words, “a counter-narrative” commentator on national affairs. the Canadian Crisis That Won’t to Canada 150 celebrations. His most recent book is The Go Away. He served as Canada’s Public Intellectual in Canada. Commissioner of Official Lan- Jennifer McIntyre guages from 2006 to 2016. He Jennifer McIntyre (“Where received a master’s in history Do You Come From?” page 16) from the University of Toronto, is a writer and editor based in is the recipient of five honorary Toronto, Ontario. She builds degrees, and was recognized model airplanes in her spare as one of University College’s time, bakes a mean chocolate Alumni of Influence in 2016. chip cookie, and holds the regional record for most bones broken in a solo urban bicycle accident. Jennifer has written for CBC Sports, the Discovery

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Editor’s Note

In light of our nation’s sesquicentennial this summer, the decision to devote this issue of UC Magazine to Canada was easy. Not so straightforward was par- ing down the myriad stories on this theme, and deciding which of them to tell in the limited space available. After all, Uni- versity College has been called the most important academic building in the country. As the founding College of the Uni- versity of Toronto, it was one of a scarce few institutions of higher education in existence upon the birth of our nation, and one through which scores of influential Canadians have passed, particularly in the early days. From battlefield surgeon

Lt.-Col. John McCrae (BA 01. 1894 UC), the poet behind In Flanders Fields, and beloved of (just read “Where Do IMAGE 01. You Come From?” page 16, Yvonne Palkowski humorist Dr. STephen lea- (BA 2004 UC) if you’re not convinced). As cock (BA 1891 UC), to a first-generation Canadian image credit pioneering journalist Bar- Christopher Dew born to immigrants who fled bara Frum (BA 1951 UC) and then-communist Poland, I am Olympian Abby Hoffman (BA 1968 UC), members of our keenly aware of the difference College community took what that a geopolitical setting and they learned here and used it to an education can make. To build our great nation. And they identify as a Canadian—and continue to shape and change with all the opportunity and Canada—and the world—today. responsibility and pride that entails—is a very powerful (See uc.utoronto.ca/aoi for an ever-expanding list of influen- thing. The stories in the pages tial UC alumni.) that follow are an attempt to capture something of the The openness and diversity of essence of Canada, our Cana- our College community reflect dian-ness—and our College’s that of our country and are significant place within it. something we can be proud Yvonne Palkowski (BA 2004 UC)

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University College and Canada’s Sesquicentennial

AUTHOR Donald Ainslie Principal, University College

PHOTOGRAPHER Johnny Guatto

The year was 1967. Canada was feeling good about democratic country we know today: other On- IMAGE 01. U of T planted 1000 itself in its centennial year. We had the new tario Premiers Edward Blake (BA 1854 UC), red and white tulip flag. Montreal’s Expo was about to open. Alex Howard Ferguson (BA 1891 UC), and Bill bulbs on the front Colville’s centennial coins were in circulation: Davis (BA 1951 UC); Prime Ministers Arthur campus lawn as one of the recipients of the rock-dove penny, the rabbit nickels, the Meighen (BA 1896 UC) and William Lyon the ‘150 Celebration pickerel dimes, and the cougar quarters. Gordon Mackenzie King (BA 1895 UC); Governor- Gardens’ in honour Lightfoot had released the “Canadian Railroad General (BA 1910 UC); and of Canada’s 150th Vincent Massey birthday. Pictured Trilogy” on New Year’s Day. Supreme Court Justices such as Bora Laskin L-R: Soha Sadegi (BA 1933 UC) and, currently on the bench, and Joshua Estrella, U of T students; Twenty years prior, Canadians had finally be- Rosalie Abella (BA 1967 UC) and Michael Donald Ainslie, come citizens of their own country, rather than Moldaver (BA 1968 UC). UC Principal; subjects of the British Empire. A few months Scott Mabury, Vice-President, later, the discriminatory Chinese Exclusion Act As a card-carrying member of the “baby bust,” the Operations, U of T; had been repealed. When, in the centennial year, generation born between 1966 and 1974, I am too Joe Cressy, Toronto the Pearson government introduced the points young to remember the centennial itself, but I did City Councillor, Ward 20; Ceta system that made national origin irrelevant to sing “Ca-na-da” and “Ontari-ari-ario” in school. Ramkhalawansingh, immigration decisions, the door to a truly multi- Perhaps because of this misplaced nostalgia, I am President, Grange th Community cultural Canada was opened. particularly looking forward to Canada’s 150 Association; and birthday this year. Julie Mathien, Meanwhile, at University College, the counter- President, Huron Sussex Residents’ culture had arrived, with all the challenges to old The University of Toronto is marking the occa- Association. policies and campus traditions it brought in its sion with a series of faculty- and student-driven wake. The Lit that year sponsored “Perception initiatives, which started with Kent Monkman’s image credit Johnny Guatto ’67,” a festival devoted to psychedelic arts, includ- “Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience,” an ing a performance by the Fugs and a reading by exhibition that premiered at the University of To- Allen Ginsberg. When the UC Principal at the ronto Art Centre location of the Art Museum at U time, Douglas LePan, prohibited any discussion of T and is now travelling across Canada. Monk- of LSD on College property, that portion of man used art and carefully curated historical the festival was moved to Hart House, though artifacts to tell the story of Confederation from a Timothy Leary was unable to give his talk about queer, indigenous perspective. He required us to the liberating effects of acid when he was refused see what is too often erased in national histories: entry to Canada. those who have been subjected to violence, to cultural genocide, to ongoing displacement. In Bob Rae (BA 1969 UC) was on the organiz- doing so, he exemplified what the University ing committee for “Perception ‘67” and, when can offer during this sesquicentennial year: not he went on to become Premier of Ontario, he further celebration, but historically informed joined the many UC alumni who have helped investigations of what it means to be Canadian to lead Canada as it evolved into the open and and where our country is heading.

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University College’s Canadian Studies program I have not yet heard of any psychedelic festivals and will be hosting major conferences on Canadian I haven’t yet had to ban any planned activities from literature in June and on immigration policy in College space, but perhaps next year’s Lit will take October. The Centre for Drama, Theatre, and inspiration from their forebears? Performance Studies will have a gala in April to celebrate its 50th birthday, Canada’s sesquicentennial, and the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. John Borrows, a law professor at the Uni- versity of Victoria, will be giving the F. E. L. Priest- ley Memorial Lectures in the History of Ideas at UC in October on indigenous law, truth, and reconciliation. For events happening elsewhere on campus, see canada150.utoronto.ca.

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IMAGE 01. UC Class of 1967

IMAGE 02. Rick Salutin

IMAGE 03. Jim Williamson Calendar image credit Marc Bryan-Brown May

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to Account 05. June 3, 2017 at 2:30 p.m. Jim Williamson (BA 1982 UC Convocation Reception UC), executive producer of June 20, 2017 at 4:30 p.m. CBC’s The Fifth Estate, provides Celebrate UC’s newest a behind-the-scenes look at the graduates over sweets and high-stakes world of journalism. refreshments. UC Room 140 UC Quadrangle For info: (416) 978-7416 For info: (416) 978-2968 10 — UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE Calendar SPRING 2017 What’s On at UC uc.utoronto.ca/magazine

IMAGE 06. September Professor Amy Richlin

IMAGE 07. Rawi Hage image credit House of Anansi Press

IMAGE 08. Professor John Borrows

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S.J. Stubbs Lecture in Classics September 19, 2017 at 4:30 p.m. September 19, 2017 at 4:30 p.m. 08. Professor Amy Richlin Department of Classics F.E.L. Priestley Memorial November University of California Lectures in the History Los Angeles of Ideas October 16, 17 & 18, 2017 at UC Room 140 4:30 p.m. For info: (416) 978-7416 Professor John Borrows Canada Research Chair October in Indigenous Law Nexen Chair in Indigenous Leadership University of Victoria UC Room 140 For info: (416) 978-7416

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07. R.K. Teetzel Lecture in Art Permanently Under November 21, 2017 at 4:30 p.m. Construction: Canadian Professor Karen Redrobe Nation Building and (formerly Beckman) Immigration Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Professor October 12 & 13, 2017 of Cinema and Modern Media An interdisciplinary conference University of Pennsylvania probing the legal, artistic, and UC Room 140 historical dimensions of the For info: (416) 978-7416 Canadian immigrant experience. Featuring a keynote speech by author Rawi Hage. Location TBA For info: (416) 978-8083 UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE — 11 CONVERSATION SPRING 2017 Pachter’s Canada uc.utoronto.ca/magazine

AUTHOR Yvonne Palkowski (BA 2004 UC)

IMAGE 01. The Painted Flag. We sit Acrylic on canvas, 2006. down with the artist whose images have become synonymous with our home and native land

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ow things have changed. In 1972, the art world collectively gasped at the sight of the Queen sitting on a moose, as irreverently Hdepicted in a series of paintings by the artist Charles Pachter (BA 1964 UC). These days, his signature images of the maple leaf, mounties—and yes, the Queen and moose— have become pop icons of Canadiana, even finding their way onto a line of accessories sold nationwide at The Bay. Paintings, sculptures, prints, and designs by the prolific Pachter are displayed in collections around the world (the painting that graces the cover of this issue hangs in the High Commission of Canada in London, United Kingdom). He was named an Officer of the Order of Canada and a UC Alumni of Influence in 2012, and he holds three honorary doctorates. He spoke with UC Magazine editor Yvonne Palkowski about his legendary body of work and career.

You studied art history at University College, but how did you get started as an artist? 02. I started drawing and painting in early childhood, and have never stopped.

What would you say are the main themes in your art? I try to examine and enlarge upon life as I know it based on my own time and place in the world.

Why do you think your signature subjects—moose, mounties, maple leaf, and the Queen—have such resonance? I call these my branded images for Canada. I enjoy exploring the Canadian psyche based on the fact that our main tourist symbol is a policeman. Our head of state lives in another country. The moose is the true monarch of the north. And our flag is beautiful. 03.

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IMAGE 02. Noblesse Oblige. Arcylic and pencil on canvas, 1972.

IMAGE 03. Love Pat. Inkjet on archival matte paper, 2005.

IMAGE 04. Charles Pachter, 2016

IMAGE 05. Rite de passage. Acrylic on canvas, 1972.

04. IMAGE 06. Decisions, decisions. Inkjet on archival matte paper, 2013.

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You met the Queen a few Where do you see years back. How did that Canadian art going in conversation go? the future? We met at the opening of the I see more prominence newly renovated Canada House on the world stage. In the in London. I said, “Your Majesty, last decade there has been 43 years ago I painted you as the much more international Queen of Canada seated side- interest in Canadian art. saddle on a moose, and thanks to you I have made a living all What is your proudest these years.” She beamed and accomplishment? said, “How amusing!” Staying productive.

How have Canadian art and What are you working the nation’s art scene evolved on these days? throughout your career? Currently working on a commis- The internet has changed sioned portrait—top secret. And everything. Everyone who has Dundurn Press is publish- an iPhone is a photographer. ing a book, Charles Pachter: And everyone on Facebook and Canada’s Artist, on my life and Twitter who makes and posts work, coming out in June. their art is “awesome” and their work is “iconic.” How will you recognize Canada’s 150th birthday? Does that make things easier With many activities and events in or harder for up-and-coming 2017, including solo exhibitions artists? at the Art Gallery of Windsor and The challenges for emerging the Peel Art Museum & Archives artists and established artists in Brampton. Also with the com- are pretty much the same: how pletion of a new, contemporary to become recognized and home in Orillia on the historic respected, and make a decent street where Group of Seven artist living from your work. Franklin Carmichael grew up. 05.

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IMAGE 01. AUTHOR John Biel (L) Jennifer McIntyre and Stella Mona (BA 2008 UC) PHOTOGRAPHY Christopher Dew You

“Where do you come from?”

In Toronto, one of the most di- verse cities on Earth, you can hear this question hundreds of times on any given day. It slips almost casually from the lips of commut- ers, office workers, people waiting in grocery lines and bank queues, and (perhaps especially) students. Come But for University College student John Biel it was a lifesaver.

Biel, 24, came to Canada in 2012 from what is now South Sudan through the Student Refugee Pro- gram within the World University Service of Canada (WUSC), and is studying genetics and economics. 4 From? UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE — 17 Focus SPRING 2017 “Where Do You uc.utoronto.ca/magazine Come From?”

IMAGE 02. “When I arrived here, John Biel many people had never seen someone like me… They were curious, so they would come up and find out more about me. I think that made it easier for me.” It is still difficult for him to discuss Biel heard about WUSC from a his past, however. “I try to forget fellow student, and set his sights it,” he says simply. “South Sudan, on applying. He studied hard, where my family is from, is where passed the WUSC interviews, the resources are, and the fighting and arrived in Canada in the is in there. I grew up in that situa- fall of 2012. tion.” He looks away momentarily. “I lost so many people in the war.” Like most new students, Biel struggled with homesickness In 2003, at the height of the and culture shock at first, but ethnic violence, Biel’s family fled like all of the WUSC students, south to Kenya. Young John, age his more urgent battles involved nine and the eldest of his nine the emotional fallout of having siblings, was sent to school. When lived through war and genocide. he was fourteen, however, his hy by nature, world fell apart again. “In 2008, Volunteers, staff from the UC he remembers being over- my family went back to Sudan Registrar’s Office, and a WUSC whelmed by the friendliness because there was a bit of peace. coordintaor on student council of the people he met. My mom told me, ‘If you are not are on hand to provide sup- [okay] to remain here, you can port—financial, material, and “WhereS I come from, you keep go back with us,’ and I told her, emotional—and help students your stuff to yourself—especially ‘No, I can manage it here.’” settle in. “When they come, most men,” he explains. “When I of them don’t talk,” says Biel, arrived here, many people had Wise beyond his years, Biel who now mentors two recent never seen someone like me— knew education was key to a arrivals himself. “It’s so hard for my colour… and I’m very tall.” better future for him. “My mum them to open up. It takes a lot He grins. “They were curious, so always taught us to maximize of time. Most people who went they would come up and find whatever opportunities you through that situation—they just out more about me. I think that get. She worked so hard, but want to forget. And if anything made it easier for me—when she never managed to go to comes up to remind them, they someone would come up and university. I must say most of my just shut it off. They either avoid talk, ask questions.” inspiration comes from her.” it or just keep quiet about it.”

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“But the people [at WUSC and UC] are very supportive,” says Biel. “I can share with them when I feel like I want to talk to someone… They make it [easier] for me.”

He worries about his family back in South Sudan, where the fighting continues. “Most of the schools are closed, and there’s nothing for [my siblings] to do all day. When they’re in that environment, anyone can exploit them. They can be recruited.

“There are many [former] child soldiers here in Canada,” he says. “Many are now lawyers, doctors. And if there is peace in Sudan, those people can come home.”

Biel, too, considers returning one day and helping rebuild the country. “I think people will need skills in development, and economics has some models they could use to try to rebuild the economy.”

Like Biel, Stella Mona (BA 2008 UC), now in her mid-30s, fled Sudan with her family as a child. “I left when I was five years old, with my three sisters. We lived in a refugee camp in Kakuma, Kenya. Most of my [young] life was spent there.”

Established in 1991 by the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Refugees, the camp provides education for refugee children, and Mona and her sisters were enrolled. After high school, Mona began teaching in one of the camp’s primary schools, and supported herself and her sisters on her meagre salary of 3000 Kenyan shillings (roughly $50) a month, plus basic foodstuffs supplied by the UN. “That’s all we survived on,” she recalls. “It wasn’t easy.”

She, too, heard about WUSC from a fellow refugee. “I was enrolled in an English course, and they encouraged me to apply.” 02.

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“As refugees, we had to depend on handouts,

he arrived in but now… IMAGE 03. Canada in 2003, when she was She enrolled in gender studies at Stella Mona 21, and the rest of her fam- UC, and remembers the unflag- (BA 2008 UC) ily followed sporadically. “My Now I have ging support she received as she older sister came [to Canada] acclimated to life in Canada. “I Swith WUSC too. She’s living in was linked to the WUSC team Alberta, and my other sister is reclaimed the at UC, who made sure I had in the US. We reunited with everything I needed, that I had my parents, and they’re in the a place to stay. I had financial US, too. right support for my education, and people who were always there “We are scattered all over. whenever I needed anything— That’s what being a refugee to emotional, finances, pointing me does. You can’t plan. You just to the right resources, so I could go wherever you think you’ll succeed. Otherwise I would have be safe.” contribute.” fallen through the cracks.”

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“I immediately linked with my community here, too,” says Changing Lives: Mona, referring to Toronto’s small South Sudanese population. “That’s a place I go back to when A UC faculty pair I need to see people from home. And I can eat South Sudanese and the Syrian family food made by someone else.” She laughs. “I cook, but it’s different when someone else cooks it!” they sponsor

She is currently back at U of T The students of University College fundraising and complex paperwork, doing a master’s degree in social have for years sponsored young to assisting with the family’s daily life work, and like Biel, considers one refugees to live and study among for months on end. Driving them is day returning to South Sudan them (see story, opposite). Now, the simple desire to help. “I couldn’t to apply what she has learned in the midst of a global refugee possibly sit back and just become a here. “Things are not good there crisis, UC faculty members are also couch voyeur of the plight of Syrian yet. Sometimes I think I should stepping in to help. refugees that was reported on the go back and change things, and news daily,” Kamboureli says. other times I think that it will Emily Gilbert, an Associate Professor cross-appointed between the Gilbert’s motivation also relates take years before it changes. The Canadian Studies program and the back to her academic work on conditions have to be suitable Department of Geography and border securitization, “that is, the for someone to thrive. Planning, and Smaro Kamboureli, ways that more and more security Avie Bennett Chair in Canadian measures are being implemented “I’m interested in post-traumatic Literature and Acting Director of at the border. I have strongly stress disorder within refugee the Canadian Studies program, are criticized the closing of borders populations, people who have part of a sponsorship team that because it makes more and more witnessed violence and struggle brought a family of Syrian refugees people vulnerable, and I felt that with the aftermath of war. With to Canada in January of last year. helping a family from Syria come help, you can participate in the to Canada would be an excellent The Al Hilal’s are a family of six- opportunity for me to support more community. If I ever get an op- and-counting—parents Rifaat and open borders,” she says. portunity to go back to Sudan, I Fatma are soon expecting their would like to focus on addressing fifth child, a boy, to join son Modhi, A year-plus in, the refugee- trauma in a meaningful way. 11, and daughters Hala, Maram, sponsor relationship has been and Maryam, aged 9, 6, and 4, transformative for all involved. “It “There’s always hope. I’ve been respectively. Prior to their arrival in wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say through it, and it’s a struggle in- Toronto, they spent five years living that it changed my life,” Kamboureli 03. tegrating and getting the things in Lebanon, displaced from their says. “I have an extended family that you need… But if you get home in Syria. now with all that this involves— the proper support, then you’re bounds of love and anxiety at the Despite these hardships, the same time—but it’s also given me a most likely going to come out children are adjusting well to their very immediate experience of what of the situation. new life. “They’re smart and very it means to be displaced… what it affectionate—lots of hugs and takes to integrate and be accepted, “I’m grateful for the support kisses—and full of energy and the personal and social challenges I’ve had, for the people who precociousness,” Kamboureli says. involved.” Gilbert couldn’t have put money into this whole The family is primarily focused agree more. process [WUSC]. I think it gives on school and learning to read, people who are hopeless the write, and speak in English. Father When asked if they wished to opportunity to become useful, Rifaat, while highly motivated, comment for this story, the Al-Hilal beneficial participants. has had difficulty finding suitable family’s message was simple. employment given his limited English-language skills. “Thank you, Canada.” “As refugees, we had to depend on handouts, but now…” Here If you would like support the The experience has also called for Al-Hilal family, please contact she pauses and fights back tears. hard work and commitment on the [email protected] or “Now I have reclaimed the right part of Gilbert, Kamboureli, and the [email protected]. to contribute.” other sponsors in their group: from — Yvonne Palkowski

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A subjective list of the 10 most Canada’s sesquicentennial offers an opportunity to look back at some pivotal Historyconsequential events in Canadian moments in the country’s development. political history For different observers, different landmarks will stand out. For an Acadian, the AUTHOR deportation of her people by the British Professor Nelson Wiseman in 1755 is of particular significance; for Ukrainian and Japanese Canadians it might be the internments of 1914 and 1942 respectively; for status Indians, there is the Indian Act of 1876, which governs how the federal government interacts with them; for others, it could be the right to vote gained by women in 1920.

Any list of critical landmarks in Canada’s evolution will be subjective. Here is one such list of decisive events. 4

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IMAGE 01. Canada Confederation Medal, Bronze, 1867

image credit Library and Archives Canada 01. The Royal Proclamation of 1763 The Royal Proclamation of 1763 came after France ceded its North American territories to Britain, with the exception of Louisiana west of the Mississippi and two islands near the New- foundland coast. The Proclama- tion established the rules for administration of the territory and set aside North America’s interior for the indigenous peoples. Referred to in the Char- ter of Rights and Freedoms, the Proclamation states that all land Making is Aboriginal land until ceded by treaty to the Crown; it has been termed an “Indian Magna Carta.” The Proclamation directed Qué- 01. bec’s first British Governor to encourage the establishment of numbers of French Canadians wick and Upper Canada. The Protestant schools and churches disliked. The recognition of a Act provided for elected assem- so that the French Canadian continuing French community blies in both Upper and Lower “inhabitants may by degrees be served as a template for the Canada (formerly Québec) induced to embrace the Protes- modus vivendi negotiated later and designated a special status tant religion.” He failed. in the establishment of the for the Church of England by Canadian state. Québec’s reserving a seventh of Crown boundary, which had barely lands for the “Protestant clergy” stretched beyond the Ottawa in those provinces. Reformers, River, was extended southward arguing this was inconsistent to the Ohio River, westward to with the New World’s religious 02. the Mississippi River, and just heterogeneity, secularized the beyond Lake Superior. Church reserves when they later History The Québec Act formed a government. Upper of 1774 Canada’s 1793 statute limiting Britain’s parliament passed the further importation of slaves the Québec Act of 1774 partly is notable as Canada’s first piece out of fear that French Cana- of human rights legislation. dians might ally themselves 03. with the brewing rebellion by British Americans to the south. The Constitutional The Act removed reference to Act of 1791 the Protestant faith from the Britain’s Constitutional Act oath of allegiance, restored the of 1791 came on the heels French civil code for private of the American Revolution, law matters, permitted the which had produced a flood Catholic Church to impose of refugees, the Loyalists, the tithes, and maintained a feudal founding settlers of two new land regime that growing British provinces, New Bruns-

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IMAGE 02. Lock, Frederick W. Young Canada delighted with Responsible Government. In: “Punch in Canada”, Vol. I (1849-1850) p. 9.

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IMAGE 03. The University Rifles, 1866

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02. IMAGE 04. Fifty years of Confederation, 1867-1917

image credit 03. Canada Post Corporation / 04. North American colonies, the Library and Archives British pushed their colonials Canada The Institution to take more responsibility for IMAGE 05. of Responsible their own defence, and the dual Fathers of Government in 1848 ministries in the Province of Confederation, 1867 Canada escaped Europe’s Canada proved to be unstable. revolutions but the two Canadas Pesky raids by Fenians were image credit nonetheless experienced some also unsettling—some 28 Library and Archives Canada bloody unrest in 1837-38, which 04. University College students saw led to institutional evolution: military action and three were responsible government was killed in combat against these instituted in 1848. The Governor Irish-American Catholics, who became obliged, except in sought to seize Canada and use unusual circumstances, to act it to bargain with Britain for on the advice of an executive 05. Ireland’s independence (the drawn from the popularly stained-glass window in East elected legislature. Responsible Confederation in 1867 Hall memorializes the fallen UC government came first to Nova Confederation in 1867 came students). British Governors Scotia in January and spread to after a series of conferences promoted a federal union of the Province of Canada a few among various British North the colonies, business interests months later. It came after the American colonies—the saw union as facilitating their rebellions in the two Canadas Province of Canada, Nova Scotia, expansion into the North-West, led Governor-General Lord New Brunswick, Prince Edward and federalism appealed to Durham to recommend a united Island, and Newfoundland. The the French Canadians for it Province of Canada with a view latter two remained aloof; the promised them a province with to assimilating the French, “a promise of an Inter-Colonial substantial autonomy. people,” in his estimation, “with Railway could do nothing for no literature and no history.” His their island economies. Various design failed. Robert Baldwin interests had been pressing of Canada West and Louis H. Washington to acquire Canada LaFontaine of Canada East, the and the United States had the new designations for Upper largest standing army in the and Lower Canada respectively, world at the end of its Civil War. jointly headed a ministry that The Americans terminated a free signalled an incipient federalism. trade agreement with the British 05.

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IMAGE 06. University College student members of K Company, Queen’s Own Rifles, some of whom served in the North-West Rebellion of 1885 06. image credit The Métis University College Resistance of 1885 Archives After Rupert’s Land and the IMAGE 07. North-Western territory were Chabert, Joseph. transferred to Canada in 1869, Portrait of Louis Riel, 1885. Louis Riel, the founder of Manitoba, led a failed Métis image credit Library and Archives resistance that ended with his Canada flight. In response to pleas by the Métis of the North-West, IMAGE 08. Happy Canadians Riel returned from the United who captured Vimy States and led another resis- 08. Ridge returning to rest tance in 1885 in what is now billets on motor lorries. May 1917. Saskatchewan. A force of some 500 officers of the North-West image credit Department of Mounted Police, which later National Defence / became the Royal Canadian Library and Archives Mounted Police, including Canada 07. some University College students (a photo of them, below, The Battle of Vimy hangs in the College’s Alumni Ridge in 1917 Lounge), put down the North- The 1917 victory at the West rebellion. Riel was tried Battle of Vimy Ridge has and hanged for treason on a entered Canadian mythology Regina scaffold that same year. to symbolize national pride and Prominent statues of him now sacrifice. Fighting together as stand on the grounds of the a distinctive Canadian Corps, Manitoba and Saskatchewan more than 10,000 Canadians legislatures. 07. were killed or wounded. By-products of Canada’s participation in the war effort were the introduction of income tax, Canadian control of Canada’s forces overseas, and membership in the Imperial War Cabinet. The War Cabinet acknowledged Canada as an “autonomous nation” in an Imperial Commonwealth with a “right ... to an adequate voice in foreign policy and in foreign relations.”

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IMAGE 09. William Lyon Mackenzie King (BA 1895 UC) image credit Library and Archives Canada

08. The Statute of Westminster in 1931 The 1931 Statute of Westminster confirmed Canada’s legal independence. The groundwork had been laid during the tenure of prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King (BA 1895 UC) at the Imperial Conference of 1926, which declared that Canada, as a Dominion, was autonomous in its domestic and external affairs. The Statute provided that no British law would henceforth apply to Canada unless Canada’s parliament requested and consented to such a law. On the insistence of some provinces, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, its members drawn from the British House of Lords, continued as the supreme arbiter of Canada’s 1867 Constitution. Moreover, since the federal and provincial governments could not agree on a formula to amend the Constitution, Canada’s parliament continued to have to turn to Britain’s parliament to have its own Constitution amended.

26 — UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE TIMELINE SPRING 2017 Making History uc.utoronto.ca/magazine 09. The Quiet Revolution of the 1960s In 1959, exactly two centuries after Wolfe’s muskets had prevailed on the Plains of Abraham, Québec’s long-time conservative premier Maurice Duplessis died. This opened the gates for the province’s Quiet Revolution, a nationalist revolution with the slogan maître chez nous; Québec’s

finance ministers had always 11. been English and the economy had been dominated by English In patriating Canada’s Canadians and Americans. Constitution in 1982, the The new regime reduced the Charter of Rights and Freedoms influence of the Roman Catholic and a domestic amending clergy and promoted economic formula were added to the 10. country’s constitutional and political modernization. Some industries were The Patriation of the architecture. Equalization nationalized, some new Crown Constitution and the payments to “have not” corporations were created, and Charter of Rights and provinces and Aboriginal a Department of Education was Freedoms in 1982 rights were also entrenched, created. The promotion of the and the courts were directed primacy of the French language to interpret the Charter “in a received special attention. By manner consistent with the steering Québec toward greater preservation and enhancement autonomy, the Quiet Revolution of the multicultural heritage forced the federal government of Canadians.”

and the other provincial Nelson Wiseman is a Professor governments to deal with the of Political Science and the Director of the Canadian Studies program at issue of Québec’s distinctiveness University College. and its special position in Confederation.

IMAGE 10. Québec premier Maurice Duplessis, 1959

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IMAGE 11. Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms,1982

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AUTHOR Graham Fraser (BA 1968 UC) photography Adrian Wyld / Canadian Press

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n December 2016, my mandate as Commissioner of Official Languages came to an end after ten years and two months. IWhile I never could have imag- ined having such a job when I was at University College—the legislation creating the office was passed only in 1969, a year after I graduated, and Keith Spicer, the first commissioner started work in 1970—there is no doubt that my interest in language and French- English relations started when I was at UC. I spent three summers working in Québec, and took Ramsay Cook’s fourth-year semi- nar on French-Canadian history.

But the path to a career in journalism was much more clearly laid out. I wrote for The Gargoyle in first year and was the editor in second year, worked on a campus-wide magazine called Random and was film critic for The Varsity in third year, and was the editor of The Varsity Review in fourth year.

After graduating, I worked first for the Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail at Toronto City Hall, for Maclean’s in Montréal, for The Gazette in Québec City, and for The Globe and Mail in Québec City, Ottawa, Washington, and back in Ottawa before returning to the Star as a feature writer and weekly columnist.

In March of 2006, Sorry, I Don’t Speak French, my book on language policy was published, and a few months later, Dyane Adam’s mandate as Commissioner of Official Languages came to an end. For the first time, the job was posted, and I decided to apply. 4

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In my book, I described Mme. that I would be spending the A similar guide was produced for Adam as “part cheerleader, part beginning of my mandate ex- organizers of celebratory events nag”—and when I got the job, I plaining the new responsibilities for the upcoming 150th anniver- decided that was a handy defini- to federal institutions—and to sary of Confederation. tion of the role. (Staff were not minority language communities. particularly pleased—who wants But there were still controversies to be described as a nag?—and No such luck. Between the time that showed that the nature of came up with an elegant French my appointment was announced Canada’s bilingualism remains translation for the role: “encour- on September 13, 2006 and my misunderstood. When a private ager et déranger,” encourage starting work on October 17, the member’s bill by former New and disturb.) Harper government abolished Democrat MP Yvon Godin, which

“Just as it is difficult to imagine a unilingual Prime Minister or Governor-General, it will soon be difficult to imagine a unilingual Supreme Court Justice.”

The Official Languages Act estab- the Court Challenges Program— would have required Supreme lishes an ambitious set of ideals which, after a significant investiga- Court Judges to be bilingual at and objectives: an equal status tion, I found was in breach of the the time of their appointment, for English and French in federal recently amended Act. The result was supported by the Liberals institutions; continued vitality for was an out-of-court settlement during the minority Harper minority language communities; and the establishment of the Lan- government, the outcry from French and English as the language Rights Support Program. Conservatives and editorialists guage of work in federal institu- was remarkable. Judicial com- tions in designated regions. These There were high points: the petence would be sacrificed to continue to be challenges; over Office did a lot of preparatory political correctness! Expertise the ten years I served in the job, work on the Vancouver Win- would be lost! Discrimination the Office of the Commissioner ter Olympics of 2010, and our would triumph! Lawyers and of Official Languages received intervention helped result in the judges from western and Atlantic more than 7,000 complaints. Games being broadcast across Canada would be deprived of the country in French on the par- their rights! In 2005, Parliament passed a liamentary cable channel, CPAC. bill that required all federal That experience led us to pro- The reaction, ironically, was al- institutions to take positive mea- duce a manual for the organizers most identical to what had been sures to support the growth of major sporting events, which heard in 1969, when the Official and development of minority provided a guide for the organiz- Languages Act was passed, and it language communities. It was ers of the Canada Games in Sher- was claimed that no westerner or only the second time the Act had brooke and Prince George, and Atlantic Canadian would ever be been amended, and I assumed the Pan Am Games in Toronto. able to work for the federal gov-

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ernment, ever again. It ignored difficult to imagine a unilingual When I was at university, I was the fact that Canada’s laws are Prime Minister or Governor- able to learn French working in not translated, but are drafted in General, it will soon be difficult summer job projects in Québec: both official languages—and the to imagine a unilingual Supreme first on an archaeology dig and Supreme Court has the respon- Court Justice. then in a mental health hospi- sibility of deciding which version tal. Now, a half-century later, properly reflects the intention There continue to be challeng- it is important for universities of the legislator. Or the fact that es—it is often difficult for the to recognize that the federal one third of the provincial refer- travelling public to get service government is Canada’s largest ences come from Québec, where in both languages at borders, in employer and that mastery of all the documentation and airports, and on Air Canada— Canada’s two official languages

“It is important for universities to recognize that the federal government is Canada’s largest employer and that mastery of Canada’s two official languages is a crucial leadership competency.”

arguments have been done in but public support for Canada’s is a crucial leadership com- French. Or the fact that a single language policy is dramatically petency—not just for Prime unilingual Anglophone judge different from what it was when Ministers and Supreme Court means that the Francophone I was at UC, from 1964 to 1968. judges, but for anyone seeking judges are required to work in to understand the country as their second languages—an In 1967, a strong minority (46.6 a whole and to work in public injustice that was at the heart of percent) felt it would not be life. This year, 2017, is an ideal the reasoning behind the intro- possible for Canada to achieve time for universities to meet duction of the Official Languages recognition of both French and that challenge. Act in the first place. English in all provinces, while Graham Fraser is an author and a slim minority (50.2 per cent) journalist who served as Canada’s When the Liberal government agreed it would be possible. A Commissioner of Official Languages from 2006 to 2016. He received the UC elected in 2015 announced that decade later, in 1977, only 26 Alumni of Influence Award in 2016. A longer version of this piece appeared subsequent Supreme Court percent of Canadians outside in the Literary Review of Canada. nominees would be bilingual, Québec concurred with the state- some of the same arguments were ment, “I agree with or support repeated. The issue vanished the principle of bilingualism.” when Newfoundlander Malcolm Rowe was appointed in 2016 and Now, as a 2016 poll shows, the demonstrated that he was just vast majority of Canadians—88 as witty and articulate in French percent—support the Official as he was in English. Just as it is Languages Act and official bilingualism.

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IMAGE 01. Clark, F. Aboriginal children on the way to Hay River Residential School, Northwest Territories, 1931.

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AUTHOR Professor John Marshall

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hen Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie spoke last August about “people way up north” and “what’s going on up there,” he helped draw attention to the long work of Canada’s Truth and Recon- ciliation Committee (TRC) and the longer history of residential schools in Canada. Though he faced some criticism for the

01. habitual language of distance, Downie knows better and his work shows it.

Part of the truth that is essential to any possibility of reconciliation is understanding what went on “here”—wherever we are in Canada. My teaching this year focused on method and theory in the study of religion and I ended both of my gradu- ate seminars with readings from the summary report of the TRC and with some reflection on the very building—University Col- lege—in which I was teaching and what went on there. Under- standing the relation of UC to Canada’s Indigenous communities is a large task, larger than I can communicate in a short article, and much larger than my skills can address, but this

article presents a few brief sound- ings into University College’s relation to Indigenous communities and residential schools. It is only a beginning. 4

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Once UC was up and running in IMAGE 02. Isaac Stringer the mid-nineteenth century, it (BA 1891 UC) “PART OF produced scholars, leaders, and citizens for the Dominion of Can- Image Credit ada. University College was also University of THE TRUTH THAT a feeder for the nascent gradu- Toronto Archives, ate and professional programs A1977-0049/002(30)

of the province. Close relations IMAGE 03. IS ESSENTIAL with both the medical school of Aboriginal school children, Mission at the University of Toronto and Hay River, Northwest TO ANY with the evangelical, Anglican Territories, 1925 Wycliffe College were part of Image Credit the ethos of the College in its Library and Archives POSSIBILITY OF first seventy years. Three figures Canada illustrate the fruit of those rela- IMAGE 04. tions with regard to residential Cecil Harcourt RECONCILIATION schools: Isaac Stringer (BA (BA 1915 UC) 02. 1891 UC), Cecil Harcourt Image Credit Our beloved building was, from (BA 1915 UC), and Peter Hen- University of its beginnings, in part a reaction IS (BA 1876 UC). Toronto Archives, derson Bryce A1973-0026/137(80) to denominational and secularist quarrels over how to spend the UNDERSTANDING Isaac Stringer was the record- money from land endowments ing secretary of the UC Liter- known as “clergy reserves.” As ary and Athletic Society (UC British colonial government WHAT WENT Lit) in 1890-91, and went on gathered more and more land, to study at Wycliffe College. At a portion of it was reserved for Wycliffe, Stringer volunteered the support of the clergy and ON ‘HERE’— for mission to the western Arc- large portions of that were des- tic and laboured for the rest of ignated for the support of edu- his life among the people he cation in the province. In some WHEREVER and others then called Eskimos, ways, UC is large so that funds becoming eventually bishop of raised from land designated WE ARE IN the Yukon. He is famous—com- for clergy support and specifi- memorated in folk songs, glow- cally education would find ma- ing biographies, websites, and terial form that denominations CANADA.” apparently a film in production could no longer squabble over. on his harrowing journeys in This land, these reserves, are all the Arctic. On the eightieth an- in the long run land acquired niversary of the UC Lit, written through the mixture of treaty, up in the Undergraduate Maga- conquest, possession, and claim zine, Stringer was included in a that constituted the colonial set- short list of a dozen influential tlement of British North America. alumni including prime min- We cannot forget this. isters Arthur Meighen (BA 1896 UC) and MacKenzie King (BA 1895 UC), and the premier Howard Ferguson (BA 1891 UC). Stringer was also the founder of Shingle Point in the high Arctic, a residential school with endemic problems of sanitation and crippling outbreaks of influenza. The Shingle Point school began as a primitive facility and never grew far beyond that state. 03. 04.

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IMAGE 05. Cecil Harcourt went to Jarvis Peter Henderson Bryce (BA 1876 UC) Collegiate, next to UC, and then Wycliffe College to prepare for Image Credit the Anglican ministry. Even University College while at UC he played for the Creating Archives Wycliffe rugby team, knowing that Wycliffe was his destination and that UC was the proper prep- Dialogue aration. University College’s crest remains fixed in stained glass in In the spirit of reconcilia- Wycliffe’s Leonard Library, at- tion, one donor is helping to connect current students testing to the well worn path and Indigenous youth. from one College to another. Cathy Lace has made a Harcourt followed Alfred Vale $25,000 pledge towards (BA 1905 UC) as principal of the an exchange project that Hay River residential school on will allow students enrolled the shores of Great Slave Lake, in UC’s Health Studies one of the key islands in the An- program to engage with glican northwest archipelago of Indigenous youth in a First residential schools. Nations community.

Lace, who is passionate Peter Henderson Bryce started 05. about health, made the gift at UC and finished with a medi- tions and assumptions with re- in honour of her mother, cal degree from U of T. He was a gard to First Nations in Canada. the late Barbara Lynne public servant and an advocate It is unlikely that they would (Caldwell) Lace (BA 1936 of public health employed by fully model a relationship that UC), who passed away in the federal department of the we would now conceive as just 2014 at the age of 98. interior. His 1907 report was and fair. sharply critical of health con- The goals of the exchange ditions in residential schools, Many other topics deserve are to connect Indigenous and non-Indigenous stu- documenting shockingly high deeper scrutiny—rigorous, un- dents as equals, to educate annual mortality rates from tu- flinching, and yet not without students about Indigenous berculosis. The report was largely sympathy for the alterity that health knowledge, and to suppressed, Bryce’s calls for ac- distance entails: early native raise awareness about struc- tion ignored, and his research students, the research of for- tural issues creating health funding terminated. After his mer UC and U of T president and wellness challenges in retirement, Bryce published an Sir Daniel Wilson into “prehis- First Nations communities. account based on his research toric man,” teaching at UC on indicting the government of First Nations in Canada, arti- “This is a step in what I hope Canada for the deplorable condi- facts owned by the College, the becomes an ongoing process of assisting students tions in residential schools. The paths of our recent and current to engage with Indigenous University of Toronto honours Indigenous students, the specif- communities and develop Bryce today in the name of the ic history of the land on which a deeper understanding Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for we live and work. Committing of how to integrate the Indigenous Health, and he was to learn about these crucial top- lessons from the Truth and named one of UC’s Alumni of ics is a task that lies before us, Reconciliation Commis- Influence in 2015. and one to which I anticipate sion in the development of our commitment. public policy,” Lace says. These are simply quick sketches of three figures who brought John Marshall is the Vice-Principal The first trip is tentatively of University College and an Associate scheduled for November their formation at UC to bear Professor in the Department for the Study of Religion. and will see students stay at on the project of residential the partner community, Six schools. My treatment is su- Nations of the Grand River, perficial, and it will take more for one week. work, more luck, and more skill

to look further into their inten- —Yvonne Palkowski

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Class Notes

IMAGE 01. News from classmates Rosalie Abella near and far (BA 1967 UC)

IMAGE 02. Ed Clark (BA 1969 UC)

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IMAGE 03. David Cronenberg (BA 1967 UC)

IMAGE 04. Frank Shuster (BA 1939 UC)

IMAGE 05. Johnny Wayne (BA 1940 UC) 04. 01. Canadian Supreme Court Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella (BA 1967 UC) was 02. named Global Jurist of the Former TD Bank Group CEO Year by Northwestern Pritzker and UC Alumni of Influence School of Law’s Center for honouree Ed Clark (BA 1969 International Human Rights. UC) received the inaugural The citation states: “Justice Icon Award from the Canadian Abella has stood throughout Gay and Lesbian Chamber of her judicial career for the Commerce, for his exceptional enforcement of human rights contributions to the advance- principles for all Canadians, ment of the LGBT community. regardless of their gender, ethnicity, or station in life.”

She received the UC Alumni of 05. Influence Award in 2012. and Johnny Wayne (BA 1940 UC) have been named to the Howard Adelman (BA 1960 UC), Professor Emeritus of Phi- Toronto International Film losophy at York University, was Festival’s list of 150 Essential named a Member of the Order Works in Canadian Cinema His- of Canada, for his pioneering tory. Cronenberg’s filmsDead work on refugee studies. Ringers (1988) and Videodrome (1983), as well as Kotcheff’s The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz Corporate consultant Shari (1974), were selected in the Austen (BA 1983 UC) was appointed to the board of feature category, while Wayne directors of Medavie Health and Shuster’s The Wayne and Foundation. Shuster Hour (1952) was singled 03. out in television. Cronenberg, Wayne, and Shuster were hon- Works by David Cronenberg oured with the UC Alumni of (BA 1967 UC), Ted Kotcheff Influence Award in 2012. (BA 1952 UC), Frank Shuster (BA 1939 UC), 36 — UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE Class Notes SPRING 2017 News from Alumni uc.utoronto.ca/magazine

IMAGE 06. Ron Daniels (BA 1982 UC)

IMAGE 07. Flight and Refuge: Reminiscences of a Motely Youth by Josef Esinger (BA 1947 UC)

IMAGE 08. Ross Castle Murders by Charlotte Fielden (BA 1955 UC)

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Charlotte Fielden (BA 1955 UC) published Ross Castle Murders (CFM Books, 2016). Her fourth mystery novel and fifteenth book, it tells a gothic 06. story about blood sports. Higher education leader Ron Daniels (BA 1982 UC), Vincent Galifi (BCom 1982 a former dean of the Faculty of UC) was appointed to the Law at U of T and the current board of directors of CCL President of Johns Hopkins Industries, the largest label University, was named a Mem- company in the world. ber of the Order of Canada. He received the UC Alumni of Ira Gluskin (BCom 1964 UC) Influence Award in 2012. was appointed to the board of directors of Tricon Capital Group Inc. He won the UC Alumni of Influence Award in 2012.

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Josef Eisinger (BA 1947 UC), Professor Emeritus at the Mount Sinai School of Medi- cine, New York, published Flight and Refuge: Reminiscences of a Motley Youth, a memoir of his student years which also con- tains some little-known aspects of Canadian wartime history.

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In honour of his late wife, Pearl, IMAGE 09. James Grier Paul Marcus (BA 1983 UC) (BA 1977 UC) organized “Pearls of Wisdom,” a mentoring brunch held last IMAGE 10. Linda Hutcheon fall which raised $165,000 for (BA 1969 UC) chemotherapy research. IMAGE 11. Lorne Michaels Carlota McAllister (BA 1966 UC) is given (BA 1991 UC), an Associate the 2016 Presidential Medal of Freedom by Professor of Anthropology at former US president York University, was awarded Barack Obama a Faculty Fellowship at the image credit Charles Warren Center for Andrew Harnik / Studies in American History Associated Press at Harvard University. 09.

James Grier (BA 1977 UC), Professor of Music History at the University of Western Ontario, has been elected to the Royal Society of Canada, one of the nation’s highest academic honour. He is an expert in textual criticism and editing music, music and liturgy in medieval Aquitaine, and popular music since World War II.

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Linda Hutcheon (BA 1969 UC), University Professor Emer- 11. itus of English and Comparative Lorne Michaels (BA 1966 Literature at the University UC) was honoured with the of Toronto, has been recog- 2016 Presidential Medal of nized with the Royal Society of Freedom, the highest civilian Canada’s Lorne Pierce Medal, honour in the United States. for achievements in critical lit- The creator and executive erature which have transformed producer of Saturday Night Live, our understanding of Canadian he received the UC Alumni of identity. She received the UC Influence Award in 2012. Alumni of Influence Award in 2012.

Richard Lee (BA 1959 UC), Professor Emeritus of Anthro- pology at U of T, was named an Officer of the Order of Canada for advancing our understanding of hunter-gatherer cultures. He received the UC Alumni of Influence Award in 2012. 38 — UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE Class Notes SPRING 2017 News from Alumni uc.utoronto.ca/magazine

IMAGE 12. Hal Niedzviecki (BA 2005 UC) image credit Nick Kozak

IMAGE 13. The Archaeologists by Hal Niedzviecki (BA 2005 UC)

IMAGE 14. Michael Ondaatje (BA 1965 UC)

IMAGE 15. Anand Parsan 15. (BCom 1995 UC) Anand Parsan (BCom 1995 IMAGE 16. Douglas Scott UC) was appointed Senior Vice- Proudfoot President, Executive Compensa- (BA 1981 UC) 12. tion, at Accompass Inc.

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Diplomat Douglas Scott Proudfoot (BA 1981 UC) was appointed Canadian Represen- tative to the Palestinian Author-

13. ity in Ramallah.

Hal Niedzviecki (BA 2005 Globe and Mail science reporter UC) published The Archaeolo- Ivan Semeniuk (BSc 1988 gists (ARP Books, 2016). The UC) won the Sandford Fleming novel is set in a fictional sub- Medal for outstanding contribu- 14. urban city and explores issues tion to the public’s understand- around post-colonial identity in Acclaimed novelist Michael ing of science. the age of isolation and sprawl. Ondaatje (BA 1965 UC), author of The English Patient and Hin Shek Wong (BCom 1994 Louis Naumovski (BA 1978 In the Skin of a Lion, was named UC) was appointed to the board UC) was appointed to the board a Companion of the Order of of directors of Dongwu Cement of Amur Minerals Corporation. Canada. He received the UC International Ltd. Alumni of Influence Award in 2012. UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE — 39 Nota Bene SPRING 2017 Campus News uc.utoronto.ca/magazine

The UC community recognized IMAGE 01. UC Principal Donald some of its most distinguished Ainslie (R) presents an graduates at the fifth annual award to Professor Tashi UC Alumni of Influence Rabgey (BA 1992 UC) at the 2016 Alumni of Awards gala on November 16, Influence Awards gala 2016 at Hart House. Master of Nota Bene image credit ceremonies Rona Maynard Stephanie Coffey (1972 UC) described the 17 honourees as “change-makers of IMAGE 02. Campus News Hume’s True Scepticism the first order.”D avid Palmer, by UC Principal Donald Vice-President, Advancement, Ainslie represented the University image credit while Arthur Potts (BA 1982 Oxford University Press UC), MPP for Beaches-East York, brought greetings from the IMAGE 03. Professor Emily Gilbert Government of Ontario.

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a l s o p u b l i s h e d by DONALD C. AINSLIE is a Professor OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Some of the College’s brightest 2 of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, where he also serves as Principal of Ideas, Evidence, and Method students were honoured at the University College. He is interested in all Hume’s Skepticism and Naturalism aspects of Hume’s philosophy, as well as concerning Knowledge and Causation in early modern philosophy more broadly; Graciela De Pierris UC recep- Ainslie he is the co-editor of The Cambridge Academic Awards Companion03. to Hume’s Treatise. He also Reflecting Subjects David Hume is famous as a sceptical philosopher but the nature of his scepticism is teaches and publishes in bioethics. Passion, Sympathy, and Society tiondifficult on to pinJanuary down. Hume’s True Scepticism 31, provides the2017 first sustained ininterpretation in Hume’s Philosophy of Part 4 of Book 1 of Hume’s Treatise, his deepest engagement with sceptical Jacqueline Taylor arguments. Hume notes there that, while reason shows that we ought not to believe HUME’S TRUE SCEPTICISM Emily Gilbert, an Associate Westthe verdictsHall. of reason Principalor the senses, we do so nonetheless. Don Donald C. Ainslieal arguesd The Secret Connexion that Hume uses our reactions to the sceptical arguments as evidence in favour of his Causation, Realism, and David Hume: model of the mind. If we were self-conscious subjects, superintending our rational Professor in the Department of Revised Edition Ainsland sensoryie beliefs, spoke nothing should stopof us from the embracing impor the sceptical conclusions.- Galen Strawson But instead our minds are bundles of perceptions with our beliefs being generated, Geography and Planning and tancenot by ofreflective recognizing assent, but by the imagination’s association academic of ideas. We are not forced into the sceptical quagmire. Nonetheless, we can reflect and philosophy uses this capacity to question whether we should believe our instinctive rational a UC faculty member, has been achievement,and sensory verdicts. It turns outwhile that we cannot answerscholarship this question because the reflective investigation of the mind interferes with the associative processes involved in reason and sensation. We thus must accept our rational and sensory awarded a Jackman Humani- supportercapacities without beingM ablear to vindicatek Bonh or undermine themam philosophically. (BA Hume’s True Scepticism addresses Hume’s theory of representation; his criticisms 1982of Locke,UC) Descartes, addressed and other predecessors; his account the of the imagination; more his ties Institute Faculty Research understanding of perceptions and sensory belief; and his bundle theory of the mind thanand 200his later rejection students, of it. donors, and Fellowship for 2017-18 for friends in attendance. Approxi- her project, Reparations and mately 230 admission and 620 HUME’S TRUE Reconciliation: From Accounting Jacket image: Narcissus, 1728, by Francois Lemoyne. Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany/Bridgeman Images. in-course awards totaling over 2 SCEPTICISM to Accountability? $575,0001 were distributedISBN 978-0-19- 959386to-6 UC students in 2016-17.9 7801 99 593866 Donald C. Ainslie Students, faculty, and members of the Asian Canadian com- 02. Author André Alexis, the munity gathered for Envi- 2016-17 Barker Fairley Distin- University College Principal sioning Chinese Canadian guished Visitor in Canadian and Professor of Philosophy Studies: A Conversation Studies at UC, won the Wind- Donald Ainslie received the About Community-Engaged ham-Campbell Prize, one of the 2016 Journal of the History of Teaching and Research on world’s richest literary prizes for Philosophy prize for the best February 8, 2017 at the Fac- a body of work. He previously book in the history of phi- ulty Club. Professor Lisa Mar, won the Giller Prize and the losophy published in 2015, for Richard Charles Lee Chair in Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Hume’s True Scepticism (Oxford Chinese Canadian Studies at Prize for his novel Fifteen Dogs. University Press, 2015). UC, gave introductory remarks,

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IMAGE 04. Professor Lisa Mar speaks at the Envisioning Chinese Canadian Studies panel discussion image credit Stephanie Coffey

IMAGE 05. Professor Geoffrey Hinton image credit Johnny Guatto 04.

IMAGE 06. Professor Anne while Professor Smaro Kam- Lancashire boureli, Avie Bennett Chair in Canadian Literature and Acting IMAGE 07. Professor Smaro Director of Canadian Studies, Kamboureli moderated a panel discussion featuring scholars from the Richard Charles Lee namesake initiatives across the University, including the Richard Charles Lee Directorship at the Asian Institute in the Munk School of

Global Affairs, and the Rich- 05. ard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library. The Honour- able Vivienne Poy, retired Canadian Senator and U of T chancellor emerita, brought greetings from the family of the late Dr. Richard Charles Lee.

University Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, Google Engineering Fellow, and UC faculty member emeritus Geoffrey Hinton has been honoured with the BBVA Foun- 06. dation Frontiers Award in information and communications University College faculty technology for his pioneering members Smaro Kamboureli work in machine learning. and Anne Lancashire were appointed to the Royal Society of Canada. The citation % describes Kamboureli, a Professor in the Department This summer, the University of Toronto will host of English and Avie Bennett its first-ever dramatic arts immersion program: the Chair of Canadian Literature, International Summer Theatre Program. The as “one of the foremost experts 07. three-week program is based at UC and gives high in Canadian literary studies” school students an in-depth introduction to many whose research has effected facets of the theatre arts, while exposing them to “a major paradigm shift in the Canada’s rich multicultural landscape. It includes field.” Lancashire, a Professor daily workshops with acclaimed Toronto theatre Emeritus of English, is described artists, daily English language classes, and regular as “the foremost international outings to theatre performances, concerts, and expert on theatrical activities cultural events. The program will run from in London for the centuries July 15 to August 5, 2017. For more information, preceding Shakespeare.” please visit summerdrama.utoronto.ca. UC ALUMNI MAGAZINE — 41 Nota Bene SPRING 2017 Campus News uc.utoronto.ca/magazine

IMAGE 08. Professor Scott Mabury

IMAGE 09. UC Vice-Principal John Marshall (centre) with UC students

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IMAGE 10. Frontier City: Toronto on the Verge of Greatness by UC One Instructor Shawn Micallef

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Scott Mabury, a Professor of Chemistry and UC faculty member, has been reappointed Vice-President, University Operations, and Vice-Provost, Academic Operations, at the University of Toronto.

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John Marshall has been Toronto Star columnist, reappointed Vice-Principal of UC One instructor, and University College for a three- urbanist Shawn Micallef year term starting July 1, 2017. has published Frontier City: An Associate Professor in the Toronto on the Verge of Greatness Department for the Study of (Penguin Random House, 2017). Religion, he is an expert in the history of early Christianity. He has served as Vice-Principal of University College since 2012, presiding over academic and curricular matters for UC’s interdisciplinary undergraduate programs, as well as coordinating the College’s foundation program, UC One: Engaging Toronto.

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IMAGE 11. Laura Nanni (BA 2003 UC) image credit Tanja Tiziana

IMAGE 12. Nadia Ross image credit JP Campbell

IMAGE 13. Miriam Toews image credit Random House of Canada

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Miriam Toews, author of All My Puny Sorrows and the Barker Fairley Distinguished Visitor in Canadian Studies at University College in 2015-16, has been awarded the $50,000 Writers’ Trust Fellowship.

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Laura Nanni (BA 2003 UC) was recognized with the Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Perfor- mance Studies’ inaugural Push Forward Award for achievement in theatre/performance art, history, theory, administration, and teaching. Nanni is an alumna of the undergraduate drama program at UC and was recently appointed Artistic and Managing Director of the Sum- merWorks Performance Festival, Canada’s largest curated performance festival of theatre, dance, music and live art.

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Nadia Ross (BA 1986 Victoria College), an alumna of the University College drama program, won the 2016 Siminovitch Prize for theatrical innovation, Canada’s richest theatre award.

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IMAGE 01. UC student Sameer Rai image credit Breathing Nadia Molinari Construction is slated to begin in late summer on the University IMAGE 02. New Life UC student Felipe College Revitalization project, Vicencio-Heap provided the College meets its fundraising targets. The ambitious image credit into Our Nadia Molinari plan will transform the heart of our Home magnificent building into a modern, functional space for generations of students to come. 02. The plans including moving the “I was extremely happy UC Library back to its historic to see my friends home in East Hall, with the West and colleagues come Hall reborn as the Clark Family together to ensure Reading Room; adding access future generations of UC ramps and a central elevator to students have modern make UC more truly accessible and accessible spaces on to everyone; and creating a campus. Many of us who state-of-the-art meeting and voted in favour of the reception facility, the Paul Cadario levy will have graduated Conference Centre at Croft by the time the project is Chapter House. complete, and I am truly inspired that the majority The final plans, drawn by Kohn of students were able to Shnier Architects in partnership think beyond themselves with heritage specialists ERA and about UC’s future.” Architects, were approved by the —Felipe Vicencio-Heap University of Toronto’s Governing Council in February. In a tremendous show of commit- Construction updates and related ment, the students of University closures will appear in this space and College have voted in favour of a in real time on the UC website at levy to support the revitalization of uc.utoronto.ca. the historic building that they call home. In a referendum held last To support the UC Revitalization spring, UC students approved an in- or for more information, please visit crease to their ancillary fees that will boundless.utoronto.ca/uc. raise $2 million over 20 years toward the improvement of student spaces around the College. The gesture is particularly striking in light of rising tuition fees and the fact that many supporters of the levy will have moved on from the College by the time the spaces are refurbished. 01.

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Remembering Rose Wolfe (BA 1938 UC) Larger-than-life personality and beloved University citizen passes away at the age of 100

AUTHOR Yvonne Palkowski

Rose Senderowitz was born in Wolfe House in the Morrison IMAGE 01. Rose Wolfe as Toronto on August 7, 1916 to a Hall Residence at UC is named a student family of Romanian immigrants after her, and she was presented who owned a small bakery in with the UC Alumni of Influence image credit University College Kensington market. She studied Award in 2012. Archives sociology at the University of Toronto, earning a diploma in Former UC Principal Sylvia IMAGE 02. L-R: UC Principal social work in 1940, and was Bashevkin remembers: “In my Donald Ainslie, married that same year. The many experiences with Rose Chancellor Emerita Rose Wolfe (BA 1938 loving wife of the late Ray Wolfe that extended from University UC), and former U and beloved mother and mother- of Toronto business to warm of T President David in-law of Elizabeth, Jonathan, and friendship, I found that her Naylor (1974 UC) at Ainslie’s installation, Amal, she had four grandchildren. diminutive physical stature was 2011 vastly eclipsed by her energy, Wolfe had a long association with insight, and determination.” image credit University College 01. U of T, serving on Governing Archives Council in the 1970s and as Wolfe was also known for IMAGE 03. chancellor in the 1990s, as well her work in the community, Chancellor Emerita as on various committees and particularly with the Canadian Rose Wolfe (R) with campaigns. She established the Jewish Congress and the Jewish the Dalai Lama on the occasion of his Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Family and Child Services, honorary degree, 2004 Chair in Holocaust Studies, and where she helped find homes was a visitor at Massey College. for Jewish children displaced image credit Office of the President, by World War II. University of Toronto In recognition of her service, the University of Toronto She was inducted into the Alumni Association established Order of Canada in 1999. the Rose Wolfe Distinguished The citation describes her Alumni Award, Massey College as “a defender of social justice, named a stained-glass window whose extensive and tireless in her honour, and in 1998, the involvement with many boards University bestowed on her an and committees has made her a honorary doctors of laws. dynamic contributor to society.”

At her alma mater University She passed away on December 02. College, Rose imbued the role 30, 2016 at the age of 100, and of UC Distinguished Alumna is sorely missed by the countless with her characteristic vitality. individuals she touched.

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In Memoriam

Notices of death published in this issue were received between July 1 and December 31, 2016. Date of death, last known residence, and maiden name (if applicable) are noted where possible. Friends and family of the deceased can help by sending information to [email protected].

1930s Mrs. Bernice E. (Bishop) Hines (BA 1949 UC) Prof. Thelma (Green) Finlayson (BA 1936 UC) of Toronto, ON; Nov. 5, 2016 of Burnaby, BC; Sept. 15, 2016 Mrs. Mary E. (Wright) Howson (BA 1947 UC) Mrs. Laura M. (Wilkin) MacDonald (BA 1939 UC) of Toronto, ON; Sept. 16, 2016 of Kincardine, ON; Jul. 27, 2016 Mrs. Norah E. James-Robertson (BA 1943 UC) Mr. William Prest (BCom 1939 UC) of Worcester, Great Britain; Oct. 4, 2016 of Nepean, ON; Nov. 3, 2016 Mrs. Barbara J. (Tough) Jones (BA 1947 UC) Mrs. Margaret S. (Large) Preston (1938 UC) of Toronto, ON; Sept. 3, 2016 of Mississauga, ON; Aug. 29, 2016 Prof. R. Brian Land (BA 1949 UC) Mr. Raymond W. Rae (BA 1938 UC) of Guelph, ON; Nov. 26, 2016 of Bangkok, Thailand; Aug. 11, 2016 Mrs. Margaret J. (Magee) McLaughlin (BA 1946 UC) Mrs. Carolyn (Wesley) Tinsley (BA 1938 UC) of Etobicoke, ON; Nov. 6, 2016 of San Rafael, CA; Nov 21, 2016 Mr. Frederick B. Newton (1947 UC) Dr. Rose (Senderowitz) Wolfe (BA 1938 UC) of Toronto, ON; Nov. 7, 2016 of Toronto, ON; Dec. 30, 2016 Mrs. Marion L. (Berry) Park (1945 UC) of Markham, ON; Nov. 8, 2016 1940s Mr. Leonard A. Phenix (1946 UC) Mrs. Diane (Lowen) Adam (BA 1949 UC) of Toronto, ON; Sept. 27, 2016 of Etobicoke, ON; Aug. 8, 2016 Dr. Melvin A. Preston (BA 1942 UC) Rabbi Rudolph Adler (BA 1946 UC) of Hamilton, ON; Nov. 2, 2016 of Orlando, FL; Sept. 19, 2016 Miss Marion C. Ross (BA 1942 UC) Dr. Neil M. Agnew (BA 1947 UC) of West Vancouver, BC; Oct. 11, 2016 of Newmarket, ON; Sept. 27, 2016 Mr. Nicholas R. Sajatovic (BA 1949 UC) Mrs. Reina I. (Faed) Armstrong (BCom 1940 UC) of Lively, ON; Sept. 4, 2016 of Toronto, ON; Sept. 28, 2016 Mrs. Alice Y. (Martin) Sheffield (BA 1947 UC) Dr. Edward L. Bousfield (BA 1948 UC) of Oshawa, ON; Oct. 16, 2016 of Mississauga, ON; Sept. 7, 2016 The Rev. Dr. Reginald Stackhouse (BA 1946 UC) Mr. Paul Bozowsky (BA 1949 UC) of Toronto, ON; Dec. 14, 2016 of Toronto, ON; Oct. 27, 2016 Mrs. June K. (Lawford) Stewart (BA 1946 UC) Mr. George L. Campbell (BA 1948 UC) of Burlington, ON; Oct. 26, 2016 of Stratford, ON; Dec. 1, 2016 Mr. Alvin M. Taylor (BCom 1949 UC) Mrs. Marjorie E. (Drake) Corker (BA 1947 UC) of Waterloo, ON; Oct. 1, 2016 of Baden, ON; Jul. 15, 2016 Mr. Kelvin S. Thompson (BA 1949 UC) Mary L. Dickinson (BA 1944 UC) of Ottawa, ON; Oct. 18, 2016 of Etobicoke, ON; Dec. 2016 Mrs. Jean (Stevenson) van der Tak (BA 1948 UC) Dr. Calvin C. Gotlieb (BA 1942 UC) of Washington, DC; Jul. 27, 2016 of Toronto, ON; Oct. 16, 2016 Ms. Sylvia T. (Truster) Wargon (BA 1946 UC) Mrs. Betty Louise (Upper) Grant (BScN 1949 UC) of North York, ON; Sept. 11, 2016 of Minden, ON; Sept. 1, 2016 Mr. Alfred E. Wecksler (BCom 1949 UC) Mrs. Mary E. (McCreery) Grundy (BA 1943 UC) of Rochester, NY; Nov. 7, 2016 of Arnprior, ON; Sept. 29, 2016 Mr. Jack Hershoran (BCom 1940 UC) of Toronto, ON; Nov. 25, 2016 Dr. Arthur G. Hiller (BA 1947 UC) of Beverly Hills, CA; Aug. 17, 2016

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1950s Mr. John R. Bousfield (BA 1951 UC) of Toronto, ON; Nov. 22, 2016 Mr. Peter E. Brodey (BA 1951 UC) of Toronto, ON; Jul. 19, 2016 Mrs. Dorothy C. (Webb) Canzona (BA 1958 UC) of Oakville, ON; Dec. 21, 2016 Mr. Murray H. Chusid (BA 1953 UC) of Willowdale, ON; Aug. 16, 2016 Mr. Norman I. Cowan (BA 1957 UC) of Peterborough, ON; Dec. 5, 2016 Mr. John. M. Duggan (BA 1950 UC) of Ottawa, ON; Oct. 18, 2016 Mr. Edward J. Follows (BA 1950 UC) of Kitchener, ON; Oct. 21, 2016 Mr. James Graham (BA 1950 UC) of Edmonton, AB; Jul. 5, 2016 Dr. Christopher Helleiner (BA 1952 UC) of Halifax, NS; Oct. 18, 2016 Mr. Harold G. Hubbell (BA 1950 UC) of Peterborough, ON; Sept. 23, 2016 Mrs. Elizabeth J. (McCormick) Karrow (BA 1957 UC) of Waterloo, ON; Dec. 18, 2016 Mrs. Marcia (Ruskin) Latowsky (BA 1957 UC) of North York, ON; Nov. 6, 2016 Mrs. Adrienne C. (Wheaton) Miller (BA 1951 UC) of Niagara Falls, NY; Aug. 8, 2016 Dr. Romas Mitalas (BA 1957 UC) of London, ON; Nov. 30, 2016 Professor Emeritus Calvin Gotlieb (BA 1942 Mr. Milton J. Mowbray (BA 1950 UC) UC) passed away on October 16, 2016 at the age of of Toronto, ON; Jul. 7, 2016 95. Known as the father of computing in Canada, Mr. Trevor W. Owen (BCom 1950 UC) of Port Credit, ON; Nov. 27, 2016 he was the inaugural director of the Department The Rev. Mary (Barnett) Ranger (BA 1956 UC) of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. of Orangeville, ON; Dec. 28, 2016 He was inducted into the Order of Canada in 1996, Dr. John Romanko (BA 1951 UC) and was honoured with the University College of Houston, TX; Oct. 26, 2016 Dr. Rheta A. (Rivelis) Rosen (BA 1952 UC) Alumni of Influence Award in 2012. of Toronto, ON; Aug. 22, 2016 Dr. G. M. Ruckerbauer (BA 1951 UC) of Nepean, ON; Nov. 1, 2016 Dr. Orest H. T. Rudzik (BA 1957 UC) of Oakville, ON; Dec. 8, 2016 Mr. Victor Solnicki (BA 1958 UC) of Toronto, ON; Sept. 14, 2016 Mrs. Sarah M. (Sheinin) Staum (BA 1956 UC) of Calgary, AB; Sept. 30, 2016 Mr. John E. C. Warren (BA 1953 UC) of Eldora, CO; Aug. 6, 2016

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1960s Mr. Elmer E. Carr (BA 1961 UC) of Port Perry, ON; Aug. 14, 2016 Miss Nina Chyz (BA 1960 UC) of Toronto, ON; Aug. 23, 2016 Mr. Frank G. Felkai Q.C. (BA 1965 UC) of Toronto, ON; Jul. 29, 2016 Mr. Stephen E. Fienberg (BSc 1964 UC) of Pittsburgh, PA; Dec. 14, 2016 Mr. Leonard J. Klebanoff (BSc 1961 UC) of North York, ON; Oct. 10, 2016 Mr. George C. Kouwenhoven (BA 1967 UC) of Richmond Hill, ON; Nov. 30, 2016 Dr. Rotraud Lister (BA 1962 UC) of Kitchener, ON; Sept. 3, 2016 Prof. Gerald H. Vise (BA 1960 UC) of Toronto, ON; Oct. 29, 2016 LCdr. Richard T. Wilson (BSc 1961 UC) of Toronto, ON; Oct. 10, 2016

1970s Ms. Athena M. Dunn (BA 1972 UC) of Newmarket, ON; Sept. 19, 2016 Mr. David Louis (BCom 1970 UC) of Toronto, ON; Sept. 16, 2016 University of Toronto benefactor Dr. Russell Dr. Ezra Lwowski (BSc 1972 UC) Morrison (MA 1947 U of T) (LLD 2004 U of of Thornhill, ON; Sept. 30, 2016 T) passed away on October 3, 2016 at the age Mr. Richard J. Morochove (BCom 1975 UC) of 92. Together with wife, Katherine (PhD 1979 of Toronto, ON; Sept. 16, 2016 U of T) (LLD 2004 U of T), Russell generously Dr. Moira N. (Loucks) O’Sullivan (BSc 1978 UC) of Toronto, ON; Jul. 7, 2016 supported the creation of University College’s Mr. David L. Peebles (BSc 1971 UC) Morrison Hall Residence, the Morrison Pavilion of Toronto, ON; Dec. 3, 2016 at Gerstein Science Information Centre, and two Mrs. Patricia H. (Chambers) Raman (BA 1975 UC) major revitalizations of Robarts Library. He was of Toronto, ON; Dec. 13, 2016 considered one of the best financial investors in 1980s the country, and was appointed to the Order of Mr. James C. Delaney (BSc 1988 UC) Canada in 2014. of Scarborough, ON; Aug. 30, 2016 Mr. Douglas G. Tisdall (BCom 1988 UC) of Calgary, AB; Dec. 9, 2016

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