Git&irsmFERGUSON , one of the founders of the classmate, and Roman Kroiter to invent a IMAX Corporation, was born in in 1929. revolutionary new motion picture experience which Filmmaking When he was young he moved with his family to they named IMAX. Gait. Graeme attended Dickson Public School before For Mr. moving to Gait Collegiate in 1942. The son of Frank the next 23 years Ferguson served as Ferguson, arguably the most popular teacher in the president of IMAX Corporation. During this time history of GCI, Graeme grew up in an atmosphere the partners saw their dream realized as IMAX of ‘truth and discovery’. This carried into the school theatres proliferated around the world to more than 150 specialized 22 with science teacher C. Gordon Clarke. According theatres in countries. to Graeme, “any sort of experiment we wanted to do Currently Mr. Ferguson continues as a Gordon Clarke would encourage. He was always filmmaker,challenged to make new discoveriesusing up to supporting anything we were curious about.” the film medium. Among his JMM( films are North Not surprisingly, with his father’s political of Superior, The Dream is Alive, Blue Planet, Into the Deep, and Space. background as a the CCF candidate for South Destiny in Most recently, he produced L5: a large-forn-iat Waterloo, Mr. Ferguson attended the University of First City in Space, , and with NASA’scoveted Torontowhere he graduated with a degree in Political was honoured Silver Snoopy Award for outstanding contribution Science and Economics. From the U of T,he became to the theNational Secretaryofthe WorldUniversityService space industry. Mr. Ferguson’s numerous honours of from 1953-1955. Mr. Ferguson then include two honourary doctorates, the Canadian served a film apprenticeship in India and Sweden Government Environmental Achievement Award, while working as a free-lance film director and the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts Medal and a cameraman in New York. Genie for Special Achievement from the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. In 1993, Dr. Perhaps the most significant moment in Mr. Ferguson was invested into the Order of Canada. Ferguson’s film career came when he was invited back to Canada to create a multi-screen spectacular, Polar Life, for the “Man and the Polar Regions” Pavilion at Expo ‘67 in . He chose as co producer GCI classmate Robert Kerr, then mayor of Inducted: 2003 Galt. Responding to the popular enthusiasm for Yearsat GCI& V5: expanded cinema at Expo ‘67, Mr. Ferguson joined 1942- 1947 with Robert Kerr, William Shaw, another GCI

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