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Donald Boyce Gaddes was born on October 10, 1912 in Kelowna, B.C. He attended elementary and high schools in Vancouver and Kelowna from 1919 to 1930 and was taught piano privately by his older sister and several piano teachers. By the time he had graduated high school in 1930 he decided to pursue music as a career.

In 1934 he received his Associate Diploma in piano teaching from the Toronto Conservatory of Music and that year established a teaching studio in Union Theological College at U.B.C. The following year he began his B.A. at U.B.C., subsequently attending Vancouver Normal School in 1937-38. Gaddes later managed to delay his military service in order to complete a B.Mus. in theory and composition from the University of Oregon in 1942. After several years of teaching, he completed his Master's degree in composition from the University of Washington in 1955.

During the War Gaddes served in the R.C.A.F. as a radar mechanic. Following the War he spent a brief period as a teacher of English and Mathematics in a Vancouver high school and then in the summer of 1946 secured a position with the Victoria Normal School. Gaddes continued teaching music at the Normal School until it merged with Victoria College in 1956; he played an integral part in the formation of the music curriculum during these years. In addition to his teaching responsibilities he found time to participate in a variety of musical performances in the community and composed several musical arrangements (included in the accession).

With the amalgamation of the Victoria Normal School and Victoria College, Gaddes resumed his teaching responsibilities and continued to develop his curriculum, until he left U.Vic., at the then-new Gordon Head Campus, in 1967. From 1967 to 1974 he was an Intermediate Supervisor and then Director of Instruction in Campbell River and Courtney, at which time he retired to Victoria. He died 17 June 2012.

William Gaddes joined the faculty at Victoria College in 1946 to teach psychology. He was head of the department at Victoria College from 1958-1963, and head of the department at the University of Victoria from 1963-1967; he specialized in neuropsychology. Because of Gaddes work with neurologically impaired children, he was invited to be a founding member of the Board of the Cedar Lodge Society. The Society, established in 1969, managed the Cedar Lodge School, a small residential school in Cobble Hill , designed to help children with behaviour and learning problems. For the first several years of the school, Gaddes visited each week to do tests and confer with teachers and child care workers. For many years, classes in psychology and special education made field trips to the school from UVic and UBC. In 1978, Skeleem Village was built on the south side of the property and the Society operated the school for children with neurological problems, and Skeeleem Village for adults. The school was closed by the provincial government in 1985 and the Village in 1986. Gaddes retired from UVic in 1978.