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- 1839-1922
John Butler Yeats was an Irish painter, illustrator, and man of letters who resided in Ireland and England. Yeats' son, W. B. (William Butler) Yeats, was a noted Irish poet, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Another son, Jack Yeats made his name as an artist and writer.
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- 1863-1912
Agnes Deans Cameron, teacher, writer and lecturer, was born in Victoria, B.C., and educated in Victoria public schools. She taught at Angela College, Victoria, and in Comox and Vancouver. Returning to Victoria in 1890, she became the first woman high school teacher in B.C., and in 1894 she was appointed the first woman principal in B.C., at South Park School in Victoria, a position she held until 1905. She was elected to the Victoria School Board in 1906 and also began working part-time as a journalist. In 1908, Cameron travelled up the Mackenzie River to the Arctic Circle, an account of which was published in 1910 as The New North: Being some account of a woman’s journey through Canada to the Arctic. In 1909 Cameron went to Britain, where she wrote a daily column on Canadian affairs for the London Daily Mail and lectured about Canada to encourage emigration. She returned to Victoria in 1911.
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- 1934-2022
Alan Rodney Drengson was born in Wahpeton, North Dakota on November 9, 1934. As a descendent of farmers, and having grown up during the dust bowl years in the prairies, he became aware of environmental issues early on in his life. After moving to the West Coast in the 1940s and living among the mountains and forests, his appreciation for the natural world grew into a passion for environmental advocacy. In college, he became involved with various groups such as the Sierra Club, Wilderness Society, and Friends of the Earth.
Drengson received a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Washington in 1958, and returned there to complete his M.A. in 1960. He received his doctorate from the University of Oregon in 1971. He joined the Philosophy Department at the University of Victoria in 1968. While at UVic, he championed environmentalism, and became one of the founders of the Environmental Studies program. Drengson was also the founder of the Ecoforestry Institute. He started two journals, The Trumpeter: Journal of Ecosophy in 1983, and later The Ecoforestry Journal. After his retirement in 1995, he remained active as an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and an Adjunct Professor in Environmental Studies at UVic.
Drengson had broad interests, but focused principally on environmental philosophy throughout his career. He was inspired by the Norwegian Philosopher, Arne Naess, and became an avid supporter of his philosophy of Deep Ecology. Additional areas of interest included Eastern philosophy, comparative religion, and interdisciplinary technology studies. He also had a deep appreciation for the arts. He played guitar, wrote poetry and fiction, and was a stained-glass artisan. He also regularly practiced the martial art, Aikido.
Alan Drengson died on March 6, 2022.
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- 1923-2001
Alan Gowans was born in Toronto. He obtained an M.A. from the University of Toronto in 1946, an M.F.A. from Princeton University in 1948 and a Ph.D. from Princeton in 1950. He taught at a number of American universities before his appointment in 1966 as Chair of the Division of Art History in the Department of Fine Arts at UVic. He retired in 1988. He published several books on art and architectural history, including Images of American living; Four centuries of architecture and furniture (1964), and The restless art: A history of painters and painting, 1760-1960 (1966).
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- 1911-1988
Alfred E. Loft was born in Killarney, Manitoba, on 23 January 1911. He obtained a B.A. in History and English from the University of British Columbia in 1947 and taught at public schools in Saskatchewan and Rossland, British Columbia, before being appointed assistant professor, College of Education, Victoria College, in 1956. He became associate professor in the U. Vic. Dept. of History in 1963. At U. Vic., Professor Loft has served on the Campus Planning Sub-Committee on the Social Sciences Building and the Campus Planning Sub-Committee on Athletics (both 1964-65); he was chairman of the University Athletic Board (1965-1967) and the University Centennial Committee (1965-1969) and Director of the Faculty Club (1966-1970) and the Centennial Stadium Committee (1969-1970). In 1970-1971 he was also Coach of the University of Victoria University Challenge Team. In 1972 he co-authored (along with S.A. Jennings, A. Gowans, D. Halliwell, G.O. Mackie and N.A. Swainson) the Report of the Commission on Academic Governance submitted to U. Vic. President Hugh E. Farquhar.
Among Professor Loft's publications is the B.C. Source Book of British Columbia history (Queen's Printer, 1966), which he co-edited. Professor Loft has also given numerous addresses and speeches to schools and clubs in Victoria and Seattle on such subjects as "Has Canada a History?" and "Is Canadian History Dead?". He was a guest speaker at the U. Vic. Humanities and Science Symposium in April 1970.
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