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Ireland, Willard E.

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  • 1914-1979

Willard Ireland was born in 1914 in Vancouver, and also lived in Kamloops, New Westminster, Chilliwack, and Victoria. He was a student at Victoria College in 1933, and went on to receive degrees in History from UBC (BA) and University of Toronto (MA). As an expert in BC history, he was appointed BC Provincial Archivist in 1940, and Provincial Librarian and Archivist in 1946. He was a member of Victoria College Council (1950-63), and served as Vice-Chair in 1960. For the University of Victoria, he served as Secretary to the Board of Governors (1963-68) and then as Chair (1969-71). He was President of the BC and Canadian Library Associations, and of the BC Historical Association; a member of the Canadian Historical Association, and the Social Science Research Council. He received honorary Doctor of Laws degrees from Simon Fraser University and the University of Victoria (1978).

Kaellis, Eugene

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Eugene Kaellis owned the Vintage Bookshop in Victoria, and was concerned about the controversy surrounding tenure issues on the UVic campus in the early 1970s.

Expanded Kootenay Committee on Intergroup Relations

  • Entidade coletiva

The Kootenay Committee on Intergroup Relations (KCIR) was established in 1979 at the request of the Attorney-General to provide a process of consultation towards the resolution of problems with Doukhobors in the Kootenays. In 1980, the Committee established the Expanded Kootenay Committee on Intergroup Relations to include participation of various Doukhobor groups in order "to reduce the degree of participation and involvement in acts of arson and other depredations by helping to resolve conflicts between Doukhobor groups and Doukhobor groups and government." The Expanded Committee was made up of representatives from the Canadian Doukhobor Society, United Spiritual Communities of Christ (USCC), Sons of Freedom (Gilpin and Crescent Valley), a representative from the Ministry of Attorney-General, and Mel Strangland from the KCIR (Chair). The Committee held public hearings, and collected historical reports about Doukhobor conflicts.

University of Victoria (B.C.). Faculty Women's Caucus

  • Entidade coletiva
  • 1985-

The Faculty Women's Caucus began informally in 1985 with a group of faculty women who met to discuss issues pertinent to female faculty. The group gained official status in 1986 when Murray Fraser, VP Academic, formalized the group as the Ad Hoc Committee on Women's Academic Affairs; since that time, the group has been known as the Faculty Women's Caucus. The Chair of the caucus is an ex officio member of the Joint Advisory Committee on Faculty Women's Issues. The first Chair was appointed in 1987; incumbents include: Marilyn Callahan, 1987-1988; Patty Tsurumi, 1988-1989; Maureen Maloney, 1989-1990; Christine St. Peter, 1990-1991; Nancy Galambos, 1991-1992; Judith Terry, 1992-1993; Alison Preece, 1993-1994; Sneja Gunew, 1994-1995; Ginni Eden, 1995-1996; Laurie Baxter, 1996-1997; Margo Young, 1997-1998; Lily Dyson, 1998-2001; Misao Dean, 2001-2002; Radhika Desai, 2002-2004; Hester Lessard, 2004-2005; Margo Matwychuk, 2005-2007; Lynne Marks, 2007-2009; Maneesha Deckha, 2009-2010; Dr. Janni Aragon, 2011-2013; Jin-Sun Yoon, 2015-2017.

Sylvester (family)

  • Família

Frank Sylvester and Cecelia Davies Sylvester, and their families, were notable figures in the early Victoria establishment. They were among the first Jews to arrive in Victoria and were active in the founding of the Jewish congregation.

Francis Joseph Sylvester (1837-1908) was born in New York and moved to San Francisco when he was 20. He traveled to Victoria in 1858 en route to the Fraser River gold fields and returned to Victoria in 1863. After first working for clothier, H. M. Cohen, Sylvester joined the auctioneer firm of Judah Philip Davies and, in 1869, married Davies’s youngest daughter, Cecilia. Sylvester remained with the auction house for 15 years and then established his own accounting business. He was active in public affairs and helped establish the Victoria Fire Department Charitable Association. He was prominent in the Ancient Order of United Workmen and was the secretary of the Natural History Society. Sylvester also gave lectures at the Victoria Historical Society.

Cecilia Davies Sylvester (1848-1935) was born in Sydney, Australia and moved with her parents to San Francisco and finally to Victoria in 1863. She was a member of the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire and was active in charitable work and Jewish organizations. She was on the board of the Royal Jubilee Hospital, which her father helped found.

Frank and Cecilia Sylvester had eight children:

Elizabeth Eula Sylvester (1870-1937) m. Morris Menkus
Louise Marion Sylvester (1872-1955)
William B. Sylvester (1876-1931)
Clarence B. Sylvester (1876-1933)
May Violet Sylvester (1878-193?) m. Abe Ellis
Jesse Percival Sylvester (1880-1943)
Rachel Valentine Sylvester (1884-1975) m. Lorne Campbell
Ruby Florence Sylvester (1889-1980) m. Lawrence P. Macrae

Cassidy, Frank, 1946-2007

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  • 1946-2007

Frank Cassidy (1946-2007) was a professor in the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria, and specialized in the history of native self-government. Among his works are Proud Past: A History of the Wet'suwet'en of Moricetown, B.C. (1980), On the Inherent Jurisdiction of Indian Governments (1987), After Native Claims? The Implications of Comprehensive Claims Settlements for Natural Resources in British Columbia (1988), Indian Government: Its Meaning in Practice (1989), and The Spirit of Sparrow: Aboriginal Rights and the Constitution (1990). In 1969 Cassidy married Maureen Kulbaitis (1944-1996), with whom he was a member of the April Third Movement while at Stanford University. The couple had two children, Amy and Megan. Following Maureen’s death he married a second time, to Carol ___. Cassidy died on 30 September 2007, after having suffered a stroke in 2004.

Nowosad, Frank, 1948-1993

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  • 1948-1993

Frank Nowosad (1948-1993) was an art critic, whose reviews appeared regularly in Monday Magazine, Arts Canada, Artsmagazine, CBC Radio, and Canadian Art. He was founder and Artistic Co-Director of Canada Ice Dance Theatre. His interest in skating as a performing art resulted in many choreographic projects and extensive writing for skating publications. Another research interest of Nowosad's was the Austrian born artist Richard Ciccimarra. He gave lectures at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria on Ciccimarra, and wrote Ciccimarra: A Biography (1988), and Catalogue: Richard Ciccimarra, 1924-1973 (1988).

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