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de la Condamine, Robin

  • Person
  • 1877-1966

Robin de la Condamine (6 November 1877 – 11 January 1966) was an English actor who used the stage name Robert Farquharson.

Hastings, Hubert de Cronin

  • Person
  • 1902-1986

Hubert de Cronin Hastings (18 July 1902 – 4 December 1986), often referred to in contemporary works as H. de C. Hastings (and known to friends as "H. de C."), was chairman of the Architectural Press and editor of Architectural Review and Architects' Journal.

Wonders, Lillian

  • Person
  • 1925-2023

Lillian Paradise Johnson Wonders (1925-2023), was born on April 20, 1925 in Portland, Oregon, the eldest of three daughters to Juliette Martin Omohundro (1896-1991) and Franklin Paradise Johnson (1888-1943).

Lillian Wonders attended St. Helen's Hall in Portland, Oregon, and upon graduation pursued post-secondary education at Oregon State College (Corvallis, Oregon) and the University of Washington (Seattle, Washington), obtaining a Bachelor of Arts in Geography in 1946. Wonders then attended Syracuse University to study medical geography where she wrote her thesis on "Geographical Aspects of Schistosoma mansoni in Puerto Rico." Wonders career included teaching geography and cartography at the University of Washington (1948); cartographer with the Map Division of the United Nations Secretariat (1949-1951); lecturer in cartography in the Department of Geography at the University of Toronto; and as a freelance cartographer. Her publications, and contributions, include: Looking at Maps (1960), Land, Water, and People (1961), Dent's Historical and Geographical Atlas (1958), Atlas of Alberta (1969), Junior Atlas of Alberta (1979), the Canadian Encyclopedia (1985), Geographica, the Complete Illustrated Atlas of Canada and the World (1998).

Wonders first learned letterpress printing at age twelve from her father, when he purchased a Chandler and Price Press and founded the Johnson & Co. press in Portland in 1934. Wonders continued printing on the family's small platen press and 1890 Chandler and Price Press throughout her career as a cartographer, and founded Wonder Press in 1965 while living in Edmonton, ultimately moving the press to Victoria, British Columbia. Wonders was a member of the Amalgamated Printers' Association since its founding in 1958, and regularly submitted printing samples from the Wonder Press.

Wonders married William C. Wonders, a Canadian geographer, on June 2, 1951. The Wonders had three children, including Karen Elizabeth Wonders (1955-).

Otter, Gwen

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Elizabeth Gwendolen Otter was a socialite known for hosting salons at her Chelsea residence, 1 Ralston Street.

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