- CA QUA09975
- Organisation
- fl. 1900s
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United Empire Loyalists Association of Canada
United Empire Loyalists Association of Canada was a photography studio based in 23 Prince Arthur Avenue, Toronto 5.
W.P. Bell & Son was a photography studio based in Kingston, Ontario.
Ann Straus was born in New York City in 1922 and died in Montreal 2017. She studied economics at Vassar and Columbia. She married Maynard Gertler in 1948 with whom she had five sons.
Ann Gertler was an organizing member of Group of 78, Project Ploughshares, Voice of Women (VOW), Canadian Pugwash, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), and a board member of International Peace Bureau. in addition to her roles within the organizations, Ann was also a UN accredited observer for VOW and Ploughshares. Her interest in teaching peace led to her role in the establishment of the Grindstone Island peace education centre. Gertler was also an advisor to the Canadian disarmament ambassador at the UN and a board member for Canadian Institute for International Peace and Security (CIIPS),
In addition to her roles for and with these organizations
Ann was also co-founder and Director of Harvest House Publishers from it’s founding, in 1960, to 1995.
Hamilton Powell was a photographer from the Kingston area
David Pulver studied at the London School of Film Technique. In the 1960s he lived and worked as a TV and film commercials producer in London, England. In 1977 he was the first manager of the National Film Theatre (Princess Court Cinemas) in Kingston, Ontario. He went on to become the entertainment editor of the Kingston Whig-Standard in the 1980s and and editorial writer in the early 1990s writing on topics on science, health and the environment. He was a member of the Eastern Ontario Film Co-op as well as a peace and anti-cruise missile activist.
Alfred A. and Enid I. Amos lived in and/or visited northern Ontario in the 1920s and 1930s.