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A. Colin Wright was born in Chelmsford, County of Essex, England in 1938 and became a Canadian citizen in 1971. Professor Wright was educated at Cambridge University, Pembroke College, in England, receiving a B.A. in 1961 and a M.A. in 1965. In 1986 he received a PhD, also from Cambridge, in Russian Language and Literature. Anthony Colin Wright was appointed to the faculty of Queen's University as a professor in the Department of Russian Language and Literature in 1964. Previously he was employed at the British College in Riggio Colabria in Italy, and at the Bell School of Languages in Cambridge, England. He was a Fellow of the Institute of Linguistics until 1982, and was also active in the Canadian Association of Slavists, for which he served as President from 1975 to 1976.
A writer and speaker on Russian literature and art, A. Colin Wright's major research interest was the Russian author and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov, on whom he wrote the book Mikhail Bulgakov: Life and Interpretations (1978). In addition to this seminal work he wrote numerous articles on Bulgakov and other Russian literati as well as on aspects of Russian painting. Wright taught several courses on the Russian language during his tenure at Queen's and was an advocate for the teaching of Russian in Secondary Schools. He retired from Queen's in 1999. A. Colin Wright was also a prolific creative writer, producing several (unpublished) novels, and several (published) short stories and novella. He has written a number of plays, received awards for some of his work, and published articles on his travels abroad. Wright passed away on September 15 2023.

Robert Lionel Dunsmore was born on September 2, 1893, in Seaforth, Ontario. He graduated from Queen's University in 1915 with a B.SC. in Civil Engineering and went overseas with the 5th Field Company Canadian Engineers where he attained the rank of Major and was awarded the Military Cross. Upon his return to Canada in 1919 he went to Imperial Oil Company as an assistant engineer. Throughout his career in the petroleum industry he worked with a number of oil companies in various positions including President of Champlain Oil Products Limited (1949-1958) and Vice-Chairman and Director of the B.N.C (Canada) Limited (1962-1978). Upon his retirement from the petroleum industry he became Chairman of the Canadian Broadcast Corporation from 1958 to 1963. Mr. Dunsmore was also elected a member of the Queen's University Board of Trustees (1953), serving on the Board for twenty-one years.

In 1916 he married Rosabel Voaden and together they had one son. Mr. Dunsmore died in 1989.

Stella Joyce Musson Putnam, an author and art collector, was born in Regina, Saskatchewan and raised near Melita, Manitoba. She attended the University of Manitoba, majoring in mathematics and French. In 1942, she married Munroe Putnam. Together, they moved to Grenville, Quebec in 1957, where they befriended A.Y. Jackson. He, along with other Group of Seven artists, would visit the Putnam cottage near the Rouge River to paint and sketch. Joyce Putnam passed away on April 24, 2023.

Joseph Baruch Salsberg (1902-1998) was a politician, an activist, and an active member in Toronto's Jewish community. He was born in Lagow, Poland, and later emigrated to Canada with his parents in 1913. Salsberg served on the Labour Zionist executive, and he worked as a union organizer, and a Communist Party union strategist. He was elected alderman for Ward 4 in Toronto in 1938 and again in 1943. He was also elected to the Ontario Legislature from 1943 to 1955 as a member of the Labour Progressive Party, formerly the Communist Party. Throughout his life, he was a regular columnist for a variety of publications, including Fraternally Yours, the Canadian Jewish News and the Canadian Tribune. He was an activist for Israel and its security, the Yiddish culture, and the integrity of the Jewish people around the world. A medical centre in Kiryat Yam, Israel, bears Salsberg's name. Salsberg was predeceased by his wife, Dora Wilensky (1902-1959).

Zoe Vignau was born in Boucherville, Quebec in 1800. She married David Carnegie Low about May, 1820. They had four children - James Alexander, Zoe Elmira Manners, George Jacobs and a daughter who appears to have died at childbirth (or in infancy). Her husband died in Calcutta in 1850. No details about her later life are known.

William Eric Craven Harrison was born 30 April 1907, in Leeds, Yorkshire, England. The son of William Craven Harrison and Hetty Halpine, his early schooling was taken at Brighton Municipal Secondary and Varndean School in Brighton, Sussex where he excelled in both academics and sports. The latter saw him Captain of both the school cricket and football (soccer) teams. In 1926 he entered King's College, University of London from which he obtained a B.A. (First Class Honours in History) in 1928. He then attended the University's London School of Economics, which graduated him with an M.A in English Economic History in 1931. During his time at the University, Eric Harrison held many posts including Lecturer at the London County Council's Men's Junior and Senior Evening Institutes; Administrative Assistant and Assistant in the London School of Economics; Rockefeller Research Assistant; Research Assistant in the Institute of Historical Research; and finally as Lecturer in the London School of Economics. During the summer of 1931, and following his graduation from the LSE, he travelled to Switzerland and the Geneva School of International Studies, where he was first a Scholar, and the next summer, a Tutor.

In the autumn of 1931, Eric Harrison was invited to Canada, Kingston, and Queen's University by the then Douglas Professor of Canadian and Colonial History, and Head of the University's History's Department, Duncan McArthur. Beginning as a Lecturer and then Assistant Professor of Modern History, he took a leave of absence in 1937 through 1939 to attend New College, Oxford. Upon returning to Queen's University in 1939, he once again resumed his duties in the Department of History, prior to being called to Ottawa in 1943, to take up the position of Narrator, in the Historical Section of the General Staff, Department of National Defence. Later that same year he was transferred to Canadian Military Headquarters in London, England, where he became Historical Officer to Lieutenant-General H.D.G. Crerar, First Canadian Corps, and Officer Commanding the First Field Historical Section in Italy. During this time too, he was attached, for a period, to H.Q. 5th Canadian Armoured Division, and the 11th Canadian Infantry Brigade. By 1944, Eric Harrison had become the Personal Assistant to Lieutenant-General Crerar, and was headquartered with the First Canadian Army, North-West Europe. As Officer-in-Charge of all Canadian Field Historical Services in the 21st Army Group, he had the responsibility of drafting the Despatches of the G.O.C. to the Minister of National Defence. He then took on the role of Assistant Director, Historical Section, General Staff, Canadian Military Headquarters in London, England, which saw him as Officer in Command of all Canadian Historical Services in North-West Europe. As such he had the responsibility for the narrative of Canadian operations in North-West Europe. In 1945, and confirmed with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, he took over the duties of Historical Officer for the Canadian Forces in the Netherlands. This same year saw him receive the Order of the British Empire, and over the next several years he took on special writing assignments, first with Canadian Military Headquarters in London (Summer 1947), and then with the Department of National Defence in Ottawa (Summer 1950). Following the cessation of the War, Eric Harrison transferred to the Supplementary Reserve of Officers, where he remained until he retired, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, in 1969.

While extremely active in the military, he was also very busy in civilian and academic life as well. From 1933 to 1937, he was Editor of the Queen's Quarterly; was a special writer for the Montreal Gazette just prior to enlisting; and during the late 1940's and through the 1950's was an occasional Lecturer at both the Canadian Army Staff College and the National Defence College, and spoke occasionally over both the National and International networks of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. In 1949, he became Acting Head of the History Department at Queen's University and two years later became Head, a post he held until 1964.

Eric Harrison was founder and Faculty Adviser for the International Relations Club at Queen's University (1932) and was its Honorary President for many years commencing in 1935. He served as Secretary and Vice-Chairman of the Kingston Branch of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs (1933-1937), and was a member of the CIAA National Executive Committee from 1935 to 1937. At this time too, he lectured and tutored for the Kingston Branch of the Worker's Educational Association (1934-1937), and served as its Honorary President for many years after 1937.

W.E.C. Harrison was a prolific writer throughout his life. Besides contributing many contributions to the Canadian Army's Official History, he published numerous articles and reviews, relating to history and international affairs, in many prestigious journals including The Canadian Historical Review, Queen's Quarterly, International Journal, The Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science, and the University of Toronto Quarterly. With A.N. Reid, he wrote Canada and the United Nations, and with Neil N. Morrison and others, he published Canada: The War and After. He also authored the much reviewed and discussed book, The Universities Are Dangerous (1941).

In 1931, he married Elizabeth Tatchell, painter, writer, poet, teacher. The couple settled first in Kingston, and then on their "beloved" Garden Island. They had one daughter, Elizabeth Valerie, who predeceased them both in 1968. Upon his retirement from Queen's University in 1970, Eric and Elizabeth Harrison removed to Niagara-on-the-Lake. There they both engaged in their passions for the arts and letters; he in gathering the large amount of correspondence that had gone between the two of them during the Second World War in preparation for writing a book whose central theme was the effects war and separation have on two people; she to continue her love of painting. They both were also extremely active in civic affairs over the years, especially in the field of heritage preservation. William Eric Craven Harrison died in Niagara-on-the-Lake in 2000.

The family business of Freedman Company Limited was originally founded in 1887 as S. Freedman Sons and Co. Ltd. It was taken over in 1906 by Lyon Cohen, a Montreal industrialist, who in 1913 also took over the business of Friedman Bros. which had been an early pioneer in the men's clothing industry in Canada. In 1937 Mr. Lyon Cohen died and Mr. Horace Cohen, his son, became the Managing Director. From 1941 to 1947 Horace Cohen served as Federal Administrator of Fine Clothing for the Canadian Government during which time the company, in addition to their regular business, became the largest manufacturer of officers' uniforms in Canada. The company was reorganized and officially incorporated as a joint stock company in 1948, with Mr. Horace R. Cohen, and Mr. Moe Levitt acquiring control. In 1952 David D. Cohen, son of Horace, joined the company and was appointed Director in 1962, with particular responsibility for advertising, styling and presentation of the company's products.

In 1955 the company moved to its own building at 5300 Molson Street which served as its head office housing all offices, showrooms and manufacturing facilities. Freedman employed over 650 people and had a capacity of over 3,500 garments at its production height. It was an Amalgamated Clothing (and Textile) Workers of America shop for over 50 years and the recipient of the only citation ever given by the Retail Clothing Merchants Association of Canada for business integrity.

In the 1960's Freedman broadened its market to include Great Britain and the United States. The British market was expanded for several years until a change in the tariff act and devaluation of the pound caused it to dwindle. The American market continued to exand. Freedman clothing was sold through specialty and individual fine men's wear stores and the better clothing divisions of major department stores, such as Eatons and Simpsons, throughout Canada as well as to certain select accounts in the United States.

The Freedman Company Limited dissolved in 1982.