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Mary Elizabeth Rawlyk (nee Pike) was born in Toronto in 1934. Rawlyk received a B.A. from McMaster University in 1955, but continued her arts education taking courses at the Ontario College of Education, Mount Allison University, Nova Scotia College of Art and Brighton Polytechnic.

Her work expresses her own challenge to combine motherhood and her artistic practice. Her work foregrounds the struggles of women, in particular the labour conditions faced by mothers. In her printmaking, drawing and heat-transfer work, Rawlyk explores women’s unpaid labour in the home using as domestic icons traditionally female objects such as cutlery, aprons, appliances, and measuring cups.

Rawlyk has exhibited her work in solo shows at the Art Gallery of Burlington, in Burlington, Ontario, The Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston, Ontario, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa, Ontario, and the Mount St. Vincent University Gallery in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her work has won many awards at group exhibitions across Canada.

The Art Gallery of Ontario, the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, and the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, as well as corporate, municipal, provincial, university and public library collections all hold her work. In the past, Rawlyk was represented commercially by Mira Goddard Gallery in Toronto, Ontario and Equinox Gallery in Vancouver, British Columbia, among others.

Mary Rawlyk is an artist who continues to live and work in Burlington, Ontario.

Dr. George Alexander Rawlyk, a prominent Canadian religious historian, was born in 1935 in Thorold, Ontario and died on 23 November 1995 in Ottawa, Ontario. He was educated at McMaster University (B.A., 1957), Rhodes Scholar at Oxford (1957), and the University of Rochester (M.A., 1962, and Ph.D., 1966). From 1959-1961, Dr. Rawlyk lectured in History at Mount Allison University, and then was Assistant Professor at Dalhousie University from 1961 to 1966. From 1966 until his death, he was at Queen's University at Kingston (Associate Professor 1966-1969, and Professor after 1969). He was Chairman of the Department of History from 1976 to 1985. Throughout the years, he was Visiting Professor at Michigan State University, the University of Prince Edward Island and McGill University, Acadia University, and the University of New Brunswick. He was also Scholar in Residence at Harvard University, and at Cushwa Centre, Notre Dame University. Dr. Rawlyk held several positions on the Canadian Historical Association. He has also been a Council Member of the Champlain Society and a member of the Editorial Board of Acadiensis. He was also Chairman, Board of Directors, of the McGill-Queen's University Press from 1983-1984, and 1985-1986. He was Chair and President, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994-1995. He was the author of about thirty books as well as numerous articles in edited works and scholarly journals in Canada and the United States. Dr. Rawlyk's writing included research for the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism and the Task Force on Canadian Unity. He was also heavily involved in the 1993 Angus Reid Poll on Religious life in Canada.

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William Hendry Ranson was born January 3rd, 1843 in the town of Bury St. Edmunds in the county of Suffolk, England. He joined the Royal Regiment of Artillery in 1860. He served in Malta and Corfu for a number of years. In 1867 his regiment was moved to Quebec and in 1868 he volunteered with a number of other soldiers to be stationed at Fort Wellingston, near Prescott. He purchased his discharge while serving at Tete-de-Pont barracks in Kingston, Ontario. Ranson went on to work for the Brockville and Ottawa Railway. He eventually married and settled in Prescott until his death in 1928.