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Quarry Press was founded in 1965 on the campus of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Quarry Press has established several key lines and series of books - Quarry Music, Quarry Health, Quarry Heritage, New Views on Canadian Artists, Civic Images, and Canadian Children's Classic Series. Other lines include the New Canadian Poets and New Canadian Novelists Series, International Author Series, Out of This World Science Fiction Series, and Canadian Literary Classics Series. Besides publishing 15 regional, national and international titles, Quarry Press also produces three literary magazines -Quarry Magazine, Poetry Canada and Canadian Fiction.

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The Quaker Oats Company in Canada was founded in June 1902 with the establishment of a mill in Peterborough, Ontario. Another mill was purchased in 1912 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. On August 13, 1943, the Canadian mills were incorporated as the Quaker Oats Company of Canada, Ltd. with main offices in Peterborough. It was then operated as a autonomously managed subsidiary of the Quaker Oats Company of Chicago, Illinois. In 2001, the company was acquired by PepsiCo, Inc. and is operated as the Quaker Division of PepsiCo Canada ULC.

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H.V. Pyke was a student in the School of Mining at Queen's University.

Munroe Putnam, forester and amateur art collector, served in the RCAF during the Second World War. He was stationed in Winnipeg when he met and married his wife, Joyce Musson, in 1942. They moved to Grenville, Quebec in 1957, where they met A.Y. Jackson.

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.