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John Lawrence Macpherson was a Colonel in the Royal Engineers. He died in 1908.

Naomi Ann Macpherson was the daughter of John and Jane Macpherson.

A large block was purchased by the Province in 1850 for a normal school which is now part of Ryerson Polytechnic University. Here Egerton Ryerson superintended the work of the first Department of Public Instruction in Upper Canada. Here generations of teachers prepared themselves for careers in education.
In October of 1844, Sir Charles Metcalfe, the head of administrative affairs in the province, appointed Rev. Dr. Egerton Ryerson to the position of Chief Superintendent of Education for Upper Canada, the highest position in the Department of Public Instruction for Upper Canada. For the next thirty years he would have a dramatic impact on the development of education in Ontario. Shortly after Ryerson accepted the position of Chief Superintendent he appointed Dr. John George Hodgins as the Chief Clerk for the Department of Public Instruction. The latter worked closely with Ryerson to build the foundations of the education system, advising him on major issues and assisting with the wording of legislation.
In 1855, Hodgins was appointed Deputy Head of the Department of Public Instruction, and later (in 1890) was appointed the Librarian and Historiographer to the Department. During his sixty plus years with the Department, Hodgins wrote voluminously on the topic of Ontario's educational history and school architecture.

A large block was purchased by the Province in 1850 for a normal school which is now part of Ryerson Polytechnic University. Here Egerton Ryerson superintended the work of the first Department of Public Instruction in Upper Canada. Here generations of teachers prepared themselves for careers in education.
In October of 1844, Sir Charles Metcalfe, the head of administrative affairs in the province, appointed Rev. Dr. Egerton Ryerson to the position of Chief Superintendent of Education for Upper Canada, the highest position in the Department of Public Instruction for Upper Canada. For the next thirty years he would have a dramatic impact on the development of education in Ontario. Shortly after Ryerson accepted the position of Chief Superintendent he appointed Dr. John George Hodgins as the Chief Clerk for the Department of Public Instruction. The latter worked closely with Ryerson to build the foundations of the education system, advising him on major issues and assisting with the wording of legislation.
In 1855, Hodgins was appointed Deputy Head of the Department of Public Instruction, and later (in 1890) was appointed the Librarian and Historiographer to the Department. During his sixty plus years with the Department, Hodgins wrote voluminously on the topic of Ontario's educational history and school architecture.

Born in Sutton, Surrey, England on 19 February 1904, and daughter of Andrew Mossforth and Ada Debora (Fisher) Neatby, Hilda Neatby was educated in Saskatchewan earning a B.A. Scholarship (1924), and M.A. (1927), from the University of Saskatchewan. In 1925 she received a Certificat d'Etudes francais from the Sorbonne in Paris, France. In 1934, she received her Doctorate in History from the University in Minnesota. From 1926 to 1931, she was an Instructor in History at the University of Saskatchewan and then a Teaching Assistant at the University of Minnesota (1931-1933). She then returned to her adopted home, north of the 49th Parallel, where she took up duties as an Assistant Professor of History at Regina College, University of Saskatchewan (1936-1944); then Associate Professor of History at the University (1945-1952); before becoming a full Professor in 1952; Head of Department in 1958; and the Morton Professor of History, in 1968. During the 1944-1945 academic year, she held the post of Visiting Lecturer at the University of Toronto. In 1970, she retired from the University of Saskatchewan and accepterd an offer from the then Principal of Queen's University, Dr. John Deutsch, to write that institution's official history.

Dr. Neatby was an accomplished author and wrote extensively on historical and educational subjects. A former editor of "Saskatchewan History", she published "The Administration of Justice Under the Quebec Act" (1937); a searing indictment on Canadian education entitled, "So Little for the Mind" (1953); "A Temperate Dispute" (1954); "Quebec: The Revolutionary Age, 1760-91"(1966); and ""to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield: Queen's University Volume I, 1841-1917"(1978), edited and published posthumously.

She garnered many accolades and awards including becoming a member of the Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters, and Sciences (1949-1951); the first female President of the Canadian Historical Association (1962-1963); a Companion of the Order of Canada (1967); accepting the Medal of the Canadian Council of Jewish Women for Outstanding Service to Canada (1967); and receiving honorary degrees from the University of Toronto (1953); Brock University (1967); University of Windsor (1974); and the University of New Brunswick (1975).

Dr. Hilda Neatby died 15 May 1975, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, at age 71.

The Grange, or Order of Patrons of Husbandry, first began in the United States in 1867, and expanded into Canada with the establishment of the National Grange on June 2, 1874. The organization was established as a fraternal order, similar in structure to the freemasons, to "unite private citizens in improving the economic and social position of the nation's farm population."

William Bateson (born August 8, 1861, Whitby, Yorkshire, England; died February 8, 1926, London), was a biologist who founded and named the science of genetics, and whose experimental and theoretical studies provided the basis of our modern understanding of heredity. A dedicated evolutionist, he cited embryo studies to support his contention in 1885 that chordates evolved from primitive echinoderms, a view now widely accepted. In 1894 he proposed in his major study - Materials for the Study of Variation - that species could not originate through continuous character variation (as proposed by Darwin), since distinct features often appeared or disappeared suddenly in plants and animals. Realizing that discontinuous variation could be understood only after something was known about the inheritance of traits, Bateson began work on the experimental breeding of plants and animals.

In 1866 an article had appeared describing experiments with plant hybrids carried out in Moravia (part of today’s Czech Republic) by a monk, Gregor Mendel. Sadly, the article was overlooked until discovered in 1900 by three continental botanists who had been carrying out similar studies (Hugo de Vries, Carl Correns, and Erich Tschermak von Seysenegg). Bateson found that his own breeding results were explained perfectly by Mendel’s paper and that the monk had succinctly described the transmission of elements governing heritable traits (today’s genes).

With the assistance of Charles Druery, Bateson translated Mendel’s paper into English and introduced much of the terminology now familiar to geneticists. Then began a long, hard, struggle, to gain an acceptance of Mendelism against the fierce opposition of the mathematical biologists (“biometricians”). He published, with Rebecca Saunders and Reginald Punnett, the results of a series of breeding experiments that not only extended Mendel’s principles to animals (poultry), but also showed that certain features were consistently inherited together. This phenomenon, which came to be termed “linkage,” is now known to be the result of the occurrence of genes located in close proximity on the same chromosome. Bateson’s experiments also demonstrated a dependence of certain characters on two or more genes. He was initially sceptical of the above interpretation of linkage advanced by the geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan. However, his own incorrect linkage theory does explain aspects of certain inherited diseases (e.g. dwarfism).

Bateson was appointed Professor of Biology at the University of Cambridge in 1908. He left this chair in 1910 to spend the rest of his life directing the John Innes Horticultural Institution at Merton, South London (later moved to Norwich), where it was the major national centre for genetic research. His books include Mendel’s Principles of Heredity: a Defence (1902), Mendel’s Principles of Heredity 1909) and Problems of Genetics (1913).

On 31 December 1998, the Government of Ontario transferred responsibility for property assessment from the Ministry of Finance to the Ontario Property Assessment Corporation, an independent body established by the Ontario Property Assessment Corporation Act, 1997.
Amendments to the Act in 2001, changed the composition of the Board of Directors, and renamed the organization to the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC).
Every municipality in Ontario is a member of MPAC, a non-share capital, not-for-profit corporation, whose main responsibility is to provide its customers - property owners, tenants, municipalities, government, and business stakeholders - with consistent and accurate property assessments.
MPAC is accountable to the public through a 15-member Board of Directors. Eight members of the Board are municipal representatives; five members represent property taxpayers; and two members represent provincial interests. The Minister of Finance appoints all members of the Board.
MPAC administers a uniform, province-wide property assessment system, based on current value assessment in accordance with the provisions of the Assessment Act. It provides municipalities with a range of services, including the preparation of annual assessment rolls used by municipalities to calculate property taxes.
Municipal enumerations are also conducted by MPAC in order to prepare a Preliminary List of Electors for each municipality and school board during an election year. Today, MPAC is responsible for the assessment of nearly 4.7 million properties in the province.
MPAC has a province-wide presence, with most staff located in 33 field offices, including Kingston, Ontario. MPAC’s head office is in Pickering, and its Customer Contact Centre/Central Processing Facility is located in Toronto.

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Sarah Dowker Murray (née Burns), an avid member of historical societies, was born in Toronto in 1901 to Mr. and Mrs. William Hamilton Burns. She was one of the first female graduates in mathematics and economics, earning her BA from Queen's University in 1924. She married John Murray, with whom she had three sons, George, John and David.
She served on the boards of the Women's Canadian Historical Society, the East York Historical and Arts Board and the East York Oral History Group. She was also a life member of the University of Toronto Women's Club.