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Authority record- CA QUA11084
- Person
- 1924-2003
Freda Paltiel (née Leibov) was a graduate of Queen's University, B.A 1945, and later received her Bachelor of Social Work at McGill in 1949, and her MPH at Hebrew University in 1966. Freda joined the public service in 1967 and was Canada's first Coordinator of the Status of Women for the Privy Council Office. As an advisor to the WHO and UNICEF, she served on the Directing Council of the Pan American Health Organization. She helped draft the Nairobi Forward Looking Strate gies for the Advancement of Women 2000, and chaired the executive subcommittee on Women’s Health and Development of the PAHO, a national task force on family violence, and a federal-provincial-territorial working group on women’s health. She retired in 1993 as Senior Advisor, Status of Women, Health and Welfare Canada.
- CA QUA02184
- Person
- fl. 1900s
Isabelle Palmer of Bath, Ontario was married to Tommy Riedel.
- CA QUA01969
- Person
- (1932-)
Born in Saskatchewan, but raised in Ontario, Howard Pain spent the better part of 25 years identifying, studying and documenting the early furniture of his adopted province. The result was the definitive work, "The Heritage of Upper Canadian Furniture".
- CA QUA10693
- Person
- 15 Aug. 1855-21 Dec. 1918
Walter Hines Page was an American journalist, publisher, and diplomat. He was the United States ambassador to the United Kingdom during World War I. He founded the State Chronicle newspaper in Raleigh, North Carolina, and worked with other leaders to gain legislative approval for what is now known as North Carolina State University, established as a land-grant college in 1885. He worked on several newspapers, including the New York World and Evening Post. He was the editor of The Atlantic Monthly for several years and also literary adviser to Houghton Mifflin. For more than a decade beginning in 1900, he was a partner of Doubleday, Page & Company, a major book publisher in New York City.
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