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Authority record- CA QUA02151
- Person
- 1927-2001
Henry (Harry) Albert Osser (1927-2001) was a Professor in in the Faculty of Education at Queen's University. He was born in London, England, and immigrated to Canada in 1953. He obtained his B.A. from Queen's University in 1958, and his Ph.D. in Psycholinguistics from Cornell University in 1963. He was a Professor in the Department of Psychology at York University from 1963 to 1965, a Professor of Medical Psychology in the Department of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University from 1965 to 196-. He became a member of the faculty at Queen's University in 1975.
- CA QUA11510
- Person
- 23 Apr 1933-23 Jun 2018
Nancy Ossenberg was born on April 23, 1933 in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, graduated from Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute in Toronto, and earned her degrees (BA, MA, PhD) at the University of Toronto. She taught in the Anatomy Department at the University of Alberta before moving to Queens University in the Department of Anatomy where she taught and researched for 25 years, retiring in 1998. In addition to being a beloved teacher of anatomy, Nancy was a well-respected physical anthropologist, and left a significant body of research on human ethnogenesis and the migrations of humans to the North American continent.
- CA QUA02882
- Person
- 13 Oct. 1938-
Dr. Brian Osborne is Professor Emeritus of Geography at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, where he has taught since 1967. His research areas include Indigenous history, settlement history, cultural landscapes, and the role of the "culture of communications" in the development of a Canadian sense of place. He was born 13 October 1938 in Treharris, Glamorgan, UK. He obtained his BA (1960) and PhD (1967) from the University of Southampton. He began his professional career at S. Col. State College in 1963, and began his career at Queen's University in 1967. He has published extensively on the Kingston area, his most widely read piece being the volume he wrote with Donald Swainson, Kingston: Building on the Past (1988) which he recently reworked into a new edition, Kingston: Building on the Past for the Future(2011). Other recent volumes are The Rock and the Sword: A History of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Kingston (2004) and (with Shirley Gibson Langille) Landscapes and Inscapes: Drawn to History with Brush of Serendipity.
Professor Osborne has served as a consultant for the National Capital Commission, Heritage Canada, Parks Canada, Canada Post, and the National Film Board. He is Past President of the Ontario Historical Society, Past President of the Kingston Historical Society, and serves on the boards of several heritage organizations.
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