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W.R. McRae Company Limited is a Wholesale Distributor based in Kingston, Ontario. The company was founded circa 1905 by William Ross McRae.

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W.P. Bell & Son was a photography studio based in Kingston, Ontario.

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Worsnop was a photographer based in Halifax, NS.

George Stanley Worsley was born on June 20, 1866 in St. Hyacinthe Quebec. His father was Colonel Pennyman White Worsley of the 60th Canadian Militia Regiment. He attended and graduated from the Royal Military College in Kingston Ontario. In June 1885, he enlisted in the British Imperial Army and received a Commission as a Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery. After receiving artillery training, he was posted to: India, Malta and Gibraltar. By 1895, George had been promoted to the rank of Captain. Instead of continuing his military career, he resigned from the British Army in 1896 and moved back to Canada.

In October 1897, while residing in Halifax Nova Scotia, he expressed interest in obtaining a Commissioned rank in the North West Mounted Police. HIs request was not fulfilled. From 1897 to 1900, George Worsley made his way to the Yukon to familiarize himself with the Canadian frontier life and seems to have briefly been a General Merchant in company with Beringer at Peace River Crossing, North West Territories.

In early 1900, George Worsley was able to meet Commissioner Bowen Perry in Edmonton and December 4, 1900, Sir Wilfred Laurier directed Fred White to advance George Worsley’s name as the next Commissioned Officer in the NWMP. On October 1, 1914, George was promoted to the rank of Superintendent and became the Commanding Officer of Depot.

George Stanley Worsley died in Victoria, B.C. in 1945.

Charles L. Worsley was born in or around 1877. His father was Colonel Pennyman White Worsley of the 60th Canadian Militia Regiment. Charles worked in Ontario (St. Mary's) for the Bank of Montreal for over 40 years and retired to Victoria in or around 1945. He was twice widowed and died married to his third wife Harriette Keating.

Beatrice Helen Worsley was born on October 18, 1922 in Mexico. She attended the University of Toronto, from 1940-1944, where she earned a B.A. with first class honours in Mathematics and Physics. Between 1946 and 1947 she attained an S.M. in Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She studied at Newnham College, University of Cambridge, England from 1948-1950 and achieved a Phd.D. (Cambridge) in mathematics in 1952. During World War II Dr. Worsley served with the Canadian Navy where she was involved in designing torpedoes equipped with rudimentary computers. From 1951 to 1965 she was employed by the University of Toronto where she became an associate professor of computer science. Dr. Worsley came to Queen's in 1965 where she was a founding member of the Queen's Computing Centre and developed early courses offered by the centre. In 1969 the new Department of Computing and Information Science was established at Queen's. Dr. Worsley received a cross appointment to the new department and worked on course and curriculum proposals for both undergraduate and graduate programs. An active member of both the Canadian Information Processing Society and the Computer Science Association she helped co-ordinate the functional merger of the two. During her professional career Dr. B.H. Worsley produced some seventeen technical papers for a number of learned journals and at least as many other articles on topics relating to her work. On May 8 1972, Dr. Worsley died unexpectedly while on a sabbatical leave at the University of Waterloo.