Donald B. Smith has co-edited such books as The New Provinces, Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1905-1980 (with the late Howard Palmer), and Centennial City: Calgary 1894-1994. His popular articles have appeared in a variety of local and national publications including Alberta History, The Beaver, the Globe and Mail, and the Calgary Herald. With Douglas Francis and Richard Jones, he published the popular two volume history text, Origins, and Destinies, and the single-volume history of Canada, titled Journeys. He has also published Calgary's Grand Story, a history of twentieth century Calgary from the vantage point of two heritage buildings in the city, the Lougheed Building and Grand Theatre, both constructed in 1911/1912.
Born in Toronto in 1946, Dr. Smith was raised in Oakville, Ontario. He obtained his BA and PhD at the University of Toronto, and his M.A. at the Université Laval. He taught Canadian History at the University of Calgary from 1974 to 2009, focusing on
Canadian history in general, and on Aboriginal History, Quebec, and the Canadian North in particular. His research has primarily been in the field of Aboriginal History, combined with a strong interest in Alberta history.

Anne Szumigalski, poet (b at London, Eng 3 Jan 1922; d at Saskatoon 22 Apr 1999). Raised in rural Hampshire, she served as an interpreter with the Red Cross during World War II, and in 1951 immigrated with her husband and family to Canada. A translator, editor, playwright, teacher and poet, she was instrumental in founding the Saskatchewan Writers' Guild and the literary magazine Grain. She wrote or co-wrote 14 books, mostly poetry, including Woman Reading in a Bath (1974) and A Game of Angels (1980).

Her poetry explores the world of the imagination, a fantastic landscape that stretches between and beyond birth and death and is characterized by the simultaneous concreteness and illogic nature of dreams. She also explores the formal possibilities of the prose poem in several volumes, including Doctrine of Signatures (1983), Instar (1985) and Rapture of the Deep (1991). Because of its appearance on the page, the prose poem is freed from some of the conventions and expectations of the lyric poem, lending itself well to the dreamlike juxtapositions and leaps central to Szumigalski's work.

She also wrote her autobiography, The Voice, the Word, the Text (1990) and a play about the Holocaust, Z. Voice (1995), a collection of poems featuring paintings by Marie Elyse St George, won the Governor General's Award. On Glassy Wings: Poems New and Selected (1997) provides a good overview of Szumigalski's poetry.
-Taken from The Canadian Encyclopedia, Author COLIN BOYD

Christine Mary Rutherford Fowler is the third generation in a family of scientists of extraordinarily high international reputation. Her main areas of research include seismic refraction, thermal models, sedimentary basins and continental crust. She is co-author with E.G. Nisbet on several papers: her latest book, "The Solid Earth", quickly became the standard text in geophysics, and is used at MIT and CalTech, etc.

Ernest Albert Howes was the Dean of the College of Agriculture at the University of Alberta.

Robert “Bob” Fink was born on Dec. 29th, 1935 in New York. He earned a music degree from Wayne State University in Detroit, where he also worked as a graphic artist. He moved to Saskatoon in his 30’s, where he lived for the rest of his life. He was a social activist as well as a musicologist, and won a precedent setting case for the right to poster in public locations. He wrote extensively on music as well as composed musical pieces of his own, and kept up a website called Greenwych which hosted his publications. He also published a journal called Crosscurrents and published his music under the series name of Some New Old Music. He has also worked as an artist and illustrator, journalist, and machinery designer. He passed away on September 8, 2016.
[Info from his obituary in The Saskatoon StarPhoenix, Sept. 9 to Sept. 16, 2016 as well as from his website, http://www.greenwych.ca/wik-fink.htm]

Robert Lloyd (“Bob”) Moyer was born in 1924 in Craik, Saskatchewan, and attended the University of Saskatchewan, graduating with a degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1946. He had a 32-year career as a design engineer for the PFRA design division. In this capacity, he was involved in the South Saskatchewan River Project and was the principal design engineer for the spillway crest of the South Saskatchewan River Dam (or Gardiner Dam). However, he may be more popularly known for his exceptional career as a musician. He was a founding member of the Hobby Band in the 1950s, and later formed the Bob Moyer Big Band. He married vocalist Pat Steele, a frequent musical collaborator and partner. Bob was a valued mentor to numerous musicians, and kept both jazz and big band music alive throughout western Canada for over 50 years. Throughout his career he provided accompaniment for numerous entertainers, including Bob Hope, Rich Little, Rosemary Clooney, Bill Cosby, Red Skelton and Bob Newhart; he played with jazz musicians including PJ Perry, Herbie Spanier and Oliver Jones; and he toured with Big Band musician Mart Kenney. He was awarded numerous honours, including the Queen’s Golden Jubilee medal, the Saskatchewan Jazz Festival Special Recognition award (1995), the Western Canadian Music Awards heritage award (2003), and the first Lieutenant Governor’s Celebration of the Arts Pin. He died in Regina on 4 May 2005.

Louis Bowley was born in Nottingham, England, in 1885. He emigrated to Canada in 1909, settling in Saskatchewan, as did his brothers Will and Frank, his sister Zilla, and their father, Joseph. Zilla married Walter Ward; Norm Jones was a cousin by marriage of the Ward family. Lou joined the Princess Pats (4th University Company) in 1914 and served in France; he was discharged from the army in 1920. In 1926 he married Mary Gilbert Bond, who trained as a teacher in England and continued that profession in Saskatchewan. They eventually settled in Saskatoon. Although Lou’s brothers Will and Frank both attended the University of Saskatchewan, Lou did not; he worked as a customs officer with the Saskatoon Post Office from 1920 until his death in 1950.

Carlyle Allison was a journalist, and close friend and advisor of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker. Born in Staynor, Ontario in 1907, his family moved to Winnipeg when he was a child. He attended the University of Manitoba (B.A., 1926). His journalism career started immediately after graduation: starting as a reporter and editor with the Winnipeg Tribune, 1926-1928; and reporter, bureau chief and editor with the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, 1928-1935. After a brief stint with the Montreal Gazette, he returned to the Winnipeg Tribune, progressing through the ranks as managing editor (1944), editor (1946), and editor-in-chief (1951). In 1958, he was appointed by Prime Minister Diefenbaker as a full-time (and founding) member of the Board of Broadcast Governors, the precursor to the CRTC. He served as Vice-Chairman between December 1960 and 1965, but his term was not renewed by the new Liberal government. Subsequently he worked for CJAY-TV in Winnipeg, until his retirement in 1971. He died in February 1972.

Diana Duerkop (nee Davis) graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a B.Ed. in 1969. During her time at the U of S, Duerkop was a member of the synchronized swimming team. After graduation Duerkop also worked for College of Physical Education.

Harald Finkler formerly headed the Circumpolar Affairs Directorate of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. He was responsible for the international dimension of the Department’s northern mandate, and strengthening cooperation, bilaterally and multilaterally, with Canada’s circumpolar neighbors. Multilaterally, as Director, he oversaw the provision of policy and organizational support to the Arctic Council. Moreover, Harald also acted as Canadian chair of the Council’s Sustainable Development Working Group.
Bilaterally, he guided the Directorate’s initiatives on cooperation with the Russian Federation on the Arctic. In this regard, Harald played a pivotal role in the Directorate’s longstanding contribution to Canada-USSR/Russia arctic cooperation achieved through technical assistance initiatives in building the capacity of the Indigenous Peoples of the Russian North.
Since his retirement, he continues his polar engagement as consultant on northern and indigenous issues.

Joseph Hinde was born in 1862. He married Martha Wake in Derbyshire, England in 1889 where the family was a member of the Fritchley Meeting (of Quakers). The Hindes were originally situated in Birmingham where Joseph Hinde was a coal worker and furniture mover. They had eight children: Edith, Leonard, Joseph Edward "Bob", Alfred, Winifred, Henry "Harry”, Elizabeth "Elsie" Linell, and Lydia "Daisie" Margaret. The family immigrated to Canada between 1911 and 1912 and settled near Borden Saskatchewan, where they became members of the Halcyonia Meeting of the Society of Friends. Their elder children Edith and Leonard immigrated a year ahead of the rest of the family. Once settled, the family operated a successful livestock business named Valley Springs Ranch. Initially the farm was operated by Bob Hinde (who had previously worked at Cadbury chocolates in England), however after developing severe hay allergy, the operation was taken over by his siblings Harry and Elsie. Jim Olynik (who was raised on the farm) later purchased Harry’s portion and operated it for many years, before selling to the donor, David Horn (also raised for many years on the ranch).

The family emigrated from Reed City Michigan to Spring Valley Saskatchewan in 1922 and tried to make a go of it during the worst of the Depression years, ultimately having to sell the farm and relocate to the West Coast. Henry O. Horn had four children: Charles (Bill), who died as a young adult, Elizabeth (Bessie), Clyde (David’s father), and Eleanor.