Saskatchewan writer, poet, cultural consultant, curator, museum and art gallery director, and historian, Terrence George Heath was born in Regina, August 25, 1936. He graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a Bachelor of Art (Honours) in 1961; the University of Oregon with a Master of Arts in 1962; and Oxford University with a Doctor of Philosophy in 1966. He also studied Art History at the University of Munich in 1959-60. Terrence Heath taught as an Associate Professor of History at the University of Saskatchewan from 1966-1972, but left that institution to pursue a career as a writer and consultant. He was Executive Director of the Western Development Museums of Saskatchewan (1977-1980), and Director of the Winnipeg Art Gallery (1983-1985). Between these appointments and subsequently, Heath has worked as a freelance writer, curator, and cultural consultant. As a writer, Heath's articles and essays have appeared extensively in "Border Crossings", "C Magazine", "ArtsCanada" and other magazines from 1968 to the present. His poetry has been published in "Canadian Forum", "Waves", "Fiddlehead", "Descant", "Writing", "ArtsManitoba", "Prairie Fire", and "Grain". He is the author or co-author of seven books of poetry, short stories, fiction, and biography including: 1) The Truth and Other Stories (short stories, 1972); 2) Interstices of Night (poetry, 1979); 3) Wild Man's Butte (poems with Anne Szumigalski, 1979); 4) The Last Hiding Place (novel, 1982); 5) Uprooted: The Art and Life of Ernest Lindner (1983); 6) Journey/Journee (with Anne Szumigalski, 1988); 7) Memories of a Governor-General's Daughter (with Joan Michner-Rohr, 1991). Several of his radioscripts and filmscripts were produced and/or purchased by CBC and National Film Board. He has written catalogues for and/or curated over 20 art exhibitions for galleries in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Scotland and France, and has produced over 45 consulting reports for associations, agencies, individuals and government departments throughout Canada and in Nairobi, Kenya. Terrence Heath's professional activities and memberships include: Chair, Council of the Ontario College of Art (1993-); PEN International Conference (member, 1989); Harbourfront Public Programming Advisory Committee (member, 1989); Writers' Union of Canada, Copyright Committee (member, 1988); the Niagara Institute Taskforce on Buildings and Grounds (member, 1988-90); Public Lending Rights Commission (member 1987-88); Olympic Sculpture Commission (Judge, 1988) and others. He has received a number of grants, scholarships, and awards, including a Silver Medal in the National Awards for Poetry in 1986, and the Saskatchewan Award of Merit in 1984. From his first marriage Heath has three sons; Paul, Joseph and Simon. He married Louise Harris on August 16, 1986, and they reside in Toronto and Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario.

Theodore Allen Heinrich was born June 15, 1910, in Tacoma, Washington. He was raised primarily in Berkeley, California by his parents, forensic examiner Edward Oscar Heinrich, and Marion Allen Heinrich, a member of the social group Daughters of the American Revolution. He was educated mainly in California, and received his Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and art history from the University of California. This was followed by a Master of Literature (M.Litt) from Cambridge (King's College) in 1936. Although Heinrich claimed a PhD from the same in 1937, it is unclear whether this was actually obtained. Studying under professor Geoffrey Webb, his thesis was entitled: "Payne Knight, Price and Picturesque." Upon leaving university, Heinrich travelled for some time around the world. In 1942-43, after WWII started in Europe, Heinrich applied to become a bombardier but was unsuccessful. Instead, his father was instrumental in obtaining a place for him in military intelligence. He trained at Camp Ritchie in Maryland, then travelled to England to direct bombers against French, Belgian, and German railway lines with SHAEF, the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force. At the end of the war, Heinrich was perfectly placed to transfer to MFA (Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives), in Wiesbaden, Germany. There he helped the Allied efforts to retitue art that had been looted by the Nazis during the war. He organized several major exhibitions of significant art works before they were returned to their respective owners. Upon the termination of this effort, Heinrich returned to the United States where he joined the Henry E. Huntington Library, in Pasadena, California as Curator of Art Collections and Senior Fellow for Art History for the period 1951-52. Heinrich moved on to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where he was Associate Curator of Paintings and Curator-in-charge of drawings. He stayed at the Metropolitan until 1956, when he became Director of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. He resigned from there under cloudy curcumstances in 1962. The following year he served a temporary appointment as Cultural Affairs Advisor jointly to the Asia Foundation and the Government of Pakistan. He conducted a survey of cultural resources and facilities in that country and prepared recommendations on the development of selected ones. Upon conclusion of this work he made an extended study tour of South and Southeast Asia and Japan. After following up with consulting work, preparing a report on the city art gallery and the museum in Vancouver among other projects, he was invited by Ron Bloore to come to the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus, to be the first Visiting Professor of Art History (1964-65). From Regina Campus he was able to apply to York University , where he became a professor of art history. He worked there until his death from cancer in 1981. By the end of his life he had amassed an enormous and extremely valuable estate of books, prints, drawings, and lithographs, as well as illuminated manuscripts and contemporary art works. The main strength of his collection was in seventeenth and eighteenth century European works. Drawings possible by Velasquez, drawings gathered by the Italian collector, Pacetti, and a bound volume of 24 letters from Frederick the Great to Voltaire were among the art works. Their unknown provenance made their ultimate disposition difficult.

Reg Higgs joined the Department of Physical Education, University of Regina in 1974. He laid the foundation for the Cougars Hockey program in 1974 and 1975 and was the head coach until 1985 when he left the University of Regina for a job as assistant coach for the New York Rangers. During his ten years as head coach, the Cougars won four Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Championships. Higgs himself was named both GPAC and Canadian Inter-university Athletic Union (CIAU) Coach of the Year for the 1981-82 season. Reg Higgs obtained a Masters degree in physiology from Penn State University, and a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Minnesota, where his academic work was in the area of athletic injuries and educational programs for exceptional children.

Owen Holmes was appointed as Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Regina College in 1956. He served on many committees during his tenure at Regina, including the Basterfield Lectureship Committee, the Chemistry Committee, and the Committee on Committees. He helped plan for the new campus, and organized the gala for the installation of the new principal, Dr. W.A. Riddell in 1963. Locally, he served as chair of the South Saskatchewan Section of the Chemical Institute of Canada, and was a member of the Regina Astronomical Society. He was involved in teaching courses with the Emergency Measures Organization regarding civil defense, and helped fight in the unsuccessful flouridation for Regina campaign. Owen Holmes left Regina Campus for a position at Lethbridge College July 1, 1965.

Manitoba painter Arthur Horsfall was born in Winnipeg in 1915. He was educated in England and Canada, and studied art at the Winnipeg School of Art under L.L. Fitzgerald and Joe Plaskett. He also attended night classes at the Forum Art Institute in Winnipeg with N. Bjelajac, and summer workshops under Ken Lochhead at St. Andrews By the Sea and Roy Kiyooka at the Banff School of Fine Arts. He began his career as a commercial artist in Winnipeg where he worked for Stovel Printing, Rapid Grip and Batten, Western Engraving, and the McConnel Eastman Advertising Agency. After thirty years in the commercial art business he left in 1967 to devote himself full-time to painting. Horsfall is best known for his realistic Winnipeg Street scenes. His work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Canada and the U.S., and he has won a number of awards including the Seagram Award (1965), the Price Fine Arts Award, Montreal (1966), and the Hudson's Bay Company Centennial Award (1974). He has received grants from the Canadian Council and the Manitoba Arts Council, and he taught art at the Forum Art Institute and the University of Manitoba Extension Department. He was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, and was a founding member of the Art Directors Club of Winnipeg. Arthur Horsfall died in October, 1995 in Winnipeg, and was survived by his wife, Katherine, and a son, Brian.

Roy Kiyooka was born in 1926 in Moose Jaw, Sask. He received his initial art training at the Calgary Institute of Technology and Art. He taught painting classes at the Regina College School of Art from 1957 to 1959. After leaving Regina, Kiyooka lived and taught in Vancouver, Montreal, Calgary, Halifax, Victoria, Charlottetown and in Vancouver again, where he remained until his death in 1994. While Kiyooka was in Regina he associated with members of the Regina 5, mainly Ron Bloore, Ken Lochhead and Art McKay. He attended some of the Emma Lake Artists' Workshops, most notably was the one in which Barnett Newman was leader. Newman was known for his tecniques in colour-field painting. In 1969, Kiyooka gave up painting to pursue other art forms, mainly poetry and photography, with excursions into sculpture, video, film, collage, music and performance. He taught in the Fine Arts Dept at the University of British Columbia from 1973 to 1991. Kiyooka wrote 'Nevertheless these eyes' in 1967, 'Transcanada Letters' between 1971 and 1975 and 'Pear Tree Poems' in 1987. Kiyooka died January 1994.

Myrna Ann Kostash is an investigative journalist and writer of regional and national acclaim. She was born in Edmonton, Alberta on September 2, 1944. She attended the University of Alberta, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in 1965, majoring in Russian. She then pursued graduate studies in Slavic language and literature at the University of Washington (1965-1966), and at the University of Toronto where she received a Master of Arts in 1968. Kostash is the author of four books: "All of Baba's children" (1977); "Long Way from Home: the Story of the Sixties Generation in Canada" (1980); "No Kidding: Inside the World of Teenage Girls" (1987); and "Bloodlines" (1993). Her articles and short stories have appeared in several anthologies, and extensively in periodicals such as "Chatelaine", "Maclean's", "Saturday Night", and "Canadian Forum". She has contributed radio, television, and film scripts to the CBC and the National Film Board, and has written stage plays. She has lectured widely in Canada and has taught courses, workshops, and seminars across the country. Myrna Kostash has been heavily involved with a number of professional organizations, serving on the executive of the Writers Union of Canada, the Periodical Writers of Canada, and the Alberta Writers Guild. She was on the Board of Directors of NeWest Press from 1982-1989. She was named Max Bell Professor of Journalism at the University ofRegina in 1989, and received the Alberta Achievement Award in 1989. Myrna Kostash resides in Edmonton.

Name:Patrick Lane. His parents were Albert and Elaine Lane. He had three brothers Dick (deceased), John and Micheal and one sister named Linda. His first marriage was to Mary Hayden. They had three children: Chris, Mark and Kate. He divorced Mary and married Carol Beale. They had two children:Micheal and Richard. He began a relationship with writer Lorna Crozier in the late 1970s. Place of residence:Patrick Lane was born in Nelson, B.C. on March 26, 1939. In his earlier adult years, Lane travelled and worked around many areas of British Columbia. However in relation to this collection, there are five cities in Canada thet were his prominent place of residence:Edmonton, Montreal, Regina, Saskatoon, and Toronto. Occupation, life and activities: From the late 1960s to the present day Patrick Lane's primary occupation has been that of a poet and writer. In 1978 he won the Governor General's Award for poetry for his book POEMS, NEW AND SELECTED (1978). Throughout his career he has won numerous other awards. He published over sixteen books of poetry, one children's book, and he has been featured in several anthologies. Patrick Lane has also been employed as a writer-in-residence in various educational institutions, and libraries across Canada and he has also conducted many writing seminars and workshops.

Dr. Howard Leyton-Brown was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1918. He began violin lessons at the age of seven and at twelve, obtained a three year university scholarship, eventually graduating with a Diploma of music from Melbourne University. In 1937, Leyton-Brown moved to England with his mother and sister, where he continued to study the violin. He also went on to study in Germany and Belgium. With the advent of the Second World War, Leyton-Brown joined the Royal Air Force, spending time in Estevan, Saskatchewan as an instructor as well as flying with the bombing command, which led to his receiving the Distinguished Flying Cross. In 1948, Leyton-Brown joined the London Philharmonic Orchestra as deputy concertmaster, eventually becoming concertmaster. Doubts about the future of the London Philharmonic brought Leyton-Brown back to Estevan where he began to search for employment in Canada's music world. In 1952 he became head of the string department at the Conservatory of Music in Regina. In 1955, he became Director of the Conservatory, a position which he occupied until his retirement in June of 1986. His activities within the Department of Music at the University of Regina led to a Full Professorship in 1966. As well, Leyton-Brown has been an intregal part of the Regina Symphony Orchestra, conducting the Symphony from 1960 to 1971 and becoming concertmaster in the mid-seventies. In 1971, Leyton-Brown completed a Doctorate of Musical Arts and Musical Performance at Ann Arbor, Michigan. Leyton-Brown was appointed to the Canada Council for a four year term (1971-74), as a member from 1966 to 1972, and as Director in 1967. He was also appointed to the Order of Canada in 1987. Leyton-Brown has performed internationally and many of his students have gone on to play in major symphonies in Canada, the United States, and overseas. He continued to teach violin and viola at the Conservatory after his retirement as its Director.

Printmaker and screen shop operator Bill Lobchuk was born in Neepawa, Manitoba in 1942. He studied under Ken Lochhead and received a Diploma of Art from the University of Manitoba in 1966. In 1968 he opened the Screen Shop at 50 Princess Street in Winnipeg. By the early 70s he had operated the Screen Shop, the Printmakers Gallery and the Sunnyside Sign Company. These were replaced by the Grand Western Canadian Screen Shop which he formed with partner Len Anthony in 1973. The Shop was a focal point for many printmakers and artists through the 1970s. Artists such as Judith Allsopp, Ted Howorth, Chris Finn, Robert Archambeau, Don Proch and Tony Tascona, from Winnipeg and David Thauberger, Vic Cicansky, Joe Fafard and Russ Yuristy from Saskatchewan printed many of their works at or through the Shop. Both Lobchuk's own works and those printed through and by his screen shop have received recognition in Canada and throughout the world, with shows and works in France, Poland, Yugoslavia, Holland, Norway and Japan. Bill Lobchuk was also active in various professional organizations. He was President of the Canadian Artists' Representation, Manitoba, from 1972 to 1975, National Representative of the same organization from 1976 to 1978, and National Director from 1978 to 1980. He was a member of the Manitoba Arts Council from 1974 to 1976, President of the Canadian National Committee of the International Association of Art (1977-80), on the Advisory Committee to Gallery Oseredok of the Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Centre and fund-raiser for the Jack Chambers Foundation.

Artist Kenneth Campbell Lochhead was born in Ottawa, Ontario on May 22, 1926, the son of Allan Grant and Helen Louise (Van Wart) Lochhead. Following high school graduation, he took a commercial art course at the Ottawa Technical High School (1944-1945) and attended art school at Queen's University, Kingston, during the summer of 1944. He then entered the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts where he studied until 1949. He won a number of awards at the academy, including travelling scholarships which enabled him to travel and study in Europe. He also studied art history and appreciation for two years at the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania (1946-1948). Ken Lochhead began his academic working career as the Director of the School of Art at the University of Saskatchewan Regina College, in 1950. He was also charged with developing what became the Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery. Under his guidance both the School and the Gallery blossomed. In 1955, Lochhead began the Emma Lake Artists' Workshops. While the first was led by Canadian artist Jack Shadbolt, this summer series was soon taught by such New York artists as Herman Cherry, Barnett Newman, Kenneth Noland, and Jules Olitski, as well as famed art critic Clement Greenberg. About this time Lochhead also began to garner major commissions, completing an enormous mural at Gander, Newfoundland, entitled: "Flight and its Allegories" (1957-58). In 1961, the National Gallery of Canada, through Richard Simmins, mounted the exhibit "Five Painters from Regina". Lochhead, Arthur McKay, Ronald Bloore, Douglas Morton and Ted Godwin became known as "The Regina Five", and made their permanent mark in Canadian art history. In 1964 Lochhead left Regina to take up an appointment as a professor of painting at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. He moved to a similar post at York University in 1973, and on to the University of Ottawa from 1975 until his retirement in 1990. Lochhead's work has appeared in numerous solo and group exhibitions at public and commercial galleries throughout Canada and in the United States, and is widely represented in major institutional collections. He has served on many arts committees, including the Art Advisory Committee of the National Capital Commission, Ottawa (1976-1985) and the Fine Arts Advisory Committee, Wascana Centre Authority, Regina (1975-76, 1979-88). He has won several awards for his work and in 1971 he was awarded the medal of the Order of Canada. Ken Lochhead married Patricia Ann Poole in 1952. Following their divorce in 1973 he married Joanne E. Bryers. He has two sons and four daughters. He continues to reside in Ottawa, Ontario.

Name:David Teal Lowery. He was most often referred to by his middle name Teal. His parents were Harold and Mary Lowery. Mr. Lowery had four children and five step-children. Place of Residence:Teal Lowery was born in Calgary, Alberta on November 22, 1936. He completed high-school in Calgary and then moved to Saskatoon,Saskatchewan. He recieved his bachelor of commerce degree in 1962 at the University of Saskatchewan. In July, 1965, Mr. Lowery moved to Regina to become an accounting professor at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus. He then moved to Fort Qu'Appelle and commuted to work at the University of Saskatchewan,Regina Campus and eventually the University of Regina, until his sudden death on August 27, 1986. Occupation, life and activities:In 1964, Mr. Lowery became a chartered accountant with Clarkson, Gordon, and Company; and in 1970, he became a registered industrial accountant. He was hired by the University of Saskatchewan Regina Campus as an accounting professor in July, 1965. He was subsequently promoted to associate professor of administration and served as assistant dean in the Faculty of Administration from 1966 to 1972. Mr. Lowery became the University Secretary in 1972 until 1985. He was appointed University Vice-President Corporate Development in 1986 and fulfilled the requirements of this position until his death. Mr. Lowery served as director for the Gabriel Dumont Institute, the Saskatchewan Indian Federated College, and the Wascana Authority. He also edited accounting manuscripts for Irwin Dorsey and McGraw Hill publishers. He served as president for the Society of Management Accountants of Canada and past president of the Regina Campus Faculty Association. He was a member of the Saskatchewan and Alberta Institute of Chartered Accountants and served on several national committees, boards, and associations in professional and academic circles. Mr. Lowery was the first person to be awarded the University of Regina's Distiguished Service Award posthumously.

Born in London in 1919, John Bertram Mantle came to Canada that same year. He attended Paynton Consolidated School in Paynton, Saskatchewan and City Park Collegiate in Saskatoon. From the University of Saskatchewan he earned a Bachelor of Engineering degree in 1941, majoring in Mechanical Engineering. After working for a year with the Canadian General Electric Co. in Peterborough and Toronto, Ontario, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force, trained in Lachine, Quebec and at the Aeronautical Engineering School in Montreal, and served at the Flying Service Training School in Moncton, New Brunswick and at Air Force Headquarters in Ottawa. Following the war, in the fall of 1945, Mantle took up a position as Instructor in Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan. While teaching he earned a M.Sc. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the University of Illinois at Urbana in 1947. His major area of research was photoelasticity. In 1948 he was promoted to assistant professor, and in 1956 to full professor, and assumed the position of Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering in 1958. In 1967 he transferred to Regina Campus to serve as first Dean of the new Faculty of Engineering, a post he held until 1979. He was instrumental in developing Engineering programs and in introducing the innovative concept of co-operative education. John Mantle was active in professional engineering organizations and was made a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada in 1970. In recognition of his achievements in engineering education, research and leadership the Association of Professional Engineers of Saskatchewan presented him with its first Distinguished Service Award in 1979. He was made a life member of both these groups, as well as the Association of Professional Engineers of British Columbia and the American Society for Engineering Education. Professor Mantle retired from the University of Regina in 1983 and was named Professor Emeritus of Engineering. Besides his academic and professional activities, John Mantle was also active for several years in air force reserve work, beginning in 1948 when he assumed command of the University of Saskatchewan R.C.A.F. Cadets. John Mantle married Nina Dorothy Akchurst of Saskatoon on June 9, 1942 in Toronto. They have two sons, Brian John (1945) and Gregory Lionel (1950). Since his retirement Professor and Mrs. Mantle have resided in Creston, British Columbia.

Painter and art professor Arthur McKay was born in Nipawin, Saskatchewan in 1926. He studied art at the Alberta Institute of Technology and Art in Calgary (1946-1948), the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris (1949-1950), and at Columbia University in New York and the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania (1956-1957). He also attended the Emma Lake Artists Workshops under Jack Shadbolt (1955), Joe Plaskett (1956), Will Barnet (1957), Barnett Newman (1959), and Jules Olitski (1964). In 1952 Art McKay was appointed Special Lecturer in Art at the School of Art, University of Saskatchewan, Regina College. He was Head of the School from 1964-1967, eventually retiring from the University of Regina as Associate Professor in 1987, whereupon he was named Professor Emeritus. During a leave from the University, McKay also taught at the Nova Scotia College of Art in Halifax, 1967-1969. Art McKay is a member of the famous 'Regina Five' abstract painters who received international attention when their work was featured in an exhibition entitled 'Five Painters from Regina' organized by the National Gallery of Canada in 1961. His work has been shown across Canada and internationally and is represented in many public and private collections. He currently lives in British Columbia.

Thomas Hector MacDonald McLeod was born August 11, 1918 in Weyburn, Saskatchewan. He graduated from Weyburn Collegiate Institute in 1936, and attended Brandon College (B.A. in Economics, 1940); Indiana University (A.M. in Economics, 1941); and Harvard university (M.P.A., 1948, Ph.D., 1959). Dr. McLeod taught economics and sociology at Brandon College from 1941 to 1944, and from 1944 until 1946 he was an economic adviser to the Government of Saskatchewan. For the next three years he was secretary of the Economic Advisory and Planning Board of the Saskatchewan Government and, from 1949 to 1950, he was director of the Saskatchewan Budget Bureau. He was appointed deputy provincial treasurer in 1950. He joined the University ofSaskatchewan, Saskatoon as Dean of the College of Commerce in 1952, serving until 1964 when he was appointed Dean of the College of Arts and Science at Regina Campus. He served as Vice-Principal of Regina Campus from 1968 to 1970. During his tenure at the University Dr. McLeod served on numerous university and external bodies. In 1970 he chaired the University of Sasktchewan committee studying the role of the university in the community, and was chairman of the Sasktchewan Royal Commission on Taxation, 1963-1964. As an economic consultant Dr. McLeod undertook several appointments. In 1960, he was in Turkey on a Ford Foundation appointment as chief consultant to the Turkish government on a project involving the central government planning agency. The following year he spent in Iran as supervisor of an eight-man Harvard University advisory team to advise the Iranian government on economic planning activities and organization. In 1970 he travelled to Africa as a member of a commission to advise on the academic and physical reorganization of the University of Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland, and in 1971-72 he worked in Ottawa advising the Canadian International Development Association (CIDA) on foreign aid to post-secondary institutions in 30 countries. Dr. MacLeod was married and had five children.