"Selwyn Lloyd Pullan, a distinguished Canadian photographer, born in Vancouver in 1922. He attended Vancouver Technical School and served in the Canadian Navy aboard H.M.C.S. Dunvegan during the Second World War. He also attended the prestigious Art Center School in Los Angeles were he studied under Ansel Adams on a Veteran's grant. He returned to Vancouver and specialized in building photography and was appreciated by architects as one who saw buildings from the architects' point of view. He was published in Western Homes and Living, Maclean's, the Vancouver Sun, the New York Times, Canadian Interiors, Progressive Architecture, Architectural Digest, and photographed for many advertising agencies. He helped establish Professional Colour Prints in Kitsilano in the '60s and spread his interests to pioneer digital sound recordings where he noticed that sound and light have similar characteristics and a similar vocabulary. His photographs have documented B.C. mid-century modernism and left the west coast of Canada an archive of outstanding architectural creation."

Source: https://www.legacy.com/ca/obituaries/nsnews/name/selwyn-pullan-obituary?pid=186817161

Debenham was an active photographer and miniature painter circa 1872-1925) with studios at Ryde and Sandown, Isle of Wight.

Providence Healthcare is a hospital and long term-care facility in Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario. The hospital has a catholic legacy dating back to when the Sisters of St.Joseph founded the House of Providence.

The Toronto Sportsmen Show is an annual exhibition dedicated for outdoor enthusiasts (fishing, hunting, boating, power sports) to showcase and purchase new technologies, connect amongst themselves, and learn more about related outdoor activities.

Dr. Carla Cassidy was a Professor Emerita in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson University. She received her Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from York University and her Master of Arts (MA) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from McMaster University , where she studied Political Philosophy.
She worked at Ryerson for 33 years in the Department of Politics and Public Administration. She was the chair of the department between 1996-2001 and developed the partnership between her department and the First Nations Technical Institute that delivers the BA in Public Administration and Governance to First Nations administrators in various locations across Ontario. She was the Dean of the Faculty of Arts between 2001-2010. During her time as the Dean, 9 new programs and many graduate programs. She participated in the fundraising and set up of the Chair in Indigenous Governance and the Centre for Indigenous Governance. She served as the Interim Vice President Research and Innovation from 2010-2011. In 2013 she received the Errol Aspevig Award for Outstanding Academic Leadership, and in 2015 she received the inaugural Dean's Excellence Award for Leadership. Carla Cassidy passed away September 30, 2022.

Audrey Bowes was hired by Ryerson's Civil Engineering department in 1958. She worked at Ryerson until her retirement in 1994. She passed away June 15, 2022.

Bonnie Hartley was a professor in the School of Nursing. She passed away May 19, 2022.

American cartoonist most well known for creating the character, "Garfield."

Cathy Crowe is a long-time Street Nurse in Toronto. She has worked in the area of homelessness since 1988.
Cathy obtained her diploma in nursing from Toronto General Hospital in 1972, her Bachelor of Applied Arts in Nursing from Ryerson in 1985, and her Masters of Education (Sociology) from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in 1992. In 1998 she co-founded the Toronto Disaster Relief Committee (TDRC) which declared homelessness a National Disaster. The disaster campaign is a three level campaign targeting federal, provincial and municipal solutions to the homeless disaster and housing crisis. Its signature 1% slogan refers to the demand that all levels of government commit an additional 1% of their budgets to affordable housing.
Cathy has received a number of awards including an International Human Rights Award in Nursing in Amsterdam from the International Centre for Nursing Ethics in 2003 and in 2018 Cathy received the Order of Canada. She has also been the recipient of many honourary degrees: in June 2001 an Honourary Doctor of Science in Nursing from the University of Victoria in British Columbia; in June, 2005 an Honourary Doctor of Laws from McMaster University in Hamilton; in 2008 an Honourary Doctorate of the University from the University of Ottawa; in June 2010, an Honourary Doctorate of Laws from York University (Canada); in June 2015, an Honourary Doctor of Laws from the University of Windsor; and in 2021 an Honourary Doctor of Laws from the Law Union of Ontario.
From 2004-2009 she was the recipient of the Atkinson Charitable Foundation’s Economic Justice Award and worked both locally and nationally on issues related to homelessness. During her fellowship she authored Dying for a Home: Homeless Activists Speak Out (Between the Lines, 2007). She was the Executive Producer of Home Safe Calgary and Home Safe Toronto, a national documentary film and community development project on homeless families and children, with filmmaker Laura Sky. Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University) appointed Cathy Crowe Distinguished Visiting Practitioner in 2013 and she is currently situated in the Faculty of Arts, Politics and Public Administration Department.
At Toronto Metropolitan University Cathy collaborated with the Jack Layton Chair to launch the Jack Layton School for Youth Leadership, and launched Community Health and Social Justice Walks for students from across the University.
Her most recent books include "A Knapsack Full of Dreams. Memoirs of a Street Nurse" (Friesen Press, 2019) and "Displacement City. Fighting for Health and Homes in a Pandemic" (UofT Press with Greg Cook).
More info is available on her website www.cathycrowe.ca

Dave Upham started at Ryerson in 1981 as an AV technician, and becoming assistant photographer shortly after. In 2010, he became Ryerson's only full-time photographer, He retired in 2014. Dave Upham passed away February 23, 2023.

It is believed that some of the following factors contributed to the development and establishment of the Ryerson Theatre School program: 1950-1970: Acting course part of the RTA curriculum. (1970-1994: Theatre arts course became an elective of the RTA curriculum). 1964: Jack McAllister (English department faculty member) developed a theatre course within the English program. 1967: Jack McAllister placed in charge of Ryerson Theatre. 1968: McAllister became Artistic Director of Theatre Studies, Ryerson Theatre. 1971: Official establishment of Ryerson Theatre Department, program beginning in the Fall. 1972: McAllister became first Chair of Theatre Department. The school changed its name in 2016.

Ethel A DeMings was member of the faculty of Institutional Management program at Ryerson Institute of Technology. The program would eventually evolve in the Ted Rogers School of Hospitality and Tourism Management. DeMings retired in 1972 as the director of Home Economics and passed away in 1998.

The Library was established, with William Willcox appointed as the Librarian. It was located in two rooms on the ground floor of the Ryerson Hall (Normal School) building and was used mainly for meetings. Its first order of 1,000 volumes of books was placed in 1949. In 1954, Margaret Culp was appointed Head Librarian, with the library collection growing to 7,000 volumes in 1956. Philip McLeod was appointed Head Librarian in 1957. In 1958, the Library Collection grows to 8,000 books and 200 periodicals while small collections of photographic slides and paperbacks are added to the holdings. As well, students were given their first orientation by staff.

In 1960, the fourth Head Librarian appoint is Barbara Knox, and in 1961 the Library issued its first statement of objectives. In 1962, Margaret MacGregor is appointed Head Librarian. In 1963 the Library is relocated to the newly completed Howard Kerr Hall and its collection grows to 15,000 volumes. In 1965, Arthur Paulaitis was appointed Head Librarian. In 1966, the Library moved to the MGM building at the s/w corner of Gould and Victoria Sts, and by 1967 the library had 6 librarians on staff. In 1968 the library moved again to the Business building (later named Victoria Building) on Victoria Street.

In 1971, the Library's first collection development policy is created, and by 1972 it had 90 000 volumes with specialized collections such as periodicals on microfilm and government documents are established. In 1974, the Library is renamed the Learning Resources Centre and John North is appointed as its new Director, replacing Arthur Paulaitis, and the Donald Mordell Learning Resources Centre is officially opened on the site of the old MGM building. In 1976, the Ryerson Archives, established in 1971, becomes affiliated with the Library and in 1977 two new special collections are established within the Library - the Energy Centre and the Third World Learning Resources Centre. In 1979, the Ryerson Library becomes the first library in North America to operate its circulation on the DOBIS/LIBIS on-line computer system.

In 1990, Richard Malinski is appointed Chief Librarian, replacing John North.

The Library grew to include the Law Library and in time the School of Medicine library and, thus, in 2023 the name was changed from Library to Libraries.

Havelock Howard (Hack) Yates was the Vice President, Academic, of Ryerson from 1971 to 1974. Yates was born in Cochrane, Ontario. From 1941 to 1945, he served with the Royal Canadian Air Force, completing his pre-flight training at St. James Square---in the school that would later become Ryerson Polytechnic Institute. He earned his Bachelor of Science (1948) and his PhD (1952) from McGill University. Prior to his appointment at Ryerson, Yates was the Associate Dean, Academic, of the Faculty of Engineering at McGill University (1967 - 1971). From 1963 to 1971, he was the Birks Chair in Metallurgy at McGill and served as Chairman of the Department of Metallurgical Engineering from 1961 to 1965. His academic research interests included corrosion and oxidation mechanisms. Before entering academia, Yates worked for Cominco, Inco, Alcan and the Research Division of Standard Oil Development Co. He was district Vice-President and Chairman of the Montreal Chapter of the American Society for Metals and National Director of the National Association of Corrosion Engineers. After leaving Ryerson, Yates became Vice-Chairman of the Ontario Council of Graduate Studies. He returned to Ryerson in 1978 as a part-time consultant on the development of Applied Research. He passed away in July of 2013.

He began his journalism career in Sarnia and London Ontario and later moved to Toronto and worked for the Toronto Star and the Globe & Mail. He was interested in popular culture with a focus on old Canadian comic books, Toronto movie houses, radio and Hollywood films and particularly the serials of the Republic Studio.

He was part of a group of popular culture aficionados connected to the Memory Lane Memorabilia Store at 594 Markham Street in Toronto.

He edited the fanzines of the “Vast Whizzbang Organization” including Captain George’s Whizzbang, and Captain George’s Penny Dreadful. Each Whizbang issue included a reprint of a page from one of Canada’s 1940’s comic books, identifying which comic book it came from. Through these reprints a new generation of Canadians were introduced to “Brok Windsor”, “Freelance”, “Dixon of the Mounted”, Commando Yank, Cosmos, “Sooper Dooper”, “Black Wing”, “The Crusaders”, “Sergeant Canuck”, and so on. Although the editor of these reprints was not identified it had to have been Peter.

Captain George’s Penny Dreadful, as stated above was a weekly newsletter printed on an eight and a half by 11 inch sheet of paper folded in half. The back page was written by Pete Harris and contained short events items. The two inside pages were filled by various writers most often those listed above.

Perhaps his most important contribution to Canadian cartooning came in the form of his work in The World Encyclopedia of Comics where he wrote about some of the principal characters and authors connected with the Canadian scene of the 1940’s.

Later Harris published independently the Hogtown Gazette.

Source: https://canadianaci.ca/Encyclopedia/harris-peter-john/