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Steele, Harwood

  • Person
  • 1897-1978

Harwood Elmes Robert Steele was born in McLeod, Alberta on May 5, 1897. He was the son of famed North-West Mounted Police officer Sam Steele. Harwood enlisted in the Army on May 5, 1915.

Steele, Ian Kenneth

  • Person
  • 1937-

Ian Kenneth Steele was a professor of History at Western University.

Stefanovic, Michael

  • Person

Michael Stefanovic is a former instructor of Project Management at Ryerson University. Stefanovic hold a degree in Engineering and a Master of Business Administration and has been a designated Project Management Professional since 1995. He has spent most of his career in industry, working as the project lead on the retrofit of the SunLife building in Montreal, as Project Controls Manager on the SNC Billiton tungsten ore refining plant, and on other real estate and resource extraction projects. He currently works as a project management consultant to clients in various industries and leads seminars in project management to diverse audiences, both in English and in French.

Steiner, Florence Bertha

  • Person
  • 1877-1946.

Florence Bertha Steiner was born November 18, 1877 in Toronto, Ontario. She attended Dufferin School, Jarvis Collegiate. She attended the Toronto Normal School, receiving her teaching certificate. She, along with her sister, ran a private school of many years. Florence moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba where she wrote a weekly fashion article for the Winnipeg Free Press. She also worked as the music and drama reporter for Winnipeg in the Saturday Evening Post and the T. Eaton Company. She had a free-lance career writing brochures and advertising jingles. At the same time she was also producing works for fiction which she published in various newspapers in Western Canada. Steiner published three books. She also belonged to the Canadian Women's Press Club. She died in Toronto on September 26, 1946.

Steinhauer, Harry

  • Person
  • 1905-2006

Harry Steinhauer was born in Krakow, Poland on June 11, 1905. His family moved to Toronto, Ontario when he was 5 years old. He attended the University of Toronto and earned his B. A. (1927), M. A. (1928), and Ph.D (1937) in French and German Literature. After graduating he would teach at the University of Saskatchewan, University of Manitoba, Ohio State University, Antioch College and Case Western Reserve University. He joined the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1964 as a professor and chair of Foreign Languages and Literatures . In 1965 the department split, with Steinhauer becoming the chair of the Department of German, Slavic and Oriental Languages. He grew the department to 20 full-time faculty and introduced the M. A. in 1967 and Ph.D in 1970 in German and an undergraduate major in Russian in 1969. He retired in 1971.
In 1962 he received the Order of Merit, First Class of the Federal Republic of Germany. He passed away on January 12, 2006.

Stereo-Travel Co.

  • Corporate body
  • 1904-1916

Stereo-Travel Co. was founded ca. 1904 specializing in the production of boxed stereograph sets. By 1913, the company had put together 26 tours each containing 100 cards of various visits. This included images of New York City, Cuba, France, Italy, Japan, and England. Stereo-Travel Co. also published custom stereographs for private organizations. By 1913, Stereo-Travel Co. had reached its height in production but unfortunately was discontinued in 1916.

Stevens, Peter

  • Person
  • 1927-

Peter Stevens was an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan.

Stevenson, George Herbert

  • Person
  • 1894-

George Herbert Stevenson was attending the University of Toronto when WW I broke out. He enlisted and was placed with the 34th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, serving at the No. 3 Canadian Stationary Hospital. After WW I he returned to the University of Toronto and earned his M. B. degree in 1918. He attended Harvard Medical School on a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1920. In 1927 he studied at Boston and Baltimore as a Commonwealth Fund Travelling Fellow. He returned to the University of Toronto and earned a certificate in Psychology in 1935.
Dr. Stevenson served as superintendent at Ontario Hospital in Whitby before his tenure at the London Hospital. While at Whitby, he developed the first graduate course in psychiatric nursing in Canada. He was Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario, teaching in the Faculty of Medicine while he was superintendent, and as special lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Psychology of the Faculty of Arts. In 1939, Dr. Stevenson was named president elect of the American Psychiatric Association, taking office in 1940, making him the first Canadian president of the APA. He provided leadership for the American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology as director for seven years. Dr. Stevenson demonstrated his commitment to the integration of psychiatry with general medicine with his establishment of the psychiatric unit in the Victoria Hospital, London. He was attested by election as a Fellow of the Humanities Section of the Royal Society of Canada. In 1952, he relocated to Vancouver, and directed drug addiction research at the University of British Columbia, eventually accepting a government post in the field of mental health as a community psychiatrist in Hawaii. He retired to Florida, and after a lengthy illness died in 1976. Dr. Stevenson co-authored Personality and Its Deviations: An Introduction to Abnormal and Medical Psychology with Dr. Leola E. Neal, and authored Drug Addiction in British Columbia, a Research Survey in 1965. Dr. Stevenson wrote extensively, and his works appeared in a variety of medical and professional journals.

Stevenson, Lionel

  • Person
  • 1902-1973

Dr. Lionel Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1922 and received his Ph.D from the University of California in 1925. He received a Bachelor of Literature from Oxford University in 1935. He taught English at the University of California at Berkeley from 1925-1930, at Arizona State College from 1937-1941. From there he moved to the University of Southern California as a professor in English and head of the Department. He joined the Duke University, teaching there from 1955-1972. He was a visiting professor of English at the University of British Columbia at the time of his death in December of 1973.
Dr. Stevenson had been a visiting professor at New York University and visiting lecturer at Oxford University, among other universities. He held a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1960 to study symbolic elements in English fiction from Meredith to Conrad.

Stevenson, Lloyd G.

  • Person
  • 1918-1988

Dr. Lloyd G. Stevenson taught at the University of Western Ontario before accepting the position of Associate Professor of the History of Medicine at McGill on July 1, 1954., as of 1 July 1954. He was also the Honorary Librarian of the McGill Medical Library and served as Assistant Librarian of the Osier Library. In 1957 he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. He was on the Board of Editors of the "Journal of the History of Medicine". Dr. Stevenson was the William H. Welch professor of History of Medicine and Director of the Institute of History of Medicine at John Hopkins University in 1978.

Stevenson, Orlando John

  • Person
  • 1869-1950

Orlando John Stevenson was born in 1869. In 1890 he qualified to be a High School Assistant through the Ministry of EducationBetween 1915 and 1943 Stevenson wrote the Canadian School Shakespeare Series that were published by Copp Clark, these books formed the standard Shakespeare guides for public and high school pupils in Canadian schools from the time of the First World War until well into the 1970s. He was the head of the English Department at the Ontario Agricultural College from 1919 to 1939. He was considered the foremost Canadian Shakespeare scholar of the time.

Stewart's Studio

  • Corporate body
  • ca. 1860-1910

Stewart's Studio was a photography studio that operated in West Baden Springs during the late nineteenth century.

Stewart, David D.

  • Person

David D. Stewart was the head of the German Department at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.

Stewart, Frankie

  • Person

Frankie Stewart received her Bachelor of Science, honours from Queen's University, Kingston Ontario. She earned her Masters in Engineering from the University of Toronto, and her Ph.D from Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow Scotland.
She joined the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering in 1991. Her organization of the Ryerson Iron Ring ceremonies has been named the "best practice" in the Greater Toronto Area, and many schools have adopted her organization processes in the delivery of their ceremonies. In January 2010, Professor Stewart was awarded a second NSERC PromoScience grant to provide continued support for engineering outreach activities such as the Research Opportunity Program in Engineering and Science (ROPES) which she initiated in 2008. In August 2010, Professor Stewart was named the Engineering Teaching Chair for the faculty and was also appointed Program Director of the First-Year and Common Engineering Office, which is departmental home to over 1,000 first-year engineering students. In 2016 she is the Associate Chair Academic Administration for the department.
She is a member of PEO - Professional Engineers of Ontario, SME - Society of Manufacturing Engineers, and ASEE - American Society of Engineering Education.

Stewart, Herbert Leslie

  • Person
  • 1882-1953

Herbert Leslie Stewart was born in County Antrim, Ireland on March 31, 1882. He moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1913 taking up a position teaching philosophy.
He founded the Dalhousie Review in 1921 and served as its editor for 26 years. Stewart published his first book "Questions of the Day in Philosophy and Psychology" in 1912. He also appeared in CBC Public Affairs broadcasts. Stewart passed away September 19, 1953.

Stewart, Roderick J.

  • Person
  • 1949-

Roderick J. Stewart resided in Markham, Ontario.

Stone, Cyril G. F.

  • Person

Lieutenant Colonel Cyril G. F. Stone was the principal chaplain in the Department of National Defense of Canada. He attended the University of Toronto - Trinity College.

Storey, Arthur G.

  • Person
  • 1915-

Arthur G. Storey won The Ryerson Fiction Award for his book "Prairie Harvest", published in 1959.

Stothers, Carman Edmund

  • Person
  • 1896-

Carman Edmund Stothers was born June 11, 1896. He enlisted in the Canadian Armed Forces during WWI. He was an Inspector of Schools in Picton, Ontario.

Stothers, John Cannon

  • Person
  • 1887-1938

John Cannon Stothers was born May 9, 1887 in Ashfield, Ontario. He enlisted in the Canadian Armed Forces on January 22, 1916.
After being injured, he remained in England as a musketry instructor. He was a teacher before enlisting. His letters home have been published into a book "Somewhere in France : the letters of John Cannon Stothers 1916-1919".

Stowe, Hudson

  • Person

Hudson Stowe is the grandson of Emily Howard Jennings Stowe, the first female public-school principal in Ontario, the first Canadian woman to practise medicine openly and a pioneering leader in the woman-suffrage movement. She was born Emily Jennings in 1831 in Norwich Township, Upper Canada and educated at the Toronto Normal School where she graduated with honours at the end of the 1853-1854 school year. She was soon appointed principal of a Brantford public school where she taught until her marriage to John Stowe in 1856. Emily Stowe had two sons and one daughter, Dr. Augusta Stowe-Gillen, who followed in her mother's pioneering footsteps. She died in 1903. The name Howard in Emily Howard Jennings Stowe's full name refers to her mother's maiden name.

Strahlendorf, Peter

  • Person
  • unknown

Dr. Peter Strahlendorf is an Associate Professor in the School of Occupational and Public Health at Ryerson University. Since 1986, he has been teaching in both the daytime degree program and with Ryerson's Continuing Education division. In 2005, Professor Strahlendorf received an outstanding teacher award for his contribution to continuing education courses at Ryerson.

Straka, Vera

  • Person

Vera Straka has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Architectural Science at Ryerson University since 1991. She received a M.Eng. from the University of Toronto, in 1989, and a B.Sc. from Imperial College, University of London in 1972. She is a fellow of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, a member of the Ontario Building Envelope Council, a member of the Institution of Structural Engineers, and as of 2015 a Member of the Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) Order of Honour. Straka teaches in the area of building science, including structures, materials, integration studio, building performance and sustainable design at undergraduate and graduate levels. Her research interests include building performance, resource efficiency and sustainable design.

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