• 1949 - CJRT launches with limited broadcast to Toronto area, on frequency 88.3.
• 1950 - Frequency changes to 91.1 MHz, .CJRT-FM.
• 1954 - Used as training for RTA.
• 1964 - Licensee changes from RTA to the Board of Governors and run by professional staff with part-time student employees.
• 1965 - Disk jockey, Ted O'Reilly, begins popular jazz program.
• 1971 - First broadcast of new Open College with university level Sociology; a first in North America.
• 1973 - Ryerson announces plans to surrender licence.
• 1974 - November 29 - a non-profit company incorporates to acquire CJRT, which changes to CJRT-FM Inc.. However, Ryerson retains an affiliation with CJRT-FM with Open College.
• 1981 - Antenna moved to the CN Tower.
• 1992 - 2000 - An increase in jazz program(s) and less of other music genres.
• 1996 - provincial government cancelled the radio's annual operating stipend of $1,300,00 [Jazz FM91 website].
• 2001 - Move to an all jazz format.
• 2006 - Move from Ryerson campus to Liberty Village.
• 2009 - Broadcasts on radio and online.Digital radio and licence as CJRT-DR-1.
• 2010 - CJRT obtains licence to become Jazz FM91.

Terry Grier was President Emeritus at Ryerson University (renamed Toronto Metropolitan University in 2022), and Professor Emeritus in its Department of Politics and Public Administration. He held a Bachelor of Arts (Political Science) and a Masters of Arts (Political Theory), both from the University of Toronto. He joined Ryerson Polytechnic Institute in 1969, and taught in what is now the Department of Politics and Public Administration. Terry served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1972 to 1974 (NDP - Toronto-Lakeshore). Following the 1974 federal election he returned to Ryerson, where he continued to teach in the politics department. After terms as Dean of Arts and Vice-President Academic, he was appointed Ryerson's president in 1988 and oversaw the institution's transformation into a full university in 1993. He was named "President Emeritus" by the Board of Governors upon his retirement in 1995.
In retirement he served as Board chair of CJRT-FM (now Jazz FM); as Chair of the Board of Trustees of Trinity College, and later as chair of its Development committee; and has been an active lay person in the Anglican parish of St Margaret, New Toronto. Terry Grier passed away in March of 2023.

Janis Langins has a Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical Engineering and a Ph.D. He taught at Victoria College, University of Toronto. Langins was a historian of technology with interests in the history of engineering, particularly the social history of engineering in France during the eighteenth century and the French Revolution. In this connection he has dabbled in the history of ballooning. Teaching interests, besides the history of technology, are the history of energy. He was affiliated with the Institute for History and Philosophy, Science and Technology.

Dr. Farah Shroff was a professor in the Department of Midwifery at Ryerson University from 1994 to 1998. Shroff earned her BSc in Biology and Native Studies from Trent University (1986), her MEd in Primary Health Care from the University of Manchester (1988), and her PhD in Sociology in Education and Community Health from the University of Toronto (1996). Her book, The New Midwifery: Reflections on Renaissance and Regulation, was published in 1997. In addition to her academic pursuits, Shroff has worked as a public health consultant, a health care worker, and a health research analyst. After leaving Ryerson, she became an adjunct professor in the Department of Family Practice and the School of Population and Public Health in the UBC Faculty of Medicine. Currently Dr. Shroff is a Takemi Fellow in International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health, an Associate of the University of British Columbia’s Department of Family Practice and the School of Population and Public Health. Dr. Shroff is the founder of Maternal and Infant Health Canada (MIHCan), a global public health collaborative that focuses on improving the lives of women and children through education, research, and innovation.

Dr. Catherine Middleton earned her B. A. from Queen's University in Kingston, her MMA from Bond University in Australia and her PhD from York University. She joined the School of Information and Technology Management at Ryerson University in 2002 and as of 2023 was the director of the school. . An expert on telecommunications policy in Canada, her research focuses on advancing digital inclusion to ensure equitable access to digital society and enable full participation in the digital economy. Dr. Middleton held a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair from 2007-2017, served as a MITACS Policy Fellow at the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) in 2017-2018 and is a member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. Dr. Middleton holds the ICD.D (Institute of Corporate Directors, Director) designation and has served as a Trustee for ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers) and a Board Member for the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-Television Services (CCTS). She is a past Board Chair of CANARIE (Canada’s research and education network) and also served on the board of Compute Ontario.

Sandra McBride was a professor in Ryerson University's School of Nursing. She received her PhD in Education from the University of Toronto in 1973. She passed away in 2014.

Judith Waalen received her B.A. in Biology and Psychology from Assumption University in 1962, her M.A. in Psychology from University of Windsor in 1964, and her Ph.D. in Sociology from Wayne State University in 1982. While at Ryerson University Dr. Waalen was a professor in the Department of Psychology and the Director of the Centre of Quality Research. She would later become a professor at Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College, working in the Graduate Studies and Research, and Post-graduate and Continuing Education departments. For many years, Judith taught Psychology courses at Ryerson to students in the professional programs and interacted with a great many faculty members in these departments in various capacities.
In 2000 Judith left the Psychology Department and went to manage Ryerson’s Centre for Quality Service Research and to join CMCC to teach research methods and statistics in their graduate residency programs. During this time with her husband David, she published articles on chiropractic education, and with other colleagues, she co-authored a number of articles for scientific and scholarly journals. In 2005, Judy returned to Ryerson to work as a research analyst for The Chang School. She taught staff members to conduct, analyze, and publish their research in-house, did competitive research, and conducted annual student satisfaction surveys until she left in 2011.

Ayse Yuce has been a Professor of Finance at the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson Unversity since 2001. Yuce receive her PhD from Louisiana State University. After graduation, Yuce worked at Bilkent University, Turkey, before taking a position as a visiting professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, then as an assistant professor at the University of Northern British Columbia. She has several publications in finance journals, as well as two books. As an emerging market expert, Yuce has delivered speeches at the IMF and the World Bank on Eastern European Stock Markets. She is a member of the American Finance Association, Financial Management Association, Middle Eastern Economic Association, Multinational Finance Society, and Women Economist's Society.

Scott Anderson received his undergraduate degree from Wilfrid Laurier in 1983, and received his Bachelor of Laws from Osgoode Hall Law School. He completed his MBA in Finance at Queens University in 1986, and his Ph.D in Finance at York University in 1999. Before entering the field of teaching Scott Anderson worked in the legal department of Toronto Dominion Bank first as an Articling Student from 1986-1987, and then as solicitor from 1988-1990. In 1992 he began teaching courses at York University and continued to do so until 1998. In 1998 he joined the faculty of the Business at Ryerson as an Associate Professor where he is currently teaching. In 2003 he won Barclays Global Investors Canada Research Award for best research paper for a paper he co-wrote with Dr. Yisong Tian of York University.

Rick Csiernik earned his BA, BSW, and BSc in Psychology from McMaster University, his MSW from the University of Toronto, his Graduate Diploma in Social Administration from Wilfrid Laurier University, and his PhD in Social Work from the University of Toronto.
His research interests include addiction, Employee Assistance Programming and workplace wellness, social work field practice, spirituality, mental health, housing and homeless, poverty and social inclusion, school-based social work, and social worker retention.
Ciernik is the author of over 140 peer-reviewed articles and 8 books, including "Substance Use and Abuse: Everything Matters," "Responding to the Oppression of Addiction: Canadian Social Work Approaches," and "Wellness and Work: EAP in Canada." After leaving Ryerson, Csiernik taught for over 25 years at McMaster University, where he co-developed the McMaster University Addiction Studies Program and was the inaugural recipient of the McMaster University Instructor Appreciation award.
Csiernik is currently a professor in the School of Social Work at King's University College at Western University, Canada.

Located at 1475 Eglinton Avenue W. in Toronto. RU. 2-5205

William James Topley was a photographer with a studio located in Ottawa, Ontario between 1883-1893. He is best known for photographing large-scale composites. He was born in Aylmer, Quebec and moved to Montreal in 1863 to work for William Notman.

The Image Centre (formerly known as the Ryerson Image Centre and the Ryerson Gallery and Research Centre) is an photography and art museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The centre is a university museum operated by Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), and is housed in a renovated and remodeled former warehouse building at Gould and Bond Streets on TMU's campus. The centre includes gallery, collections, teaching, research and exhibition spaces and shares the building with the School of Image Arts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Image_Centre

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

William W. Kilborn (B.A.A, A.R.I.D.O., I.D.C., I.F.M.A) was a professor at Ryerson's School of Interior Design starting in the 1960's. He also owned and operated his own interior design consulting firm "William Kilborn Associates" starting in 1966.
William Kilborn has served on the Board of Management for the "Interior Designers of Ontario" in the 1970's, and worked on the membership services committee of ARIDO.
He passed away January 13, 2022.

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

Ronald Conrad was a Professor Emeritus of English at Ryerson Polytechnic University. While at Ryerson he taught in many areas including Canadian literature, Victorian literature, composition, and creative writing. His focus on teaching effective writing skills resulted in the publication of many well-received composition textbooks. Ronald Conrad passed away August 23, 2022.

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.

Dr. Gail Aitken was an alumnus of the Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto schools of nursing. She received her MA in Social Welfare Policy from McMaster University, and her Ph.D. in Social Work from the University of Toronto. Gail began her career at Ryerson as a member of the Department of Social Work between 1978 and 1981. Her areas of research focused on declining social support that agencies and governments are providing for children and women. She retired in 1996. Gail was a member of the Sparrow Lake Alliance for the welfare of Ontario's Children as a member of the Children in Limbo Task Force. She passed away November 23, 2022.

Anthony C. Lea grew up in Forest Hill, Toronto. He attended the University of Toronto where he attained a Honours Bachelor’s degree in Geography in 1971, his Master’s degree in Geography in 1973, and his Ph.D in 1983.
In the early 1970’s Anthony taught at several Universities including the University of Minnesota, Queen’s University, and the University of Toronto. In the late 1970’s started working both in Academia and in the private sector. In 1982 he taught at the University of Toronto, while working for Compusearch, and taught a graduate level course at Queen’s University.
In 1986 Lea moved to Dallas, becoming a research director at a hospital there. In 1987 he returned to Toronto to begin teaching at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in the Applied Geography. In 1991 he started working at Compusearch again, as a research director, then as Senior Vice President, and then began working for MapInfo as the managing director. In 1997 he stopped working at Map Info and became the Senior Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Commercial Activity at Ryerson.
In 2003 he became the Senior Vice President and Chief Methodologist at Environics Analytics, a new company created by the former President of Compusearch. He is still in this position, along with being an adjunct professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at Ryerson and an adjunct professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Toronto.

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.

Canadian Interiors magazine is the longest running interior design magazine in Canada focused towards Canadian interior design professionals.

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.

Started by Eleanor Fulcher in Toronto, 1960.

The Ontario Safety League was formed in 1913 by a group of business and community leaders in response to the increasing threats to public safety brought about by the automobile. The mission was to reduce preventable deaths, injuries and destruction on Ontario’s roads through public education and safety awareness.

Periodical published by Maclean-Hunter Publishing Company.

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

Gerald Hannon (b. New Brunswick, July 10, 1944) is an award-winning Canadian freelance journalist, gay activist, and former instructor in the School of Journalism at Ryerson University, a position he held from 1972 to 1995. Beginning in 1972, Hannon was a member of the editorial board of Toronto LGBT magazine, the Body Politic, and became one of the publication's most prolific contributors. Gerald Hannon died in May of 2022.

Trudy Johnson was born October 2, 1947, the eldest of four children of Harry and Vi Johnson. She grew up in Thornhill, Ontario. She attended Thornhill Secondary School and was an active member of Thornhill United Church. She spent many summers at Camp Illahee (originally a Y. W. C. A. camp for children with diabetes) in Cobourg, first as a counsellor and then as a nurse in the infirmary. She would later work as a Nurse at Camp Huronda (located in Huntsville, Ontario) another camp for children with diabetes. This is where her affinity for caring for children became evident.
Trudy enrolled in the Wellesley Hospital School of Nursing in 1967, graduating in 1970 and was the class valedictorian. After graduation she headed to California with a friend and had some unforgettable experiences (including the San Fernando earthquake of 1971.)
She spent her nursing career at the Hospital for Sick Children, where her true love was bedside nursing. A physician she worked with commented “she had the ability to put herself in the shoes of the children for whom she cared, and really communicate with them. This helped ease a child’s pain, when undergoing a scary experience, such as being in hospital.’
Trudy passed away on February 3, 2015.

Robert Arthur Hackborn was born on September 22, 1928 in Toronto, where he lived during his childhood years. Hackborn attended Northern Vocational High School and upon completion of his studies, spent a year travelling across Canada and living and working on the West coast. During this period Hackborn worked in Banff Alberta at The Banff Springs Hotel as a golf caddy, and then in Vancouver B.C. where he got a job as a bell boy for Canadian Pacific Railway tour boats taking passengers to Alaska. Upon his return to Ontario, Mr. Hackborn attended the Ontario College of Art (OCA) between 1948-1952. During his time at the OCA, Hackborn and some of his fellow classmates including Michael Snow became known as the 'Musical Art Group' owing to the fact that they played together around Toronto in various Jazz bands and clubs while pursuing their fine art studies. While still enrolled at the OCA, Hackborn took a job as a bell hop on the Great Lakes tour boat The Noronic in the summer of 1949. On September 16th, 1949 while The Noronic was docked in Toronto, Hackborn was fortunate to have been granted shore leave to visit his parents. It was in the early hours of September 17th that The Noronic caught fire resulting in the deaths of over one hundred people and the destruction of the vessel.
Directly after graduating from the OCA, Mr. Hackborn travelled throughout Europe. While touring the European continent, Mr. Hackborn continued to develop his painting technique while he also regularly played gigs as a jazz drummer. Along with a group of musicians that included Michael Snow, Hackborn was contracted to Club Med, playing in their clubs in Italy, Yugoslavia, and The French Alps. After travelling Europe and living in Malaga Spain for 3 months over Christmas and New Years, Mr. Hackborn returned to Canada in 1954 and took a post working as an advertising illustrator and artist for S.W. Caldwell in Toronto.
In 1955 Hackborn embarked on what would become a long and important career in the design and production of sets and special visual effects for television when he took a position in the nascent Television Production unit at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Hackborn started his career as a scenic paint artist then subsequently transferred to the set design department in 1958. Hackborn continued to work for the CBC for nearly four decades, helping to design the look for a staggering array of variety, comedy, musical, sports, news, children's, and scripted television dramas. Hackborn's career saw him work both in-studio with multi camera shooting setups and later, with 16mm film cameras on a variety of sets and exterior locales. Starting with The Juliette Show in the late 1950's, and stretching to the 1990's, Hackborn's designs and special visual effects enhanced the production values of a vast number of shows at the CBC. Shows featuring Hackborn's input include but are not limited to: Mr. Roger's Neighbourhood, Mr. Dressup, The Tommy Hunter Show and Tommy Hunter's Canada Entertains, World Tour '67, Wayne & Shuster, I Married the Klondike, Fraggle Rock, The Royal Canadian Air Farce, and The Kids in the Hall. Hackborn also worked as a production designer with director Donald Brittain on several CBC/National Film Board (NFB) co-productions including: Canada's Sweetheart: the saga of Hal C. Banks and The King Chronicles. His contributions to these and many other shows are of great cultural and technological significance.

Jean Audrey White was born in 1909, one of three daughters, to Dr. Samuel and Ethel White.
Jean graduated in 1931 from the Wellesley Hospital School of Nursing. After graduation she worked in her father's medical practice in Orangeville and in the operating room of Dufferin Area Hospital (now Headwaters Health Care Centre).
She passed away in her 94th year on September 18, 2002. She was predeceased by her parents and both sisters.

Belyea Bros. Heating, Cooling & Electrical stated in 1908 as a plumbing and heating company, and to this day remain independently owned as a family business. They hold the first plumbing and heating license issued in the City of Toronto, PH1.

Former Kodak Canada employee. Dennis was a sales executive for Kodak and an active member of the PHSC from 1977-1997.

"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

A former court reporter with the Ministry of the Attorney General, Paul Christie worked for about 30 years as part of the front of house teams of various theatres in Toronto. He collected programs and ticket stubs from the many symphonies, musicals, plays, and operas he attended in the Toronto area, New York, and London, over a period of more than 70 years.