Dr. Dray's early training was in history, but while at Oxford he became interested in philosophy. Philosophical problems connected with the methods used by historians particularly engaged him. His first book, "Laws and Explanation in History" (1957), broke new ground in an old controversy about the sort of explanation historians seek to offer. In a penetrating and original discussion., Dr. Dray showed that historical explanations are different from, but no less effective than, scientific explanations. This thesis led him to make some telling criticisms of the positivistic doctrine that all explanations consist in bringing an event under a general, covering law. A great deal of fruitful investigation has followed the appearance of this book, and Dr. Dray has continued in other publications to amplify and develop his main position. He is Canada's leading authority on the philosophy of history, and one of half a dozen major scholars in this field in the English speaking world. His work is marked by analytical penetration, lucid argument and felicity of expression, and displays a broad and firm grasp of the subject-matter with which it deals. His more recent books include Perspectives on History (1980), On History and Philosophers of History (1989), Philosophy of History (rev. edn. 1993), and History as Re-enactment (1995). He was editor, with Leon Pompa, of Substance and Form in History (1981), with Davic Carr et al of Philosophie de l'histoire et la pratique historienne d'aujourd'hui (1982), and with W.J. van der Dussen of R.G. Collingwood: The Principles of History (1999).

Dr Dreimanis enjoys an international reputation for his studies in the stratigraphy and physical characteristics of the glacial deposits of southern Ontario. The results of this research have provided glacial geologists with a very accurate and detailed account of events during the Wisconsin glaciation in the lower Great Lakes. Dr Dreimanis has developed and refined several quantitative procedures used to identify glacial deposits and these techniques have become standard methods of analysis in laboratories throughout the world. Although an expert in glacial stratigraphy, Dr Dreimanis has published some 85 papers on virtually all aspects of glacial geology and geomorphology.

Leo Driedger, Department of Sociology, University of Manitoba specializes in Ethnic Relations and Urban Sociology. His research has taken him to Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton, Cologne, Toronto, Carleton, British Columbia and Waterloo, for extended periods. Driedger has published 120 scholarly refereed works, including 17 books, 70 refereed articles, and 35 invited chapters in edited books. He has served on the editorial boards of seven scholarly journals, is serving on the Board of Governors of the Prairie University Research Consortium of the Immigration and Integration Metropolis Project which received 2 million dollars from SSHRC. Driedger has also served on the Manitoba, Canadian and International boards of the Mennonite Central Committee, which has 1000 workers in 50 countries. His research and service have taken him to 80 countries in Asia, Europe, North and South America. In 1997 he will become the first Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Manitoba and he will receive the honor of Oustanding Contribution award from the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association in 1999.

Un de nos rares spécialistes d'histoire sociale et d'histoire des institutions de la Nouvelle-France et de la France de l'Ancien Régime, Jean-Claude Dubé, à travers de nombreux articles mais surtout trois ouvrages majeurs parus ces dernières années, a profondément renouvelé notre connaissance du monde des administrateurs coloniaux, des intendants en particulier.