JOHN ORRELL, who received his degrees from Oxford and the University of Toronto, is now a Professor of English at the University of Alberta. His recent book, published by Cambridge University Press, "The Quest for Shakespeare's Globe", has ingeniously provided evidence of the actual dimensions of Shakespeare's theatre; and this and his other work on seventeenth-century theatres has resulted in his becoming a major authority in the large project to reconstruct the Globe and Cockpit theatres on Bankside in London. His work as a theatre historian has resulted in many important articles, as well as a book on "The Lost Theatres of Edmonton".

Dr. Sylvia Ostry has had an outstanding career as a public servant and has also made impressive contributions to scholarly research. She has held a number of major positions in the federal government, including Chief Statistician of Canada, two Deputy Ministerships, Ambassador for Multilateral Trade Negotiations and the Prime Minister's Personal Representative to the Economic Summit. She has also chaired the Economic Council of Canada and been head of the Department of Economics and Statistics of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. Throughout this distinguished public career she has maintained close contacts with the scholarly community in Canada and abroad, writing or co-authoring eighteen books and monographs and over seventy articles. Her main research interests have been in labour economics where her work on topics such as the growth, composition and remuneration of the work force has received wide recognition. She has also published extensively in the area of international economic relations, notably on efforts to maintain stability in the world economy. Dr. Ostry, Distinguished Research Fellow at the Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto, where she is conducting studies of the interactions between governments and corporations in Canada, the United States, Western Europe and Japan; the impact of globalization; and the evolution of the world trading system.

Monsieur Fernand Ouellet, professeur à l'Université Carleton, est un des historiens les plus remarquables de sa génération. La longue étude qu'il a publiée récemment et qui s'intitule « Histoire économique et sociale du Canada » est considérée par les meilleurs spécialistes comme une oeuvre d'une grande importance. Docteur ès lettres de l'Université Laval, il est diplômé du Stage international d'archives (Paris), de l'Institute on Archives Administration (Washington, American University) et de l'Institute on Records management (Washington, American University). On lui doit, outre de nombreux articles disséminés dans diverses revues, les études suivantes : « Histoire de la Chambre de Commerce du Québec, 1809-1959 », « Papineau, textes choisis », « Papineau : un être divisé », « Julie Papineau : un cas de mélancolie et l'éducation janséniste ».

Daniel Overmyer is one of the leading scholars of the present day in the field of Chinese religion. His pioneering study, "Folk Buddhist Religion: Dissenting Sects in Late Traditional China", Harvard University Press, 1976, was important for taking seriously the religious element in popular Chinese sectarianism and using it as a key to a better understanding of the thought and values of the lower orders in Chinese traditional society, an understanding which he continues to expand by researches into sectarian literature and practice, contemporary as well as traditional, and by the study of the links between popular ideology and the elite s stems of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism.

Warwick Jack Burgoyne Owen, born in Auckland, New Zealand, holds degrees from the University of Auckland, Oxford University, and Wales. He joined McMaster University in 1965 after teaching in New Zealand and North Wales. Author of five editorial and critical studies of Wordsworth's prose and verse, Dr. Owen is a respected adviser to a wide range of international journals and publishing houses, author of thirty-four articles and forty-nine reviews, an active participant in the Grasmere Wordsworth Summer School and Lynesmere. He plays a magisterial role among Wordsworthian editors and commentators in Canada.

She has made pioneering contributions to our understanding of the function of platelets in hemostasis and thrombosis. She helped establish the role of platelets in atherosclerosis. Her work on the pyrazole compounds and aspirin on platelets led to their use as antithrombotic agents. Her methods for studying platelets and work on mechanisms in platelet aggregation and release, platelet density and factors influencing platelet survival established the base for future work. One of 27 women in the 1000 most-cited scientists (one of two Canadian women), and winner of the 1988 Taylor Prize and Medal of the Robarts Institute.