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.

Allan Urho Paivio, professor of psychology at the University of Western Ontario, is known internationally for his systematic theoretical and experimental account of the role of higher mental functions in human learning and memory. Educated at McGill University, his teaching and inspired research at the University of Western Ontario since 1962 have made him the world authority on non-verbal imagery and verbal processes as memory codes and mediators of behaviour. His numerous technical papers, scholarly addresses, and particularly his book "Imagery and Verbal Processes", represent an integration of prebehaviouristic and behaviouristic views concerning the nature of thought. Past President of the Canadian Psychological Association, he has enhanced immeasurably Canada's prestige in the scientific analysis of human behaviour.

LEO VICTOR PANITCH is Canada's pre-eminent contributor to the comparative analysis of corporatism in modern liberal democratic states. He ranks among the most distinguished political scientists in the world, and apart from the wide-ranging impact of his own published scholarship, his dynamic and creative organizational leadership has done much to promote the vitality of Canadian scholarship in political science and political economy. His scholarship has focussed on the parties and politics of labour, and the problems and prospects of social democracy. He has produced major monographs on British and Canadian politics, as well as numerous works of broader comparative and theoretical interest. He is internationally renowned for his original theoretical argument about the limitations of corporatism, and for his contribution to the development of a neo-Marxist theory of the state in capitalist societies.

Roland Parenteau, professeur d'économie politique et de politique économique à I'Ecole des hautes études commerciales de Montréal, a étudié au Collège André-Grasset, est licencié en sciences commerciales de I'Ecole où il enseigne maintenant et est diplômé de I'Institut d'études politiques de Paris (1949). Ancien professeur à la faculté des sciences sociales de I'Université de Montréal (1950-1956), membre du Conseil d'orientation économique de la province de Québec et du Conseil supérieur du travail, ancien président de I'Association canadienne des économistes et de I'Institut canadien d'éducation des adultes, cet économiste distingué a publié dans « Culture » et surtout dans « L'Actualité économique » de nombreux articles sur maints aspects de l'économie canadienne, notamment sur le difficile problème du partage de I'assiette fiscale, sur le problème du contrôle des prix et du crédit, sur l'évolution de la politique budgétaire du gouvernement d'Ottawa et de I'administration du Québec, sur la planification économique et sur I'initiative privée, ainsi que sur divers aspects de la sécurité sociale. II est aussi I'auteur d'un important document sur les « Aspects financiers de I'inégalité économique des provinces » préparé pour les membres de la Commission royale d'enquête sur les problèmes constitutionnels de la province de Québec. M. Parenteau exerce une influence grandissante non seulement par son enseignement mais encore par son action au sein de diverses associations et auprès des corps publics.