Professor H.Blair Neatby has made a singular contribution to our understanding of the political history of modem Canada. His studies of "Laurier and the Liberal Party ln Quebec", (Toronto, 1973), and his two volumes in the biography of W.L. Mackenzie King, ("The Lonely Heights, 1924-1932", (Toronto, 1963) and "The Prism of Unity, 1932-1939", (Toronto, 1976), display the highest qualities of careful scholarship: thorough research, lucid analysis and dispassionate judgment. He has brought to his historical writing a particularly keen perception of the intricate and sensitive relations between French and English Canadians. His capacity to dissect and delineate complex political events, to appraise the competing actors, and to reconstruct convincingly a portrait of the past, makes him one of the leading historians of late nineteenth and early twentieth century Canada.

William Herbert New of the University of British Columbia is well known as Editor for 19 years of the periodical "Canadian Literature", as an essayist on genres and on individual authors, and as a bibliographer and literary historian. These scholarly activities have been extended from Canadian into Commonwealth literatures, especially with reference to New Zealand. Invitations have come from publishers elsewhere as well as in Canada to supply authoritative chapters on Canadian literature and literary figures. Overall, he has made a significant contribution, recognized abroad as well as in Canada, to biographical and critical studies, and to bibliographical researches, in the field of Canadian literary scholarship.

John Nichols is the most distinguished contemporary student of the Ojibwe language, the most widely spoken aboriginal language in Canada. He combines unparalleled fieldwork experience with extensive archival work. Dr. Nichols is virtually unique in the constellation of interpretive skills necessary to decipher this complex historical record. Moreover, he is committed to making this scholarship useful to contemporary Ojibwe communities and individuals. Dr. Nichols has prepared critical editions, dictionaries and philological papers which set the standard for linguistic and ethnohistoric work on non-Indo-European languages. His practical work as an expert witness in land claims cases, in preparing Ojibwe language teaching materials, and in bibliographic documentation of current work in Ojibwe all make a major contribution to Canadian society as well as to linguistic scholarship.

Oleson has won wide praise for his books on the history of technology. "Greek and Roman Mechanical Water-lifting Devices" (1984) is a definitive study, cataloguing several centuries of technological innovation and engineering advances; "Bronze Age, Greek and Roman Technology: a Select, Annotated Blbliography" (1986) Is a comprehensive survey of the major aspects of ancient technology. Oleson's field research is distinguished, notably in the underwater exploration of the Roman harbours of Cosa and Caesarea, and now at the desert site of Humeima in Jordan, where he is Director of excavations that investigate the water supply and urban development of the site.

JOHN O'NEILL is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology at York University. Author, editor and translator of some twenty books and numerous scholarly articles, he has an established international reputation as a critical social theorist and philosopher. He is best known for his translation and interpretation of European authors in the phenomenological tradition including Merleau and Ponty, and for his original contributions to sociological theory, political thought, hermeneutical studies and literary criticism.

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.

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.

Doug Owram has made major contributions to our understanding of Canadian history through several books on the Department of Public Works; on the attitudes and expectations of mid-nineteenth century Ontario expansionists who sought to annex the north-west; and on Canadian intellectuals, especially social scientists, who prepared the way (and helped implement) the Ottawa government's commitment during the second world war to social security and management of the economy. These books are highly original in conception and execution, written with force and clarity, and with a sceptical detachment.

In such books as "The Language of Jane Austen" (1972), "Speech in the English Novel" (1973), "Thomas Hardy" (1977), and "E. M. Forster's Posthumous Fiction" (1977), and in his many editions, articles, reviews, and conference presentations, Dr. Norman Page has established an international reputation for his many distinguished contributions to our understanding of English literature, and especially to that of the nineteenth-century fiction. His works, written with clarity and grace, show a first-class literary intelligence a thorough command of scholarship and a fine human awareness.

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.