Clara Thomas has been teaching and writing in the Canadian Literature filed since the 1940s. Her first book, "Canadian Novelists, 1920-45", was published in 1946 and her latest one, "Chapters in a Lucky Life: A Memoir", in 1999. Her concern for women in academe and for the Canadian field has been, and remains, of prime interest to her.

Born in 1906 at Devlin in western Ontario, Homer Armstrong Thompson, grew up on a farm in the lower Fraser Valley of British Columbia. After completing his studies at the University of British Columbia he proceeded to graduate work at the University of Michigan where he took his Ph.D. degree in 1929. At this time the excavation of the Agora or civic center of ancient Athens was about to be started by the American School of Classical Studies, and Homer Armstrong Thompson was appointed as one of the first members of the supervisory staff. Since then he has been associated continuously with this project, directing it in the years 1947-68; he is still active in the program of publication. From 1932 to 1947 he served on the faculty of the University of Toronto, eventually as chairman of the Department of Art and Archaeology. Through most of this period he divided the year between Toronto and Athens. His war service was with the Canadian Navy on loan to the Royal Navy for naval intelligence in the Mediterranean. Since 1947 he has been a member of the faculty of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, but he has also spent time as a visiting professor at various universities, among them Princeton, Columbia, California, Oxford, Aberdeen, Sydney. His publications have been chiefly in the field of Greek art and archaeology with special focus on the results of the excavations in Athens. Among his honors: membership in the British Academy, the gold medal of the Archaeological Institute of America for Archaeolocigal Achievement (1972) and honorary citzenship of Athens.

Maria Tippett is a versatile and indefatigably industrious scholar who specializes in the history of Canadian culture, particularly the history of Canadian art. Her 1979 biography of Emily Carr won the Governor-General's prize for nonfiction in that year, as well as the MacDonald prize of the Canadian Historical Association. It was described by one major critic as an almost flawless book that set a new standard for cultural biography in Canada. Her later books, including biographies of Yousef Karsh, F.H. Varley, Charles Gimpel and Bill Reid along with general studies of Canadian culture have gone beyond biography to document, comprehensively and elegantly, the 'making' of the culture of English-speaking Canada in the era before the formation of the Canada Council. She is a former Fellow of Churchill College and member of the Faculty of History, Cambridge University, England. Her 16th book published in November2017 is: Sculpture in Canada, a history

From Nubia to Muskoka, from Meroitic linguistics to Iroquoian settlements and University of Toronto history - all have been topics for Bruce Trigger's prolific pen, and all have been illuminated by it. Educated in Stratford and at the University of Toronto he realised how the archaeology of settlement sites provided insights into Ontario social history, augmenting documentary sources. During Ph.D. studies at Yale he participated in the Aswan Dam salvage archaeology, by outstanding excavations, and used the same insights to re-interpret Meroitic history. Since returning to Canada In 1964, to McGill, has reconstructed the history of the Hurons before and after contact with Europeans, has published major studies of methods of inference from archaeological data, and has shown how Canadian academic controversies influenced those methods in the nineteenth century. His important contribution to Canadian studies is, however dwarfed by his contribution to international archaeology and the development of it as a social science.

James A. Tuck received his Ph.D. in Anthropology in 1968 from Syracuse University. He joined the Department of Anthropology, Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1967 and also served as Provincial Archaeologist of Newfoundland and Labrador from 1967 to 1972. Dr. Tuck has played a dominant role in synthesizing the complex prehistory of eastern Canada and adjacent regions. One-third of both his six books and 40 articles are written for a non-specialist readership. The subject matter of these publications is exceptionally eclectic, including Onondaga settlement patterns, the entire 9,000 years of prehistory in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and a 16th century Basque whaling station in Labrador.

Rosalie Tung has contributed significantly to theory development and practical applications of cross-cultural understanding and communication in the context of economic collaboration between entities from around the world in two important ways. Her seminal work in the selection and training of people for international assignments has contributed to the current explosion of research interest in international human resource management. Secondly, her analysis into the mindsets of east Asians as they affect management thought and practices has contributed to the development of theories of comparative management.

Professor Urquhart ranks with the best Canadian economists of his generation - a generation which has extended economic analysis and knowledge of mathematical and ststistical methods. He has made important original contributions to the theory of capital. He has probably helped and advised more economists of his own and younger ages than anyone else in Canada. He has maintained close contacts with United States scholars through the National Bureau of Economic Research and with British scholars by correspondence and recent personal associations in London and Cambridge. He is the main editor of - and a contributor to - an outstanding economic publication called "Historical Statistics of Canada". He is highly qualified for fellowship in a company of scholars.

Dr. Mario J. Valdés is a Professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Toronto and, since 1978, Director of the Centre for Comparative Literature. He has been at Toronto since 1963. Mario Valdés combines the several 'desiderata' of a scholar in a manner so rare as to be virtually ideal. He has long since made a powerful impression at the University of Toronto far beyond the bounds of his immediate interests and he has also carried his varied talents into the academic and academic-administrative life of North America generally. As a Hispanist his interests cover both the earlier and the modern periods, and the Iberian Peninsula itself as well as Latin America. As a Comparatist, he addresses general theories of literature, problems in linguistics, and philosophical concerns in Western culture as a whole. He is an outstanding figure in his generation and bids fair, within the present decade, to attain the very highest distinction.

Aritha van Herk is a distinguished novelist, short story writer, editor, and literary scholar. She has published the award-winning novel "Judith" (1978), four other novels, including the stunning experimental novel "Places Far From Ellesmere", two critical books, "In Visible Ink" and "The Frozen Tongue", and over one hundred scholarly articles and chapters in books. She has edited extensively and lectured across Canada, Europe, the United States, and Australia. Van Herk is remarkable for her innovative and challenging approach to creative and scholarly writing and for the laconic beauty of her prose.

Peter Waite's career an a Canadian historian has marched forward with steady distinction. Ten years after his appointment to the Department of History at Dalhousie in 1951, he became a full professor and head of the Department. His scholarly output already totals five books and a score of articles, and he has edited three volumes of parliamentary debates for the Queen's Printer, Ottawa. His peers elected him president of the Canadian Historical Association in 1968-69, and chairman of the Humanities Research Council in 1968-70. He was the Nova Scotia member of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada, 1968-77.

Elisabeth Wallace has studied and written on political ideas and institutions with special reference to Britain, Canada and the Commonwealth. Her early investigations dealt with the evolution of Canadian ideas in relation to public policy, and resulted in many learned articles and her book, "Goldwin Smith Victorian Liberal" (1957), which assessed the career and writings of a man who for more than a generation provoked constant discussion about Canada's character and national destiny. She later concentrated on the political, economic, and cultural background of the British Caribbean, with special reference to the West Indies Federation. See her book on "the British Caribbean: From the Decline of Colonialism to the end of Federatia" (1977). Over the years Elisabeth Wallace's writings have been distinguished by painstaking research, clarity, and perception. Member of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs. Winner of the University of British Columbia's medal for popular biography for "New Life of Goldwin Smith".