Carleton University is an English-language public research university in Ottawa,Ontario,Canada. Founded in 1942 as Carleton College,the institution originally operated as a private,non-denominational evening college to serve returning World War II veterans. Carleton was chartered as a university by the provincial government in 1952 through The Carleton University Act, which was then amended in 1957,giving the institution its current name. The university is named after the now-dissolved Carleton County,which included the city of Ottawa at the time the university was founded.
The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency,operating as Access Copyright is a Canadian not-for-profit copyright collective. It collects revenues from licensed Canadian businesses,government,schools,libraries,and other copyright users for the photocopying of print works and distributes those monies to the rightsholders,such as publishers and authors from Canada and around the world.
Brock University is a public research university in St. Catharines,Ontario,Canada. It is the only university in Canada in a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve,at the centre of Canada's Niagara Peninsula on the Niagara Escarpment. The university bears the name of Maj.-General Sir Isaac Brock,who was responsible for defending Upper Canada against the United States during the War of 1812.
Kenneth Harold Norrie is a Canadian economic historian specializing in the economy of Western Canada at the turn of the century.
Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology is a publicly funded English-language college located in Ottawa,Ontario,Canada. The college has three campuses,all in Ontario:a primary campus located in Ottawa,and secondary campuses located in Perth and Pembroke. It offers bachelor's degrees,diplomas,and certificates in a range of disciplines and specialties. The college serves the National Capital Region and the outlying areas of Eastern Ontario,Western Quebec,and Upstate New York. It has been ranked among the Top 50 Research Colleges in Canada and has been recognized as one of Canada's top innovation leaders. The enabling legislation is the Ministry of Training,Colleges and Universities Act. It is a member of Polytechnics Canada.
The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board refers to both the institution responsible for the operation of all English public schools in the city of Ottawa,Ontario and its governing body. Like most school boards,the OCDSB is administered by a group of elected trustees and one director selected and appointed by the Board itself. Additionally,annually,two student trustees are selected per provincial regulation.
Brian Coburn is a former politician in Ontario,Canada. He sat in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1999 to 2003,representing the riding of Carleton—Gloucester for the Progressive Conservative Party. Coburn was a cabinet minister in the government of Mike Harris and Ernie Eves.
Wilbert Joseph Keon was a Canadian physician. A heart surgeon and researcher by profession,Keon was a longtime Canadian senator.
The Dominican University College is a bilingual university located in Ottawa,Ontario,Canada. Since 2012,Dominican University College has been an affiliated college of Carleton University.
The New Democratic Party fielded a full slate of 308 candidates in the 2006 Canadian federal election. It won 29 seats in the election to remain the fourth-largest party in the House of Commons. Many of the New Democratic Party's candidates have their own biography pages;information about others may be found here.
Richard Van Loon is a former Canadian civil servant and ex-president of Carleton University in Ottawa,Ontario.
Jack N. Lightstone is a Canadian professor of history,and former President and Vice-Chancellor of Brock University in St. Catharines,Ontario. He took office on July 1,2006,to serve a five-year term as President and as a professor of history.
James Alexander Gibson was a Canadian academic,federal bureaucrat and private secretary to prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King.
Eldon R. Smith, OC,FRCPC,is a Canadian cardiologist who is the Chair of the Strategic Advisory Board of the Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta (LCIA). He has been Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Calgary and President of both the Canadian Cardiovascular Society and the Association of Canadian Medical Colleges. Smith was appointed to the Board of Alberta Health Services.
J. Daniel Livermore is a Canadian academic and historian who was formerly a foreign service officer in Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.
Ezra Schabas,was a Canadian musician,educator and author. He was active in Canada's musical life beginning in 1952,when he emigrated from Cleveland with his family. During his time in Canada,he was a leading musical educator,clarinetist,and administrator in Toronto's musical institutions. He wrote several books on Canadian and American musical history,and he was appointed to the Order of Ontario and made a Member of the Order of Canada.
Canadianization or the Canadianization movement refers partly to a campaign launched in Carleton University in Ottawa,Canada in 1968 by Robin Mathews and James Steele. The purpose of the campaign was to ensure that Carleton as an employer treated Canadian citizens equitably and that Canadians would remain or become at least a two-thirds majority of the teaching staff. Although Carleton was the particular institution addressed in the recommendations of Mathews and Steele,they were concerned about fairness for Canadian scholars in the hiring practices of all Canadian universities and about a lack of Canadian content in many courses.
Gail Marie Atkinson is a Canadian seismologist. She is a former professor at the University of Western Ontario and Canada Research Chair in Earthquake Hazards and Ground Motions. In 2014,Atkinson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada for being an "international leader in the development of models to predict earthquake ground motions as a function of magnitude and distance."
