The Family Compact is the term used by historians for a small closed group of men who exercised most of the political, economic and judicial power in Upper Canada from the 1810s to the 1840s. It was the Upper Canadian equivalent of the Château Clique in Lower Canada. It was noted for its conservatism and opposition to democracy.
Upper Canada College (UCC) is an independent school for boys between Senior Kindergarten and Grade Twelve in Toronto, Ontario, operating under the International Baccalaureate program. The secondary school segment is divided into ten houses; eight are for day students and the remaining two are for boarding students. Aside from the main structure, with its dominant clock tower, the Toronto campus has a number of sports facilities, staff and faculty residences, and buildings for other purposes. UCC also owns and operates a campus in Norval, Ontario, for outdoor education.
John Black Aird was a Canadian lawyer and corporate director. He served in the Senate of Canada from 1964 to 1974, and he was Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1980 to 1985.
David Allison Dodge is a Canadian economist. He served a seven-year term as Governor of the Bank of Canada from February 1, 2001 to January 31, 2008. He was succeeded by Mark Carney. On September 12, 2008, he joined Bennett Jones LLP, a leading Canadian law firm, as a senior advisor in their Ottawa office. On May 2, 2008, he was elected as incoming chancellor of Queen's University, with that position to begin on July 1, 2008. Dodge served a three-year term as Queen's chancellor, and accepted a further three-year term beginning on July 1, 2011.
The Joseph L. Rotman School of Management commonly known as the Rotman School of Management, the Rotman School or just Rotman, is the University of Toronto's graduate business school, located in Downtown Toronto. The University of Toronto has been offering undergraduate courses in commerce and management since 1901, but the school was formally established in 1950 as the Institute of Business Administration, which was then changed to the Faculty of Management Studies in 1972 and subsequently shortened to the Faculty of Management in 1986. The school was renamed in 1997 after the late Joseph L. Rotman (1935–2015), its principal benefactor.
Paul Zed is a Canadian lawyer, professor, and politician.
Daniel Trefler is a Canadian economist who is currently the J. Douglas and Ruth Grant Chair in Competitiveness and Prosperity at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. He is among the most influential and frequently cited economists worldwide.
Jarvis Collegiate Institute is a high school in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is named after Jarvis Street where it is located. It is a part of the Toronto District School Board (TDSB). Prior to 1998, it was within the Toronto Board of Education (TBE).
Joseph Louis Rotman,, was a noted Canadian businessman and philanthropist. Rotman was the founder, benefactor and member of many successful organizations, such as the Clairvest Group Inc., the Rotman Research Institute, the Rotman School of Management, and the Rotman Institute of Philosophy. Throughout his life, he received three honorary degrees, as well as an induction into the Canadian Business Hall of Fame. He is well-regarded for donating his time and financial assistance to numerous philanthropic causes including the arts, education and healthcare.
David Scrymgeour is Adjunct Professor and Entrepreneur in Residence at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. He also lectures and leads workshops for Venture for Canada, the MBA/MIB programs at the Smith School of Business, Queens University and was the inaugural Professional in Residence at St Cross College, Oxford.
Philip S. Orsino, is a Canadian businessman. He is the former president and chief executive officer of Masonite International Corporation.
Richard William Nesbitt is a Canadian financial executive who is currently managing partner of KalNes Capital Partners. Previously he was the president and CEO of Global Risk Institute in Financial Services. In addition, in cooperation with the London School of Economics he leads the creation of a new research institute, The Inclusion Initiative At LSE, which is mandated to improve diversity and inclusion in industry. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Rotman School of Management of the University of Toronto where he teaches a course at the Rotman School of Management, entitled "How Banks Work: Management in a New Regulatory Age". Richard is also chair of the Advisory Board of the Mind Brain Behaviour Hive at the same University.
James Douglas Fleck,, sometimes known as Jim Fleck, is a Canadian businessman and academic.
Gordon Edwards is a Canadian scientist and nuclear consultant. Edwards was born in Canada in 1940, and graduated from the University of Toronto in 1961 with a gold medal in Mathematics and Physics and a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. At the University of Chicago he obtained two master's degrees, one in Mathematics (1962) and one in English Literature (1964). In 1972, he obtained a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Queen's University.
Sandra Ann Rotman, is a Canadian philanthropist and community leader. She and her late husband, Joseph Rotman, O.C., LL.D, frequently directed their philanthropy as a couple to support Canadian institutions in the arts, health and education. Over the past twenty years, the Rotmans served on many boards and donated more than $90 million. In 2006, Sandra Rotman was honoured with the Order of Ontario and in 2007, was awarded an Honorary LL.D. from the University of Toronto. She married Joseph L. Rotman in 1959 and they have two children, Janis and Kenneth. She lives in Toronto, Canada.
The 1993 Queen's Birthday honours were appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by citizens of those countries. The Birthday Honours are awarded as part of the Queen's birthday celebrations and were announced on 11 June 1993 for the United Kingdom, the Bahamas, Solomon Islands, Saint Lucia, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, and New Zealand and the Cook Islands. The list for Australia was announced separately on 14 June.
Richard Tiffany "Tiff" Macklem is a Canadian banker and economist who serves as the current Governor of the Bank of Canada. He was also the former Dean of the Rotman School of Management and had previously served as the Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada.
Marianne McKenna is a Canadian architect and a founding partner of KPMB Architects, a Toronto-based practice established in 1987. She is an invested Officer of The Order of Canada "for her contributions as an architect, designing structures that enrich the public realm". Her projects include the renovation and expansion of The Royal Conservatory TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning and Koerner Hall. McKenna and KPMB were selected by The Brearley School, an independent all-girls school located in New York City, to lead the renovation of its building located on the Upper East Side. Her current projects also include for Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Banff, Alberta and an expansion and renovation of historic Massey Hall in Toronto In 2010 she was named one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women and in 2014 she was named one of Toronto’s top 50 Powerful People by MacLean’s Magazine.
