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Gage Educational Publishing Company, otherwise known as Gage Learning, is a division of Nelson Education (nelson.com), a major Canadian publisher of school textbooks and educational reference books.
Gage Educational is descended from W. J. Gage & Company, Ltd., a Toronto publisher renamed in 1879 for its partner William James Gage (1849–1921); formerly Adam Miller and Company.
Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, Gage was a well-known Canadian publishing company. Gage's dictionaries were a staple in many Elementary School classrooms, as were Gage-published workbooks and textbooks. The Gage senior-level dictionary, as of 1983 called the Gage Canadian Dictionary was often considered the official dictionary of Canadian English. The Gage Canadian Dictionary was one of three school dictionaries in the Dictionary of Canadian English Series, which as of 1962 defined the lexicography of Canadian English. [1] The scholarly flagship dictionary in that series was the 1st edition of A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles (Avis et al. 1967).
A toque is a type of hat with a narrow brim or no brim at all.
A knit cap is a piece of knitted headwear designed to provide warmth in cold weather. It usually has a simple tapered shape, although more elaborate variants exist. Historically made of wool, it is now often made of synthetic fibers.
McClelland & Stewart Limited is a Canadian publishing company. It is owned by Penguin Random House of Canada, a branch of Penguin Random House, the international book publishing division of German media giant Bertelsmann.
Alastair William Gillespie, was a Canadian politician and businessman.
Thomas Nelson is a publishing firm that began in West Bow, Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1798, as the namesake of its founder. It is a subsidiary of HarperCollins, the publishing unit of News Corp. It describes itself as a "world leading publisher and provider of Christian content".
George Bell & Sons was a book publishing house located in London, United Kingdom, from 1839 to 1986.
Edwin James Houston was an American electrical engineer, academic, businessman, inventor and writer.
Scott Foresman was an elementary educational publisher for PreK through Grade 6 in all subject areas. Its titles are now owned by Savvas Learning Company which formed from former Pearson Education K12 division. The old Glenview headquarters of Scott Foresman is empty as of August 2020, and Crain's Chicago Business reported that the broker hired to sell the property had missed a mortgage payment.
The Commercial Press is the first modern publishing organisation in China. The Commercial Press is known for its academic translation and publications in humanities and social sciences as well as the Xinhua Dictionary.
Macmillan of Canada was a Canadian publishing house.
Ward, Lock & Co. was a publishing house in the United Kingdom that started as a partnership and developed until it was eventually absorbed into the publishing combine of Orion Publishing Group.
A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles (DCHP) is a historical usage dictionary of words, expressions, or meanings which are native to Canada or which are distinctively characteristic of Canadian English though not necessarily exclusive to Canada. The first edition was published by W. J. Gage Limited in 1967. The text of this first edition was scanned and released as a free-access online dictionary in 2013.
George Williams Brown (1894–1963) was a Canadian historian and editor. Born on April 3, 1894, in Glencoe, Middlesex County, Ontario, and died on October 19, 1963, in Ottawa, Ontario.
Tokyo Shoseki Co. Ltd. (東京書籍株式会社) is a Japanese company engaged in the textbook and other publishing businesses. The company is well known as the largest publisher of textbooks in Japan, but also publishes reference books and Digital textbooks, educational assessment question, and many other general books, in a wide range of business areas. The company was founded in 1909 and celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2009.
Ryerson Press was a Canadian book publishing company, active from 1919 to 1970. First established by the Methodist Book Room, a division of the Methodist Church of Canada, and operated by the United Church Publishing House after the Methodist Church's merger into the United Church of Canada in 1925, the imprint specialized in historical, educational and literary titles.
Sir William James Gage was a Canadian educator, entrepreneur and philanthropist.
Clarke, Irwin & Company was a Canadian publishing house based in Toronto, Ontario. Established in 1930, it was purchased by Thomas Nelson Publishing in 2002. The company published works by prominent Canadian authors, artists, and poets, including Robertson Davies, Emily Carr, A.Y. Jackson, Adele Wiseman, Timothy Findley, and Alden Nowlan. The company was also known as a producer of educational works and textbooks.
McGraw Hill is an American publishing company for educational content, software, and services for pre-K through postgraduate education. It is one of the "big three" educational publishers along with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Pearson Education. McGraw Hill also publishes reference and trade publications for medicine, business, and engineering. Formerly a division of The McGraw Hill Companies later renamed McGraw Hill Financial, now S&P Global, McGraw Hill Education was divested and acquired by Apollo Global Management in March 2013 for $2.4 billion. McGraw Hill was sold in 2021 to Platinum Equity for $4.5 billion.
Weigl Educational Publishers Limited is a publishing house in Canada, one of the country's largest.
Robert John Gregg, known as Bob Gregg or R. J. Gregg, was a linguist, a pioneer of the academic study of Ulster-Scots as well as a linguistic authority on Canadian English.
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