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Tylor, Edward B. (Edward Burnett), 1832-1917

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  • 1832-1917

Sir Edward Burnett Tylor was born on October 2, 1832, in London, England.

He was an English anthropologist. He was educated at a Quaker school and went to work in his father's London brass foundry at age sixteen. In 1855, Tylor was diagnosed with tuberculosis and sent abroad, spending some time in the southern United States, and visiting Cuba. This voyage sparked an interest in anthropology and provided the material for his first book, “Anahuac; or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern” (1861). He continued to study the customs and beliefs of tribal communities, both existing and prehistoric. In 1865, he published his second work, “Researches into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization,” followed by his most influential work, “Primitive Culture” (1871). Tylor was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1871, and, in 1875, he received an honorary degree of D.C.L. from the University of Oxford. He was appointed Keeper of Oxford University Museum in 1883 and served as a Reader in Anthropology from 1884 to 1895. In 1896, he was appointed the first Professor of Anthropology at Oxford University. He was also elected the first Gifford lecturer at Aberdeen University in 1888. He continued to teach until 1909 and was knighted in 1912. Tylor acted as an anthropological consultant on the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. He is considered the father of cultural anthropology.

In 1858, he married Anna Rebecca Fox (1831-1921). He died on January 2, 1917, in Wellington, Somerset, England.

Tweed, Roberta Beverly, 1942-

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  • 1942-

After attending Dawson College, Beverly Tweed was admitted into the second year of the CEGEP program of McGill in 1972. Majoring in psychology, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from McGill in 1975. As a special student in McGill's Faculty of Science she followed additional courses during the 1975-1976 academic session.

T.V. Little Photo Company

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  • active 1940s-1950s

The T.V. Little Photo Company was active in Ottawa in the 1940s and 1950s.

Tuttle, Charles R. (Charles Richard), 1848-1918

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  • 1848-1918

Charles Richard Tuttle was born on March 14, 1848, in Wallace, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia.

He was a journalist, editor, author, and educator. After being a schoolteacher in Nova Scotia and a journalist in Boston, he came to Winnipeg in 1879 and founded the Winnipeg Daily Times, a newspaper that continued until 1885. He served as its editor until 1880. In 1881, he served as census commissioner for Manitoba, and, in 1883, he served on the Winnipeg School Board. In 1884, he accompanied an expedition to Hudson Bay under the command of Lieutenant Gordon. A candidate in an 1881 provincial by-election and the 1883 provincial general election, he was defeated each time. While in Manitoba, he assisted Donald Gunn with the publication of “A History of Manitoba from the Earliest Times” (1880). He also wrote, “Tuttle’s Popular History of the Dominion of Canada” (1877), “Royalty in Canada” (1878), and “Our North Land” (1885). He moved to Chicago around 1885, and there he wrote extensively on American local history.

In 1868, he married Margaret Elenor Bigney (1846–1941). He died on April 19, 1918, in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.

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