William Harrison Ainsworth; 4 February 1805-3 January 1882; English historical novelist born in Manchester, England; also briefly in the publishing business.
William George Ernest Aird was born on January 23, 1884, in Quebec City, Quebec. At the age of 18, he started to work in the nearby mill of the Montmorency Cotton Co. at the foot of the Montmorency Falls. Next forty years, he spent working in the Quebec cotton manufacturing industry.
In 1907, he joined the Wabasso Cotton Co. in Trois Rivières as the owner C. R. Whitehead's right-hand man. From 1923 to 1925, he was president of the Board of Trade, and from 1922 to 1923, he headed the Trois Rivières Branch of the Canadian Manufacturers Association. In 1932, he managed the Montreal Cottons at Valleyfield, one of the largest cotton mills in the world. After being plant manager for four years, he became general manager in 1936 and finally, its director in 1939.
In 1910, he married Mildred Elmira Watters and they lived in a white colonial house close to the Valleyfield mill. He died in Montreal, Quebec on February 28, 1964.
Airedale College, for nonconformist students, was founded in Idle, Yorkshire in 1800 before transferring to Bradford, where it operated until 1888.
Edward Hamilton Aitken was born on August 16, 1851, in Satara, India, the son of the Rev. James Aitken (1815-), a missionary of the Free Church of Scotland.
He was a civil servant and writer, known for his humorist writings on natural history in India and as a founding member of the Bombay Natural History Society. He was well known to Anglo-Indians by the pen-name of Eha. He received his education from his father in India and graduated from Bombay University with a B.A. and M.A., winning the Homejee Cursetjee prize with a poem in 1880. From 1870 to 1876, he taught Latin at the Deccan College in Pune. He was also proficient in Greek and was known to be able to read the Greek Testament without the aid of a dictionary. Although he grew up in India, he only visited England for the first time later in life, finding the weather of Edinburgh severe. In 1876, he joined the Customs and Salt Department of the Government of Bombay and served in Kharaghoda (referred to as Dustypore in The Tribes on my Frontier), Uran, Uttara Kannada and Goa Frontier, Ratnagiri, and Bombay itself. In 1903, he was appointed Chief Collector of Customs and Salt Revenue at Karachi, and in 1905, he was made Superintendent in charge of the District Gazetteer of Sind. He retired from the service in August 1906 and moved to Edinburgh. He explored the jungles on the hills near Vihar around Bombay and wrote "The Naturalist on the Prowl" (1894). He also published the books "The Common Birds of Bombay" (1900) and "A Naturalist on the Prowl or in the Jungle" (1923).
In 1883, he married Isabella Mary Blake (1858-1924). He died on April 11, 1909, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
She is a poet and the daughter of the Canadian composer and flautist Robert Aitken (1939-).
Robert Morris Aitken was born on August 28, 1939, in Kentville, Nova Scotia.
He is a Canadian composer and flautist. He began his career as a teenager playing in many orchestras, notably becoming the youngest principal flautist in the history of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra in 1958 at the age of 19. He studied flute with Nicolas Fiore, Marcel Moyse, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Andre Jaunet, Severino Gazzelloni, and Hubert Barwahser. In 1971, he abandoned ensemble performance to pursue a highly successful solo career. He has appeared as a soloist with major symphony orchestras throughout North America, Europe and Asia and has made over 40 commercial recordings. Aitken has played with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, CBC Symphony Orchestra, and Toronto Symphony Orchestra. He is the Co-Artistic Director of New Music Concerts in Toronto. He has also done classical and contemporary music (along with eminent harpist Erica Goodman) on BIS Records. From 1988 to 2004, Aitken was a member of the music faculty at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg, Germany. He is also a former faculty member of the University of Toronto (1960–1975) and the Shawinigan Summer School of Arts (1972–1982) and was director of advanced studies in music at the Banff Centre from 1985 to 1989. In 1993, Aitken was made a Member of the Order of Canada, and in 2003, he received National Flute Association Lifetime Achievement Award.
