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Atherton, William H. (William Henry), 1867-

  • https://lccn.loc.gov/no93007031
  • Person
  • 1867-1950

William Henry Atherton was born on November 15, 1867, in Salford, Lancashire, England.

He was a British-born Canadian writer, historian, academic, and scholar. He was educated at Stonyhurst College, a Roman Catholic school. Upon completing his degree in philosophy and theology, he began his career as a teacher in classics at Stonyhurst College and Beaumont College in Berkshire. In 1907, Atherton emigrated to Calgary, Alberta, Canada, to follow his elderly parents. For one year, he taught at a school in Alberta. In 1908, he relocated to Quebec, where he became a faculty member at Loyola College, an anglophone Jesuit college and Collège Notre-Dame du Sacré-Cœur from 1908 until 1918. In 1918, he became a professor of English literature at the Laval University of Quebec - Montreal annex, which became the University of Montreal, where he remained a faculty member until his retirement in 1948. He also taught at the Marguerite Bourgeoys College. For over twenty years, he served on the examining board for Latin and letters for medical students at McGill University, Laval University, and the Université de Montréal. He was an active member of Montreal's literary community, writing fifty books. He wrote the books “Montreal, 1535-1914” (3 vols., 1914), “Old Montreal in the early days of British Canada, 1778-1788” (1925) and “History of the harbour front of Montréal since its discovery by Jacques Cartier in 1535” (1935). He also edited the four-volume work, “The Storied Province of Quebec” (1931-32) and was responsible for writing the volume on Montreal. Atherton was the first in Canada to give broadcast conferences on literature, history, and social reforms, aired on CFCF, a Montreal radio station from 1945. He was a historian of the British Empire Society, the Canadian Catholic Historical Society, and the Catholic Historical Society of Montreal. Rue Atherton was named in his honour by the City of Montreal in 1955. The Williams H. Atherton Award for Excellence in History is presented on an annual basis at Loyola College.

He died unmarried on July 6, 1950, in Montreal, Quebec.

Ataratiri Neighbourhood Advisory Council

  • Corporate body
  • 1991-

In 1987, the city of Toronto proposed creating a new community of 14,000 called Ataratiri in the West Don Lands area to solve its pressing subsidized housing crisis.

There have been significant and ongoing consultation activities conducted in relation to the Lower Don River and its environs in Toronto, Ontario. In 1991, an Ataratiri Neighbourhood Advisory Council (NAC) was established that included a variety of public interests related to the area of West Don Lands. The role of NAC was to provide advice to City staff. An NAC environmental sub-committee was also created that examined flood risk issues. The Ataratiri project was to have consisted of a mix of subsidized and market-priced housing, like the development of the St. Lawrence neighbourhood further west. The name for the project was taken from the Wyandot word for "supported by clay" in reference to the clay soil of the area. After investing a considerable amount of money in purchasing and clearing the site, the project eventually failed to attract private investors. The industrial history meant the soil was highly polluted and needed expensive cleanup before any residents could live there. The risk of flooding from the Don River also required a flood barrier to be erected. By 1992, the city and province had already invested some $350 million, and new estimates put the final cost at more than a billion dollars more. The real estate market had also collapsed, making any private investment unlikely. The new Ontario government of Bob Rae thus decided to cancel the project in 1992.

Association/Le Vieux-Port

  • Corporate body
  • 1978-

Association/Le Vieux-Port was created by the federal government in 1978 as a community organization with the mandate to represent the citizens of Montreal in the planning process of the Old Montreal Port. In 1978-1979, the Association carried out a vast public consultation program to find out how the citizens of Montreal wanted their waterfront redeveloped. In 1979, it published a document "Une stratégie de réaménagement pour Le Vieux-Port de Montréal : un programme réalisable."

Atallah, Maria

  • Person

Maria Atallah is a Lebanese Canadian composer of contemporary classical music, a pianist, and a teacher, originally from Ottawa, Ontario. In 2015, she graduated from the University of Ottawa (B.A. in Music) under the instruction of John Armstrong and Frédéric Lacroix in composition and Andrew Tunis in piano. Maria was awarded a First Prize (Godfrey Ridout Awards) in the 2017 SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Composers for Hymn to Inana and reached the semifinals at the 2014 International Sorodha Composition Competition based in Antwerp, Belgium, for her Three Pieces for Unaccompanied Cello. Other awards include the University of Ottawa’s Jean-Marie Beaudet Scholarship for outstanding potential in composition and a City of Ottawa YCPP grant. During the summer of 2016, Maria participated in the Orford Academy’s Creation Workshop, where she had the privilege of studying with composers Ana Sokolovic and Jean Lesage and collaborating with the academy’s contemporary ensemble under the direction of conductor Véronique Lacroix. Maria is currently (2017) pursuing a Master of Music in Composition at the Schulich School of Music with Jean Lesage. She was named Composer-in-Residence with the Schulich Singers, McGill’s premiere chamber choir directed by Jean-Sebastien Vallée. Maria’s research is inspired by the connection between ancient and contemporary music. Her thesis explores melodic and heterophonic writing articulated by electroacoustically inspired techniques. When she is not working on her music, Maria enjoys reading, training in the art of Muay Thai, and listening to hip-hop.

Astor, Waldorf Astor, Viscount, 1879-1952

  • https://lccn.loc.gov/n2001027848
  • Person
  • 1879-1952

Waldorf Astor was born on May 19, 1879, in New York City, New York, the eldest son of William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor (1848-1919).

He was an American-born English politician and newspaper proprietor, a member of the legendary Astor family. He spent much of his life travelling and living in Europe before his family settled in England in 1889. Waldorf attended Eton College and New College, Oxford, where he excelled as a sportsman, earning accolades for both fencing and polo. In 1905, while a passenger on an Atlantic voyage returning to Britain, Astor met Nancy Langhorne Shaw (1879-1964), a divorced woman with a young son (Robert Gould Shaw III). Coincidentally, both he and Mrs. Shaw shared the same birthdate, May 19, 1879, and both were American. After a rapid courtship, the two married in May 1906 and settled at the Astor family estate in Cliveden. Nancy encouraged her husband to launch a career in politics. He entered Parliament in 1910, acting as secretary to Prime Minister David Lloyd George in 1917. He retired from public office in 1919, his seat being taken by his wife, Nancy Witcher, Viscountess Astor, the first woman to sit in the British House of Commons. Astor was proprietor of The Observer, a London Sunday newspaper formerly owned by his father (to whose title he succeeded in 1919), from 1919 to 1945, when he turned it over to a trust. Astor became governor of the Peabody Trust and Guy's Hospital. His interest in international relations fuelled his involvement with the Royal Institute of International Affairs, and he served as its chairman from 1935 to 1949. He was also a considerable benefactor to the city of Plymouth and served as its Lord Mayor from 1939 to 1944. Astor was appointed Honorary Colonel of the Devonport, Plymouth-based Devonshire Heavy Brigade, Royal Artillery of the Territorial Army in 1929. An authority on agricultural problems, Astor became chairman in 1936 of a committee that was the progenitor of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.

He died on September 30, 1952, in Cliveden, Buckinghamshire, England.

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