#NewBio! William Egerton Phin (1863–1939), travelling salesman, contractor, and businessman. W. E. Phin grew up on his family’s farm in Upper Canada, and went on to become one of Canada’s leading businessmen. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/phin_...

#NewBio! Sir Herbert Meredith Marler (1876–1940), notary, businessman, politician, and diplomat. In 1936 he was announced as Canadian minister in Washington, D.C. – but the prime minister soon regretted the appointment. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/marle...

It's #GivingTuesday! The @dcb-dbc.bsky.social has been telling Canada's stories for more than 50 years. Please consider including us in your planned giving. There are different ways to contribute, such as a one-time or monthly gift, or you can Adopt a Biography: engage.utoronto.ca/site/SPageSe...

#NewBio! William James Roche (1859–1937) was an MP for #Manitoba from 1896–1917 and served as minister of the interior under Robert Laird Borden. He championed the replacement of the prevailing patronage system with one based on merit. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/roche...

#NewBio! A Nova Scotia native, Norman McLeod Rogers (1894–1940) overcame serious injuries suffered during #WWI to become an influential scholar, civil servant, and politician. Mackenzie King mused that Rogers might succeed him as prime minister. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/roger...

#NewBio! John Skirving Ewart (1849–1933), lawyer and author. He defended Louis Riel after his conviction in 1885 and supported French Catholics during the debates over the Manitoba school question. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/ewart...

From the vaults for Remembrance Day: for TVO @tvotoday.bsky.social I wrote about how communities across Ontario built First World War memorials during the 1920s and 1930s #cdnhistory #remembranceday www.tvo.org/article/lest...

When Anna Peel Durie's son Arthur was killed in #WorldWarI, she went to extreme lengths to regain both his body and his legacy, going to France to exhume his body and smuggling it back across the Atlantic for burial in Canada. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/peel_... #RemembranceDay

Learn about Leonard Cohen’s grandfather, Lyon Cohen (named at birth Yehuda Lieb) (1868-1937), businessman, newspaper publisher, and community leader: www.biographi.ca/en/bio/cohen...

#RemembranceDay William A. White championed the determination of Black men to serve in #WWI, led recruitment efforts for the No.2 Construction Battalion, and was their chaplain and honorary captain. ow.ly/V1lb50C2WSz / ow.ly/F85S50C2WSA

It is November! Have you read all of our new bios from October? 📖 Maurice Hutton www.biographi.ca/en/bio/hutto... 📖 Herbert Snell www.biographi.ca/en/bio/snell... 📖 Eugene Thornton Kingsley www.biographi.ca/en/bio/kings...

#NewBio! Margaret Gascoigne (1876–1934), educator, school administrator, and musician. She immigrated to #Montreal in 1913 and opened The Study, a private English-language girls’ school, which developed a reputation for high educational achievement. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/gasco...

As we move towards #RemembranceDay, we highlight the stories of two #WWII air force officers: Joseph Alfred Jacobson, letter writer, diarist, and air force officer, and Joseph-Émile-Paul Larichelière, air force officer. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/jacob... and www.biographi.ca/en/bio/laric...

#NewBio! Edward Odlum (1850-1935), militiaman, educator, geologist, ethnologist, businessman, lecturer, politician, and lay preacher. His legacy is darker than he might have anticipated. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/odlum...

#WomensHistoryMonth Kit Coleman (1856–1915) spent most of her 25 years as a journalist walking a creative tightrope between what was considered acceptable behaviour for a woman journalist and what was considered too daring. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/fergu...

#NewBio! Marjory Jardine Ramsay MacMurchy (Willison, Lady Willison) (1870–1938), author, journalist, and social reformer. She was among the most respected Canadian female journalists of the early 20th century. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/macmu...

This is big. ‘Daniel Sampson was innocent’: leading lawyers and law organizations in Canada call for executed man to be exonerated

#NewBio! Eugene Thornton Kingsley (d. 1929), farmer, railway worker, socialist, political agitator and organizer, fishmonger, editor, printer, and author. He was one of the most notable socialist intellectuals of his time in Canada. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/kings...

#WomensHistoryMonth! We highlight Uttaktuak (d. 1932), Copper Inuit seamstress and artist. She assisted the Canadian Arctic Expedition between 1915 and 1917. A skilled seamstress, she made winter clothing vital for safety and comfort. 📷 @canmushistory.bsky.social www.biographi.ca/en/bio/uttak...

#WomensHistoryMonth Marguerite Lamothe (Thibaudeau) (1853–1939), social reformer and philanthropist, saw opportunities for service as a way of living out a Catholic faith that built bridges across linguistic, religious, and political divides. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/lamot...

#NewBio! Merchant, politician, and militia and army officer. Assigned to support positions during #WWI due to injury, he was mentioned in dispatches. After his return he was an exec with the Robert Simpson Company. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/snell...

#WomensHistoryMonth Greta Submit Ogden (1875–1939), artist, professor, and pioneer occupational therapist. She studied the therapeutic benefits of handicrafts in rehabilitating #WWI veterans and helped others to create beautiful and useful things. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/ogden...

#WomensHistoryMonth Nora Livingston (1848–1927) was a hospital and nursing school administrator. A leading member of her profession, she worked to see that her school had an enviable reputation across Canada. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/livin... 📷 @museemccordstewart

#NewBio! Maurice Hutton (1856–1940), scholar and educator. A self-effacing man with immense personal magnetism, Hutton inspired generations of students who became the leaders of a growing country. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/hutto... 🎨 Art Museum U of Toronto 📷 U of Toronto Archives

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation: Allen Patrick Willie (1928–37), schoolboy, was one of more than 150,000 Indigenous children enrolled in Canada’s residential school program between the late 1880s and 1996. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/willi...

#NewBio! Mary Travers, known as La Bolduc (Bolduc), (1894–1941) musician, self-taught singer-songwriter, and actor. La Bolduc is considered the first singer-songwriter of the chanson québécoise. Her success stemmed from her authenticity. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/trave...

In 1923 James F. Jenkins founded a newspaper, the Dawn of Tomorrow, and used it to educate a multiracial audience about the experiences of Blacks in North America and around the world. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/jenki... Cheers to @crkn-rcdr.bsky.social who digitized it!! n2t.net/ark:/69429/s...

For writer George Bowering, John George Diefenbaker (1895–1979) was the wittiest of all the country’s prime ministers, "and he was the most amazing campaigner anyone would ever see or hear." Diefenbaker was born #OTD 1895. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/diefe...

#NewBio! John Penman (1845/46–1931), textile and clothing manufacturer and philanthropist. He set out to dominate the woollen industry in Canada. The company was best known for its combinations – all-in-one winter underwear for men, women, and children. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/penma...

#NewBio! A free Black man who was kidnapped into slavery as a child in the United States, John W. Lindsay eventually fled to Upper Canada, where he made a successful career. In escaping bondage, however, he found he had not escaped prejudice. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/linds...

No #NewBio this week. Today we highlight the stories of Félicité Angers (1845–1924), novelist, biographer, journalist, and playwright, and Robertine Barry (1863–1910), journalist, writer, lecturer, feminist, and office holder. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/anger... / www.biographi.ca/en/bio/barry...

No #NewBio this week. Today we highlight the stories of Emma Lajeunesse, known as Emma Albani (1847–1930), singer, pianist, harpist, and teacher, and Béatrice La Palme (1878–1921), violinist, soprano, and teacher.

No #NewBio this week. Today we highlight two Chinese-born businessmen in #BritishColumbia: Chang Toy, labourer and businessman, and Chu Lai, merchant. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/chang... / www.biographi.ca/en/bio/chu_l...

No #NewBio this week. Today we highlight the stories of Phoebe Johnston, a Tuscarora woman and labourer, and Uttaktuak, a Copper Inuit (Inuinnait) seamstress and artist. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/johns... / www.biographi.ca/en/bio/uttak...

No #NewBio this week. Today we highlight Georgina Mingo Whetsel, Black entrepreneur, and Louise Caroline Alberta, sculptor, personal secretary to Queen Victoria, viceregal consort, and painter. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mingo... / www.biographi.ca/en/bio/louis...

No #NewBio this week – today we highlight the story of Jean-Baptiste Canadien, called Big John Canadien (Raientonni, Aiontonnis, meaning “he works with wood”) (1840–1919), Mohawk raftsman, pilot, voyageur, and lacrosse player. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/canad... 📷 @banq-officiel.bsky.social

No #NewBio this week. Today we highlight the stories of: 📖Chloe Cooley (fl. 1793), an enslaved Black woman biographi.ca/en/bio/coole... and 📖An enslaved Black woman (fl. 1802–3) whose name is unrecorded: biographi.ca/en/bio/name_... Learn more: biographi.ca/en/topics/to...

The Calgary Stampede begins today! Check out our bios of the “Big Four”: 🐴George Lane: www.biographi.ca/en/bio/lane_... 🐂Patrick Burns: www.biographi.ca/en/bio/burns... 🤠Archibald James McLean: www.biographi.ca/.../mclean_a... -Our biography of Alfred Ernest Cross is forthcoming.

#NewBio! Théodore Bochart's (1607–53) activities in New France during the 1630s provide useful supplemental information about the circumstances of the founding of Trois-Rivières, long vaguely attributed to Laviolette alone. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/du_pl...

A fascinating bio. Some time ago, I went through LAC's (small) Yeigh fonds, documenting his friendship with Tekahionwake E. Pauline Johnson. The papers include 2 unpublished TEPJ poems, as well as an unsigned verse, "Pauline Johnson's Grave" - maybe Yeigh's own work? #cdnhist #cdnlit #bookhistory

#NewBio! Frank Yeigh (1860–1935), printer, publisher, writer, lecturer, publicist, and civil servant. Establishing the Save the Children Fund in Canada is his most enduring legacy. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/yeigh...

#NewBio! Abraham Lincoln McCrimmon (1865–1935), educator and author. He was a faculty member at @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social. The Toronto Daily Star welcomed him as “one of the foremost of Canada’s educationists.” www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mccri...

#NewBio! Born in the United States, Thomas C. Washington (d. 1897) settled in Saint John, where he became an accomplished entrepreneur, a leader in the Black community, and a contributor to the musical life of his adopted home. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/washi...

Weekend reading! Are you all caught up with our new bios from April? 📖 Lelia Clare Gass 📖 William Francis Tye 📖 Délia Tétreault, known as Marie du Saint-Esprit 📖 John Bourinot 📖 Walter George Brown www.biographi.ca/en/new_biogr... #NewBios

#NewBio! John James MacNeill (1874–1937), Baptist clergyman, educator, and author. MacNeill’s ecumenical spirit and emphasis on social justice placed him at odds with fundamentalist Baptists. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/macne...

#NewBio! A painter, engraver, designer, and illustrator, Clarence Gagnon (1881–1942) enjoyed a brilliant career, building his success with works inspired by rural villages nestled in the snow of the Charlevoix mountains. www.biographi.ca/fr/bio/gagno...

Thank you to @cmedmoore.bsky.social for mentioning our Marie Dressler bio: christophermoorehistory.blogspot.com/2025/05/hist...

#NewBio! Actor Marie Dressler (1868–1934) lived a roller coaster of a life. She had enormous success on the vaudeville stage after years in stock companies and then faced a period of dire financial straits before finding Academy Award–winning film stardom. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/koerb...

#NewBio! Labelled the “Builder of Toronto” by the Toronto Daily Star, E. J. Lennox (1854–1933) was a successful architect in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He designed some of Toronto’s landmark buildings, including Old City Hall and Casa Loma. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/lenno...

The @dcb-dbc.bsky.social (@dbc-dcb.bsky.social en français) could not have been happier to collaborate with @nhenrydixon.bsky.social on this work -- we are excited for readers to see the 'behind the scenes' of it all! www.biographi.ca/en/topics/to...