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Marilyn Assheton-Smith was raised in Olds, Calgary and Ferintosh, and has lived and worked in Alberta from Medicine Hat to Lac La Biche, as well as travelling to work in northern Alberta, the Yukon and Northwest Territories. Ms. Assheton-Smith's first career was in nursing, nursing education, and health education, and then community development. After working with the Dene around Yellowknife, she returned to University to study sociology. She completed a PhD at the University of Alberta and moved into teaching Sociology of Education, International and Intercultural Education, and Gender and Education courses at the University of Alberta. Much of her early work was with First Nations men and women studying to become school teachers, or with other student teachers who wished to better understand the lives of their aboriginal pupils. Outside of her career, Marilyn Assheton-Smith worked on executive boards of a variety of community organizations. She is now Professor Emeritus of Educational Policy Studies at the Univesity of Alberta, and actively works with the New Democratic Party of Alberta.

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A Canadian librarian and author. Born at Halifax, Nova Scotia, he worked from 1890 to 1905 as a secretary in civil service. The following seven years he was librarian at the Ottawa Public Library, before becoming secretary for the International Joint Commission in 1912, a post he occupied until his retirement. Burpee helped found the Canadian Historical Association in 1922 and also was its first president until 1925. He also was president of the Royal Society of Canada in 1936/37. He published many articles relating to Canadian studies and was the founding editor of the Canadian Geographic Journal. Burpee died at Oxford, England. He is buried in Beechwood Cemetery.

Deputy Minister of the Interior. Burgess was educated at the University of Aberdeen. After University he was employed for the Great North of Scotland Railway in 1867. He entered journalism in 1869 joing the Press of Scotland and emigrated to Canada in 1871. As a member of the Toronto Globe he covered the House of Commons from 1872 to 1874. He moved from the Globe to become editor of the Ottawa Times in 1874. He began his Canadian civil servant career as editor and chief reporter for the House of Commons when reports began 1875. He then became editor and chief reporter for Canadian Senate and House of Commons debates in 1876. On November first of that year he took the position of private secretary to the Hon. David Mills, Minister of the Interior. Sir John A. MacDonald appointed Burgess Minister of the Interior on July 1st, 1883.

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Was the first to perfect a practical method of photogrammetry, the making of maps based on photography. He was the Surveyor General of Canada (1885–1924) and Canada's Director General for the Bureau of Surveys (1922–24). During his lifetime, Canadian surveyors had used his phototopography to map 83,678 square kilometres, roughly the size of the United Kingdom. In 1875, Deville began working as a surveyor and astronomer in Quebec, Canada. He was quickly promoted to the position of the province's top surveyor, Inspector of Surveys. He passed exams in high-level survey theory, earning the rare designation of Dominion Topographic Surveyor. In 1880, he joined the survey for homesteads in the Prairie provinces with the Department of the Interior in Ottawa. For many years, Deville directed Canadian surveying activities. He used innovative techniques to deal with the challenges of surveying in Canada, including a special method of mapping mountainous regions that he invented. In 1881, Deville was appointed inspector for Dominion Land Surveys. In 1885, he became Surveyor General of Canada. In 1922, he represented Canada at a geophysics conference in Rome, and his expertise on mountain surveys became sought after internationally. A copy of his camera was used to map the north slope of Mount Everest. His technology was adopted by the Geological Survey of Canada and the International Boundary Commission.

First director of the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine.