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Grace Blackburn
Victoria Grace Blackburn was born in Quebec City, likely when her father, the publisher of The London Free Press, was there on business. She attended school at Hellmuth Ladies’ College in London, Ontario and then went on to teach in the United States during the 1890s ..Marjorie Blackburn
Marjorie Ludwell Dampier was born in 1913 in Strathroy, a substantial town in Middlesex County about twenty miles west of London, where her father was a bank manager. She entered The University of Western Ontario in 1931 where she met young Walter Blackburn ...C
Diana C. Coates
Diana Carolyn Coates (née Ruddy, 1939) spent her youth in the agrarian Quaker village of Pickering, Ontario, population 740. Now the town is home to over 99,000 people living approximately 43 kilometres from the metropolis of Toronto ...Lenore Crawford
Born in London, Ontario, Lenore Crawford was a well-known art critic in London during the 1960s and 1970s. Following graduation from Western University, she began her career in the newspaper business as a proofreader for the London Echo, and then moved on to a newsroom job at the London Advertiser. At The Windsor Star in Windsor, Ontario, she began to write about art with encouragement from Bas Mason, an editor for Western Ontario ...Doreen Curry
Doreen Curry was born in Orangeville, Ontario, in 1924. She completed a BA in music in 1946 at the University of Toronto, and a degree in Library Science (BLsc.) a year later. From 1947 until the 1980s, Curry worked at the London Public Library as the head of the Arts and Science, often also working with music materials ...Sylvia Curtis-Norcross
Sylvia Curtis (now Curtis-Norcross) was born into the context of Montreal’s Canadian Centenary celebrations in 1967. The cultural tensions and expressions of that time imprinted on her an understanding of the arts as of fundamental value to our understanding of our experiences both individual and collective ...D
Irene Dewdney
Born in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Irene Dewdney (née Donner) and her husband Selwyn Dewdney (1909-1979), are both recognized among the founders of art therapy in Canada. The couple, both artists, worked collaboratively throughout their careers, developing the field of art therapy ...E
