Estelle Beverly Morton (Bev) was born in Edmonton in 1950 and moved to Winnipeg in 1967. She married fellow artist, Wayne Arthur in 1979. Together they opened the Wayne Arthur Sculpture and Craft Gallery in 1995. After Wayne's passing, Bev moved the gallery to Winnipeg, renaming it the Wayne Arthur Gallery in his honor. She married her second husband, Robert MacLellan, in 2020. Bev passed away in Winnipeg on November 19, 2021.

Wayne was born in Port Arthur, Ontario on May 19, 1943. Wayne was an accomplished sculptor, known for his public art aroundn Manitoba. Amongst his well known projects were "Caring Hands" at Deer Lodge Centre, an Indigenous hunting scene at the Forks National Historic Site, the Petersfield Mallard, Meleb Mushrooms and the Poplarfield King Buck. In additon to public art pieces, Wayne created several sculptures held in private collecitons. Wayne married Estelle Beverly (Bev) Morton in 1979. WOn December 1, 1995, they opened the Wayne Arthur Sculpture & Craft Gallery at their home near Selkirk.

These papers were created by families of Theodore Strange, Andrew Davison, Thompson and Mary Ann Griffiths. Theodore Strange married Mary Ann Griffiths and together they had four children, Nita, Ella, Sims, and George. Strange worked in Winnipeg for a short while to earn money to buy land for a farm and relocated his family to Green Ridge in 1878. Theodore Strange died in October 1879 of pneumonia and complications from injuries received during the U.S. civil war.

The following year, the widowed Mary Ann Strange married Andrew Davison of Green Ridge. They had five more children, Mary, Llewie, Lizzie, Bill and Bert. Andrew Davison died in 1933 and Mary Ann in 1936; the farm was bequeathed to Bert and Bill Davison, neither of whom married. Upon their deaths, Theo Stancel Strange, the son of Sims Strange, inherited the farms. Lizzie married Thompson and had a daughter Edith Thompson. Edith lived on the farm most of her life.

Born and educated in Winnipeg, D. Harold Turner taught speech, drama and children's literature in the Faculty of Education at the University of Manitoba. He was active in the Manitoba Festival of Arts as a committee chairman and adjudicator and in the Manitoba Historical Society and Drama League. He received the Centennial Medal for his contribution to drama in the Manitoba community. It was for his contribution to children's literature that D. Harold Turner will be remembered. His first publication, To Hang A Rebel, was a Children's Book Centre choice in 1978. He later published Quips and Cranks of George Ashton (1978) and Atomic Archers: Target Terror (1983).

Kenn Perkins was born May 29,1942. He completed high school at Miles Macdonell Collegiate and attended the University of Manitoba’s School of Art in the early 1960s. After leaving university, Perkins worked for four years in the camera department at Eaton’s where he gained knowledge about photography equipment. Perkins also took a summer job at Phillips - Gutkin and Associates Ltd., (PGA) where he painted animation cells and learned about animation from some of the highly regarded animators working there. During this time, he also constructed his first animation stand at home. He passed away on August 2, 2022.

Around 1968, Perkins began working at the Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature (now called the Manitoba Museum) writing and animating a film called “A Brief History of Astronomy.” The film was nominated for best Animated Short in the Canadian Film Awards.

After leaving the Manitoba Museum, Perkins took a six-week internship at the National Film Board of Canada in Montréal. When he returned to Winnipeg, he started Kenn Perkins Animation Limited (KPA) and concentrated on creating animated TV commercials (using classical animation techniques: inked and painted-on cells and shot on film). The business grew quickly and took on large customers such as K-Tel. The commercials produced by KPA began to win awards and receive recognition across Canada.

By about 1973, KPA was awarded contracts to create animated French segments to replace the Spanish content on Sesame Street. Throughout the 1970s, KPA became responsible for the majority of Canadian content for Sesame Street. To keep up with demand, Perkins actively recruited and trained animators to work for his company. Some of these animators went on to distinguish themselves at the highest levels, for example, Cordell Baker and Chris Hinton have been nominated for Academy Awards and several others moved on to successful careers at Spielberg’s DreamWorks,Warner Bros., Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and Electronic Arts or became independent filmmakers.

KPA developed into a full service production company offering creative services and production of animation, live action, computer animation and graphic design. KPA was an early adopter of motion control robotics (computer controlled cameras), digital editing, VFX (visual Effects) and various combinations of those individual disciplines. In the 1980s, KPA became the sixth user worldwide of SoftImage (even before Disney used it). In 1994, KPA became known as Commvergence, and although it has reduced its production services it offers creative services like Graphic Design and Website design.

Kenneth James Hughes was born in 1932 in England. He was an artist, scholar, author, and professor of English at St. John's College, University of Manitoba. His books include "Signs of Literature: Language, Ideology and the Literary Text", biographies of Canadian artists Jackson Beardy and Kelly Clark, as well as work on Manitoba writers and artists, including Tony Tascona. Hughes died July 23, 2013 in Winnipeg at the age of 80.

Thomas B. Roberton was born in Glasgow in 1879, where he worked as a printer in his youth. In 1910, Roberton left Scotland for Canada, settling first in Alberta and then in British Columbia for a time. In order to support his small family, Roberton held a variety of jobs, working by turns as a farmer, market gardener, worker in lumber camps, and printer. When Roberton moved to Winnipeg in 1916, he found a job as a writer and compositor for the Labour weekly The Voice where he worked until joining the staff at the Free Press in 1918. Over the next eighteen years, Roberton not only became assistant editor-in-chief at the Free Press, but gained national acclaim for his contributions to the newspaper’s editorial page. As well as writing well-received editorial columns on a variety of subjects, Roberton published The Fighting Bishop (1925), a book about the life of John Strachan, the first Anglican Bishop of Toronto. Although nationally known for his writing, Roberton was a shy and private man, who spent his spare time going to films and listening to nautical yarns at the Cutty Shark Club. After Roberton’s sudden passing from stroke in January 1936, The MacMillan Company of Canada published a volume of his newspaper articles with the title T.B.R.: Newspaper Pieces. This volume, put together by Roberton’s long time colleague J.B. McGeachy, was a great success and was awarded the prize offered by Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada, for the best prose work other than fiction published in Canada in 1936. The award was accepted in Toronto by Roberton’s son George. A second volume of Roberton’s newspaper articles was printed by MacMillan in 1937 under the title A Second Helping of Newspaper Pieces.

Leroux was born to Doug and Janice Leroux on February 16, 1988 in The Pas, Manitoba. Leroux’s creativity began at an early age, creating cartoon strips, Lego stop motion films and taught himself to play several instruments, most notably the bass and organ.  Scott Leroux was an artist of various art forms. and studied Fine Arts at the University of Manitoba’s School of Art from 2007-2014 graduating with honours. To help finance his studies Leroux planted trees during the summers, which would serve as inspiration in his art.   

While at the U of M, Leroux co-founded Chesterfield, a magazine dedicated to highlighting student art at the University of Manitoba. He dedicated himself to Chesterfield while helping run the operations. Leroux had a hand in everything from creating call adverts for student art, to layouts and editing, to acquiring funding through grants and ad space. His art works include photography, music, poetry, painting, music videos, films, mixed media art and scores. Leroux was incredibly involved in his community and much of his work is collaborative. He played with and jammed in several Winnipeg based bands, such as Uncanny Valley Girls and Savant Flaneur. Leroux was well known for often lending a helping hand to friends and other local artists in need of assistance with a project.   

Leroux’s art works have been put on display at the CSACE Gallery, The Edge Gallery, Aceartinc and Platform Centre for Photographic + Digital Arts and published on the websites: Bandcamp, YouTube, Instagram, BlogSpot, Vimeo, SoundCloud.  

Scott Leroux passed away suddenly due to a heart condition on October 29, 2016 in Winnipeg. He was 28 years old.   

Located on the south shore of Lake Manitoba, the Delta March Field Station was a research and environmental education facility of the University of Manitoba, Faculty of Science. The Station bordered Delta Marsh which is one of the largest coastal marshes in North America, occupying approximately 18,000 hectares of land. In 1982, the marsh was officially designated as a Wetland of International Significance under the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Ramsar Convention. It is also recognized provincially as a “Manitoba Heritage Marsh” and nationally as an Important Bird Area, due to the significant presence of waterfowl and neotropical migrants in the area.

Established in 1996 by Dr. Jennifer M Shay, Doctor of Philosophy in Science the Station was a member of the Organization of Biological Field Stations and the Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network of Environment Canada. The property was also a part of a designated game-bird refuge and wildlife protection area, most of which was designated an ecologically significant area in 1987. The Station was based around Mallard Lodge which was a two-Storey hunting lodge built in 1932 on the estate of well-known Winnipeg athlete and businessman Donald H Bain. Mallard Lodge operated as the center of operations and housed university students doing research there. Other buildings were also constructed to be used as housing as well as for studying and analyzing data captured from the surrounding marsh. The Field Station provided students room and board, laboratory space, some general research equipment, such as boats and motors, drying ovens, power tools, bicycles, as well as data such as meteorological data from the station’s real-time climate station, plant and animal specimen. The students also had access to library books and the internet. Researchers studied different aspects of the marsh's ecosystem, as well as monitored daily weather and the water quality of Lake Manitoba. The Station was a place of education for all levels as school field trips and adult seminars and conferences were held there.

A decision was made in 2010 to only operate the Field Station during the summer as it was not considered to be financially sustainable on a year-round basis. However, after the facility sustained considerable damage in 2011 during a flood caused by unusually high-water levels on Lake Manitoba, the Station was closed permanently. Most of the buildings were demolished or hauled away in 2012.

Oliver Botar was born in Toronto of Hungarian refugee parents and raised in Northern Ontario and Edmonton. He completed his Bachelor of Arts degree in urban geography at the University of Alberta in Edmonton; and a Master of Science in urban and regional planning at the University of Toronto. He then completed first an MA and then a Ph.D. in art history at the University of Toronto.

He has taught modern and contemporary art and architectural history at several Canadian universities, with a focus on art in new/alternative media, Modernism between the world wars and curatorial practice. In 1996 he began teaching modern art history at the University of Manitoba and was appointed Professor in 2011. His research, writing and exhibition curating have focused on early-to-mid-20th-century art, architecture, photography and media art, with particular emphases on the early 20th-century Hungarian avant-garde. The nexus of Biocentrism and Modernism and the art and ideas of László Moholy-Nagy have been focuses throughout his career. He has lectured and has curated exhibitions in Canada, the United States, Europe and Japan.

He has published numerous articles, encyclopedia articles and book chapters and has held several major research grants and fellowships, including SSHRC Insight grants, at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal and the Institut für Literaturwissenschaft in Berlin. His other books and exhibitions include: Technical Detours: The Early Moholy-Nagy Reconsidered, shown at and published by The Graduate Center – CUNY, 2006 and the Janus Pannonius Museum, Pécs, as well as the Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest; Biocentrism and Modernism (Isabel Wünsche, co-editor), Ashgate, 2011; and Sensing the Future: Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts, shown at Plug In ICA Winnipeg and at the Bauhaus-Archiv in Berlin in 2014-15. An accompanying book was published in English and German editions by Lars Müller in Zurich. At the Winnipeg Art Gallery he curated Starting with Rodin in 2016-17. He has also worked on Canadian art, publishing A Bauhäusler in Canada: Andor Weininger in the 50s (2009), An Art at the Mercy of Light: Works by Eli Bornstein (2013), and several articles, including an article for two exhibition publications at the McMichael Canadian Art Centre. He has been invited to contribute many lectures and articles in 2019, the centennial year of the founding of the Bauhaus, and curated the exhibition “Bauhaus (Canada) 101” at the University of Manitoba School of Art Gallery in 2020.

He has been involved with Hungarian Studies since the 1980s, and is past President of the Hungarian Studies Association of Canada. He is currently working on a book on art in Winnipeg/Treaty One Territory. Botar lives and works in Winnipeg.

John Loxley was a Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Manitoba. Loxley was a prominent economist, published extensively in the areas of community economic development, international development, and international monetary finance. He was concerned primarily with alternative economic theory and policy. His publications consist of fifteen books, and over one hundred and fifty papers and reports. He also served, in various capacities, on the following editorial boards: Journal of Development Policy and Practice, Journal of Developing Areas, Review of African Political Economy, Studies in Political Economy, Internet Journal of African Studies, Canadian Journal of Development Studies, Canadian Dimension magazine, and Uchumi.

John Loxley was born in Sheffield, England in 1942 into a large working class family. He completed a Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) in Economics (1963) and a Ph.D. in Economics (1966) at the University of Leeds in England. His Ph.D. dissertation is entitled “The Development of the East African Monetary and Financial System, 1950-1964.” In the mid-1960s, he began his academic career as a lecturer in the Economics Department at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda and the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, during which time he also served as a research manager and an economist for the National Bank of Commerce Tanzania while performing duties as director of the Department of Economics and Planning at the Institute of Finance in Tanzania.

Loxley immigrated to Canada in 1975 to take the appointment of Secretary (Deputy Minister) of the Resource and Economic Development Sub-Committee for the Province of Manitoba. In July of 1977, he began teaching in the Department of Economics at the University of Manitoba where he later served as head of the department (1984 to 1997) as well as the coordinator of Research, Global Political Economy Program for the Faculty of Arts (2002-present). In June 2014, he was appointed a part-time executive coordinator position on the Premier’s Advisory Council for Education, Poverty and Citizenship, while continuing to teach and advise Ph.D. students at the University of Manitoba, and fulfill his position as a lead researcher for the Manitoba Research Alliance (MRA) Partnership for Change project.

Over the span of his career, Loxley has served as economic advisor to governments in Uganda, Tanzania, Madagascar, Mozambique, Manitoba, and during the incoming presidency of Nelson Mandela in South Africa. He also acted as an advisor for a number of international policy institutions, such as the African Capacity Building Foundation. In 2005, Loxley became a Fellow to the Royal Society of Canada. He received numerous awards and recognitions for his teaching, academic performance, and services to the broader community, such as the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) Distinguished Service Award in 2008 and the Galbraith Prize in Economics and Social Justice by the Progressive Forum in 2010. In 2002, a symposium was held in his honour at the University of Manitoba, “Governance and Adjustment in an Era of Globalization: An International Symposium in Honour of John Loxley.” In 2005, a book of essays was published, “Globalization, Neo-Conservative Policies and Democratic Alternatives: Essays in Honour of John Loxley.” His biography is listed in Who’s Who in Canada.

Loxley held a life-long membership with the Manitoba Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives (CCPA-MB), a progressive policy organization that he collaborated with on numerous studies. He was the coordinator of the first Alternative Federal Budget in Canada and the first Alternative Provincial Budget in Manitoba. Loxley was a key founder and principal investigator of a $2.5 million SSHRC partnership grant with CCPA-MB that collaborates with academic researchers, inner-city and Aboriginal organizations, and government partners in Manitoba to examine community economic development, poverty and social exclusion in inner-city and Aboriginal communities. In addition, he was an expert witness for the First Nations Child and Family Society of Canada in a case before the Canadian Human Rights Commission on the underfunding of services to First Nations communities. He served as chair or an executive member on numerous board of directors in Manitoba, such as: Pollock’s Hardware Co-op Ltd (a community owned Winnipeg store), Ogijiita Pimatiswin Kinamatwin (“OPK” is an Aboriginal Youth Housing Renovation Project for ex-inmates), SEED Winnipeg (a community-based micro-lending institution), CHO!CES - A Coalition for Social Justice, the Society for Manitobans with Disabilities, Oxfam, the Manitoba Anti-Apartheid Coalition, and Manitoba Hydro.

According to an interview conducted by ARP Books with Loxley, his political awakening happened in a series of stages, beginning with his experiences and upbringing in industrial England where he learned to associate with the causes of labour, reject Conservative policy, and understand the purposes of the colonial liberation struggle. Later, he was introduced to progressive economics at the University of Leeds, a radical department in the 1960s. However, he explained that it was during his work in Africa (Tanzania and Mozambique) where he truly “discovered what radical politics and social and economic transformation were about.” In Africa, he was a part of the attempts to build socialism in the 1960s and 1970s, and it was also at this time that a series of banking reforms he proposed were implemented. Since then, Loxley has influenced policy and development in Canada and abroad, and as of 2014, he continued to actively work in-community with various stakeholders in the community, academe, and government to produce progressive policy change.

Loxley passed away on July 28, 2020.

Eugene (Gene) P. Walz was a professor in the Department of English and Film Studies Programme at the University of Manitoba. He was born on October 17, 1942 and graduated from St. John Fisher College, Rochester, New York in 1964. In 1966, he completed an M.A. at Indiana University and, in 1975, a Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts.

He started his teaching career at Frostburg (Maryland) State College in 1966 and became a part-time lecturer and teaching assistant at the University of Massachusetts in 1970. Gene Walz moved to Winnipeg in 1974, and became Head of the Film Studies Programme at the University of Manitoba. At the University of Manitoba, he also held the posts of Associate Head, Department of English (1983-1985), and Provost, University College (1997-2004).

Gene Walz is a writer, editor, consultant, filmmaker and a member of many professional societies and community advisory boards in the film industry. He was a member and president (1993-1995) of the Film Studies Association of Canada (1977-1995); a member of the Manitoba Motion Picture Industry Association (1987-1993; the Winnipeg Film Group (1982-1987); and Film Training Manitoba (1998-present?), plus many others.

Gene Walz is an author of many books and essays on film history and filmmakers. He published a book about a famous Manitoba Icelandic animator Charles Thorson, “Cartoon Charlie: the life and art of Charles Thorson” (1998), and edited two books on film history: “Flashback: people and institutions in Canada Film Industry" (1986), and “One Man’s documentary: a memoir about National Film Board” by G. McInnes (2004). As an authority on the Canadian film industry, Gene Walz also published many essays including, “Canadian and Manitoba films and filmmakers” and "Canada’s best features: critical essays”.

The famous French director, Francois Truffaut had always fascinated Gene Walz, who closely followed his artistic career over the years. His interest in Truffaut resulted in the publication of a reference book titled, “Francois Truffaut: a guide to reference” (1982).

As a writer and filmmaker, Walz never wanted to be viewed as just a critic of others in the film profession, but to actively engage in producing his own films. Writing the script for and directing “The Washing Machine”, a half-hour comedy-drama (story written by David Arnason), was a way to create his own work and experience the satisfaction of seeing his production from start to finish.

When the University of Manitoba School of Music staged the musical “You Can’t Beat Fun” (2002), Walz accepted the role of “President of Swingmore” and participated in the play as a cast member.

Professor Gene Walz retired from teaching at the University of Manitoba in 2012, and is very active on many film committees and advisory boards.

Thomas E. Peterson was appointed professor of political studies at the University of Manitoba in 1976.

Frantic Films is a Winnipeg and Toronto based film company which produces films and television productions. It was founded in 1997 by Ken Zorniak and Chris Bond, who made an immediate impact working for Proctor & Gamble. In 1998 the company began creating CGI effects to replicate storms for Stephen Kings Storm of the Century. In 1999 their work on this production garnered them an Emmy nomination for visual effects which elevated the company’s profile. In 2000, Jamie Brown joined the company from Credo Entertainment becoming CEO and Executive producer. After the immense success of the series Pioneer Quest: A Year in the Real West a live action division was formed. In 2001 the company contributed the “Ventura Bank Explosion” sequence to the movie Swordfish, and this scene became the companies‘ calling card. Continuing the immense success of the Quest series Quest for the Bay became the highest rated series for the History channel in 2002.

Frantic’s VFX division worked on blockbuster film X2: X-Men United in 2003, while the live action division continued its streak of success with Klondike: The Quest for Gold earning further network topping ratings and rave reviews. Also, in 2003 Jeff Peeler assumed the role of Vice-President and headed the commercial division while the company expanded internationally to Los Angeles. As well, Jamie Brown earned a Lions Gate Innovative Producers Award. The company’s fluid dynamics software Flood was key for creating the Tar Monster in the 2004 movie Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed. 2006 was an incredibly busy year which saw the company work on Superman Returns, Poseidon, X-Men: The Last Stand, Silent Hill, and Idlewild. Frantic’s television show Till Debt Do Us Part earned a Gemini Award for Best Lifestyle/Practical Information earning more praise for the liver action division. Two other television series earned Gemini nominations including Bomber Boys: The Flying Lancaster (Best Reality Series), and Ken Leishman: The Flying Bandit (Best Biography Documentary). Four other series premiered that year including Music Rising, Almost Legal, Devil’s Brigade, and Guinea Pig. Guinea Pig premiered on Discovery Channel to immensely high ratings earning a second season culminating in a strong year for both Frantic’s film and television endeavors.

The busy year paid off as in 2007 Frantic Films received two Academy Awards nominations for Visual Effects based on their work on Superman Returns and Poseidon. By 2008 Till Debt Do Us Part was still immensely successful as its 6th and 7th season are ordered. Guinea Pig continued its streak of success earning a third season. CEO Jamie Brown was honored with the Canadian Film and Television Production Association Entrepreneur of the Year Award, and Till Debt Do Us Part earned another Gemini nomination. Forever Changed a production for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights earned international acclaim earning multiple Telly awards, a Cine Golden Eagle Award, a Summit award, and a DV award. Frantic expanded by acquiring Red Apple Entertainment adding over 150 hours of complete programming, and three shows in development. By 2009 Guinea Pig earns a Banff Television Festival Rockie Award. The animation team led by Bill Stewart contributed to the short film Runaway, the short receives numerous awards including the Petit Rail d’Or at the International Critics week in Cannes. By 2010, Frantic continued its streak of success as Todd & the Book of Pure Evil became the highest rated original premiere ever on the Space Network. The work also becomes a cult classic in the city Winnipeg where it was filmed. Frantic continued its success and it was in 2011 that the company decided to donate the archives from its productions to the University of Manitoba Archives and Special Collections. This included material from the companies’ founding until what was at that time the present day.

Since the donation in 2011 Frantic has continued to produce content. Todd & the Book of Pure Evil continued its stellar run into 2013 winning numerous awards. In 2012 the documentary The 13th Man became the highest rated documentary in the history of TSN, and it won the Canadian Screen Awards Best History of Biography Document Program or Series Award. Since 2015 Frantic Films has produced Still Standing which became the highest rated Canadian comedy that summer. The show has since won six Canadian Screen awards since its premiere in 2015 and continues to air today. Since 2015, Frantic has been working with CBC to record and broadcast the famous Winnipeg Comedy Festival, and by 2018 they had produced 10 seasons for the CBC. Since premiering in 2015, the Baroness Von Sketch Show has seen immense success gathering rave reviews in both Canada and the United States. The series has won 15 Canadian Screen Awards out of 18 nominations and will end its successful run after its fifth season.

In 2017 Kew Media Group purchased Frantic Films alongside other Canadian production companies. In 2020 with Kew Media Group experiencing financial difficulties CEO Jamie Brown financed a deal to purchase the entirety of Frantic Films and continues to head the company out of Winnipeg and Toronto. For Brown this marked the beginning of a new chapter for the company, and a new vision for 2020 and beyond. The company has seen immense success in the last decade and is a notable name in the Winnipeg film/television scene and will remain so for many years to come.