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Born in Brandon, Manitoba, he graduated from Brandon College and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1937 from McMaster University. He received a Master of Arts degree from the University of Toronto in 1951.

Dinsdale was a Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) from 1951 until his death in 1982. During his tenure in the Canadian House of Commons, he represented the electoral riding of Brandon for one year in 1951 until it was merged with the electoral riding of Souris, and represented the merged riding of Brandon—Souris from 1952 until his death in 1982.

During his period as MP, he was the Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Veterans Affairs in 1957 and, Parliamentary Secretary to the same minister in 1960. He then joined the Cabinet of John Diefenbaker as Minister of Northern Affairs and National Resources from 1960 to 1963. He was also Acting Minister of Mines and Technical Surveys for a few months in 1961.

Prior to entering politics, Dinsdale was a social worker with the Salvation Army and, from 1946 to 1951, the Director of Adult Education and Assistant Professor of Social Services at Brandon College. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross during World War II for his service as a de Havilland Mosquito night-fighter pilot with the Royal Canadian Air Force.

He died from kidney failure in 1982 after suffering a stroke about two months before his death. He was married to Lenore and had five children: Gunnar, Gregory, Elizabeth, Eric and Rolf.

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John Ernest Muckle was born on 23 March 1890 in Blenheim, Ontario, the son of John Ernest Muckle and Phoebe Stirling. He enrolled in the Faculty of Arts at Queen's University in 1911.
Muckle enlisted in the 38th Battalion, CEF, in Ottawa, Ontario, on 1 February 1915. He served with the 38th Battalion in Bermuda, and was dispatched to France during the war, landing on 13 August 1916. Muckle was killed in action on 15 January 1917, and buried in Écoivres Military Cemetery, France.

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Elsie J.A. Smith was the niece of Sir Sandford Fleming.

Wayne Grady was born in 1948 in Windsor, Ontario. He was educated at Carleton University where he earned a B.A. in English in 1971. He has been a freelance magazine writer since 1981 and is the author of seven books. He is the editor of six literary anthologies and is also a translator (French to English). He is the former editor of Harrowsmith magazine and is currently the science editor of Equinox magazine. He received the John Glassco Prize for Translation for "Christopher Cartier of Hazelnut" by Antonine Maillet in 1985, the Governor General's Award for Translation for "On the Eighth Day" by Antonine Maillet in 1989, and was on the shortlists for the Governor General's Award for Translation for "Black Squirrel" by Daniel Poliquin and the Toronto Book Award for his own novel, "Toronto the Wild," both in 1996.