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Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM, was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote a number of successful novels and plays. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (first included in Barrie's adult novel The Little White Bird), then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a "fairy play" about an ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland.
Although he continued to write successfully, Peter Pan overshadowed his other work, and is credited with popularising the name Wendy. Barrie unofficially adopted the Davies boys following the deaths of their parents. Barrie was made a baronet by George V on 14 June 1913, and a member of the Order of Merit in the 1922 New Year Honours. Before his death, he gave the rights to the Peter Pan works to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, which continues to benefit from them.

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This important administrative office plans and administers comprehensive enrollment management services including: undergraduate student recruitment and admissions; student record collection, maintenance and retention; scholarships (undergraduate) and financial assistance (all students); tuition fee assessment and collection; many academic support services including exams, convocation, registration, course evaluations and classroom allocation and prepares reports for the provincial government for operating grant purposes. It consists of three main units: Student Records and Services/Faculty Services, the Student Awards Office, and Student Information Systems. The University Registrar is responsible for all these units. The Office of the University Registrar reports to the Office of the Provost and Vice-Principal (Academic).

Merrill Denison (1893-1975) was an author and an historian from Bon Echo, Ontario. He was born in Detroit, Michigan. He served in World War I with the French Army, 1916-1917, and with the A.E.F., 1917-1919. He studied architecture at the University of Toronto, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, and in Paris, France. He practiced architecture in Boston and at Hart House Theatre, 1919-1921, and was appointed Art Director of Hart House in 1921. He also managed Bon Echo Inn with his wife, Jessie Muriel Goggin, whom he married on 24 March, 1926. In the early 1920's, he began to produce plays and books, including some histories of industry. He was employed by Columbia and National Broadcasting Systems in New York City from 1932, and was a technical advisor for the National Advisory Committee on Radio and Education in New York.

Mary Lilian Vaux (Mrs. Murdock MacKinnon) was born in Brockville, Ontario, 22 April 1878. She attended Queen's University from 1899 to 1903, graduating with an M.A. in political economy. Her husband, Reverend Dr. Murdock MacKinnon, M.A., D.D., served the Presbyterian Church and later the United Church from 1901 to 1953. Mrs. MacKinnon was both a homemaker and writer.

Dr. De Naut appears to have lived in both Delta, Ontario and Hamlet, Indiana.

Eloise (Sophia) White Street, the daughter of a missionary in the Wesleyan Methodist Church, had been raised with Halq'emeylem nannies, becoming fluent in the Halkomelem language. She worked with Chief William Sepass (K'HHalserten) to transcribe and translate traditional Coast Salish songs from Halkomelem to English for publication. She understood the importance of adhering to the original rhythm and cadence of the 16 ancient songs.

Henri d'Arles ( 9 September 1870 - 9 July 1930 ) was a historian, an essayist, literary critic and a Roman Catholic. Born Henri Beaudet, a native of Princeville, Quebec, he studied at the Petit Seminaire de Quebec, entered the Dominican order in 1889 and received his ordination the following year in St. Hyacinthe .
He participated in various literary societies of the time and was quickly recognized as a prominent literary figure. He frequented the circle of intellectuals and nationalists and traditionalists involved in the National Agenda of Lionel Groulx. Naturalized as an American in 1924 , he worked to ensure the survival of French-speaking Americans. Besides his political views, he took great interest in the Acadian history and helped to renew the historiography Canada, particularly in criticizing the work of Thomas Chapais . As a biographer, he wrote on the lives of Conan , Louis Frechette , Edmond de Nevers , Henri Lacordaire and John Henry Newman. He died in Rome on 9 July 1930 .

Craven Langstroth Betts was a Canadian poet and author who is known to have written "The Perfume-Holder" (1891), "Tales of a Garrison Town" (1892), "A Garland Of Sonnets" (1899), "Selected Poems Of Craven Langstroth Betts" (1916), "The Two Captains" (1921), "The Perfume Holder and Other Poems" (1922),
He also translated Songs From Beranger by Pierre-Jean de Béranger, 1888.

Padraic Colum (8 December 1881 – 11 January 1972) was an Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer and collector of folklore. He was one of the leading figures of the Celtic Revival.