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  • Scatliff, John N.R.

    (1914-2005) A doctor and active Winnipeg Centre member; meteor and solar observer. Received Service Award in 1971.

  • Schneider, Frank

    (1900-84) Hamilton Centre member; received Service Award in 1972.

  • Scott, Alfred W.

    (1904-90) Observer and Toronto Centre member. Received the Service Award in 1979.

  • Seal, RASC

    Work on the Society's seal started in the 1890s but a seal was not adopted until 1905.

  • Shinn, B. Franklyn

    (1911-97) Owner/operator of the Shinn Conservatory of Music; Planetarium Director at the Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature; Winnipeg Centre member; Service Award (1978); National Newsletter editor (1978-80).

  • Simard, Henri

    (1922-73)  Quebec/CFM member; received the Service Award in 1967, served as Society President (1970-72).

  • Sisman, Frank

    Hamilton Centre telescope maker. Chant Medal 1949.


  • Smith, Larratt W.

    (1820-1905) D.C.L., Q.C. Served as Vice President of the Society (1892-94), and President (1895).

  • Spratt, Christopher

    A horticulturist and active asteroid, comet and variable star observer. Chilton Prize 1983, Chant Medal 1988.

  • Stewart, Louis B.

    (1861-1937) Professor of Engineering at U of T; Society President (1912-13).

  • Stewart, Robert Meldrum

    (1878-1954) Dominion Observatory Director (1924-46); Society President (1924-25).

  • Stupart, Sir Robert F.

    (1857-1940) F.R.S.C., F.R.A.S.C. Director of the Toronto Observatory and Superintendent of the Dominion Meteorological Service (1894-1929), and President of the Society (1902-03). He was knighted in 1916.

  • Tanner, Richard

    RASC Gold Medal winner (1948) and Dominion Observatory astronomer.

  • Telescope, Miller-Brydon

    A 4-inch Wray refractor owned by A.F. Miller, Boyd Brydon, and RASC Victoria Centre (1882–present).

  • Thompson, Ray R.

    (1923–2015) An accomplished observer and member of the Toronto Centre; recipient of the Chant Medal in 1967.

  • Thomson, Andrew

    (1893-1974) Director of the Canadian Meteorological Service (1946-59); Society President (1949-50).

  • Thomson, Malcolm M.

     

  • Topham, Bert

    (1893–1962) Toronto Centre member; a prominent observer of his day; first Chant Medal recipient.

  • Troyer, Frederic L.

    (1912-99) An active 75-year member of the Toronto Centre. He received the Service Award in 1960.

  • Wadsworth, James J.

    (1842-1905) B.A., M.A., M.B. A school inspector by trade. He built the 12½" reflector (the largest in Canada at the time) that he used to observe the heavens from his observatory on Talbot Street in Simcoe, Ontario.

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