Alumni of Influence

Grammy-nominated filmmaker and television director Tim Southam has brought major commercial and artistic successes to screens in English and French Canada, as well as internationally. Currently an Executive Producer of the Netflix series Locke and Key, he has worked on many shows including Bates Motel, Lost in Space, Colony, Bones, House, Rookie Blue, and Heartland, as well as documentaries and feature films. As President of the Directors Guild of Canada, he has also dedicated his time, energy, and influence to bettering the lives of artists and performers nationwide.

Kate Taylor is an arts columnist and critic for the Globe and Mail, as well as the author of novels Madame Proust, Kosher Kitchen, and Serial Monogamy. She holds a masters in journalism from Western University, and has been honoured with the National Newspaper Award, Atkinson Journalism Fellowship, City of Toronto Book Award, and Commonwealth Prize for Best First Novel.

The late Joseph Burr Tyrell was a renowned geologist and explorer. He discovered the Albertosaurus sarcophagus dinosaur while surveying potential railroad routes in Alberta for Canadian Geological Survey. He explored and surveyed the Barren Lands region north of Winnipeg and west of Hudson’s Bay beginning in 1893, former fur-trading lands that were new Canadian territory and partially unmapped. A participant in the Yukon gold rush in 1899, he was a recipient of the Royal Society of Canada’s Flavelle Gold Medal. The Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology in Drumheller, Alberta is named after him.