Bobrow Architects is an international architectural and planning practice with experience in Canada, United States, Spain, the Carribean, the Middle East and Africa. Since 1963, projects have included academic and cultural facilities, health care and research centres, institutional, commercial and government offices, integrated housing, municiple facilities, site and master planning, as well as residential architecture. The firm's design philosophy is to create sustainable architecture that is sensitive to its context but rooted in modernist values.

Composer Jerry Bock is best known as half of an award-winning musical team of Bock and Harnick. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, and raised in Flushing, New York, he got his start in musical theatre in high school after childhood piano lessons. It was in his senior year at the University of Wisconsin in Madison that his talent became evident: the musical he wrote for a student club, “Big as Life,” about the Paul Bunyan legend, went on a state tour and later had a run in Chicago. He and his classmate collaborator, Lawrence Holofcener, spent three summers gaining experience at Taminent Playhouse in the Poconos. Back in New York, Bock and Holofcener made their Broadway debut in 1955 with songs they wrote for the musical “Catch a Star.” There followed “Mr. Wonderful,” written for Sammy Davis, Jr., which ran for over 300 performances, then “Ziegfield Follies of 1956,” which flopped. Bock met a new partner in lyricist Sheldon Harnick. Their first effort, “The Body Beautiful," was not a success, but director George Abbott and producer Hal Prince nevertheless hired them to work on a musical biography of New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. For this, in 1959 they won the so-called “triple crown”: a Tony (tied with Richard Rogers for “The Sound of Music”), the New York Drama Critics’ Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for drama. The team went on to compose many other musicals together, the most famous of which was “Fiddler on the Roof,” which won them another Tony in 1964. They were both inducted into the Songwriters’ Hall of Fame in 1972, and in 1990 the institution gave them the Johnny Mercer Award on the 25th anniversary of the opening of “Fiddler on the Roof” on Broadway. That same year they were inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame. In 1997 the BMI, the performing rights organization, instituted an annual Jerry Bock Award for Excellence in Musical Theater for a composer and lyricist of a project developed in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop. In a bittersweet coincidence, Bock died just ten days after he had spoken at the funeral of Joseph Stein, the author of “Fiddler on the Roof.”

Bodi-Tone Company was a quackery "cure all" mail-order medicine company that advertised and sold in Canada (from their location at 142 Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario) and in the USA (from their location at Hoyne & North Aves., Chicago, Illinois). Bodi-Tone Company medicine was meant to restore good health with its many "curative powers" to men, women, and children experiencing any aches, pains, tiredness or illness such as rheumatism, lumbago, dyspepsia, Indigestion, liver complications, weak kidneys, constipation, malaria, flu, eczema, anaemia, and nervous breakdown. According to promotional material, the company president went by the name of Sidney S. David.

John Edward Courtenay Bodley was born on June 6, 1853, in Hanley, Staffordshire, England, a descendant of Sir Thomas Bodley, founder of the Bodleian Library at Oxford University.

He was an English civil servant, barrister, and author. He was educated at Mill Hill School and studied at Balliol College, Oxford (1873-1876). His friends at Oxford included Oscar Wilde and Cecil Rhodes. Called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1874, he practised as a barrister on the Oxford circuit, and then in 1880, he became political secretary to Sir Charles Dilke, an English Liberal and Radical politician. His father was so disappointed at his abandoning law that he disinherited him. In 1884, Dilke appointed Bodley as secretary of the royal commission on the housing of the working classes. Bodley wrote three reports on housing for England, Scotland, and Ireland, but his political hopes were dashed when Dilke was ruined by a divorce scandal in 1885. Bodley travelled to South Africa in 1887–1888 and the United States and Canada in 1888–1889, meeting senior officials, politicians, and churchmen, and in 1890, he settled in France. There he began his literary career with the publication of “France" (1898), on French political institutions, which displayed an encyclopedic knowledge of French local customs and traditions. It was followed by “L'anglomanie et les traditions françaises” (1899).

In 1891, he married Evelyn Frances Bell (1872–1955), divorced in 1907 and in 1920, he remarried Phyllis Helen Lomax (1882–1968). He died on May 28, 1925, in Cuckfield, Sussex, England.