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Sylvia Wiseman (Ostry)

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Item (Accession level)

Date:

1954-1955

Reference:

Accession number: 1993-233 DAP, 00001, Box number: BK-018

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2926836

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Ghitta Caiserman-Roth collection

Sylvia Wiseman (Ostry)
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

1954-1955

Place of creation:

Québec (Province)

Extent:

1 drawing / dessin : charcoal on wove paper
Support 21.100 x 13.400 cm

Language of material:

no language

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Image depicts a woman with round eyeglasses. She is wearing a halter-top dress. The woman is identified as Sylvia Wiseman. In 1954-55, Sylvia Wiseman taught at McGill University in Montreal. She later married Bernard Ostry in London, England, in 1956.
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Artist: Caiserman-Roth, Ghitta, 1923-2005

Depicted: Ostry, Sylvia, 1927-2020
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Ostry, Sylvia, 1927-2020 : Sylvia (Knelman) Ostry, economist and public servant, was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1927. She obtained her B.A. (Honours Economics) from McGill University in 1948 and her M.A. in 1950. She received her Ph. D. from McGill, with residence at Cambridge, in 1954.

Dr. Ostry taught labour and manpower economics at four Canadian universities, McGill, Carleton, Sir George Williams and the University of Montreal. She was also a research officer at the University of Oxford Institute of Statistics.

In 1964, she was named assistant Director for Research in the Labour Division of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. From 1965 to 1969, she was Director of Special Manpower Studies for the Bureau. In 1969, Dr. Ostry was appointed Director, Economic Council of Canada and 1972 she was appointed Chief Statistician of Canada. In February 1975, she was appointed Deputy Minister, Consumer and Corporate Affairs Canada. From 1978 to 1979, Dr. Ostry served as Chairman of the Economic Council of Canada. In 1979, she was appointed Head of the Department of Economics and Statistics for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, France.

Upon her return to Canada in 1984, Dr. Ostry became Deputy Minister of International Trade and Coordinator, International Economic Relations. In 1985, she was Ambassador for Multilateral Trade Negotiations and the Prime Minister's personal representative at the Economic Summit.

In 1987, she received the Outstanding Achievement Award of the Government of Canada. In 1990, she became a Companion of the Order of Canada. Sylvia Ostry died on May 7, 2020.

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General note:

This image is found in Ghitta Caiserman-Roth sketchbook 2 on the recto of folio 28. The sketchbook is dated 1954-1955 and an inscription on the first page lists the locations of the sketches as Halifax and Montreal The sketch on the following page may also be of the same woman (See 1993-233-1.29R),

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed., Inscription: in pencil, recto, b.:SYLVIA WISEMAN (OSTRY) (Complete transcription)

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Portraits

Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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121-080100-0
1993-233 DAP
92-415

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1993-233 DAP
00001
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
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Box [1993-233]

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BK-018 Item no. assigned by LAC 1

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [00001] C-139940

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1993-233-1:28R
Copyright: Estate of Ghitta Caiserman-Roth

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