Legendary Hydraulic Engineer An international engineering legend, Hans Kivisild, P.Eng., Ph.D., was born in Tartu, Estonia, and grew up in the Estonian capital of Tallinn, fleeing his native land when it became reoccupied by the Red Army during World War II. With his wife, and upon completion of his education at the Royal University of Technology, Stockholm, he immigrated to Canada, 1950. In a short time he became known in Canada for his innovative engineering skills, designing the earthquake-proof George Massey Tunnel under the Fraser River in Vancouver. His engineering feats and impressive discoveries have been applied to a variety of projects, including the design of floating ice platforms for drilling oil in the Canadian Arctic, designing an arctic marine bulk cargo terminal on Hudson Strait and designing a year-round marine terminal on the St. Lawrence River. Overseas he has designed pillars to withstand ice flows for the Great Belt Link, a causeway connecting Copenhagen to the European mainland. Today, some 50 years after fleeing Estonia, his expertise as an hydraulics engineer is helping to turn the Estonian port of Paldiski into a year-round harbour for international tanker traffic. Dr. Kivisild, viewed here at Paldiski Harbour, 1997, is married to Livia Martna Kivisild, Ph.D., also born in Estonia. [Photo, courtesy Livia Kivisild]

Critically Acclaimed Artistic Director A war baby born in Tallinn, Estonia, Urjo Kareda came to Canada from his nativeland via Sweden in 1949. Today, Artistic Director of Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre, Urjo Kareda graduated from both the University of Toronto and King’s College, Cambridge University, before becoming a well-known and much respected film and drama critic, university lecturer, and free-lance arts writer for such publications as the Globe and Mail, The New York Times, Maclean’s Magazine, Saturday Night, among others. He has also successfully co-directed several plays at the Stratford Festival, including Love’s Labour Lost (1979) and The Seagulls (1980), in addition to being a successful CBC radio broadcaster. In 1995, Mr. Kareda was made a Member of the Order of Canada. [Photo, courtesy Tarragon Theatre]