Beryl Rowland
Beryl Winnifred Rowland was a Scottish-Canadian literature scholar, especially of Chaucer, having been Distinguished Research Professor at York University in Toronto. She was the first woman doctoral graduate in English at the University of [British Columbia], and an honorary doctorate of Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She was especially interested in symbolism in literature. After retirement, she and her husband, Dr. Murray Rowland, a physician, moved to Victoria, British Columbia, where Rowland, widowed, died.