1911 Baby boy July 21 to Elsie and Herbert in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
   1913 Brother to Maurice
1928-32 Student - B.A. University of Manitoba.
   1934 Graduate Student - MA from University of Manitoba. 
        Converted from Engineer to English Literature.
        Studied Elizabethean rhetoric.
   1936 Undergraduate Student - B.A. Cambridge University
1936-37 Teacher - University of Wisconsin
   1937 Catholic - converted to the Catholic faith
1937-44 Teacher at the University of St. Louis
   1939 Husband - Married Texan Corinne Lewis of Fort Worth, Texas
   1939 Graduate - M.A. Cambridge University
   1940 Teacher - St. Louis University, and Windsor University
   1942 Doctor PhD, Trinity College, Cambridge University thesis: 
        The Place of Thomas Nash in the Learning of his Time. 
        Studied how speech & writing affected the history of civilizations.
   1942 Father to Thomas Eric
1944-46 Teacher - Assumption University, Windsor, Ontario
   1945 Father to twins Mary & Teresa in October
1946-79 Professor of Literature - St. Michael's College, University of Toronto.
   1947 Father to Stephanie
   1950 Father to Elizabeth
   1951 Author The Mechanical Bride; Folklore of Industrial Man.
   1952 Father to Michael
1953-59 Co-editor of "Explorations Magazine" with Edmund Carpenter.
   1962 Author The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man.
   1963 Director of Centre for Culture and Technogy
   1964 Author Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
   1965 Visitor to San Francisco McLuhan Festival in August
   1967 Researcher at Fordham U., New York City accepts Schweitzer chair
   1967 Author The Medium is the Massage
   1967 Patient for brain tumor operation - longest in US medical history (22 hrs)
   1968 Author War and Peace in the Global Village
   1968 Author Through the Vanishing Point:Space in Poetry and Painting
   1968 Appointment to the Albert Schweitzer Chair in the Humanities, 
        Fordham University, New York.
   1970 Author From Cliche To Archetype
   1970 Grandfather to Jennifer of Mary
   1979 Stroke Victim September 25, 1979, never wrote again.
   1980 Died Dec 31 at home in Toronto