Daniel G. Hill

A civil rights activist and sociologist, Hill left the United States for Canada to pusue graduate studies in 1950. His touch was scholarly, using research and public awareness as tools to combat prejudice. He was a lecturer at the University of Toronto, the first Director and later Chair of the Ontario Human Rights Commission, a business person who created Canada’s first human rights consulting firm, and served as Ombudsman of Ontario. Hill strove to make that office reflect the “new Ontario” with an intentional outreach towards traditionally excluded groups and in particular, to Canada’s Indigenous peoples.

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