Jonathan B. Hanna, born in Montr�al, graduated from Concordia University in 1979 with a BA in history. He worked in Canadian Pacific Railway's corporate archives in the 1970s, CPR's photographic services and advertisement departments in the 1980s, and in marketing communications and administration in the 1990s, before being appointed CPR corporate historian in 2000. Jonathan took early retirement from CPR in 2005 and was appointed corporate historian emeritus.