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William James de L'Aigle Buchan, 3rd Baron Tweedsmuir, also known as "William Tweedsmuir", was an English peer and author of novels, short stories, memoirs and verse. He was the second son of the writer and Governor General of Canada, John Buchan.

A.W.A. Lane was a historian.

Orest Rudzik (b. 1936, Toronto) earned his Honours B.A. (University College) at the University of Toronto, his M.A. from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. He taught in the Department of English at University College from 1961 to 1986, during which time he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Humanities Center of the Johns Hopkins University from 1968 - 1969. He created a Canadian Literature Programme for Atkinson College at York University. After completing his LLB (with honours) at Osgoode Hall Law School, he received his Call to the Bar in March of 1975. In his legal career, he served as Senior Counsel to the Public Guardian and Trustee of the Province of Ontario. He was a speaker at many academic conferences and published both academic and legal papers.
Rudzik was active in the Ukrainian community becoming the President of the Ontario Ukrainian-Canadian Committee and served as a member of the Ontario Multicultural Committee. Then he served as First National Vice President of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) and in a variety of positions with the UCC and the Ukrainian Canadian Professional and Business Federation thereafter. He spent from 1993 - 1994 in Kyiv, as Director of Law Training through the auspices of the Ukrainian Legal Foundation. Rudzik was also engaged in three of the quasi-war criminal cases as launched by the Department of Justice (Canada) against naturalized Ukrainian post-war citizens, against who allegations of fraud and consequent sanctions of deportation were threatened.
Later, Rudzik continued his law practice but mainly dealt with estates and estates litigation. He continued research into a variety of areas of intellectual history, including that of the assassination of Simeon Petliura and the judicial proceedings consequent upon his murder. He ended a 50 year association with the University when he became a member of the Senior Faculty at the University of Toronto, a member of its Executive Committee and was given the title of Senator. Orest Rudzik passed away in Oakville, December 8, 2016.

Joshua Avery was a Corporal in the 104 Regiment of Foot in the British Army. He was an out-pensioner of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, Quebec.

William (Willie) Melville Paterson was born in England, August 1, 1891. He attended a number of public schools including Colet Court and St. Paul's. He worked for a stock brokerage in London for two years post graduation (Morton Bros.) and then decided he would prefer a country lifestyle and went to work on a number of farms is Essex and Berwickshire. Having learned a variety of farming methods he immigrated to Canada in 1913 coming directly to the village of Portsmouth (Kingston) where he had a distant cousin residing. He soon found work at Henry Wartman's farm on King Street. Despite going to Western Canada for a brief stint through the Harvester's Excursions program, Paterson soon returned to settle in Kingston.

By 1922 the remaining members of Paterson's family had joined him in Canada. His mother Edith Paterson, and two sisters Helen and Rowan. Helen and Rowan were not in Kingston long but pursued careers in New Brunswick and Toronto, respectively. Edith lived with Willie until she passed away in 1959. While working on Wartman's farm, Willie asked to rent a small piece of land right on the shore of Lake Ontario and there he built a cottage (out of a shipping container) and cultivated a garden and nursery which were to become his business: Sunny Acres Nursery. Paterson specialized in alpine plants and rock gardens. He grew to be recognized in the field receiving honours from both the Kingston and Ontario Horticultural Societies as well as being a member of the Royal Horticultural Society of Britain, the American Rock Garden Society and Scottish Rock Garden society and the Alpine Garden Society.

Paterson relocated to another house on Sunny Acres Road in the early 1960s when the Wartman farm was purchased by Dupont Industries. The purchase agreement allowed for the garden to remain in the original location until Paterson passed away, which occurred in 1983. Many of the plants were then relocated to the City of Kingston greenhouses and garden on Norman Rogers Drive.

Magda Creet (née György), a portrait artist based in Kingston, Ontario, was born in Székesfehérvár, Hungary in 1920. She married Imre Farkas, a bicycle salesman, in 1940. In 1944, she was deported to Auschwitz with her family and her first child (born in 1941). Her child, parents, and maternal grandmother all perished at Auschwitz. Magda and her sister, Agnes, were liberated from forced labour in the Lipstadd Metalworks in 1945, and she remained in Germany as a displaced person in Kaunitz working for British Command. She obtained a work permit to move to London in 1947 where she worked as a nanny, a cleaner, a hotel receptionist, and an artists's model.

After divorcing Imre Farkas in 1947, she married Mario Creet, a chemical engineer. Before emigrating to Canada and settling in Kingston, Ontario in 1957, Magda and Mario had a daughter and a son. Another daughter and son were born in Canada, and baptized at Chalmer's Uniter Church, which Magda joined in 1964.

In the early 1970s, Magda opened a portrait studio in her house on Lower Union St. In the following decade, she photographed and wrote about many of Kingston's artists and writers, publishing profiles in the Kingston Whig Standard. Exhibitions of her work were held in 1972 and 1979. Magda Creet died in 1984, and was survived by four of her five children and her husband.

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