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Gordon Jenkin Smith was born in Kingston, Ontario in 1891. He attended school in Kingston and enrolled at Queen's University in 1908. He graduated with a B.A. in Mineralogy and Geology in 1912 and received an Honours B. Sc. in 1915. As a student he obtained a varied experience in mining, prospecting and other engineering work. From 1915 to 1917 Gordon Smith taught civil engineering at the Nova Scotia Technical College in Halifax , but was drawn back to the family jewellery business in Kingston when his father died. He continued to work at Smith Bros. for 10 years. Gordon Smith married Cecil Gertrude McKee in, or around, 1918. They had two children John G. Smith and Eleanor A. Smith. In 1926 he joined the staff of Queen's University and became, respectively: Secretary-Treasurer of the Alumni Association and Editor of the Queen's Review; manager of the Employment Bureau; Secretary of the University council; Director of Endowment; and finally Treasurer of the University and Secretary of the Board. He was a life-member of the Engineering Institute of Canada, the Queen's University Faculty Club and the Queen's University Alumni Association. He retired from Queen's University in 1950 due to ill health, and died May 30th, 1971.

Ira Smith and his son, Wendell, ran the Long Lake Cheese Factory in Parham, Ontario. The family also operated a general store in the same area.

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Charles Sangster was born at Navy Bay, Kingston, Upper Canada in 1822. He served with the loyalist forces in the MacKenzie uprising in 1837. He developed a taste for writing in his early twenties and became editor of a small newspaper, "The Courier", in Amherstburg. He returned to Kingston, became a sub-editor of the "British Whig", and later a reporter on the "Daily News". He early turned to poetry and published verse in such journals as the "Literary Garland", Barker's "Canadian Monthly Magazine", and "The Anglo-American Magazine". In 1856, his first book of poetrry, "The St. Lawrence and The Saguenay and Other Poems", was issued simultaneously in Kingston and New York. Four years later, another volume appeared entitled "Hesperus and Other Poems and Lyrics". He died in 1893 at Kingston, Ontario.

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Born on October 29, 1921 in Perth, Ontario, Emma Campbell was the daughter of James and Jenny Acheson, and sister of Annie (Acheson) Fournier. Emma Campbell graduated as a registered nurse in 1943 from the Brockville General Hospital and spent much of her career as an operating room nurse. She passed away July 28, 2011.

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