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The Canadian composer, Marjan Mozetich, was born of Slovenian parentage in Gorizia, Italy in 1948 and emigrated to Canada in 1952. He began his musical training in piano and theory at the age of 9 in Hamilton, ON. Later he pursued studies in composition with John Weinzweig and Lothar Klein at the University of Toronto. In 1972 he received a Bachelor of Music Degree and an Associate of the Royal Conservatory of Toronto Diploma in piano performance. From 1973-74, with the assistance of the Canada Council of the Arts, Mr. Mozetich continued his studies privately under the successive supervision of Luciano Berio in Rome, Franco Donatoni at the Academia Chigiana, Siena, Italy and David Bedford in London, UK. In 2013 he received an honorary doctorate from the Royal Military College of Canada.

Early in his career he was active in the avant-garde music circles. He co-founded and was artistic director (1977-79) of the contemporary ensemble, ARRAYMUSIC. His works were performed by prominent new music ensembles across Canada and abroad, and have received several awards: second prize in the prestigious International Gaudeamus Composers’ Competition in Holland, first prize in the CAPAC (SOCAN)-Sir Ernest MacMillan Award, fellowship to the Instituto Musicale F. Canetti (Vicenza) and scholarship to the Academia Musicale Chigiana (Siena).

Stylistically he has evolved over the years from avant-garde expressionism, to minimalism, to a post-modern romanticism. Throughout, his music has remained accessible while still retaining an artistic individuality and integrity. Paradoxically, since the late 80’s he has achieved an overtly ‘traditional’ and yet distinctively modern voice: a blend of the traditional, popular and the modern which has been enthusiastically received by the musical public. His works have been performed and broadcast throughout Canada and abroad, even on Canadian Airline’s ‘in flight’ music programs.

Many of his works have been used by major contemporary dance companies such as Les Grand Ballet Canadiens, Ballet B.C., Alberta Ballet, Toronto Dance Theatre, Ballets Du Nord (France), Hong Kong Ballet and the Guangzhue Ballet in China. Mr. Mozetich has written compulsory pieces for the 1992 Banff String Quartet Competition, as well as for the 1995 and 2015 Montreal International Music Competitions respectively for violin and piano. In 1995 he was the honoured composer on postmodern music at the Gent Conservatory Music Festival in Belgium where three concerts with live national broadcast featured his compositions.

In 1996 his lush romantic work, THE PASSION OF ANGELS for 2 harps & orchestra, received its world premier with the Edmonton Symphony, and POSTCARDS FROM THE SKY was premiered by the Thirteen Strings in Ottawa. His violin concerto, AFFAIRS OF THE HEART, received a standing ovation at the premiere with the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra in 1997. When CBC Radio broadcast the concert performance of Mozetich’s 1997 violin concerto, Affairs of the Heart, the switchboards lit up from coast to coast. There were numerous reports of what those who work in radio sometimes call “the driveway experience”. This is where listeners are so captivated by what they are hearing that they remain in their cars listening to the end even though they’ve long since arrived home. CBC Records recorded these three pieces in 2000. Ever since, they have been the top selling contemporary classical cd in Canada.

“One of the most important composers of our time.” (Kingston Whig-Standard) Marjan Mozetich’s compellingly beautiful music has found favour with outstanding artists, critics and audiences around the world. “His music generates the kind of joyousness you feel when you hear the young Mozart.” (Toronto Star) “imploring with … fullness of melodic beauty” (Dusseldorfer Feuilleton). His aim is to write music that expresses beauty, sensuousness and emotion – things that give him and his audiences pleasure. In February 2000, the premiere of his Piano Concerto, dedicated to Robertson Davies and created for and performed by the brilliant pianist Janina Fialkowska, received a standing ovation and critical acclaim.

Mozetich has been teaching composition since 1991 at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario where he resides. Currently he is working on a commission to compose a cello concerto for soloist Amanda Forsyth and the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa.

James George Eayrs (born 1926) is a retired Canadian historian, who won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction at the 1965 Governor General's Awards for his book In Defence of Canada: From the Great War to the Great Depression. The book, which examined Canadian military and defence policy during the period between World War I and the Great Depression, was the first in a multi-volume series on Canadian military history, and was followed by In Defence of Canada, Vol. 2: Appeasement and Rearmament (1965),[3] In Defence of Canada: Peacemaking and Deterrence (1972), In Defence of Canada: Growing Up Allied (1980) and In Defence of Canada: Indochina, Roots of Complicity (1983).

A professor of history at the University of Toronto and later at Dalhousie University, he was awarded the Canada Council Molson Prize in 1984 and was named a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

His wife, Elizabeth Eayrs, served on Toronto City Council from 1972 to 1978.

Deirdre Hurst was born in British Columbia in July 1906. She attended the Cornish School, Seattle, in 1932 and attended the School of Dance-Mime at Dartington Hall. Hurst studied under Michael Chekov at Dartington and continued to do so after the move of the Chekov school to Ridgefield, Conneticut in 1938. Deirdre Hurst became the unofficial archivist of the Chekhov Theatre Studio, preserving a significant collection of his lessons and other Chekhoviana. Hurst's shorthand notes of Chekhov's acting lessons dating from 1935 to 1942 were later turned into an 11 volume set entitled "'The Actor is the Theatre'.

Deirdre Hurst married Edgard du Prey and settled in Westbury, New York. In the 1950s, Deirdre began teaching children's theatre at the Garden City Waldorf School. Later she taught drama at the Adelphi University Childrens Centre for the Creative Arts. In September of 1980 the Michael Chekhov Studio was incorporated in New York City. The first lessons were held in November with 40 students enrolled in 4 classes. Deirdre Hurst du Prey was one of the first two teachers at the Studio. The Studio went through a number of changes before closing in or around 1992. Deirdre went on to teach at international conferences, worked on collecting archival material, and edited two books of Chekhov's lessons: 'Lessons for the Professional Actor' (1985); and 'Michael Chekhov: Lessons for Teachers of his Acting Technique' (2000). Deirdre Hurst du Prey died February 23, 2007 at the age of 100.

Edith Beckett Hurst, the mother of the Hurst sisters, lived most of her adult life in Vancouver, British Columbia, but moved to the United States to be closer to her daughters near the end of her life. She passed away on Long Island, New York in December 1953.

W.H. Pretty was a student at Queen's University.

Macmillan was founded in 1843 by Daniel and Alexander Macmillan, two brothers from the Isle of Arran, Scotland. Daniel was the business brain, while Alexander laid the literary foundations, publishing such notable authors as Charles Kingsley (1855), Thomas Hughes (1859), Francis Turner Palgrave (1861), Christina Rossetti (1862), Matthew Arnold (1865) and Lewis Carroll (1865). Alfred Tennyson joined the list in 1884, Thomas Hardy in 1886 and Rudyard Kipling in 1890.

Other major writers published by Macmillan included W. B. Yeats, Rabindranath Tagore, Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Seán O'Casey, John Maynard Keynes, Charles Morgan, Hugh Walpole, Margaret Mitchell, C. P. Snow, Rumer Godden and Ram Sharan Sharma.

Beyond literature, the company created such enduring titles as Nature (1869), the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1877) and Sir Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave's Dictionary of Political Economy (1894–99).

George Edward Brett opened the first Macmillan office in the United States in 1869 and Macmillan sold its U.S. operations to the Brett family, George Platt Brett, Sr. and George Platt Brett, Jr. in 1896, resulting in the creation of an American company, Macmillan Publishing, also called the Macmillan Company. Even with the split of the American company from its parent company in England, George Brett, Jr. and Harold Macmillan remained close personal friends. Macmillan Publishers re-entered the American market in 1954 under the name St. Martin's Press.

Macmillan of Canada was founded in 1905; Maclean-Hunter acquired the company in 1973.

After retiring from politics in 1964, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Harold Macmillan, became chairman of the company, serving until his death in December 1986. He had been with the family firm as a junior partner from 1920 to 1940 (when he became a junior minister), and from 1945 to 1951 while he was in the opposition in Parliament.

Holtzbrinck Publishing Group purchased the company in 1999.

The Jacobine Jones Foundation was officially established in November of 1984, in Niagara-on-the-Lake. The inaugural directors meeting was held a year later in November of 1985. The main goals of the Foundation were: to arrange for the permanent housing of Jacobine Jones' works that have been left to the Foundation on settlement of the estate; to establish a comprehensive catalogue of the artisit's works, both architectural and individual; to promote a commemorative exhibition; to raise funds for the above activities, as well as for a publication on the life and work of Jacobine Jones, and for providing support for elderly artisits to enable them to carry on their work, in the interests of art in Canada.

The Directors of the Foundation were: Angela Butler and Charlotte Vidal, both of whom were nieces of Jacobine Jones; Michael Butler, a great-nephew of the artist; Peter Stokes, a restoration architect; Geoffrey Brooks, accountant.

The Foundation ceased operation in 1999.

Harvey Knox and Madeline Lowing were married April 8. 1944. They had a farm in Glenburnie where they held a dairy interest for some time but also grew award winning barley. Madeline Ellen Knox passed away, on Monday, October 25, 2010 in Kingston. Harvey Francis Knox passed away July 9, 1985.

Born in Noranda, Quebec, Dorris Heffron has an Honours B.A.and M.A. in Literature and Philosophy from Queen's University, Canada. Heffron lived in Oxford, England from 1968-1980 where she was a tutor for Oxford University and The Open University, giving courses in Literature. While there, she wrote three novels about teenagers, published by Macmillan, London. Internationally acclaimed, they are regarded as pioneers in the genre of young adult fiction. They were translated and put on high school courses in Europe, Japan and Canada. During sabbaticals, she taught creative writing at the University of Malaysia and resided while writing and teaching, in Holland, France and Cape Breton Island. Heffron returned to Toronto in 1980.

She has served on the National Council of The Writers' Union, the Board of Directors of PEN Canada, The Writers Trust of Canada, the Toronto Arts Council and the Board of Directors of the Native Men's Residence. She has been a library writer-in-residence and book reviewer for the Globe and Mail. Heffron was also Chair of The Writers' Union of Canada June 2013 to June 2014.