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George Baxter was the patriarch of the Baxter family in Canada and was the first owner of Cataraqui Grange on the Point Road, now called Highway 15, in Kingston, Ontario. Educated at Oxford to be a Presbyterian minister, George Baxter came to Kingston from Dundee, Scotland, in 1818. He secured the position of assistant to the Headmaster of the Royal Grammar School and became Headmaster upon the retirement of the Principal. At this time, he married Grace Baillie. George and Grace had six children.

Shortly after his arrival in Kingston he bought 450 acres of land that became Cataraqui Grange. In 1820, Mr. Baxter's parents, Peter and Margaret Barbara Baxter, arrived and settled on Cataraqui Grange. Accompanying them was their daughter Isabelle, who married William Lyon Mackenzie in Montreal. After the rebellion of 1837 in Upper Canada, Mr. Baxter lost his position as Headmaster. After his dismissal, Mr. Baxter moved out to Cataraqui Grange, where he lived with his parents until the death of his father in 1837, after which time his mother moved to Toronto to live with Isabelle.

In 1817, William Buchanan emigrated from Scotland to what is now Kemptville, Ontario. Two years later he was followed by his wife, Anne Hunter, and children. While some of William's descendants left the area, representatives of the family continued in the Kemptville region to the present day. In 1868, John Hunter, brother of Anne Buchanan, died, leaving no will. As Hunter was unmarried, the estate had to be divided between his nine nieces and nephews. There followed a relatively long correspondence between persons in England and the Buchanans in Kemptville, as the estate settlement dragged on. In 1930, a rumor started that a William Buchanan of Kemptville had entailed his estate for 99 years after his death. As of 1930 the 99 years had apparently elapsed and the estate, amounting to some $850.000 was to be divided among living descendants. The papers include some correspondence on this issue.

Agnes Douglas Craine, one of the earliest women graduates of Queen's in medicine, was born in 1862 in Smith's Falls, the daughter of John Joseph Craine and Agnes Muir Craine. She entered the Women's Medical College, associated with Queen's University, in 1884 and received the degrees of M.D and C.M. in 1888. She then went to Europe for post-graduate work, studying in London, Paris, Berlin and Vienna, before establishing her practice at Smith's Falls. Dr. Craine was a direct descendant of the first settlers to land at Chateauguay, Québec, and there are records of Craines in the New Haven colony as early as 1637.

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John McIntyre, QC, was a barrister and solicitor in Kingston, Ontario. He and Donald M. McIntyre were partners of McIntyre and M'Intyre. John died in 1916.

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Archibald W. Dingman (b.1850, Prince Edward Co., d.1936, Alberta), came to Alberta ca. 1900, 1905 founded Calgary Natural Gas, 1914 drilled Dingman well, Turner Valley.