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William (Bill) Walker Hamilton Gunn was born in Toronto in 1913. Bill graduated with a degree in Business Administration from the University of Toronto in 1934. He worked in accounting and public relations until 1941 when he enlisted in the Army (Ordnance Corps). In 1945 He participated in Operation Muskox, an Arctic research operation, where he represented the Canadian Wildlife Service. Gunn was discharged with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in 1946.

Returning to school, Gunn completed his Ph.D. in 1951. His research examined the relationship between bird migration and weather patterns. His application of radar data to understanding migratory patterns contributed to migratory bird forecasting still used at airports today. It was during this period that Gunn started to record bird songs. When he joined the then-fledgling Federation of Ontario Naturalists (F.O.N.) as its first executive director (1952-1955) he produced an LP recording of bird songs consisting predominantly of common woodland and garden birds. Based on the great success of the project he went on to record more volumes for the organization. His second record was "A Day in Algonquin Park”, followed by Birds of the Forest, Warblers, Flores Morades, Finches, Prairie Spring, Thrushes, Wrens and Mockingbirds of British North America, and Birds of the African Rain Forests.

His expertise in pioneering bird recording led to his appointment in 1963 as a consultant and recordist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). He regularly worked recording and producing sound for "The Nature of Things". For this series he recorded in Canada, the Galapagos, Sri Lanka, East Africa and Madagascar. He also worked for Untamed World on CTV as well as various other television productions.

Bill Gunn was one of the founders of LGL Limited. He was the firm’s first president from 1970 to 1980 and a chairman from 1980 to 1984. LGL was one of the earliest ecological firms in Canada and still provides biological and environmental research and consulting services to the public and private sectors.

William Walker Hamilton Gunn died of cancer on the 15th of October, 1984, at the age of 71.

Dr. Clifford G. Hospital is a Professor Emeritus of the Comparative Study of Religion at Queen's University. Dr. Hospital served as the Principal of Queen's Theological College in the 1980s.

Born Mary Lilian Vaux in Brockville, Ontario, Mackinnon was a student at Queen's from 1898 until 1902. She was a top student, editor of the "Ladies' Department" of the Queen's Journal, and a founding member of Queen's Dramatic Club. She graduated with the University's gold medal in English.
She married a fellow Queen's graduate, Murdoch Archibald MacKinnon, after graduation and lived in various cities across Canada, where he served as a Presbyterian minister.
Miriam of Queen's, published in 1921, was her first novel and the only one she ever published. Mackinnon apparently quit writing until shortly before her husband's death in 1954, when she began to submit reminiscences about her past to small newspapers and to the Alumni Review and the Queen's Quarterly.
MacKinnon was 96 and Queen's oldest living woman graduate when she died in 1975.

Judith Moses was born in Cobourg, Ontario on the 22nd of February, 1957. Moses attended Queen's University graduating in 1981 with a BSc (OT) as well as a Master of Public Administration degree in 2000. While Moses briefly worked as an occupational therapist at Beechgrove Children's Centre in Kingston post graduation from her undergraduate degree, she soon moved to London, Ontario where she became a frontline counsellor at Women's Community House. For the rest of her career Judith worked extensively in the feminist anti-violence, anti-oppression, social service and mental health movements for organizations such as the London Status of Women Action Committee(LSWAG), the Sexual Assault Centre London, Hamilton Interval House, Hastings County Children's Aid Society, and Citizen's Against Sexual Child Abuse (CASCA) Kingston.

Moses established Radical Revisioning Consulting Services in 1990 which became Collective Wisdom Consulting in 2002. Through the consulting company Judith has provided staff training, Board development, strategic planning as well as organizational investigation service to the anti-violence sector throughout Ontario. In addition to providing these consulting services, Moses is the author of several training manuals and resource handbooks: It's Never Too Late: Senior Women and Sexual Violence; violence Against Women with Disabilitie: Guidelines for Service Providers; Home Safe Home: Violence Against Women with Disabilities Living in Institutions and Group Homes; Creating Inclusive Spaces for Women: A Practical Guide for Implementing an Integrated, Anti-Racist, Femiinist Service Delivery System; and Ready & Able: Including Volunteers with Disabilities-Information & Resource Tool Kit for Coordinators of Volunteers.

Moses currently resides in Kingston, Ontario.

Simon Oberndorffer was born in Bretten, Germany circa 1826. At 18 he immigrated to New York where he stayed for eight or nine year before arriving in Kingston around 1857. In New York, Oberndorffer had learned the trade of cigar making. Oberndorffer operated a cigar company in Kingston until his death in 1913. Both he and his German-born wife Cecelia (married in 1867) were pillars of the Kingston community and instrumental in the establishment of a synagogue for the local Jewish congregation. Together they had 12 children, eight of whom survived into adulthood. Oberndorffer was a member of many fraternal organizations, such as the Oddfellows and the Masons. He also served on City Council as the alderman for Cataraqui Ward in 1892.

Nancy Ossenberg was born on April 23, 1933 in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, graduated from Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute in Toronto, and earned her degrees (BA, MA, PhD) at the University of Toronto. She taught in the Anatomy Department at the University of Alberta before moving to Queens University in the Department of Anatomy where she taught and researched for 25 years, retiring in 1998. In addition to being a beloved teacher of anatomy, Nancy was a well-respected physical anthropologist, and left a significant body of research on human ethnogenesis and the migrations of humans to the North American continent.

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.

Margaret (Maisie) Helen Inverarity Stickland Saunders, was born in 1898, and died in Ottawa in 1985. In June of 1918, Maisie and Louis Farquhar Strickland married in Edinburgh Scotland. They had one child. Inverarity and Strickland divorced in 1925 after Maisie had returned to Scotland. Maisie then married William Eric Pentland Saunders in 1926. She was a pioneering aviator, having been within the first fifty women to receive a Royal Aero Club certificate in 1929.

Charles Schwier was part of Queen's University Arts Class 1971. He was involved in a number of student publications, such as the editorial board of the Journal and General Editor of the Tricolour. He was also co-editor of Who's Where. Charles was a talented amateur photographer, and a large number of his photographs ended up in the Journal and Tricolour. He was received the Tricolour Society award in 1973 for his work on these publications.

Al Shawana was a historian and former Chief, Elder and Band member of the Wikwemikong First Nation.