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Jacalyn M. Duffin CM FRSC (born 1950) is a Canadian medical historian and hematologist. Duffin completed her MD from the University of Toronto. Soon after this, she moved to Paris, where she elected to study hematology and René Laennec at the Sorbonne. She completed her PhD in the History of Medicine in 1985, she then returned to Canada. She held the Hannah Chair, History of Medicine at Queen's University from 1988 until 2017. Formerly, she was President of the American Association for the History of Medicine and Canadian Society for the History of Medicine. From 1993–1995 she was Associate Dean Undergraduate Studies and Education at Queen's University. She is well known for her testimony which led to the canonization of Marie-Marguerite d'Youville. She has published twelve books (as author and editor) on the history of medicine and has written numerous articles on various subjects relating to the history of medicine, miracles, and hematology. In 2019, Duffin was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.

Sandra Gulland was born in Miami, Florida, Nov. 3, 1944. In 1952 her family moved and settled in her mother's hometown of Berkeley, California. Gulland graduated from Berkeley High in 1962 and went on to get a B.A. at San Francisco State College in 1965. Gulland moved to Canada in 1970 with her first husband, teaching in the northern community Nain in Eastern Labrador. Settling in Toronto in 1972, she remarried and worked as a typesetter, project editor for an educational book company, freelance editor, acquisitions editor and book editor before committing to being a full-time author in 1985. Five years later, she began writing the Josephine B. Trilogy, novels based on the life of Josephine Bonaparte. The trilogy, published in 1995, 1998, and 2000, has now been published in seventeen countries.

In 2008 Sandra published Mistress of the Sun which was on the Maclean's bestseller list for over one month in hardcover. Published in paperback in the spring of 2009, it also made the Globe & Mail Canadian bestseller list. It is published in both Canada and the U.S. as well as in several translated editions, including French and German. In 2014, her fifth historical novel, The Shadow Queen, was published by HarperCollins in Canada, and Doubleday in the US. Comprising many of the same characters as Mistress of the Sun, the two novels compose The Sun Court Duet.

In 2018, The Game of Hope, a young adult fiction novel about Josephine Bonaparte's daughter and Napoleon's stepdaughter was published by Penguin Teen in both Canada and the US.

Gulland has continued to offer editorial and writing services to educational, trade and children's book publishers through her Words & service.

Sandra and her husband divide the year between northern Ontario, and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

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.