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Author Grace Campbell was born near Williamstown, Glengarry County, Ontario in 1895, on the farm which is the setting of her debut novel, Thorn-Apple Tree. She was educated at local schools, entering Queen's University with the MacLennan Glengarry scholarship from Williamstown High School. On her graduation in 1915 she obtained the gold medal in English Literature. She married the Reverend Harvey Campbell and together they had three sons, two of whom were killed in 1944 while serving in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Many of her short stories have been published in Canada, the United States and Great Britain, a few having been translated in the Danish. Her novels focused on the Canadian experience during different points in the country's history. In addition to Thorn-Apple Tree (1942) she is also the author of a number of books including The Higher Hill (1944), Fresh Wind Blowing (1947) and The Tower and The Town (1950). She was a active member of the Canadian Authors Association and the Arts and Letters division of the Council of Women, as well as the Provincial Girls' Work Board, the University Women's Club, and the Women's Canadian Club. She served on the Queen's University Board of Trustees from 1947-1963. Mrs. Campbell died on May 31, 1963 at Niagara-on-the-Lake.

Following his honorable discharge from the Royal Canadian Navy at the end of World War II, D.G. (Mike) Willis ran his father's store in Seeley's Bay until 1959, when he operated an aerial photography company known as Rideau Aerial Photography, in partnership with his brother-in-law, Jack Wyatt. He did much contract and commercial work. His business took him down to the Maritimes and out to Western Canada, although much was concentrated in Eastern Ontario. Flying mostly out of Seeley's Bay, a small town approximately twenty minutes north of Kingston, his aerial images provide a stunning and detailed record of an area from Belleville to Brockville to Smiths Falls in particular, and includes all points in between. Although now retired, D.G. (Mike) Willis continued to be active in a number of personal pursuits, including a detailed study of the archaeological record of the region around Kingston, and the local lapidary association. He passed away in Brockville in June 2010.

Carl Young was the Deputy Fire Chief for Kingston Township Fire Department. He was the son of Wesley and Myrtle Young, and husband of Thea Young (nee denOuden).

Architect, Halifax and Pictou, N.S. Born at Galashiels, Scotland.

Dr. Duncan G. Sinclair, born in 1933, was a graduate of the Ontario Veterinary College (DVM) and the University of Toronto (MSA), he obtained his Ph.D. in physiology at Queen's University and joined the faculty in 1966 as a Markle Scholar in Academic Medicine.

He served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science (1974-83), Vice-Principal (Institutional Relations) (1984-86), and Vice-Principal Services (1986-88). In 1983-84, he was seconded to the Medical Research Council (MRC) of Canada as Director General of Program Operations, and, in 1989 he was awarded Honorary Fellowship in the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Dr. Sinclair also held positions at Queen's such as Vice-Principal (Health Sciences) and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine before retiring in 1996.

Dr. Sinclair has also contributed widely beyond the confines of academe. He served on the Ontario Ministry of Health's Steering Committee for Review of the Public Hospitals Act and was Chairman of the Task Group on Governance. He was a member of the Premier's Council on Health, Well-Being and Social Justice and acted as Chair of the Council's Research Steering Committee. He was also served on the Ontario Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation Advisory Board and a member of its Executive Committee. He achieved national recognition as a member of the National Forum on Health and, more recently, as Chair of Ontario's Health Services Restructuring Commission. In 2001, he completed his term as founding Chair of the Board of Canada Info Highway, an organization designed to foster the development of a national capacity for health information management.

Hugh Segal was born October 13, 1950 in Montreal, Quebec. Hugh began his political activity in the 1963 general election in his then home riding of Mount Royal as a youth canvasser for the Progressive Conservative (P.C.) federal candidate. He headed the Conservative Party in his high school model Parliament, and was an active member of the University of Ottawa P.C. Club between 1968 and 1972. While at university, Hugh was elected Student Government President and served subsequently as research assistant to David MacDonald, then M.P. from Egmont, P.E.I. In 1971, he was elected National Vice-President of the P.C. Youth Federation of Canada, serving on the Party's National Executive and Policy Coordinating Committees.

Hugh Segal was nominated as the P.C. candidate in the federal riding of Ottawa Centre, standing for Parliament at the age of 21 and 23 in the elections of 1972 and 1974 under the Hon. Robert L. Stanfield. Unsuccesful in his campaign Hugh Segal joined Mr. Stanfield's staff as Legislative Assistant serving there through to the election of 1974. He was appointed Director of Communications and Planning at the P.C. National Headquarters following that election.

In 1975, Hugh Segal was appointed Provincial Campaign Secretary for the Ontario P.C. Party. Following the election, he joined Mr. Davis's staff as Legislative and Principal Secretary through the 1977 general election. In 1977, he joined John Labbatt Limited in London, Ontario, where he served as Director of Corporate Affairs. In 1979, he returned to the public sector as Secretary to the Policy and Priorites Board of cabinet - the youngest Deputy Minister in the province. After the 1981 general election saw the return of the Davis government, Hugh Segal was appointed Associate Secretary of Cabinet for Federal Provincial Relations, with specific responsibility for energy and constitutional negotiations.

In 1982, Hugh Segal left government to become Executive Vice-President of TACT Incorporated, a Canadian communications company with activities in corporate strategy planning, advertising, public affairs and media. In 1985 he bought TACT Inc. and became Chairman and CEO of the company.

Throughout the 1980's Hugh Segal continued to play a large role in the P.C. Party though largely in a voluntary capacity; it is difficult to find a P.C. federal or Ontario provincial campaign in which Hugh Segal did not play a part.

In 1991, Hugh Segal divested his commercial interests in TACT Inc, and joined the Office of the Prime Minister (PMO) as Senior Policy Advisor. In 1992, he became Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.

After leaving the PMO in 1993, Hugh Segal became an Ivey Fellow and Chair in the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University. In 1994 Hugh Segal also rejoined the private sector becoming an Associate at Gluskin Sheff & Associates Inc. in Toronto where he was responsible for counsel on regulatory issues and regulated industries until 1999. While retaining his position in Policy Studies at Queen's University, Hugh also joined Queen's School of Business staff as a Professor of Public Policy in 1997.

In 1998, Hugh Segal re-entered politics by running in the P.C. Party leadership race. Hugh Segal was first ballot runner-up in a five candidate field.

In 1999 Hugh Segal was appointed President of the Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP), Canada's oldest, non-partisan, public policy think-tank, based in Montreal.

He is a director of various companies in the private sector, Chair of the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation and a Governor of Kingston General Hospital. In 2003, he was awarded the Order of Canada and holds a Doctorate in Law (honoris causa) from the Royal Military College of Canada. In 2005 Segal was appointed to the Senate by then Prime Minister Paul Martin; he sits in the Senate as a Conservative Party member.

In addition to all of the official positions held by Hugh Segal, he is also a former columnist for The Toronto Star and the Financial Post and network panelist on CTV, CBC and PBS. He has authored three books on politics and public policy: No Surrender (Harper and Collins, 1994), Beyond Greed (Stoddart, 1998) and In Defence of Civility (Stoddart, 1999) and co-authored two books on the same topic: No Small Measure (Deneau, 1982) and Election: Strategies, Issues and Tactics (Prentice Hall, 1988).

Hugh Segal is married to Donna Armstrong of Kingston, Ontario. They have one daughter, Jacqueline.

Donald Mackenzie Schurman was born September 2nd, 1924 in Sydney, Nova Scotia. He enlisted in the Royal Air Force and served as aircrew in the Royal Air Force Bomber Command in 1944-1945. Upon return to Canada he enrolled at Acadia University where he completed a B.A. in 1949, and an M.A. in 1950. He was a member, and fellow, of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University in the United Kingdom from 1950 to 1955, where he attained his PhD.
Upon completion of his doctoral work Schurman taught at the University of Alberta for 1955-1956, and then Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) in Kingston from 1956-1966 at which point he moved to Queen's University. Schurman taught at Queen's University for a decade, during which time he became one of the three founding principal investigators of the Disraeli project as well as the Director of the Institute of Commonwealth and Comparative Studies (1975-1977). Schurman left Queen's University in 1977 and spent a year as a visiting professor at the University of Singapore. Upon his return, he was hired as chair of the history department at RMC, where he stayed until his retirement in 1987. Dr. Schurman passed away in Kingston in June 2013.

Meg O'Connor is a folk singer based in Ontario.

Elizabeth Harrison (nee Tatchell) was born in London, England in 1907. She studied for seven years at the Brighton College of Art and later worked in the studios of Louis Ginnett, R.O.I. in Sussex and of George Alexander, R.B.S. in Chelsea. She also was employed for four years in the London workshops of Clayton and Bell, the internationally known firm of glass painters. In 1931, she came to Canada and settled in Kingston, where both she and her husband, Eric Harrison were employed at Queen's University. Elizabeth taught in the Department of Fine Arts and was also art consultant to the Kingston Board of Education. Elizabeth Harrison's paintings have been exhibited widely in both Canada and Britain and she has given many lectures and addresses across Canada on radio and television. Elizabeth Harrison was also an author, she wrote of her life experiences in Ottawa during the war years and of her life and interests in Kingston. One of her books, Self Expression Through Art, is now in its second edition. Mrs. Elizabeth Harrison passed away in October of 2001.

Irene Dixon Bamford was born in the United States in 1834. She moved to Wolfe Island with her husband, Wells Bamford (a sailor). She had three children: Isabel, Wells, and Devolsom.