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Eleanor Williams-Moore was an author based in Montreal.

Charles Snider was born near Maple, Ontario. He began his career as a journalist with the Toronto Telegram in 1897, he eventually became the Associate Editor. He served as a war correspondent in WWII. He was also the author of a series of historical novels about marine action in the War of 1812.

The firm of Shepard and Calvin, located in Toronto, Ontario, was formed in 1913, when Ralph K. Shepard entered into partnership with Dexter Delano Calvin. Over the ensuing years they designed numerous commercial, financial, residential,and educational buildings. Included in this long list is nearly thirty banks in various Canadian provinces, the Brock Building, the Toronto Conservatory of Music, and the Ban Righ Women's Residence and the Douglas Library at Queen's University at Kingston. The firm dissolved upon the death of R.K. Shepard in 1933.

Lloyd Earl Thompson, photographer, was born in Belleville, Ontario in 1918. He was educated at Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School. His interest in photography became evident when he was sixteen and continued throughout his life. From 1939-40 he was a photographic apprentice with F. Roy Kemp, photographer, Toronto. He was employed by the National Film Board, Ottawa for a short time and then continued his photographic apprenticeship with Robert Darragh, Portrait Photographer, London, Ontario, from 1940 to 1942. He enlisted in London and spent thirteen years in the R.C.A.F. as a photographer. He was overseas during the war and afterwards continued as a Service Photographer doing public relations and official R.C.A.F. portraits and instructing at the School for Photography until his retirement in 1958. For the rest of his life he continued his photographic work both free-lance and as operator of a successful studio. During his life he made camera portraits of many public figures and his portraits have hung in embassies throughout the world and in Buckingham Palace. His book At Face Value contains a selection of 60 of his portraits. He died in 1988 at Belleville.

Queen's Alumni Review was established in 1927 as the primary communications outlet between the University and its alumni. First published in March 1927 as the monthly "Queen's Review", the publication sought to give an active voice to the newly formed (November 1926) General Alumni Association. Its first editor was Gordon J. Smith (1927-1939), followed by Herb Hamilton (1939-1974), Cathy Perkins (1974-1986), Ken Cuthbertson (1987-2014), and Andrea Gunn (2014 to present day). The magazine, now known as "Queen's Alumni Review," is published quarterly and sent out free of charge to alumni and friends of the University. It contains news and information about the University and its graduates. The magazine's official publisher is the Office of Advancement and it is produced by University Relations.

Between 1988 and 1990, the posts of Dean of Women and Director of Residences were temporarily combined; since 1990, the Office of the Director of Residences has been in charge of all residences. The Office of the Dean of Women relinquished any direct residence management role. The Director of Residences was responsible to the Associate Dean (Student Affairs).

Teacher, journalist and politician, Dundas, Ont.

Oliver Tiffany Macklem came to Kingston in 1925 to teach at the Royal Military College. The Bermingham family had many connections with the College and Professor Macklem met and married Katherine Bermingham. They had two sons, Oliver (Dick) and Peter and lived in the Bermingham home at the corner of Barrie and King Streets. Their social life and travels were those of a well-to-do family, with connections with the military and prominent in the Roman Catholic Church in Kingston.

Richard Bedford Bennett was born at Hopewell Hill, New Brunswick in 1870. He taught at Douglastown for three years, 1888-1890, before studying law at Dalhousie University, 1890-1893. Upon graduation he became a partner in the law firm of L.S. Tweedie in Chatham and in 1897 moved to Calgary as a junior partner of Senator James Lougheed. After the partnership dissolved in 1922, Bennett established the firm of Bennett, Hannah and Sandford of which he remained a member until 1937.

In 1898 Bennett was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the North-West Territories and to the Alberta Legislative Assembly in 1909 and 1911. In the House of Commons Bennett represented Calgary, 1911-1917 and Calgary West, 1925 to 1938. At the first convention of the Conservative Party in Winnipeg, 1927, Bennett was elected leader. Following the defeat of the King government in 1930 he became Prime Minister. Bennett also held the offices of Minister of Finance, 1930-1932 and Secretary of State for External Affairs, 1930-1935. After the Conservative defeat in 1935, Bennett served as Leader of the Opposition until 1938 when he retired from active political life. In 1939, he moved to England and settled on an estate in Surrey where he lived until his death in 1947. In 1941, he was created Viscount Bennett of Mickleham, calgary and Hopewell. he never married.

Alkis Klonaridis, art dealer, was born in Greece in 1943 and emigrated to Canada in 1962. He attended the University of Toronto where he met David Mirvish. In 1964 Klonardis went to work at the David Mirvish Gallery in Markham Village, Toronto. He became director of the gallery in 1975 and when the gallery closed in 1978, Klonardis opened his own gallery, Klonardis Inc., where he showed Canadian and American abstractionists. Ill health forced Mr. Klonardis to close his gallery in 1992 and he died in 1993.