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George Ogle Moore was a Major with the 82nd Regiment of Foot and aide-de-camp to Major General Sir Richard Armstrong, Commander of forces in Canada West.

Professor, Department of History, Queen's University at Kingston, Ont.

Frank Tindall (1908-1993), born in the United States, was "All-American" at Syracuse University. He came north and joined the Toronto Argonauts football team in 1933, later being named to the All-Time Agro Squad (1921-1941). He coached basketball and football at Queen's University from 1939 to his retirement in 1975, a period only interrupted by the Second World War. Tindall led the football Gaels to a total of eight intercollegiate titles and one national championship (1968) in twenty-nine seasons. His coaching record at his retirement stood at 112-84-2, a record number of wins for Canadain college football. He is a member of both the Canadian Football Hall of Fame and the Queen's University Football Hall of Fame. The Frank Tindall trophy is awarded annually to the top Canadain intercollegiate football coach and Tindall Field at Queen's is named in his honour.

John George Diefenbaker (1895-1979) was born in Neustadt, Ontario. In 1903 the family moved to a homestead in the Fort Carlton area of the Northwest Territories but eventually settled in Saskatoon in 1910. John studied at the University of Saskatchewan receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree (1915), Master of Arts (1916) and Bachelor of Law (1919). He enlisted in 1916 and served in England until 1917. He established his first law practice in Prince Albert in 1924 and continued to practice law until 1957.
John Diefenbaker first entered politics in 1917. From 1936 to 1941 he served as leader of the Saskatchewan Liberal-Conservative Party and in 1940 was elected to the federal government as a member for the Lake Centre riding. From 1953 he represented the Prince Albert riding. On 14 December, 1956, Diefenbaker was selected as leader of the Conservative Party and he became Prime Minister in 1957. His government was defeated in the 1963 federal election and thereafter he served as Leader of the Opposition until his defeat in 1967. he continued to represent the Prince Albert riding until his death in 1979.

Professor of Bacteriology, Queen's University at Kingston, Ont.

Descended from Irish, Roman Catholic stock, Declan Foley arrived via Chicago, in the newly settled community of Westport, Canada West, in the early 1850's. He soon established a general store and by the following decade, he had begun, along with several other family members, a thriving mercantile, forwarding, and pharmacy business. With his store located on the banks of Upper Rideau Lake, he was able to provide service to both the agricultural/lumbering and Rideau Canal shipping communities. For nearly seventy years D. Foley and Co. was an important member of Westport's commercial life.

John Protaise Foley, a son of Declan's, opened a law office in Westport, following his graduation from Osgoode Hall in Toronto. For over forty years he maintained a successful general practice, engaging primarily in real estate and estate law. Following his death in 1942, his sister Ursula carried on his affairs, and those of the general store for a lenghty period, as she slowly wound down both interests.

James Foley, a brother of John's, aspired to a clerkship in the Senate, in his early years. Over time his efforts were rewarded as he finally attained the position of Clerk of the Crown in Chancery for Canada, a post he held through the first two decades of the twentieth century. As such, his name appeared as the author of many publications dealing with federal elections and their attendant electoral maps.

Bakers and confectioners, Kingston, Ont.

William Clow was born in the town of Dunblane, Scotland in the 1750's and died in Elizabethtown, Leeds County, Ontario on October 22nd, 1814. According to tradition he emigrated to the colony of New York just before the American Revolution. In the Revolutionary War he served in McCalpin's, later Jessup's, Corps of King's Loyal Rangers. In 1784 he was among the original settlers in Elizabethtown Township where he received numerous grants of land. He was married to Sophia daughter of Simon Strader another Loyalist from Old Johnstown, New York. The Clows had eight sons and five daughters all but one of whom reached adulthood. William and some of his sons served in the War of 1812, William's death in 1814 being attributed to war service. Mrs. Clow survived until 1851 at which time she was living with her second son, William Jr. and his wife. She was eighty-five at the time of her death. Nine of her children had been minors at the time of her husband's death.

Walter E. Shipman (1895-1974) was the eldest child and only son, together with three daughters, Wilma Belle (Williams), Edna Marie (Pettem), and Macy Eva (Neville), born to Joel Arthur Shipman (b.30 August 1861) and Macy Elizabeth Johnson (1866-1950). Following their marriage, Macy Elizabeth took up residence with Joel A. Shipman. Walter's father, Joel, died in 1917, at the age of 56, leaving a young family for Macy Elizabeth to raise, and a son forced into early manhood to run the mixed farming operation. Later he married, Oreta Morrison (b.13 September 1900, and they lived separately in an adjacent house at Elm Ridge until his sisters were married, when they took up residence in the old Shipman family home to support his aging Mother. Walter and Oreta had no issue. A brief perspective of this Shipman family would not be adequate without some mention of the background of the mother of Walter Ellis Shipman. Macy Elizabeth Johnson was born in 1866 near Hoasic in Williamsburg Twp., Dundas Co., one of a U.E. family of 4 daughters and 4 sons of Charles Johnson and Charlotta Ann Redick. Her father, Charles Johnson, had been adopted from an impoverished family into the family of Nicholas Freymire, U.E. The Johnsons first settled in the vicinity of Hoasic, Dundas Co., and later they moved to the farm known as Twin Elms at Glen Elbe near Athens in Leeds Co. When Nicholas Freymire died in 1867, aged 59 years, he willed the Twin Elms farm to his adopted son, Charles Johnson. Macy Elizabeth claimed she was seven years old when she moved with her parents to occupy the inherited farm at Twin Elms. Charles had married Charlotta Ann Redick, daughter of George Nelson Redick and Catherine Diana Pillar, on 26 February 1855. The Redick family (probably of Dutch origin, just like the original Shipman orphan who entered the New England Colonies) at one time had owned a large track of land where the city of New York forced by the attitudes of the American Rebellion and mob rule to forfeit their lot and become U.E. Loyalists.

Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Campbell took an active part in the American Revolution and at its end was granted land in the Townships of Elizabethtown, Edwardsburg, Kitley, Oxford, Augusta, and Landsdowne. The Campbell Family's connection to the Clow Family has not been determined but there is an Indenture of Estate between Alexander Campbell and Silas Judson dated 23 June 1808.

Silas Judson was granted 100 acres of land on Lot 33, in the Third Concession of Elizabethtown on 6 March, 1798. Lyman Judson, son of Silas, settled in the Township of Yonge on Lot 4 in the Eighth Concession. The Judson Family connection to the Clow's has been made through an indenture between the two families on the 4th of January 1863.

Alexander McLean was granted land in the Townships of Elizabethtown and Kitley. Alexander and Ann McLean participated as witnesses to an indenture between William and Rebecca Clow dated 25 November, 1790; and in 1812 on the 15th of February, Robert McLean signed as a witness in an indenture between William and Peter Clow.

Psychiatrist, Toronto, Ont.

James Carswell was born in 1837 in the Township of Pakenham, Lanark County, Ontario. His parents emigrated from Glasgow, settling in the Pakenham area. While still in his teens Mr. Carswell started out in the lumbering business as foreman and clerk to Jonathan Francis, whose rafts of square timber he frequently accompanied to the port of Quebec. In 1866 he moved to Renfrew with his wife. He embarked in business with Messrs. Thistle and Francis in the limits on the Madawaska. This firm had sold out their business in this locality to Jonathan Francis. At this time they purchased limits on the Pettawawa and carried on operations under the name of Thistle and Carswell. This arrangement continued for several years. Later Francis became one of the partners. Thus, Carswell, Thistle and Francis became equal partners in the Madawaska and the Pettawawa. In 1884 J.H. Francis purchased his father's interest in the business and the new firm, Francis Carswell and Company, built a saw-mill at Calabogie. About 1886 J.H. Francis sold out his interest to Edward Mackay, of Renfrew and the firm name was changed to Carswell, Thistle and Mackay. Mr. Carswell was one of the founders of the South Renfrew Agricultural Society. For a number of years he was the president of the organization. He was also President of the Renfrew Creamery Company and one of the founders and an active supporter of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church. For two years he was a member of the Renfrew village council. Mr. Carswell has three sons and three daughters. He died on February 22, 1922.