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British Army officer; Captain. Later General the Rt. Hon. Sir Redvers Buller.

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The Calvin Company of Garden Island, which operated under a variety of names from 1836 to 1914, was a family business created by Delino Dexter Calvin. In 1826, Calvin discovered there was more money to be made in the timber export business than in farming when, with the help of a neighbour, he cut square timber from his property and rafted it to Quebec. He and his partner, Hiram Cook, began rafting from Quebec Head at the foot of Wolfe Island and, in 1836, from Garden Island. The first Garden Island partnership was well established by 1838 and the firm was called Calvin, Cook and Counter, the latter being John Counter. In 1843 Counter withdrew from the partnership and the company became Calvin, Cook and Company with a seperate branch at Quebec under the name D.D. Calvin and Company. In 1843, Timothy H. Dunn joined the partnership at Quebec and the firm there was then known as Dunn, Calvin and Company until 1850 when Dunn withdrew and the Quebec name again became D.D. Calvin and Company. A third branch was established in Hamilton, called Hiram Cook and Company but, in 1854, Cook withdrew from the company, seperating the Hamilton branch which continued under the same name but independent of the Garden Island firm. The company also had agencies in Liverpool and Glasgow, and along the St. Lawrence waterway as far west as Defiance, Ohio and Sault Ste. Marie. In 1855 the Island firm became Calvin and Breck with the addition of Calvin's brother-in-law. The name continued until 1880 when Breck retired and the firm became Calvin and Son (D.D. and his son Hiram). After Calvin's death in 1886 the last change was made with the company's name becoming Calvin Company, Limited. The Quebec branch remained D.D. Calvin until 1887 when it became a branch office of the Calvin Company.

Although rafting was always the mainstay of the company's activities, other activities grew out of the rafting business. As early as 1841 the company had a shipyard, smiths' shops, and a sail loft and a planing mill, picket machine and withe machine followed. The Island was a self-contained community with company houses for the employees, a company general store, a school house and a hall. In 1861 it had a population of 761 and became an incorporated village. Hiram Calvin was reeve of Garden Island from 1884 to 1892, and member of parliament for the Countyof Frontenac in 1892. He was re-elected in 1900 and retired from politics in 1904. He died in 1932.

Emily McManus was a student at Queen's University.

Charles John Cameron was a student at Queen's University.

F.H. Gardiner was a student at Queen's University.

Robert Campbell (1808-1894) was chief factor of the Hudson's Bay Company. From 1830 to 1834 he managed the experimental farm at the Red River Settlement He died in 1894.

Canada Company, brainchild of John Galt, was established in late 1824 and chartered in 1825 as a land and colonization company in Upper Canada. In 1826 the company purchased from the government about 2.5 million acres (1 million ha) of land for $295 000. Roughly half lay in the Huron Tract (western Ontario) and the rest consisted of scattered crown reserves. The payments, spread over 16 years, went directly to the executive branch of the Upper Canada government, to the bitter resentment of Reformers in the elected assembly, who also charged that the company failed to provide promised improvements in its structure and treated immigrants dictatorially. After the Act of Union (1841), the company's connection to the Tory elite lessened and, with the implementation of a leasing system, the company operated more effectively and less conspicuously - though settlement would likely have proceeded as quickly without it. Following the sale of its last holdings in the 1950s, it ceased operation.

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The Hon. Richard Cartwright (1759-1815) was born in Albany, New York. His early years were spent in study, until the outbreak of the American Revolution. In 1777 he left for Canada where he was appointed secretary to Colonel Butler of the Queen's Rangers. He served in that capacity for two years and in 1780 formed a partnership with the Hon. Robert Hamilton. Together they became two of the foremost merchants in Upper Canada. In 1784 the partnership was legally dissolved but they continued to cooperate closely in business affairs and became firmly established in a wholesale mercantile and shipping trade. In 1788, Cartwright was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the district of Mecklenburgh and in 1792 became a member of the Legislative Council of Upper Canada. During the War of 1812, he was commandant of the Midland District.

James Cartwright (1786-1811) was the eldest son of Richard and Magdalen Cartwright. After being educated by the Reverend John Strachen, James was sent to Quebec in 1803 for legal training and to learn French. In 1811, James and brother Richard Jr. took a journey to the Bahamas, Cuba and the south-eastern United States hoping to improve Richard's health. Richard died during the trip. James died later in 1811.

John Solomon Cartwright (1804-1845) was born in Kingston, Upper Canada, son of Richard Cartwright and twin brother of Rev. Robert Cartwright. He studied law in York (Toronto) and later at Lincoln's Inn, London. In 1831 he became president of the Commercial Bank of Kingston. In 1836 he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada and in 1841 he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of United Canada for Lennox and Addington. Offered the position of Solicitor General for Governor General Sir James Bagot in 1842, he declined.

Sir Richard Cartwright (1835-1912) was born in Kingston, the son of Rev. Robert David Cartwright and the grandson of the Hon. Richard Cartwright. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and upon returning to Canada became president of the Commercial Bank of the Midland District. In 1863 he was elected to the Legislative Assembly as a Conservative and in 1867 was elected to the Canadian House of Commons. He "crossed the floor" to join the ranks of the Liberal Party and was Minister of Finance in the Alexander Mackenzie administration from 1873 to 1878. In 1896 he became Minister of Trade and Commerce in the Laurier administration and in 1904 was appointed to the Senate, a post he held until his death.