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Hugh Christopher Thomson was a businessman, printer, journalist, politician, office holder, justice of the peace, and militia officer. He was born 1791 in Kingston (Ont.), son of Archibald Thomson and Elizabeth McKay and died there 23 April 1834. Thomson went on from newspaper publishing to issue 2 volumes of verse and a 2-volume novel, St. Ursula's Convent (1824), by Julia Beckwith Hart. The novel was the first fiction book published by a Canadian-born author.

James Thomson was a farmer, baker, miner and lumberman who lived in Edwardsburgh, Canada West (now Cardinal, Ont.). Born in 1823 in Aboyne, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, Thomson worked as a baker's apprentice at the age of 22 until he emigrated to Canada in 1844. He stayed in Montreal that first winter, then moved to Edwardsburgh to work as a baker. In 1849, he moved to Chicago, where he found employment in a lumber firm. In 1850, he travelled to California, then the Fraser Valley (Cariboo), where he took up mining, and continued working as a baker and a lumberman. Three years later, he had earned enough money to purchase a farm in Edwardsburgh. He would later work for the Edwardsburgh Starch Company as assistant book-keeper

After settling in Edwardsburgh, he married Mary Armstrong in 1854. They raised five children: James, Colin, Edwin, Mary and Agnes. They had born two others, Lora and an unnamed infant, who both died at young ages. James passed away in 1895.

Toronto and District Liberal Association is a regional organization of the Liberal Party, both federal and provincial, in Ontario. As an umbrella organization it assists in organizing riding associations and in their programme of meetings, conventions, etc. as well as providing affiliation to the party for such groups as the Ontario New Liberals (youth organization), Women's Liberal Association,etc. The Association dates back to 1946 and was originally known as Toronto and Yorks Association. The area covered is approximately from Oakville to Newmarket, encompassing 29 federal and 36 provincial seats. The composition and functioning of the Association are outlined in the Constitution. The officers who are Vice Presidents (there are sixteen) are in direct contact with the Riding Associations. The Executive Board, which carries on the general management of the Association, includes representatives of riding associations, affiliated groups and provincial and federal candidates and members.

Reginald George Trotter, Canadian historian, was born at Woodstock, Ontario in 1888. He was educated at Yale University (B.A. 1911) and at Harvard (M.A. 1915, Ph.D. 1921). He taught at Leland Standord University until 1924, when he was appointed Douglas Professor of Canadian and Colonial History at Queen's University, a chair he held until his death in 1951. He was the author of Canadian federation (Toronto, 1924) and of Canadian History: A Syllabus and Guide to Reading (Toronto, 1946). He jointly authored with Chester New Modern History (Toronto, 1946) and with C.C. Linyard Canadian World Affairs, 1941-1944 (Toronto, 1955).

Charles Hibbert Tupper was a lawyer, politician, and author. He was born 3 Aug. 1855 in Amherst, N.S., second son of Charles Tupper and Frances Amelia Morse. On 9 Sept. 1879 he married Janet McDonald, daughter of James McDonald, in Halifax, and they had four sons and three daughters. C. H. Tupper became minister of justice in the government of Mackenzie Bowell. He retired, officially, from politics in 1897 and moved to British COlumbia and set up a legal practice. He died 30 March 1927 in Vancouver.

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The Department of State was established by an act of September 15, 1789 (1 Stat. 68). It was preceeded by the Department of Foreign Affairs (July-Sept. 1789). Its function was to advise the President in the formulation and execution of foreign policy; conduct the foreign relations of the United States; preserve the Great Seal of the United States; commission Presidential appointees to various federal offices; publish laws, maintain custody of federal records, and administer the territories.
The Office of the Secretary of War was established by the act creating the War Department, August 7, 1789 (1 Stat. 49). Its functions were to supervise all activities of the War Department; responsibility for naval affairs until 1798 and for military bounty lands, military pensions, and Indian affairs until 1849. It was abolished in September 18, 1947, by the National Security Act of 1947 (61 Stat. 501), July 26, 1947, and succeeded by the Office of the Secretary of the Army, Department of the Army, National Military Establishment (1947- 49); Office of the Secretary of the Army, Department of Defense (1949- ).
The Department of the Navy was established by an act of April 30, 1798 (1 Stat. 553). It was preceeded by the War Department (1789-98). Its functions were to advise the President on naval matters and administer the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. It was abolished y the National Security Act of 1947 (61 Stat. 495), July 26, 1947, and succeeded by the Department of the Navy, National Military Establishment (1947-49); Department of the Navy, Department of Defense (1949- ).

The Department of State was established by an act of September 15, 1789 (1 Stat. 68). It was preceeded by the Department of Foreign Affairs (July-Sept. 1789). Its function was to advise the President in the formulation and execution of foreign policy; conduct the foreign relations of the United States; preserve the Great Seal of the United States; commission Presidential appointees to various federal offices; publish laws, maintain custody of federal records, and administer the territories.
The Office of the Secretary of War was established by the act creating the War Department, August 7, 1789 (1 Stat. 49). Its functions were to supervise all activities of the War Department; responsibility for naval affairs until 1798 and for military bounty lands, military pensions, and Indian affairs until 1849. It was abolished in September 18, 1947, by the National Security Act of 1947 (61 Stat. 501), July 26, 1947, and succeeded by the Office of the Secretary of the Army, Department of the Army, National Military Establishment (1947- 49); Office of the Secretary of the Army, Department of Defense (1949- ).
The Department of the Navy was established by an act of April 30, 1798 (1 Stat. 553). It was preceeded by the War Department (1789-98). Its functions were to advise the President on naval matters and administer the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. It was abolished y the National Security Act of 1947 (61 Stat. 495), July 26, 1947, and succeeded by the Department of the Navy, National Military Establishment (1947-49); Department of the Navy, Department of Defense (1949- ).

Simeon Washburn was the father of Ebenezar.

John Watson was born at Glasgow, Scotland in 1847 and died in 1939. His ideas influenced the development of religious and political thought in Canada during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Educated at Glasgow University, Watson became a disciple of Edward Caird, the British philosopher who, later, became The Master of Balliol College Oxford. Watson came to Queen's University to teach philosophy in 1872 and remained in Kingston until his death in 1939. During his fifty-two years on the faculty of Queen's University, John Watson became the Professor of Moral Philosophy and, in 1901, Vice Principal, a post he held until his retirement to Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy in 1924. He published some fifteen books and over two hundred articles and reviews, as well as some poetry and even had a play he wrote produced. He became the first Queen's Professor to have an international reputation as a scholar, leading the Kantian revolution in the English-speaking world. He was the first Canadian to be invited to give the Gifford Lectures at the University of Glasgow, the most prestigious honour that can be given a English-speaking philosopher, and was regarded by many as the leading academic philosopher not just in Canada but in North America.