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Mario Andrew Creet (1924-1994) was born in Calcutta, India of Armenian parents. He was educated at St. Xaviers College Calcutta; BA Calcutta University 1942; BSc (Chemical Engineering) Imperial College, London, 1948; MA Queen's University, Canada, 1983 and PhD History, Queens University, Canada, 1992. Dr. Creet emigrated to Canada in 1965 and worked at Du Pont of Canada's Kingston Works. Later he came to Queen's University where he was employed in the Principal's Office. From there he transferred to the Archives and later was a part-time lecturer on "History of Technology" in the History Department at Queen's. Following his retirement, Dr. Creet researched and was completing a biography of Sir Sanford Fleming when he died. Mario Creet was predeceased by his wife Magda. He left two sons and two daughters.

Edward J. Powell was a photographer active in Kingston.

Newlands and Son was an architectural firm in Kingston, Ontario. William Newlands trained his son, John C. Newlands from 1902-1910, after which point they formed a partnership lasting until William Newlands death in 1926.

Charles Gibson was an architect based in Toronto.

Ellen Jerrard was christened on 9 March, 1853 in Lyme Regis, Dorset, England. On 20 May 1873 Ellen married to Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen (Grant Allen). The marriage took place in Lyme Regis. Charles was already a widower, though only 25 years of age. They had a son, Jerrard Grant Allen, who was born on 09 July 1878 in Dorset.

Harold Averill was a student of Queen's University Professor Keppel-Jones from 1967 to 1978. He did my Master's thesis on the competition for land in the eastern Cape Province between the settlers and the Africans (mostly Xhosa) already resident there focusing on the conflict over land in Matabeleland, in the western part of Rhodesia.

The Organization of Kingston Women Artists (OKWA) is a non-profit independent association formed in 1989. The organization provides a forum for mutual support and exchange of information and ideas among local professional women artists. An annual exhibition serves to increase public awareness and appreciation of contemporary women's art.

Joseph Brant a Mohawk military and political leader, based in present-day New York and, later, Brantford, in what is today Ontario, who was closely associated with Great Britain during and after the American Revolution.

Diane Elizabeth Dawber, B.A., M.Ed. (Queen's University) was born in Belleville, ON. She is a poet, author, educator, researcher, and health advocate. She taught from 1965-1990, mostly at the elementary level but also as Consultant for the Arts K-12 for the Lennox-Adding School Board and as first Writing Adjunct Professor for the Artist in Community Program at Faculty of Education, Queen’s University, Kington. She was disabled with chronic illness in 1990.

Dawber has written two poetry collections for adults and five poetry collections for younger readers. She has given many school visits and workshops, an open-mic series in Kingston, and an anthology of Kingston poets came out of these works. Many poems have been anthologized. She won the Banff Centre Pilot Project in Writing, 1980 as well as the Federation of Women Teachers' Associations of Ontario Writers Award, 1982, 1987 and 1991.

The study group she started for disabled teachers and nurses in 1996 met monthly for 20 years and morphed into an incorporated non-profit -- Health Pursuits Group later named Health Pursuits Reading and Research: MEND -- from 2010 until dissolution in 2022. Their research helped hundreds of people with difficult issues and won a large Ontario Trillium Award in 2012. Three non-fiction books came out of this work.

Selected works include "Cankerville"(Borealis, 1984), "Oatmeal Mittens" (Borealis,1987), "Writers on Writing" (Grolier, 1989), "My Underwear's Inside Out" (Quarry Press, 1991), "How Do You Wrestle a Goldfish?" (Borealis Press, 1997), "Lifting the Bull: Back Pain, Fibromyalgia and Environmental Illness" (Quarry Press, 1999), and "The Nutrient Scent Test (Health Pursuits Reading and Research: MEND, 2017).

Diane has two sons with her first husband Christopher (1943-2012), two grandsons, and a whole step-family of daughter, and two granddaughters from her second husband Bernard Gates (1935-2023).