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Born 4 July 1919 in South Gower, Grenville County, he was the second son of Edward McKendry and Blanche Ault McKendry. After acquiring his B.Sc. at Queen's University in 1941, Blake worked at RCA Victor (1941-46) and then Smart & Biggar & Fetherstonhaugh & Co. in Ottawa (1946-61).

In the mid 1950s, he and his wife, Ruth, became interested in art, rare books, and antiques, both as sellers and collectors. During this period - at a time when Canada's decorative arts were only beginning to be appreciated - the McKendrys owned and operated The Pioneer Shop in Ottawa (1957).

In the 1970s, they restored the Snook House, a stone-farmhouse of 1820 near Elginburg where they lived until moving to Kingston in 1994. Author, scholar, and photographer, Blake McKendry leaves a significant cultural legacy, particularly in his books on Canadian art and folk art. He assisted museums and art galleries in acquiring historic Canadian paintings and sculptures, and was a recognized appraiser and consultant on Canadian art and antiques. Moreover, he and Ruth assembled an impressive private collection of Canadian folk art, antiques, and reference books. As a photographer, Blake executed the photography for some 13 books and journals, such as Ruth McKendry's "Quilts and Other Bed Coverings in the Canadian Tradition" (1979), Ralph and Patricia Price's "'Twas Ever Thus" (1979), Gerald Stevens's "Glass in Canada" (1982) and Edith Fowke's "The Penguin Book of Canadian Folk Songs" (1986).

Blake McKendry's own publications include several articles in professional journals, as well as such books as Folk Art: Primitive and Naïve Art in Canada (1983), A Dictionary of Folk Artists in Canada from the 17th Century to the Present (1988), A to Z of Canadian Art, Artists & Art Terms (1997), An Illustrated Companion to Canadian Folk Art (1999), The New A to Z of Canadian Art (2001), and Key Dates in Canadian Art (with Jennifer McKendry, 2001). He continued to write into his eighties.

Always open to fresh ideas and interested in new technologies such as computers, Blake had a lively mind and was a source of inspiration to a younger generation of antique and art collectors. Blake and Ruth's collection of early Ontario furnishings was dispersed by auction on 21 and 22 November. He would have been pleased by the close attention paid by bidders to the artifacts' provenances and original finishes and by the zeal with which his beloved books - numbering more than 2000 - were acquired.

On 30 October 2003, Blake Ault McKendry, a loyal member and benefactor of KHS, passed away at Trillium Ridge Centre, Kingston at the age of 84. Blake McKendry is survived by his wife, Ruth, his children, Jennifer of Kingston and David of Ottawa, daughter-in-law, Nancy, and grandsons, John, Ian, and Martin.

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André Scheinman, a Heritage Preservation Consultant, was born in Toronto in 1952. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto (B.A.) and U. of T’s Faculty of Education (B.Ed.). Growing up with a deep love of nature/wilderness he worked as a canoe guide for a camp in Algonquin Park from 1971 – 1975 and also traveled extensively throughout the world during that period. Writing poetry from an early age, his work was included in an anthology of Toronto poets published by House of Anansi Press (T.O. Now,1969).

Deepening interest in historic/traditional structures and built-form, and, what is now often referred to as cultural landscapes led to enrollment in 1978 in an innovative program developed by the federal government (using the campus/facilities of St. Lawrence College, Brockville) which was designed to produce graduates with the range of interdisciplinary skills and understanding of the underlying principles to responsibly preserve our historic sites and built heritage. In 1980, upon graduation, André received the first annual Association of Preservation Technology (APT, now APTI) Award of Excellence for Student Achievement in a North American University or College preservation program.

Having worked as a professional consultant in the preservation of heritage sites, structures and cultural heritage landscapes for almost 30 years André has undertaken a wide range of projects including many national historic sites. André is a founding member of the Canadian Association of Heritage Preservation Consultants (now CAHP), and is a twenty-nine year member of both the Association for Preservation Technology (APT) and the International Committee on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS). He was honoured by ICOMOS in 1998 for his contribution to international conservation in reference to his involvement with the international delegation (1988) to the then Soviet Union toward the conservation of the World Heritage Site at Kisi.

Elgin Ross Simpson Hall was a Queen's University graduate (Arts '28). He also graduated with an MSc in zoology from the University of Michigan in 1929. By profession, he was a high school teacher in Kenora, Ontario from 1931-1955and then taught at Lively High School until his retirement in 1965. Upon retirement Mr. Hall undertook to travel the world, and circled the globe three times before his death in 1980.

Robert Gage was born in Coleraine, Ireland in or around 1841. He emigrated to Canada in 1852. It is not known where he originally settled but his name appears in the Kingston directory in 1871. Robert Gage produced at least 72 architectural projects from 1870 to 1888 while living in Kingston, Ontario. His best known commission was the Royal Military College in Kingston. He was an architect of all manner of buildings including private dwellings, public buildings, churches and the Hospital for the Insane in Kingston. He left Kingston ca. 1889 and then became a successful architect-engineer who worked in the California desert constructing irrigation canals.

Operation Dismantle, founded in 1977 by T. James Stark and Peter Brown, was a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization whose goal was to bring the pressure of international public opinion to bear on national governments to negotiate an end to the nuclear arms race. Subsequent to its founding, branches were set up all over Canada, including Kingston, Ontario, in 1983. It Canadian headquarters was located in Ottawa. A principal project has been a UN-sponsored world referendum on disarmament, which the organization believed would be the best way to provide governments with a sufficiently powerful mandate. Dismantle had some 10,000 members and supporters; funding was provided by donations and membership fees. Operation Dismantle in Canada pioneered the idea of municipal referenda on disarmament; the campaign led to 195 votes in municipal campaigns, with the results 76.2% in favour. In 1983, it led a coalition to stop the testing of the Cruise missile over Canadian territory. In 1985 the case went to the Supreme Court, which ruled that Operation Dismantle had insufficient grounds, under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, to argue in court the merits of an injunction on Cruise missile testing. The organization led a campaign during the 1984 federal election to make a nuclear freeze an election issue. The organization was disbanded in 1989.

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Francis Callaghan was born in, or around, 1906, and lived in Winnipeg, Manitoba.