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Colin Alexander Campbell was born at Sheddon, Ontario, on January 17, 1901. After attending Queen's University he became a mining engineer and worked in, and managed, a number of mines from 1921 to 1934. From 1934 to 1937 and, later, from 1946 to about 1970 he was engaged in consulting practice. In 1939 Campbell enlisted as Second Lieutenant with the Royal Canadian Engineers, attaining the final rank of Brigadier-General in 1968. His wartime service brought him four awards - Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.) in 1943, Mentioned in Despatches (M.I.D.) in 1944, Companion of the Distinguished Service Order (D.S.O.) in 1945, and the Legion of Merit, U.S.A. in 1945.

Brigadier-General Campbell was also active politically and in 1934 was elected to the House of Commons for the riding of Frontenac-Addington where he served until 1937 when he resigned his seat in the House of Commons to contest the riding of Addington in the Ontario general election. He was defeated but later in the year was elected by acclamation in the Sault Ste. Marie by-election. He was then appointed Minister of Public Works, a position he held until 1941. He was defeated in the riding of Sault Ste. Marie in 1943. Following the war, Brigadeer Campbell remained active in Liberal Party work, concentrating on fund-raising for both the federal and provincial Liberal Perties. He died in 1978.

William Wilfred Campbell was born in Newmarket, Ontario in 1861. He grew up in Wiarton and attended high school in Owen Sound before carrying on his studies at University College, in 1881-82 (where he wrote for the student newspaper The Varsity) and Wycliffe College in 1882-83, at the University of Toronto. Campbell then went to study at the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He married Mary Dibble of Woodstock, Ontario, in 1884, and worked as rector of the congregations of West Claremont, New Hampshire, and St. Stephen, New Brunswick. His first two volumes of verse were written during this time: Sunshine and Snowflakes (1888) and Lake Lyrics (1889). Campbell abandoned the ministry in 1892 after having accepted a position in the office of the Secretary of State in Ottawa. From 1909 on he worked in the Dominion Archives. He contributed to the "Mermaid Inn" literary columns in the Toronto Globe in the early 1890s, and he was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1892. He published volumes of verse and verse drama regularly and later in life took an interest in Canada's involvement in World War I, his son Basil serving as a major in the second Canadian Pioneer Battalion in September 1914. Wilfred Campbell died in Ottawa in 1918.

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The origin of Canada Steamship Lines lies with the Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Company, founded in 1845. One of the largest fleets existing in Canada in the nineteenth century, the company prospered, expanding to eighteen vessels operating between Toronto and Quebec.

In 1912-1913, the Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Company, Canada Interlake Lines, Ontario and Quebec Navigation Company, Lake Ontario and Bay of Quinte Steamboat Company, the Quebec Steamship Company, the Inland Lines and the Wolvin Lines came together under the leadership of Messrs. Anglin, Wolvin, Norcross and Enderby resulting in a mixed fleet of passemger ships and freighters which included such well-known vessels as the Noronic, Toiler and Turbinia. A peaceful corporate adjustment to the merger was not to be. Just one year after its formation participation in World War I cost the firm sixteen ships.

Under the stewardship of W.H. Coverdale, the firm regrouped after the war and was revitalized by the acquisition of both the Montreal Transportation Company and the Davie Shipbuilding and Repair Company and in 1925-1926 the Playfair company and the vessels of George Hall Shipping Ltd. were also acquired, creating a world-class fleet. By 1927 the CSL fleet consisted of 115 ships including twenty-three passenger vessels. The corporation then changed direction and abandoned ocean trade in favor of concentration on lake shipping. Many of the company's vessels and personnel were retired as a result of the Depression and throughout World War II the company lost six of its fleet. The War, however, also allowed the firm an expanding role in shipping iron ore from upper Lake Superior to to the steel mills and munition plants of central Canada and the United States.

After the war the company's passenger service was discontinued in favor of a concentration on freight alone. Under the leadership of T.R. McLagan, an engineer, a major fleet overhaul was begun, with an emphasis on technical innovation and efficiency rather than fleet expansion. With the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway in 1959, this technological refit was given new impetus and a twenty year building program was begun. Under the aegis of Power Corporation (1975) and L.R. Desmarais innovation continued to be the company's hallmark. In 1981 Power Corporation sold CSL to Paul Martin Jr., who consolidated his holdings in 1988 as Paul Martin Passage Holdings.Today CSL is one of the world's leading inland shippers.

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The Canadian Political Science Association was founded in 1913, to encourage and develop political science and its relationship with other disciplines, and was incorporated under the Canada Corporation Act in 1971. The Association has an elected Board of Directors, nominations to which are received by an appointed Nominating Committee. The Executive is made up of a President, President-Elect, Past-President, Secretary-Treasurer, as well as a representative of the members-at-large elected by the Board. The Association has a permanent Secretariat currently housed in Ottawa. Among affiliations the Association is a member of the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada, the International Political Science Association and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

Bliss Carman was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, in 1861. He was educated at the University of New Brunswick (B.A. 1881; M.A. 1883; LL.D. 1906) and later studied at Edinburgh and Harvard Universities. In 1890 Carman went to New York to work as a journalist. He became an editorial writer for a religious weekly, the Independent, and then wrote for various literary magazines. From 1895 to 1900 he contributed a weekly literary column to the Boston Transcript. In 1925 he was elected corresponding member of the Royal Society of Canada, and in the same year was awarded the Lorne Pierce medal by the Society for distinguished service to literature. The medal of the Poetry Society of America was awarded posthumously. In his later years he was acclaimed Canada's "poet laureate". In addition to writing poetry, Carman was also the author of several volumes of essays. He died in New Canaan, Connecticut in 1929.

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