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Principal of Queen's University, Kingston, Ont.

John McIntyre, QC, was a barrister and solicitor in Kingston, Ontario. He and Donald M. McIntyre were partners of McIntyre and M'Intyre. John died in 1916.

William Lyon Mackenzie, journalist and politician, was born in 1795, at Dundee, Scotland. Mackenzie arrived in Upper Canada from Scotland in 1820. He began his newspaper, the Colonial Advocate, in Queenston in 1824. He moved to York in 1824 and was elected to the Assembly in 1828. Mackenzie's harsh criticism of the Family Compact, a small group of men who controlled the colony, gained him a large following among the people. Friends of the Family Compact retaliated with threats and legal action. In 1834 York became the city of Toronto and Mackenzie became its first mayor. By this time Mackenzie's views had become more extreme. In 1837 he led a rag-tag group of rebels down Yonge Street. Only a few shots were fired and the rebels scattered. Mackenzie evaded capture and fled to the United States. He tried unsuccessfully to organize a new scheme from Navy Island on the Niagara River. He was put in prison by the Americans. After his release he worked as a journalist in the United States and wrote several books. Mackenzie was pardoned and he returned to Canada in 1849. He resumed his career as a journalist and was again elected as an MLA. He kept up his fiery criticism until his death in 1861 at Toronto. Mackenzie's grandson, William Lyon Mackenzie King, became prime minister of Canada.

The son of Robert and Mary McLaughlin of the village of Enniskillen, located north of Bowmanville, Ontario, Robert Samuel McLaughlin was the founder of the McLaughlin Carriage Company of Oshawa.

Pvt. F.M. McNaughton was a soldier from Montreal, Quebec.

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John Ross Matheson was born in 1917 at Arundel, Quebec. He was educated at Queen's University, Osgoode Hall Law School and the University of Western Ontario (B.A., L.L.M.). He served overseas from 1940 to 1944. After the war he established a law practice at Brockville, Ontario. In 1961 he was elected to the House of Commons for Leeds and was subsequently re-elected in 1962, 1963, and 1965. In 1964 he played a major role in the design and acceptance of the Maple Leaf Flag and from 1966 he served as parliamentary secretary to the Prime Minister. On his defeat in the 1968 election he returned to his law practice and thereafter was appointed a judge in Carleton County Court, Ottawa. Judge Matheson passed away in Kingston on December 27 2013.

The Bowmanville Merchant, a weekly newspaper, was established in 1869. Rev. C. Barker was the editor and publisher. The paper was published on Friday and a subscription was 75 cents.

George Merkley was a professor and author from North Williamsburg, Ontario.

The Midland District School Society was established for "the educational and moral improvement of the poor." An Act to incorporate the Midland District School Society of Kingston was passed March 14, 1815. The first members of the Society were Cartwright, Herchmer, Geddes, Markland, Smith, Bartlett, and Reverend George O'Kill Stuart. Later members included R.D. Cartwright, John Machar, the Honourable John Kirby, Thomas Markland, Benjamin Alcott, George Smith, William Stoughton, Alexander Pringle, and Stephen Miles. The Society received some aid from the government and some from an English society established to promote the education of the poor in Canada. Other money was raised by subscription. The first school opened in 1818 and was organized as aa Lancastrian school. After free schools were established there was no longer any need for the Society's schools. In 1882 the Society surrendered its powers of establishing schools to the Public School Board. In 1884 it sold its schools and from that time on gave grants to organizations devoted to the welfare of poor children.

The Midland District School Society dissolved in 2009.