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Dr. Janet Patricia Bews was born on December 18 1938. She was an adjunct professor in the Department of Classics at Queen's University. Dr. Bews received her B.A (Honours) from Queen's, followed by her M.A from King's College University of London, and her PhD from Royal Holloway College University of London. Her teaching specialties were in Latin and Classical Literature. In addition to her teaching career at Queen's, she also was a professor in the Department of Classical Studies at Trent University.

Margaret (Maisie) Helen Inverarity Stickland Saunders, was born in 1898, and died in Ottawa in 1985. In June of 1918, Maisie and Louis Farquhar Strickland married in Edinburgh Scotland. They had one child. Inverarity and Strickland divorced in 1925 after Maisie had returned to Scotland. Maisie then married William Eric Pentland Saunders in 1926. She was a pioneering aviator, having been within the first fifty women to receive a Royal Aero Club certificate in 1929.

Dr. Marguerite Van Die is a professor emerita of History and Religion at Queen’s University. She received her M.A and PhD in History from the University of Western Ontario, and was hired as a professor in a joint appointment with the Queen’s Theological College and the Queen’s Department of History, specifically in the area of 19th century religious history. Dr. Van Die’s research interest has revolved around religion and society, with books about The Colbys of Carrollcroft and Nathanael Burwash and the Methodist tradition. She has also studied the history of spirituality and social change.

Dr. Susan Dick was a professor emerita at Queen’s University and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Born in Michigan, she earned her doctorate at Northwestern University in Chicago. At Northwestern under the leadership of Richard Ellmann, she edited an annotated variorum edition of George Moore’s autobiographical novel “Confessions of a Young Man”. She joined the English Department at Queen’s University in 1967. Dr. Susan Dick is considered one of the most distinguished Virginia Woolf scholars of the twentieth century. She produced editions of Woolf’s novels, as well as numerous articles and an edition of Woolf’s short stories, such as an edited transcription of the holograph of To the Lighthouse in 1982, The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf in 1985 and 1989, and Between the Acts in 2002.

Judith Brown, nee Wellman, was born in Bermuda in 1943. Brown attended Teacher's College in Ottawa in the 1960s after which she returned to Bermuda where she took extension courses from Queen's University. In 1968 she moved to Kingston to fulfill a requirement of having to spend at least one year on campus for the granting of a Bachelor of Arts degree. (BA 1969). Upon graduation Brown stayed in Kingston where she started her professional teaching career. She has served as the Acting Superintendent of education at the Women's Penitentiary, worked at Beechgrove and Ongwanada, and for many years as a primary grades teacher with the Limestone District School Board (LDSB). In her retirement from active teaching, Judith Brown continued to teach in a number of international locations: China, Egypt and Bermuda. She also ran, and was elected as a Trustee on the LDSB.

Judith Brown has always been an active community builder. She was a member, and past president of both the Canadian Federation of University Women and Frontenac PROBUS. She is also a founder of the Afro-Caribe Community Foundation of Kingston. The foundation raises funds for the Robert Sutherland Bursary and Alfie Pierce Admission Award at Queen’s University. She has long served as a mentor to members of black student groups on campus such as Queen’s Black Academic Society and the African and Caribbean Students’ Association and has played an active role in the celebration of Black History Month events on campus and in the community. Judith was the 2019 recipient of the Jim Bennett Award from the Kingston Branch of the Queen’s University Alumni Association for her role in advancing ethnic and racial inclusion and for being a long time champion for change in Kingston and at Queen’s. She is currently a member of University Council.

Jacalyn M. Duffin CM FRSC (born 1950) is a Canadian medical historian and hematologist. Duffin completed her MD from the University of Toronto. Soon after this, she moved to Paris, where she elected to study hematology and René Laennec at the Sorbonne. She completed her PhD in the History of Medicine in 1985, she then returned to Canada. She held the Hannah Chair, History of Medicine at Queen's University from 1988 until 2017. Formerly, she was President of the American Association for the History of Medicine and Canadian Society for the History of Medicine. From 1993–1995 she was Associate Dean Undergraduate Studies and Education at Queen's University. She is well known for her testimony which led to the canonization of Marie-Marguerite d'Youville. She has published twelve books (as author and editor) on the history of medicine and has written numerous articles on various subjects relating to the history of medicine, miracles, and hematology. In 2019, Duffin was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.

Sandra Gulland was born in Miami, Florida, Nov. 3, 1944. In 1952 her family moved and settled in her mother's hometown of Berkeley, California. Gulland graduated from Berkeley High in 1962 and went on to get a B.A. at San Francisco State College in 1965. Gulland moved to Canada in 1970 with her first husband, teaching in the northern community Nain in Eastern Labrador. Settling in Toronto in 1972, she remarried and worked as a typesetter, project editor for an educational book company, freelance editor, acquisitions editor and book editor before committing to being a full-time author in 1985. Five years later, she began writing the Josephine B. Trilogy, novels based on the life of Josephine Bonaparte. The trilogy, published in 1995, 1998, and 2000, has now been published in seventeen countries.

In 2008 Sandra published Mistress of the Sun which was on the Maclean's bestseller list for over one month in hardcover. Published in paperback in the spring of 2009, it also made the Globe & Mail Canadian bestseller list. It is published in both Canada and the U.S. as well as in several translated editions, including French and German. In 2014, her fifth historical novel, The Shadow Queen, was published by HarperCollins in Canada, and Doubleday in the US. Comprising many of the same characters as Mistress of the Sun, the two novels compose The Sun Court Duet.

In 2018, The Game of Hope, a young adult fiction novel about Josephine Bonaparte's daughter and Napoleon's stepdaughter was published by Penguin Teen in both Canada and the US.

Gulland has continued to offer editorial and writing services to educational, trade and children's book publishers through her Words & service.

Sandra and her husband divide the year between northern Ontario, and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

BARKER, EDWARD JOHN, doctor, publisher, and editor; b. 31 Dec. 1799 at Islington (now part of London), England, son of William Barker and Margaret Greenwood; m. first in 1821 Elizabeth Phillips (d. 1859), and they had 13 children; m. secondly 8 May 1868 Ellen Griffiths; d. 27 April 1884 at Barriefield, near Kingston, Ont.

Charles Schwier was part of Queen's University Arts Class 1971. He was involved in a number of student publications, such as the editorial board of the Journal and General Editor of the Tricolour. He was also co-editor of Who's Where. Charles was a talented amateur photographer, and a large number of his photographs ended up in the Journal and Tricolour. He was received the Tricolour Society award in 1973 for his work on these publications.

Enid (Goudge) Corbett was part of Queen's University Class of Arts 1962. She received her Honours B.A in Mathematics and Economics. Enid attended the math classes of Dr. Coleman and Dr. Halperin, who were well-known professors in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at that time.