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Born at Kingston in 1869, William Folger Nickle was privately tutored, attending Kingston Collegiate Institute, Queen's University, and Osgoode Hall. He was called to the Ontario bar in 1895 (K.C. 1898) and practiced law in Kingston. He was the Director of the Kingston, Portsmouth and Cataraqui Electric Railway Company, President of the Frontenac Loan and Investment Society, and Alderman of Kingston, 1905-09. He was an M.L.A. 1908-11 and 1922-26, M.P., 1911-19, and Attorney-General of Ontario, 1923-26. He was also Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Queen's University, 1921-31. He died in 1957.

Joseph Northmore was a grocer and baker in Cataraqui, Ontario.

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By the terms of the British North America Act (now the Constitution Act) of 1867, both the Department of Crown Lands and the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Province of Canada, as outlined in the "Act respecting the sale and management of Public Lands" of 1860, were continued as the Department of Crown Lands and the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Province of Ontario. Although the primary responsibility of the Department was the sale and management of public lands and the granting of land to settlers, it was also responsible for the mines, woods and forests of the province. In 1891, a Bureau of Mines, under a director, was established and attached to the Department. By 1895, a Bureau of Forestry, under the direction of the Clerk of Forestry (formerly responsible to the Commissioner of Agriculture and Arts), was also created and attached to the Department of Crown Lands. Immigration also came under the authority of the Department of Crown Lands in 1900, when the Bureau of Colonization was established. In 1905, legislation was passed which renamed the Commissioner of Crown Lands, the Minister of Lands and Mines. With this change, the Department of Crown Lands was also renamed the Department of Lands and Mines.

The land registry system was set up in Upper Canada under John Graves Simcoe through An Act for the Public Registering of Deeds, Conveyances, Wills and Other Incumbrances which shall be made or may affect any Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments within the Province (35 Geo.III c.5, 37 Geo.III c.8, and 58 Geo.III c.3) in 1795. A subsequent revision to these acts through An Act to Consolidate and Amend the Registry Laws of that part of this Province which was formerly Upper Canada (9 Vic. c.34) required the establishment of separate registers for each village, township, town and city.

Merchant and politician, Philipsville, Ont.

Fur trapper, Biscotasing, Ont.

The waters of the St. Lawrence River have long served Canada as a great artery of commerce, but after the coming of the railroad, the river also became a barrier to east-west transportation at the river's two principal Quebec ports. Montreal solved the problem in 1859 with the Victoria Bridge, leaving its downriver commercial rival, the city of Quebec, at a severe disadvantage. Quebec eagerly sought a bridge of its own. There were several proposals for great suspension or cantilever bridges, but nothing came of them until formation of the Quebec Bridge Company in 1887. By 1890 the company had contracted with the Phoenix Bridge Company of Pennyslvania to build a cantilever bridge with a main span of 1800 feet that would have eclipsed Scotland's Firth of Forth bridge as the longest cantilever span in the world. By Summer 1907 the structure was well advanced, with the cantilever arms projected out from both shores of the river, when a disastrous failure of the south arm plunged 76 workmen to their deaths. A Royal Commission attributed the failure to defective design and errors in judgment by the engineers. A year later the Canadian government appointed a board of engineers to try again, chief among them the noted American bridge designer Ralph Modjeski. Work began on the new bridge in 1909 and was nearing completion seven years later when disaster struck again. The 5000-ton center span was being lifted into place when a bearing failed, allowing the span to fall into the river. This time, 13 workers were killed. A year later a new span was successfully lifted into place, and in October 1917 the first train crossed the great bridge. The bridge has stood firmly astride the St. Lawrence ever since, helping to link the Maritime Provinces and eastern Quebec with the rest of Canada. The record its builders set in 1917 still stands, for the Quebec Bridge remains the longest railroad cantilever span ever built (overall length 987 metres, width 29 metres, height 103 metres). The Quebec Bridge was declared a historic monument in 1987, by the Canadian & American Society of Civil Engineers and a National Historic Site on January 24, 1996 by the Department of Canadian Heritage.

Dr. George Alexander Rawlyk, a prominent Canadian religious historian, was born in 1935 in Thorold, Ontario and died on 23 November 1995 in Ottawa, Ontario. He was educated at McMaster University (B.A., 1957), Rhodes Scholar at Oxford (1957), and the University of Rochester (M.A., 1962, and Ph.D., 1966). From 1959-1961, Dr. Rawlyk lectured in History at Mount Allison University, and then was Assistant Professor at Dalhousie University from 1961 to 1966. From 1966 until his death, he was at Queen's University at Kingston (Associate Professor 1966-1969, and Professor after 1969). He was Chairman of the Department of History from 1976 to 1985. Throughout the years, he was Visiting Professor at Michigan State University, the University of Prince Edward Island and McGill University, Acadia University, and the University of New Brunswick. He was also Scholar in Residence at Harvard University, and at Cushwa Centre, Notre Dame University. Dr. Rawlyk held several positions on the Canadian Historical Association. He has also been a Council Member of the Champlain Society and a member of the Editorial Board of Acadiensis. He was also Chairman, Board of Directors, of the McGill-Queen's University Press from 1983-1984, and 1985-1986. He was Chair and President, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994-1995. He was the author of about thirty books as well as numerous articles in edited works and scholarly journals in Canada and the United States. Dr. Rawlyk's writing included research for the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism and the Task Force on Canadian Unity. He was also heavily involved in the 1993 Angus Reid Poll on Religious life in Canada.

The Rideau 150 Citizen's Committee was established in May 1980 in collaboration with Parks Canada to prepare events in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Rideau Canal. . Patrick Watson and Cameron Graham were national co-chairmen, with regional chairs in the Northern Area (Georges Bédard), Central Area (F.C.L. Wyght) and Southern Area (Neil A. Patterson) of the Rideau Canal. The Central and Southern Areas also had vice-chairpersons for various cities and municipalities along the canal. The Southern Area extended from Narrows to Kingston.