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Gail Fox, author, was born in Willimantic, Connecticut, in February, 1942. Her early years were spent in Connecticut and upper New York State. She studied music and history from 1959, receiving the B.A. degree in history in 1963. Ms. Fox came to Kingston in 1967 and it was then that she began her serious writing career.Her publications include Dangerous Season (1969), The Royal Collector of Dreams (1970), The Ringmaster's Circus (1973), and Flight of the Pterodactyl (1973). She has read her poetry at the National Arts Centre, Ottawa and at various universities and colleges. She currently resides in New Brunswick.

George Jacobs Low, Clergyman and author, was born in 1836 at Almonte, Ontario. Low was rector of St. Paul's Church in Almonte amd later was rector of Trinity Church in Billings Bride. He was also Canon of Christ Church Cathedral in Ottawa. Low received his Bachelor of Divinity from Trinity College. He also received an honorary D.D degree from Queen's in 1898. He died in 1906.

Charles Mair was born in the little lumbering village of Lanark, Upper Canada in 1838. He attended Queen's University in the Faculty of Arts during 1856 and 1857 but left his studies to participate in his family's lumbering business. In the mid-1860s he began to correspond with Dr. (later Sir) John Christian Schultz who had established himself at Fort Garry in the Northwest Territories. In 1867 Mair returned to Queen's where he studied medicine for one year before joining Schultz in 1868. In 1870 Mair was taken prisoner by Riel and sentenced to be shot. He escaped and , with his wife, fled to Portage la Prairie. For the rest of the century Mair was a merchant in both Ontario and Prince Albert In 1898 he entered the service of the Immigration Department where he remained until he was superannuated in 1921. He died in Victoria in 1927.

Throughout his life Mair was also an author. He published his first volume of poetry, Dreamland, in 1868 and his most famous work, Tecumseh a drama, appeared in 1886. A published paper, The American Bison, was instrumental in causing the Canadian government to take action to preserve the species.

Waldo Edward Lovel Smith was born in 1901 at Toronto, Ontario. He graduated in Arts from Victoria College, University of Toronto in 1923. Three years later he received his Master of Arts degree from the same university. In 1926, he graduated in Theology from Victoria-Knox College, Toronto, and was ordained as a minister of the United Church of Canada. He taught History, French, and German in Albert College in Belleville, 1926-1927 and 1931-1933. From 1927 until 1931, he was engaged in graduate studies at the University of Chicago, St. Andrew's University, the University of London, and the University of Edinburgh. In 1931, he received a Doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh. Dr. Smith served two pastoral charges of the United Church of Canada in the period from 1933 until 1947 -- Selby (1933-1938) and Grafton (1938-1947). During a leave of absence from 1940 until 1945, he served as Chaplin in the first Canadian Armoured Brigade in Canada, England and Italy. For his services, Dr. Smith was awarded the Military Cross. In 1947, Dr. Smith was appointed to the Chair of Church History at the Queen's Theological College. He was concurrently an Associate Professor, Department of History, Queen's University. He retired in 1969. Dr Smith passed away in 1995.

Homer Ransford Watson was born in 1885 in Doon, Canada West. He became known as the painter of pioneer life in Ontario. From 1918 to 1922 he was president of the Royal Canadian Academy of Art. He died in 1936.

A. Brown and Company was a millinery company in Watford, Ontario.

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J.H. Allan was a farmer and retailer in Picton, Ontario.

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Mary Richard Anglin was Secretary to the Principal, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, 1919-1951.