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Heather Burles, an author and software engineer, was born in 1957, and grew up near Cowley, Alberta. She obtained her BA in Languages and Linguistics from Queen's University in 1985, and her M.Sc. in Computing in 1988.

Samuel Lionel "Roxy" Rothafel (July 9, 1882 – January 13, 1936) was an American theatrical impresario and entrepreneur. He is noted for developing the lavish presentation of silent films in the deluxe movie palace theaters of the 1910s and 1920s.

Rothafel (originally Rothapfel) was born in Bromberg, Province of Posen, Prussia, Germany (now Bydgoszcz, Poland), the son of Cecelia (née Schwerzens) and Gustav Rothapfel. In 1886, at the age of three, with his mother, he boarded the SS Rugia, sailing from Hamburg, and then arriving at the Port of New York, May 24, 1886, before moving to Stillwater, Minnesota. Best known by his nickname, "Roxy", he was the impresario who brought the great New York City movie palaces that he managed to fame and popular success.

He began his show business career in Forest City, Pennsylvania, where he created the "Family Theater", a combination cinema and skating rink. In 1912 he came to New York City, where he would achieve his greatest successes. In New York at different times he managed and produced shows at the Regent, Strand, Rialto, Rivoli, and Capitol theaters.

His greatest achievement was his eponymous Roxy Theatre at Times Square which opened March 11, 1927. He later opened the Radio City Music Hall and the RKO Roxy (later the Center Theatre) in 1932, his last theatrical project. The Music Hall featured the precision dance troupe the Roxyettes (later renamed The Rockettes), which Rothafel brought with him from the Roxy Theatre.

Rothafel also made a name for himself on network radio, where he began broadcasting in mid-November 1922. Through 1925, live broadcasts of his weekly variety show Roxy and His Gang from the Capitol Theatre in New York became increasingly popular. One estimate from 1924 placed his typical radio audience at about five million listeners, and he was said to receive thousands of pieces of fan mail weekly. After Rothafel left the Capitol, his radio show, now known as The Roxy Hour, was broadcast from the new Roxy Theatre on the NBC Blue network from 1927 to 1932

Rothafel has been credited with many movie presentation innovations, including synchronizing orchestral music to movies (in the silent film era) and having multiple projectors to effect seamless reel changes.

Rothafel had health issues in his later life, mainly angina pectoris. He died of a heart attack in his sleep on January 13, 1936 in New York City aged 53. He is buried in Linden Hill Jewish cemetery in Queens, New York.

He was married to Rosa (Freedman), with whom he had a son, Arthur Ingram Rothafel, and a daughter, Beta Rothafel.

Alfred Edward Lavell was born in Kingston in 1870 to Michael Lavell, M.D. and Betsy Reeve Lavell. He was educated at Queen's University and Victoria University, Toronto where he obtained a B.A. and D.D. In 1897 he married Laura Ethel Gillespie of St. Catherines, Ontario. They had two daughters. From 1916 to 1919 he served in World War I. He was appointed Parole Commissioner in 1919 and Provincial Historian in 1932. He was the author of The Convicted Criminal and His Reestablishment, A History of the Ontario Hospitals for the Insane and Mentally Defective, and A History of Penal and Reformatory Institutions in Upper Canada, 1792-1932. He was for eight years a member of the Board of Regents, Victoria University. He died in 1951.

Dr. George T. Ewan was a professor (emeritus) of Subatomic Physics and Particle Astrophysics at Queen's University. Dr. Ewan earned his BSc in Physics in 1948, and his PhD Nuclear Physics in 1952, both from the University of Edinburgh. He was a founding member of the SNO collaboration and the joint-leader of the project with H.C. Chen, University of California at Irvine. He served in this position during the preparation of the proposal and until funding was received in January 1990. He was Chairman of the SNO Management Committee from 1990 to 1999.
His earlier work before SNO involved the development of Ge(Li) detectors at Chalk River with A.J. Tavendale for which they received the Radiation Industry award of the American Nuclear Society. He also built with R.L. Graham and J.S. Geiger the world's highest resolution beta-ray spectrometer. He has published more than 100 scientific papers. Dr. Ewan passed away in Kingston on December 7 2020.

David Pulver studied at the London School of Film Technique. In the 1960s he lived and worked as a TV and film commercials producer in London, England. In 1977 he was the first manager of the National Film Theatre (Princess Court Cinemas) in Kingston, Ontario. He went on to become the entertainment editor of the Kingston Whig-Standard in the 1980s and and editorial writer in the early 1990s writing on topics on science, health and the environment. He was a member of the Eastern Ontario Film Co-op as well as a peace and anti-cruise missile activist.

Walter Travers was a salesman in Kingston, Ontario.

Bill Fritz was born in Ferrybank, Alberta on August 14, 1914. While attending Walkerville Collegiate, Fritz set several WSSA, WOSSA, and Ontario records. His 1931 440-yard time of 52.6 seconds was unbroken at the WSSA Intermediate level until 1953. The following year, Fritz set two WSSA Senior records. His 22.4-second 220-yard time lasted until 1975, and his 50.2-second 440-yard time, bettering his Junior record, held until 1965. At the 1932 WOSSA meet, Fritz ran the 440-yard dash in 50 seconds flat, setting a Canadian Inter-Scholastic record.

Fritz went on to study at Queen’s University, where he won eight intercollegiate championships in the 220 and 440-yard races. He was the ninth winner of the Jenkins Trophy, one of the university’s oldest ongoing honours. The prestigious trophy is awarded annually to the school’s most outstanding well-rounded scholar-athlete. During his racing career, Fritz is known to have trained through the winter in Kingston’s snowdrifts. This harsh regimen is said to have propelled him to starring performances against the world’s best at indoor meets in New York and at the Boston Millrose Games.

In 1933, at the age of 23, Fritz contributed to Canadian record in the mile relay that was not broken until ’47. Fritz, Art Scott, Glenn Sherman, and Ray Lauzon combined to set the mark while racing for the Windsor Olympic Club under coach Hec Phillips. Fritz achieved international recognition at the 1934 British Empire Games (now the Commonwealth Games) in London, England. Two years later, at the Berlin Olympics, Fritz finished fifth in the 400-metre final. As part of the Canadian mile relay team, Fritz won a gold medal at the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney, Australia. Bill Fritz passed away on October 14, 1995 in London, Ontario.

Herbert Stone McDonald, the son of John McDonald of Gananoque, was a lawyer and an MPP for South Leeds. He graduated from Queen's University with a BA in 1959, and MA in 1861. He married Emma Matilda "Tillie" Jones in 1864, and had two children, Katherine and John. He was called to the bar in 1863, and practiced law in Brockville, Ontario. He served on Brockville Town Council from 1870 to 1871, and was elected MPP for South Leeds in 1871-1874. He left this post to become a judge for the county court of Leeds and Grenville in October 1873. After Tillie passed away in 1908, he remarried in 1919. McDonald passed away in 1921.