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George Bayly was a soldier in the Canadian Army during World War I.

Gladys Lehigh is the daughter of Malcolm Stanley Lehigh.

Malcolm Stanley Lehigh was a Methodist/United Church minister in Picton, Ontario.

Chief William Sepass (K'HHalserten) was the last of the great orators; a storyteller, a philosopher and a spiritual person, carefully selected and trained as a young boy to carry the traditional teachings of his culture, the knowledge of his lands, and the stories and songs of the beginning of the world and how the lands were shaped by the emotions and adventures of mankind upon the earth. He was born at Kettle Falls, Washington but migrated with his tribe into the Chilliwack and Fraser Canyon area of British Columbia after an epidemic. He was leader of what is now known as the Skowkale First Nation or Chilliwack tribe.

The Department of Indian Affairs encouraged Sepass to act as a spokesman for the Indigenous peoples, which included representing the Stó:lo people to the 1913 Royal Commission over land claims. Sepass was a skilled canoe-maker and hunter famous for his speaking ability. He was also a dairy farmer and part of the Native Farmers Association. Surviving the devastating effects of western diseases, witnessing the influx of European settlers, two world wars, the automobile, the iron lung, telephone, running water and the Indian residential schools, Chief Sepass witnessed the demise of his culture and language. He knew that these teachings would not survive in their original oral tradition.

He saw the different priests of the newly formed churches come and go, but they always read from the same book. He noticed these stories from the Bible being given great respect and ceremony. It was this method (a written form) that Chief Sepass saw as the only way to save these priceless poems for his people; that knowing them, his people would remember their greatness for all time.

These stories, widely heard at the annual summer sun ceremonies and gatherings, were always told in the Coast Salish language. Over four years (1911-1915), they were meticulously translated, recited and recorded and transcribed in English, with the assistance of Sophia Jane White, the daughter of a Wesleyan Methodist missionary.

Eloise (Sophia) White Street, the daughter of a missionary in the Wesleyan Methodist Church, had been raised with Halq'emeylem nannies, becoming fluent in the Halkomelem language. She worked with Chief William Sepass (K'HHalserten) to transcribe and translate traditional Coast Salish songs from Halkomelem to English for publication. She understood the importance of adhering to the original rhythm and cadence of the 16 ancient songs.

Ebenezar Washburn, a merchant, politician, justice of the peace, and office holder, was born 8 April 1756 in Attleborough (Attleboro), Mass. The son of Simeon Washburn and Jemimah Gary, he married Sarah De Forest, and they had nine children. Upon the death of Sarah, he married Hannah McBride, a widow, in York (Toronto) on 24 Jan. 1803. Washburn died 12 Nov. 1826 in Hallowell (Picton), Upper Canada.

John Garvin was a prolific editor and published numerous literary anthologies.

Katherine Hale is the pen name for Amelia Beers Warnock. Born in Galt, Ontario, educated in Toronto and trained as a soprano in New York and Europe, she toured as a singer and published fiction and poetry. She wrote on contemporary literature for the Mail and Empire (Toronto) and lectured on Canadian Literature. In 1912, she married John Garvin. She was president of the Ontario branch of the Canadian Authors' Association, the Candian Women's Press Club and the Women's Canadian Club.

Born at Ottawa, Ontario on 21 May 1926, son of Alice and Douglas MacKay, he was raised in Winnipeg and attended St. John’s-Ravenscourt School and the University of Manitoba. He worked as a newspaper reporter for the Winnipeg Tribune, Canadian Press, and the Winnipeg Free Press, later serving as a correspondent for the Free Press in Ottawa and Washington, DC. In 1951 he was the first Canadian awarded a Nieman Fellowship to Harvard University. From 1954 to 1959 he was Managing Editor of the Reader’s Digest Canadian Edition, at Montreal, then was Executive Editor of the Winnipeg Free Press from 1959 to 1967. In the latter year he became Vice-President of the International Nickel Company of Canada, at Toronto, retiring in 1982. He died at Winnipeg on 21 December 2001.

Wilfred Sutton Jobbins was born in Melita, Manitoba on November 22, 1915. He graduated from Queen's University and wartime RCCS officers`training in 1941. Jobbins joined the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) in 1947 in Vancouver and represented the organization for 34 years in various parts of Canada, South America and Europe. His most senior position at the NFB was Director of Distribution at the Montreal head office, having previously served in the posts of Director of Commercial Distribution, Assistant-Director of the International Division, as serving as the Board representative in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He retired with his wife, Honora to Mallorytown, Ontario. Later, Wilf and Honora moved to Kingston where he was President of Queen's University Institute for Lifelong Learning. Jobbins passed away in Kingston, Ontario on Sunday, August 9, 2009.