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The United Empire Loyalist Butter and Cheese Company, Limted was founded in Adolphustown, Ontario, in 1897.

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Professor Walker (1907-1992) was born at Toronto. He received his B.A. from University College, University of Toronto in 1928. After a brief period as a Wall Street "Runner" Professor Walker returned to his studies, receiving an Honours B.A. in English in 1931 and a M.A. in 1943 from Selwyn College, Cambridge. From 1941 to 1944 he lectured at the Ordnance School, Barriefield, emerging with the rank of Major in the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps. In 1944 he joined the staff at Queen's University as an instructor in the English Department, where he remained until his retirement in 1972. While at Queen's he served as Commander of the Canadian Officers Training Corps, and was Queen's representative on the Military Studies Committee, National Confederation of Canadian Universities. He also worked closely with the Ontario Ministry of Education in the 1950s and 1960s concerning Grade XIII studies and examinations.

Robert Charles Wallace was born in Scotland in 1881. He was educated in Scotland graduating from Edinburgh University and taking a Ph. D. from Gottingen University. He was a Professor of Geology at the University of Manitoba from 1912 to 1928. From 1918 to 1921, he was a Commissioner of Northern Manitoba, and from 1926 to 1928 was a Commissioner of Mines and Natural Resources. That same year, he took overhe accepted the Presidency of the University of Alberta, a posiiton he held until 1936, at which time and until his retirement in 1951, he served as Principal of Queen's University. Dr. Wallace was a president of the Royal Society of Canada and of the National Conference of Canadian Universities. He was a member of the National Research Council of Canada, and a past president of the Research Council of Ontario. He was also an honorary member of the Royal Canadian Institute, and was the first Canadian member of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. In 1947, he was the only Canadian universtiy head selected by the Prime Minister to represent Canada at the London Conference that created UNESCO. In retirement, Dr. Wallace was Executive Director of the Arctic Institute of America, a consultnat to the Ontario Goverment on university problems, and a member of the Defence Research Board of Canada.
Dr. Robert Charles Wallace, died 29 January 1955, and is buried in the 'Queen's Plot' at Cataraqui Cemetery, Kingston, Ontario.

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Charlotte (Carlotte) Elizabeth Whitton was born in Renfrew, Ontario in 1896. She entered Queen's University in 1914 and graduated with an M.A. in 1917. Dr. Whitton followed a career in social work and politics. She was co-editor of Social Welfare and became first full-time Director of the Canadian Council on Child Welfare in 1926. In 1941 she gave up this post to write and act as consultant to both federal and provincial governments on social services and welfare. Dr. Whitton was elected controller of the City of Ottawa in 1950 and became the first woman mayor of a Canadian city in 1951. She served four terms as mayor and was active in city politics until 1972. Dr. Whitton received many honours during her lifetime, among them: Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1934); the Service Medal of the Order of Canada (1967); honourary doctorates from such institutions as King's College, Halifax (1939) and Smith College, Mass. (1955). She died in Ottawa in 1975.

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Dr. James Williamson was born in Edinburgh in 1806. He studied at Edinburgh University from 1822 to 1829, and came to Queen's University in 1842, holding the Chair of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. Williamson remained at Queen's until his death in 1895. Williamson married first the daughter of John Gilchrist, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, by whom he had an only child, James Gilchrist Williamson. His first wife died in 1847, and subsequently Williamson married the younger sister of John A. Macdonald.