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Donald Harman Akenson (born May 22, 1941, Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American historian and author. Notably prolific, he has written at least 23 book-length, scholarly monographs, 3 jointly-authored scholarly books, 6 works of fiction and historical fiction, and 55 scholarly articles. He is a fellow of both the Royal Society of Canada and the Royal Historical Society (UK). He is also a Molson Prize Laureate, awarded for a lifetime contribution to Canadian culture. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1984, and in 1992 he won the prestigious Grawemeyer Award, then the richest non-fiction book prize in the world. Akenson received his B.A. from Yale University and his doctorate from Harvard University. He is Distinguished University Professor and Douglas Professor of History at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and was simultaneously Beamish Research Professor at the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool (2006–10), and senior editor of the McGill-Queen's University Press (1982-2012). While mostly noted as a scholar of Irish migration, Akenson is also an award-winning scholar of religious history. His book "God's Peoples: Covenant and Land in South Africa, Israel, and Ulster," was named the winner of the 1992 Grawemeyer Award. He has received honourary degrees from: D. Litt (hon. causa) McMaster University, 1995; D. Hum (hon. causa) Lethbridge University, 1996; D. Litt (hon. causa) University of Guelph, 2000; D. Laws (hon causa) University of Regina, 2002; D. Litt (hon. causa) The Queen's University of Belfast, 2008; and D. Litt (hon. causa) Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, 2010

Murray Hogben was born in Toronto in 1935 and grew up in Ottawa. In 1957 he earned a bachelor's degree in English literature and then a journalism degree at Carleton University. There he met an Indian Muslim student, Alia Rauf, duly became a Muslim in 1956, and they married in 1959. Working for the CBC in Toronto, he became secretary in 1960 of the new Muslim Society of Toronto for years. Also, starting in 1965, he began to earn a doctorate in history from the University of Toronto, graduating in 1973. He then taught at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston and then at le College militaire royal de Saint-Jean, in Quebec. Murray then joined the Kingston Whig-Standard in 1979 as a reporter and columnist until 2000. Meanwhile, he had also become secretary of the Islamic Society of Kingston, a volunteer Muslim chaplain at several prisons, secretary of the Kingston Police race relations advisory committee, and for decades canoeing instructor and arts and crafts director at a camp for Muslim girls and boys.

John Virtue, a journalist and author, was born in Nelson, BC in 1935. He was a correspondent for United Press International (UPI), getting his start reporting on Castro in Havana in 1964. He later managed UPI bureaus in Sao Paolo, Brazil, and Mexico City, and covered wars in Central America and the Guatemala earthquake of 1976. In the 1980s, Virtue was executive editor for El Mundo in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He worked 25 years as director of Florida International University's International Media Centre. Virtue passed away in Miami, Florida in 2016.

Victor Catano was a student at Queen's University.

Dr. Jonathan Dawrant is a physician and Associate Professor at the University of Calgary.

The Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire - Kingston Municipal Chapter was the overarching municipal arm governing each of the local chapters in Kingston. The Kingston Chapters included: George T. Richardson, Victory, Lord Sydenham, Princess of Wales' Own Regiment, Prince Charles, LaSalle, Rideau, and Amy E. Duff.

Pierre Wolfe was a student at Queen's University. He graduated from Medicine in 1947.

After teaching philosophy and humanities at Marianopolis College, Montreal, for nine years, Christine Overall came to Queen’s University in 1984 as a Webster Fellow in the Humanities. In 1986 she was named a Queen’s National Scholar in the Queen’s Department of Philosophy. She was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in 1987 and awarded tenure in 1990. In 1992 she was promoted to Full Professor. From 1997 to 2005 she served as Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts and Science. In 2004 she was appointed to the John and Ella G. Charlton Professorship in Philosophy at Queen’s University, and in 2005 she was awarded a Queen’s University Research Chair.

Dr. Overall has also held visiting positions at several universities: the Inaugural Churchill Professorship in Feminist Philosophy at the University of Waterloo (2003); the Nancy’s Chair in Women’s Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University (Halifax) (2006-07); and the Visiting Professorship in Canadian Studies at Kwansei Gakuin University (Nishinomiya) (2011-12).

Dr. Overall was the first feminist philosopher elected to the Royal Society of Canada (1998), and was the 2008 winner of the Royal Society of Canada’s Gender Studies Award. She has received two awards for teaching excellence, one from Queen’s University (1990) and one from the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (1996). Her 2003 book, Aging, Death, and Human Longevity: A Philosophical Inquiry, won both the Canadian Philosophical Association’s Book Prize (2005) and the Royal Society of Canada’s Abbyann Lynch Medal in Bioethics (2006). In 2014 she was the recipient of Queen’s University’s Prize for Excellence in Research.

Worsnop was a photographer based in Halifax, NS.

T.A. Quinn was a photographer based in Blind River, ON.