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Henri Bourassa, journalist and politican, was born at Montreal, Quebec in 1868. He was educated by tutors, and became a journalist. He was a contributor to "Le Nationaliste," a journal published in Montreal; and in 1896 he was elected to represent Labelle as an independant Liberal in the House of Commons. He became a pronounced "Nationalist; and in 1910 he founded "Le Devoir," a Nationalist newspaper in Montreal, of which he became the editor-in-chief, continuing as editor until he broke with many of the Nationalists, and resigned from the paper in 1932. In 1907 he resigned from the House of Commons so he could sit in the Quebec Legislative Assembly. He remained in the Assembly from 1908 to 1912. He sat once again in the House of Commons from 1925 to 1935, when he was defeated in his old constituency, Labelle. Bourassa was an outstanding political figure, and a first-rate orator. He also published many pamphlets on political questions, in both French and English. Henri Bourassa died at Outremont, Quebec, on August 30, 1952.

Arthur Stanley Bourinot was a Canadian lawyer, scholar, and poet. Bourinot was born in Ottawa, Ontario, the son of Lady Isabelle and Sir John George Bourinot. He was educated at Ottawa Collegiate Institute, and University College, Toronto. Graduating in 1915, he found a position as a civil servant in Canada's Department of Indian Affairs, but almost immediately took a leave of absence to serve in World War I. He enlisted with the 77th Battalion CEF (Governor General's Foot Guards) and served overseas with the 87th Battalion (Canadian Grenadier Guards), CEF in the Canadian Army and later with Royal Flying Corps (later the Royal Air Force). He was a prisoner of war in 1917 and 1918, held in camps at Karlsruhe, Freiburg and Holzminden.

After the war, Bourinot received his legal training from Osgoode Hall Law School. He was called to the Ontario Bar in 1920. He practiced law in Ottawa until retiring in 1959.

Bourinot began publishing poetry as an undergraduate, and brought out his first book, the slim 24-poem Laurentian Lyrics and Other Poems in December, 1915. The Encyclopedia of Literature has called him "a deft versifier enthralled with the beauty of nature, the major subject of both his poems and his paintings." Confederation Poet Duncan Campbell Scott was his close friend and mentor.

Bourinot's verse was at first traditional with little experimentation, but by Under the Sun (1939) was showing "a new versatility in its terse rhythms and free verse, and in its frank poems about the Depression and the coming war." Under the Sun won the Governor General's Award for English language poetry or drama in 1939.

Bourinot edited the Canadian Poetry Magazine from 1948 to 1954 and from 1966 to 1968. He was editor of Canadian Author and Bookman from 1953 to 1954, and an associate editor from 1957 to 1960. During that period he began to edit and privately publish volumes of the correspondence of Scott, Lampman, and Edward William Thomson.

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Mackenzie Bowell was born on December 7, 1823, at Suffolk, England. he came to Canada with his parents in 1832 and became a printer's apprentice in the office of the Belleville Intelligencer, a newspaper of which he was later to become the editor and proprietor. In 1847 he married Harriet Louisa Moore of Belleville.

Early in his life Bowell joined the Orange Order and served as Grand Master of the Orange Lodge of Ontario and as Grand Master of the Orange Association of British America. In 1867 he was elected to the House of Commons and served as Conservative representative for the Riding of North Hasting until 1892. Appointed Minister of Customs in 1878 by Sir John A. Macdonald, Bowell was largely responsible for putting the "National Policy" into operation. Early in 1892 he was appointed Minister of Militia and Defence and later the same year became Minister of Trade and Commerce, a position he held until 1894. In 1894, following the death of Sir John Thompson, Bowell was sworn in as Prime Minister, only to resign in early 1896 after several members of his cabinet also resigned. He remained Opposition Leader in the senate until his retirement in 1907. He died at Belleville on december 10, 1917.

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The Bowerman family emigrated from England to the United States and Canada and were a prominent family in Prince Edward County. Merton Yarwood Williams, a descendant of the Bowerman family, was a Queen's graduate (1909) and professor of Geology at the University of British Columbia.

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Douglas Bowie was born in Kingston in 1944. Raised predominantly in Ottawa, he returned to Kingston to attend Queen's in 1962 but transferred to Carleton University from where he graduated in 1966. Bowie's writing career began when he entered the CBC Centennial Playwriting Competition while working at an advertising firm in Ottawa. His teleplay, Who Was the Lone Ranger, won a prize which set Bowie onto his professional writing career.
Bowie wrote a succession of film and television dramas, mini-series, feature films, plays and a couple of radio plays. He won an ACTRA in 1984 for Best Writer for the mini-series Empire, Inc., and was a recepient of the 1998 Margaret Collier Award which is presented to a writer for their outstanding body of work in Canadian television. Bowie also edited Best Canadian Screenplays with Tom Shoebridge, and added playwriting to his repertoire in the 1990s. He was the playwright-in-residence at Thousand Islands Playhouse for many years. Bowie has continued to live in Kingston and has been involved with such local organizations asTheatre Kingston, Cinema Kingston, Hope Theatre and the Kingston Tennis club.

C.E. Bowker was a student in the School of Mining at Queen's University.