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Margaret Stoness (nee Thomas), a photographer based in Wilmer, Ontario, was married to William Stoness.

Talmage Stone was a soldier in the First World War. He married Elva Ruby DeWolfe in Leeds, Ontario in 1919.

Col. Joel Stone, United Empire Loyalist and founder of Gananoque, was born at Guilford, Connecticut, 1749, to Stephen Stone and his wife Rebecca Bishop, both members of families that took part in the original settlement of Guilford in 1639. The Stone family removed, in 1751, to Litchfield County, Connecticut, where shortly before the Revolutionary War Joel Stone entered business as a general merchant. A known loyalist, Stone took refuge in New York toward the end of 1776 and during the remainder of the war served as a volunteer. Frrom 1783 to 1786 Stone was in London seeking compensation for confiscated property. In 1786 he sailed for Quebec and by the following year was settled with his family at New Johnstown (Cornwall). About 1792 Stone took up residence at the mouth of the Gananoque River, becoming the first white settler at what was to become the town of Gananoque. During the next forty years he was the principal land-owner and leading citizen of the little community, acting as justice of the peace, customs collector and roads commissioner. During the War of 1812 he conducted the defence of Gananoque in his capacity of Colonel in the Leeds militia. He died in 1833..

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Arthur Stollery was a student in the School of Mining at Queen's University.

Peter John Stokes (1926-2013) was born in England and came to Canada during the Second World War as a "war guest" of the sculptor Jacobine Jones. He studied architecture at the University of Toronto (B. Arch. 1953) and has made his career as a restoration architect. From 1958 to 1961, he was a Restoration Architect at Upper Canada Village. His private practice began in 1961, and has included commissions for the preservation of many early Canadian buildings. Over the years, Peter Stokes has received commissions for architectural work and consultation from many parts of Canada. These include: Consultant to National Historic Sites, Ottawa; Consultant to Westmoreland Historical Society, Sackville, NB; the renovation and restoration of the South African Embassy, Ottawa; Consultant for the restoration of Victoria Hall, Cobourg; and the Alberta Hotel, Edmonton. Mr. Stokes has also done consultation work with Maclennan and Associates for projects at Kingston City Hall and the Old Hay Bay Church. He has published several books on conservation architecture, and has been awarded the Heritage Canada Foundation's Community Service Award and the Gabrielle Leger Medal.

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