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William Smith (June 25, 1728 – November 3, 1793) was a lawyer, historian, speaker, loyalist, and eventually Chief Justice of the Province of New York from 1763 to 1782 and Chief Justice of the Province of Quebec, later Lower Canada, from 1786 until his death. He was the son of Judge William Smith of New York and the brother of Joshua Hett Smith, the supposed “dupe” of Benedict Arnold and Major John André.

He, along with his brother Joshua Hett Smith, escaped prosecution and probable execution by the Commission for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies in the State of New York in 1778 for the crime of treason due to the memory of their father's influence upon the Justice system: the elder William Smith had, despite the efforts of friends and relatives, refused his own appointment to the Office of Chief Justice of the Province of New York in 1760, which his son William had accepted.

His brother, Doctor Thomas Smith, was the owner of the “treason house” in Haverstraw, Orange County, New York that was being occupied by his other brother, Joshua Hett Smith, at the time that Benedict Arnold and Major John André planned their conspiracies.

Smith returned to England in 1783 and then came to Quebec City in 1786, when he was named Chief Justice for the province and also named to the legislative council. In 1791, he became chief justice for Lower Canada and was appointed to the Legislative Council of Lower Canada, serving as its first speaker. He died in Quebec City in 1793.

Professor, Department of Chemistry, Queen's University, Kingston, ON.

Waldo Edward Lovel Smith was born in 1901 at Toronto, Ontario. He graduated in Arts from Victoria College, University of Toronto in 1923. Three years later he received his Master of Arts degree from the same university. In 1926, he graduated in Theology from Victoria-Knox College, Toronto, and was ordained as a minister of the United Church of Canada. He taught History, French, and German in Albert College in Belleville, 1926-1927 and 1931-1933. From 1927 until 1931, he was engaged in graduate studies at the University of Chicago, St. Andrew's University, the University of London, and the University of Edinburgh. In 1931, he received a Doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh. Dr. Smith served two pastoral charges of the United Church of Canada in the period from 1933 until 1947 -- Selby (1933-1938) and Grafton (1938-1947). During a leave of absence from 1940 until 1945, he served as Chaplin in the first Canadian Armoured Brigade in Canada, England and Italy. For his services, Dr. Smith was awarded the Military Cross. In 1947, Dr. Smith was appointed to the Chair of Church History at the Queen's Theological College. He was concurrently an Associate Professor, Department of History, Queen's University. He retired in 1969. Dr Smith passed away in 1995.

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Stuart Lyon Smith, M.D., F.R.C.P. (C) was born in 1938 at Montreal. He was educated as a psychiatrist at McGill University and was subsequently on the faculty of McMaster University Medical School, and Director of In-Patient Psychiatric Services, St. Joseph's Hospital, Hamilton.
Dr. Smith entered public life as executive assistant to the Hon. Alan McNaughton, then Speaker of the House of Commons. He was elected as Liberal candidate for the riding of Hamilton-Wentworth in the Ontario Legislature in 1975 and re-elected in 1977 and 1981. He was chosen leader of the Ontario Liberal Party in 1976 and served in that role and as leader of the official opposition until 1981. In 1981, he resigned the Hamilton-Wentworth seat when he was appointed Chairman of the Science Council of Canada, a position he held until 1987.
A year after leaving the Council, he founded RockCliffe Research and Technology Inc., a firm which introduced public-private partnerships into government laboratories. From 1995 to 2002, he was chair of the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy.
In 1994, Smith proposed the creation of a private-sector water company in the City of Hamilton, and was named as the founding president of the Philip Utilities Management Corporation (PUMC). More recently, Smith has served as Chairman of the Board of Esna Tech in Richmond Hill. and as chair of the board for Humber College in Toronto. From 2012-2013, Smith was appointed commissioner of the Intercounty Baseball League, a semi-pro baseball league in Ontario.

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Russell Smith, journalist, novelist, short-story writer (b at Johannesburg, South Africa 1963). After immigrating to Canada in 1967, Russell Smith grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The son of a Dalhousie University English professor, Smith studied French literature at both the University of Poitiers (France) and the University of Paris (III), and went on to acquire a Master's degree in French from Queen's University in 1987.
Smith moved to Toronto in 1989, where he quickly established himself as a freelance journalist, reviewer, and restaurant critic. His first novel, How Insensitive (1994), was nominated for the Trillium Book Award, the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award, and the Governor General's Award for fiction. In this wry examination of the urban social scene, Smith exposes the troubled and frivolous lifestyles of Toronto's hopelessly trendy. He further extends this satirical representation of the city in his 1998 novel, Noise. Here, protagonist James Willing is equally critical of popular and literary culture in Canada; as a young writer, he longs for a meaningful mode of expression that extends beyond both the artificiality of suburbia and the media-crazed posturing of his peers. Work on this novel took place, in part, during Smith's 1996 stay at Berton House, located in Dawson City, Yukon, where he held the inaugural position of Writer in Residence.

Dr. Reginald W. Smith was a professor in the Department of Metallurgy at Queen's University. He moved to Canada in 1968.

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