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Public servant, London, England.

Joseph Lacey Willis, the secretary of the Reconstruction Party, was born in London, England in 1903. He was a student at Queen's University but upon his marriage to Helen Marie Perry of London, Ontario, he moved to London where he graduated from the University of Western Ontario in 1930, with a degree in English and History. He was a Grand Master in the Masonic Lodge, a public school teacher and principal for a span of forty-six years, broken only by service during World War II. He commanded the First Signals Squadron of London, Ontario and came to Kingston to be chief instructor at the Signals School at Vimy Barracks until 1944. He and his wife were deeply involved in the attempt to launch the Reconstruction Party into a new national political alternative. He remained interested in politics, despite the disappointing fall of the Reconstruction Party, until his death in 1979.

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

Head of Department of History, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ont.

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Archibald William Currie was born February 22, 1908, the son of Archibald and Minnie (Mosure) Currie. He attended Queen's from 1925 to 1930 and received both the degrees of Bachelor of Arts (1929) and Bachelor 0f Commerce (1930). He graduated with a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard in 1938 and received the Doctor of Commercial Science degree one year later from Harvard.

In 1931 he was appointed Director of Extension at Queen's, a position he held until 1938. From 1938 to 1945 he lectured in the Department of Commerce and Department of Economics at the University of British Columbia and in 1946 was appointed to the University of Toronto as a Professor in the Department of Economics, where he stayed until 1969. In 1963 he was appointed advisor to the Ministry of Transport in Nigeria and was a Senior Advisor to the Government of Fiji from 1970-1971.

He married Madeline McNeely and they had two children. Professor Currie died at Parkhill, Ontario, in 1989.

Grant Kenneth Macdonald was born on June 27, 1909 in Montreal. From 1928 to 1929 he studied art under Carl Ahrens in Galt. From 1929 to 1930 he was a part-time student at the Ontario College of Art. He studied under George Bridgman at the Art Student's league, New York City from 1931 to 1932 and 1939 to 1940. From 1932 to 1933 he studied at Heatherley's Art School, London, England. From 1928 to 1929 he worked as a photo retoucher at the Toronto Star. From this period on he contributed illustrations to many periodicals and newspapers including the Globe and Mail, Star Weekly, Mayfair, Chatelaine, Maclean's and Saturday Night. From 1943 to1946 he was an artist in the Directorate of Special Services, Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Regiment. Numerous wartime drawings were published in the Montreal Gazette. He illustrated many books published in the years 1927 to 1954. The books included several works by Robertson Davies, Tyrone Guthrie and C.L. Burton. Macdonald was instructor in figure drawing at the Queen's University Summer School in 1948, 1952, 1953, 1964 and 1965. He worked as an artist in Kingston from 1951 to the end of his career. His works were exhibited in numerous one-man exhibitions throughout Canada and England. He died in Kingston on September 18, 1987

Frederick L. Moore (1833-1917) was a farmer and beekeeper at Addison, Elizabethtown Township, north of Brockville. He was also very active in public affairs, holding over the years the posts of Justice of the Peace, Elizabethtown reeve, treasurer and auditor, school trustee and issuer of marriage licenses.

Artur Zylinski Arthur was born on June 10, 1927 in Alytus, Lithuania. When he was a fourteen-year-old school boy the Germans invaded his homeland and he had to leave school for a forced labour battalion. He managed to escape this servitude and made his way by various means to Edinburgh Scotland. By 1950 he had achieved an external B Sc.(Econ.) degree from the University of London. He then worked for some time as an accountant for the Schweppes firm and even contemplated a career with British Intelligence. In 1953 he applied for admission to the University of London, where he achieved a first class BA in Honours Psychology, an Academic Post Graduate Diploma in Abnormal Psychology and a PhD. by 1963.
Dr. Arthur has held university teaching posts in London, New Zealand and as an Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Canada. He was a member of the American Psychological Society, Ontario Psychological Association and the American Association for Advancement of Science. His honours include a University of London Postgraduate Scholarship in Psychology (for best graduate of the year, declined, 1958), Secretary of the New Zealand Branch of the British Psychological Society (1964-5), Chairman of the Christchurch District of the New Zealand Branch of the British Psychological Society (1965), Associate Editor - The Ontario Psychologist (1968-72), Member of Board of Education and Training - Ontario Psychological Association (1970 - 72), Member of Editorial Board - The Canadian Psychologist (1971-3).
Artur Z. Arthur married Diane Catherine Maudsley and had two son's Peter James Arthur and Richard Edward Arthur.
Dr. Arthur died on May 3, 1990.

In response to the difficulties accumulating, the Ontario government set up a quasi-judicial commission to review and settle land claims, know as the Heir and Devisee Commission. Its purpose was to settle hereditary claims on unpatented land. In fact, there were two Commissions, the first sat from 1797 to 1804 and the second from 1805 to 1911, although the bulk of its work was over by 1890. Each claimant had to produce evidence for the claim: wills, commissions, affidavits, etc. which can be very descriptive of families and individuals.