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C.B. Scantleburry was a photographer based in Belleville, ON.

William Sawyer was born to John and Agnes Brown Sawyer in Montreal, Quebec, November 9, 1820. His academic background is unknown, however it seems likely that he had some form of education given his level of literacy evident in later years. He found his first employment with a Montreal law firm at the age of fourteen. By the early 1840's Sawyer opened a studio in Montreal in the Moyer Building and sought commissions for portraits from the local citizenry. Although business was steady, it was not sufficient for Sawyer who was likely responsible for helping to support his step-mother (Ann Sutherland) and half-sister Elizabeth Sarah. In order to garner more business Sawyer became an itinerant painter travelling the north shore of Lake Ontario, ranging as far west as Toronto, Sawyer stopped at all the major centres in between.

Exhibition and promotion was a necessity for the itinerant painter. Sawyer exhibited at the Montreal Society of Artists in 1847, in the company of Krieghoff and several other artists. In 1867 he exhibited with the Society of Canadian Artists in Montreal, and in 1872 he sent works to the first exhibition of the Ontario Society of Artists at Toronto.

During Sawyer's travels, he met Eliza Jane Baxter in Kingston, whom he married November 18, 1851. With this added financial responsibility, Sawyer continued to travel, occasionally moving further afield. In 1852 Sawyer travelled to New York with his new wife but quickly returned and set up a studio in Kingston in the Gas Office Building. The studio did not last long and the Sawyers returned to Montreal in the same year. The Sawyers remained in Montreal until 1855 when Sawyer, likely due to Eliza's desire to be close to her family, permanently relocated in Kingston. Although settled in Kingston, Sawyer continued to work as an itinerant artist travelling along the north and south shores of Lake Ontario. Having some level of success during this time allowed Sawyer to travel to Europe in 1862 where he was able to view the work of some important portrait artists in Scotland, England, France, and Belgium.

Upon his return Sawyer divided his time between Kingston and Montreal. In Montreal he partnered with Edwin R. Turner in an “Art and Photographic Studio”, acting as both a painter and a photographer. In 1863 Sawyer’s reputation brought him a commission to paint a portrait of John A. Macdonald for the Kingston city hall , where several of his portraits of mayors were already hanging. His commissions extended to three speakers of the Senate, who engaged him to paint their portraits for the Library of Parliament, and to Sir William Edmond Logan, William Molson, Charles Tupper, and William Workman, as well as to senators Frank Smith and Robert Duncan Wilmot.

William Sawyer continued to be an active photographer, painter, and promoter of his work, until his death at age 69, in Kingston on December 9, 1889. Sawyer was survived by his wife, six sons and three daughters.

Dr. Margaret E. MacKay Sawyer was a professor of physiology at Queen's University for almost forty years. She was born in New Glasgow Nova Scotia, and received her B.A and M.A in Biology from Dalhousie University. She then received her PhD in Biology in 1930 from McGill University, and continued her postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Sawyer moved to Kingston in 1939 and started teaching Physiology at Queen's University: first as a fellow, then a lecturer, and finally as a professor. She continued her research alongside her teaching career and wrote numerous articles for academic journals, such as the American Journal of Physiology. After the passing of her first husband, Dr. Sawyer married Dr. G. Harold Ettinger - a colleague from the Physiology Department - in 1969. Because of this, she is sometime identified as Dr. Margaret Ettinger. She passed away in Kingston in 2003.

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Derek Stanley (D.S.) Savage, a poet, critic, and noted pacifist, was born in Essex, England on 6 March 1917. He served as Secretary General of the Anglican Pacifist Fellowship. In 1938, he married Constance Kiernan, with whom he had six children. Savage passed away in 2007.

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Margaret Marshall Saunders (1861-1947) was a Canadian author best known for her novel Beautiful Joe. Much of Saunders’ work addressed social issues, including child labou, housing issues and animal cruelty. Active in local media, Saunders co-founded the Maritime branch of the Canadian Women’s Press Club with Anne of Green Gables author Lucy Maud Montgomery, and was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1934. Other titles by Saunders include Tilda Jane: An Orphan In Search of a Home, The House of Armour, and The Girl from Vermont.

Margaret (Maisie) Helen Inverarity Stickland Saunders, was born in 1898, and died in Ottawa in 1985. In June of 1918, Maisie and Louis Farquhar Strickland married in Edinburgh Scotland. They had one child. Inverarity and Strickland divorced in 1925 after Maisie had returned to Scotland. Maisie then married William Eric Pentland Saunders in 1926. She was a pioneering aviator, having been within the first fifty women to receive a Royal Aero Club certificate in 1929.