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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.

Clergyman, Winnipeg, Man.

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.

Musician and author, Toronto, Ont.

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The Saturday's Review is a newspaper.