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Alan Crawley, best known as the editor of Contemporary Verse, was born in Coburg, Ontario in 1887. After attending St. John's College in Winnipeg, Crawley became a Barrister & Solicitor in 1912. As a lawyer in Winnipeg he developed an interest in poetry and after the war attended writers' gatherings, reciting and discussing poetry. After a serious illness in 1933, he lost his sight and moved to Victoria, with his wife, Jean, the following year. The first edition of Contemporary Verse, a literary magazine for Canadian writers, appeared in 1941 and continued, with Crawley at the helm until 1952. For thirty-nine issues the magazine, one of the few literary periodicals in Canada at the time, served as a showcase for the best Canadian poets. Crawley died in 1975 on Vancouver Island.

Derek F. Crawley was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1n 1924, where he attended high school. He received his bachelor's and Master's degrees from Oxford University; and his doctorate from Northwestern University in Evanston (Chicago), Illinois, in Renaissance drama. He came to Queen's University in Kingston in the 1960's, teaching in the Department of English for the next thirty years. During his time in an academic setting, he was engaged in teaching undergraduate and graduate students alike, serving on numeorus University and community committees, and publishing prolifically in the fields of English Renaaissance and Shakesperean studies, and Canadian Literature. His untimely death on 10 July 2001, in Kingston, Ontario, left his wife and three sons.

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Magda Creet (née György), a portrait artist based in Kingston, Ontario, was born in Székesfehérvár, Hungary in 1920. She married Imre Farkas, a bicycle salesman, in 1940. In 1944, she was deported to Auschwitz with her family and her first child (born in 1941). Her child, parents, and maternal grandmother all perished at Auschwitz. Magda and her sister, Agnes, were liberated from forced labour in the Lipstadd Metalworks in 1945, and she remained in Germany as a displaced person in Kaunitz working for British Command. She obtained a work permit to move to London in 1947 where she worked as a nanny, a cleaner, a hotel receptionist, and an artists's model.

After divorcing Imre Farkas in 1947, she married Mario Creet, a chemical engineer. Before emigrating to Canada and settling in Kingston, Ontario in 1957, Magda and Mario had a daughter and a son. Another daughter and son were born in Canada, and baptized at Chalmer's Uniter Church, which Magda joined in 1964.

In the early 1970s, Magda opened a portrait studio in her house on Lower Union St. In the following decade, she photographed and wrote about many of Kingston's artists and writers, publishing profiles in the Kingston Whig Standard. Exhibitions of her work were held in 1972 and 1979. Magda Creet died in 1984, and was survived by four of her five children and her husband.

Mario Andrew Creet (1924-1994) was born in Calcutta, India of Armenian parents. He was educated at St. Xaviers College Calcutta; BA Calcutta University 1942; BSc (Chemical Engineering) Imperial College, London, 1948; MA Queen's University, Canada, 1983 and PhD History, Queens University, Canada, 1992. Dr. Creet emigrated to Canada in 1965 and worked at Du Pont of Canada's Kingston Works. Later he came to Queen's University where he was employed in the Principal's Office. From there he transferred to the Archives and later was a part-time lecturer on "History of Technology" in the History Department at Queen's. Following his retirement, Dr. Creet researched and was completing a biography of Sir Sanford Fleming when he died. Mario Creet was predeceased by his wife Magda. He left two sons and two daughters.

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Thomas Alexander Crerar was born on June 17, 1876, at Molesworth, Ontario. His father moved to western Canada in 1881 and Crerar was educated at public schools and at Portage la Prairie Collegiate. On January 31, 1906, he was married to Jessie Hamilton of Solsgirth, Manitoba and they subsequently had two daughters. In 1907 he accepted the presidency and managership of the Grain Growers Grain company which later became the United Grain Growers, and held the presidency until 1929. Crerar was first elected to the House of Commons in 1917. He was sworn as a member of the King's Privy Council for Canada and appointed Minister of Agriculture. He resigned his portfolio in 1919 because of disagreement with budget tariff proposals. Re-elected to Parliament in 1921, he served as leader of the Progressive party in the House of Commons until November 12, 1922 when he resigned and returned to private business. On December 30, 1929, Crerar was sworn in as Minister of Railways and Canals un the Mackenzie King Cabinet and was re-elected by acclimation at the by-election of February 5, 1930. On August 9, 1930, he resigned with the King cabinet. Re-elected once again in 1935, he was sworn in as Minister of Mines, Minister of Immigration and Colonization, Minister of the Interior, and Superintendent General of Indian Affairs. When these four departments were amalgamated on December 1, 1936, into Mines and Resources Crerar was swown in as Minister of the new department. Re-elected to the House of Commons at the general election of 1940, he resigned from the Cabinet in 1945 and was summoned to the Senate, where he served until his retirement in 1966. He died in 1974.

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