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Annie Louise Laird was born in Malpeque, Prince Edward Island, on 25 March 1879. She moved to Kingston, Ontario, when her father, a Presbyterian clergyman relocated. She entered Queen's University and graduated with her B.A,. in 1901. She then commenced her teaching career, and on 2 September 1908, she married E. Pauline Johnson's publicist, Frank Arthur Yeigh (he for the second time) of Toronto, from her living room in Kingston. After the marriage, the couple moved back to Toronto, where for many years, she continued teaching. She was instrumental in carrying on the work of the Canadian Branch of 'Save the Children Fund', from its beginnings in the early 1920s until 1943. The Yeighs had one son, Frank Norman, born in 1909 (d. 1984). Predeceased by her husband, 29 October 1935, Annie Loiuse (Laird) Yeigh died in Toronto, 30 April 1960. She is buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery in that city.

Lubomyr Luciuk was born and raised in Kingston, Ontario. He is a graduate of Queen's University (BSc 1976, MA 1979) and the University of Alberta (PhD, 1984) and has held post-doctoral fellowships at University of Toronto and Queen's University. He is currently a full professor in the Department of Politics and Economics at the Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston. Lubomyr Luciuk specializes in the political geography of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, refugee studies, and the ethnic and immigration history of Canada. Luciuk has served as a Member of the federal Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada and as a founding member and director of research for the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association (UCCLA).

Luciuk has published numerous articles, op-eds, scholarly books and popular texts on the Ukrainian Canadian experience in Canada. His books include:The Holodomor and the Holy See (2011), In Fear of the Barbed Wire Fence: Canada's First National Internment Operations and the Ukranian Canadians, 1914-1920 (2001), Searching for Place: Ukrainian Displaced Persons, Canada and the Migration of Memory (2000), Canada's Ukrainians: Negotiating an Identity (1991), Creating a Landscape: A Geography of Ukrainians in Canada (1989), Internment Operations: the Role of Old Fort Henry in World War I (1980).

Luciuk was a leading champion of the Ukrainian Canadian community's request that the Government of Canada acknowledge what happened to Ukrainians and other Europeans during Canada's first national internment operations of 1914-1920, a campaign that took some 20 years to succeed and in May 2008 resulted in the signing of an agreement establishing a $10 million endowment within the Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko. Luciuk currently sits as a member of the Endowment Council of the Canadian First World War Internment Recognition Fund, the council that oversees the endowment.

Luciuk has been recognized for his various activities through a number of awards: John Sopinka Award for Excellence in Ukrainian Studies; various Doctoral/Postdoctoral Fellowships; Canada Research Fellowship; and the Shevchenko Medal for Education from the Ukrainian Congress of Canada.

Ellen Stafford (nee Elsie Good) was born in Staffordshire, England in 1910. As a small child she emigrated to Calgary, Canada with her family. At the age of 17, she married Lawrence Anderson and proceeded to have a family. During the marriage she lived in Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver where she was involved in political activism and theatre. She also wrote in newspapers, from approximately 1933-40, using the name Linda Claire (or Clare). In 1945, Ellen separated from her husband (it was not until 1960 that they legally obtained a divorce). From 1945 to 1949 she worked as a freelance editor in New York for publishing houses such as Dial, Harper and McGraw. Stafford returned to Canada in 1949 and was Editor in Chief at McClelland and Stewart. From 1952 to 1960 she moved to London and was employed as the Editor of Books of the Month. During that time she went by the name of Ellen and/or Elsie Anderson, as well as writing short pieces under the name Solveig Peters. Upon returning to Canada, Stafford was again employed as a freelance editor, while also writing and reviewing. In 1964 Stafford became the public relations officer for the Canadian Book Publishers' Council. She left the Council in 1967 to open Fanfare Books in Stratford Ontario. Upon moving to Stratford she legally changed her name to Ellen Stafford. She remained in Stratford until her retirement in 1980.
At the age of 80, Ellen Stafford published her first novel, Was That You at the Guggenheim?, which was followed by Always and After in 1990. Ellen Stafford passed away in Kingston in 2002.

Meadowbrook Area Community Association encompasses the Meadowbrook, Fermoor and Arbour Ridge neighbourhoods in the City of Kingston, Ontario. This area is located north of Bath Road, between the Little Cataraqui Creek to the east, and Gardiner's Road to the west.

The Association's Mission Statement reads: "The Meadowbrook and Area Community Association is dedicated to establishing and fostering a sense of community and a safe, wholesome living environment for the residents of Meadowbrook, Fernmoor and Arbour Ridge. We further believe that, as a community, we look out for our neighbours, our environment and our neighbourhood."

Every year the Associations announces a sereis of "plans", and have included working with the City to improve parks in their area; undertaking a 'Community Clean-up Day' as part of larger initiatives such as 'Pitch-in Canada Week'; and community garage sales.