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Michael J. Goldstein was a photographer based in Rideau Lakes, Jones Falls, ON.

May Houston was a photographer based in Alton, ON.

H. Moritz was a photographer based in Midland, ON.

Munro was a photographer based in Pictou, NS.

H.R. Oakman was a photographer based in Midland, ON.

Captain William Roy Maxwell (1892 June 14-1946 March 15) was a pilot, businessman, civil servant, photographer, and veteran. Born in Toronto, Ontario, he was an important figure in the history of early Canadian aviation. Maxwell’s career spanned two world wars and a quarter of a century of flying, fifteen of them in the public eye. His accomplishments were many, including several firsts, such as the first Medivac flight in Canada in 1920 and the first winter flight into Moose Factory on James Bay in February of 1922 with Herve St. Martin.

Maxwell attended Hamilton Central Collegiate, in Hamilton, Ontario. Between 1911 and 1917 he worked as an apprentice electrician at Westinghouse Electric Ltd. and then as an apprentice survey engineer with the Canadian Northern Railway across the James Bay region of northern Ontario. Maxwell learned to fly in 1915.

Maxwell was a veteran pilot instruction in the Royal Flying Corp, which he joined in 1917, and Royal Air Force in the Great War. In Canada, he was based at Camp Borden, then to the Armour Heights School of Special Flying in North Toronto. He was also posted to Camp Everman in Texas, USA to assist in the training of pilots for the United States Army Air Force as well as the Royal Flying Corp. In 1918, he was transferred overseas to the Royal Air Force Staff College. He returned to Canada in February 1919 and qualified for a Civilian Pilot License No. 34.
He then launched his 20-year civilian flying career commencing with a yearlong stint as a “Barnstormer” follow by work with a newly formed company based in Burlington named Canadian Aero Film Company, which intended to use aircraft as a film platform to document the interesting news items of the day. The Government of Ontario hired the firm in the summer of 1920, to fly into the sub-arctic and film this remote region, and at the same time support the efforts of a young forester, E.T. Ireson, to carry out a survey of the region on the behalf of the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests.

Under his leadership (1921-1924), Laurentide Air Services established the first scheduled passenger service in Canada between Angiers, Quebec and Rouyn/Noranda. The first airmail service soon followed, in which Laurentide Air Services printed their own stamps.

Maxwell was the founding Director and Chief Pilot of Ontario Provincial Air Service (OPAS), 1924-1934, developing the new organization that continues to this day. The pilots under his supervision comprise a list of pioneering Canadian bush pilots including Harold Oaks, Fred Stevenson, Romeo Vachon, and Frank MacDougall among others.

Maxwell was exposed to the work of famous photographers such as his employer, Roy Tash, which provided him with grounding in the principles of photography as well as the lifelong skill in handling camera equipment. He extensively photo documented the remote places and people he encountered during his travels in the north as the director of the OPAS. However, Maxwell's photos from the 1929 treaty flights were the only ones that have survived.

In 1929 Maxwell served as the pilot for the 1929 portion of the 1929-1930 “Adhesion” signings, by which the James Bay Treaty (Treaty No 9) ceded more than two-thirds of the province to the Ontario government and permitted the development of its timber, mineral, and hydroelectric resources. His passengers were Herbert Nathaniel Awrey from the Canadian Indian Affairs Department and Ontario’s Deputy Minister of Lands and Forests, Walter Cain who served as the treaty commissioners. For the first time, aircraft were used to transport the treaty commissioners to specific destinations.

After Maxwell resigned from OPAS in 1935, he was a consultant to E.P. Taylor, Frank Common et al, Directors of British North American Aviation Company. Subsequently, he became engaged in commercial Fishery operations for several years as partner in Baillie/Maxwell Air Services. Maxwell received a monopoly to trade for Sturgeon & Caviar in the Albany River Basin. The Air Service was based in Nakina, Ontario but the operations centered around Ogoki Post and the upper Albany River.

Maxwell enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force as an Administrative Officer on December 4, 1939. He was posted to Western Air Command on 1940 December 2, 1940. As of May 1, 1941he was a Squadron Leader; and was promoted Wing Commander on January 15, 1942. Maxwell was posted to Station Tofino, British Columbia on December 3, 1942. He reverted to Squadron Leader on January 15, 1943 and resigned his commission on April 26, 1943. Maxwell died in Toronto, Ontario of Cerebral Vascular Disease in the Red Chevron Hospital on March 15, 1946 at age 54.

H. H. “Holly” Parsons was born in Owen Sound, Ontario in 1902; he was a Registered Professional Forester. Parsons attended the University of Toronto and graduated with a BSc. Forestry in 1925. On graduating, Parsons joined the Canadian Society of Forest Engineers now the Canadian Institute of Forestry

Parsons immediately joined the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests, participating in the first James Bay Forestry Survey based near Kapuskasing. He was one of the pioneers of aerial surveying of timber lands and was an expert in the craft of '' aerial sketching'' of northern Canada's forests that were then being surveyed by the new discipline of airborne observation.

Modern forest inventory, then in its infancy, was very different from technologies used today. After hours in the air, sketching stands of timber, Parsons would land, go into the stands with calipers, clinometer and axe, obtaining vital age, height, diameter and stocking data, and then back into the air to continue the sketching. If there was a fire, Holly could do aerial sketches on which fire-fighting operations were based. Because of his skills and his personality, he enjoyed a long and close relationship with many foresters and others in industry.

Parsons worked for 20 years for Lands and Forests, and then a few years for Caterpillar Tractor Co., then became a consultant, working on numerous timber mapping and aerial photography projects. He was also an original member of the Ontario Professional Foresters Association in 1957, becoming a life member in 1969 after his retirement. Parsons died in 1990.

Robert D. Galway (1937- ), BA, MD, FRSC(C) is an Orthopaedic Surgeon, pilot, and historian of Ontario's early aviation and bushplane history. He born in and grew up in the Red Lake, ON gold mining district and attended Red Lake District High School. He was introduced to planes and flying at an early age; and growing up he would often hitch rides with bushplane pilots that serviced northern Ontario. He earned his BA in Political Science and Geology (Toronto, 1958) and spent several field seasons in the late 1950s working a geologist for Franc Joubin on the Missinaibi River above its junction with the Moose River, as well as in Labrador. Galway earned his MD in 1963 (Toronto) and spent time during his career working at Moose Factory, Ontario for the Department of Indian Affairs as an Orthopaedic Surgeon carrying out a locum tenens with Dr. George Wolfe, who had worked with Galway's father, Dr. Charles F. Galway (Queen's, 1934, d. 1999 November 22).

Galway has published fifteen volumes of his Places, Planes, People, and & Pilots series focusing on these subject areas and drawing on archives, government documents, and newspapers. In addition, he has located and preserved a number of archival collections relevant to Ontario's early aviation and bushplane history He has also written a history of the historic Baby Point neighbourhood in Toronto, where he lives, as part of a community effort to preserve the archaeological and architecturally significant community.

Harriet Scott was librarian for the Branch Library of the Department of Geological Sciences at Queen's Univeristy. She contributed greatly to both the Queen's community and the greater Kingston community. There is a Kingston Symphony Volunteers memorial award in her name which funds applicants from the youth ensembles.

Kim Ondaatje was born Betty Jane Kimbark in Toronto on October 2, 1928. Betty Jane took the name Kim after the death of her brother. Ondaatje studied painting under Yvonne McKague Housser from 1943 to 1947 at which point she began her studies as the Ontario College of Art. She then refocused her studies on literature at both McGill University (BA 1952) and Queens University receiving (MA 1954). Until 1964, Ondaatje served as a part-time lecturer at Wilfred Laurier University and Sherbrooke University. In the early 1960s, she returned to the visual arts and by 1965 was painting full-time. During this time Kim was working with London-based artists Jack Chambers and Tony Urquhart to found Canadian Artists Representation (CARFAC) in 1967. In 2009 Ondaatje along with Urquhart received the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts for this important work promoting artists' rights.

Ondaatje taught in the arts throughout her career, working for the London Public Gallery, the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and for the outreach program of the Emily Carr College of Art in British Columbia and the Yukon.

There have been many exhibitions of her paintings and prints in Canada and abroad, she has received national and international recognition. Her work has also been the subject of major retrospectives, including the University of Toronto Art Centre’s Kim Ondaatje: Paintings 1950-1975 (2008), and Kim Ondaatje Museum London (2013), as well as comprehensive exhibitions at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery (2014), the Agnes Etherington Art Centre (2015) and the Art Gallery of Ontario (2021). Ondaatje’s paintings and prints can be found in numerous collections, including The National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, and The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, among many others.

In addition to her artistic career, Ondaatje lived at her Blueroof Farm residence for over 40 years in Verona, just north of Kingston, Ontario. She called her home her “longest-running project... carefully tending to the land and animals living there". It was at Blueroof where Ondaatje bred Dalmations, had a wedding venue business, and hosted amny a retreat.

She was married to the poet D.G. Jones, and later was married to the writer Michael Ondaatje. She has six children.