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Jack Chiang, a prominent Kingston photographer, was born on 20 March 1950 in a village near Canton, China. The Chiang family left China at the time of the Communist takeover; going first to Macau, a Portuguese colony, and then to the British colony of Hong Kong. Although his family was extremely poor, Mr. Chiang was able to finish high school and then, with the help of scholarships, attend university. He pursued a Bachelor of Arts degree at the National Taiwan University, where he studied foreign languages and literature, particularly French and English. After receiving his degree in 1972, Jack Chiang was granted a research assistantship in order to pursue his Masters in journalism at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

After immigrating to Canada in 1974, Mr. Chiang began work as a reporter, in 1975, for the “Orillia Packet and Times”. In November 1977, he became a photographer for the “Kingston Whig-Standard”, the daily for which Chiang has worked ever since. Over the course of his career at the “Whig-Standard”, Mr. Chiang has worked as both a photographer and a reporter, both at home and abroad. Since 1980, he has been the Picture Editor for the newspaper and has held other managerial positions, including City Editor, Region Editor and Sports Editor, simultaneous to it.

Mr. Chiang has won more than two dozen awards for his photography, including Canadian Press Picture of the Month and Ontario News Photographers’ Association Picture of the Year (News and Sports) as well as their Picture of the Month. His pictures have appeared in the “New York Times”, the “Christian Science Monitor”, “Moscow News” and “Reader’s Digest” as well as every major newspaper in Canada. As well, the cover photographs for both editions of “Images of Kingston” were selected to hang in the front lobby of Kodak Canada head office in Toronto. In 1990, the first edition of Mr. Chiang’s “Images of Kingston” was published. The second edition followed eight years later. In addition, Chiang’s photography has appeared in a number of other books.

Active in a number of community fundraising campaigns, Mr. Chiang has been involved with the annual Easter Seals Telethon, as an on-air host; the Community Foundation of Greater Kingston; and the Boys and Girls Club. Since 1995, he has been the honorary chairman of the annual Salvation Army Hamper campaign. In 1999, he was the honorary co-chairman of the United Way campaign and in 2000, the honorary chairman of the Save the Kingston Exhibition campaign. Jack Chiang is also the founder and president of the National Association for the Easily Amused, an organization for those who think laughter is the best medicine.

In 1977, Jack Chiang married his first wife Larraine Mullen. They have two sons: Jeffrey, born in 1984, and Christopher, born in 1987. The marriage ended in 1989. In August 1996, he married Catherine Lincoln.

Catherine Diane Lincoln, a Kingston teacher and principal, was born on 31 May 1950 in Shawinigan, Quebec. She is the eldest child of Donald and Anna Lincoln. In 1966, she moved to Niagara Falls, Ontario, to live with her aunt and finish high school. She graduated from A.N. Myer Secondary School in 1969. Ms. Lincoln-Chiang received her Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Education from Queen’s University in 1976 and 1977 respectively. She taught in Orangeville before moving back to Kingston with her two sons, Adrian and Alastair, in 1981. For the next five years, she taught for the Frontenac County Board of Education and then starting in 1986 she worked as a consultant for French as a Second Language with the Board for two years. Following this, Ms. Lincoln-Chiang became the Vice Principal of Polson Park Public School, Kingston. The next year, she was promoted to Principal of the same school. Ms. Lincoln-Chiang is currently the Principal of Central Public School, Kingston. Ms. Lincoln-Chiang regularly accompanies and aids Jack on his photographic expeditions to various part of the country.

The original house ("Camp Iroquois") was built in 1875 by James Wallace for himself and his wife, Annie Brough. In the beginning it was a simple dwelling, with a widow's walk and an outdoor stairway leading up to it. The house was subsequently purchased by David Wallace who, in the latter part of the 19th century, added two septagonal towers, plus stain glass windows, in order to make the house more elegant. A windmill pumped water to the house, but plumbing and electricity were non-existant. He also constructed a boat house with a large half-moon window in the front, and an iron frame, complete with wheels, for lifting boats out of the water.

Following the death of David Wallace in 1904, the house passed into the hands of his four nieces, Belle, Edith, Annie, and Jennie Wallace. The sisters travelled each season from Boston to "Camp Iroquois" via Clayton, New York, and then the ferry to Gananoque, Ontario. They would arrive, by skiff, on Bostwisk Island in early May, and not return to Boston until the first snowfall.

As their were no heirs, the Wallace sisters, who had close ties of friendship with the Byers family arranged for the transfer of the house and property to Donald N. Byers. "Camp Iroquois" has been in the Byers family ever since.

The School of Military Instruction at Kingston was "established by Militia General Orders, dated 10 February 1865, for the purpose of enabling Officers of Militia or Candidates for Commissions or promotion in the Militia to perfect themselves in a knowledge of their military duties, drill and discipline."

Charles Harold Bird was born in September 1872 in Barrie, Ontario. Son of a Chinese mother (Amy Laura Amoi) and an English father (Shearman Godfrey Bird, Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers), he was the youngest child in a family of eight children, five born in China, one in England, and two in Barrie. Following an honourable discharge, and after a brief time spent in England, Shearman Godfrey Bird removed to Canada and Barrie, where he established himself as a successful land surveyor and architect. In 1873, Shearman Bird died, leaving his wife to raise a large family on the pension of a retired army veteran.

C.H. Bird entered Trinity Medical College, Toronto and graduated as gold medallist and valedictorian of his class in the spring of 1893, being the only person, to that point and for some years after, who passed the final examination with honours. Following his internship he moved to Dromore, County Grey, where he set up practice for a little over a year. In 1896, Charles Harold Bird removed to Gananoque, at his brother's invitation, and established himself in the town where he would spend the rest of his life. Over the succeeding years he built "Wigborough" (1897), the house named after the family home in England, and designed by his older brother Eustace, a graduate of the Royal Institute of British Architecture in England and married Edith Bryson Dunn of Toronto (1898) with whom he had three children: Harold Godfrey, Edward Shearman, and Laura Frances.

Charles Harold Bird held many respected positions both within the provincial and municipal medical communities, including being an examiner for many years for the Ontario Medical Council, and the Medical Officer of Health for the Town of Gananoque. In 1942, he, along with the assistance of others, helped in the formation of the local chapter of the Victorian Order of Nurses (V.O.N.). His concern for the safety of public health led to his championing the pasteurisation of milk that in turn resulted in Gananoque becoming one of the first municipalities in Ontario to have "safe milk".

Active in community affairs, he was instrumental in having the Gananoque Arena erected and joined with other community members to form the Gananoque Arena Company; as well as beginning the North Shore Realty Company. The formation of the Thousand Islands Motor League was in large part due to his energy and foresight. For many years too, he was a member of the local Board of Education; a Director of the Ontario Steel Products Company; the Medical Officer for the Steel Company of Canada's Gananoque Plant from the time it first had a "shop physician" to the time of his death in 1944; the District Medical Officer for the Grand Trunk Railway (later the Canadian National Railway); and was President of the Chamber of Commerce at the time planning was under way for the construction of the Macdonald-Cartier (401) Highway.

Dr. Charles Harold Bird died in September 1944, age seventy-two. He was predeceased by his first wife, Edith Bryson Dunn in 1933. His second wife, Jean Bain (m. 1934), died in August 1984.

Robert Parker was born in Ayre, Scotland on May 2, 1800. At the age of twenty-one, he graduated with an MA from Glasgow University. Robert Parker's father owned mines in Addrossan, Scotland and also held stock in an iron mine in Marmora, Ontario. It was this concern in Marmora that brought Robert to Canada in, or around, 1821. Robert was employed at the open pit mine as bookkeeper and paymaster on the southwest shore of Crowe Lake until it closed down. When the mine closed, Robert moved to Kingston as a teller for the Bank of British North America. It was in 1828, while in Kingston, that Robert Parker married Elizabeth Huffman, a member of a family of United Empire Loyalists (UEL) who had settled in Moscow, north of Napanee.

In 1830 Elizabeth and Robert Parker moved back to Marmora where Robert was able to claim timber lands as the spouse of a UEL. For the next nine years Parker cut timber and rafted it down the Deer and Trent waterways to the Bay of Quinte near Belleville. In 1839 Parker received a commission as an officer in the Canadian Militia from King George III to put down a rebellion. After his military commission, Parker met Edward Fidlar who had settled in Stirling and had started a timber and milling business. From Fidlar, Parker learned that Stirling was growing as a town and becoming popular as a stopping point for travellers in Hastings County. To accomodate these travellers Parker's Tavern (a hotel) was built and opened by Robert Parker.The 1840's were a busy time for Robert Parker, he served as one of the first town councillors for Stirling as well as it's first postmaster. In addition to his hotel and community positions, Parker purchased land north of Marmora for the erection of a stone mill. Robert Parker operated both the hotel and mill until he died in 1852.

Robert and Elizabeth's sons, Francis Borland and Robert Parker opened a bank, the Parker Brothers Bank, in Stirling, Ontario around the time of their father's death. The bank was eventually sold to the Soveriegn Bank of Canada. Francis Borland Parker, like his father, also served the community by working as the Clerk for the Court for the County of Hastings, as well as the Justice of the Peace for the area. It is believed that Francis Borland Parker passed away sometime around 1904.
Emily and Mabel Parker were the daughters of Francis Borland Parker. Mabel was born in 1873 and she graduated from Queen's in 1895. She was the youngest of 3 Parker girls. Mabel intended to be a teacher but it appears that Mabel stayed at home with her family . Her future husband Arthur E. Ross was still at Queen's. He graduated in Medicine in 1900 and immediately went to South Africa to fight the Boers. Mabel and Arthur were married in 1902. Their only child Donald was born in 1909 . In 1914, Arthur left agian, this time for England and then France for the WW1 effort. Mabel and Donald stayed in their home on Sydenham Street. Emily Parker, who lived to be 99, stayed in the Parker home in Stirling.

Robert Parker was born in Ayre, Scotland on May 2, 1800. At the age of twenty-one, he graduated with an MA from Glasgow University. Robert Parker's father owned mines in Addrossan, Scotland and also held stock in an iron mine in Marmora, Ontario. It was this concern in Marmora that brought Robert to Canada in, or around, 1821. Robert was employed at the open pit mine as bookkeeper and paymaster on the southwest shore of Crowe Lake until it closed down. When the mine closed, Robert moved to Kingston as a teller for the Bank of British North America. It was in 1828, while in Kingston, that Robert Parker married Elizabeth Huffman, a member of a family of United Empire Loyalists (UEL) who had settled in Moscow, north of Napanee.

In 1830 Elizabeth and Robert Parker moved back to Marmora where Robert was able to claim timber lands as the spouse of a UEL. For the next nine years Parker cut timber and rafted it down the Deer and Trent waterways to the Bay of Quinte near Belleville. In 1839 Parker received a commission as an officer in the Canadian Militia from King George III to put down a rebellion. After his military commission, Parker met Edward Fidlar who had settled in Stirling and had started a timber and milling business. From Fidlar, Parker learned that Stirling was growing as a town and becoming popular as a stopping point for travellers in Hastings County. To accomodate these travellers Parker's Tavern (a hotel) was built and opened by Robert Parker.The 1840's were a busy time for Robert Parker, he served as one of the first town councillors for Stirling as well as it's first postmaster. In addition to his hotel and community positions, Parker purchased land north of Marmora for the erection of a stone mill. Robert Parker operated both the hotel and mill until he died in 1852.

Robert and Elizabeth's sons, Francis Borland and Robert Parker opened a bank, the Parker Brothers Bank, in Stirling, Ontario around the time of their father's death. The bank was eventually sold to the Soveriegn Bank of Canada. Francis Borland Parker, like his father, also served the community by working as the Clerk for the Court for the County of Hastings, as well as the Justice of the Peace for the area. It is believed that Francis Borland Parker passed away sometime around 1904.
Emily and Mabel Parker were the daughters of Francis Borland Parker. Mabel was born in 1873 and she graduated from Queen's in 1895. She was the youngest of 3 Parker girls. Mabel intended to be a teacher but it appears that Mabel stayed at home with her family . Her future husband Arthur E. Ross was still at Queen's. He graduated in Medicine in 1900 and immediately went to South Africa to fight the Boers. Mabel and Arthur were married in 1902. Their only child Donald was born in 1909 . In 1914, Arthur left agian, this time for England and then France for the WW1 effort. Mabel and Donald stayed in their home on Sydenham Street. Emily Parker, who lived to be 99, stayed in the Parker home in Stirling.

Hugh F. Gibson was born in Kingston, Ontario on December 12, 1916. He was educated at Queen's University where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1937 and a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1938. He received legal training as Osgoode Hall, Toronto and was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1942. He practised law in Kingston from 1946 to 1964 and was created Queen's Counsel in 1960. During his legal career he held various positions including Judge of the Exchequer Court of Canada, 1964-1971, President of the Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada, 1964-1981, and Judge of the Trial Division, Federal Court of Canada, 1971-1981.
In 1965 Judge Gibson was appointed Commissioner to investigate the loss of the M.V. "Fort William" in Montreal Harbour, 1965. He was Chairman of the Board of Inquiry into the crash of the Douglas DC-8 at Toronto International Airport, July 1970. In 1973 he was appointed Chairman of the Airport Inquiry Commission and six years later was appointed Commissioner to inquire into certain allegations concerning commercial practices of the Canadian Dairy Commission.

Joseph Newell McCarey was born in 1912 in Kingston, Ontario. He graduated from Queen's University in 1935 with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. In 1945 he became a registered Professional Engineer in the province of Ontario. From 1935 to 1967 McCarey was employed by a number of different firms in Canada and abroad. After 1967 he was self-employed as a consultant, specializing in bulk materials handling. As a consultant McCarey was responsible for the conceptual and definitive designs for the mechanical handling equipment for a number of special projects. He passed away in 1992.

Trudi Le Caine was a patron of the Arts in Ottawa, Ontario. She was born Gertruda Janowská in Passau, Czechoslovakia, and moved to Canada in 1940. While working as a French teacher in the Ottawa public school system, she helped organise the Ottawa Children's Concerts in the 1940s and 1950s. She served on the National Arts Centre Orchestra Association Board. She was also instrumental in bringing skating to the Rideau Canal. She was the step-daughter of Arnold Walter, a composer and former Dean of the Faculty of Music at the Univerity of Toronto.