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Donald Mackenzie Schurman was born September 2nd, 1924 in Sydney, Nova Scotia. He enlisted in the Royal Air Force and served as aircrew in the Royal Air Force Bomber Command in 1944-1945. Upon return to Canada he enrolled at Acadia University where he completed a B.A. in 1949, and an M.A. in 1950. He was a member, and fellow, of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University in the United Kingdom from 1950 to 1955, where he attained his PhD.
Upon completion of his doctoral work Schurman taught at the University of Alberta for 1955-1956, and then Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) in Kingston from 1956-1966 at which point he moved to Queen's University. Schurman taught at Queen's University for a decade, during which time he became one of the three founding principal investigators of the Disraeli project as well as the Director of the Institute of Commonwealth and Comparative Studies (1975-1977). Schurman left Queen's University in 1977 and spent a year as a visiting professor at the University of Singapore. Upon his return, he was hired as chair of the history department at RMC, where he stayed until his retirement in 1987. Dr. Schurman passed away in Kingston in June 2013.

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John Baxter Black, a Lieutenant with the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery, was born 8 June 1919 in Kingston, Ontario. While studying at Queen's University, he enlisted with the QUC COTC Artillery Arm on 8 May 1942. During the Second World War, he served in the theatres of Northwest Europe and the Central Mediterranean, and was decorated with the 1939-45 Star, Italy Star, France and Germany Star, Defence Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with Clasp and War Medal 1939-45. He received an honourable discharge on 28 March 1946.

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Journalist, Politician, senator, promoted Canadian Unity.

Henri Bourassa, journalist and politican, was born at Montreal, Quebec in 1868. He was educated by tutors, and became a journalist. He was a contributor to "Le Nationaliste," a journal published in Montreal; and in 1896 he was elected to represent Labelle as an independant Liberal in the House of Commons. He became a pronounced "Nationalist; and in 1910 he founded "Le Devoir," a Nationalist newspaper in Montreal, of which he became the editor-in-chief, continuing as editor until he broke with many of the Nationalists, and resigned from the paper in 1932. In 1907 he resigned from the House of Commons so he could sit in the Quebec Legislative Assembly. He remained in the Assembly from 1908 to 1912. He sat once again in the House of Commons from 1925 to 1935, when he was defeated in his old constituency, Labelle. Bourassa was an outstanding political figure, and a first-rate orator. He also published many pamphlets on political questions, in both French and English. Henri Bourassa died at Outremont, Quebec, on August 30, 1952.

The Bowerman family emigrated from England to the United States and Canada and were a prominent family in Prince Edward County. Merton Yarwood Williams, a descendant of the Bowerman family, was a Queen's graduate (1909) and professor of Geology at the University of British Columbia.

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