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The Committee for an Independent Canada (CIC) was created in 1970 to further the cause of economic nationalism in Canada. The Committee was the brainchild of former Liberal Finance Minister Walter Gordon, University of Toronto economist Abe Rotstein, and the Editor-in-Chief of the Toronto Star Peter C. Newman. The CIC endeavored to mobilize a strong show of public support to force the government to take a firm stand against the flow of foreign capital into the Canadian economy. The means to this end was a national petition drive under the direction of Flora MacDonald, who conducted a national tour to establish local chapters to gather signatures. The petition in the spring of 1971 was a major success leading to an audience with Prime Minister Trudeau. The original trio soon expanded and the creation of the Committee was formally announced in September, 1971, with publisher Jack McClelland, and the editor of Le Devoir Claude Ryan as Co-Chairmen. The Committee was solidified as a national organization at their first national conference in Decenber, 1971.By the late spring of 1972 the organization had upwards of thirty-five local chapters.After the creation of the Foreign Investment Review Agency the CIC faced a crisis of the future in terms of direction and finances. Eventually the CIC was unable to sustain itself and after 1975 began to flag. Several attempts were made, unsuccessfully, to revive the organization which finally ceased operation in August 1981.

The Progressive Conservative Party, a political party, began as a coalition of Liberals and moderate Conservatives in 1854. Brought together under the leadership of Sir Alan MacNab and the active direction of John A. Macdonald and George-Etienne Cartier, this Liberal-Conservative coalition was regarded at first as just another of the shifting alliances of the period. The party was broadened at Confederation by the addition of the Conservative parties of the Maritime Provinces. The Party retained the name "Liberal-Conservative" from its inception in 1854 until its national convention in 1938. At that convention the name was changed to "The National Conservative Party". At the convention of 1942 in Winnipeg the name was changed to "Progressive Conservative Party". At no time from 1854 to the present has the single name "Conservative" ever been used as the official designation of the Party.

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The family includes W.H. Coombs, a teacher, and A.A. Coombs, a daguerreotype photographer.

A.B. Copp was a lawyer in Sackville, New Brunswick.

George Gordon Coulton was born at King's Lynn in 1858. After some early schooling at Lynn and at the lycee at St.Omer (France) he was sent to Felsted school. In 1877 he went to St.Catherine's College, Cambridge as a scholar and went down with an aegrotat degree. After a brief period as a preparatory schoolmaster he read for holy orders, was ordained deacon in 1883 and priest in the following year.However after a short period he felt himself unable to continue and accepted posts is various public schools, with a happy interval of sixteen months in a private school in Heidelberg(Germany). Overwork while at Dulwich College brought on a breakdown in 1895. On his recovery he joined a friend who ran a coaching establishment at Eastbourne where for the next thirteen years he worked happily in conditions which gave him freedom to pursue his own studies. By this time he had determined to devote his energies to the serious study of medieval life and thought, and in particular to the working of the ecclesiastical system and he began to put out such books as From St.Francis to Dante (1906) and Chaucer and His England (1908) into which he poured some of the considerable knowledge he had acquired. His growing reputation was enhanced by the appointment as Birkbeck Lecturer in ecclesiastical history conferred on him by Trinity College, Cambridge in 1910, and as a result of this he decided to migrate to Cambridge to set up as a free-lance lecturer and coach the following year. In 1919 he was elected into what was then the sole university lectureship in English, and a little later in the same year he was made a Fellow of St.John's College. From then onwards, save for the years 1940-44 when he was a guest lecturer at the University of Toronto, his life was spent in Cambridge where he produced an unending flow of works and enjoyed a growing reputation both as a scholar and as an ever-ready adviser to those who sought his aid in matters historical. Coulton received the honorary degree of D.Litt. from Durham University (1920) and of LL.D. from Edinburgh (1931) and Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario (1942). He was elected a Fellow of the British Association in 1929 and an Honorary Fellow of St.Catherine's College in 1922. He died at Cambridge in 1947.

Professor Crawford was born in Great Village, Nova Scotia in 1904. He graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a B.A. in 1924 and an M.A. in 1926 in Political Science. From 1926 to 1934 he was assistant city clerk of London and city clerk from 1934 to 1944 when he came to Queen's University as director of the Institute of Local Government. For two years (1956-1958) he was on loan to the Ontario Government as Deputy Minister of the Department of Municipal Affairs and in 1962 Premiere John Robarts appointed him to a three-member commission set up to prepare a complete redistribution of Ontario's electoral districts. Professor Crawford was elected alderman of the City of Kingston in 1946 and held the post for ten years. He was also a member of the Kingston Planning Board. He was widely known as the author of a leading reference book Canadian Municipal Government. He died July 6, 1970.

Professor, Queen's University, Kingston, ON.

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Clergyman.