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Charles Gavan Power (1888-1968) was born at Sillery, Québec. He attended Loyola College in Montreal where he specialized in history from 1899 to 1907. In 1907 he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and went to Laval University where he studied law, graduating with a Bachelor of Law degree in 1910. That same year he was called to the Quebec Bar and, soon afterwards, joined with Lucien Connor to form the legal firm of Connor and Power in Quebec City. During the FIrst World War Power served overseas in the Canadian Army as Captain and Major. When he returned to Canada in 1917 he became involved in organizational work for the Liberal Party in Quebec. He was nominated as a candidate in the riding of Quebec South and was first elected to the House of Commons in 1917. He was re-elected in the next nine federal elections.He continued to practice law and in Parliament became an authority on election law. In 1935 Prime Minister Mackenzie King named Power to the Cabinet as Minister of Pensions and National Health. In 1939 Power was appointed Postmaster General and in 1940 Minister of National Defence for Air. Less than two months later he was also named Associate Minister of National Defence. Power resigned from the Cabinet in 1944, during the "Conscription Crisis". He remained in the House of Commons, however, until 1955. Senator Power died at Quebec City in 1968.

John Power (1816-1882) came to Kingston from England in 1846. Given the lack of formal training facilities, it might be assumed that John Power's early architectural training and experience was gained under his father, an architect/builder in Devonshire. In Kingston, it is thought that John Power first assisted in architectural work in the offices of Edward Horsey, a fellow emigrant from Devonshire and probably the brother of John Horsey, with whom Power travelled to Canada. The first professional mention of Power working on his own is an 1850 item in the Kingston Daily News (March 22). Throughout the 1850s, '60s and '70s, Power's practice diversified including designs for houses, both single and multiple, several churches and schoolhouses. In 1862 he began what was to become a series of associations with governmental clients by assuming responsibility as joint architect with William Coverdale for the Watkins Wing of the Kingston General Hospital.

In 1873 Joseph Power (1849-1925) became a partner in his father's architectural firm, which then became known as Power & Son. This name was continued until 1919, in spite of John Power's death in 1882. Around 1880 a younger son, Thomas R.P. Power (1859-1930) also joined the practice although the name of the firm was never changed to reflect this addition to the practice. Colin Drever (1887-1975), educated at Heriot Watt College in Edinburgh and emigrated to Canada in 1911, worked for Power & Son from 1912 to 1915 and again in 1818. He was taken in as a partner in 1919, at which time drawings in the Power Collection began to be signed Power Son & Drever. Powers retired in 1923 leaving Drever on his own until 1945 when he was joined by Harry P. Smith (1905-1983), a graduate of the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Architecture degree (1929). Drever retired in 1967.

Richard Preston is a historian based in Kingston, Ontario and Durham, North Carolina.

George Pringle was the son of James Pringle, a Justice of the Peace of Cornwall. He attended Queen's University in Arts from 1849 to 1850 and obtained a medical degree later from McGill. He took further medical training in England during 1857 and 1858.

Politician, Toronto, Ont.

Student, Queen's University, Kingston, ON.

James A. Richardson was Chancellor, Queen's University

James Reid's furniture factory was founded in 1854 in a building which once housed a saloon. Here James Reid (1829-1900), who had come from Ireland, started to manufacture and upholster furniture. A few years later he added caskets to his line as was the custom in those days with cabinet makers. By 1875 he employed a staff of twelve in his shops which were run by steam. When he died in 1900, his eldest son Robert J. Reid became manager of the business. In 1901, Robert founded his own furniture and undertaking business at 222 Princess St., later moving to 230-232 Princess St. James Reid Furniture would then be operated by his siblings Samuel, Francis C., and Frederick C. Reid.

Denys Thomas Roberts was born in Bristol, Engalnd in 1915. The University of Bristol granted him a B. Sc. degree in 1931 and, in 1941, he was awarded a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Birmingham. From 1939 to 1943, Mr Roberts was employed as a Research Associate by the University of Birmingham on a university contract with the British Aedmiralty. In 1943, while remaining a Research Associate at University of Birmingham, he worked on another contract from the Directorate of Tube Alloys (Uranium), Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. From 1944 to !946, Dr. Roberts was a Temporary Scientific Officer, Aker's Mission to Canada. Most of his time was spent working in the Mass Spectrometer Laboratory at McMaster University, with H.G. Thode. He returned to England in 1946 to work as a research officer in the Medical Council of the National Institute for Medical Research in London where he organized the isotope labortory. In 1947, he came back to Canada to accept an appointment as Professor in the Queen's University Physics Department where he remained for the rest of his life. Denys Thomas Roberts died in Kingston, Ontario, in 1979.

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