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Dr. Sean Maloney is a history professor at Royal Military College of Canada, and taught in the War Studies Programme there for ten years. He is also the Historical Advisor to the Canadian Forces Chief of Land Staff and Senior Fellow at the Queen's Centre for International Relations. He obtained his BA and MA from the University of New Brunswick in 1990 and 1992, and his PhD from Temple University in 1998. He is currently the historical advisor to the Canadian Army for the war in Afghanistan. He previously served as the historian for 4 Canadian Mechanized Brigade, the Canadian Army’s primary Cold War NATO commitment, right after the re-unification of Germany and at the start of Canada’s long involvement in the Balkans. Dr. Maloney has extensive field experience in that region, specifically in Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia from 1995 to 2001.

In addition, Dr. Maloney has travelled throughout the Middle East studying the various Arab-Israeli conflicts and the myriad of international peacekeeping efforts designed to contain them. His work on stabilization and peacekeeping operations was interrupted by the 9-11 attacks and from 2001 Dr. Maloney has focused nearly exclusively on the war against the Al Qaeda movement, and in particular on the Afghanistan component of that war. He has traveled regularly to Afghanistan since 2003 to observe coalition operations in that country and became the first Canadian military historian to go into ground combat at the company level since the Second World War. His publications include "Operation KINETIC: The Canadians in Kosovo 1999-2000," "Canada and UN Peacekeeping: Cold War by Other Means," "Learning to Love the Bomb: Canada, the Cold War, and Nuclear Weapons 1951-1970," and "Enduring the Freedom: A Rogue Historian in Afghanistan."

Allan R. Gregg is a pollster, political commentator and former music producer. From 1979 through 1993 Gregg was known as the official pollster of the Progressive Conservative Party and participated in over 50 central election campaigns on three continents. In 1995, he co-founded The Strategic Counsel, a research partnership he left in 2007. That year, he set out on his own to form Allan Gregg Strategies, offering high-end, value added, research-based consulting and communications advice to private and public sector clients. At the same time, he returned to roots and assumed the position of Chairman of Harris/Decima, a company he founded almost 30 years earlier that has recently merged with the fastest growing research firm in the world. Allan is a pioneer in the integration of consulting, public-opinion research, public affairs and communications. He not only has an intimate knowledge of the dynamics of policy-making but also a deep understanding of cultural change and the communications processes necessary to forge a public consensus around government and business initiatives. Much sought after for his analysis and as a public speaker, he is widely published and quoted. He is a regular participant on CBC’s “At Issue” panel on Thursday nights , is the host of the popular and respected TVO talk show – Allan Gregg In Conversation With — as well as a frequent contributor to newspapers and magazines.

Allan is also an entrepreneur with diverse interests. He was one of the founding shareholders of Canada’s children’s network, YTV, the Chairman of Toronto Film Festival, the current Chair of the Walrus Foundation (publisher of 2007 Magazine of the Year, “The Walrus”) and has executive produced documentary television as well as recordings by Canadian artists such as The Tragically Hip, The Watchmen and Big Wreck. Corporately, he serves on General Motors of Canada’s Advisory Board and the Bank of Montreal’s Advisory Council on Retirement.

The Women's Centre was founded in 1975 as a centre for information, a referral service, and a women-only space for women from both Queen's and the greater Kingston community. It was home to the woman's resource library and the Kingston Women's Movement archives, both of which are still located in the Grey House and operated through the Levana Gender Advocacy Centre. In the summer of 2010, the Centre began to work towards revival and upheaval. The Women's Centre needed increased inclusivity, a more radical and political voice, and to start engaging with issues previously deemed peripheral to the feminist cause. The Levana Gender Advocacy Centre was created from these changes in 2011.

A. Davis and Son was established by Andrew Davis in 1872. The third generation of the Davis family to be involved in the tanning industry, the company was not officially incorporated under this name until 1903. E. J. Davis took over the company from Andrew Davis in 1884. In April of that year the building burned down and was rebuilt at Kinghorn, north of Toronto. In 1903 the tannery burned again and it was at this point that the company relocated to Kingston, Ontario purchasing the Cannington plant already in operation.The tannery itself had been very successful in its day but was closed in November 1973 when C.S. Riley, president of Dominion Tanners of Winnipeg, and Mr. Davis, president of A. Davis and Son Ltd., announced the merger of the Kingston firm with the much larger Winnipeg one.

The Ontario Film and Video Appreciation Society (OFAVAS) was formed in April 1982 to specifically challenge the rights and authority of the Ontario Board of Censors under the 1982 Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The group was formed by independent producers and distributors David Poole, Anna Gronau and Cyndra MacDowall who became the Board of Directors. There was also a prominant Board of Advisors which included Renee Baert, Janic Baudrihaye, Pierre Berton, Jackie Burroughs, Varda Burstyn, June Callwood, David Cronenberg, Malcolm Dean, Barbara Emmanuel, John Friendly, Allan King, Joyce Mason, Carol McBride, Ross McLaren, Michaella McLean, Laura Sabia, Michael Snow, and Joyce Weiland. OFAVAS worked in concert with the Film and Video Against Censorship (FAVAC) group.

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James Stewart Pritchard became a lecturer in history at Queen’s University in 1967. Dr. Pritchard remained at Queen’s for his academic career, teaching history courses on New France, Quebec and early modern European expansion. His research specifically focused on early Canadian colonial history as well as maritime history. Some of Pritchard’s published writings were the following: Louis XV's Navy; A Study of Organization and Administration; Anatomy of a Naval Disaster; The 1746 French Expedition to North America; and In Search of Empire, The French in the Americas, 1670-1730; and A Bridge of Ships; Canadian Shipbuilding during the Second World War.

In February of 1988, the National Film Theatre opened Princess Court Cinema in the old Oddfellows Lodge at 394 Princess Street in collaboration with the Kingston Artists Association Inc. Relocating to the downtown core of Kingston was done with the hope of better fulfilling what the NFT saw as one of their key tenets, performing a community service to the general public and downtown residents, not just Queen's students and faculty. The Cinema continued as a non-profit corporation until 1998, when, due to distribution issues, it closed its doors.