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The son of Arthur and Gertrude Balmer Watt, Frederick B. "Ted" Watt was a correspondent for many newspapers and magazines, notably the Edmonton Journal. In 1929, thanks to an invitation from childhood friend and legendary pilot Wop May, Watt covered the first airmail flight to Aklavik. He also covered the manhunt for the Mad Trapper of Rat River in 1932. During the Great Depression, Watt also made his way to Great Bear Lake in the rush to find pitchblende, which was later used as uranium in the World War II.

Watt was a naval intelligence officer in World War II, earning the rank of Lieutenant Commander. He became a member of the information branch of the Department of Health and Welfare in Ottawa from 1957-1969. In 1980, Watt published the story of his time at Great Bear Lake entitled, Great Bear: A Journey Remembered.

Alexander Watt was a real estate agent with a wide circle of acquaintances. He was a prominent member of the Theosophical Society in Kitchener for approximately twenty years, in the 1940's and 1950's. In addition, he was apparently a Rosicrucian, belonging to both the English and American organizations. Finally, he was obviously a member of the O.T.O. (Ordo Templi Orientis), the magickal [sic] order formed by Aleister Crowley when he broke away from the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and headed by him until his death in 1947. Watt, whose Order name GADA... appears frequently in the books, knew Crowley, who acknowledged his work for the order by giving him one of twenty special copies of his work OLLA (now contained within the collection). Watt had a large number of students over the years, many of whom were professional people and who went on to make significant contributions to society. Any students of his with whom we have spoken remember him not only with affection but with the greatest respect for his learning and his abilities as a teacher.

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Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, developer of radar, was born in Brechin, Forfarshire, on 13 April 1892, the fifth son and youngest of seven children of Patrick Watson Watt, a carpenter and joiner, and his wife, Mary Small Matthew. Both the Watsons and the Watts were Aberdeenshire families, the most illustrious scion of the latter being James Watt, the inventor of the condensing steam engine. Watson Watt first attended Damacre School in Brechin. After winning a local bursary, he attended Brechin high school, and then, with a further bursary, University College, Dundee, then part of the University of St Andrews. He graduated BSc (engineering) in 1912, having won medals in applied mathematics and electrical engineering as well as the class prize in natural philosophy. The last led the professor of natural philosophy, William Peddie, to offer him an assistantship after graduation, and it was Peddie who excited his interest in radio waves.

William Heriot Watson (1899-1987), physicist, was born in Scotland and educated at Edinburgh and Cambridge. In 1931, he came to Canada as Assistant Professor of Physics at McGill University 1931-1944, then Professor of Mathematics and Department Head, University of Saskatchewan 1944-1946. From 1946 to 1951 he was Research Physicist and Head of Theoretical Physics, National Research Council Atomic Energy Division. At the University of Toronto he was head of the Physics Department 1950-1961 and Director Computation Centre 1952-1962. Dr. Watson then served as Senior Consulting Scientist at Lockheed Missles, Palo Alto, California 1962-1969. He retired to British Columbia. In his early years at Cambridge Dr Watson became friendly with Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), a friendship and correspondence that endured for many years. Dr. Watson had many publications on physics, radar, and computers and two major works, On Understanding Physics (1938) and Understanding Physics Today (1963).

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Peter Heriot Watson was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1932. He graduated from Royal Roads Military College in Victoria, British Columbia in 1952 and then returned to Central Canada where he attended the University of Toronto, receiving an Honours B.A. in 1955. Upon graduation he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy. While in the service he taught history and mathematics, as well as attending Acadia University at Wolfville, Nova Scotia, from where he received an M.A. in History in 1957. Following his retirement from the Navy, with the rank of Lieutenant-Commander, in 1959, he returned to the University of Toronto where he received his B.ED. For the next nine years he taught with the Etobicoke Board of Education. In 1968 he accepted a teaching position with the Faculty of Education at Queen's University. Mr. Watson was also active politically being deeply involved with both the Liberal Party of Canada and the Liberal Party of Ontario.

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John Watson was born at Glasgow, Scotland in 1847 and died in 1939. His ideas influenced the development of religious and political thought in Canada during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Educated at Glasgow University, Watson became a disciple of Edward Caird, the British philosopher who, later, became The Master of Balliol College Oxford. Watson came to Queen's University to teach philosophy in 1872 and remained in Kingston until his death in 1939. During his fifty-two years on the faculty of Queen's University, John Watson became the Professor of Moral Philosophy and, in 1901, Vice Principal, a post he held until his retirement to Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy in 1924. He published some fifteen books and over two hundred articles and reviews, as well as some poetry and even had a play he wrote produced. He became the first Queen's Professor to have an international reputation as a scholar, leading the Kantian revolution in the English-speaking world. He was the first Canadian to be invited to give the Gifford Lectures at the University of Glasgow, the most prestigious honour that can be given a English-speaking philosopher, and was regarded by many as the leading academic philosopher not just in Canada but in North America.