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Albert John Coleman (known as John) was Professor and Head of Mathematics and Statistics at Queen's University. He was also known for his social and community activism in Kingston.

Thomas Henry Farrell, a physician based in Utica, New York, was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1868. He moved to Kingston, Ontario in 1869, and would later matriculate at Queen's University, graduating with a B.A. in 1889, an M.A. in 1890 and an M.D. in 1895. He completed his post-graduate work in New York City, and established his practice in Utica in 1897. During the 1918 influenza epidemic, he headed a temporary hospital, for which he received wide praise. He was a member of the Queen's Board of Trustees from 1923 to 1947, and the University Council from 1904 to 1947. He died in a car accident in August 1947.

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Born in Camrose, AB, on January 30, 1937, Rolf joined the staff at Royal Military College in 1961 as a coach in football, nordic skiing, and gymnastics. As an instructor he was a nationally certified coach in ski jumping and gymnastics. In 1963, he was appointed to the School of Physical and Health Education at Queen’s, where he assumed both teaching and coaching responsibilities. Rolf’s primary areas of expertise were in the history of sport and in outdoor pursuits. Rolf continued teaching courses in sport history following his appointment to the Chair of Athletics in 1988, a post he held until his retirement in 1996.

Rolf was a long-time track-and-field coach at Queen’s with a career that spanned more than 25 years. During his tenure as Head Coach of both our men’s and women’s track-and-field teams, Rolf brought home three men’s provincial championship titles, five second-place finishes, and six third-place finishes. While he was head coach for the men’s and women’s cross-country teams for more than 20 years, Tricolour athletes won five provincial championships and four national titles.

In addition, Rolf coached both the men’s Alpine and Nordic Skiing teams during in the late 1960s, leading the Nordic men’s team to one national and three provincial titles.

Known as a very strong supporter of grassroots development of sports in Canada, Rolf served as a coach and administrator with Canadian teams at the World Student Games, Pan-Am Games, World Track and Field Championships, and the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. He also served on the Board of Directors for the Canadian Olympic Association, Pan Am Athletics Council, and Commonwealth Games Association.

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David McCallum is a researcher based in Kingston, Ontario.

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Thonas Walter Scott (1867-1938) was born on a farm near Strathroy, Ontario. In 1885 he moved to Portage la Prairie where he became a printer's apprentice in the shop of The Manitoba Liberal. He continued his career in newspaper work and by 1895 owned two papers; The Moose Jaw Times and The Leader. In 1900 Scott entered the federal election contest and won as the Liberal candidate for West Assiniboia. He was re-elected in 1904 and in 1905 resigned his seat in Parliament to accept leadership of the newly formed Saskatchewan Liberal Party. In September, 1905 he was selected to form the first government of the province and he led his party to victory in the first provincial general election in December, 1905. Under Scott's leadership the Liberals successfully contested the 1908 and 1912 general elections. The Honourable Walter Scott was Premier and President of the Executive Council (1905-1916), Commissioner and later Minister of Public Works (1905-1912), Commissioner of Railways (1906-1908), Minister of Education (1912-1916), and briefly Commission of Public Affairs. He retire in 1916 due to ill health. he died in Ontario in 1938.

The Bantling was a newspaper from Napanee, Ontario. Started in 1858 by Mr. F.M. Blakely, the paper sought to present "an agreeable melange of the notable events and literature of the day, its columns will always contain a goodly selection of the cream of domestic and foreign news, so condensed as to present the largest possible amount of intelligence in the smallest space — the whole, well spiced with wit and humour. In politics and upon all sectarian questions it will be strictly impartial." The paper ceased operations upon Mr. Blakely's death in 1959.

Stuart Lyon Smith, M.D., F.R.C.P. (C) was born in 1938 at Montreal. He was educated as a psychiatrist at McGill University and was subsequently on the faculty of McMaster University Medical School, and Director of In-Patient Psychiatric Services, St. Joseph's Hospital, Hamilton.
Dr. Smith entered public life as executive assistant to the Hon. Alan McNaughton, then Speaker of the House of Commons. He was elected as Liberal candidate for the riding of Hamilton-Wentworth in the Ontario Legislature in 1975 and re-elected in 1977 and 1981. He was chosen leader of the Ontario Liberal Party in 1976 and served in that role and as leader of the official opposition until 1981. In 1981, he resigned the Hamilton-Wentworth seat when he was appointed Chairman of the Science Council of Canada, a position he held until 1987.
A year after leaving the Council, he founded RockCliffe Research and Technology Inc., a firm which introduced public-private partnerships into government laboratories. From 1995 to 2002, he was chair of the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy.
In 1994, Smith proposed the creation of a private-sector water company in the City of Hamilton, and was named as the founding president of the Philip Utilities Management Corporation (PUMC). More recently, Smith has served as Chairman of the Board of Esna Tech in Richmond Hill. and as chair of the board for Humber College in Toronto. From 2012-2013, Smith was appointed commissioner of the Intercounty Baseball League, a semi-pro baseball league in Ontario.