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Born in 1930, Roy Bonisteel attended the Hogle School on Aikens Road and Allen School, both in Sidney Township in Eastern Ontario. He received his first two years of secondary education at Stirling High School before moving to Port Colborne.

Roy's career in journalism began when he worked as a reporter for The Intelligencer in Belleville and for the Trenton Courier-Advocate (later called the Trentonian). He then moved to broadcasting with CJBQ in Belleville in 1951 and worked for a number of subsequent years in St. Catherines, Ontario. In the 1960's Roy Bonisteel went to Vancouver as Director of Broadcasting for the United Church of Canada. Subsequently he was made Canadian head of radio operation for the Anglican, Roman Catholic and United Churches. The first ecumenical appointment of its kind.

In 1967 Roy Bonisteel became the host of "Man Alive" on CBC television and for 22 years saw the program become one of the most respected and watched current affairs productions in Canadian broadcasting history. With a weekly audience of a million and a half, Roy circled the globe for his interviews with world figures.

Roy is the recipient of six Honourary Doctorates from Canadian Universities. He has written two books about his Man Alive experiences, "In Search of Man Alive"and "Man Alive the Human Journey". He is the co-author of "Themes for All Times", a Grade 12 Literature text book. He has written regular columns for magazines and newspapers and is involved in a number of television and radio projects. His book of memoirs, entitled "There Was a Time", describing his growing up years enjoyed a long run on the Best Seller list. An audio recording of the book was also released. His latest book to date is entitled "All Things Considered". He is currently working on Part Two of his memoirs.

Roy Bonisteel has been the recipient of many awards and honours. He received the Governor General's "Canada 125" medal in 1992 and was given the Distinguished Canadian Award in 1994 by the University of Regina. In 1995 Roy Bonisteel received the country’s highest honour, the Order of Canada. In addition to this he has won many broadcasting honours including two ACTRA awards, the Gordon Sinclair award for "Excellence in Broadcast Journalism", and the award for "The Best Television Host in Canada". Roy Bonisteel was made an Honourary Colonel of the Canadian Armed Forces in 1995 and in 1998 he was appointed a Citizenship Court Judge by the Department of Citizenship and Immigration. Bonisteel passed away in 2013.

Harold Godfrey Bird, son of Charles Harold and Edith Bryson (Dunn) Bird, was born September 1899 in Gananoque, Ontario. After attending several private schools in Kingston he entered, with his younger brother Edward, the University of Toronto Medical School in the autumn of 1917. Following their graduation together in June 1922, H. Godfrey Bird interned for a year at the Toronto General Hospital in preparation for establishing, like his father before him, a general practice.

The following year he returned to Gananoque and took over the practice, on a temporary basis, of one Dr. J. de L. Campbell. Upon the latter's return in 1924, H. Godfrey joined his father in his practice and remained with him until August 1925, at which time, with his brother Edward, the two embarked for further studies abroad. They took courses in Pathology at the American Medical Association of Vienna and psychoanalysis from Sigmund Freud's assistant, Paul Schilder. In London, H. Godfrey spent time attending clinics at St. Bartholomews and London Hospital and he completed his term as houseman at the Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford. From there he went on to Dublin, Ireland to the Rotunda Lying-in Hospital to gain further instruction in obstetrics.

Commencing in January 1927, he undertook a position in the Medical School at Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, teaching Physical Diagnosis, a position he held until the fall of 1964. At the same, he began a practice of general medicine from which he retired in late 1979.

In September 1928, H.Godfrey married Edna Rough of Montreal and over the years seven children were born to the couple: Robert Godfrey, the eldest, was followed by Shearman Godfrey, Edith Amoi, Mary Caroline, Richard Rough, Virginia Grace, and Edna Godfreyda.

He was later recommended by Dr. Lorimer John ("Blimey") Austin, of Queen's Medical School, for charter membership in the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and in order to keep himself abreast of new developments in the field of health care he enrolled as a post graduate student at Toronto General Hospital.

H. Godfrey was also interested in music and, for a time, played in the viola section of the Kingston Symphony Orchestra.

Robert Parker was born in Ayre, Scotland on May 2, 1800. At the age of twenty-one, he graduated with an MA from Glasgow University. Robert Parker's father owned mines in Addrossan, Scotland and also held stock in an iron mine in Marmora, Ontario. It was this concern in Marmora that brought Robert to Canada in, or around, 1821. Robert was employed at the open pit mine as bookkeeper and paymaster on the southwest shore of Crowe Lake until it closed down. When the mine closed, Robert moved to Kingston as a teller for the Bank of British North America. It was in 1828, while in Kingston, that Robert Parker married Elizabeth Huffman, a member of a family of United Empire Loyalists (UEL) who had settled in Moscow, north of Napanee.

In 1830 Elizabeth and Robert Parker moved back to Marmora where Robert was able to claim timber lands as the spouse of a UEL. For the next nine years Parker cut timber and rafted it down the Deer and Trent waterways to the Bay of Quinte near Belleville. In 1839 Parker received a commission as an officer in the Canadian Militia from King George III to put down a rebellion. After his military commission, Parker met Edward Fidlar who had settled in Stirling and had started a timber and milling business. From Fidlar, Parker learned that Stirling was growing as a town and becoming popular as a stopping point for travellers in Hastings County. To accomodate these travellers Parker's Tavern (a hotel) was built and opened by Robert Parker.The 1840's were a busy time for Robert Parker, he served as one of the first town councillors for Stirling as well as it's first postmaster. In addition to his hotel and community positions, Parker purchased land north of Marmora for the erection of a stone mill. Robert Parker operated both the hotel and mill until he died in 1852.

Robert and Elizabeth's sons, Francis Borland and Robert Parker opened a bank, the Parker Brothers Bank, in Stirling, Ontario around the time of their father's death. The bank was eventually sold to the Soveriegn Bank of Canada. Francis Borland Parker, like his father, also served the community by working as the Clerk for the Court for the County of Hastings, as well as the Justice of the Peace for the area. It is believed that Francis Borland Parker passed away sometime around 1904.
Emily and Mabel Parker were the daughters of Francis Borland Parker. Mabel was born in 1873 and she graduated from Queen's in 1895. She was the youngest of 3 Parker girls. Mabel intended to be a teacher but it appears that Mabel stayed at home with her family . Her future husband Arthur E. Ross was still at Queen's. He graduated in Medicine in 1900 and immediately went to South Africa to fight the Boers. Mabel and Arthur were married in 1902. Their only child Donald was born in 1909 . In 1914, Arthur left agian, this time for England and then France for the WW1 effort. Mabel and Donald stayed in their home on Sydenham Street. Emily Parker, who lived to be 99, stayed in the Parker home in Stirling.

Robert Parker was born in Ayre, Scotland on May 2, 1800. At the age of twenty-one, he graduated with an MA from Glasgow University. Robert Parker's father owned mines in Addrossan, Scotland and also held stock in an iron mine in Marmora, Ontario. It was this concern in Marmora that brought Robert to Canada in, or around, 1821. Robert was employed at the open pit mine as bookkeeper and paymaster on the southwest shore of Crowe Lake until it closed down. When the mine closed, Robert moved to Kingston as a teller for the Bank of British North America. It was in 1828, while in Kingston, that Robert Parker married Elizabeth Huffman, a member of a family of United Empire Loyalists (UEL) who had settled in Moscow, north of Napanee.

In 1830 Elizabeth and Robert Parker moved back to Marmora where Robert was able to claim timber lands as the spouse of a UEL. For the next nine years Parker cut timber and rafted it down the Deer and Trent waterways to the Bay of Quinte near Belleville. In 1839 Parker received a commission as an officer in the Canadian Militia from King George III to put down a rebellion. After his military commission, Parker met Edward Fidlar who had settled in Stirling and had started a timber and milling business. From Fidlar, Parker learned that Stirling was growing as a town and becoming popular as a stopping point for travellers in Hastings County. To accomodate these travellers Parker's Tavern (a hotel) was built and opened by Robert Parker.The 1840's were a busy time for Robert Parker, he served as one of the first town councillors for Stirling as well as it's first postmaster. In addition to his hotel and community positions, Parker purchased land north of Marmora for the erection of a stone mill. Robert Parker operated both the hotel and mill until he died in 1852.

Robert and Elizabeth's sons, Francis Borland and Robert Parker opened a bank, the Parker Brothers Bank, in Stirling, Ontario around the time of their father's death. The bank was eventually sold to the Soveriegn Bank of Canada. Francis Borland Parker, like his father, also served the community by working as the Clerk for the Court for the County of Hastings, as well as the Justice of the Peace for the area. It is believed that Francis Borland Parker passed away sometime around 1904.
Emily and Mabel Parker were the daughters of Francis Borland Parker. Mabel was born in 1873 and she graduated from Queen's in 1895. She was the youngest of 3 Parker girls. Mabel intended to be a teacher but it appears that Mabel stayed at home with her family . Her future husband Arthur E. Ross was still at Queen's. He graduated in Medicine in 1900 and immediately went to South Africa to fight the Boers. Mabel and Arthur were married in 1902. Their only child Donald was born in 1909 . In 1914, Arthur left agian, this time for England and then France for the WW1 effort. Mabel and Donald stayed in their home on Sydenham Street. Emily Parker, who lived to be 99, stayed in the Parker home in Stirling.

John Hugh MacKerras was born in 1882. He was educated at Queen's University earning a B.A. in 1850 and an M.A. in 1852. In 1864 he was made Professor of Classics at Queen's University. He died in 1880.

Munroe Putnam, forester and amateur art collector, served in the RCAF during the Second World War. He was stationed in Winnipeg when he met and married his wife, Joyce Musson, in 1942. They moved to Grenville, Quebec in 1957, where they met A.Y. Jackson.

Following his honorable discharge from the Royal Canadian Navy at the end of World War II, D.G. (Mike) Willis ran his father's store in Seeley's Bay until 1959, when he operated an aerial photography company known as Rideau Aerial Photography, in partnership with his brother-in-law, Jack Wyatt. He did much contract and commercial work. His business took him down to the Maritimes and out to Western Canada, although much was concentrated in Eastern Ontario. Flying mostly out of Seeley's Bay, a small town approximately twenty minutes north of Kingston, his aerial images provide a stunning and detailed record of an area from Belleville to Brockville to Smiths Falls in particular, and includes all points in between. Although now retired, D.G. (Mike) Willis continued to be active in a number of personal pursuits, including a detailed study of the archaeological record of the region around Kingston, and the local lapidary association. He passed away in Brockville in June 2010.

Lt. Colonel Louis J. Flynn served with the Canadian Militia for thirty-three years seeing active service in England, North Africa, Italy and North West Europe for six years during World War II. He was awarded the Efficiency Decoration for this service and went on to receive the Coronation Medal and the Canadian Centennial Medal.

He served as the President of the Kingston Historical Society for nine years from 1962 to 1971. For his service to the local community he was named Kingston's Man of the Year in 1965 which was followed by the receipt of an honourary degree from the Royal Military College in 1973.

Lt. Col. L. J. Flynn authored several brochures, numerous articles and published two books: "Built on a Rock" and "At School in Kingston." He passed away in the spring of 1980.

Henry J. Morgan was a historian, a civil servant, an archivist and a writer. Morgan was appointed to undertake the arrangement and classification of the records of all State records not specifically transferred to other departments. In 1873 Morgan was one of the first government workers to ever be employed as an archivist in Canada. In addition to his work his personal interest in history led to his collecting documents or copies of documents from various families and individuals which dealt with his research area. Along with co-author Lawrence Johnston Burpee he wrote "Canadian Life in Town and Country" published in 1905, and "Types of Canadian Women" (extracts), 1903, by H.J. Morgan

MacGregor the Mover was founded in 1918 by -- MacGregor.