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Margaret Elizabeth Elliot was believed to be born and raised in Toronto, Ontario. Throughout her residency in the Kingston area she was an active participant in the affairs of the Kingston community. She was particularly active in the Association of Women Electors. Her passion for municipal politics resulted in her campaigning for the position of alderwoman in the 1970 Sydenham Ward election. She was also an active member of the New Democratic party in Kingston.

In addition to her political activities, Margaret Phipps-Walker was involved in several other community organizations. She was president of the Victorian Order of Nurses, Eastern Lake Ontario branch, for three years during which time she helped initiate the home care plan. She was also involved with the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (I.O.D.E.). Margaret Phipps-Walker also served as regional coordinator for the "MEND" project, a committee that was set up to foster the needs and interests of emotionally and mentally disturbed children.

On November 30, 1991, Margaret Phipps-Walker died in Kingston.

Radio Station CFRC-FM is Queen's University's own radio station, broadcasting a variety of alternative, non-commercial programming to the campus and surrounding area at FM 101.9. The Station was the first radio broadcaster in Kingston, and is one of the oldest in the country. Its forerunner, an experimental station called 9BT run by the Queen's Wireless Club, came on the air on October 7, 1922, with a summary of a football game between Queen's and the Hamilton Rowing Club. The Station began broadcasting under its current call letters a year later on October 27 1923 with the play-by-play of a Queen's-McGill game. The letters CFRC are said to stand for "Canada's Famous Rugby Champions," a reference to Queen's Grey Cup-winning teams of the early 1920s (football was then called rugby or rugby-football). The Station was a CBC affiliate between 1936 and 1942, and during that time served as Kingston's main electronic source of national and international news. The current structure of the Station dates roughly from 1957, when Margaret Angus was appointed by the University as the first full-time, paid Director of Radio, and the CFRC Radio Club was established. The Radio Club continues today as a group of volunteers from Queen's and Kingston who operate the Station under the direction of the Station Manager, who in turn, reported to the Dean of Student Affairs. In 2003, the Station was brought under the auspices of the Alma Mater Society who now has responsibility for its operations. The Station plays a variety of rock, classical, folk, jazz, blues, and international music, and also broadcasts drama and sporting events. Its power output of 3,000 watts gives CFRC a broadcast radius of about 100 kilometres. The Station has broadcast in stereo since 1989. Among the Station's most venerated alumni are actor Lorne Greene, CBC Radio's Shelagh Rogers, and Globe and Mail columnist Jeffrey Simpson. The Station's history is told in the book, "In the Shadow of the Shield", authored by Arthur Zimmerman, Program Director of CFRC from 1984 to 1988.

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The Pittsburgh Women's Institute was organized on the 24th of April 1924 . The organizational meeting was held at the home of Mrs. James English of Middle Road and the Departmental organizer was Mrs. Sirrett. Miss Crozier was the first President with Mrs. Colin Rogers serving as Secretary-Treasurer. One early major project was the purchase of a Hall, on Middle Road (formerly a Methodist church) which was sold in 1931. The main tenets of the Institute were to provide community help and leadership through a “non-partisan, non-sectarian and non-racial organization” of regional rural women. The Institute held many events raising funds for various local and international projects.
In the 1940s the Pittsburgh Branch established a relationship with the Oulton Women’s Institute of Norwich, England sending many parcels of food and clothing during, and after, the 2nd World War. It was a relationship that continued into the 1990s.
In addition to sponsoring and giving financial support to a variety of local groups the Institute also fostered many crafting opportunities (such as quilting) for its members. The members of the Pittsburgh branch donated tapestries to both the City of Kingston and the Pittsburgh Township office.
The Pittsburgh Women’s Institute ceased existing as a branch in, or around, 2010.

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Kenneth Wiffin Taylor (1899-1975) was born at Takutang Ki, China, receiving his early education at the China Inland Mission Schools at Chefoo, China. From 1917 to 1919 he served with the Canadian Field Artillery. In 1921 he received his Bachelor of Arts degree from McMaster University and in 1922 he graduated from the University of Chicago with a Master of Arts degree. From 1925 to 1939 he was Professor of Political Economy at McMaster Unversity, during the last five years of which he was Associate Dean of Arts. Throughout the next few years Taylor held various posts in government departments and related work. From 1929 to 1951 he held various positions with the wartime Prices and Trade Board including Secretary, Administrator, Deputy Minister and Chairman. In 1947 he was appointed Assistant Deputy Minister of the federal department of Finance and in 1953 became the Deputy Minister. Upon his retirement as Deputy Minister of Finance in 1963 he was Special Adviser to the Privy Council. Taylor died in 1975.

Wallace R. Berry (1917-1999) was born and raised in Brantford Ontario. In 1937 he entered Queen's University graduating in 1942. While at Queen's he was coach and instructor for swimming and water polo and it was also during these years that he developed an interest in photography. After his graduation from Queen's, in 1942, Wally Berry entered the Royal Canadian Navy. Following the war Wally worked with a motion picture company in Montreal, Associated Screen News. Later he returned to Kingston and established Cinema Television Productions as an outlet for his ideas, as well as opening a photographic studio. Around 1971, he opened The Village Studio in Photography located in Portsmouth Village at 670 King St West. In addition to portraiture he did some freelance news and aerial photography. In 1951 he was appointed official photographer to the Queen's yearbook. In 1954, in addition to still photography, he began filming and latterly video taping Queen's football games. In fact he pioneered this work and it brought him membership in Queen's Football Hall of Fame, builder category. he was also awarded what is now known as the Padre Laverty Award from the Kingston Branch of the Queen's Alumni Association. He closed up his studios in 1996.

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Born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1902, Mary Waddell Burns graduated from Queen's University at Kingston with a B.A. in 1927. For many years she worked as a librarian at the Corley, (Ont.) Public Library.

Cockfield, Brown was founded in 1928 by Harry Cockfield and G. Warren Brown, in Montreal, Quebec. Over the next thirty years, it steadily grew to become one of the largest and most prestigious agencies in Canada, with branches in Toronto, Winnipeg, and Vancouver, serving such clients as Air Canada, Maclean-Hunter, and Canada Packers. In 1970, it became the only advertising agency in Canada to offer its shares on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Although a majority of shares were controlled by its own employees, the company faced a forced merger with McConnell Advertising in 1978, then a hostile takeover in 1981. The attempts of the Board of Directors to repatriate the shares held by outsiders, combined with falling profit margins, drove the agency into bankruptcy in 1982. Robert O'Hara was hired in the mail department of the Toronto branch in 1950. Through no small effort, he rose to the position of vice-president by 1967, and became a director in 1977. In 1981, he resigned from the board and left the company over a matter of principle; he then sued the company for wrongful dismissal by claiming the conditions of his contract had been materially altered. The bulk of the material concerns Mr O'Hara's duties as a director from 1977 to 1981, and his legal battles from 1982 to 1990. While some material discusses the day-to-day operations of the company, most relates to the financial structure of the company and its direction after 1975.