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The Hasting Building Society was located at the corner of Front and Bridge streets in Belleville, Ontario.

Miss McLean was employed by Dr. Rankin at his residence at 4111 Bath Rd.

Al Shawana was a historian and former Chief, Elder and Band member of the Wikwemikong First Nation.

Simon Oberndorffer was born in Bretten, Germany circa 1826. At 18 he immigrated to New York where he stayed for eight or nine year before arriving in Kingston around 1857. In New York, Oberndorffer had learned the trade of cigar making. Oberndorffer operated a cigar company in Kingston until his death in 1913. Both he and his German-born wife Cecelia (married in 1867) were pillars of the Kingston community and instrumental in the establishment of a synagogue for the local Jewish congregation. Together they had 12 children, eight of whom survived into adulthood. Oberndorffer was a member of many fraternal organizations, such as the Oddfellows and the Masons. He also served on City Council as the alderman for Cataraqui Ward in 1892.

William S. Peruniak was born in Port Arthur, Ontario to Anna Zurba and Steven Haschyn. He attended Queen's University at the age of 15 and graduated with a B.Ed. He taught in Kenora and then at KCVI, where he coached the Boy's Curling Team to win the national high school championship in 1957. By the age of 30 he was principal of Atikokan High School. There he established the Outers Program in 1965, a program that became a catalyst for incorporating outdoor education into the regular curriculum of public schools across the country. In 1967 he returned to Kingston as founding Associate Dean to the Faculty of Education.

Shirley Gibson-Langille is an artist, author, and historian based in Kingston, Ontario. Specializing in portraits of homes and businesses, she has exhibited her works since 1961.

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Robert Swain was the Director of the Agnes Etherington Art Centre for eleven years. Prior to that appointment, Swain worked at the National Museum of Science and Technology (1967) and was Director of the Gallery/Stratford. After leaving Kingston Swain was Director of the Art Gallery of Hamilton; and acting Head of Development at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. Swain has also served in a a number of professional organizations as President of the Ontario Association of Art Galleries, President of the Canadian Art Museum Directors Organisation, and secretary treasurer of the Board of the Canadian Museums Association. He was an author/curator of numerous exhibitions and their accompanying catalogues; articles in Queen's Quarterly;' Co-author with Robert Fulford of Hidden Values which accompanied an exhibition for which he served as curator.

J. Moffat was an inventor.

Judith Moses was born in Cobourg, Ontario on the 22nd of February, 1957. Moses attended Queen's University graduating in 1981 with a BSc (OT) as well as a Master of Public Administration degree in 2000. While Moses briefly worked as an occupational therapist at Beechgrove Children's Centre in Kingston post graduation from her undergraduate degree, she soon moved to London, Ontario where she became a frontline counsellor at Women's Community House. For the rest of her career Judith worked extensively in the feminist anti-violence, anti-oppression, social service and mental health movements for organizations such as the London Status of Women Action Committee(LSWAG), the Sexual Assault Centre London, Hamilton Interval House, Hastings County Children's Aid Society, and Citizen's Against Sexual Child Abuse (CASCA) Kingston.

Moses established Radical Revisioning Consulting Services in 1990 which became Collective Wisdom Consulting in 2002. Through the consulting company Judith has provided staff training, Board development, strategic planning as well as organizational investigation service to the anti-violence sector throughout Ontario. In addition to providing these consulting services, Moses is the author of several training manuals and resource handbooks: It's Never Too Late: Senior Women and Sexual Violence; violence Against Women with Disabilitie: Guidelines for Service Providers; Home Safe Home: Violence Against Women with Disabilities Living in Institutions and Group Homes; Creating Inclusive Spaces for Women: A Practical Guide for Implementing an Integrated, Anti-Racist, Femiinist Service Delivery System; and Ready & Able: Including Volunteers with Disabilities-Information & Resource Tool Kit for Coordinators of Volunteers.

Moses currently resides in Kingston, Ontario.