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Jesse Turner was a student in the School of Mining at Queen's University.

A.B. Turner was a student at Queen's University.

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R. La Touche Tupper was a civili servant in Manitoba. Born in 1845 in Omemee, Ontario, son of Captain Tupper, he went to Manitoba in 1874 attached to a government survey party after service in the Union army in the American Civil War. He held various public offices including Superintendent of Government Telegraphs in the North-West Territories, License Inspector for the City of Winnipeg, Chief of Police and License Inspector for Manitoba, and Superintendent of the Dominion Fish Hatchery at Selkirk. In 1887 he spent some time in exploration for oil in the Riding Mountain area. He was on active service in the Rebellion of 1885 with the 91st Battalion.
Tupper died in Winnipeg on 21 May 1904.

Charles Hibbert Tupper was a lawyer, politician, and author. He was born 3 Aug. 1855 in Amherst, N.S., second son of Charles Tupper and Frances Amelia Morse. On 9 Sept. 1879 he married Janet McDonald, daughter of James McDonald, in Halifax, and they had four sons and three daughters. C. H. Tupper became minister of justice in the government of Mackenzie Bowell. He retired, officially, from politics in 1897 and moved to British COlumbia and set up a legal practice. He died 30 March 1927 in Vancouver.

Charles Andrew Tupper was born in Owen Sound, Ontario, in 1914. He lived in Foxboro, Hastings County and worked for Canadian National Railways, writing poems in his spare time. He died on December 20th, 1990 and was buried in the Black River Bridge Memorial Cemetery, South Marysburgh, Prince Edward County.

Charles Tupper was born in Amherst, N.S. After attending Horton Academy he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh (M.D. 1843) and practiced in Amherst until 1855. He was first elected to the N ova Scotia Assembly in 1855 and served as Provincial Secretary, 1856-1860, 1863-1867, and as Premier, 1864-1867.

He was instrumental in bringing Nova Scotia into Confederation and was elected to Canada's first parliament in 1867. In federal politics Tupper, besides serving as Prime Minister, held six different cabinet portfolios. He was also Canada's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and occupied that position almost continuously from 1884 until 1896. In 1896, he returned from England and, in an attempt to solve the leadership problem in the Conservative Party replaced Bowell as Prime Minister. In the 1896 election, the Liberals were victorious and from 1896-1901 Tupper served as Leader of the Opposition.

After the 1901 election he retired from active political life and settled in England. He died at Bexley Heath on 30 October 1915 at the age of 94.