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Daniel Robert Woolf (born 5 December 1958) is a British/Canadian historian. He is the Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, a position to which he was appointed in January 2009 and took up as of 1 September 2009. He was previously Professor, Department of History and Classics, at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, where he also served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts until April 2009. He was reappointed to a second term (to 2019) early in 2013.
Daniel Woolf graduated from St. Paul's High School, Winnipeg, in 1976. He received a Bachelor of Arts Honours degree in History from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario in 1980, and received a D.Phil. in Modern History from Oxford University in 1983, where he was supervised by the distinguished historian of seventeenth-century England and Master of St Peter's College, Oxford, Gerald Aylmer. Along with historians John Morrill and Paul Slack, Woolf would eventually co-edit the festschrift honouring Aylmer (1993). Among Woolf's contemporaries at St Peter's was David Eastwood, Chief Executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England. Woolf was appointed an honorary fellow of St Peter's in 2009.
Woolf returned to Canada in 1984 and taught at Queen's University as a SSHRCC postdoctoral fellow (1984–86), Bishop's University (1986–87), Dalhousie University (1987–1999), McMaster University (1999–2002), and the University of Alberta. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Society of Antiquaries of London, and the Royal Historical Society. In 1996–97 he was a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, a class that included noted sociologist of science Thomas F. Gieryn, anthropologist Kay Warren, and cognitive scientist Mark Turner. Woolf's major areas of research are in Tudor and Stuart British history and the history of historiography both in Britain and globally.
Woolf's administrative career began as Associate Dean of Graduate Studies at Dalhousie (1998–99), a period including six months as Acting Dean of that Faculty. In 1999 he moved to McMaster University, serving for three years as Dean of its Faculty of Humanities. In 2002, he was appointed Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta, succeeding Kenneth Norrie, who had recently become McMaster's Provost. Woolf was reappointed in 2007, and commenced his second term in 2008 following a year's administrative leave during which he returned to his research.

The Carson family has been in Kingston since 1840 or thereabouts when Robert Carson arrived. Two of his sons went on to become mayors of Kingston.

Born in Berlin Germany, as a child, Marion Meyer (née Klein) was known for her brilliance and was reciting her poems on Berlin radio at the age of four. She went on to dub American and British films into German by the time she was seven years old. Fleeing the Nazis in 1934, what was planned as a temporary stay in Paris became a permanent departure from Germany. The family was separated as the Nazis began rounding up French Jews and Marion escaped into Switzerland. Returning to Paris in the late 1940's, she received a scholarship to go to the Sorbonne. After accepting her cousins' invitation to visit the United States, she decided to stay with a close friend in New York City and was accepted into a Masters program in sociology at the New School in NYC using her fourth language, English. Her professor was the aunt of her future husband Henry. They married in 1956, she immigrated to Canada, raised two children and returned to the workforce in 1967. As a lecturer and then Professor of Sociology at Queen's University, Marion enjoyed over 20 years of teaching. In 1983 she published "The Jews of Kingston: A Microcosm of Canadian Jewry." Upon retirement, Marion volunteered with the Canadian Executive Service Organization [CESO]. She was engaged with the Canadian Mental Health Association, the Association for the Perceptually Handicapped, Amnesty International, The Jewish Community Council and the Kingston Youth Shelter.

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Marion Ross was a graduate of Queen's University, B.A 1939 and received an M.A in 1949 from Columbia. She worked at Queen's University as an assistant professor, coach and Director of Women's Athletics from 1934 to 1970. Marion also co-founded the Queen's School of Physical and Health Education with Jack Edwards in 1947.

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Dr. Jennifer McKendry is an architectural historian, living in Kingston, and the author of numerous articles and books such as "With Our Past before Us: 19th Century Architecture in the Kingston Area." She is a member of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada, the Ontario Historical Society, the Frontenac Heritage Foundation, and the Kingston Historical Society. She is a free-lance researcher and writer on the history and significance of heritage buildings, properties and archaeological sites

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J. Colin McLeod was an educator in Kingston, Ontario. He was the first principal of Rideau District High School.