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George Spendlove was born in Montréal on 23 April 1897. Educated privately by tutors, he showed particular interest in art history. At the age of 19, he enlisted in the military during World War I and served in Europe, suffering a severe concussion that injured the nerves in his ears, leaving him with a hearing impairment that was to plague him the rest of his life. In 1919, he returned to Montréal but was unable to work for two years.

George Spendlove became a vital supporter of the Green Acre Bahá’í Summer School in Eliot, Maine. It was during one of his summer vacations spent teaching at the school that he met Dorothy G. Spurr of Sparkill, New York. They were married in 1929 and had two children, David and Dorothy Grace. After working as a fine arts dealer for several years, he sold his business and spent a year travelling across Palestine, India and the Far East. Between 1932 and 1933 Mr. Spendlove made the first of his two pilgrimages to Haifa. The year following his trip, he went to London to study Chinese archaeology at the Courtauld Institute of the University of London. On completion of this course, he was granted a post-graduate diploma in archaeology and was recommended to the Royal Academy to assist it in preparing its catalogue for the great International Exhibition of Chinese Art, shown at Burlington House in 1935. Mr. Spendlove had prepared himself to work with Chinese art by teaching himself to read the language. He played a substantial role in establishing the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United Kingdom (the national governing council).

In November 1936, George Spendlove returned to Canada to join the staff of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, overseeing the Japanese and East Indian collections. After several years, he became the curator of the modern European collections and was appointed a special lecturer in the Department of Art and Archaeology at the University of Toronto. His final appointment at the Royal Ontario Museum came in 1952, as curator of the Canadiana collection. Spendlove’s first book, "The Face of Early Canada," published in 1958, is illustrated with pieces from this collection. A second book, "Collectors’ Luck," followed in 1960.

Patricia Rivera Spencer has experience as a professional journalist, videographer/filmmaker and technical writer. Rivera Spencer had made only one 24-minute videotape, and a number of short filmic exercises, before deciding in 1988 to produce Dreamers of the Day, a feature length lesbian romantic comedy based on a screenplay she had written.
Active in the lesbian community, she lives in Kingston.

John Spencer was born in Stapleford, Nottinghamshire, England, on April 10, 1933. Dr. Spencer received his B.Sc. from St. Andrews University (Scotland) in Chemistry and Biochemistry in 1955, and earned his B.Sc. (Hons.) in Biochemistry from the same institution in 1956. In 1960 he received his PhD in Biochemistry from McGill University in Montreal, and conducted post-doctoral studies there, and at Columbia University, from 1959 to 1961. John H. Spencer began his teaching career at Queen's University in 1978 as a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, serving as Head of that department until 1990. Prior to his tenure at Queen's University, Dr. Spencer taught at McGill University in Montreal from 1961 to 1978. He was the recipient of several Fellowships as a post-doctoral student. In 1987-88 Dr. Spencer was a visiting scientist, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, at Bethesda, Maryland, and was Professor Invite, Department de Biochimie, Université de Montreal from 1992-93. Dr. Spencer was a member of numerous science-oriented societies and organizations (including the Canadian Biochemical Society, Canadian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Sigma Xi, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Royal Society of Canada, among others), served on dozens of committees, acted as a reviewer for journals, graduate studies programmes and granting agencies, supervised many graduate and doctoral students, and received several awards. He is author and co-author of over 100 articles, abstracts, and chapters, and has published two books: The Physics and Chemistry of DNA and RNA (1972), and Planet Earth: Problems and Prospects (co-ed. 1995). Spencer was a frequent speaker at biochemical symposia around the world, and was considered one of the pioneers in developing methodology for DNA sequence analysis, whereby genetic information from DNA can be read directly. In 1989 Dr. Spencer was nominated for a Nobel Prize for his research work. Dr. Spencer retired from the Department of Biochemistry in 1998 but maintained his ties with Queen's University as Professor Emeritus. He passed away in Kingston in 2012.

E. Spencer is a photographer based in Ottawa, Ontario.

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Cecilia Speight (née Whalley) was the sister of George Whalley. She was married to Lenn Speight.

Cliff Spearman was a student in the School of Mining at Queen's University.

Ernie Sparks is a photographer based in Kingston, Ontario.