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Carl Goldenberg was born in 1907 at Montreal, Que and attended McGill University where he received a M.A. Economics and Political Science 1929, and a B.C.L. 1932. He was called to the Quebec Bar in 1932, and he lectured at McGill (1932-1936, 1944-1948). He has served on many federal, provincial and municipal commissions of inquiry and has arbitrated many labour-management disputes in Canada and the West Indies. He was Special Counsel for British Columbia, 1950-1956, for Newfoundland, 1957-1965, and for New Brunswick, 1960-1961, at Federal-Provincial Constitutional and Financial Conferences. He was Special Counsel to the Prime Minister of Canada on the Constitution 1968-1971. He was also a Member of the Senate, from 1971 until his retirement in 1982. He was Chairman of the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, Chairman of the first and second Tri Level Conferences of Federal-Provincial and Municipal Government, 1972-1973, Chairman of the First Conference on Multiculturalism, member of the Special Joint Committees of the Senate and the House of Commons on Employer-Employee Relations in the Public Service, 1975, and on the Constitution, 1971-1982.

Douglas Fetherling (1949-), poet and author, was literary editor of the Whig-Standard from 1988 to 1992. He began his history of the Whig while literary editor and while the paper, founded in 1834, was still a family owned newspaper. In 1990, Michael Davies the current owner, sold the newspaper to the Southam Inc. news chain. While an editor at the Whig, Fetherling reported from Russia, China and Southeast Asia. He is also a contributing editor of Canadian Art and Saturday Night.