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John Hunter-Duvar was born John Hunter in 1821 in Newburgh, Scotland, to John MacKenzie Hunter, an officer of excise, and Agnes Strickland. In 1848 he married Anne Carter in Royal Leamington Spa, England. They had four children. His early career in journalism took him to Halifax and Charlottetown in 1849. He is credited with founding Halifax’s first building society. He was a correspondent for the New York Associated Press during the Crimean War. In 1857 the Hunter family left England. By 1860 Hunter had acquired 700 acres in western PEI which he called “Hernewood”, where he operated a farm and a saw mill. In 1860 he also became active in the local Militia. Hunter had his name changed legally to Hunter-Duvar in 1861. The family spent 1863 to 1868 in Halifax with Hunter-Duvar serving in the Halifax Artillery where he rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. In 1868 they returned to PEI and he became a Justice of the Peace. From 1875 to 1879 Hunter-Duvar was editor of the Summerside Progress. He left the newspaper to become Dominion Inspector of Fisheries for Prince Edward Island; an influential position which he held until 1889. Hunter-Duvar’s primary occupation was writer. Maritime newspapers begin publishing his poems in the 1870s. He produced approximately 120 works, in many genres including poetry, short stories, reviews, essays, literary criticism, history and novels.

Sir Edmund Walker Head, 8th Baronet, scholar, public servant, lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick 1848-54, governor general of British North America 1854-61, governor of the Hudson's Bay Co. 1863-68 (b at Wiarton Place, near Maidstone, Eng 16 Feb 1805; d at London, Eng 28 Jan 1868). He was educated at Oxford, where he took first-class honours in classics at Oriel College and was elected a fellow of Merton. An author, editor and translator, Head wrote articles on law, government, language and philology as well as ballads and poems. He served on the Poor Law commission 1836-47 and was appointed lieutenant-governor of NB in 1848. An able administrator, Head helped to prepare NB for full responsible government. His interest in defence, railways and a larger British North American federation made him a logical choice for the post of governor general of BNA in 1854. Head's refusal to grant George Brown dissolution of the House during the Double Shuffle of 1858 caused considerable controversy. As the visitor to King's College (UNB) and McGill, Head contributed to their midcentury reorganization.

Alice Milligan (1865–1953) was an Irish nationalist poet and writer, active in the Gaelic League. Born and raised a Methodist in Gortmore, near Omagh, County Tyrone, Milligan's father was the writer Seaton Milligan, antiquary and member of the RIA. Alice was one of eleven children and, from 1877 to 1887, attended Methodist College, Belfast, after which she completed a teacher-training course. Together with her father she wrote a political travelogue of the north of Ireland in 1888, Glimpses of Erin. She wrote her first novel, A Royal Democrat, in 1890.
After the death of Parnell she became an ardent nationalist. In 1894 with Jenny Armour she founded branches of the Irish Women's Association in Belfast and other places, and became its first president. With Ethna Carbery she founded two nationalist publications in the 1890s, The Northern Patriot, and later The Shan Van Vocht, a monthly literary magazine published in Belfast from 1896 to 1899.

Sir George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie, was an army officer and colonial administrator; b. 22 Oct. 1770 at Dalhousie Castle, Scotland, eldest son of George Ramsay, 8th Earl of Dalhousie, and Elizabeth Glene; m. 14 May 1805 Christian Broun, and they had three sons; d. 21 March 1838 at Dalhousie Castle.

George Ramsay received his primary education from his mother and later attended the Royal High School, Edinburgh, and the University of Edinburgh. Following his father’s death in November 1787, he felt obliged, perhaps for financial reasons, to pursue a military career and in July 1788 purchased a cornetcy in the 3rd Dragoons. Promoted captain in January 1791 on raising his own independent company, he later joined the 2nd battalion, 1st Foot, then in Gibraltar. In June 1792 he became major of the 2nd Foot by purchase, and in December 1794 he advanced to lieutenant-colonel. He led its 2nd battalion in the West Indies from 1795 and in December was wounded during an unsuccessful attack against a French party on Martinique. Stationed in Ireland during the rebellion of 1798, he took part the following year in an expedition to Helder (Netherlands), and received the brevet rank of colonel in January 1800. After service at Belle-Île-en-Mer, France, and Minorca, he commanded assaults on the forts at Abukir and Rosetta (Rash§d), Egypt, in 1801. He was back in Gibraltar in 1802 before taking up the duties of brigadier-general on the staff in Scotland the following year, when he managed some time at home for agricultural improvements on his estate.