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The Hon. John McDonald of Gananoque, M.L.C., was a son of John McDonald and Emily Cameron of Blair Athol, Perthshire, and was born at, or near, Saratoga, New York, in February of 1787 shortly after the family's arrival in America. He commenced business as a merchant in Troy, New York, but in 1817 removed to Gananoque where his brother Charles had previously opened a store and built the first saw mill and grist mill in the settlement. In business with his brother, under the name of C & J McDonald, the firm engaged in an extensive lumber trade and in 1826 erected the largest flour mill in the province.
John McDonald was appointed a member of the Legislative Council of Upper canada in February 1839 and during the important deates of that year supported the proposal to unite the two provinces. After Union he was again appointed a member of the Council but was unseated in March 1848 because of non-attendance during two successive sessions of Parliament.
McDonald took a leading part in an important canal-building enterprise in the 1830's and 1840's. He was appointed to the Board of Commissioners for the Improvement of the Navigation of the River St. Lawrence in May 1836 and became President of the Board two years later. In that capacity he presided over the complettion of the Cornwall Canal and building the four Williamsburg Canals.
McDonald held at various time the offices of Magistrate, School Superintendent and Postmaster for the town of Gananoque.
In 1831 McDonald married Henrietta Maria Mallory and had at least two sons and two daughters. He died at Gananoque in September 1860.

Edith Chown, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Chown of Kingston, was born on September 13, 1890. Her mother died in 1896 and Edith and her three brothers were brought up in Kingston by their maternal grandmother and by their aunt, Charlotte Conley.
Edtih graduated from Queen's University in 1912 and attended normal school in Regina. For several years she taught school in the West. While at Queen's University she met Lorne Pierce. They graduated in the same year, and met again when both were in the West, where Lorne was serving as a Minister. On September 9, 1916, they were married. They had two children, Beth (Mrs. J. D. Robinson) and Bruce.
Edith Pierce died on April 23, 1954.

Lillie A. Brooks, also known as Mrs William Brooks of Toronto was born in Norwood, Ontario, January 4th, 1874, daughter of the Rev. John Edmund Cooper, Anglican clergyman. She is known to have written "The forty-eighth Highlanders" (1915), "The land of the northern men" (1924) and "The Band of purple : a collection of Canadian poems" (1915).

Playwright John Coulter was born in 1888 in Belfast. He attended the School of Art and Technology in Belfast, and Manchester University. Upon returning to Ireland, he taught school in Belfast and Dublin until 1919. His early plays were produced in Belfast, Dublin, and London, and he moved to London in 1920, where he wrote for BBC radio. In 1924 he became editor of The Ulster Review, and in 1927, managing editor of John Middleton Murry’s journal The New Adelphi. In London, he met his Canadian wife, the poet, Olive Clare Primrose, and moved with her to Canada in 1936. In later years they divided their time between Ireland and Canada. His most famous work is his trilogy of plays about Louis Riel, published 1950-1960. He died on 1 December 1980.

Sir Alexander Croke was born July 22, 1758. He was a British judge, colonial administrator and influential author in Nova Scotia of the early nineteenth century. Croke attended Oriel College, Oxford, where he earned the degree of Doctor of Civil Law. Practicing maritime law, he was offered his choice of appointments to the newly-established vice-admiralty courts in Nova Scotia or the West Indies. He chose Nova Scotia.
Croke's bench in Nova Scotia had considerable jusidiction. As the highest-ranking justice, Croke administered the colony while the lieutenant governor was away, from 6 Dec. 1808 to 15 April 1809 and again from 25 August to 16 Oct. 1811. His administration was marked with conflict with the Assembly, whose budget he vetoed.
Croke had an impact on the development of educational institutions in Nova Scotia. He was on the first board of King's College and was primarily responsible for drafting its statues, which required students to subscribe to the Anglican faith (as only a quarter of Nova Scotians did). When a strong movement to establish inter-denominational education appeared a few years later, Croke was among its most vocal opponents.
Croke published works of satirical poetry (which exacerbated his unpopularity in certain circles), a book on the genealogy of his family, and many letters. He was knighted on July 5, 1816 and died December 27, 1842 at Studley Priory, England.

William Henry Drummond, was born at Mohill, County Leitrim, Ireland on the 13th of April 1854. Drummond arrived in Canada with his parents in 1864. He studied at Bishop's and practised as a general physician in Montréal and Brome County, Qué. Attracted by the folkways of rural Québec, he began writing narrative verse in the English idiom of the French Canadian farmer. His first book of poetry, The Habitant (1897), was extremely successful.He died at Cobalt, Ontario on the 6th of April 1907.

Dupuy was born in Montreal, in 1896. He studied law and international law at the Université de Montréal and at the Sorbonne in Paris. In 1922 he joined the department of External Affairs working in Paris. During World War II he reported back to the Allies about Vichy France. After Canada broke off relations with Vichy on November 9, 1942, he stayed in London to represent Canadian interests with the Allied governments-in-exile.
From 1945 until 1952 he was minister to the Netherlands. From 1952 until 1958 he was ambassador to Italy and from 1958 until his retirement in 1963 he was ambassador to France. In 1963, he was named Commissioner General of Expo 67 and in 1967 he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada.

Norman Gregor Guthrie hailed from the Guelph area and was educated at McGill, Osgoode Hall and the University of Toronto. He was a poet and lawyer. Under the name of John Crichton, he published "A vista" (1921), "Flower and flame" (1924), "Pillar of smoke" (1925), and "Flake and petal" (1928). His study of Archibald Lampman (1927) proved that he was also an able critic. He died in 1929.

Dr. David P. Rutenberg studied Engineering Physics at the University of Toronto, then moved to San Francisco to work for Chevron Oil in the early days of big computers. He studied for an MBA and then PhD at the University of California (Berkeley), and became an Assistant, then Associate, Professor at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
After 16 years in the US, he returned to live in Canada in 1977. Queen’s University hired him to create courses in international business. He had been asked to be visiting professor of international business at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business in 1982. So he wanted to get ready for this Silicon Valley experience by auditing a course in Electrical Engineering at Queen’s. His EE colleagues got him into an experimental seminar in which each student would actually design an integrated circuit chip, and have it manufactured for them at Nortel. That seminar became the nucleus for the Canadian Microelectronics Corporation (CMC), which for almost 20 years has assured that every university in Canada has commercial quality design equipment and software, and that the chip designs are manufactured at the best quality fabs in the world. David, in his involvement with CMC, tries to assure that intellectual-property practices that help academics make prototypes do not impede their subsequent commercialization. In 2001 he wrote a study for the Law Reform Commission of Canada on the possibility of banks making loans that would be secured by intellectual property.
Dr. Rutenberg retired from Queen’s in 2001.