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Sir John Thomas Duckworth, Bart., Governor of Newfoundland was born on 28 February 28, at Leatherhead, Surrey, where his father was curate. He was one of five sons and two daughters of the Reverend Henry Duckworth (1712-1794) of Middleton, Lancashire (later, vicar of Stoke Poges and rector of Fulmer, Buckinghamshire, and a minor canon of Windsor), by his wife Sarah, née Johnson (d. 1780) of Ickenham in Uxbridge, Middlesex.

He left Eton at the age of 11 to enter the Royal Navy as a midshipman, 20 February 1759, in H.M.S. NAMUR, under the aegis of Admiral Boscawen. He obtained his lieutenancy, 14 November 1771, and was promoted Commander, 21 July 1779; Post Captain, 16 June 1780; Rear-Admiral of the White, 14 February 1799; Rear-Admiral of the Red, 1 January 1801; Vice-Admiral of the Blue, 23 April 1804; Vice-Admiral of the White, 9 November 1805; Vice-Admiral of the Red, 28 April 1808; Admiral of the Blue, 31 July 1810; and Admiral of the White, 4 December 1813.

His distinguished, though somewhat controversial, career began with his taking part in the battles of Lagos Bay and Quiberon Bay in 1759. His first period of American service began at Rhode Island in 1777, when he was first lieutenant in the DIAMOND frigate, and his later service included several appointments in, and visits to, the West Indies prior to his final years in Newfoundland.

Notable events in his career include his taking part, as Captain in the ORION, in the action off Ushant, 1 June 1794, for which he was officially mentioned by Admiral Howe; his blockade of Cadiz in 1800, which included the capture of a large Spanish convoy from which he profited greatly; his taking of St. Thomas and other Swedish and Danish islands in the West Indies in 1801, for which he was made a Knight of the Bath, 6 June 1801; his complete defeat of a French fleet off Santo Domingo in 1806, for which he was rewarded by a pension of L1000 and honoured by the City of London in additioin to being presented with valuable preseents by various bodies; his forcing of the Dardanelles in 1807 in a vain attempt to carry out impossible instructions to impose terms on Constantinople; and his governorship of Newfoundland, 1810-1812, for which he received a baronetcy, 2 November 1813.

After his return from Newfoundland in 1812, he took his seat in Parliament as M.P. for (New) Romney in Kent, one of the Cinque Ports, and although he accepted the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds, 3 February 1813, he was again Member for that constituency at the time of his death. From January 1815 until he died, 31 August 1817, he held the appointment of Commander-in-Chief at Plymouth.

In 1776, Duckworth married Anne Wallis (d. 21 August 1797), only child of John Wallis of Trentonwoonwith, near Camelford, Cornwall. By her he had one son, Lieutenant-Colonel George Henry Duckworth (1782-1811) of the 48th Foot, who married Penelope, daughter of Captain Robert Fanshawe, R.N., and was killed at Albuera in the Peninsular War. Admiral Duckworth's daughter by this marriage, Sarah Anne Duckworth (d. 1819), married the son of Admiral Sir Richard King, who later became Vice-Admiral Sir Richard King, Bart. (1774-1834). In 1888, their son, Admiral Sir George St. Vincent King, Bart (1809-1891) assumed Duckworth's arms and prefix surname because of the failure of heirs to Sir John Thomas Buller Duckworth (b. 1809), Duckworth's son by his second marriage in 1808 to Susannah Catherine Buller (d. 1840), daughter of Dr. William Buller, Bishop of Exeter.

Professor W.M. Drummond was born at Britol, Quebec in 1897 (date indefinite). He graduated from Queen's University in 1923 with an honours B.A. and medal in political science. He received the M.A. degree from the University of Toronto in 1924. He then lectured at the University of Alberta from 1924 to 1926 before taking an A.M. and Ph.D. at Harvard. In 1937 W. M. Drummond was appointed Professor and head of the Department of Agricultural Economics, Ontario Agricultural College. During World war II he served on various federal commmittees and boards before returning to O.A.C. in 1945. He served as a member of the Royal Commission on Agriculture in Newfoundland (1953), the Royal Commission on Canada's Economic Prospects (1955), and the Royal Commission on Price Spreads (1957). He died at home in 1965.

Victor-Marie Hugo (1802-1885) was born in Besançon to Joseph-Léopold-Sigisbert Hugo and Sophie Trébuchet. He married Adèle Foucher in 1822 and had a daughter. Hugo was first a foremost a novelist, poet, and dramatist and was considered the most important of French Romantic writers. In his later life, he became involved in politics as a supporter of the republican form of government. After three unsuccessful attempts, Hugo was elected in 1841 to the Académie Francaise. Following the 1848 revolution, with the formation of the Second Republic, Hugo was elected to the Constitutional Assembly and to the Legislative Assembly.

The House of Industry was established in 1848 by the Female Benevolent Society of Kingston, the group that had earlier initiated the Kingston General Hospital. The House of Industry was intended to bring relief to the many Irish immigrants who had arrived in Kingston destitute as a result of the famine in Ireland and the plague which spread through the ships coming to America. The House of Industry provided more or less permanent shelter for anyone needing it and temporary refuge and aid to those called outdoor paupers. A school was run in conjunction with the institution. The institution passed through several phases and, at different times, was variously called House of Refuge, Home for the Aged and, finally, Rideaucrest. The care of orphans was undertaken in the Orphan's Home, and women with infants were cared for in the Home for Friendless Women and Infants. It is now under the direction of the Rideaucrest Home Committee, a standing committee of the Kingston City Council.

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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.

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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.