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Wife of Sir James Hamet Dunn (1874-1956), capitalist.

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Charles Avery Dunning was born in Croft, Leichestershire, England in 1885 and emigrated to Canada in 1902 where he worked as a farm hand near Yorkton, Saskatchewan. He became active in the Saskatchewan Grain Growers' Association and was appointed a Royal Commissioner by the Province of Saskatchewan in 1913 to investigate the question of agricultural credit and grain marketing in Europe. In 1916 he was elected to the Saskatchewan Legislature for the riding of Kinistino holding various positions including Provincial Treasurer (1916) and Minister of Agriculture (1918). In 1922, at the age of thirty-eight, he became the Premier of Saskatchewan and remained Premier until 1926. Appointed federal Minister of Railways and Canals by Prime Minister Mackenzie King in 1926, Dunning was subsequently elected to the House of Commons by acclamation for the riding of Regina. In 1928 Dunning was a Canadian delegate to the League of Nations and in 1929 he was appointed Minister of Finance, a position he held until the defeat of the Liberal Government in 1930. When the Liberals came to power again in 1935, Dunning resumed the position of Minister of Finance. In 1940 he was elected Chancellor of Queen's University where he remained until his death in 1958.

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Robert Lionel Dunsmore was born on September 2, 1893, in Seaforth, Ontario. He graduated from Queen's University in 1915 with a B.SC. in Civil Engineering and went overseas with the 5th Field Company Canadian Engineers where he attained the rank of Major and was awarded the Military Cross. Upon his return to Canada in 1919 he went to Imperial Oil Company as an assistant engineer. Throughout his career in the petroleum industry he worked with a number of oil companies in various positions including President of Champlain Oil Products Limited (1949-1958) and Vice-Chairman and Director of the B.N.C (Canada) Limited (1962-1978). Upon his retirement from the petroleum industry he became Chairman of the Canadian Broadcast Corporation from 1958 to 1963. Mr. Dunsmore was also elected a member of the Queen's University Board of Trustees (1953), serving on the Board for twenty-one years.

In 1916 he married Rosabel Voaden and together they had one son. Mr. Dunsmore died in 1989.

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Professor, Queen's University, Kingston, ON.

Dr. Thomas Robinson Dupuis was a school teacher and medical doctor in Kingston. He was also an Alderman in the City of Kingston as well as a professor at Queen's University in Anatomy and Botany. His first wife, Elizabeth Emery Lake (b.1841-d.1886) whom he married on the 23rd of April, 1861, was the daughter of prosperous farmer Dennis Lake. Thomas and Elizabeth had five children; two daughters who died in infancy, and three sons.

After the death of Elizabeth, Thomas remarried Anne Jane Crawford (b.1857-d.1924), also a school teacher. They had a daughter Ethel Maude (1889-1950). After the death of Thomas Robinson Dupuis, Anne Jane became mentally ill and was institutionalized.

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.

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