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Fraternal organization, established in 1850 to honour the Protestant apprentices who successfully defended Londonderry, a Protestant stronghold in norhtern Ireland,against the Catholic forces of James II during the revolution of 1688. King Edward Lodge, Protestant Association of ’Prentice Boys of America No. 30 was first organized in West Saint John, NB probably about the turn of the20th century.

Willard Lorne Prosser was born on August 23, 1898 in North Lunenbourg, Ontario. In 1920, he moved to Kingston, Ontario as an apprentice to painter and photographer Peter McKenzie. In 1921, he bought a photographic business in Gananoque from William Findlay. The business was situated in the old Merchant’s Bank building on the south- east corner of King and Stone streets. Mr. Prosser specialized in aerial photography, the restoration of old prints, and portrait photography. In 1957, he moved his studio into his home. In the 1950’s, when he began to attend photographic conventions and enter competitions, his work won five international awards and a Canadian award. While the mainstay of his business was portraiture and print restoration, he also produced photographs of the scenic beauty of the Thousand Island area and the town of Gananoque for postcards and publicity brochures, and promotional material for local businesses including the local Gananoque Steel Plant. Lorne Prosser died on 30 April 1990.

Dr. Paul Pross has been associated with Public Administration at Dalhousie since 1967. He was responsible for the design and establishment of the Programmes in Public Administration and was first Co-ordinator of the Programmes. Later he served as Director of the School.

His teaching focussed on Canadian public administration, particularly natural resource administration, pressure group politics and Canadian policy processes, including policy analysis. He is the author, co-author or editor of a number of books and various articles on Canadian policy processes, natural resource administration, pressure group politics and government publishing. He is best known for his study of Canadian pressure groups, "Group Politics and Public Policy". From 1991 to 1997, he was co-editor of the Canadian Public Administration Series published by the Institute of Public Administration of Canada and McGill-Queen's University Press. More than twenty major studies of Canadian administrative and policy issues have been published in the series, in both English and French. He has been active in numerous professional and community bodies. In 1991 he served as chair of the NS Advisory Committee on the Constitutional Amending Process. In 1995 Governor-General Romeo LeBlanc presented him with Vanier Medel which the Institute of Public Administration of Canada awards for services to the field of public administration.

D. Propp was a photographer based in British Columbia.

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The Progressive Conservative Party, a political party, began as a coalition of Liberals and moderate Conservatives in 1854. Brought together under the titular leadership of Sir Alan MacNab and the active direction of John A. Macdonald and George-Etienne Cartier, this Liberal-Conservative coalition was regarded at first as just another of the shifting alliances of the period. The party was broadened at Confederation by the addition of the Conservative parties of the Maritime Provinces. The Party retained the name "Liberal-Conservative" from its inception in 1854 until its national convention in 1938. At that convention the name was changed to "The National Conservative Party". At the convention of 1942 in Winnipeg the name was changed to "Progressive Conservative Party". At no time from 1854 to the present has the single name "Conservative" ever been used as the official designation of the Party.

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The Pro Arte Singers, a 28-voice chamber choir, was founded by David Cameron in 1974 and turned professional in 1980. The conductors have been Cameron 1974-83 and Brian Jackson 1983-7, succeeded by Thomas Baker. The choir has premiered works by local composers David Barber, Richard Bronskill, John Burge, and David Keane.