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Born in 1944, Joanne Page (neé Bowels) graduated from Carleton University with a B.A in English Literature in the 1960s. She also attended the New School of Art in Toronto during that decade. Page held a number of positions over the years. She worked at a women’s shelter in rural Ontario, conducted research for the federal government on gender and immigrant women’s services, taught creative writing and was Associate Editor of Quarry magazine. Page was the successor to Bronwen Wallace, a close friend, writing In Other Words, a column on contemporary feminist issues in the Kingston Whig Standard for five years. In 1992 after Wallace’s death, Page edited the published collection of Wallace’s essays Arguments with the World.

In 1993, Page was diagnosed with cancer for the first time. It is also the year she published her first anthology of poems and drawings, The River and The Lake. The book chronicled "the movement of one woman's life between personal artistic solitude and fully engaged political action while she wrestles with the agony of cancer and argues for a generous feminist attitude." Page went on to write two other books of poetry, Persuasion for a Mathematician and Watermarks, both with Pedlar Press. Watermarks was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award in 2009. Page was a contributor to many other poetry anthologies and publications such as Close To The Heart (English Garden Publishers 1996), At The Threshold (Beach Holme Press 1999), and The Summer Anthology (Banff Centre Press 1999).

In 2012, as tribute to her role within the writing community poet Phil Hall founded a named Lecture series at Queen’s University in Joanne’s name. The Page Lecture is an annual event in the English Department at Queen’s University.

Joanne married Stephen Page in 1969 and had two sons, Geoff and Ian. She passed away on February 20, 2015 after her second instance of cancer.

The Carson family has been in Kingston since 1840 or thereabouts when Robert Carson arrived. Two of his sons went on to become mayors of Kingston.

Born in Berlin Germany, as a child, Marion Meyer (née Klein) was known for her brilliance and was reciting her poems on Berlin radio at the age of four. She went on to dub American and British films into German by the time she was seven years old. Fleeing the Nazis in 1934, what was planned as a temporary stay in Paris became a permanent departure from Germany. The family was separated as the Nazis began rounding up French Jews and Marion escaped into Switzerland. Returning to Paris in the late 1940's, she received a scholarship to go to the Sorbonne. After accepting her cousins' invitation to visit the United States, she decided to stay with a close friend in New York City and was accepted into a Masters program in sociology at the New School in NYC using her fourth language, English. Her professor was the aunt of her future husband Henry. They married in 1956, she immigrated to Canada, raised two children and returned to the workforce in 1967. As a lecturer and then Professor of Sociology at Queen's University, Marion enjoyed over 20 years of teaching. In 1983 she published "The Jews of Kingston: A Microcosm of Canadian Jewry." Upon retirement, Marion volunteered with the Canadian Executive Service Organization [CESO]. She was engaged with the Canadian Mental Health Association, the Association for the Perceptually Handicapped, Amnesty International, The Jewish Community Council and the Kingston Youth Shelter.

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Marion Ross was a graduate of Queen's University, B.A 1939 and received an M.A in 1949 from Columbia. She worked at Queen's University as an assistant professor, coach and Director of Women's Athletics from 1934 to 1970. Marion also co-founded the Queen's School of Physical and Health Education with Jack Edwards in 1947.

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Dr. Jennifer McKendry is an architectural historian, living in Kingston, and the author of numerous articles and books such as "With Our Past before Us: 19th Century Architecture in the Kingston Area." She is a member of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada, the Ontario Historical Society, the Frontenac Heritage Foundation, and the Kingston Historical Society. She is a free-lance researcher and writer on the history and significance of heritage buildings, properties and archaeological sites

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J. Colin McLeod was an educator in Kingston, Ontario. He was the first principal of Rideau District High School.