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Joseph Newell McCarey was born in 1912 in Kingston, Ontario. He graduated from Queen's University in 1935 with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. In 1945 he became a registered Professional Engineer in the province of Ontario. From 1935 to 1967 McCarey was employed by a number of different firms in Canada and abroad. After 1967 he was self-employed as a consultant, specializing in bulk materials handling. As a consultant McCarey was responsible for the conceptual and definitive designs for the mechanical handling equipment for a number of special projects. He passed away in 1992.

Trudi Le Caine was a patron of the Arts in Ottawa, Ontario. She was born Gertruda Janowská in Passau, Czechoslovakia, and moved to Canada in 1940. While working as a French teacher in the Ottawa public school system, she helped organise the Ottawa Children's Concerts in the 1940s and 1950s. She served on the National Arts Centre Orchestra Association Board. She was also instrumental in bringing skating to the Rideau Canal. She was the step-daughter of Arnold Walter, a composer and former Dean of the Faculty of Music at the Univerity of Toronto.

Reginald Whitty served as a columnist and staffwriter with the Kingston Whig Standard for a number of years during the 1970's and 1980's. The column and articles written by Whitty were focussed on local events and happenings. Mr. Whitty passed away in the mid-nineties.

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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.

Harry Litchfield served with the Ordinance Corps during World War II.

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On December 1, 1975 the first proposal for an artists’ cooperative for Kingston was put forward to the Chair of the Visual and Creative Arts Department of St. Lawrence College.

During the summer of 1976 research into the feasibility of the project was carried out. Rental of a space was investigated, aims and objectives were formulated, and matters of incorporation were pursued. A comprehensive mailing list of local artists was developed, biographical information and slides were collected and the first memberships were taken out. .

An initial and interim Board of Directors were elected at a General Meeting of interested parties, in November of 1976. Those Board members were: JoAnne Abrams; Toby Anderson; R. E. Buff; Gaye Bullock; Jeffery Childs; Lorne Coutts; Alana Kapell; William Roff; Alan Wilkinson; and Lenni Workman.

Priority was given to the need for space for a gallery and studio spaces, and several potential facilities were investigated. However, while the cost of downtown Kingston space was found to be too high for the group, St. Lawrence College rented 325 King St. East to facilitate the development of the artist-run center, and the initial St. Lawrence Art Project (S.L.A.P.) was established there.

The first Gala Party and Membership Drive was held in June 1977 and resulted in 30 new members. The group gained its legal non-profit status in August 1977 and became known as the Kingston Artists Association Incorporated (K.A.A.I). In October 1977, the K.A.A.I was officially incorporated. Its main aims were to provide a focal organization and meeting place for artists and the public, to provide studio and workshop space and a gallery for exhibition purposes, and to collect and disseminate information about local artists.

Just one year later, the K.A.A.I amalgamated with “Another Space Gallery” originally owned by Lee Kozlik, and located at 191 Princess Street. Later that year, the Kingston Artists’ Association Inc./ Another Space Gallery moved to 21A Queen Street, and at that time re-named itself Kingston Artists’ Association Inc. & Gallery.

The new association provided art exhibitions, performance events, art festivals, newsletters, and an artists’ index. The first outside funding came from Ontario Educational Communications Authority in 1978.

By January 1979, the membership had grown to 57. The Association applied for operating and project grants with the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. By 1980, funding was secured from both of these bodies. The more secure financial situation made it possible put into place a policy that ensured fees were paid to the artists for exhibiting at the Gallery.

Herbert Bernard Sturgess was born in the north end of Kinsgton (a fact he is very proud of), in his home at 37 Dufferin Street (now the sight of a large grocery store), 17 June 1936. As the house was directly across the street from Robert Meek School, he did not have far to go to attend classes. With the untimely death of his father, Herbert Georege Sturgess, at age forty-four, Herb Sturgess at fourteen, was forced to look for work in order to help support his mother and siblings. Herb Sturgess passed away 17 June 2011.

A group, not a guild, Kingston Heirloom Quilters (KHQ) was established in 1979 by graduate students of quilting classes, taught jointly by Margaret Rhodes and Diane Berry. This two-level program endorsed the principles of traditional quiltmaking, every stitch by hand, every aspect of the craft executed with care and accuracy. It was a learning and sharing experience that the students did not want to end. Directed by their former teachers, they worked together on group quilts, learning to build them one step at a time, and being ever open to that unpredictable effect that would lift them a little above the ordinary. They try the latest trends and techniques, then return to their greatest joy, the making of Masterpiece Quilts.

Currently numbering about 60 members, they gather twice each month in rented space in Calvin Park Library. To begin with, much of the quilting was done in the main part of the Library, where they we were allowed to set up their frame as a working display, and quilted at it during Library hours. This opportunity contributed greatly to the development of the group. Originally, membership was restricted to former students of the Rhodes/Berry quilting course, but after a few years these classes were disbanded as directing the group took up most of their leaders' time. On KHQ's Fifth Anniversary, that membership restriction was lifted so that the group could continue to grow and thrive.

Their quiltmaking skills have developed through working together on more than twenty group quilts during the past two decades. Each one provided them with a valuable learning experience. All are unique, and most simply evolved as they were worked on, one stage at a time. They learned from the shared experiences of members working on their own quilts. Much of this was acquired during lunch hour 'critiques' when all would participate in the solution of one another's quiltmaking dilemmas. But, it was the group quilts that taught them the most. They strove always to do what was best for the quilt without being swayed by personal preference.

Although their status is 'not for profit', and fundraising not a mandate, six of these quilts have been raffled, raising in excess of $30,000 for local charities. A few are housed in the Heritage Quilt Collection, of the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, located on the campus of Queen's University. This Collection, which represents 150 years of Quiltmaking, was established by three of members who despaired of seeing antique quilts from the Kingston area being sold off and taken out of country. The gallery was at first hesitant to accept these quilts, but they have proven to be one of it's most popular attractions. Kingston Heirloom Quilters raised $15,000 towards the production of a catalogue, published in 1990, that documents this collection. The proceeds from the sale of these books are used to support the Collection. They also produce an ongoing supply of baby quilts for local hospital to pass on to the needy.

Several of their group quilts, as well as those of different members have been juried into major shows and featured in magazines, both in Canada and the USA. The Kingston Heirloom Quilters, mount a major quilt show every three or four years.