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Thonas Walter Scott (1867-1938) was born on a farm near Strathroy, Ontario. In 1885 he moved to Portage la Prairie where he became a printer's apprentice in the shop of The Manitoba Liberal. He continued his career in newspaper work and by 1895 owned two papers; The Moose Jaw Times and The Leader. In 1900 Scott entered the federal election contest and won as the Liberal candidate for West Assiniboia. He was re-elected in 1904 and in 1905 resigned his seat in Parliament to accept leadership of the newly formed Saskatchewan Liberal Party. In September, 1905 he was selected to form the first government of the province and he led his party to victory in the first provincial general election in December, 1905. Under Scott's leadership the Liberals successfully contested the 1908 and 1912 general elections. The Honourable Walter Scott was Premier and President of the Executive Council (1905-1916), Commissioner and later Minister of Public Works (1905-1912), Commissioner of Railways (1906-1908), Minister of Education (1912-1916), and briefly Commission of Public Affairs. He retire in 1916 due to ill health. he died in Ontario in 1938.

The Bantling was a newspaper from Napanee, Ontario. Started in 1858 by Mr. F.M. Blakely, the paper sought to present "an agreeable melange of the notable events and literature of the day, its columns will always contain a goodly selection of the cream of domestic and foreign news, so condensed as to present the largest possible amount of intelligence in the smallest space — the whole, well spiced with wit and humour. In politics and upon all sectarian questions it will be strictly impartial." The paper ceased operations upon Mr. Blakely's death in 1959.

Stuart Lyon Smith, M.D., F.R.C.P. (C) was born in 1938 at Montreal. He was educated as a psychiatrist at McGill University and was subsequently on the faculty of McMaster University Medical School, and Director of In-Patient Psychiatric Services, St. Joseph's Hospital, Hamilton.
Dr. Smith entered public life as executive assistant to the Hon. Alan McNaughton, then Speaker of the House of Commons. He was elected as Liberal candidate for the riding of Hamilton-Wentworth in the Ontario Legislature in 1975 and re-elected in 1977 and 1981. He was chosen leader of the Ontario Liberal Party in 1976 and served in that role and as leader of the official opposition until 1981. In 1981, he resigned the Hamilton-Wentworth seat when he was appointed Chairman of the Science Council of Canada, a position he held until 1987.
A year after leaving the Council, he founded RockCliffe Research and Technology Inc., a firm which introduced public-private partnerships into government laboratories. From 1995 to 2002, he was chair of the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy.
In 1994, Smith proposed the creation of a private-sector water company in the City of Hamilton, and was named as the founding president of the Philip Utilities Management Corporation (PUMC). More recently, Smith has served as Chairman of the Board of Esna Tech in Richmond Hill. and as chair of the board for Humber College in Toronto. From 2012-2013, Smith was appointed commissioner of the Intercounty Baseball League, a semi-pro baseball league in Ontario.

Smyth, Sir James Carmichael-, first baronet (1779–1838), army officer and colonial governor, eldest son of Dr James Carmichael Smyth (1742–1821), and his wife, Mary, daughter of Thomas Holyland of Bromley, was born in London on 22 February 1779. He was educated at Charterhouse School and entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, on 1 March 1793.

In the spring of 1825 Wellington, then master-general of the ordnance, selected Carmichael-Smyth to go to Canada. He embarked on 16 April, returned on 7 October, and wrote an able report on the defence of the Canadian frontier, dated 31 March 1826. Meanwhile, on 27 May 1825, he had been promoted major-general, and on 29 July he had become a regimental colonel. On 8 May 1829 Carmichael-Smyth was appointed governor and commander-in-chief of the Bahamas, and before his departure George IV made him a KCH in recognition of his having been placed in command of the Hanoverian engineers in the last campaign in the Netherlands. Carmichael-Smyth died suddenly at Camp House, Georgetown, Demerara, of ‘brain fever’, after four days' illness, on 4 March 1838; he was widely esteemed and his death much regretted.

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Col. Joel Stone, United Empire Loyalist and founder of Gananoque, was born at Guilford, Connecticut, 1749, to Stephen Stone and his wife Rebecca Bishop, both members of families that took part in the original settlement of Guilford in 1639. The Stone family removed, in 1751, to Litchfield County, Connecticut, where shortly before the Revolutionary War Joel Stone entered business as a general merchant. A known loyalist, Stone took refuge in New York toward the end of 1776 and during the remainder of the war served as a volunteer. Frrom 1783 to 1786 Stone was in London seeking compensation for confiscated property. In 1786 he sailed for Quebec and by the following year was settled with his family at New Johnstown (Cornwall). About 1792 Stone took up residence at the mouth of the Gananoque River, becoming the first white settler at what was to become the town of Gananoque. During the next forty years he was the principal land-owner and leading citizen of the little community, acting as justice of the peace, customs collector and roads commissioner. During the War of 1812 he conducted the defence of Gananoque in his capacity of Colonel in the Leeds militia. He died in 1833..