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Dr. Brian Osborne is Professor Emeritus of Geography at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, where he has taught since 1967. His research areas include Indigenous history, settlement history, cultural landscapes, and the role of the "culture of communications" in the development of a Canadian sense of place. He was born 13 October 1938 in Treharris, Glamorgan, UK. He obtained his BA (1960) and PhD (1967) from the University of Southampton. He began his professional career at S. Col. State College in 1963, and began his career at Queen's University in 1967. He has published extensively on the Kingston area, his most widely read piece being the volume he wrote with Donald Swainson, Kingston: Building on the Past (1988) which he recently reworked into a new edition, Kingston: Building on the Past for the Future(2011). Other recent volumes are The Rock and the Sword: A History of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Kingston (2004) and (with Shirley Gibson Langille) Landscapes and Inscapes: Drawn to History with Brush of Serendipity.

Professor Osborne has served as a consultant for the National Capital Commission, Heritage Canada, Parks Canada, Canada Post, and the National Film Board. He is Past President of the Ontario Historical Society, Past President of the Kingston Historical Society, and serves on the boards of several heritage organizations.

John Whitney "Jack" Pickersgill, PC CC (June 23, 1905 – November 14, 1997) was a Canadian civil servant and politician. He was born in Ontario, but was raised in Manitoba. He was the Clerk for the Canadian Government's Privy Council in the early 1950s. He was first elected to federal parliament in 1953, representing a Newfoundland electoral district, and serving in prime minister Louis St. Laurent's cabinet. In the mid-1960s, he served again in cabinet, this time under prime minister Lester B. Pearson. He resigned from parliament in 1967 to become the president of the Canadian Transport Commission. He was awarded the highest level of the Order of Canada in 1970. In his later years he wrote books on Canadian history. He died in 1997 in Ottawa.

Sgt. Ernest T. Handyside was born in Ottawa, Ontario on 27 June 1892. A carpenter by trade, Handyside enlisted the army in February 1915. He was killed in action on 29 July 1916.

Incorporated in 1903 by Charles Selby and Henry Youlden, Selby and Youlden, Limited (also known as the Kingston Foundry) was a moulding and machine shop. It was located on Ontario Street at the foot of Union Street.

The Liberal Party of Canada (Ontario) represents the Federal Liberal Party and its 106 Electoral District Associations in Ontario. The Liberal Party of Canada (Ontario) is administered by a volunteer Board, The "Management Committee" includes the seven Table Officers, the President of the Ontario Young Liberals (OYL), the President of the Ontario Women’s Liberal Commission (OWLC), the President of the Aboriginal People’s Liberal Commission (Ontario) (APLCO) and the six Regional Presidents.

Don Gallinger was a driver and horse trainer

Scott Thompson is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Surveillance Studies Centre, having completed his doctoral degree at the University of Alberta in Sociology. Scott’s research focuses on the relationship between classification, governance and surveillance technologies. His interest in the topic was sparked by work he conducted with Dr. Gary Genosko concerning the surveillance of drinking behaviors by the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO). This research was completed as part of his Masters thesis and resulted in his first publications (at http://www.puncheddrunk.ca/).

William Hanlan Hutcheson was born in Clarendon, Oso Twp., Frontenac Co., Ontario on 25 Apr 1884. Not a lot is known about his history. At some point it is believed that he was a telegraph operator and then an agent for for both the Grand Trunk Railway and for Canadian National Railways. He was also a breeder of Airedale terriers. He was a member of the Klu Klux Klan of Canada for a number of years in the 1920s. He passed away on 12 Aug 1965 in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada.

Centerfold started in August 1976, published by The Parachute Center for Cultural Affairs in Calgary, Alberta. One year later in 1977, The Parachute Center became Arton's, marking an increase in video and film programing and distribution as well as continued promotion of performance and music programing, residencies and exhibitions taking place at the facility and in the surrounding area. The founding editors of the magazine were Clive Robertson and Marcella Bienvenue with the editorial board expanding to ten members in 1980 after the magazine moved to Toronto with Robertson and renamed FUSE in 1979.

George F. Henderson was an archivist at Queen's University Archives. He grew up in Wilton, Ontario, and attended Queen's University. Henderson retired from Queen's University in 2001, and continues to research on local history.