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George Irwin was a resident of Gore Bay, Ontario, and was an amateur photographer.

John Lane (1862-1936) worked at the Imperial Bank in Toronto, and was an amateur photographer.

He spent most of his career in Toronto, although he lived in Burlington, Ontario for a number of years ca. 1912. Lane concentrated primarily on landscape photography, and was an early member of the Toronto Camera Club.

Rev. Charles A. McWilliams (d. ca. 1920) was a Roman Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Kingston in the late 19th and early 20th century and an amateur photographer.

Among his parishes were Railton (St. Patrick (1874- 1897), and the mission churches of St. Linus, Bath and St. Bartholomew, Amherst Island, (also 1874- 1897). Educated in the United States, McWilliams was a school acquaintance of M,tis leader Louis Riel, and later became a vocal opponent of Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald's handling of the Riel Rebellion in 1885. McWilliams is reported to have attended Riel's November 1885 execution in Regina. He wrote letters of protest to Macdonald and to Governor-General Lansdowne. In the outcry that followed, McWilliams was ordered by the Bishop of Kingston to make a public apology.

R.J. Russell (ca. 1890-1974) was a professional photographer, primarily based in Listowel, Ontario.

Born in England in either 1890 or 1891, Russell emigrated to Canada, and settled in the Canadian North, returning to England with the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War One. After the war, Russell returned to Canada, settling in Haileybury, Ontario. He moved to Listowel, Ontario after losing his home and business in the 1922 Haileybury fire, and in 1923 bought the negatives of Frank Lee's Kincardine, Ontario photography studio. Russell set up a new photo studio in Listowel, and continued to operate it until his death in 1974.

Harry Bernard Kohl (1923-1973) was a Toronto, Ontario architect.

Born in Toronto, Kohl received a Bachelor of Architecture degree the School of Architecture University of Toronto in 1947. Between 1943 and 1949, he apprenticed with J.E. Hoare Jr., J.J.I. English, James Haffa, Gordon S. Adamson, Earle Morgan and Mathers and Haldenby. From 1949 until his death in 1973, Kohl had his own practice and was known as a leading architect for the Toronto Jewish community.

In 1959, he practiced with John L. McFarland as McFarland and Kohl.

Henry J. McCracken was a pilot and base manager with Austin Airways of Sudbury and Timmins, Ontario.

William T. Clegg (1796-1894) was an artist and a Clerk of Cheque with the Royal Engineers for the Rideau Canada Construction active from 1826 to 1845.

Clegg emigrated to Canada from Ireland in 1827 with the Royal Engineers. Clegg knew and worked with John Burrows, the Clerk of the Works, on the Rideau Canal system who also documented the Rideau Canada Construction. Clegg remained in Ottawa until his death is 1894.

J.H. Black (b. 1874) was a teacher and amateur photographer in Colchester, Essex County, during the late nineteenth century.

James Henry Black, born on 11 September 1874 at Trenton, Ontario, was the son of James Black, grocer, and Jane Carlton. He became a school teacher and in 1901 was boarding with the family of John and Margaret Wilson. He was also an amateur photographer, his subjects being places and people in the area of Colchester, Ontario, including Grace Baldwin, daughter of the Wilsons' neighbours, Whitson and Georgiana Baldwin.

Duncan Campbell Scott (1862-1947) was a civil servant, poet and amateur photographer in Ontario active between 1880 and 1947.

He was born in Ottawa, Canada West. He was educated in various schools in Ontario and Quebec and at Stanstead College, Quebec. He became a clerk in the department of Indian Affairs in Ottawa at the age of seventeen. He remained in the department and in 1923 became Deputy Superintendent. In 1923 he was the Deputy Superintendent General for the federal government. His responsibilities included representing the Federal Government in intergovernmental negotiations with the aboriginal peoples in landholding agreements and establishing treaty settlements. As Commissioner in the first of two Commissioners' visit in 1905- 6 (the other in 1929-30) to Northern Ontario, Scott was instrumental in submitting Treaty No.9 to the Governor General for ratification in January, 1907.

Scott was also an amateur photographer and during the Commissioners' visit in 1905- 6 to the James Bay area he photographed the native population and scenery.

He was an author of poetry and fiction, and published many volumes of each. Throughout his career in Ottawa he actively corresponded with Melvin O. Hammond in Toronto, while the latter was literary editor of the Globe and contributed many essays to the newspaper.

In 1899, Scott was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada to which in 1921 -1922 he served as its president. In the same year, the University of Toronto conferred on him the degree of D.Litt.

He died in Ottawa in 1947.

Archibald Robertson was a prospector and amateur photographer.

William James Loudon (1860-1951) was a professor of physics and amateur photographer in Ontario.

Loudon was educated at Toronto's Upper Canada College and the University of Toronto. In 1881 he was appointed a demonstrator in the department of physics at Toronto, and retired in 1930 as Professor Emeritus of Mechanics.

Loudon was also the author of a number of publications, including "Fasti," "Standards of Length and Weight," "Lunar Tide on Lake Huron," amongst other writings. Loudon married Gertrude Richardson in 1882, and Elizabeth Lenahan in 1925, and was the father of one son and two daughters. In 1898 he co-founded the Madawska Club in Georgian Bay, Ontario with C.H.C. Wright. Mount Loudon in the Canadian Rockies was named after him in 1930 by the Canadian Geographical Board.

H. Peters (d. 1922) was a South Porcupine, Ontario-based photographer.

C.H.B. Johnson was a salesman for Thomas Meredith Hardware and was an amateur photographer based in Toronto.

Albert Tucker (1923- ) was a Canadian historian and author of "Steam into Wilderness," a history of the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission and Ontario Northland Railway.

Albert V. Tucker taught history at the University of Western Ontario between 1959 and 1966, and at Glendon College from 1966 to 1968. He was appointed Principal of Glendon College in 1970.

Frank McEachren (1918-1995) was the Chief Aide-de Camp for six Lieutenants-Governors in Ontario from 1955 to 1982.

Frank McEachren was born on June 6, 1918 in Surrey, England. He was educated at St. Andrew's College, Aurora, Ontario and attended Trinity College, University of Toronto in 1940, where he received his Bachelor of Arts. McEachren married Florence Eaton, the daughter of Lord John and Lady Eaton in 1940, and they had two children, Gilbert and Signey. Gilbert died in 1984.

McEachren joined the 48th Highlanders Regiment in 1940, and served in Sicily and Italy during W.W.II. He returned to Canada in 1944, and began work at the T. Eaton Co. as a public relations manager. In 1951, McEachren became the first director of the newly established Public Relations Office. McEachren went on to become the chairman of the Eaton Foundation, and was active in the philanthropic community in Toronto. He worked at different times as president of the Ontario Council of the St. John's Ambulance, Chairman of the Ontario Arts Council, President of the Canadian Cancer Society, President of the Canadian Opera Company, Governor of the Canadian Players Foundation, and Governor of St. Andrew's College. He was also a board member for the Toronto Board of Trade, the Canadian Public Relations Society, and the Council of Bishop Strachan School. He was named the Honorary Colonel of the 48th Highlanders.

McEachren began his career at the Office of the Lieutenant Governor as an aide in 1955. He went on to become the Chief aide-de-camp for the following Lieutenants-Governor: Louis Orville Breithaupt, John Keiller Mackay, William Earl Rowe, William Ross Macdonald, Pauline McGibbon, and John Black Aird. He retired from the position in 1982. McEachren was also appointed as Prince Andrew's official guardian while he studied at Lakefield College in Peterborough in 1977. McEachren died in April 1995.

E. J. Lennox (1854-1933) was a Toronto-based architect active between 1876 and 1924.

He was born 12 September 1854 in Toronto. His father, born in Antrim County near Belfast, Ireland, had a grocery business, speculated in real estate, and ran a hotel on Francis St.

E.J. Lennox was educated at Toronto grammar and Model Schools, then studied architecture at the Mechanics Institute, graduating first in his class in 1874. He apprenticed in the architectural office of architect William Irving for five years, then did an architectural tour of Europe. In 1876 Lennox entered into partnership with William Frederick McCaw. In 1881 Lennox left this partnership and established his own practice, which flourished. By 1885 his was one of the largest practices in Toronto, and in 1887 it won the competition for the new Toronto Municipal and County Buildings. In 1901 he purchased a building on Bay Street to house his firm. After W.W.I he was less active in practice on account of failing eyesight, but his firm remained open until after his death, with his son Edgar E. Lennox as a partner from 1925.

Lennox was responsible for over 75 buildings in the Toronto area, including churches, private residences, office buildings, and factories. Between 40 and 50 of these structures survive. He built houses, missions, a headquarters and a mausoleum for the Massey family, and offices and `Casa Loma' for Sir Henry Pellatt. He was known for an original adaptation of the Richardsonian Romanesque style in his public buildings, such as the Manning Arcade, the Medical Council Building, the Freehold Loan and Savings Building, old City Hall, the Beard building, the Toronto Athletic Club, and the rebuilt West Block of the Ontario Legislative Building at Queen's Park.

E.J. Lennox was a staunch Anglican, a mason, and a member of the Orange Lodge, the Board of Trade and other recreational clubs. He also served as a Toronto Transit Commissioner from 1923-1929, and on the board of the Manufacturers' Life Insurance Co. and the Manitoba Land Co.

He married Emeline Wilson and had four children: Eola Gertrude, Edgar Edward, Mabel Emeline and Edith May. When Ontario legislation was passed in 1931 for accreditation of architects, E.J. Lennox applied for and was granted this status at age 75. He died at `Lenwil' on April 16, 1933.

Eric Ross Arthur (1898-1982) was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, and was one of Canada's most prominent architects and architectural historians.

Educated in England, Arthur emigrated to Canada, where he was appointed Professor of Architecture at the University of Toronto. He developed a strong interest in early Ontario architecture, and in 1932 he founded the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario, to promote interest in the preservation of Ontario's architectural heritage.

Arthur wrote a number of books of architectural history, including "Toronto: No Mean City" in 1963, (later revised with Stephen Otto in 1978); "The Barn: A Vanishing Landmark in North America" (with Dudley Witney, 1972); and "From Front Street to Queen's Park" (1979). He received numerous awards for his scholarship and activism on behalf of heritage preservation, including two L.L.D's, two Gold Medals (one from the Corporation of the City of Toronto), and the Order of Canada.

Albert J. Kinsey was a Toronto, Ontario purchasing agent and amateur photographer.

Fredrick Robson (Fred) Davis (1896?-1963) was the first and official photographer of the Dionne quintuplets.

It is believed that Fred Davis grew up in the United States. He served for Canada in the First World War, and was wounded at Amiens. In 1919, he began his career as a photographer with the Toronto World, later working with the Mail and Empire and from 1923 with the Toronto Star. He was the staff photographer at the Star for many years as a member of its "flying squad" of reporters and freelance photographers. It was as a member of this squad that Davis travelled to Callander, Ontario on 30 May 1934 to obtain the first pictures of the newborn Dionne quintuplets.

Fred Davis remained in Callander to cover the Dionne story, and was involved in negotiating an exclusive contract for the Star, which sold exclusive international rights to NEA but retained Canadian distribution rights. This agreement and later contracts between NEA and the Official Guardians covering the period 1935 to 1939 stipulated that Davis or another photographer satisfactory to Dafoe would take the photographs of the quintuplets. In practice, this meant that Davis, who had become friends with Dafoe and at whose insistence often accompanied the doctor on his various travels, was official photographer. For his services, Davis was paid by NEA. In addition to his work as official photographer, Davis held a license from the Guardians to sell postcards and prints of the Quints in small souvenir lots. For a time he operated the Quintuplet Studio located at Simpson's in downtown Toronto. Davis was not restricted in his contract with NEA from taking freelance assignments, and in 1935, for example, he photographed the Moose River mine disaster, selling those pictures to the Associated Press.

In 1939, NEA allowed its contract to lapse, and Davis went to work for King Features Syndicate which had entered into a new contract with the Guardians. He later left King Features and in 1946 formed Canada Pictures Limited in partnership with Strathy Smith of Toronto. They operated this company until 1962, with Davis continuing to take freelance assignments such as covering the Diefenbaker election campaigns of the 1950s.

John Mowat (1791-1860), father of Sir Oliver Mowat, came to Canada as a soldier in the early nineteenth century, and became established in business at Kingston, Ontario where he raised five children.

John Mowat (1791-1860), was born in Canisby, Scotland. In 1807 he joined the 3rd (East Kent) Regiment of Foot and served in Spain and Portugal during the Napoleonic wars, leaving his fiancee, Helen Levack in Caithness. Following the end of the war in 1814, Mowat's regiment was transported to Canada where it took part in the battle at Plattsburg, 11 September 1814. Sometime following the end of the war with America, Mowat was discharged and he entered business in Kingston.

By 1819 Mowat had established himself and married Helen on the day of her arrival in Montreal. They settled in Kingston, raising five children: Oliver (1820- 1903), George L. (1824-1871), John B. (1825-1900), Catherine (1828-1916), and Jessie Bower (1833-1913). John was a founder of Queen's University and an officer in the Kingston Field Battery.