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Colin Campbell was the second child of Colin and Maria Campbell (née Taylor). He was born in 1822 in Shelburne, Nova Scotia shortly before his family moved to Weymouth. He was educated there and in Digby, Nova Scotia. Campbell established a general store at Weymouth in the early 1840s and became the owner of several ships. He established an interest in the lumber trade and set up a shipyard in 1854. In 1871 he went into partnership with George Johnson to run a dry goods and grocery business at Weymouth Bridge. He was the local agent for the Merchant Bank of Halifax, founded the Weymouth Marine Insurance Company, and had an active political career, serving on the province's Executive Council from 1860 to 1863 and 1875 to 1878.

In 1845 Campbell married Phoebe Ann Seely, with whom he had ten children. He died at Weymouth on June 25, 1881 at the age of fifty-eight.

Donald Alexander Campbell taught at Dalhousie Medical School for 30 years. He was born in Truro, Nova Scotia, in 1849 and educated at Truro Academy and Dalhousie University. He received his MD,CM in 1874 and began practicing medicine in Halifax. He worked as a demonstrator and then as professor of anatomy from 1875-1885, and various other professorial appointments thereafter, including medical jurisprudence, materia medica and therapeutics, and clinical medicine.

In 1888 he accepted a clinical appointment at Victoria General Hospital, where he stayed until his retirement in 1911. He was a frequent visitor at Johns Hopkins, establishing friendships with the Hopkins group, which included William Osler. Dr. Campbell married and had one son, Duncan George Joseph Campbell (MD, Dalhousie, 1902) who died of pneumonia at the age of thirty. In his memory, Dr. Campbell bequeathed his entire estate to Dalhousie, founding a Chair in Anatomy. In return for his services he was honoured with a LLD from Dalhousie University. He died in 1917.

Susan Leslie Campbell was a philosopher and teacher at Dalhousie University from 1992 until her death in 2011. She was born in Edmonton and completed her undergraduate and graduate studies in Alberta before receiving a PhD from the University of Toronto. Her work in philosophy of memory and psychology is internationally recognized and wide-ranging in its scope, encompassing disciplines including women's and gender studies, public policy, psychology, cultural studies and law.

“Being Dismissed: The Politics of Emotional Expression,” published in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 9.3 (1994), was chosen in 2010 as one of the 16 most influential and significant articles to be published in the journal's history. Campbell’s first book, Interpreting the Personal: Expression and the Formation of Feelings (1997), was shortlisted for the Canadian Philosophical Association Book Prize. Relational Remembering: Rethinking the Memory Wars (2003) was awarded the North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Prize and was named a Choice Notable Academic Title. She also co-edited two collections of original essays: Racism and Philosophy (1999) and Embodiment and Agency (2009).

Campbell was commissioned to prepare two discussion papers for the Indian Residential Schools Resolution Canada Truth and Reconciliation Commission: “Challenges to Memory in Political Contexts: Recognizing Disrespectful Challenge” and “Remembering for the Future: Memory as a Lens on the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission," both of which were republished posthumously in Our Faithfulness to the Past: The Ethics and Politics of Memory (2014).

William Bliss Carman was a poet and editor born on April 15, 1861 in Fredericton, New Brunswick. A descendant of United Empire Loyalists, Carman attended the Fredericton Collegiate School and the University of New Brunswick. He developed a love of classical literature while attending Fredericton Collegiate, where he was introduced to the poetry of Rossetti and Swinburne by headmaster George Robert Parkin. His own first published poem appeared in the University of New Brunswick Monthly in 1879.

Carman served as editor of the New York Independent, Current Literature, Cosmopolitan, The Chap-Book and The Atlantic Monthly. His first book of poetry, Low Tide on Grand Pre, was published in 1893, followed by Songs of Vagabondia in 1894. In total he published over 25 collections of poetry.

During the 1920s Carman was a member of The Song Fishermen, a Halifax-based literary and social set that included Charles G.D. Roberts (Carman’s cousin), Andrew Merkel, Robert Norwood, Evelyn Tufts, Stewart MacAuley, Kenneth Leslie, and Ethel Butler. He was named Canada’s Poet Laureate on October 28, 1921. He died in 1929 in New Canaan, Connecticut, where he had moved to be near Mary Perry King, one of his greatest literary influences.