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G.W.I. (Wilfrid) Creighton was the last of six children born to Graham and Catherine (Murray) Creighton of Halifax. Born 5 May 1904, he was educated at the Halifax Academy and Dalhousie University (BA, 1927), and went on to study forestry at the University of New Brunswick, the Prussian State Forestry College, the University of Munich, and the Saxon Forestry School in Tharandt.

After graduating from UNB in 1929 Creighton worked in the forestry industry in Quebec and Ontario. From 1931-1934 he studied in Europe, becoming Provincial Forester on his return to Nova Scotia. He was appointed Deputy Minister of the Department of Lands and Forests in 1949 and remained in the position until his retirement in 1969.

Creighton was active in a number of organizations, including the Canadian Institute of Forestry, the Canadian Forestry Association, and the Forest Products Association of Nova Scotia. He was awarded honorary degrees by UNB in 1953 and Dalhousie in 2004. The Forest Environment Centre at Shubenacadie Wildlife Park was named in his honour.

Creighton married Dorothy Helen Remillard in 1940, with whom he had three children. He died 17 August 2008 in Halifax, aged 104.

Norman Charles Creighton (1909–1995) was born to Charles Jolly and Harriett (nee Hendry) Creighton in Bedford, Nova Scotia. He graduated from the Maritime Business College in Halifax in 1929, where he took classes in correspondence, typing, and shorthand. He worked as private secretary until he was struck down by pulmonary tuberculosis in his early twenties. After his recovery three years later, Creighton settled in Hantsport, where he established a plant nursery and began beekeeping. He spent the majority of his adult life in Hantsport with his older sister Laleah; neither sibling married.

Creighton's writing career did not begin until 1941, when he was in his early 30s. That year he created "The Gillans," a dramatic serial about a farming family for CBC radio's Maritime version of the Farm Broadcast. The serial was highly successful, but very demanding of Creighton, who was required to write five scripts a week. He resigned in 1949 but continued to do freelance work for CBC Radio as a writer for the short-lived weekly serial "Three of a Kind," and as a writer and broadcaster of radio talks. These short talks were among Creighton's most popular works, and he created them on a regular basis for over three decades.

In the early 1950s, Creighton began writing for print. His short stories were routinely rejected from magazines, but his non-fiction articles were more successful, appearing in the Atlantic Advocate and Maclean's. Although he had several published articles, Creighton's career as a magazine writer never became anything more than flirtatious; his attentions were directed at radio and the new medium of television. In 1955, Creighton moved to New York City to take a course on television writing at Columbia University. He spent five years in New York City, but his career as a writer for the new medium never took off, and he was forced into menial office work to pay the bills.

After leaving New York City, Creighton returned to Hantsport and resumed his career as a freelance writer and broadcaster. During the 1960s he worked on special projects for CBC Radio and CBC International, which included interview shows on the town of Lunenburg and the V. E. Day riots in Halifax, and a short series of comedy shows called "The Rum Runners." In addition to his regular radio talks, Creighton also wrote radio plays, acted in several CBC Radio dramas, and penned the occasional magazine article. Creighton took on fewer projects as the 1970s progressed, but he researched and recorded radio talks until his retirement in the 1980s. Creighton was a member of the Radio Writers' Guild, the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA), and a founding member of the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia (WFNS).

Creighton was a prolific writer, but little of it has been published. In 2001, Creighton's neighbour Hilary Sircom edited Talk about the Maritimes, a compilation of Creighton's essays accompanied by paintings and poems created by his older brother Alan Creighton.

Lois Sutherland Creighton was born on April 14, 1894. She received a B.A. in 1916 from Dalhousie University and taught in Qu'Appelle and Shaunavon, Saskatchewan before returning to Halifax in 1922 to accept a position as Latin Teacher at Bloomfield High School. When the QEII High School opened in 1942, she became the institution's senior Latin teacher. She remained in this position until her retirement in 1952.

In addition to helping with athletics, drama, and administration at the school, Lois was also active in her community. She was involved with the Red Cross and volunteered at Camp Hill Hospital. She was also a member of Dalhousie's Board of Governors, the Halifax Club of Professional and Business Women, the Women's Canadian Club, and the Dalhousie Alumni Association. Lois Creighton retired from teaching in March of 1952 and died on May 8, 1952.

Born on May 9, 1895, Howard Creighton was the oldest son born to Graham and Catherine Creighton. He was educated at Halifax Academy and graduated from Dalhousie Medical School in 1924. Howard went on to pursue post-graduate studies in Great Britain, including general medicine and surgery at London Hospital, obstetrics and gynecology at Dublin, and surgery at Edinburgh. He also served in the First World War and received the Military Cross in 1919.

In 1928, Howard Creighton moved to Lunenburg, Nova Scotia to practice medicine. In addition to a private practice, he also served as the community's Port Physician for twenty-eight years, helped establish the Fishermen's Memorial Hospital in 1952, and was a member of the hospital's staff before he retired in 1972. He also served on the Lunenburg Town Council and was active in local organizations. In 1933, Howard Creighton married Catherine (Oxner) of Lunenburg, with whom he had three children: Graham, Ruth, and Ann. He died at the age of 83 on October 27, 1978.

Graham Creighton was the eldest of ten children born at West River, Pictou County, Nova Scotia to Alexander and Margaret (Campbell) Creighton on September 15, 1860. He was educated at Pictou Academy and then entered Dalhousie University as a Junior Munro Exhibition Scholar with a Junior Munro Bursary, graduating with a B.A. in 1904.

Graham began his teaching career early. He began teaching with a permissive license at age fifteen, and in 1882 he received a first class license from the Provincial Normal College in Truro. He taught at a number of schools throughout the province before moving to Halifax to accept a position as the Principle of Morris St. Grammar School. In 1895 Creighton was appointed county school inspector, a position he held until 1935 when he retired. Graham Creighton had six children with Catherine Murray, whom he married on August 27, 1891. He suffered a stroke in late 1938 and died on January 2, 1939 at the age of seventy-eight.

In 1962, Graham Creighton's contribution to the community was recognized when Graham Creighton High School officially opened on Cherry Brook Road in Cole Harbour. Although it is now a junior high, the school continues to bear his name.

Educator and author Edith Murray Creighton was the eldest child of Graham and Catherine Creighton, born August 9, 1892 in Halifax. A graduate of Dalhousie University (B.A. 1915), she also attended McGill (M.A. 1926), the Sorbonne, and Columbia. Her teaching career included positions at Elmira College in New York, McMaster University, Halifax Ladies College, Dartmouth High School, the Queen Elizabeth High School, and also brought her to Manitou, Manitoba and St. John's, Newfoundland.

Edith travelled extensively to, among other places, Scotland, England, Korea, and Japan, as well as to Australia and Malaysia with the Canadian Federation of University Women in the 1960s. In later years, Edith Creighton began to write and publish short articles on various subjects and current events. Her works are known to have appeared in Saturday Night, The Halifax Chronicle Herald, The Bulletin (a publication of the Nova Scotia Teachers' Union), and Ward One Community Newspaper. She is also known to have used the pseudonym E. C. Raymur on at least one occasion. Edith Creighton was the last member of the Creighton family to reside at 1234 LeMarchant St. She died in Halifax in June of 1994.

Alan Bruce Creighton was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia on October 5, 1903, the son of Charles Jolly (C.J.) Creighton and Harriet Smith (Hendry) Creighton. He attended the Victoria School of Art and Design and the Halifax Conservatory of Music, playing violin. He was also employed as a reporter covering the shipping news for the Halifax Chronicle and played piano to accompany silent films at Acker’s Theatre in Dartmouth. In addition, Alan attended business school, became a farmhand, and worked in an automobile factory in Detroit, Michigan.

Upon moving to Toronto, Alan worked at Canadian Forum Magazine and the Old Favourites Antiquarian Bookstore. Additionally, he was an editor of A New Canadian Anthology, published in 1938.

Throughout his life, Alan was a prolific writer of diaries, short stories, poems, and reminisces. He was also an active artist, doing mainly sketches and watercolours. Many of his poems and stories were printed in magazines and newspapers and two books of his poetry were published: Earth Call: A Book of Poems (1936) and Cross Country (1939). Both publications were well-reviewed.

Alan Creighton passed away in Toronto, Ontario on June 24, 2003 at the age of ninety-nine.

Kenneth Cox was the sixth principal of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College and made significant contributions to the Maritime agricultural industry. Born in 1899 in Upper Stewiacke, Colchester County, he received his early training at NSAC, where he graduated with the Class of 1921. In 1924 he earned a BSc in Agriculture from the Ontario Agricultural College, studying animal husbandry. He followed this with graduate studies in agronomy at Macdonald College, McGill University, graduating with an MSc in 1929.

Cox returned to Nova Scotia to work at the Dominion Experimental Farm in Nappan, where he was employed as assistant to the superintendent and carried out research on cereals, forages, root crops and fertility. In 1937 he was appointed Provincial Agronomist and Professor of Agronomy at NSAC, and Vice-Principal and Farm Director in 1941. He became Acting Principal in 1946 and was appointed Principal in 1948, a position he held until his retirement in 1964.

Respected across the agricultural community, Kenneth Cox was a member of the Canadian Society of Technical Agriculturalists and served as president of the Nova Scotia Institute of Agrologists and honorary president of the Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture. In 1960 he was made a fellow of the Agricultural Institute of Canada and an honorary life member of the Canadian Seed Growers Association. His contribution to agricultural education was recognized with an honorary LLD from McGill in 1964.

In 1968 the Cox Institute of Technology on the NSAC campus was named in his honour and in 1991 Kenneth Cox was granted a Distinguished Alumnus Award. He died in 1994.

Norman Barrie Coward was a pediatrician and long-serving member of Dalhousie's Faculty of Medicine. Born on 14 August 1905 in St. Thomas, the US Virgin Islands, he was educated privately and at Colchester County Academy in Truro, Nova Scotia, before graduating from Dalhousie medical school in 1928. He completed a two-year internship at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, and was a resident at Toronto's Riverdale Infectious Diseases Hospital and Bellevue Hospital in New York City. He then spent twelve months at children’s hospitals in London, Birmingham, Edinburgh and Glasgow.

In 1933 Coward joined Dalhousie’s Faculty of Medicine as a lecturer and clinical instructor in pediatrics. He was appointed professor and department head in 1958, also serving as Physician-in-Chief at Grace Maternity Hospital, the Halifax Infirmary and the Children’s Hospital. He retired from pediatrics in 1971, but continue in his role as Medical Director of Halifax’s Hearing and Speech Clinic, which he had helped found, until 1995. Dr. Coward died on 16 October 1997.