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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.

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.

Alan Cameron was an authority in Canadian mining engineering and metallurgy and was the second president of Nova Scotia Technical College (1947-1957). Born in 1890 in London, ON, Cameron graduated from McGill University with a BA in mining engineering in 1913 and an MSc in 1914. His first position was at the University of Alberta, where he helped to develop its Department of Mining Engineering. During World War One, Cameron worked with the Geological Survey of Canada in the Northwest Territories, before serving in France and Belgium as a lieutenant of engineers with the Imperial Munitions Board.

After the war, Cameron taught at the Khaki University in England before rejoining the University of Alberta. He earned his ScD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1925 and was engaged in professional consulting, particularly in oil and mineral exploration in Alberta and the Northwest Territories. Following his promotion to full professor, he was appointed secretary of the Research Council of Alberta. His professional pursuits in the Canadian north from 1925-1937 included the search for radium in the Great Bear District and the exploration of the Headless Valley of the South Nahanni River district. In 1937 he left Alberta for an appointment as deputy minister in the Nova Scotia Department of Mines, where he served until 1947, when he became president of The Nova Scotia Technical College.

Alan Cameron was also president of the Association of Professional Engineers of Nova Scotia, the Nova Scotia Mining Society and the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. He was the Nova Scotia representative on the Dominion Council of Professional Engineers, and he prepared and presented the Nova Scotia brief to the Royal Commission on Coal in 1944. He retired from his position as president of The Nova Scotia Technical College in 1957 and he died 7 March 1977 in Wolfville, NS.

Lawrence Johnstone Burpee (1873–1946) was an historian, civil servant, librarian and writer. He was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Lewis Johnstone Burpee and Alice de Mill, sister of James De Mille. In 1899 he married Maud Hanington, with whom he had five children, Lawrence, Edward, Lewis, Ruth and Margaret.

Burpee was educated at home and at public and private schools. In 1890 he entered the Canadian civil service and served as private secretary to three successive ministers of justice. From 1905-1912 he was librarian of the Carnegie public library in Ottawa. From 1912 until his death, he was Canadian Secretary of the International Joint Commission.

Burpee published extensively in the areas of Canadian bibliography, geography and history. He died in Oxford, England, in 1946.

George Burden is a retired physician from Bedford, Nova Scotia, an avid traveller and collector of rare coins and maps. A graduate of the University of King's College and Dalhousie Medical School, he donated his collection of ancient Greek coins to King's College and his collection of ancient Roman coins to the Department of Classics at Dalhousie University. In his alternate career as a freelance writer, he has written about travel and medical history, as well as publishing poetry and fiction. His work has appeared in The Readers Digest, The Halifax Sunday Herald, The Medical Post, Funny Times, The Writer and Just For Canadian Doctors.

Dr. Burden is a past recipient of the Governor General’s Medal. He has served with the venerable Explorers Club as regional chairman for the Quebec/Atlantic provinces and as Director at Large. He became a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society in 2012. In 2014 he succeeded his father as the 31st Baron of Seabegs (Seybeggis-traditional), Stirlingshire, Scotland. He is currently an associate member of the Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs in Edinburgh as well as the Canadian Commissioner for the Scottish Clan Lamont.

George A. Burbidge was the first Dean of the Maritime College of Pharmacy and is more widely referred to as the "Founder of Canadian Pharmacy." Born in Newfoundland in 1871, at a young age he moved with his family to Halifax, where he was educated. He planned to study medicine, but when his father died he became a pharmacy apprentice. He was registered with the Nova Scotia Pharmaceutical Society in 1899 and operated two drug stores in Halifax until 1921, when he turned his energies to the Maritime College of Pharmacy, becoming its first dean in 1925.

Burbidge was associated with numerous pharmaceutical associations and was instrumental in the founding of the Canadian Pharmaceutical Association in 1907. The Association's goals were to guard against the Dominion's negative impact on the role of pharmacy in Canada; to promote uniform standards; and to hold annual conventions for pharmacists to exchange knowledge. Burbidge was the only full-time faculty member of the College of Pharmacy from 1921 until his death in 1943. During his tenure the one-year diploma program was expanded to a four-year BSc in Pharmacy.

John Bubar—known to his students as "Johnny Plant"—was the first head of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College's Plant Science Department. Born on 13 September 1929 in Hartland, New Brunswick, he was the first of three sons of Charles Humphrey Bubar and Ida Margaret Pratt. He grew up on farms near Hartland alongside his Pratt uncles, who were successful agriculturalists.

He graduated from Hartland High School in 1946 and spent one year in Normal College and another year teaching in a one-room school. He left teaching to attend Nova Scotia Agricultural College and McGill University's Macdonald College, earning a BSc in Agriculture in 1952. Two years later he completed his MSc at Penn State University, then returned to Macdonald College, where he earned his PhD. His doctoral research led to the development of the "Leo" Birdsfoot Trefoil, the first named cultivar of the forage crop species.

Bubar taught at Macdonald College for a decade before returning again to NSAC in 1967, where he taught for twenty years and carried out agronomy field trials both on and off campus. In 2010 a scholarship for top students from New Brunswick was established in his name.

John Bubar died on 1 April 2014 in Truro, Nova Scotia.

William Harry Bruce is a Canadian writer. He was born in Toronto on 8 July 1934, the son of novelist and poet Charles Tory Bruce and Agnes (King) Bruce. In 1955 he graduated from Mount Allison University, New Brunswick, with a BA in English Literature. The following year he received a scholarship to study at the London School of Economics and Politics.

From 1955-1959 Bruce was on staff at The Ottawa Journal as a parliamentary correspondent. He was a reporter for The Globe and Mail from 1959-1961, and from 1961-1964 an assistant editor at Maclean’s Magazine. He served one year as managing editor of Saturday Night before helping to start The Canadian Magazine, where he stayed until 1966. He worked for several years as a contributing columnist to publications including The Star Weekly, The Toronto Daily Star and Maclean’s, until in 1971 he was appointed executive editor for Nova Scotia Power Company. During 1972 he hosted CBC Radio’s Gazette. From 1973-1979, Bruce worked primarily as a freelance writer.

Bruce won an ACTRA Nellie Award for best radio drama for 1977. In 1978 his book Lifeline was the winner of the first Evelyn Richardson Memorial Literary Award for non-fiction. He received a National Magazine Award in 1981 and, in 1983 and 1984, he won the top writing prize at the Atlantic Journalism Awards. He has received honourary degrees from the University of King’s College, Halifax, and St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia.

Harry Bruce married Penny Meadows in 1955, with whom he has three children.

Charles Tory Bruce was a highly regarded Canadian journalist, poet and writer born in Port Shoreham, Nova Scotia, on 11 May 1906. His parents, William Henry and Sarah Tory Bruce, both traced their ancestry to late-18th-century settlers.

Bruce graduated in 1927 from Mount Allison University in Sackville, NB, where he served as editor of the campus newspaper, Argosy. After graduation he privately published his first book of poetry, Wild Apples, and was hired as a journalist for the Halifax Chronicle. Within a year he moved to the Canadian Press news bureau and in 1929 married Agnes King, with whom he had four children; his son, Harry Bruce, also became a successful writer.

Shortly after his second book of poetry was published, Tomorrow’s Tide (1932), Bruce relocated to Toronto with the Canadian Press, where he worked as an editor, war correspondent and, ultimately, as general superintendent, until his retirement in 1963. His wartime experiences are believed to have deeply influenced his personal life and his writing. His poetry publications include Personal Note (1941), Grey Ship Moving (1945) and The Flowing Summer (1947). His poetry also appeared in magazines such as Harper's, Saturday Night, Canadian Poetry and The Saturday Evening Post.

Bruce’s The Mulgrave Road received the 1951 Governor General’s award for English-language poetry or drama, and in 1952 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters from his alma mater, Mount Allison University. He wrote one novel, The Channel Shore (1954), followed by a collection of linked short stories, The Township of Time (1959), both of which were republished in the 1980s.

Bruce’s final writing project was a history of the Southam family and their business empire, News and the Southams (1968). He died in 1971 in Toronto.