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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.