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Art Penson was born and raised in Creston, British Columbia, and is now based in Ottawa. He became interested in theatrical design after joining the drama club at university where he was studying to be an art and music historian. He worked with the Bastion Theatre in Victoria and later went to the Kootenay School of Art in Nelson, BC. At Kootenay he won a scholarship to continue his studies at the Pasadena Playhouse in California.

Penson's relationship with Neptune goes back to the 1970s. He met his wife Barbara Howatt there and served as Head of Props in the 1971/1972 season before earning a Canada Council grant allowing him to study theatre in England for three years. Recently he has been a regular designer for Neptune under the artistic directorship of Ron Ulrich. He has designed costumes, sets, props, and furniture for productions of Jesus Christ Superstar, Chicago, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. His costume designs for this latter production won a Merritt Award in 2004.

Marion Pennington was one of two faculty members hired by Dalhousie's nascent School of Nursing. She was born in Cranbrook, BC, graduated from Vancouver General Hospital in 1932, and receiving her degree in nursing from UBC in 1933. In 1943 she joined the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps and later worked for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in Germany as a nursing supervisor in camps for displaced persons.

In 1949 she obtained her MA at Columbia University and was appointed Assistant Director of the new School of Nursing at Dalhousie University. She left in 1952 to become the Director of the Teacher Training Program for graduate nurses in Ankara, Turkey, under the auspices of WHO. Later she returned to Cranbrook, where she was a school teacher from 1965-1971. She died in 1991.

Dixie Pelluet was born in London, England. She studied botany and graduated with an MA from both the University of Toronto and Bryn Mawr in Pennsylvania, where she also obtained her PhD in biology. She was a laboratory assistant in zoology in Alberta and taught zoology in various American colleges before being hired at Dalhousie as a lecturer in elementary zoology. Pelluet became an assistant professor of biology in zoology in 1931, appointed by President Stanley Mackenzie. Three years later in 1934, she married fellow zoologist Ronald Hayes at Dalhousie and became one half of a greatly respected academic couple. At the time, Pelluet was concerned that her marriage to Hayes would threaten her position as a professor. Before her marriage, Pelluet raised her concerns with President Carleton Stanley. The marriage went on as planned and Stanley made Pelluet an associate professor in 1941, but her salary remained frozen until 1947.

Pelluet was an outspoken advocate for equal gender treatment in academics, and wrote to President Kerr stating that she was “being quite unjustly penalized” for her gender and marriage. Her research focused on cellular differentiation. She and her husband were the first husband and wife team to receive honorary Doctors of Laws degrees on May 13, 1965.

Pelluet retired from Dalhousie University in August 1964 after working at the university for 26 years. She was 68 years old when she retired, during a period when women were not allowed to work at the university past 65 years of age. She was promoted to full professor three months before her retirement. Dixie and her husband are honored through the Ron Hayes and Dixie Pelluet Bursary in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 
awarded annually by Dalhousie.

George Patterson was a journalist, Presbyterian minister, author and antiquarian. He was born in 1824 in Pictou, Nova Scotia, the son of Abraham Patterson and Christiana Ann MacGregor. He married Margaret McDonald in 1851, with whom he had eight children. Patterson was educated at Pictou Academy, Dalhousie College and Edinburgh University. He was licensed to preach in 1848 and became minister of Salem Presbyterian Church in Greenhill, Pictou County, from 1849-1876.

Patterson is best remembered for his biographies of pioneer ministers in the Maritimes and early missionaries to the New Hebrides (Vanuatu), which did much to strengthen the church’s missionary program. After he left the Salem church, he published articles on scholarly and antiquarian subjects. He was a member of the Nova Scotian Institute of Natural Science, the Nova Scotia Historical Society, the American Folk-Lore Society, and the American Institute of Christian Philosophy. His best known-work is History of the County of Pictou, Nova Scotia (1877). He died in 1897 in New Glasgow.

George Geddie Patterson was a barrister, teacher, judge, historian and author. He was born in 1864 at Greenhill, Pictou County, the son of the Rev. George Patterson and Margaret McDonald. He received his BA (1882), MA (1887), LLB (1889) and LLD (1933) from Dalhousie University before setting up a private law practice and lecturing at Dalhousie Law School. From 1901-1906 he served as stipendiary magistrate and MLA for Pictou County. He was appointed to the Executive Council in May 1906, but was defeated in that year's general election. From 1907-1939 he served as judge of County Court District No. 5.

John Paterson was 71 years old when he was interviewed by the Our Voices Matter Project. John learned spelling and math at a young age with the assistance of his father. He skipped grade 1 and went from grade 6 to grade 9. His father knew he was going to die and wanted John to get a good education to support the family but John was bullied at school and has mostly negative memories of his childhood. He graduated from grade 10 at age 13 and went into a collegiate Institute in Prince Edward Island, where his father encouraged him to take grade 11 and 12 together, but it was too much for John and he got sick. He went away to stay with his grandparents in the country. John returned to school and graduated at age 14. John went to university at 16 but did poorly at his studies. He dropped out of college to work; eventually he got his engineering diploma but not his degree, a disappointment to his father and family.

John describes himself as troubled in college and later in life he "got in trouble" and started seeing a psychiatrist. He has had therapy all his life since seeing the psychiatrist. John sees a nurse now.

John feels he is in recovery "to a degree." He is not outgoing with people except at Connections Clubhouse, and isn’t very close to his family. John spends his time at Connections and watching television. John never married.

Hayward Parrott is a recording engineer, sound designer, and producer. Parrott began his career at RCA Records in Toronto, Ontario. He became chief engineer at Manta Sound and, in 1985, became vice-president and general manager of McClear Place Studios. Parrott formed "Hands On Productions Music House" in partnership with Eric Robertson and Larry Trudel.

In May 1993, Parrott and his family moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he became a partner in Solar Audio Recording Studio with Bob Quinn and Russell Brannon. As vice-president and general manager of the studio, Parrott helped Solar Audio refit one of its rooms into a successful audio post production facility.

Hayward has received more than 35 Gold and Platinum records and a number of Juno, Gemini, ECMA, MIANS and Ampac awards and nominations.