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Charles Macdonald taught mathematics at Dalhousie University from 1862-1901 and was the namesake of the Macdonald Memorial Library. Born in Aberdeen in 1828 to Elizabeth and John Macdonald, he graduated from the University of Aberdeen in 1850, where he distinguished himself as the recipient of the Hutton Prize for the arts curriculum. After receiving his MA, he studied divinity and became a licentiate in the Church of Scotland, but turned his energies to teaching. He was at the Aberdeen Grammar School in 1862 when he was selected by the Church of Scotland in Nova Scotia as its nominee for the chair of mathematics at the newly re-opened Dalhousie College in Halifax.

Beloved among his students and a popular public speaker, Macdonald lectured on whimsical topics such as “On Fun,” as well as giving more contentious addresses on evolution and education. In 1882 he married Susan Morrow, who died after childbirth one year later. Macdonald did not remarry, raising his son as a single father.

Macdonald died in 1901 at the age of seventy-two after contracting pneumonia. In his will he left $2,000 to buy books for the university library, which prompted a movement among alumni to build a proper library in his honour. The Macdonald Library was built in 1916 and served as the university library until the 1970s.

Duncan Chisholm MacDonald was born in River Station, Nova Scotia, on 9 February 1896, the son of John R. and Mary Isabel MacDonald. In 1916, after completing his first year of engineering studies at St. Francis Xavier College, he enlisted in the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force, serving as a gunner in the 8th Canadian Siege Battery in England and France from 1916-1918. On his return from the war he attended medical school at Dalhousie University, followed by graduate studies in London, England. After a long career in medicine in small-town Saskatchewan, he retired to Saskatoon, where he was married in 1973 and died in 1976.

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Ronald St. John Macdonald was an internationally recognized legal scholar and jurist. He was born 20 August 1928 in Montreal, the son of Col. Ronald St. John Macdonald and Elizabeth Marie (Smith) Macdonald. After finishing his secondary education, he served with the Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve until his discharge in 1946 as a sub-lieutenant. He earned a BA from St. Francis Xavier University in 1949 and an LLB in 1952 from Dalhousie University. He furthered his legal education at the University of London (LLM, 1954) and Harvard Law School (LLM, 1955). From 1955-1957 he lectured in law at Osgoode Hall (York University), then moved to the University of Western Ontario from 1959-1961. He was appointed to the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto in 1961, and served there as Dean of the Law from 1967-1972. From 1972-1979 he was Dean of Law at Dalhousie University Law School, where he taught international law from 1979-1990.

He served as a consultant with the Republic of Cyprus from 1974-1978, and was a Canadian representative to the United Nations General Assembly in 1965, 1966, 1968, 1977 and 1990. From 1980-1998 he was the only non-European judge to sit on the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg, and in 1984 he was made a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague. He was appointed an Honorary Professor of Law at Peking University from 1986-1998. Other roles included President of the World Academy of Arts and Science (1983-1986). In 1984 he was made an officer of the Order of Canada and in 2000 a Companion of the Order of Canada. Ronald St. John Macdonald died 7 September 2006 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and is buried in the family plot in the St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church parish cemetery in Lismore, Pictou County.

Vincent Christopher MacDonald was born in 1897 in Mulgrave, Nova Scotia, to Archibald and Clara MacDonald. He was educated at Dalhousie University where he received a BA (1930) and LLB (1920). In 1927 MacDonald married his first wife, Emily O’Connor, with whom he had three children, David, Peter, and Paul. After Emily’s death in 1937, MacDonald married Hilda Durney in 1938 and had two more children, Brian Henry and Alan Hugh.

MacDonald worked as a lawyer, educator, and civil servant. Called to the bars of Nova Scotia and Ontario in 1920 and 1927 respectively, he practiced law in both provinces; worked as a law clerk in the Nova Scotia Legislature; was a research assistant to the Royal Commission on Maritime Claims; served as secretary to Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King in 1927; and lectured in law at Dalhousie from 1920-1926 and Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto from 1929-1930. In 1930 he returned to Dalhousie to teach law and in 1934 became Dean of the Law School. He also served as Assistant Deputy Minister of Labour of Canada from 1942-1944. He remained at Dalhousie until 1950 when he was appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia. MacDonald worked with numerous boards and commissions throughout his career, and served as an advisor to the Newfoundland government on union with Canada in 1948. He published numerous papers, frequently on topics related to constitutional and labour law, and edited a variety of publications, including the Dominion Law Reports and Canadian Criminal Cases (1924-1934). He also served on the Board of Governors of Dalhousie University and received honorary degrees from St. Francis Xavier, British Columbia, Dalhousie, and Columbia. MacDonald died in 1964.

Captain Everett MacDougall was born in 1858 in Maitland, Nova Scotia. He was raised and educated in the community and married Louise C. Tupper of Truro, with whom he had at least two children.

MacDougall was born into a sea-faring family; both his father, Alexander MacDougall, and his brother, Hebert, were captains. His first voyage was in 1877. He sailed on a number of ships throughout his career, including the Sherwood, Gloaming, William Douglas (where he assumed his first command in 1886), Snow Queen, R. Morrow, Strathmuir, Sellasia, and the Trebia.

After retirement, MacDougall briefly operated a wholesale/retail store in Halifax with two partners, but sold his share in the business after a year. He then moved to Winnipeg, where he captained a small passenger boat on the Red River, worked in real estate, and eventually settled into a career in the insurance business. While in Winnipeg, MacDougall also helped to found the Cutty Sark Club, a social group where former mariners could meet and talk about sailing and past adventures. He died in 1938.