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David Oland was born in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia in 1910. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Dalhousie University and later studied brewing at Birmingham University in England. David worked as master brewer at Oland and Son Ltd. until 1968 and later worked as Vice-President and plant manager of Public Relations with the company.

As a volunteer, David was active with the United Appeal and Canadian Heart Foundation and he acted as the Director of the Canadian Figure Skating Association.

Linda deBedia Oland was born in 1892 as the daughter of parents who had settled in Havana, Cuba. As a teenager, Linda was sent to Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It was while attending this school that she fell in love with Sidney Culverwell Oland. In 1912, they married, settled in Halifax, and had four children: Victor, Bruce, Don, and Amadita. Linda was president of the Atlantic War Fund of Halifax.

Upon her death in 1966, Sidney Oland established the Linda Oland Endowed Scholarship at Mount Saint Vincent University in memory of his deceased wife. The scholarship continues to be offered to students attending Mount Saint Vincent University today.

Sidney Culverwell Oland was born in 1886 to George Culverwell Oland and Ella Young Bauld. He was educated at LaSalle Academy, St. Andrew's School, Annapolis Royal, St. Francis Xavier College, and the United States Brewers' Academy in New York. He married Linda deBedia in 1912, with whom he had four children: Victor, Bruce, Don, and Amadita.

In 1900, Sidney joined the 82nd Abegweit Regiment. Two years later, he transferred to the P.E.I. Light Horse mounted unit. In 1904, Sidney became Provisional Lieutenant in the 1st Halifax Regiment, Canadian Artillery and competed with the British Artillery Team in Canada and Great Britain in 1907 and 1911. During the First World War, he commanded the 6th Battery at Fort McNab on McNab's Island, Nova Scotia. In addition, as a captain in the Artillery, Sidney mobilized a section of the Canadian Field Artillery. He later served in France as Commander of the 66th Battery, C.F.A., the 144th Brigade, C.F.A., and the 1st. After the war, Sidney reorganized the Halifax Coast Regiment and assumed command.

From 1922 to 1925, Sidney travelled to explore different business possibilities. In 1922, he spent the winter in Havana, Cuba with his family. During this time, he was hired as an agent for the St. John Brewery and had their bottled beer shipped to restaurants and hotels in Cuba. He also spent some time in Holywood, California acting and directing silent films until he settled in Halifax and actively participated in his family's brewery business, Oland and Son Limited and A. Keith and Son Limited.

In 1927, Sidney purchased a house on Young Avenue in Halifax and named it "Lindola" after his wife, Linda. This house was a centre for social activity, as Linda Oland was fond of hosting events. Upon his wife's death in 1966, Sidney presented the City of Halifax with a memorial fountain located in Victoria Park, known as the "Linda Oland Memorial Fountain." He also established the Linda Oland Endowed Scholarship at Mount Saint Vincent University in memory of his deceased wife.

Sidney Oland had many interests, including sailing ships, fishing, rare stamp collecting, and gold-mining. He was an avid sailor and owner of many sailing vessels. In 1905, he purchased a sloop-yacht called "Lady Betty" and used her for local fishing trips and races. He later sailed further on his ninety-foot schooner "Nomad" and later on the seventy foot motor cruiser called "Lady Betty II".

Throughout his life, Sidney was a member of a plethora of organizations and clubs. His many memberships included: Commodore of the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron; member of New York yacht club; Halifax Club; Ashburn Golf Club; Honorary Consul General of Peru; Honorary LL.D. St. Mary's University and member of the Senate (Halifax, NS); Chairman of the Board of Governors Nova Scotia Division Corps of Commissionaires; Director of the Headquarters of Commissionaires in Montreal; founding director of the Theatre Arts Guild; and Director of the National Gallery of Ottawa.

In addition to Sidney's noteworthy memberships, he was decorated by several organizations. His honours and decorations included: Knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta; Commander of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem; Chevalier of the Order of Merit of Peru; Volunteer Decoration of Canada; recipient of honorary degrees from St. Francis Xavier University, St. Mary's University, and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design; and honorary Aide-de-Camp to four Governor Generals of Canada.

As a business person, Sidney held the title of President for Oland and Son Limited and A. Keith and Son Limited. He was also the Director of the Eastern Trust Company, National life Assurance Company in Toronto, Bens Holdings Limited, Maritime Paper Products Limited, Halifax Developments Limited, Canada Permanent Trust Company, and Industrial Containers Limited.

Mrs. Evelyn A. Walton lived in Staplecross, Sussex ca. 1941.

Bryce McMaster was a British war poet. Educated at Oxford University, his collection The Stranger And Other Poems was published by Edward Arnold in 1923.

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.

The Reverend D.B. Blair was born in Strachur on Loch Fyne, Argyleshire, Scotland, to John Blair and Catherine MacGregor. His father was employed as manager of a large sheep farm. Blair received his education at Edinburgh University and was licensed to preach in 1844. Two years later he left Scotland for Barney's River, Pictou County, where he was ordained on 29 October 1846. From 1850-1890 he preached at the Free Church congregation established in Barney's River, which derived from the Garden of Eden, Blue Mountain and Barney's River, and was named "Blair Presbyterian Church" in his honour.

In 1851 he married Mary Sibella of Brolas, Mull, Argyleshire. She died in 1882. They had six children: Anna Margaret, Thomas Chalmers, Laughlan MacLean, John Knox, Ewan Alexander and David Welsh. Blair was considered, in his day, to be the best Gaelic scholar in North America. He died in 1893 and is buried at Laggan, Pictou County.

Norman MacKenzie, better known as Larry, was born in 1894 in Pugwash, Nova Scotia. He was educated at Pictou Academy before moving to Saskatchewan at the age of fifteen to farm with his brothers. In 1913 he entered Dalhousie, where he studied for one year before enlisting in the army. From 1914-1918 he served overseas, returning to Dalhousie to graduate with his BA in 1921 and his LLB in 1923. He received his LLM from Harvard University, where he also won a Carnegie fellowship to study international law at Cambridge.

Following two years as legal advisor to the International Labour Office in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1927 MacKenzie took up a professorial appointment at University of Toronto, where he taught for thirteen years. In 1940 he became president of the University of New Brunswick, and from 1944-1960 he served as president of the University of British Columbia. He was appointed to the Senate from 1966-1969. MacKenzie and his wife, Margaret Thomas (1903–1987), had three children: Bridget, Susan, and Patrick Thomas. He died in 1986.

J.J. (John James) Stewart was a teacher, lawyer, editor, publisher and businessman. He was born 13 May 1844 in East Branch River Philip (Williamsdale), Nova Scotia, son of William Stewart and Sarah Emily Peppard. Educated at his local public school and then at Amherst Academy, Stewart taught and served as headmaster at the Academy until 1870, when he moved to Halifax to study law with Howard Maclean, being called to the bar in 1874.

In 1875 he became one of 88 shareholders of the Morning Herald, Halifax's fledgling Conservative daily. In 1876 he became the paper’s first president and in 1878 its third editor. He left his law practice and in 1883 bought out the majority of shareholders to become the Herald’s first publisher. Following this success, Stewart branched out into banking, rising to the presidency of the Acadia Loan Corporation and the People's Bank of Halifax.

Stewart was a member of the Masons, the Navy League, the Good Templars and the YMCA, but his primary commitments were to the North British Society and the Nova Scotia Historical Society. He was an ardent British imperialist, Canadian nationalist and supporter of Confederation. He devoted much time to the province's Conservative Party and made two unsuccessful bids for election to the provincial assembly.

Stewart died as the result of burns suffered during a fire in his home. His widow, Catherine Olivia MacKay, whom he'd married in 1880, donated his collection of 3,200 books to Dalhousie University Library.

Journalist and poet Kenneth Leslie was born in 1892 to businessman Robert Jamieson and Bertha (Starratt) Leslie in Pictou, Nova Scotia. He was raised and educated in Halifax, where he attended the Arnold School (a one-room private school), and Alexandra School. At age fourteen he entered Dalhousie University and received his BA in 1912. This was followed by one year of study at the Colgate Theological Seminary, an MA at the University of Nebraska (1914), and further graduate studies in philosophy and mysticism at Harvard University. Throughout this time, Leslie developed an appreciation of poetry, socialism and mysticism that would dominate his later life.

On his return to Halifax, Leslie married Elizabeth Moir, daughter of Halifax businessman James Moir. They had four children: Kathleen, Gloria, Rosaleen and Kenneth Alexander (later Alexander Moir). With James Moir’s support, Leslie experimented with a number of unsuccessful business ventures including farming and investment. During this time he also joined an informal Halifax literary group called the Song Fishermen.

Leslie moved to New York City where he experimented with preaching, broadcasting, composing music and acting. He continued to write poetry and was published in The Song Fishermens’ Song Sheet as well as Literary Digest and Scribner’s Magazine. In 1934 he published his first book of poetry, Windward Rock, which coincided with the end of his marriage. Between 1936–1938 Leslie published three more poetry books, including By Stubborn Stars and Other Poems, which won the 1938 Governor General’s Award. He also founded the religious and politically-minded magazine Protestant Digest (later called The Protestant) with his second wife, Marjorie Finlay Hewitt, and the assistance of three Nova Scotians—Ralph (Kelly) Morton, Sanford Archibald and Gerald Richardson. In 1943 Leslie established the Textbook Commission to eliminate anti-Semitic statements in American textbooks, and in 1944 he published an anti-fascist comic book called The Challenger. As publisher and editor of The Protestant, Leslie corresponded with many prominent American political and social figures and became a popular public speaker.

During the late 1940s Leslie's reputation as anti-Catholic and pro-communist began to grow; there were staff problems at The Protestant; and his marriage to Marjorie ended. In 1949 Leslie and his third wife, Cathy, returned to Halifax when Leslie and The Protestant drew criticism from Senator McCarthy for un-American activity. Leslie’s third marriage dissolved shortly after his return to Nova Scotia. He continued to publish The Protestant and successor periodicals from Nova Scotia on a smaller scale until 1972 when his health declined. He also worked sporadically as a taxi driver and teacher while continuing to write and publish poetry. In the early 1960s he married his fourth wife, Nora Steenerson. Kenneth Leslie died in Halifax in 1974.

Murdock Maxwell MacOdrum was born in 1901 in Sydney, Nova Scotia. He graduated with his BA from Dalhousie University in 1923, then went to McGill, where he wrote his Master's thesis on the survival of English and Scottish popular ballads in Nova Scotia. In 1925 he participated in a teacher’s exchange to Glasgow, where he received his DPhil. He continued his studies at Harvard and was later appointed lecturer at the University of Kings College, Dalhousie, and at Queen’s University. In 1935 he was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in Sydney, Nova Scotia, where he ministered for four years.

In 1944, after a stint at the Dominion Coal and Steel Company in Sydney, MacOdrum moved to Ottawa to sell war bonds. He was recruited by Carleton College's founder and president, Henry Marshall Tory, to be his executive assistant and eventual successor. MacOdrum became the college's president in 1947, and within a few years had successfully lobbied the Ontario government to award the college a charter and degree-granting powers. He died in 1955.

John Rutherford was born in Shincliffe, England. He emigrated to Albion Mines in Pictou County and served as Inspector of Mines for Nova Scotia from 1865-1872, when he was appointed General Manager and Mining Engineer for the General Mining Association, later the Halifax Company. He had extensive dealings with Albion Mines, Blight Area, Caledonia Coal Mines, and the Style Mining Area. Beginning in the late 1890s, Rutherford sold Styles Mining Company options; his goal was to sell the entirety of the property to a worthy buyer.

Robert Rutherford was John’s only surviving son (George Rutherford died in 1903), and was left in charge of his father's estate in 1913. He continued his father's efforts to sell off the Cumberland Coal Areas until at least 1932.