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Rowland Smith was a McCulloch Professor of English at Dalhousie University. He was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1938. He earned his BA at the University of Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University and returned to Natal to obtain his PhD. In 1967 he and moved to Halifax with his wife Ann to take up a teaching position at Dalhousie, later serving as acting Dean of Arts and Science. He was the author of the Smith Report, a recommendation for splitting the faculty of arts and science into two entities, which happened in 1987. In 1994 he was appointed Vice President, Academic at Wilfrid Laurier University, where he remained until 1994, when he left top take up a final appointment at the University of Calgary as Dean of Humanities.

Smith published and lectured extensively on modern British and post-colonial literature in English. In addition to his scholarly activities, he was a director of Opera Ontario, a regional judge for the Commonwealth Writers' prize, and a member of the Book Prize jury for the Canadian Federation for the Humanities. He also served as a governor of the Neptune Theatre foundation and as director of the Nova Scotia Rugby Football Union, being an avid rugby player himself. His other great love was music, and he was a member of Calgary's Opera's Impresario Circle. He died in 2008.

Thomas Brenton Smith was born in 1893 in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, the son of William Henry Smith and Francinia Lavinia (Hicks). He served as a Staff Sergeant with Liverpool’s No. 2 Clearing Hospital, a Canadian Militia Unit that merged with a Toronto-based unit to become the No. 1 Canadian Casualty Clearing Station during World War I. After returning from overseas he worked as an accountant with the Mersey Paper Company.

Smith was active in the Canadian Legion and as an amateur genealogist, compiling information about the families of Queens County. He died in 1955.

Solar Audio & Recording Limited was a recording studio founded by Russ Brannon in 1975. The studio operated on Wyse Road in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia and then on Hunter Street in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The company recorded hundreds of musicians and musical groups and, in the 1990s, moved into post audio for film and television productions. Solar Audio was not a record label, but many artists who self-released records that recorded and mixed at the studio used the studio’s name.

In 1986, Solar Audio & Recording Limited was sued by Sound Images, Incorporated, a recording studio based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Sound Images purchased a sound console from Solar Audio and sued the company in the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia when the console could not be installed as planned. Associate Chief Justice Ian H. M. Palmeter dismissed the charges after concluding that "something happened to the console after the time it was shipped by Solar to Cincinnati."

The Sons of Temperance was founded in 1842 by New York printers John and Isaac Oliver, who wanted to distance their order from some of the less respectable fraternal organizations that grew up around abstinence and prohibition movements. The organization expanded rapidly, remaining strongest in urban centres in the northeastern United States. In 1847 the Acadia Division was chartered in Nova Scotia by the Reverend William Ashley, who also served as the “deputy most worthy patriarch” for the National Division. Within five months Nova Scotia boasted ten divisions and 600 members, as well as a Grand Division.

In Maitland, Nova Scotia, the Lorne Division was preceded by the Rock Division by at least twenty years. The overlap in the divisions' membership and leadership suggests that the Lorne Division replaced the Rock Division. Although not officially formed as Division No. 445 until 1878, there are organizational records dating back to 1874, when there were 13 positions in the Roll of Officers, including the top position of Worthy Chief. In 1875 the number of positions decreased to 12. On 4 November 1878 the Maitland branch was formed and called the Lorne Division No. 445. Seven officers were elected, committees were formed, and it was determined that regular Friday-night meetings were to be held in Putnam's Hall. Meetings included attendance, reading of minutes and discussion of business and organizational matters, followed by entertainments such as speeches or readings.

The Sons of Temperance was founded in 1842 by New York printers John and Isaac Oliver, who wanted to distance their order from some of the less respectable fraternal organizations that grew up around abstinence and prohibition movements. The organization expanded rapidly, remaining strongest in urban centres in the northeastern United States. In 1847 the Acadia Division was chartered in Nova Scotia by the Reverend William Ashley, who also served as the “deputy most worthy patriarch” for the National Division. Within five months Nova Scotia boasted ten divisions and 600 members, as well as a Grand Division.

In Maitland, Nova Scotia, the Rock Division preceded the Lorne Division by at least 20 years; the overlap in the divisions' membership and leadership suggests that the latter replaced the Rock Division.

Drew Sperry was an architect based in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, known for his early adherence to a landscape approach to architecture, fitting the building to the land, rather than the other way around. Born in Halifax on January 4, 1942, he was educated at Le Marchant Elementary, Gorsebrook Junior and Queen Elizabeth High School before starting an engineering degree at Dalhousie University in 1960. After hearing the Dean of the new School of Architecture at the Nova Scotia Technical College speak to his second-year engineering class, Sperry decided that architecture was better suited to his creativity as well as his problem-solving skills. He enrolled in the BArch program in 1962 and graduated in 1966, having been awarded the school's first Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Gold Medal for Design.

Following graduation Sperry worked for Robert J. Flinn Design Group as well as collaborating with land planner Harold Verge, with whom he designed the Debrissy Museum in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, and the Paper Mill Village Housing Project in Hammonds Plains, which won an award for environmental sensitivity. In 1972 he started his own company, H. Drew Sperry MRAIC, which was initially run out of the family home he'd designed and built with his wife and business partner, Sheila, on Cranston Avenue in Dartmouth. Over time the firm took on projects across the Maritimes, opening partnership offices in Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Cape Breton and Toronto, and developed an expertise in recreational facilities and housing as well as University land planning.

Drew Sperry died in 2012.

Frank Spinney is a country musician from Nova Scotia. He is a singer, songwriter, scriptwriter and recording artist. He is also a promoter and organizer who has produced shows and special events to raise money for charities.

Spinney began his country music career when he formed "The Ramblers" with his friend Ralph Vidito. The band signed with World Records in Toronto, Ontario and recorded two records. Vidito passed away early on and Spinney went on to form other bands such as Country Born, Southern Gold, and a 10-piece country music show band called Country Generations. In March 2013, he recorded his first Christmas album.

Spinney also wrote, directed, and starred in two feature films: Is the King Really Gone and Nashville Bound. Nashville Bound won a number of awards at the Chicago Film Festival and Nova Scotia Film Festival. Spinney was inducted into the Nova Scotia Country Music Hall of Fame in 2011.