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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.

George Burden is a retired physician from Bedford, Nova Scotia, an avid traveller and collector of rare coins and maps. A graduate of the University of King's College and Dalhousie Medical School, he donated his collection of ancient Greek coins to King's College and his collection of ancient Roman coins to the Department of Classics at Dalhousie University. In his alternate career as a freelance writer, he has written about travel and medical history, as well as publishing poetry and fiction. His work has appeared in The Readers Digest, The Halifax Sunday Herald, The Medical Post, Funny Times, The Writer and Just For Canadian Doctors.

Dr. Burden is a past recipient of the Governor General’s Medal. He has served with the venerable Explorers Club as regional chairman for the Quebec/Atlantic provinces and as Director at Large. He became a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society in 2012. In 2014 he succeeded his father as the 31st Baron of Seabegs (Seybeggis-traditional), Stirlingshire, Scotland. He is currently an associate member of the Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs in Edinburgh as well as the Canadian Commissioner for the Scottish Clan Lamont.

George A. Burbidge was the first Dean of the Maritime College of Pharmacy and is more widely referred to as the "Founder of Canadian Pharmacy." Born in Newfoundland in 1871, at a young age he moved with his family to Halifax, where he was educated. He planned to study medicine, but when his father died he became a pharmacy apprentice. He was registered with the Nova Scotia Pharmaceutical Society in 1899 and operated two drug stores in Halifax until 1921, when he turned his energies to the Maritime College of Pharmacy, becoming its first dean in 1925.

Burbidge was associated with numerous pharmaceutical associations and was instrumental in the founding of the Canadian Pharmaceutical Association in 1907. The Association's goals were to guard against the Dominion's negative impact on the role of pharmacy in Canada; to promote uniform standards; and to hold annual conventions for pharmacists to exchange knowledge. Burbidge was the only full-time faculty member of the College of Pharmacy from 1921 until his death in 1943. During his tenure the one-year diploma program was expanded to a four-year BSc in Pharmacy.

John Bubar—known to his students as "Johnny Plant"—was the first head of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College's Plant Science Department. Born on 13 September 1929 in Hartland, New Brunswick, he was the first of three sons of Charles Humphrey Bubar and Ida Margaret Pratt. He grew up on farms near Hartland alongside his Pratt uncles, who were successful agriculturalists.

He graduated from Hartland High School in 1946 and spent one year in Normal College and another year teaching in a one-room school. He left teaching to attend Nova Scotia Agricultural College and McGill University's Macdonald College, earning a BSc in Agriculture in 1952. Two years later he completed his MSc at Penn State University, then returned to Macdonald College, where he earned his PhD. His doctoral research led to the development of the "Leo" Birdsfoot Trefoil, the first named cultivar of the forage crop species.

Bubar taught at Macdonald College for a decade before returning again to NSAC in 1967, where he taught for twenty years and carried out agronomy field trials both on and off campus. In 2010 a scholarship for top students from New Brunswick was established in his name.

John Bubar died on 1 April 2014 in Truro, Nova Scotia.

William Harry Bruce is a Canadian writer. He was born in Toronto on 8 July 1934, the son of novelist and poet Charles Tory Bruce and Agnes (King) Bruce. In 1955 he graduated from Mount Allison University, New Brunswick, with a BA in English Literature. The following year he received a scholarship to study at the London School of Economics and Politics.

From 1955-1959 Bruce was on staff at The Ottawa Journal as a parliamentary correspondent. He was a reporter for The Globe and Mail from 1959-1961, and from 1961-1964 an assistant editor at Maclean’s Magazine. He served one year as managing editor of Saturday Night before helping to start The Canadian Magazine, where he stayed until 1966. He worked for several years as a contributing columnist to publications including The Star Weekly, The Toronto Daily Star and Maclean’s, until in 1971 he was appointed executive editor for Nova Scotia Power Company. During 1972 he hosted CBC Radio’s Gazette. From 1973-1979, Bruce worked primarily as a freelance writer.

Bruce won an ACTRA Nellie Award for best radio drama for 1977. In 1978 his book Lifeline was the winner of the first Evelyn Richardson Memorial Literary Award for non-fiction. He received a National Magazine Award in 1981 and, in 1983 and 1984, he won the top writing prize at the Atlantic Journalism Awards. He has received honourary degrees from the University of King’s College, Halifax, and St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia.

Harry Bruce married Penny Meadows in 1955, with whom he has three children.