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William Bliss Carman (known as Bliss Carman) was a Canadian poet born in Fredericton, New Brunswick in 1861. He received both a BA and an MA from the University of New Brunswick, and studied briefly at the University of Edinburgh and Harvard. After moving to the United States in the 1880s, he became the literary editor for the Independent, a magazine in New York City. He went on to work as a writer and editor for various other magazines and newspapers.

During his lifetime, Carman published over 20 volumes of poetry, including Low Tide on Grand Pré (1893), the Vagabondia series (1894 - 1900, with Richard Hovey), The Pipes of Pan (1902 - 1905), and Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (1904). In the 1920s, he went on a reading and lecturing tour in Canada, during which he was unofficially crowned Canada's Poet Laureate, and officially given membership to the Royal Society of Canada in 1925, and awarded the Lorne Pierce Medal for distinguished service to Canadian Literature in 1928.

Bliss Carman passed away in New Canaan, Connecticut, United States in 1929, at the age of 68.

The Canadian Press, Canada's principal news agency, is a co-operative owned by the major newspapers in the country. In 1910, Canadian Press Ltd. started redistributing news from The Associated Press to some Canadian newspapers via Morse code and telegraph wires. During the First World War in 1917, the Canadian Press was established as a means to bring back news from Canadian troops. It's services expanded as time went on, adding French language news in 1951, radio broadcasts in 1954, audio in 1960, network news in 1979, and internet news in 1997. There are Canadian Press offices in every major Canadian City, as well as in Washington, D.C, with its head office located in Toronto, Ontario.

Ethel H. Butler was the author of Little Thunders Wooing, published by Abenaki Press in 1950.

Second Bishop of Qu 'Appelle.

William John Burn was born in 1851 in Durham, England, and received a Bachelor of Arts from Cambridge University in 1874. He was ordained deacon the same year, and became curate of St. Andrew's Church, Chesterton, England, a position he held until 1876. In 1875, he was ordained priest. From 1876 to 1881, he was curate of St. Paul's in Jarrow-on-Tyne, England, then became vicar of Coniscliffe, Darlington, England until 1890. He obtained a Master of Arts from Cambridge in 1882, and married Maud Mary Banks in 1890. He was consecrated Bishop of Qu'Appelle in1893, and received an honourary D.D. from Cambridge. He passed away in Indian Head, Saskatchewan in 1896.

Sixth Bishop of Saskatchewan.

Walter Burd was born in Cork, Ireland in 1888, and was educated primarily at military schools in Colchester, England, and Athlone, Ireland, then attended secondary school and university in Sheffield, England. From 1914 to 1919, he served with 28th Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Force and 4th Worcesters (Imperial). He was granted the Distinguished Conduct Medal in 1916 by King George V, and married Elizabeth Millington (d.1937) in Sheffield in 1918. The couple had two sons and one daughter. He was a student at Eycliffe College from 1919 to 1920, and General Secretary of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew in Canada from 1920 to 1922. He was ordained deach in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan in 1922, and then priest in Saskatoon that same year. He was a curate in Tisdale, Saskatchewa, then a rector from 1922 to 1926. In 1923, he became the Rural Dean of Melfort, Saskatchewan, and in 1926, a canon and precentor of St. Alban's Cathedral in Prince Albert until 1929, when he was made Archdeacon. In 1933, he was consecrated Bishop of Saskatchewan, and granted honourary D.D.'s from Wycliffee College and from the University of Emmanuel College in Saskatoon. He married Florence Marian Traill in 1939. That same year, he resigned the See of Saskatchewan and passed away in British Columbia.