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Sir Charles G. D. Roberts was a Canadian poet from New Brunswick. He received a BA and MA from the University of New Brunswick, and taught English and French at the University of King's Collee from 1885 to 1895. He was elected fellow of Royal Society of Canada in 1890, and was knighted in 1935 by King George V. He wrote both poetry and fiction, finding particular success in the animal story genre.

His publications include Orion and Other Poems (1880), In Divers Tones (1886), Earth's Enigmas (1896), The Vagrant of Time (1927), and other works.

First Bishop of Caledonia.

William Ridley was born in 1836 in Brixham, Devon, and was educated privately and in Islington. He was ordained deacon in St. Marylebone, England in 1866, then priest in Agra, India in 1867. From 1866 to 1870, he was a missionary with the Church Missionary Society, travelling to Peshawur and Afghanistan. From 1870-71 he was the English Chaplain in Dresden, Saxony, and from 1872 to 1879, held three consecutive vicarages in Yorkshire. In 1879, he was consecrated Bishop of Caledonia, and received an honourary D.D. from Lambeth. During his tenure, he travelled throughout the Diocese by boat and steamer (specifically, the Evangeline) and translated Gospels, Psalms, and the New Testament into the Tsimshian language. He resigned the See of Caledonia in 1904, and spend 1904 to 1908 visiting foreign missions. He became Rector of Compton Valence in Dorchester, England in 1908, where he died in 1911.

Coadjutor Bishop of Fredericton; Third Bishop of Fredericton; Ninth Metropolitan of Canada.

John Andrew Richardson was born in Warwick, England in 1868, and was educated at the grammar school there. He emigrated to Canada in 1888, and attended St. John's College in Winnipeg, where he obtained a B.A. in 1895. He was ordained deacon that same year, and then priest in 1896. He was curate of St. Luke's Mission in Winnipeg from 1895 to 1897, then rector until 1899. He gained a M.A. from St. John's College in 1898. In 1899, he became rector of Trinity Church in Saint John, and was made Canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Fredericton in 1902. In 1906, he was consecrated Bishop Coadjutor of Fredericton, and received an honourary D.D. from St. John's College. He succeeded to See of Fredericton 1907, and was granted another honourary D.D., this time from the University of King's College in Windsor, Nova Scotia. In 1910, he received an honourary D.C.L. from the University of Bishop's College. Richardson was popular, and an advocate for social change in the Maritimes and in the Church itself, supporting initiatives such as temperance and prison reform. He also advocated for the recognition of women's work in the Church, as well as their greater involvement. He was Bishop during incredibly challenging times, as both World War I and the Great Depression happened during his episcopate. He was elected Metropolitan of Canada and Archbishop of Fredericton in 1934, and passed away in 1938.

Forbes Rhude was the Pacific Superintendent at The Canadian Press.

The oldest landscape architecture practice in the Atlantic provinces, Reinhart L. Petersmann Landscape Architects Ltd. was founded in Halifax 1974, by Reinhart Petersmann. In 2001, Petersmann sold the business to Cary Vollick and James McKee. Today, they operate as Vollick McKee Petersmann Ltd.

John Regan was a historian, journalist and author from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. He worked for the Halifax Herald, City News, World, and Industrial Advocate Publications, and was the Maritime Provinces representative for the Associated Press.

Second Bishop of Mackenzie River; Assistant Bishop of Toronto.

William Day Reeve was born in Harmston, Lincolnshire, England in 1844. He was educated in Harmston and Islington, England, and was ordained deacon in Winnipeg in 1869. He was missionary for the Church Missionary Society in Fort Simpson, Northwest Territories from 1869 to 1879, and was ordained priest in 1874. From 1874 to 1879 he was the Registrar of the Diocese of Athabasca, Alberta, and was Chaplain to the Bishop of Athabasca from 1879 to 1884 and 1884 to 1891. He served as Incumbent of St. Paul's Church in Chipewyan, Northwest Territories from 1879 to 1889. He was Archdeacon of Chipewyan from 1883 to 1891. In 1891, he was consecrated Bishop of Mackenzie River, and was granted an honourary D.D. from St. John's College, Manitoba. He was the Bishop in charge of the Diocese of Athabasca, as Commissary for the Archbishop of Rupert's Land, from 1904 to 1907. In 1907, he resigned the See of MacKenzie River, and was appointed Assistant Bishop of Toronto, where he stayed until 1924, when he resigned that post. He passed away in Toronto in 1925.

Silas Rand was a Baptist clergyman, philologist, ethnologist, and missionary from Cornwallis, Nova Scotia.