William Marshall was a poet, born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia in 1859. He was admitted to the Nova Scotia Bar in 1881, and published A Book of Verse in 1909, in Nova Scotia only. In 1923, he passed away from cancer.
Ella Maud Murray was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia on March 6th, 1865. She worked in the newspaper industry until her retirement in 1934. She passed away July 30th, 1949.
Silas Rand was a Baptist clergyman, philologist, ethnologist, and missionary from Cornwallis, Nova Scotia.
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.
Bill Stewart was a reporter with the Canadian Press, from Riviere-du-Loup, Quebec. He was the first CP reporter on the beach during the June 6th, 1944 D-Day landings in France, and was named to the Order of the British Empire in 1948. He was the Montreal bureau chief of the Canadian Press from 1952 to 1974. He passed away in 2004.
Forbes Rhude was the Pacific Superintendent at The Canadian Press.
Constance Davies Woodrow was a poet living in Toronto, Ontario. Born in England in 1899, she moved to Canada in 1920, and began working for literary publications. She also sent poetry to be published by literary magazines, and published books of poetry such as The Celtic Heart (1929), and Captive, and Other Poems (1930). She worked at Albert Britnell Book Shop to support her husband, and passed away in 1937.
John Tracy was a reporter for the Halifax Herald and the Canadian Press in the 1930s and 1940s.