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John Dearness was born in Hamilton, Ontario on May 13, 1852, the oldest child of John and Jane (née Linklater) Dearness. The family moved to the Granton, Ontario area in 1856. Dearness graduated from the Toronto Normal School in 1871 and, at the age of 19, started teaching at School Section #1 (Coursey School) in Biddulph Township. Over the next four years, Dearness would become principal of Lucan School and also teach at elementary and secondary schools in Strathroy.
In 1874, Dearness was appointed inspector of public schools for East Middlesex County. He would travel throughout the area inspecting schools for the next 25 years.

Dearness married Harriet Emma Wilkinson (b. 4 July 1861), one of his former students, on June 20, 1881. Together, the John and Emma had three children:
Jean M. Dearness Tuke (25 May 1882 - 1967)
Margaret E. Dearness Tamblyn (23 Nov. 1883 - 1976)
Walter Dearness (5 Nov. 1886 - 9 Mar. 1957)
In 1888, Dearness began teaching biology courses at the University of Western Ontario and was appointed chair of the medical faculty. He received his own Bachelor of Arts degree in 1902, and Master of Arts degree two years later. Dearness was the first person to scientifically describe the hawthorn mealybug (Phenacoccus Dearnessi) in 1900, and a new species of scale insect (Aspidiotus Dearnessi) in 1897.
When the London Normal School was opened in 1900, Dearness accepted the position vice principal, serving in this capacity until 1918, when he assumed the role of principal. Between 1911 and 1915, he also taught summer school nature courses at the Ontario Agricultural College. Dearness retired from teaching in 1922, at the age of 70.

Dearness served as president of various associations at one time or another including:
London and Middlesex Historical Society
Ontario Historical Society
Mycological Society of America
Entomological Society of Ontario
He also served as secretary/treasurer of the Spelling Reform section of the Ontario Educational Association, and was a member of the Simplified Spelling Society.

John Dearness was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from The University of Western Ontario in 1926, the King's Jubilee Medal in 1935, and made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1936. Active in his writing and scientific pursuits until his 100th year, Dearness was a well known figure in London society. John Dearness died on December 6, 1954 at the age of 102. The Dr. John Dearness Home for Elder Citizens (now The Dearness Home), opened in 1952, and John Dearness Public School, built in 1967, were named in his honour.

J. Roberts Holmes was born in Toronto in 1908. He came to London in 1925 to work at his uncle Wendell Holmes' bookshop at 190 Dundas Street. In 1956, following the death of his uncle, Holmes went into business for himself with his own stationery and book company, Roberts Holmes Ltd. Roberts opened his first store at 258 Dundas Street, moving to a larger space at 240 Dundas Street in 1962.

Roberts Holmes' stores emphasized self-service, allowing customers to feel free to browse at their leisure. Merchandise included books and stationery as well as school and office supplies, decorations, and gift wrap. The lower level of the store was devoted to the Paper Book Shop which boasted a selection of 5,000 titles.

J. Roberts Holmes married Ruth (née Wainright) and they had two daughters, Barbara and Nora. Holmes was also active in several associations. He was the president of the Western Ontario division of the Stationer's Guild of Canada and regional director of the Canadian Bookseller's Association. Holmes was also a member of Metropolitan United Church and a member of London's Canadian Club and the Rotary Club.

In 1974, Holmes sold his business to long-time employee and store manager Betty Lang, who continued to run the business until 1996. Betty Lang purchased 248 Dundas Street in 1978 and moved the book store operation back to its original location. The larger store at 240 Dundas Street remained open, focussing on stationery, school supplies, and other merchandise. Holmes continued to be involved with store operations for several years after his official retirement.

J. Roberts Holmes died on December 14, 1989.

James H. Wainright was born near Peterborough, Ontario in 1866. He married Elizabeth (Della), on February 25, 1890. Elizabeth was born in Warsaw, Ontario in 1870. The couple settled in Cobourg, Ontario and had seven children:
Mary L Wainright Brown (1891-1984)
George A Wainright (b. 1892)
James Earl Wainright (b. 1893)
Robert Leland Wainright (1897-1933)
Della Beryl Wainright (1900-1978)
Muriel Wainright (1902-1949)
Ruth Wainright Holmes (b. 1905)
Sometime between 1903 and 1911, the family moved to London, Ontario. James worked for the C.S. Hyman tanning company, travelling North America on buying expeditions. He retired in 1927.

James H. Wainright died on February 23, 1953 and Elizabeth died April 3, 1954. Mr. and Mrs. Wainright are interred in section W of Mount Pleasant Cemetery in London, Ontario.

Eleanor Bacon Sherman was born on July 1, 1855 to Perry and Martha (née Morrison) Sherman. Something of a child prodigy on the piano, at the age of 25 Sherman moved to Chicago to further her musical studies. Plagued by terrible headaches her entire life, Eleanor Sherman was never able to play the piano professionally. She, instead, taught and composed for the piano, wrote poetry, and devoted herself to study.

Sherman enjoyed studying a wide variety of topics - chiefly literature, philosophy and esoteric subjects. Most interested in Vedic knowledge, Sherman studied under guru F.K. Lalana. Sherman introduced Lalana to one of her correspondents, Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke, in 1899; Bucke saw Lalana as exemplifying “cosmic consciousness.” Bucke corresponded with Sherman during his authorship of the well-known book Cosmic Consciousness, offering her a draft of one chapter and a printed example of a page for her review.

Eleanor Bacon Sherman died on September 30, 1940 at her nieces' home in Sugar Run, Pennsylvania.

One of seven children, Richard Maurice Bucke was born on March 18, 1837 at Methwold, Norfolk, England to parents Horatio Walpole Bucke and Clarissa Andrews Bucke. His parents emigrated to Canada in his first year and settled in London, Ontario. At 16 Bucke left home and moved to the United States, where he worked in several locations as a labourer. In 1856 Bucke travelled to the Sierra Nevada where he joined forces with the prospectors Allen and Hosea Grosh. Hosea died within the year of blood poisoning, and in 1857 Bucke and Allen Grosh were lost in a snowstorm. They went 5 days and 4 nights without food or fire, until they arrived at a small mining camp. Grosh died of exhaustion and exposure, while Bucke recovered, despite losing one foot and part of the other to severe frostbite.

Upon his return to Canada in 1858, Bucke enrolled at McGill University to study medicine. He graduated in 1862 with the distinction of being the gold medalist of his year and winning a prize for his thesis, 'The Correlation of Vital and Physical Forces.' After spending time in Europe for post-graduate studies he returned to Sarnia to take over his late brother's medical practice. He was summoned to California in 1864 to give evidence in the Comstock Lode Litigation before returning to Canada in 1865 where he married Jessie Maria Gurd and settled down to practice medicine in Sarnia for the following ten years. Bucke and his wife had 8 children: Clare Georgina (1866 - 1867), Maurice Andrews (1868 - 1899), Jessie Clare (1870 - 1943), William Augustus (1873 - 1933), Edward Pardee (1875 - 1913), Ina Matilda (1877 - 1968), Harold Langmuir (1879 - 1951) and Robert Walpole (1881 - 1923). His first born, Clare Georgina, died at 10 months old, and his eldest son, Maurice Andrews, was killed in an accident in 1899.

Bucke was appointed Medical Superintendent at the new mental hospital in Hamilton in 1876, and after a year he was transferred to the Ontario Hospital in London where he served for 25 years. Bucke read Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass' in 1867 and claimed it to be one of the most important events of his life. He travelled to New Jersey to meet Whitman in 1877 which marked the beginning of a long, close friendship between the two men. Upon Whitman's death in 1892, Bucke became one of his literary executors and was a pall bearer at his funeral.

Bucke was one of the first of his time to depart from orthodox therapeutics at the Asylum. By 1882 he had abolished the medicinal use of alcohol in the Asylum and by 1883 he had discontinued the use of physical restraints and initiated an open-door policy. He also pioneered many surgical 'cures' for lunacy, including gynaecological surgery.

Bucke was an active writer, and his many noted works include several psychiatric papers, 'Walt Whitman, a biography of the man,' 'Man's Moral Nature,' and 'Cosmic Consciousness,' the last of which has been held in high esteem for many years and reprinted many times since its publication.

Bucke was one of the founders of the University of Western Ontario's Medical School and in 1882 was appointed Professor of Nervous and Mental Diseases, as well as elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Bucke delivered the opening academic lecture of the year at McGill University by request of the medical faculty in 1891. He became President of the Psychological Section of the British Medical Association in 1897, and the following year he was elected President of the American Medico-Psychological Association.

Bucke died suddenly after slipping on the veranda of his home and striking his head on February 19, 1902. He is buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, London, Ontario.

Edward Ermatinger was born on the island of Elba, just off the coast of Italy, in February, 1797. The eldest son of Lawrence Edward Ermatinger, an assistant commissary general in the British army, Edward was raised in England along with his brother Francis (born 1798). According to Edward's autobiography, his father was often absent; Edward and Francis were well-educated, if sometimes ill treated by their caregivers.

Edward's grandfather, Lawrence Ermatinger, had immigrated to Montreal from Switzerland in the mid-1760s, and much of the family still resided in North America. Edward's uncle Frederick Ermatinger was Sheriff of Montreal, and his other uncle Charles Oakes Ermatinger was a prominent fur trader with the Hudson's Bay Company. Lawrence Edward Ermatinger arranged for his sons' employment as clerks with the Hudson's Bay Company, and Edward and Francis sailed from London in 1818 aboard the ship Prince of Wales.

Edward and Francis arrived at York Factory on August 14, 1818. Although Edward had initially signed a five year contract, he remained in the Hudson's Bay Company's employ until 1828. He worked at various sites in present-day Manitoba, including York Factory, Island Lake, Oxford House, and Red River; his travels took him as far west as Fort Vancouver, in the present-day state of Oregon. In 1828, Edward Ermatinger went back to England, returning to Canada the following year. He lived in Montreal for one year before choosing to settle in St. Thomas, Ontario in 1830.

In St. Thomas, Ermatinger opened a general store and managed the Bank of Upper Canada, the Commercial Bank, and the Bank of Montreal successively. Afterwards, he helped establish the Bank of the County of Elgin, where he was its president. He also served at St. Thomas' postmaster from 1842 to 1876. In 1844, Edward Ermatinger was elected a Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly for the County of Middlesex, which at the time also included the County of Elgin. He was defeated in the election of 1847.

Edward Ermatinger established the St. Thomas Standard, the first newspaper in the community, in 1844. He also wrote numerous letters to the editors of other local newspapers on religious and political topics, and was a weekly columnist for the Hamilton Spectator newspaper. Ermatinger produced short stories, poems, diaries, and a book entitled The Life of Colonel Talbot and the Talbot Settlement, originally published in 1859.

Edward Ermatinger was a devout member of the Church of England, and choir director of the St. Thomas Church choir. He married Achsah Burnham (born 1809), daughter of judge Zaccheus Burnham of Cobourg, Ontario. Edward and Achsah had seven children:
Frances Elizabeth Ermatinger (1834-1857)
Lawrence Edward Ermatinger (1836-1837)
Maria Ermatinger Baldwin (1840-1863)
Annie Jemima Ermatinger (1843-1917)
Frederick William Ermatinger (1845-1845)
Francis Edward Ermatinger (1847-1892)
Charles Oakes Ermatinger (1851-1921)

Edward Ermatinger died on October 29, 1876. Achsah died on March 1, 1881. Edward and Achsah Ermatinger are buried in the churchyard of the Old St. Thomas Church (Anglican) in St. Thomas, Ontario.

Kenneth Kitchener Carroll was born on March 9, 1923 in Carroll's Crossing, New Brunswick to Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Carroll. He graduated with first class honours in 1939 from Fredericton High School, and soon after enrolled at the University of New Brunswick. Carroll briefly served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the University of New Brunswick Contingent of the Canadian Officers Training Corps. He earned both a Bachelor of Science degree (1943) and a Master of Science degree (1946) at the University of New Brunswick, as well as a Master of Arts degree from the University of Toronto (1946). Carroll then moved to London, Ontario; after three years of study under the supervision of James Bertram Collip and Robert Laing Noble, Carroll earned the first Doctor of Philosophy ever conferred at the University of Western Ontario (in medical research).
In 1952, Carroll pursued post-doctoral studies the University of Cambridge, returning in 1954 to teach biochemistry at the University of Western Ontario. Upon his retirement in 1988, Carroll was named Professor Emeritus. Carroll continued to research after his retirement; he was instrumental in developing Western's Centre for Human Nutrition, and acted as its director from its opening in 1990 until his death.

Kenneth Carroll was elected as Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada, the American Institute of Nutrition, and the Royal Society of Canada. He was awarded the Earle Willard McHenry Award from the Canadian Society of Nutritional Sciences and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Section of the American Oil Chemists' Society. In 1993, Carroll was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science from the University of New Brunswick.

On August 26, 1950, Kenneth Carroll married Margaret Eileen Ronson (b. 28 July 1923); the Carrolls had three children. Kenneth Carroll died on October 3, 1998; he is interred at London's Mount Pleasant Cemetery.

Frederick Stanley Albright was born on March 23, 1883 in Haldimand County, Ontario, the son of Reverend Josiah and Sarah (née Moyer) Albright. Raised in Beamsville, Ontario, Albright attended Victoria College at the University of Toronto, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1908. While at Victoria College, Albright was the editor of the student newspaper, Acta Victoriana.

Albright moved to Calgary in 1912 and was admitted to practice law through the Law Society of Alberta. Albright joined the firm of Clark, McCarthy, Carson and MacLeod and lectured in the Faculty of Law at the University of Alberta.

Elnora Evelyn Kelly was born on November 14, 1889 in Cayuga, Ontario, the daughter of Reverend S. Judson and Elizabeth (née Slaght) Kelly. In 1912, Evelyn received her BA in English and History from Victoria College at the University of Toronto.

Evelyn Kelly and Frederick Albright were married on June 12, 1914 in Thorold, Ontario; they returned to Calgary shortly afterwards. Frederick Albright enlisted with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in June, 1916 and initially worked as a recruiter in Calgary. He was sent for training to Bramshott Camp in England in March, 1917 before being sent to action in France. Frederick Albright was killed in action on October 26, 1917 at Passchendaele, Belgium. He is buried at Larch Wood Cemetery in Zillebeke, Belgium.

Thomas Hassall was born around 1811 near Churchill, Manitoba. Educated under David Thomas Jones at Red River Settlement's Anglican mission, the young Chipewyan was soon also fluent in English, French, and Cree. Thomas was baptized in June, 1827 and given the name Thomas Hassall after the person who had recommended Jones, his teacher, for missionary work. The name given to him at birth is not known.

Hassall began working for the Hudson's Bay Company in 1831, travelling as an interpreter for expeditions throughout the Northwest Territories, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan. He was first introduced to Methodist missionaries James Evans and Robert Rundle in Norway House, Manitoba, in 1840. Impressed by Hassall's personality, piety, and language skills, Evans made him an interpreter, teacher, and lay minister for their mission. Hassall worked primarily at the school in Norway House, and the school thrived under his leadership.

In August and September, 1844, Hassall, Evans and others were making their way toward Ile-a-la-Crosse, Saskatchewan in order to reinforce missionary teachings they had already performed there. Several days from their destination, Evans accidentally shot Hassall during a duck hunt. Thomas Hassall died on September 11, 1844.