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Paul Edgar Philippe Martin was born on August 29, 1939 in Windsor, Ontario.

Prior to entering politics, Martin was the CEO and owner of Canada Steamship Lines (later CSL Group).

He served as a Liberal Member of Parliament from 1988-2008. He also served as Minister responsible for the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec from 1993-1996 and as Minister of Finance from 1993-2002.

In 2003, Paul Martin succeeded Prime Minister Jean Chrétien as leader of the Liberal Party.

Following the 2003 federal election, Paul Martin took office as the Prime Minister of Canada. He served as the 21st Prime Minister of Canada from December 12, 2003 to February 6, 2006.

When the Conservative Party formed a minority government after the 2006 federal election, Martin resigned as leader of the Liberal Party and retired from politics shortly after.

Walter Martin was a Professor Emeritus of English Literature at the University of Waterloo.

Martin was born in Durban, South Africa on April 6, 1920. Following the outbreak of World War II, he left school to join the Durban Light Infantry and was stationed in North Africa. His detachment was captured in 1942 and sent to a prisoner of war camp in Italy. In 1943, Martin and five fellow soldiers escaped the camp but were quickly captured and sent to a prisoner of war camp in Germany. He was released from the camp at the end of the war and returned to South Africa.

Martin was an activist against apartheid and ultimately decided to leave South Africa due to the country's racist policies. He immigrated to Canada with his wife and children in 1961.

In Canada, Martin accepted a position with the agricultural college in Guelph, ON. He joined the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo in 1962 and held the role of professor since 1969. In 1980, he received the Distinguished Teacher Award.

Martin's research and scholarly expertise centered mainly on the writings of Jane Austen, Henry James, Alice Munro, Joseph Conrad, W. B. Yeats, T. S. Elliot and D. H. Lawrence.

Martin died April 5, 2015.

William Jamieson (Jamie) Martin was the second son of John Alexander and Jessie Martin. He graduated from the University of Toronto in political science and economics in 1939 and in 1941 he enlisted in the army. He was appointed to the Canadian Armoured Corps and began training in Brockville as a Cadet. During the war he was part of the Elgin and then the 1st Hussars regiment and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. On June 11, 1944, his regiment was involved in a battle at Le Mesnil Patry, northwest of Caen, France, and Lt. Martin was killed in action. He is buried in the cemetery at Beny-sur-mer in France, and there is a memorial stone for him in the Grove Cemetery in Dundas, Ontario. He was engaged to Muriel Clift who worked as a military nurse in Europe during the war.

Wilson Alexander Martin was the oldest child of John Alexander and Jessie Martin. Wilson graduated from the University of Toronto in economics and then worked at the Waterloo Trust and Savings Company. In 1939, he entered active service at the rank of Sergeant and worked on the staff of the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario. He was eventually promoted to the rank of Major. In 1942, he married Dorothy Elaine Pequegnat and they had two daughters, Margaret Christine and Nan. After the war, he had a career in industrial engineering and then management at the Dominion Rubber Company in Kitchener and Montreal.

Burton Clare Matthews was a professor and university administrator born December 16, 1926 in Kerwood, Ontario. Matthews received a B.S.A. from the University of Toronto in 1947, a A.M. from the University of Missouri in 1948, and a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1952. From 1961 to 1962, he studied at Oxford University as a Nuffield Foundation Post-Doctorate Fellow. Matthews began his academic career at the Ontario Agricultural College as an assistant professor of soil science in 1952 becoming an associate professor in 1956 and a full professor in 1958. From 1962 to 1966, he was the head of the department of soil science.

In 1966, he was appointed Vice-President (Academic) at the University of Guelph. In 1970, he was appointed President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Waterloo and was reappointed for a second six-year term in 1975. From 1982 to 1984, he was the chairman of the Ontario Council of University Affairs. From 1983 to 1988, he was President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Guelph.

Dr. Matthews died January 2, 2004 in Waterloo.

Susan Mavor (née Bellingham) is a Canadian librarian and archivist who served as the Head of Special Collections & Archives at the University of Waterloo Libraries until her retirement in 2013. She obtained a B.A. in English from Waterloo Lutheran University (now Wilfrid Laurier University) in 1969 and an MLS from the University of Western Ontario in 1971. Prior to joining the University of Waterloo in 1976, Mavor worked at Western and McMaster University with a focus on special collections and rare books.

Martha Faith "Faith" Gribble was born in Chudleigh, Devonshire, England on October 31, 1874. She married widower William Snider (1845-1915), former mayor of Waterloo, in York, Ontario (now Toronto) on January 15, 1902. Together they had three children: Ralph Edward, Elsie Louise, and Gertrude Mabel. Widowed by William in 1915, she later married Wilbert James McArthur. She died in Langford, British Columbia on April 8, 1963.

Julia McCarthy was born in Toronto in 1964. In 1987, McCarthy graduated with a bachelor's degree from the University of Waterloo. In 1988, she audited a course in Developmental Psychology from Seattle University. And between 1991 and 1994, she audited select courses in Child, Adolescent, and Adult Psychology from the University of West Georgia.

McCarthy lived in the United States of America for ten years, most notably in Alaska and Georgia where she was guest lecturer in English and Psychology at the University of West Georgia (1992). She also lived in Norway and South Africa before returning to Canada and settling in Upper Kennetcook (East Hants) and the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia. While in Nova Scotia, McCarthy worked as a freelance writer, teacher of creative writing, editor, and potter. As a potter, McCarthy was the owner of Mudaphors Studio (in Nova Scotia). McCarthy was married twice, first to Richard Alapeck and later to Dr. Graham Stewart.

In 2002, McCarthy published her first book Stormthrower. In 2010, she published her second book Return from Erebus for which she won the Canadian Authors Association Poetry Award in 2011. In 2017, McCarthy published her third anthology All the Names Between which was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 2017 Governor General's Awards and was awarded the J. M. Abraham Poetry Award (formerly the Atlantic Poetry Prize).

Julia McCarthy died in 2021.

Eric McCormack was a Canadian author, reviewer, and academic. He grew up in the small industrial community of Bellshill in Scotland where his his father worked in the steel mill. Eric McCormack obtained a Masters Degree in English Literature from the University of Glasgow. In 1966 he left Scotland for doctoral studies at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. In 1970 he accepted a teaching post in the English Department of St. Jerome's College (Now St. Jerome's University) at the University of Waterloo, where he specialized in seventeenth-century and contemporary literature.

As an author Eric McCormack began his career writing short stories which appeared in small literary journals including Prism International, West Coast Review, Malahat Review, and The New Quarterly. In 1987 his first book Inspecting the Vaults was released. This is a collection of nineteen short stories, thirteen of which had been previously published in literary magazines. His first novel, The Paradise Motel, was published in February 1989. Eric McCormack became the focus of considerable media interest and his books were translated into many foreign languages. His next novel The Mysterium was released in 1989, and First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, was published in 1997. The Dutch Wife was published in 2002 and his final work, Cloud was published in 2014. Eric McCormack also frequently reviewed for The Globe and Mail. His works to date have received much critical acclaim.

Eric McCormack had won and/or been nominated for many prestigious literary awards. In 1988 Eric McCormack was one of two recipients of the Commonwealth Writers Prize in the Canada Caribbean Region for his work Inspecting the Vaults. He was awarded the Spring Book Award by the Scottish Arts Council for his novel The Paradise Motel in 1990, and in the same year he was one of the nominees for the People's Prize for Fiction. In 1997 the author was short-listed for the Governor-General Award for his work of fiction First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women. In 1999 Eric McCormack was awarded the Literacy Award at the Eleventh K-W Arts Awards Ceremony.

Eric McCormack also read at many international and national literary festivals including Harbourfront, Vancouver, Ottawa, The Eden Mills Writers' Festival and the Elora Writers Festival. He also gave readings at the University of Waterloo, at other universities, in local public libraries, in bookstores, and at other venues.

Zella Rose Dexter McDonald was born July 9, 1882 in Wentworth, Ontario to David Dexter and Isabella (McLachlin). She married Charles Campbell McDonald June 29, 1909 in Hamilton, with Ella Anthes acting as a witness.

Jerome McGann is an American textual scholar who specializes in the history of literature and culture in the late eighteenth century to the present.

Donald McKay was a fur trader who spent much of his life in the Timiskaming district of what is today northern Ontario and Quebec. Born to Scottish immigrants near or around Montreal he had several siblings, including Angus and Neil who also worked in the fur trade. When the Hudson's Bay Company post Frederick House was established in 1785, McKay who was then a clerk, was master of Canadian house, Langue de Terre, on Lake Mistinikon. By 1794 he had a post on Matawagamingue, today Mattagami, that served as the base for the area and he established the Flying Post on Groundhog Lake, which was in operation in 1800. From 1804 to 1806 McKay was in charge of the depot at Fort Timiskaming before relocating to Abitibi for a short time. He returned to Fort Timiskaming in 1806 and remained there as master until his death on June 9, 1820. Two of McKay's sons, Donald John and John, worked in the fur trade as well, serving as clerks in the Timiskaming district for the North West and Hudson's Bay companies.

James C. "Jim" McKegney was a the first professor in the University of Waterloo's Faculty of Arts where he taught Spanish. McKegney was born July 19, 1921 in Newton Butler, Northern Ireland and grew up in Sarnia, Ontario. He studied romance languages at the University of Western Ontario, graduating in 1950. He went on to complete an MA at the University of Oregon and a PhD at the University of Washington (1959). McKegney moved with his wife and children to Waterloo, Ontario in 1955 where he taught Romance languages courses at Waterloo Lutheran University (now Wilfrid Laurier University) for five years before joining the humanities program at the University of Waterloo.

McKegney died unexpectedly October 18, 1981 of a heart attack at age 60 while in Mexico City. He was scheduled to be in the Mexico for six weeks visiting libraries as part of a social sciences and humanities research council grant on early 1800s Mexican publications. At the time of this death, he has compiled a bibliographic database of 11,048 items regarding the independence movement in Mexico between 1789-1828, along with computer tape and extensive research files that included hard copies of more than 1,200 pamphlets. The collection was donated to the University of Toronto by his family in the late 1990s following the death of McKegney's wife in 1997.

Leonard S. McLaine was born June 27, 1887 in Manchester, England. After his education in the United States he worked for the Division of Entomology, Department of Agriculture, Canada. On July 16, 1942, he was appointed Dominion Entomologist and Assistant Director of Science Service. He died July 20, 1943.

Robert Angus McLaren was born July 28, 1895. He was the longest-serving superintendent of Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, holding that position from 1934 until 1963. He died on January 27, 1972.