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Hon. William Dennis was born on March 4, 1856, in Cornwall, England.
He was an editor, journalist, publisher, and politician. Self-educated, he arrived in Canada in 1873, settling in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was a reporter for The Halifax Herald (1875-1881), a news editor from 1883 to 1900, and became its editor in chief and president in 1890. From 1881 to 1883, he was an editor for The Winnipeg Sun and he published The Evening Mail in Halifax in 1894. Dennis also served on the Halifax town council. In 1912, as an Independent Conservative, he was appointed to the Senate of Canada for the Halifax, Nova Scotia division. He remained a Senator until his death in 1920.
In 1878, he married Agnes Miller (1859–1947). He died on July 11, 1920, in Boston Massachusetts.

James Denoon was born in Elgin, Scotland in 1802. The earliest mention of him in Canada is in 1832, in Kingston, where he wrote a poetical work titled, Lines on the Death of Sir Walter Scott who had passed away in September of that year. At the end of the poem Denoon remarked that he had seen Sir Walter Scott. Denoon, who served with the Royal Artillery was likely stationed in Kingston with his battalion. It appears his stay in the city was brief as in May of 1833 he wrote Impromptu. Farewell to kind friends in Kingston, which was published in the Kingston Chronicle. Denoon appears in Quebec city in October of 1833, as exemplified by another of his works titled David’s Lamentation over Saul & Jonathan in two versions. In March, 1834, he laments the loss of his young son in Lines on the death of Little Jamie, the first of two great losses for Denoon as his first wife, Bethia died a year later. In September, 1835 Denoon was still in Quebec as he wrote Impromptu on the embarkation of the 79th Cameron highlanders from Quebec for home in 1835, and this was also published, this time in The Quebec Gazette. Denoon’s location can again be traced to Quebec in January of 1838, by a letter (not part of this collection) formerly in the Steinhart collection written by him as Sgt. of the 14th Battn., Royal Artillery, to an acquaintance in England, giving his views on the disturbances of 1837-38 and describing some of the events. By 1841 Denoon was preparing to leave Canada for England but payed a last visit to the graves of his wife and infant son at the cemetery located in the suburbs of St. John’s, Quebec. To commemorate the moment he wrote The farewell Visit at Quebec City on June 3, 1841. The following day he boarded the troop ship Athob for England. According to England’s National Archives, Denoon’s service with the Royal Artillery ended at this time, viz. 1841. Records of the Royal Hospital Chelsea indicate he was admitted there on October 13, 1841, his residence given as Three Rivers, Quebec. Denoon likely spent three years in the UK, according to the Encyclopedia of Massachusetts. Biographical-Genealogical (Vol. 12) after which he returned to Canada and Three Rivers where he lived the rest of his days. In 1850 another of his works titled The Young Soldier’s Dream -a reminiscence of his youth in the old country, was published in the Kingston Chronicle and between November 5, 1850 and April 27, 1852 he wrote a series of addresses on the opening and closing sessions of the Young Men’s Improvement Association of Three Rivers. Two were published in pamphlet form in 1852 under the pen name A Scotchman and a Soldier, and were printed at Three Rivers by George Stobbs. Both pamphlets contain some of Denoon’s other works which are present in these notebooks including The Convict and Drive to Shewanagan. The former was Denoon’s sympathetic view on prisoners held at the Royal Artillery garrison at Woolwich, England while he was in command of the Convict Guard there in 1825. In 1853 Denoon appears once again to be a part of the military as a sergeant in charge of the army barracks at Three Rivers, assisting a Capt. Beatson in 1853 in creating a Plan of the Barrack Premises &c. at Three Rivers, C.E. (LAC holdings). In 1860 Denoon wrote what he may have considered to be his most prestigious work titled Canada’s Welcome to the Prince of Wales. It was published in The Quebec Gazette that year in anticipation of the arrival of the Prince to Canada. Denoon’s poetry relates to events in his life, some are of a religious nature, and some evoke a pining for the old country, but he also wrote works of topical interest such as the one written on the ball held in Montreal in honour of the Prince of Wales on August 27, 1860; another was on the death of Prince Albert, and another was descriptive of a visit to Niagara Falls. Following this last piece is an interesting page long commentary describing Denoon’s visit to Table Rock at the Falls when he was there in 1862.

Biochemist O. F. Denstedt was born in Blyth, Ontario. He obtained his B.Sc. from the University of Manitoba in 1929 and his Ph.D. from McGill University in 1937. From 1929 to 1932, he was a member of the research staff of the Pacific Fisheries Experimental Station in Prince Rupert, B.C. In 1937, Denstedt was appointed lecturer in the Department of Biochemistry at McGill; Assistant Professor, 1942; Associate Professor, 1946; and Professor, 1960. He became Gilman Cheney Professor in 1965, and in 1967 retired as Emeritus Professor. He was the author of about 80 scientific papers, mainly concerning the chemistry and biochemistry of hormones, blood preservation, hemorrhagic diseases, inflammation and various aspects of metabolism. He passed away in 1975.

Hastings Charles Dent was born on July 23, 1855, in Kensington, London, England.

He was a British civil engineer and collector of entomological and botanical specimens. He was educated in private schools before entering Owens College, Manchester. His career in engineering began at the Royal School of Engineering where he became a tutor and later an examiner. As a qualified civil engineer, he worked laying the first tramway in Manchester before spending 1884-1885 in Minas Gerais, Brazil, where he was involved in surveying rail lines. Here Dent made many collections, including a small but very interesting herbarium, and published “A Year in Brazil” (1886). The same year he travelled around the world with the Earl of Harrowby, visiting British Columbia (Vancouver Island), the Ming Tombs of Beijing, Japan, and Java, and amassed a particularly impressive collection of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera specimens. In 1888, he settled on a farm in Godstone, Surrey. He was a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London (1885), the Entomological Society, the Zoological Society, and the Royal Geographical Society.

He died on March 6, 1909, in Godstone, Surrey, England.

John Charles Dent was born on November 8, 1841, in Wookey, Somerset, England.

He was a journalist, author, and historian. Shortly after his birth, his family emigrated to the Canadian West. Dent received his primary education in Canadian schools, studied law in Brantford, Ontario, and became an attorney in 1865. He practised law for a few years but found the profession did not suit him and was drawn to pursue literary endeavours. He developed his journalistic skills working for The Daily Telegraph and Once a Week in England. In 1867, he moved with his family to Boston, Massachusetts where he worked for the Boston Globe. In 1869, he accepted the position of editor-in-chief of the Toronto Evening Telegram. He continued to write articles for various newspapers, mainly the Toronto Weekly Globe to which he contributed a very notable series of biographical sketches on "Eminent Canadians". In 1880, he gave up his career as a journalist to devote himself entirely to the profession of historian and writer. He began to work on "The Canadian Portrait Gallery" which ran to four large volumes of biographies of Canadian public figures. His other important books are "The Last Forty Years: Canada since the Union of 1841" (1881) and "History of the Rebellion in Upper Canada" (1885–86). A collection of his stories was published posthumously in “The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales” (1888). Dent was elected to fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada in 1887.

In 1866, he married Elsie McIntosh (1846–1923). He died on September 27, 1888, in Toronto, Ontario.