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Gideon Mitchell Duncan was born about 1842 in Coldstream, Berwickshire, Scotland.

He was a physician in Bathurst, New Brunswick. He was one of the founding members of the New Brunswick Medical Society (1881) and its first secretary. In 1881, he presented a paper “Somewhat About a Few Medicinal Plants of New Brunswick” before the Natural History Society of New Brunswick.

He married Martha Jane Gordon (1843-). He died on October 5, 1913, in Bathurst, Gloucester, New Brunswick.

Composer George Duning, born in Richmond, Indiana, began his musical training at home on the piano before he was five years old. His mother taught piano and organ; his father was a concert singer and conductor. His family moved to Cincinnati where he grew up. At the age of fifteen, he had his own dance band but soon found a job playing trumpet and piano, touring with Kay Kyser’s band in the early 1930s. In the summers he studied at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. Kyser’s band recorded several hits and began a popular radio show with NBC, for which Duning continued to work for eight years. He then served for three years in the Navy branch of Armed Forces Radio, conducting and arranging command performances for Meredith Wilson. In Hollywood, after the war, he had private lessons in composition with the influential composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. He worked for Columbia Pictures for 17 years, creating music for films; he averaged seven soundtracks a year for such films as “3:10 to Yuma, ” “Bell, Book and Candle,” and “Picnic.” He composed the “short scores” for films while his collaborator, Arthur Morton, usually supplied the orchestration. He left Columbia in 1962 and began free-lancing, chiefly for television series such as “Star Trek.” In his 40 years of film scoring, he composed soundtracks for more than 300 television and film scores. He received five Oscar nominations and three Golden Globe nominations.

Christopher Dunkin was born on September 25, 1812, in Walworth, London, England.

He was a lawyer, politician, and judge. He studied at the universities of London, Glasgow, and Harvard (1829-1833). As a loyal British subject and conservative, Dunkin did not hold a favourable view of life in the United States and instead left for Montreal in 1837, where British patriotic fervour was at its peak. He served as a correspondent for the Morning Courier (1837-1838) and then turned to public administration. He served as a Secretary to the Education Commission and then to the Postal Service Commission before he became Deputy Provincial Secretary for Canada East (1842-1847). He started studying law in the offices of Alexander Buchanan and then Francis Godschall Johnson and was called to the bar in 1846. He became a partner in Montreal's most prestigious law firm, Meredith & Bethune. In 1849, Meredith accepted a judicial position in Quebec City and soon afterwards, Dunkin left to set up his own practice in Knowlton in the Eastern Townships. In 1857, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada for the Quebec riding of Drummond-Arthabaska and later Brome. In 1864, he introduced a temperance act, known as the Dunkin Act. In 1869, he was appointed Minister of Agriculture but resigned in 1871 when he was appointed a Puisne Justice of the Quebec Superior Court.

In 1835, he married Mary Barber (1813–1891). He died on January 6, 1881, in Knowlton, Quebec.

Mary Barber Dunkin was born on January 13, 1813, in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, the daughter of an English surgeon Jonathan Barber (1784–1864), Professor of Elocution at Harvard and Yale Universities. In 1835, she married Christopher Dunkin (1812-1881), a Canadian lawyer, politician, and judge. She died on January 9, 1892, in Knowlton, Quebec.