Louis Whitman was born 27 August 1872. He married Florence A. Snider and they had two children, Margaret Frances and Kaherine Hazel. Whitman was a civil engineer and lived in numerous places including Sault St. Marie and Torono Ont. Whitman was the manager of the Annapolis branch of Collas, Whitman & Co. He died in 1953 at Toronto.
Bessie May Acker (1874-1973) married James William Whynot (1857-1941), son of Cyrus and Elizabeth Whynot, on 10 December 1891. They had five children: Atwood Roy (1893-1939), Elsie May (1895-1962), Seymore Morse (b. 1899), Clarence Murdock (b. 1902) and Ruth Marion (b. 1912). The family resided in New Albany, N.S. Atwood relocated to Farmingham, Mass. and joined the American Expeditionary Force during the First World War. He married Alexandria Clark, 18 October 1919, and died 9 November 1939 serving in the Third Field Artillery, 6th Division, USA Army.
Elden Whynot was born at Milton, Queens County, Nova Scotia ca. 1905, the son of Abram and Catherine (Cunningham) Whynot. He was educated in Shelburne and later New York, where he was employed at the Chase Manhattan Bank. Throughout his life he was an amateur photographer and in the mid 1930s he attended the Pace Institute in New York City. In 1943 he returned to Nova Scotia and settled in Shelburne where he established a photography studio which specialized in portrait and wedding photos. He also served as a civilian photographer for HMCS Shelburne. Whynot married (1) Edith E. Monroe and (2) Rhoda (Noni) Lenora Ryder. Whynot died 7 October 1997.
John Wightman was born in Digby, Nova Scotia on 1 February 1900, the son of George Warren and Mary Edith (Coombs) Wightman, descendants of United Empire Loyalists. He studied at both Mount Allison and McGill Universities. At the latter he received a B.Sc. (Mining Engineering) in 1922. Thereafter, between 1922 and June 1926, he worked in British Columbia in the vicinity of Kimberley, surveying, mapping, and drafting. From June 1926 to September 1934 he did explorations in Eastern Canada investigating mineral claims. From September 1934 to July 1946 he was the resident engineer in charge of operations for Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada (Cominco) and served as mine manager at the Caribou Gold Mines, in Caribou, Halifax County. In 1946, he was transferred to Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories, staying until February 1947 when he became the testing engineer at the Sullivan Mine in Kimberley, British Columbia. He died in 1989.
Donald Roy Wiles (1924-2022), amateur linguist and chemistry professor, was born in Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada in August 1924 to Neil Douglas Wiles (1899-1983) and Hilda M. (Vaughan) Wiles (1896-1986). Educated in Amherst, then Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick he earned a Bachelor of Science degree 1946, and Bachelor of Education degree 1947. Before his career in chemistry took him to Norway, the United States, and Western Canada, he spent the summer of 1946 visiting his mother’s family in Martin’s Point, Lunenburg County. Both sides of the family could trace their roots back to the “Foreign Protestants” who first settled Lunenburg. While there he recorded the German language spoken by the elders of that community and wrote down some of the German customs persisting there. After earning his Ph.D. in nuclear chemistry from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States in 1953, he worked at the University of British Columbia 1955-1959, then joined the Chemistry Department faculty at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario from 1959 until his retirement in September 1990. He continued teaching occasional courses in chemistry until just before his death on July 13, 2022 in Almonte, Ontario.
John M. Wilkinson was originally from Guysboro, Nova Scotia. In 1954 he married Janet Mabel White in Boston, MA. They subsequently lived in Alberta for several years before returning to Nova Scotia in 1958.
William Chisholm was born Dec 8 1870 at Heatherton, Antigonish County, the son John and Isabella Chisholm. He was educated in local schools; attended St F X, graduating with a BA. For a number of years, he taught school at Heatherton and New France. Eventually he began the practice of law in partnership with C F MacIsaac at Antigonish. He was elected to parliament in a 1905 by-election and served the constituency til 1916; served as MLA from 1916 til 1933 and served as leader of the opposition from 1925 to 1928.