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Harry Edgar Nelson was born on 26 May 1912 in Clifton, NS. He was a resident of Great Village, Colchester County, Nova Scotia. He married Donalda Hope MacLachlan in 1943. He was a school teacher, a member of the Colchester Historical Society, and an amateur historian. Nelson died in 1993.

The community of Truro is located in Colchester County, Nova Scotia and was established early in the eighteenth century by Acadian families. Following the expulsion, it was resettled first by New England planters, then Loyalists. At that time is was known as the Township of Truro, however this was mainly a geographic designation. When the Colchester District of Halifax County was legally established in 1792, Truro was within the new district's boundaries. It subsequently became part of the newly-established County of Colchester in 1835. Until 1875, local government in Truro was provided by the Colchester Court of General Sessions of the Peace. That year Truro became a town by an act of incorporation. Truro was geographically part of the Municipal District of Colchester, however as an incorporated town it was administered by its own elected council. The council maintains things like sewers, water, streets and roads, property assessment, police, building inspection, lighting, and animal control. The town imposes taxes which are collected by the town clerk and administered by the treasurer.

Ada Louise Silver was born on 22 October 1859 at Lunenburg, N.S., the daughter of Charles Silver (1833-1913) and Louisa (Gerhardt) Silver (1836-1908). She attended Pictou Academy ca. 1867 for teacher's training and then taught school in the Lunenburg area. In 1885 she married Frank Powers (1853-1911), son of Peter and Elizabeth Thomson Powers of Halifax, with whom she had three children: Archibald Forbes, Frank, and William T. She also cared for Flora, a grandchild to Frank Sr. descending from an earlier marriage to Emma Sophia Morash (1855-1883), following the death of Flora's mother. Throughout her life Ada Powers was actively involved in education, temperance, missionary, and social service work. In 1922 she was the first woman appointed to the Lunenburg School Board. She was president of the Lunenburg Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) for 50 years and held several executive positions in the Nova Scotia WCTU. She represented Nova Scotia at World WCTU conferences in Stockholm, London, and across Canada, and was superintendent on the national executive of WCTU. Powers also served as an officer of the Lunenburg Presbyterian Church. She died at Lunenburg on 29 April 1942.

The Ajax Club of Halifax, Nova Scotia was sponsored by the Interallied Hospitality Fund and established in August of 1940. The club's objective was to uphold the morale of servicemen, to bring warmth and joy into their lives, and help them forget the grim realities of war. The chair of the Ajax Club secured the use of the Odell House at the corner of Queen and Tobin Streets in Halifax for this purpose. The Ajax Club opened on 4 November 1940, with the official opening taking place on 14 December 1940 when Sir Gerald Campbell came from Ottawa. The club featured a library widely supported by donors and a bar that served beer to a maximum of two quarts a day. The ability to serve alcohol was considered controversial and on 23 February 1942 the license to sell alcohol was withdrawn by the Nova Scotia Liquor Commission and the club was in effect closed.

The Maritime Home for Girls was established on 1 September 1914 by the Protestant Churches of the Maritime Provinces as a reformatory home and training school for girls under the age of 16 who were homeless, neglected, or considered to be delinquents. In addition to a regular public school curriculum, the girls were taught home economics and religion. The Home began as a singular building, with the addition of a cottage in 1917, and another two in the 1920s. The grounds consisted of 240 acres of land, 64 of which were being cultivated in the 1940s. They also kept Holstein cows and chickens on the farm which helped to finance the Home’s operation. The centre of the campus was Ross Hall. The Home partnered with the Local Council of Women for special events, such as flower shows. After encountering financial difficulties, responsibility for the Home was taken over by the Department of Public Welfare on 1 April 1967 and it was renamed to the Nova Scotia School for Girls. The school was converted to the Nova Scotia Residential Centre, a co-educational facility for emotionally disturbed children in February 1985, resulting in the closure of the Nova Scotia School for Girls.

The Nova Scotia Coach Lines bus company was established 1 August 1938 as a division of United Service Corporation of Halifax, N.S. George C. Thompson was appointed general manager. The company's name was soon changed to Acadian Coach Lines and in 1947, it became known as Acadian Lines. On 28 December 1955, Acadian Lines became a wholly-owned company when it was purchased from United Service Corporation by George C. Thompson, (who served as president until 1985), Ralph A. Pepper, and Gordon H. Thompson. The company subsequently purchased the bus operations of Fleetlines Limited of Halifax and Highland Lines of Sydney. Acadian Lines operated regular passenger and parcel express services between communities throughout the province. The company also served as local agent for Gray Line Sight-Seeing Association. Acadian Lines was Nova Scotian-owned until December 1995, when it was acquired by SMT (Eastern) Ltd. of New Brunswick.

Aileen Meagher was born 26 November 1910 in Edmonton, Alberta, daughter of Arthur and Mary Meagher. She moved with her family to Halifax in 1917. She attended the Convent of the Sacred Heart and then Dalhousie University where she received a BA and diploma in education. As a competitive runner, she won numerous medals including a bronze for the 400 metre relay at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany. Meagher was employed as a teacher in Halifax elementary schools from 1935 to 1969. From 1949 to 1956 she spent the summers studying with accomplished artists in Ontario, Massachusetts and Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia. She won the Nova Scotia Society of Artists' (NSSA) prize for water colour in 1950 and continued to exhibit in nearly every annual NSSA show from 1951 to 1969. Beginning in 1958, Meagher travelled extensively throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa. Meagher 's last exhibit was a retrospective at the Dalhousie Art Gallery in 1985. She died at Halifax 1 August 1987.

Isaac Deschamps was born circa 1722, presumably of Swiss descent, and arrived in Halifax, N.S. in 1749. He was employed by Joshua Mauger and in 1754 he ran Maugher's truckhouse at Pisiquid (Windsor) where he traded with local Acadians and First Nations. In 1760, Deschamps was appointed truckmaster for the trade at Fort Edward and justice of the peace for Kings County. In the following year he was named judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas and judge of probate for Kings County. He served as MLA for Annapolis County, 1759-1769, Falmouth Township, 1761-1770, and Newport Township, 1770-1783. Deschamps was appointed acting chief justice, 1785-1790, and became the subject of an investigation concerning the partiality of his rulings. In 1799 he became road commissioner for Kings County. Isaac Deschamps died on 11 August 1801 in Windsor.

Alfred Gilpin Jones, businessman, office holder, and politician, was born 28 September 1824 at Weymouth, N.S., son of Guy Carleton Jones and Frances (Jones). He was educated at Weymouth and Yarmouth Academy before moving to Halifax at the age of 18. He began work as a bookkeeper for Thomas Clifford Kinnear, West India merchant and ship owner, and was made partner as early as 1850. When Kinnear retired in 1872, Jones established his own firm, A.G. Jones and Company, in the same line of business, which he presided over until 1900. He became involved in politics and provided financial and moral support to the Anti-Confederation League prior to his election to the House of Commons as MP for Halifax 1867-1872, 1874-1878, 1887-1891. After 1872 he ran for election as a Liberal. Jones also served as minister of militia and defence, 1878, and Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, 1900-1906. He sat on the boards of Dalhousie University and Halifax Protestant Orphans' Home, served as president of Nova Scotia Marine Insurance Co. and director of Acadia Fire Insurance Co., and was lieutenant-colonel of the Halifax Volunteer Battalion before organizing the Halifax Volunteer Artillery Brigade in 1864. Jones and his first wife Margaret Wiseman (Stairs), daughter of Hon. William Stairs, were married in 1850 and had seven children. In 1877 he married Emma Albro. Jones died at Halifax on 15 March 1906.

Alan Joseph Fanning was born on 5 July 1916 at Hazel Hill, Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, the son of Joseph and Harriett (Feltmate) Fanning. He was educated in Hazel Hill, Canso High School, and the Provincial Normal College in Truro, where he graduated in 1937. He began his teaching career in Isaac's Harbour, Nova Scotia and subsequently worked in Sherbrooke, Thorburn, Sheet Harbour, Wolfville, Kentville, Westville, and Dartmouth. During the Second World War he served with the RCAF, 1943-1945. Following the war he returned to teaching and then went to Acadia University where he received his BA in 1949 and his MA in 1950. In 1959 he became the first principal of Dartmouth High School. He died on 25 August 1981 in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.