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Harriet Taber Richardson was an American from Cambridge, Massachusetts, who spent her summers in the Annapolis Royal area from about 1923. An admirer of Samuel Champlain, her interest in him broadened to include Port Royal. In 1928 she teamed up with local historian Loftus Morton Fortier to rebuild the Habitation. She established The Associates of Port Royal, with chapters in Massachusetts, New York and Virginia, with the goal of raising money for the reconstruction.

Matthew Richardson was a nineteenth century merchant based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is supposed to have been in partnership with Earl Dalhousie, who had considerable funds at command while in British America.

Reginald McCarthy Richardson was born in 1913 in Halifax, the son of Maurice B. and Margaret (McCarthy) Richardson. Early in his career he was employed as a warrant officer for the Department of National Defence. During World War II he served in Belgium and the Netherlands with the Canadian forces. After the war he continued to serve with the military in Ottawa and Western Canada, retiring in the 1960s. He later worked as a psychiatric assistant at the Nova Scotia Hospital. After his retirement from that institution he moved to Windsor, N.S. and died on 15 January 2001. Throughout his lifetime Richardson had an interest in Nova Scotia history and genealogy, and was an avid collector of art works, signed portraits, books, antiques and collectibles, some of which he donated to museums and other institutions. A prolific letter-writer, he frequently wrote to newspaper editors and public figures, offering his opinion on various topics of the day such as gun control, capital punishment, the environment and health care. Many of these opinions were published in newspapers such as the Halifax Chronicle-Herald.

Rob Richardson, Halifax Explosion survivor, was reportedly attending university in Halifax when the Halifax Explosion occurred on the morning of December 6, 1917. His family lived in Chipman, New Brunswick.

Matthew Henry Richey was born on 10 June 1828 at Windsor, Nova Scotia, the son of Rev. Matthew and Louisa M. (Nicholls) Richey. He was educated at the College School in Windsor as well as Upper Canada College in Ontario. He was called to the bar in 1850 and practiced law in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He married Sarah Lavina Anderson in June 1854. He served as an alderman on the Halifax City Council (1858-1864) and was twice elected mayor (1864-1867, 1875-1878). He was a member of the first board of School Commissioners for Halifax when the public school system was introduced by the Government of Nova Scotia. Richey was a Conservative politician and in 1878 was elected to the Canadian Parliament, where he served until 20 June 1882. On 4 July 1883 he was appointed the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia and served a five year term. He died on 21 February 1911.

Rev. Matthew Richey was born 25 May 1803 in Ramelton, County Donegal, Ireland. He was a Wesleyan minister who immigrated to Nova Scotia. He earned an MA degree from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut in 1836 and was awarded an honorary doctorate of divinity from the same institution in 1847. Matthew Richey married Louisa Matilda Nicholls on 31 July 1825 and had the following children: Mary Augusta, b.11 August 1826; Matthew Henry - b. 10 June 1828; Matilda - b. 13 May 1830; Louisa Matilda - b. 12 January 1833; James Arnimus - b. 3 July 1837; Theophilus Stinson - b. 11 May 1840; William Black - b. 17 April 1846. Rev. Richey died in 1883 at Government House in Halifax while his son was serving as Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia.

Prior to 1879 local government in Nova Scotia was the responsibility of the appointed Court of General Sessions of the Peace, which was composed of all those who held commissions as justices of the peace within a particular county. Richmond County was created in 1835 when Cape Breton County, which encompassed the whole island, was divided into three counties. The Richmond County Court of General Sessions of the Peace began in approximately 1847 when the boundary with Cape Breton County was confirmed by Statute. Prior to 1847, it was referred to as the Second or Southern District of Cape Breton County. Meeting two or more times a year at Arichat, the court had both administrative and judicial functions. It was empowered to appoint local officials who had been nominated by the Grand Jury; levy county and poor tax rates; exercise control over roads, bridges, prisons, hospitals, and other public works; regulate animals, weeds, fires, taverns, and the inland fisheries, and perform other duties assigned by statute. It could also act as a court of justice, with limited criminal jurisdiction, using the Grand and Petit Jury system from England. The Grand Jury decided whether a charge should proceed to trial. The Petit Jury decided on an accused’s guilt or innocence. Jury members were selected by lot from a list of male residents who either owned land or held a minimum amount of personal wealth. The passage of the County Incorporation Act in 1879 replaced the administrative functions of the Court of General Sessions with an elected municipal council. Its judicial function was assumed by the Supreme Court on County Circuit.

Rick Elwood is the father of Luke (b. 1977) and Melissa Elwood (b. 1975). He and his family lived in Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia. During the years of the court case, Rick worked as a firefighter.

Vern Rideout was a medical doctor born at Westville, Nova Scotia. Dr. Rideout removed to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia after working for two years in the tuberculosis clinic at the Roseway Hospital, Shelburne. In 1955 he became Director of the Western Nova Scotia Health Unit of the Nova Scotia Department of Health and continued in the position until 1986 when he retired. Dr. Rideout he was involved in the Sabin Polio Vaccine Study which was conducted in Wedgeport in 1961.

Allan Ridgway was born in Machester, England, and moved to North Sydney, Cape Breton, in 1920. A veteran of World War 1, Ridgway married Frances Dodd of Bridgeport and worked as the Manager of the North Sydney Branch of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. for more than 40 years.