Born at Tignish on April 15, 1936. She taught as a teacher in Brae, P.E.I. prior to leaving for Halifax and Toronto where she worked as a bookkeeper/secretary. She joined the Royal Canadian Air Force, and upon her retirement from the air force, she entered a career in the public service in Ottawa. She first worked in the Department of Industry and then moved on to the Department of External Affairs. She retired in 1990 and resides in Moncton, New Brunswick.

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Spending five years within the Arctic Circle made Joseph F. Bernard very familiar with the cold Arctic winds. A native of Tignish, he spent most of his life in Alaska where he was employed as a fur trader and an explorer for the U.S. government. Joseph was never married.

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Born at Tignish on July 24, 1928. He began his career in journalism in the early 1950s as a reporter for the Halifax Herald in Truro, N.S. In 1955, he joined the news staff at CFCF Radio in Montréal, and a year later he began his career with CBC in Montréal. He worked his way up from television reporter to Director of Television, English Services, Québec Region, CBC Montréal. In 1981, he was appointed the Regional Director of CBC's Radio and Television operation in the Québec region. As a reporter, he was the first English-language Television Reporter to cover the Quebec National Assembly. As a producer, he has worked on the political conventions that chose Robert Stanfield, Joe Clark and Pierre Trudeau as party leaders. He retired from the media industry in 1987.

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Born in Saint John, New Brunswick on February 9, 1936. He came to the Island around 1946 from an orphanage in Saint John, New Brunswick. Upon arrival on P.E.I., he went to live with Russell and Cora Aylward (now deceased) in a house still standing, just yards from the Skinner's Pond one-room school where Connors would later attend classes. Stompin' Tom Connors is known all over the world as a country music legend. Some of his most famous songs include Bud the Spud, the Irish Moss Song and the Good Old Hockey Game. Connors and his wife, Lena, currently reside in Ontario, when they are not on the road for concerts.

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Born at Tignish on May 4, 1930. He earned his medical degree from the University of Ottawa in 1958. Since his training, he practised Urology in Cambridge, Ontario where he was affiliated with Cambridge Memorial Hospital in Cambridge, Ontario.

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Born at Tignish on October 27, 1894. He entered Whitmore Law School in Regina, then articled with the law firm of Brown and Thompson in Regina. He was called to the Bar of Saskatchewan in 1919. He practised law until 1935, when he was named a King's Counsel in 1935 and a Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench in 1941. He first married Joséphine Prince in 1921, and three children were born of this union. He later re-married Claire Flemming in 1950. He died in 1963.

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Born at Tignish on April 8, 1875. She began a teaching career in Tignish until she undertook her novitiate training in the religious order of the Congregation of Notre Dame. Her postulancy was spent at Good Counsel Academy at Pointe St-Charles in Montréal. She was given the title "Sister St. Gerald" after her clothing ceremony on February 5, 1897. She spent the remainder of her days as a teacher, English submistress, mother and eventually a Superior, first at the Notre Dame Convent and later at the St. Augustine of Canterbury Convent in Montréal. She retired in 1958, but still continued to complete a daily schedule of activity. She died in March of 1968.

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Born at Tignish on March 6, 1933. He joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police on October 9, 1953 and was posted to Ottawa in 1954, then transferred to Manitoba that same year. He transferred back to Ottawa in 1958. During his career as R.C.M.P., he worked in most aspects of the modern force. His most distinguished achievement was probably his service as Officer-in-Command of the world-famous Musical Ride at "N" Division in Ottawa. He married Mary Theresa Lois Scissons, and there were three children produced from this union. Inspector McInnis died suddenly on August 8, 1982.

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Born in St. Louis, P.E.I. He entered McGill University in 1920, graduating second in his class six years later. He was appointed to the staff of St. Mary's Hospital in Montreal as the assistant in the department of surgery. Throughout the years that Dr. Nelligan was at the hospital, he also spent a great deal of time helping out with charities such as the Cancer Aid League and the Federation of Catholic Charities. Dr.Nelligan stayed at the hospital until his retirement in 1972. Dr. Lawrence Nelligan died at the age of 86.

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