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Born Jan 4, 1921, Leonard served in the military during World War II, with deployments in England and Sicily, and was a member of the Lorn Scots protection platoon. In 1941, he married Ada Elaine, beginning a relationship that would last over five decades. Leonard's life changed significantly in 1949 when he sustained an industrial injury near the McGivney ammunition dump while working with New Brunswick Hydro, resulting in paraplegia. Despite this setback, Leonard demonstrated remarkable resilience, undergoing extensive rehabilitation and continuing his professional career with New Brunswick Hydro for over three decades, eventually rising to the position of supervisor.

Beyond his professional achievements, Leonard cherished time with his family, which included two sons and two daughters. He passed away on June 20, 2002.

Howard John Alexander was born on April 14, 1894, in Langton,
Ontario, to William Craig Alexander and Catherine Hagan. Graduating from Simcoe Secondary School in 1912, Dr. Alexander enrolled in Hamilton Normal School and from 1913-17 taught in a public school and farmed in Norfolk County. In 1919, Dr. Alexander started his medical study in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto and graduated in 1925 with a M.B. degree. Following his graduation, he interned at Toronto General Hospital from 1925-26 and then joined a clinic in Welland for one year in general practice. On June 15, 1927, Dr. Alexander came to Tillsonburg, where he joined a group practice for about 55 years until 1981 when he retired from practicing medicine. After retirement, Dr. Alexander published a book, 56 Years in Medical Practice, looking back over his 56 years as a practicing physician in Tillsonburg.

Dr. Alexander married Florence Evelyn Cowan (born in Langton, Ontario on February 6, 1897) on September 2, 1926. Together they had two children: daughter Mary (born March 29, 1928) and son John (September 14, 1934). In 1986, at the age of 93, Dr. Alexander passed away at Tillsonburg District Memorial Hospital.

Clifford Armitage Was born on December 2, 1903, in Armstrong, British Columbia to Alfred Emerson Armitage and Jean Beattie. Moving to London, Ontario with his family at an early age, he received his early education at Rectory Street School. In 1911 his father moved west, working as an agent-telegrapher with the Canadian Northern Railway, and following that, Armitage went to Saskatchewan and lived in Blaine Lake from 1912 to 1920, until he finished his high school. Graduating from the University of Saskatchewan in 1925 with a B.A. degree, Armitage worked at different jobs before enrolling at the University of Toronto’s Medical School in 1927. After graduating in 1931, he interned at the Toronto General Hospital as a resident physician and then worked briefly as a locum tenens for Dr. McDonald in Kilbride, Ontario and as a camp doctor at the summer camp run by St. Andrew's College. Following that Dr. Armitage interned at the psychiatric hospital in Toronto, H.P. and later went to England, working as a house physician at the Radcliffe infirmary in Oxford for six months. In 1934, Dr. Armitage come back to Canada and settled in practice in Schumacher, a Timmins suburb, where he got involved in the set up of the prepaid medical plans for the Hollinger mine.

During the Word War Two, Dr. Armitage served in the reserve army as a medical officer for a time and on that basis, he moved to Toronto with his family. After getting discharged from the army, he went back to Timmins and became associated with Dr. Jack Stiles, a classmate of his, and they practiced together for six years. In 1951, Dr. Armitage left Timmins and come to Brampton, where he went into an association with Dr. Bartlet before getting on his own as a single, solo family practitioner doing anesthesia as a sideline.

Dr. Armitage married Ethel Elizabeth Pears, a girl that he knew as a child out west in 1937. Their first child, Donald, born in 1939, is a practising specialist in Brampton; their second child, Kathleen, born in 1941, is a specialist in Physical Medicine in Brampton. Dr. Armitage passed away in 1991.

Arthur Riley Armstrong was born in Toronto, on December 23, 1904, to Arthur Leopold Armstrong and Bessie Irene Massey. At the age of four, his father passed away and his mother remarried E.S. Glassco. From 1923 to 1930, he studied medicine in the medical school in Toronto, during which period of time he attended the London Medical School Hospital as an undergraduate for a year. After graduation, Dr. Armstrong went to Oxford University for a year before he came back to Toronto and went into Pathological Chemistry. In 1933 he joined the Banting Research, where he worked under Professor E.J. King and together they devised the King-Armstrong method for the measurement of the alkaline phosphatase activity in serum. Following that Dr. Armstrong worked directly with Sir Frederick Banting as his technician, before he went to the Mountain Sanatorium in 1935, where he worked as a part-time biochemist and later the acting director.

During World War Two, Dr. Armstrong joined the army medical corps and being seconded to chemical warfare, where he worked with anti-gas ointments. Later he went to Munsterlager, Germany and worked with the mobile unit until the end of the war in 1945. After the war, Dr. Armstrong resumed as the acting director of the laboratories. He later became the director, serving until his retirement in 1970.

Vicky (Pulver) Bach was a clinical nurse specialist with expertise in gerontology, medicine, and palliative care.

Vicky was born on July 1, 1951 in Barbados to Jewish Romanian parents. Six years later, in 1957, she and her family emigrated to Montreal, Quebec. In 1967, Vicky graduated from high school and entered the workforce, holding secretarial positions at various companies. Five years later, in 1972, she married Joshua Bach and moved with him to Windsor, Ontario, where he attended law school and she continued to work as a secretary. After his graduation, in 1977, they moved to Oakville, then to Hamilton. They were joined the following year by Vicky’s sister, Molly, and her husband. Between 1978 and 1987, Vicky and Molly pursued a freelance typesetting and graphic arts business. During this time, Vicky gave birth to two daughters: Sarah, in 1981, and Eva, in 1986. She also volunteered in the emergency department at McMaster University Medical Centre.

Between 1987 and 1993, Vicky completed a Bachelor of Science in Nursing at McMaster, graduating with the highest standing in her class. For the next twelve and a half years, Vicky was employed with Shalom Village, a Jewish non-profit organization in Hamilton that provides services for older adults of all religions, including senior’s apartments and long-term care. There, she held a number of positions including Program Director, Director of Resident Services, Chaplaincy Nurse, and Acting Director of Care. During this time, Vicky became certified in long-term care management and as a parish nurse, and received training in palliative care.

Between 2001 and 2005, Vicky completed a Master of Science in Nursing at McMaster, focusing on decision-making in palliative care. In 2006, she left Hamilton and moved to Abbotsford, British Columbia, where she was employed with the Fraser Health Authority as a clinical nurse specialist, first in Residential Contracts & Services, then in the Older Adult Program, and finally in the Medicine Program. Specialising in acute geriatrics and clinical practice guideline development, Vicky developed documentation and acute staff education related to quality of care, transitions, care planning, care pathways, and nursing ethics. She also served as Adjunct Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Her professional involvement included serving as Chair of the Clinical Nurse Specialist Association of British Columbia and as a member of the British Columbia Ministry of Health Seniors’ Hospital Care Working Group.

In July 2013, Vicky was diagnosed ALS, and resigned from her position with the Fraser Health Authority that October. She died on December 31, 2014 at the age of sixty-three.

Irena was born as Irena Borman in Warsaw, Poland in 1924, to Jan Bakowski and Helena Dobrejcer, who were both dentists. She was raised and educated in Warsaw until the war interrupted her high school education. To hide her Jewish identity, she assumed the name of Irena Bakowska throughout the war. Irena received her Lyceum education in an underground school in Warsaw and earned her Certificate of Maturity (i.e., Baccalaureate degree) In 1941. From 1941 to 1942, she studied in the underground medical school in the Warsaw ghetto as a medical student. During the massive deportations she and her family managed to get out of the ghetto and went to Zakrzowek, a village in Lublin. In January 1943, she was deported to a slave labour on a German farm in Lorraine. Surviving the war, Irena received education in France as a lawyer, and then migrated to the United States in 1955, where she continued her studies in law and as a librarian. Irena spent the last two decades of her professional career as a professor of Law and Law Librarian at Queen's University, Faculty of Law, in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

Dr. Marek (Marc) Balin was born in Warsaw, Poland on July 5th, 1918, to Adam Balin and Paulina Kijewska. Dr. Balin went to the medical school of Sorbonne University in Paris, France before being called back to Warsaw by the Polish Embassy in 1939. He worked at the Jewish Hospital (Czyste Hospital) in the Warsaw ghetto as an in-house staff after the invasion and continued his medical training in the Warsaw ghetto underground medical school from May 1941 to July 1942, when the massive deportations began. Having managed to escape from the Treblinka deportations, he was sheltered in Warsaw until the liberation of the city in 1945. Dr. Balin obtained his MD at the University of Warsaw in 1948 and then a diploma in anesthesiology at the University of Paris. in 1956, Dr. Balin moved to Cleveland, U. S., where he became a Lake County Memorial Hospital physician and anesthesiologist, got married, and had two daughters (Paulette Balin Yasinow and Joyce Fried). Dr. Balin died in 2006 of a stroke.