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John Stephen Ritcey (1916-1990), purchasing agent, was born in St. John's, Newfoundland on 19 December 1916, son of Robert and Muriel (Harvey) Ritcey. He married Enid Sheppard, and they had two daughters, Rosalind (b. 1946) and Joan (b. 1954). Ritcey died in St. John's on 12 April 1990.

Ritcey was educated at Methodist College, St. John's. After completing his education, he worked at Acadia Gas Engines Ltd., where his father was the branch manager. In 1939 John joined the Royal Navy, serving until 1945 on corvettes. When the war ended he returned to work at Acadia Gas Engines. Following the retirement of his father in 1955, Ritcey succeeded him as branch manager. In 1968, Acadia Gas Engines closed its operation in St. John's. Ritcey was then employed as a purchasing agent at Newfoundland Farm Products, a position he held until his retirement in 1982.

John Gilbert Higgins (1891-1963), lawyer, war veteran, politician, Canadian senator, essayist and poet, was born in St. John's, Newfoundland, on 7 May 1891, the son of Hannah (O'Grady) and John Joseph Higgins. He married Alice M. Casey in 1925; the couple had two sons and a daughter: Gilbert, John, and Mary Margaret. Higgins died in Ottawa on 2 July 1963.

Higgins was educated at St. Bonaventure's College, St. John's; Merton College (Oxford) and the London School of Economics. In 1909 he was named Newfoundland's Rhodes Scholar and studied law in England. Higgins served as captain of the Oxford ice hockey team which toured Europe (1911-13). He was called to the Bar in 1913.

Higgins enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) on 14 April 1916 at Antigonish, Nova Scotia, and served overseas with the St. Francis Xavier University Hospital Unit (No. 9 Station Hospital). Following the termination of the war, Higgins returned to St. John's where he established a law practice with Harold Winter (1919-1941). Subsequent partnerships included Fox, Higgins, Knight, Phelan & Hawkins, and Higgins & Higgins. In 1932, he was named King's Counsel (KC). During World War II, he represented the British Admiralty and the Canadian Department of Natural Defence in claims arising from the expropriation of lands for the war effort.

In 1948, Higgins campaigned actively against Confederation, emerging as an articulate leader of the Responsible Government League which favoured the restoration of self-government in Newfoundland. In 1949 he was elected as the Progressive Conservative (PC) candidate in St. John's East to the House of Assembly. Following the defeat of the PC leader, Higgins became the first leader of the PC Party in the Newfoundland House of Assembly (1949-51). Higgins did not run for re-election in 1951. In 1959, he was appointed to the Senate of Canada by Prime Minister John Diefenbaker.

Higgins was active in many professional and social organizations in Newfoundland. He served as president of the Great War Veterans Association (GWVA); founding member and president of the Newfoundland Fish and Game Protection Association; secretary of the South Coast Disaster Fund (1930); secretary of the Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee; state deputy for the Knights of Columbus and grand knight of Terra Nova Council (1928-33); and treasurer of the Law Society of Newfoundland.

Higgins was also an essayist and a poet whose works were published in local periodicals. he was also the author of a brief monograph, The Story of Law in Newfoundland (1952).

William Keen, ([168-]-1754), merchant and civic official, arrived in Newfoundland circa 1704 from Boston, Massachusetts. He was married and had a son, William. Keen died in St. John's on 29 September 1754.

Keen initially came to Newfoundland in 1704 as an agent (or factor) for a New England firm involved in the cod trade. By 1713 he was an independent trader, exploiting the salmon fishery off Cape Bonavista. He founded his own import-export business in St. John's, specializing in West Indian products, and established fishing and trading premises in Bonavista and Greenspond. When the French forces captured St. John's in 1708, they took William Keen and a Richard Cole back to Placentia as hostages where they remained until the recapture of Placentia by the English a few months later.

A strong advocate for an improved legal system, Keen stressed the need to have appointed officials to maintain order during the winter months and to settle civil disputes in the absence of British authorities. In 1729, Keen became one of the first justices of the peace appointed in Newfoundland. Keen was later appointed magistrate, a commissary of the vice-admiralty court (1736), naval officer (1742) and Newfoundland prize officer (1744). In 1750, he was appointed the first commissioner of oyer and terminer, which allowed him to hear, in the presence of the naval governor, all cases except treason.

On 9 September 1754, Keen was robbed and assaulted at his home near Quidi Vidi in St. John's by a group of four soldiers, five fishermen and a woman. He survived the attack but was severely injured and died later that month. One of the attackers turned King's Evidence and was pardoned; four of the accused (including the woman) were hanged, and the others were deported.

Keen played a key role in the development of the legal system in Newfoundland. A successful merchant, Keen was one of the richest then involved in the Newfoundland trade. His son William became his principal heir. The Keen plantations at St. John's and Harbour Grace remained in the family's possession until 1839.

Francis McCullogh (1850?-1893), Catholic priest, was born circa 1850. He died on 26 July 1893 at Bell Island, Newfoundland.

Rev. McCullogh served as a curate in Holy Rosary Parish, Little Placentia (now Argentia), in 1877 and later, as the parish priest of Sacred Heart Parish, St. Bernard's, Fortune Bay (1878-1881). In 1882, he was appointed pastor of St. Joseph's Parish, Lamaline, and he remained there until 1884. There is some evidence that he also served in the Kelligrews-Topsail area. In 1885 Rev. McCullogh was named the parish priest of St. Michael's Parish, Bell Island, Conception Bay (1885-93), where he served until his death in 1893.

Thomas Francis Brennan (1855-1916), Catholic bishop, the son of James and Margaret (Dunne) Brennan, was born at Bally Cullen, Tipperary, Ireland, 10 October 1855. He died on 21 March 1916 at Frascatti, Italy.

Brennan's family immigrated to Pennsylvania when he was eight. Brennan studied for the priesthood at St. Bonaventure's in Allegheny (N.Y.), the University of Rouen (France), and the University of Innsbruck (Austria) where he was awarded the degree of doctor of Divinity in 1876. He was ordained a priest on 4 July 1880, in Brixen, Austria, by Bishop John de Leiss. Soon after, Brennan began studies in canon law. His early career included a number of pastoral assignments in the Diocese of Erie, Pennsylvania. On 11 January 1888 he was made a Papal Chamberlain.In July 1890 the Vatican established Dallas as the third diocese in Texas. Brennan was named the first bishop of the new see, and on 5 April 1891, Tobias Mullen, Bishop of Erie, consecrated him to the episcopacy. At age of 35, Brennan was the youngest Catholic bishop in the United States at the time.

During his early months as bishop, Brennan traveled widely and his addresses were often reprinted in major newspapers. During his brief tenure he built churches in the new diocese and began publication of the Texas Catholic. He had inherited, however, the taxing responsibility of an extensive diocese, short on personnel and in considerable debt. While on a visit to Rome on 17 November 1892, Brennan was relieved of his Dallas post and transferred to the Titual See of Utila and made coadjutor to the Diocese of St. John's, Newfoundland.

On 7 October 1905 he was named titual Bishop of Caesarea in Mauretania. He later retired to a monastery in Grottoferrata, Italy. Brennan died on 2 March 1916 in Frascatti, Italy.

John A. O'Reilly (1867-1933), Catholic priest and author, was born on 17 February 1867 at Placentia, Newfoundland, eldest son of Sarah (Phelan) and Thomas O'Reilly. He died at Montreal in December 1933.

O'Reilly received his early education in the parish school at Placentia. He attended St. Bonaventure's College, St. John's (1885-1888) and the Irish College in Rome (1888-92). O'Reilly was ordained a priest in the chapel of the Irish College by Archbishop Lenti on 16 April 1892 and celebrated his first Mass in St. Agatha's Church, Rome, the following day.

O'Reilly's first appointment was as curate in the Cathedral Parish of St. John the Baptist, St. John's (1892-99). While carrying out this ministry he established a night school for working class boys in the city. In 1889 Rev. O'Reilly wrote "Notes on Rome: The Capital of the Christian World" a manuscript published by Devine and O'Mara, St. John's.

In 1899 Rev. O'Reilly was appointed as parish priest of St. Joseph's Parish, Salmonier. In 1919 he was established in St. John, New Brunswick as one of the contributing staff of the Diocesan Paper, The New Freeman. He authored the book, The Last Sentinel of Castle Hill. O'Reilly was a frequent contributor to the Newfoundland Quarterly. Based on an article in the Evening Telegram (5 July 1919), some have speculated that Rev. O'Reilly was the author of five historical novels.

In 1921 Rev. O'Reilly was hopitalized in Montreal. While his health somewhat improved, O'Reilly was unable to resume active pastoral ministry. He was confined to a rest home on Montreal where he lived a quiet life until his death in 1933.

Basil Fearn (1913-1992), businessman and shipbuilder, was born in 1913 at Harbour Buffett, Placentia Bay, son of Alice (Tulk) and Percy Fearn . He married Alice Moores, Wesleyville. They had four daughters: Janet, Judy, Susan and Cathy. Fearn died in 1992.

When Fearn was four years old, his family relocated to St. John's, where his father opened a furniture business. Fearn was educated at Memorial University College. When he left university he managed his father's business in St. John's. In the late 1940s he established Basil Fearn Limited, a marine engine and equipment business, in St. John's.

In 1947, in cooperation with fish merchant Spenser Lake, Fearn purchased the Clarenville Shipyard. The shipyard built a wide variety of vessels, including schooners, longliners, yachts and trap boats.

Herbert Crowe (1856-1933) was a native of Clifton, Colchester County, Nova Scotia. He was the son of James and Harriet Crowe of Old Barns, Clifton, where his father operated a successful shipbuilding business. He died in Nova Scotia in October 1933.

Crowe established an extensive grain business in the Canadian West, later returning to Nova Scotia where he opened a lumber business in Halifax, known as the Crowe Lumber Co. He returned to the West where he established another lumber company in Winnipeg, called the Beaver Lumber Company. As his business prospered, he moved his headquarters to New York where he started a second grain business, becoming prominent as a buyer on the Grain Exchange.

Crowe retired from business in the first decade of the twentieth century, spending his summers in Nova Scotia and his winters in Boston and New York. He died in 1933.

James B. Hay (fl. 1867-1893), midshipman, served on the HMS Buzzard during its visit to St. Pierre and Newfoundland in 1893. During this service he recorded the ship's log. Hay also served on the HMS Terrible, Martin, Gladiator, Speedwell and Duke of Wellington during the period 1867-72.

Steve Sack (1953- ), cartoonist, was born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1953. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife Beth and their son Adam.

Sack started to publish his cartoons while at student at the University of Minnesota in 1976 in that institution's student newspaper, The Daily. In 1978 he became staff editorial cartoonist for the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. In 1981 he joined the staff of The Minnesota Tribune. With the amalgamation of that newspaper with the Minneapolis Star, he became cartoonist for the new paper, The Minneapolis Star Tribune. Over the years, reprints of Sack's cartoons have appeared in a number of national and international publications such as Time, Newsweek and The Manchester Guardian.