Marlene Smith was a former archivist for the Esquimalt Municipal Archives.
Donor is wife of former Municipal Treasurer, Peter Cairns.
John Bligh was born in Esquimalt on Comerford St. in 1915.
Bruce Lowther is retired from the newsroom of the Times Colonist and worked as book editor with the Silver Threads Writers' Group when they began working on their second book, Seafarers, Saints and Sinners (1994).
Nee Williams.