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Donald M. MacGregor moved from Toronto to Sault Ste Marie when he was 14. Don played high school basketball with the Collegiate Wildcats. He later played softball with the Soo Monarchs in the late 1950s and 1960s. Don refereed high school basketball and was a volunteer basketball coach with the YMCA and at Shingwauk Hall. Don was Mayor of Sault Ste Marie from 1980 to 1985. In 1990 Don ran as the Liberal Party candidate in the provincial election. MacGregor ultimately lost the race by 697 to the NDP candidate Tony Martin. Don MacGregor and his wife Dawna have had four children: Murray, Nancy, David, and Robert. All of their children except Robert still live in Sault Ste Marie. Don is retired from Algoma Steel.

Lana Grawbarger is a member of Garden River First Nation and a descendent of Cheif Shingwaukonse. Lana is actively involved in the Anglican Diocese of Algoma. Lana serves as the Church Warden at St. John's Anglican Church in Garden River, Ontario. She is also a member of the Pine Family Singers musical group.

Edward Francis Wilson was born in the Islington borough of London, England in 1844. His family were reform minded evangelicals, and he too imbibed that spirit. Having come to Canada to farm, he had the occasion to visit an Indian reservation in southern Ontario (Sarnia). He then decided that "God had called him here to minister to the Ojibways". Wilson was ordained in the Church of England in 1867.While visiting Reverend J. Chance, minister at Garden River, Wilson became interested in Chief Shingwauk and the northern Ontario Ojibways. When Chance was transferred Augustine Shingwauk requested that Wilson be appointed as minister to Garden River. He took up his post in 1872 and immediately began to campaign alongside the Shingwauk brothers for funds for a residential school for native children. He remained Principal of the Shingwauk Home until 1893 when he moved to British Columbia to retire. Most of Wilson's years as Principal were spent adhering to the philosophy that prevailed at the time. And this philosophy was "assimilation". He saw "little good" in the ways of the Ojibway and attempted through education to change their ways. This involved creating a distance between the native students and their families. The attempt to accomplish this was manifested in such methods as the banning of the use of any native language, except for one hour a day, and the constant ingraining of Christian doctrines into the students. In his last years at the Shingwauk, Wilson's ideas changed drastically. In The Canadian Indian, a journal he co-founded, he recommended autonomy for native people and supported the maintenance of their languages. It seems that as a result of his experience he was led to a profound change of philosophy regarding the native way of life. Having come to know and appreciate the native people he realized almost one hundred years ago that assimilation was wrong and would not work.|In any event, once begun, the basic idea of the residential school established at Shingwauk was carried on under the direction of his followers.

The Shingwauk Project began in 1979 and started as a cross-cultural research and educational development project between Algoma University College and former Shingwauk students. The former Shingwauk student group would eventually become the Children of Shingwauk Alumni Association (CSAA). The Shingwauk Project was founded by Prof. Don Jackson, in collaboration with Dr. Lloyd Bannerman of AU, Chief Ron Boissoneau (1935-2000) of the Garden River First Nation, Shingwauk Almnus and Elder Dr. Dan Pine Sr. (1900-1992), and other former Shingwauk students, staff, and friends. The Project has undertaken many activities since 1979, focusing on reunions, healing circles, publications, videos, photo displays, curriculum development, presentations, workshops, historical tours and the establishment of archive, library and heritage collections. The Shingwauk Project is now operates under the guise of the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre at Algoma University.

The Children of Shingwauk Alumni Association (CSAA) was formalized in 1996. CSAA is comprised of staff, students, descendants of staff and students, and friends of the Shingwauk Indian Residential School. CSAA has been heavily involved in the development of the Shingwauk Project and the implementation of residential school healing initiatives. CSAA currently holds the Health Canada contract for Residential School support workers in a region of Ontario.

Dora L. Cliff of was born in Upper Derby, New Brunswick on June 2, 1907. She was the daughter of the late Thomas and Janet S. (Jardine) Cliff. Dora had a twin sister, Alexis Douglas, and two other sisters Florence Bennett and Hazel Cliff. She was a member of St. George's Anglican Church in Moncton, a life member of the Women's Auxiliary of St. George's Church, St. George's A.C.W., a leader of the Girls Auxiliary, Member of the Canadian College of Teachers and the Greater Moncton Retired Teachers Association, also the I.O.D.E. Dora attended Provincial Normal School and Mount Allison University and taught in several schools in New Brunswick. She also taught at Shingwauk Indian Residential School in Sault Ste. Marie from 1942-1949. Throughout the years she had given part of her holidays to work at the Columbia Coast Mission. Dora was employed at Moncton School Board office for many years. Dora L. Cliff passed away at her residence in Crescent, Moncton, New Brunswick on Wednesday July 12, 2006 in her 100th year.

Ann E. Clarkson was a staff member at the Shingwauk Indian Residential School. Ann also taught at St. Cyprian's school in Brocket, Alberta. At both schools, Anne taught various arts and crafts including drawing, painting, and ceramics. Anne E. Clarkson met her husband, Mr. Cole at Shingwauk. He was the farm instruction at the school. The couple married in 1962. Mr. Cole died of cancer in 1965.

The Anglican Parish of the Resurrection (Sudbury, Ont.) began as a mission chapel of the Church of the Epiphany by the Reverend P. F. Bull. A small chapel building was erected adjoining the Anglican cemetery in 1938. Mrs. P. Bull and Mrs. B. Scharf organized the first Sunday School, and in 1940 a Ladies' Guild was formed. The mission became a church in 1952 and the first Rector, the Reverend George S. Honour, arrived in late 1953. Parish members built a 16 ft. extension to the church in 1953, and in 1954 the Rectory was constructed on adjoining land. In 1958 a new church building was constructed; it was dedicated in 1959. Rectors of the parish: Rev. George S. Honour (1953-1959), Rev. Fred G. Roberts (1959-1969), Rev. B. R. Brazill (1970-1973), Rev. Canon J. G. M. Doolan (1974-1982), Rev. J. R. Kelsey (1982-