Matt Bray works at Laurentian University and is active in the Institute of Northern Ontario Development and Research. In addition to becoming director of that organization, Matt Bray is an associate professor of history and was editor of "A-Vast and Magnificent Land".

Ashley Thomson, B.Ed, M.A., M.L.S., a faculty member in the J.N. Desmarais Library at Laurentian University of Sudbury, is the author/editor of six books including the "Directory of Canadian Private Residential Schools" (1986), of which this is a major revision. In 1998, Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations presented Mr. Thomson with its award for being the most outstanding academic librarian in Ontario.