Elaine Lowell was born in Stueben, Maine, in 1915. She and her husband George raised three children in Prospect Harbor. Elaine worked for the Stinson Canning Company in Prospect Harbor, Maine. She had several jobs at the former cannery: cutting and packing sardines, cleaning the offices at night, transporting injured employees to the hospital, and getting up at four o’clock in the morning to call the cannery employees if there was herring to come in to cut and pack.

Susan grew up in an Irish Catholic family. She started working in canneries when she was 16 years old.

Cary Lewis captained a sardine carrier, delivering sardines to the canneries on the Maine coast.

Robert Peacock's family operated canneries in Eastport, Lubec and Portland, Maine.

Charles Stinson was the owner of the Stinson Cannery in Prospect Harbor, which was established by his grandfather.

Clarence "Buck" Suddy helped operate Raye's Mustard Mill in Eastport for many years.  The mill provided the mustard many of the canneries used to can sardines. 

Al West was a supervisor at the Stinson Cannery in Prospect Harbor, Maine.

Wayne Wilcox worked in the shipping room of the B.H. Wilson Sardine Factory in Eastport, Maine.

Diana Young worked as the bookkeeper at the Stinson Cannery in Prospect Harbor, Maine.

Lela Anderson, born on June 6, 1931, in Sullivan, Hancock County, worked at the Stinson Cannery from 1956 for 54 years. She grew up in Corea, Maine, and her mother had also worked at the cannery in the 1940s. Lela's family had a history of involvement with the cannery, as her mother, aunt, and older sister also worked there.