Greg Baeker is Executive Director of the Ontario Museum Association.

Christina Bates is a historian specializing in material and social history with Parks Canada, Ontario Region. She is currently researching nineteenth-century leisure and dance.

Janet Holmes is a curatorial assistant in the Canadiana Department, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.

Felicity Nowell-Smith is Curator of the Museum of the History of Medicine, Toronto.

Hilary Russell has researched various aspects of nineteenth-century life for the Historical Research Division of Parks Canada, Ottawa.

Thomas J. Schlereth, Director of Graduate Studies in American Studies at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, has published extensively on American material culture.

Mary Tivy is Assistant Curator of the Museum and Archive of Games, University of Waterloo, Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario.