Diane Doiron was raised in Pointe Sapin, New Brunswick. At the age of 20, she enrolled in the Navy in February 1985. After her basic training she was sent to Canadian Forces Station Selbourne in Nova Scotia where she was involved with the US Navy and tracked Soviet submarines. During her time at CFS Shelbourne, Doiron was interrogated multiple times about her sexuality. She was dismissed from the Navy on December 23rd, 1987 on the biases of her sexuality after her one month stay in a psychiatric ward at CFB Halifax. Following her dismissal from the military, Doiron went on to have a career in photojournalism with the Chronicle Herald in Halifax. Over the past several decades, her photos and stories have appeared in Canada-wide publications such as the National Post, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star and the Canadian Press. She spent the last decade of her career as Evening Photo Editor at the National Post in Toronto. Over her lengthy and successful career, Doiron won numerous awards, including but not limited to the Atlantic Photojournalism Award in 1998, the 2008 Award of Excellence for Photography, and most recently the 2017 Outdoor Canada Magazine Photo of the Year Award. On November 28th, 2017, Doiron along with other purge survivors attended the apology by the Prime Minister of Canada at the House of Commons in Ottawa, Ontario. Diane now lives in Amherst, Nova Scotia with her partner Pamela Ibbitson. She was Grand Marshall of the Moncton Pride Parade in 2019 to highlight her courage and resilience.

Before 1964, the village of Seal Cove on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, was unincorporated. In that year, for the purposes of tax assessments and maintaining street lighting and other services, it was classified by the provincial government as a Local Improvement District.

The Victoria Public Hospital was built in June 1887 as the Victoria Cottage Hospital through the efforts of Alice Tilley, wife of the Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick. It was incorporated in 1898, and the original wooden structure served the medical needs of Fredericton until a new facility, the Frazer Memorial Hospital, was built near the original site in 1922. The stone-faced structure was designed with four floors, and had the capacity for two operating rooms, an X-ray room and a dietary kitchen.

By 1935, even this structure was not enough, and the old wooden hospital was demolished to accommodate the expansion of the Frazer building. An east, west and north wing were added, with capacity for 138 more patients. Further expansion in 1950 saw the addition of a self-contained laundry, power and storage facility. A 1960 renovation and expansion project, partly financed by the nearby community of Oromocto, New Brunswick saw 97 more beds added to the facility.

Local demands eventually exceeded the Frazer building's capacity, and led to the closure of the Victoria Hospital and its subsequent replacement by the Dr. Everett Chalmers Hospital, in 1976. Arthur M. Limerick (b. 1908) and Ralph Victor Limerick (b. 1910) were brothers and members of the family law firm. Ralph became a judge of the Supreme Court of the province. Both men served as trustees of the Victoria Hospital from 1954-1959.