In 1889, the first eight women to earn degrees at McGill formed the Mu Teta Society, and in 1890, the name was changed to the Alumnae Society of McGill University. The society's original intention was to maintain close contact with former classmates and to provide assistance to McGill women students. Its objectives later expanded to include educational and social service activities for the Montreal community. The Alumnae Society accomplished these objectives through the work of its various committees, which have given support to special projects at times, such as the University Settlement, the Montreal Children's Library and the St. Anne's Military Hospital Library. The society has had a close connection to Royal Victoria College and is affiliated with the Canadian Federation of University Women and the local Montreal Council of Women. In the 1980s, the Alumnae Society represented the largest branch and club of the Graduates' Society (incorporated in 1880).

Richard Everard Webster, 1st Viscount Alverstone, was born on December 22, 1842, in London, England.

He was a British barrister, politician, and judge who served in many high political and judicial offices. Called to the Bar in 1868, Webster quickly developed a large legal practice. He was appointed Attorney-General in 1885 and was elected MP a month later. With two brief breaks, he held this office until he was appointed Lord Chief Justice in 1900. Until 1895, when he agreed to forgo the right to do so, he continued in private practice, and 1888-89, appeared before the Parnell commission as leading counsel for The Times. He presided over some notable trials of the era, including that of Dr. Hawley Crippen. He served on various international arbitration commissions, including those dealing with the Bering Sea Fur-Seal Controversy (1893) and the Venezuela Boundary Dispute (1898–99). In the Alaska Boundary Dispute (1903), he gave the deciding vote against the Canadian claims. He wrote “Recollections of Bar and Bench” (1914).

In 1872, he married Louisa Mary Calthrop (-1877). He died on December 15, 1915, in Cranleigh, Surrey, England.

George Amabile was born on May 29, 1936, in Jersey City, New Jersey.

He is a Canadian poet who moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1963. His poetry, fiction and non-fiction have been published in Canada, the USA, Europe, South America, Australia, and New Zealand in over a hundred anthologies, magazines, journals, and periodicals, including Saturday Night, The New Yorker, Harper's, Poetry (Chicago), Sur (Buenos Aires), Canadian Fiction, Canadian Literature, and Margin (England). He has published seven books. The “Presence of Fire” (1982) won the Canadian Authors' Association Silver Medal for Poetry; his long poem, “Durée,” placed third in the CBC Literary Competition for 1991; “Popular Crime” won first prize in the Sidney Booktown International Poetry Contest in February 2000, and he was the subject of a special issue of Prairie Fire. He worked as Professor of English, 1971-1997 and Senior Scholar, 1998-, at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, and an editor of the Northern Light magazine. From October 2000 to April 2001, he was a Writer in Residence at the Winnipeg Public Library.

Rev. Calvin Elijah Amaron was born on September 4, 1852, in Ramsay, St. Felix de Valois, Quebec.

He was a Presbyterian minister, educator, newspaper editor, and author. He received his early education at the Académie de Berthier and the Institut de Pointe-aux-Trembles. He graduated from McGill University (B.A., 1877; M.A., 1880) and the Presbyterian College (B.D., 1884). In 1879, he was ordained to the ministry of the Presbyterian Church of Canada in Trois-Rivières. In 1882, he accepted a call to the French Protestant Church in Lowell, Mass., to continue the work of evangelizing French Canadians who migrated south to work in the factories of New England. In 1885, Amaron founded the French Protestant College at Lowell with the help of ministers from the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society and became president of the college. In 1886, ministers working with the missionary society formed the French Publishing Society and in 1887, they launched a weekly newspaper Le Semeur franco-américain and later Le Citoyen franco-américain. After returning to Montreal in 1895, Amaron founded the Dominion Publishing Company, of which he became a manager. He purchased the L'Aurore newspaper and established it as the organ of French Protestantism in America. He was called to the pulpit of St. John’s French Presbyterian Church in Montreal (1896-1906). He became minister of Gardenville Ave. Presbyterian Church in Longueuil in 1906, the year, he was awarded an honorary D.D. degree by the French Protestant College. From 1909 to 1911 he oversaw the Presbyterian church at Joliette, and the last years of his active ministry, 1911 to 1916, were spent at the Église Presbytérienne Française in Quebec City.

In 1881, he married Agnes McDougall (1860–1893), and in 1895, he remarried Margaret Lorne Lynch (1872–1948). He died on March 15, 1917, in Verdun, Quebec.

Maurice Robert Campbell Amaron was born on September 5, 1901, in Montreal, Quebec.

He was a high school French teacher and organist. He graduated from Queens University (B.A.). He worked as a Supervisor of French at the Protestant School Board. Amaron played the organ and sang in the Chalmers-Wesley Church Choir in Quebec City for many years. He was nicknamed "Holy.” In 1946, he co-authored the book “Le Français pratique” authorized for use in the Protestant Schools of Quebec.

In 1934, he married Dorothy Anderson Burrell (1902–1997). He died on April 14, 1992, in Quebec City, Quebec.