Author and bibliophile Lawrence Lande was born in Ottawa. He earned a B.A. from McGill in 1928, and his LL.B. in 1931 from Université de Montréal and a Diploma in Philosophy from the Université de Grenoble (1928). Lande has published a number of volumes of verse, as well as a study of early Canadian poetry, Old Lamps Aglow (1957). He also composes music. He has assembled and described major collections of Canadiana, now housed at McGill, Université de Montréal, the Public Archives of Canada and the National Library of Canada, and has published historical studies. Lande has also bestowed his collection of works by William Blake on McGill.

Baron Wilhelm von Landau was born on September 13, 1848, in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland).

He was a German archeologist, philologist, orientalist, explorer, and author. He travelled extensively and promoted oriental research. His collection of photographs is found in the Museum of European Cultures; National Museums in Berlin (Museum Europäischer Kulturen; Staatliche Museen zu Berlin). He published several books, e.g., "Beiträge zur Altertumskunde des Orients" (4 vols, 1893), "Travels in Asia, Australia and America. Comprising the Period Between 1879 and 1887" (1888), and "Neue phönicische und iberische Inschriften aus Sardinien" (1900).

In 1889, he married Thekla Landau (1861-1940). He died on November 17, 1908, in Berlin, Germany.

Jean-Baptiste Gustave Lamothe was born on April 16, 1856, in Champlain, Quebec.

He was a Canadian judge and lawyer. He studied the cours classique at the Séminaire Saint-Joseph de Trois-Rivières, and law with François-Xavier-Anselme Trudel in Montreal. He was called to the Quebec bar in 1880 and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1899. In 1921, he was awarded a doctorate in Law by the Université de Montréal. He practiced with Trudel and with Napoléon Charbonneau. He was bâtonnier of the district of Montreal between 1904 and 1905. Involved with the Parti conservateur du Québec, he was vice president of the Association libérale-conservatrice de Montréal. He was the director of the Ligue anti-alcoolique in 1909. He was appointed a judge of the Quebec Superior Court on September 25, 1915. He was also appointed to the Quebec Court of Queen's Bench and made Chief Justice of Quebec on September 19, 1918. On October 16, 1918, he served for a few days as Administrator of Quebec because of the health problems of Pierre-Évariste Leblanc, the Lieutenant Governor of Quebec.

He died on November 24, 1922, in Montreal, Quebec.