Henri Alfred D. Coussirat was born in 1875 in Orthez, Aquitaine, France. His family moved to Montreal in 1885. He played hockey for the Montreal Wanderers in the 1890s, and was a coach at McGill University. He was a resident of Hartford, Connecticut, and New York City, where he worked as a building contractor. In 1908 he married Fredricher Loew (1883-1971). He died in 1932 in New York City and was buried in Brooklyn.

Quebec singer and songwriter Luc Cousineau was one of three musical brothers, the other two being Jean and François. He is best known for his French song “Vivre en amour.” Born in Sherbrooke, he began studying cello there, then continued with the saxophone and double bass at the École de musique Vincent d’Indy in Montreal. In 1965 he and his wife, Lise Vachon, formed a duo, “Les Alexandrins;” they changed the name to “Luc et Lise” in 1970, and a couple of years later he was singing alone. He formed his own production company “Airedale” in 1975 and over the next 20 years composed over 200 songs, including “Vivre en amour.” In the 1990s he turned to creating soundtracks for films, television and advertising. He switched back to songwriting in 2000 but in 2013 developed a degenerative disorder. He died four years later of Lou Gehrig’s disease.

Leonard Henry Courtney, 1st Baron Courtney, was born on July 6, 1832, in Penzance, England.

He was a British Liberal politician and educator. He was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1858. From 1872 to 1875, he was a Professor of Political Economy at University College, London. In 1876, Courtney was elected to Parliament for Liskeard as a Liberal and represented the borough until 1900. In 1880, he was appointed Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, in 1881, Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies and, in 1882, Financial Secretary to the Treasury. In 1886, he was elected Chairman of Committees in the House of Commons and was made a Privy Counsellor in 1889. Cortney was a constant critic of British imperial expansion in Africa, and, in 1900, he lost his seat in the House of Commons because he condemned the South African (Boer) War of 1899–1902. In 1906, Courtney was elevated to the peerage as Baron Courtney of Penwith, County of Cornwall. He served as President of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall from 1881 to 1882 and the Royal Statistical Society from 1897 to 1899. Lord Courtney was a prominent supporter of the women's movement and a regular contributor of numerous essays on political and economic subjects to The Times. During World War I, he advocated a negotiated peace and fearlessly defended conscientious objectors.

In 1883, he married Catharine Potter (1847–1929). He died on May 11, 1918, in London, England.

John Mortimer Courtney was born on July 22, 1838, in Penzance, England.

He was a Canadian civil servant. Privately educated in Penzance, he developed an interest in banking and, like so many of his generation, he took his ambitions to the colonies. He ventured first to India with the Agra Bank and then to Australia. In 1869, at the invitation of the Canadian minister of finance John Rose, he came to Canada and joined the Public Service of Canada working under John Langton as a chief clerk and assistant secretary to the Treasury Board. In 1878, he was promoted to deputy minister and ex officio deputy receiver general and secretary to the Treasury Board. For several years Courtney was a managing director of the Civil Service Building and Savings Society, and the zeal he showed in his profession extended into various philanthropic interests, among them the Associated Charities of Ottawa and the Canadian Patriotic Fund. In 1898, he was appointed Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (CMG) and Companion of the Imperial Service Order in 1903. He retired in 1906.

In 1870, he married Mary Elizabeth Sophia Taylor (1845–1932). He died on October 8, 1920, in Ottawa, Ontario.