Nursing educator Rae Chittick was born in Ontario and grew up in Alberta. After graduating from the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing in 1922, she worked as a nurse in British Columbia and Alberta. Chittick pursued further studies at Columbia (B.Sc. in Public Health Nursing, 1931) and Sanford (M.A. in Education, 1942). She came to McGill in 1953 as Director of the School for Graduate Nurses. She was named Flora Madeline Shaw Professor of Nursing in 1958, and retired as Emeritus Professor in 1963. After her retirement, she worked as a consultant on nursing education in the West Indies, Africa and Australia.

French composer and conductor Charles Chobillon wrote songs and music starting in the early 1900s; he first became a member of SACEM (Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique) in 1907. He wrote for musical revues for two decades in the 1930s and 1940s, including at the Théâtre des nouveautés. His best-known work was as conductor of the orchestra of the Concert Mayol, a popular Parisian cabaret that after World War II became notorious for its sexy nude spectacles. At Concert Mayol in the late 1930s he composed and conducted for various revues and tableaux, including for Charles Cluny and Victor Vallier. In 1934 the orchestra accompanied the “revues nus” of André Denis and Paul Lefebvre. He scandalized some when he arranged for his daughter Simone’s debut as a dancer in one of the Mayol shows. Simone later became an actress and singer, appearing in several films. Post-war, Chobillon composed a “Marseillaise” operetta.

Born in Scotland, Alexander James Christie was educated at the universities of Aberdeen (M.A.) and Edinburgh, where he studied medicine. In 1817 he came to Canada where he combined medicine with farming and journalism. Christie was editor of the Montreal Herald, 1819-1822, and of the Montreal Gazette, 1823-1824. He moved to Bytown, the site now known as Ottawa, in 1826, where in 1836 he brought out the first issue of the weekly Bytown Gazette, of which he remained owner and editor until his death. Christie was in favour of the union of Upper and Lower Canada, with Bytown as its capital, and waged an intensive campaign in support of this issue.

George H. Christie, born in 1852, was the son of Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Christie. Dr. George H. Christie graduated with the Faculty of Medicine of McGill University in 1872 and practiced in Lachute, Quebec. He died in 1914.