Sarah Sheard was born on February 13, 1953, in Toronto, Ontario.

She is a Canadian novelist, educator, editor, and psychotherapist. She was educated at York University (M.F.A., Music, 1977). She also studied conversational Japanese at the University of Toronto (1983-1984). Sheard has had numerous writing-related occupations. She was a creative writing instructor for various Toronto area high schools (1980-1988), and from 1980 onwards, she has been a guest lecturer on creative writing at several Ontario colleges, including York University's Glendon College and the Humber School of Creative Writing. She has also been a writer-in-residence at the Bolton Public Library (1988) and electronic writer-in-residence at Dr. Marian Hilliard Secondary School. Sheard was the Ontario representative of the Literary Press Group (1980-1981) and the Toronto Book Fair executive in 1983 and 1984. She has been a member of the editorial board of Coach House Press since 1979. Sheard's fiction and non-fiction have been published in a variety of periodicals and anthologies. She is the author of the novels “Almost Japanese” (1985), “Swing Era” (1993), “The Hypnotist” (1999) and “Krank: Love in the New Dark Times” (2012). She has a private practice as a psychotherapist with M.A. in Counselling Psychology and certification as a Gestalt Therapist, specializing in couple and family counselling.

Robert Farquhar Shaw-Stewart was born on March 3, 1836, in Inverkip, Renfrew, Scotland, son of Sir Michael Shaw-Stewart (1788-1836), 6th Baronet of Greenock and Blackhall, and Eliza Mary Farquhar (1802-1916).

He was an officer of the Scots Fusiliers Guards. He joined it as Lieutenant in 1854 and reached the rank of Captain.

In 1859, he married Isabella Jane Warner (1835–1916). He died on October 29, 1911, in Bournemouth, Dorset, England.

Shawinigan Chemicals Ltd. was formed in 1927 through the amalgamation of the Canada Carbide Co. (founded 1911) and the Canadian Electro Products (founded 1916). The fortunes of the parent companies had been made in the manufacture of explosives during the First World War. Both they and Shawinigan Chemicals operated extensive research laboratories which were responsible for fundamental technical advances, for instance in the dry generation of acetylene gas and in the cheap production of acetone and acetic anhydride. In 1969 the company merged with British American Oil and Royalite Oil to form Gulf Oil of Canada.

William D. Shaw was born in 1867 in Montreal, Quebec.

He was a naturalist and devoted student of science. He founded the Montreal Chapter of the Nicholas Agassiz Association. He served as its Secretary and Treasurer, and in 1885, he was appointed General Secretary for Canada. He was also a member of the Council of the Montreal Branch of the Entomological Society of Ontario, a member of the Natural History Society of Montreal, and a member of the Astro-Meteorological Association.

He died at the age of nineteen on June 29, 1886, in Montreal, Quebec.

Rev. William Isaac Shaw was born on April 6, 1841, in Kingston, Ontario.

He was a clergyman. He was educated at Queen's College, Kingston, the Victoria University, Cobourg (B.A., 1861, M.A., and LL.B, 1864), and at McGill University, Montreal (LL.D., 1887). Originally intended to study law, he entered the ministry of the Methodist church in 1864 and was ordained in 1868. He served at several churches in Belleville, Lachine, Hemmingford, and Montreal. In 1873, he assisted in the founding of the Wesleyan Theological College in Montreal and became its instructor. In 1877, he was appointed Professor of Greek, and in 1894, a principal. In 1888, he became a member of the Council of Public Instruction for the Province of Quebec, and in 1890, the Board of Protestant School Commissioners for Montreal. He served as a Vice-President of the Lord's Day Alliance. In 1880, he received an honorary M.A. degree from McGill University.

In 1869, he married Sarah Patterson (1842–1938). He died on March 11, 1911, in Montreal, Quebec.

Thomas Shaw was born in Montréal and graduated in medicine from McGill in 1893. He served as Lecturer in physiology at McGill from 1910 to 1915, and in physiological chemistry from 1915 to 1920. Shaw practiced medicine in Montréal for 36 years, and was connected with the Western Hospital, where he inaugurated the children's ward.