Physicist A. Norman Shaw was born in England and educated in Bermuda and Montréal. He graduated in mathematics and physics from McGill in 1908 and in 1911 he won the R.O. King Fellowship to Caius College, Cambridge. There he worked for two years as a research student at the Cavendish Laboratory under Sir J.J. Thomson. Shaw returned to join the staff of Macdonald College in 1913. In 1918, he transferred to the McGill Physics Department; he was appointed Chairman in 1935 and retired in 1952. Shaw's research work was largely in the area of thermodynamics. He passed away in 1964.

Thomas George Shaughnessy, 1st Baron was born on October 6, 1853, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

He was an American-Canadian railway administrator who rose from modest beginnings as a clerk and bookkeeper for the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad to become the president of the Canadian Pacific Railway, serving in that capacity from 1899 to 1918. Under his administration, the CPR's mileage in western Canada almost doubled. His home in Montreal's Golden Square Mile, designed by Montreal architect William Thomas in 1876 was declared a National Historic Site of Canada in 1974 and is now part of the Canadian Centre for Architecture.

In recognition of his stewardship of the CPR and its contributions to the war effort during the Great War, Shaughnessy was elevated to the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1916 as Baron Shaughnessy, of the City of Montreal in the Dominion of Canada and of Ashford in the County of Limerick.

In 1880, he married Elizabeth Bridget Nagle. He died on December 10, 1923, in Montreal, Quebec.

George Cutler Shattuck was born on November 22, 1863, in Andover, Massachusetts.

He was a prominent architect active in Boston, Massachusetts. He studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge in 1884-88. One of his classmates was the young Canadian student Edward Maxwell of Montreal, with whom he developed a friendship. In 1899, Maxwell called upon his friend to come up from Boston and join his office in Montreal to assist him with the extensive workload of new commissions (additions and alterations to Windsor Station in Montreal and the house for Louis-Joseph Forget in Senneville, Quebec). They formed the firm Maxwell & Shattuck. Shattuck remained in Montreal until 1901, and then he returned to Boston where he rejoined the firm of Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge as a senior draftsman and remained with them until 1914. After the death of both Shepley in 1903, and Rutan in 1914, Coolidge invited Shattuck to form a new partnership, and they collaborated until the death of Shattuck.

He died on September 3, 1923, in Exeter, New Hampshire.