William Arthur Carlyle was born on March 31, 1862, in Hamilton, Ontario.

Carlyle, a grand-nephew of Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), the Scottish writer, was the first British Columbian mineralogist and organizer of the Bureau of Mines. He studied mining engineering at McGill University where he also lectured in mining and metallurgy. In 1895, he was offered the position of the provincial mineralogist in British Columbia. In 1898, he resigned his position with the B.C. government to accept the position of engineer in charge of the Le Roi, Josie, No. 1 and other properties of the British American Mining Corporation at Rossland, B.C. That same year he became one of the founders of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. From the Rossland position, Carlyle went to Riotinto Mines in Spain as its Managing Director.

In 1891, he married Helen Muirhead Spier (1867-1953). He died on December 4, 1947, in Victoria, British Columbia.

William Bliss Carman was born on April 15, 1861, in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

He was a Canadian poet who spent most of his life in the United States, where he achieved international fame. He attended Fredericton Collegiate School and later graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of New Brunswick (UNB) in 1881. His first published poem appeared in the UNB Monthly in 1879. He then studied at Oxford and the University of Edinburgh from 1882 to 1883, but returned home to complete his master's degree at UNB in 1884. After the death of his parents in 1886, Carman enrolled at Harvard University for the academic year 1886–1887. Following several years of editing various magazines and periodicals, he published his first volume of poetry in 1893, titled "Low Tide on Grand Pré."

In Canada, Carman is classed as one of the Confederation Poets, a group that also includes his cousin Charles G.D. Roberts, along with Archibald Lampman and Duncan Campbell Scott. Of this group, Carman possessed the most refined lyrical ability and gained the widest international acclaim. However, unlike his peers, he did not seek to secure his income through novel writing, popular journalism, or non-literary jobs. Instead, he remained dedicated to poetry, enhancing his work with critical essays on literary concepts, philosophy, and aesthetics. By 1920, Carman was impoverished and recovering from a near-fatal bout of tuberculosis. He returned to Canada and began a series of successful and relatively lucrative reading tours. On October 28, 1921, he was honoured at a dinner hosted by the newly formed Canadian Authors' Association at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Montreal, where he was crowned Canada's Poet Laureate with a wreath made of maple leaves.

He died of a brain hemorrhage on June 8, 1929, in New Canaan, Connecticut.

The son of Russian Jewish immigrants, singer/songwriter Eric Carmen was born in Cleveland; he had a musical upbringing in Ohio with piano lessons and classical training in violin from his aunt who played in the Cleveland Orchestra. He started guitar lessons at 15 but soon quit and proceeded to teach himself. He attended John Carroll University and started a band, Cyrus Erie, with some friends. When it broke up at the end of the 1960s, he and some others started the rock ‘n roll group “Raspberries” with Carmen as lead singer and co-writer of many of their songs. After the Raspberries dispersed in 1975, Carmen began a solo career. In 1976, he scored a couple of hits based on Rachmaninoff works. He had several minor successes over the next decade and in 1987-1988 had a few top ten hits, including “Hungry Eyes,” composed for the film “Dirty Dancing,” and “Make me Lose Control.” In 2000, he toured with Ringo Starr and his band. The Raspberries reunited in 2005 for a show a the House of Blues in Los Angeles

Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, known as Lord Porchester (1833-1849), was born on June 24, 1831, in London, England.

He was a British politician and a leading member of the Conservative Party. He was twice Secretary of State for the Colonies and served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. He was educated at Eton College. In 1849, he succeeded his father in the earldom. He started his political career with a speech in the House of Lords in 1854. In 1863, he worked on penal reform and many of his ideas were implemented in the Prisons Act 1866. In 1866, he was sworn of the Privy Council and appointed Secretary of State for the Colonies. In 1867, he introduced the British North America Act, which conferred self-government on Canada, and created a federation. In 1874, he returned to the office of the British colonial secretary where he settled various disputes within the colonies. From 1885 to 1886, he served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. He was regarded as a highly cultured man and was a president and a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and a Fellow of the Royal Society as well as high steward of Oxford University.

In 1861, he married Lady Evelyn Stanhope (1834–1875). In 1878, he married Elizabeth Catherine Howard (1856–1929). He died on June 29, 1890, in London, England.