Charles Jean Baptiste Chaboillez was born on July 9, 1736, in Michilimackinac (Mackinaw City, Michigan) and died on September 25, 1808, in Montreal. He was the eldest son of Charles Chaboillez, a voyageur and fur trader, and Marie-Anne Chevalier, the daughter of the merchant Jean-Baptiste Chevalier. In 1769, Chaboillez married Marguerite Larcheveque (1749-1798), the daughter of merchant Jacques Larcheveque and Jeanne Godet. They had nine children, but only five survived him. After his father’s death in 1757, his mother settled in Montreal, where Chaboillez became a founding member of the Beaver Club. Chaboillez concentrated his fur trading activity in Michilimackinac and the larger area south of Lake Superior and the Mississippi region. During this period, Chaboillez maintained business relations with fur trader Benjamin Frobisher. Until around 1780, he wintered in the region of Grand Portage (near Grand Portage, Minnesota) and spent his summers in Montreal. Chaboillez then wintered in Montreal and spent the summers on trading trips the following decade. In 1785, Chaboillez went into partnership with Étienne-Charles Campion, to form the General Company of Lake Superior and the South. In 1786, while in Michilimackinac, he signed a petition to Bishop Hubert of Quebec requesting a missionary for the locality, and the following year, he was elected a churchwarden of the parish of Saint-Anne-de-Michilimackinac. In 1793, he gave his wife Marguerite power of attorney and lessened his visits to Montreal. In 1799, Chaboillez was promoted to major of Montreal’s 2nd Militia Battalion. Chaboillez owned two farms in the Montreal region, one on the Côte de Liesse on Montreal Island and another in the seigneury of Châteauguay, both purchased in 1779. He also owned three islands near the tip of Montreal Island, one was called Île à l’Aigle, which he purchased in 1788. In 1802, he was appointed storekeeper for the Indian Department in St Joseph Island in Upper Canada and was there until 1805, when his daughter Marie-Charlotte-Domitille died. Chaboillez returned to Montreal in 1807 where he died the following year.

French lyricist and composer Robert Chabrier was born in Clermont-Ferrand in central France. He wrote many songs in the 1950s, some under the pseudonyms Roy Hernandos, Franck Farmer and Germain Cousin. In the 1960s he collaborated with Jo Moutet on several occasions. He is credited for lyrics on five film soundtracks, including two TV series. The French database “Encyclopedisque” lists 132 discs under his name.

Ira Chadsey was born on February 10, 1828, in Picton, Prince Edward County, Ontario.

He was an early settler and an eccentric farmer who built stone cairns at the back of the 215-acres property claiming they would guide him home in the afterlife when he returned as a white horse. A century later, the story is still being told and a winery that opened on this territory is named By Chadsey’s Cairns.

In 1855, he married Roxy L. Burlingham (1828–1898). He died in a barn fire on July 16, 1905, in Picton, Prince Edward County, Ontario.

Richard Vaux Chadwick was born on May 20, 1916, in Brooklyn, New York, USA. In 1936, he moved to Canada. In 1942, he joined the Canadian Army for the next 4 years. He worked as an architect in the Montreal architectural firm of Bolton, Chadwick, Ellwood, and Aimers. In 1941, he married Elizabeth Ann Vedder, but they divorced in 1957. Then he married Nancy Ryrie Birks. He died on November 11, 2004, in Montreal, Quebec.

Azro Buck Chaffee was born on April 4, 1830, in Berkshire, Franklin, Vermont.

He was a railway agent. He studied and practiced law but later got commercial training and filled an important position in the United States Customs Service at Burlington, Vermont, under Judge Smalley. In 1861, he moved to Canada and entered the insurance business. Later he was connected with the South Eastern Railway in Montreal, as its secretary-treasurer and manager. He was associated with the Canadian Pacific Railroad in its early history. Chaffee was a director of the Ontario & Quebec Railroad and a vice-president of the Atlantic & Northwestern Railroad.

In 1854, he married Miriam Jane Foster (1835–1912). He died on November 1, 1891, in Montreal, Quebec.