Alfred Sandham was born in Montréal in 1838 and was educated at common schools. In 1864 he was appointed general secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association in Montréal, a post he held for eleven years. In 1869 he was one of the founders of the Antiquarian and Numismatic Society of Montreal. Sandham moved to Toronto in 1878 and was secretary of the Toronto Y.M.C.A. from 1878 to 1882. He was the author of a number of historical and numismatic publications. As well he was involved in religious journalism and started The Christian Witness journal.

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George Stephen Sanderson was born on March 21, 1935, in Montreal, Quebec.

He was a Canadian editor, literary critic, and educator. He studied at McGill University and St. Francis Xavier University (B.A. in philosophy, 1958) in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, where he served as a Professor of Philosophy for 37 years. He was also an Editor-in-Chief of The Antigonish Review, credited with nurturing writing talent in Eastern Canada and publishing translations, book reviews, and review essays.

In 1960, he married Gertrude Kearns. He died on November 4, 2005, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.