Isaac Logan Chipman was born on July 17, 1817, near Berwick, Kings County, Nova Scotia, the son of a pastor.

He attended Horton Academy and was licensed by the Church to preach the Gospel in 1836. In 1839, he graduated from Waterville College (later Colby University) in Maine and in 1840, he became professor of Mathematics, Natural Philosophy and Geology at the Acadia College in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Chipman was a man of great vision and energy, who also had an earnest love of study. He began the library at Acadia and started the College Museum for which he personally collected numerous plant, animal and mineral specimens and encouraged others to make donations. He was also an early proponent of adult education and gave special lectures in geology. His approach to teaching was practically oriented with a strong emphasis on lab and fieldwork, rather than books and recitations. He was very fond of geological excursions, and it was while leading such an excursion to Blomidon around Minas Basin that he lost his life. The boat capsized and Prof. Chipman and four students drowned on June 7, 1852.

Architect Noel I. Chipman attended McGill University when World War I intervened and he did not return to complete his studies there until 1920. He served with the Canadian Army Medical Corps as well as the Canadian Machine Gun Corps. Before the war he had articled with Alexander Dunlop in Montreal and had taken some courses in London in 1919. After working briefly for Fetherstonhaugh & McDougall in Montreal, then Huntley W. Davis and W.L. Bottomley in New York, then again in Montreal for Huntley W. Davis and for Samuel A. Finley, he finally opened his own Montreal office in 1927. He worked there, while living in Montreal and Como, Quebec, before retiring to Florida in 1963.

Walter W. Chipman was born in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. He obtained his B.A. from Acadia University in 1890 and his M.D. in 1898 from the University of Edinburgh. After postgraduate work in London, Paris, Vienna and Berlin, Chipman joined the teaching staff of the Faculty of Medicine at McGill in 1900 as demonstrator in gynecology, and in the same year joined the staff of the Royal Victoria Hospital. He was appointed Professor of gynecology in 1910. From 1943 to 1947 he served as president of the Royal Victoria Hospital and he was a member of the Board of Governors of McGill from 1932 to 1948. Chipman retired as Emeritus Professor in 1929. He passed away in 1950.

Founded by Charles Whittingham in 1811; the name was first used in 1811; located in Chiswick, near London; the press continued to operate until 1962.

Nursing educator Rae Chittick was born in Ontario and grew up in Alberta. After graduating from the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing in 1922, she worked as a nurse in British Columbia and Alberta. Chittick pursued further studies at Columbia (B.Sc. in Public Health Nursing, 1931) and Sanford (M.A. in Education, 1942). She came to McGill in 1953 as Director of the School for Graduate Nurses. She was named Flora Madeline Shaw Professor of Nursing in 1958, and retired as Emeritus Professor in 1963. After her retirement, she worked as a consultant on nursing education in the West Indies, Africa and Australia.

French composer and conductor Charles Chobillon wrote songs and music starting in the early 1900s; he first became a member of SACEM (Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique) in 1907. He wrote for musical revues for two decades in the 1930s and 1940s, including at the Théâtre des nouveautés. His best-known work was as conductor of the orchestra of the Concert Mayol, a popular Parisian cabaret that after World War II became notorious for its sexy nude spectacles. At Concert Mayol in the late 1930s he composed and conducted for various revues and tableaux, including for Charles Cluny and Victor Vallier. In 1934 the orchestra accompanied the “revues nus” of André Denis and Paul Lefebvre. He scandalized some when he arranged for his daughter Simone’s debut as a dancer in one of the Mayol shows. Simone later became an actress and singer, appearing in several films. Post-war, Chobillon composed a “Marseillaise” operetta.