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Arthur Hugh Urquhart Colquhoun was born on December 2, 1861, in Montreal, Quebec.

In 1906, he became Deputy Minister of Education for Ontario and served in this capacity with five ministers of education till 1934. He was also a journalist and author. He contributed to several magazines and served on the staff of the Montreal Daily Star, Montreal La Presse, Ottawa Journal, and Toronto Mail and Empire. He published the books "Fathers of Confederation: A Chronicle of the Birth of the Dominion” (1916) and "Press, Politics and People: The Life and Letters of Sir John Willison, Journalist and Correspondent of the Times" (1935). He also served as secretary of the Canadian Press Association.

In 1890, he married Mary Robina Colquhoun (1863–1894). He died on February 9, 1936, in Toronto, Ontario.

Catherine (Kate) Colquhoun was born 4 March 1861 at Colquhoun, Dundas County, Ontario, a small village - now vanished except for a few traces - north of Morrisburg. She graduated from the McGill Normal School in 1882, and thereafter for several years taught in a one room schoolhouse at Abbotsford, Quebec. In 1886 she married Robert Whitney, a local Abbotsford farmer, and her sister Martha replaced her as the teacher at the start of the next school year. Kate Colquhoun and her husband had two children, a daughter and a son who both died in infancy. She herself also died young, aged 30, and is buried in St. Paul's Anglican cemetery, Abbotsford.

Columbia Rediviva, commonly called the Columbia : a ship built in 1787 at Plymouth, Mass; discovery of the Columbia River; demolished in 1801.