Samuel Revans was a printer, newspaper owner, and business person born in England in 1807 or 1808. He trained as a printer in London, through which he met Henry S. Chapman. With Chapman, Revans came to Montreal in 1833 and founded British North America’s first daily newspaper, the Daily Advertiser, in which they published radical ideas and writing by the eventual leaders of the Lower Canada Rebellion. The paper closed in 1834 and both Revans and Chapman returned to England. In London, Revans became a merchant, partnering with the firm LaRocque Bernard of Montreal. In the economic fallout of the Lower Canada Rebellion in 1837, LaRocque Bernard closed and Revans became responsible for a significant amount of debt. Shortly after, he became involved with the New Zealand Company, taking on the role of secretary to the colonists’ council and publishing the first issue of the New Zealand Gazette in London. Revans immigrated to New Zealand in 1839 where he continued publishing the New Zealand Gazette until 1844. Afterwards, Revans had several financial ventures, including a dairy farm that he ran with William Mein Smith. He also became a politician following the creation of the Wellington Settles’ Constitutional Association in 1848. He continued working in colonial politics until his retirement in 1869. Revans never married and died in Greytown, New Zealand on 14 July 1888.

Founded in 1986, the Réseau des services d'archives du Québec (RAQ) brings together more than 140 archival services covering all regions of Quebec. The RAQ's mission is to promote the development and enhancement of historical archives and to work closely with many government, religious, private, educational, municipal, museum, and historical societies. In 1996, in order to fulfill its mandate, the RAQ has created the Réseau de diffusion des archives du Québec (RDAQ), a website that allows the sharing of archival descriptions from all Quebec archival services.
All the member organizations and resources share the common goal of preserving and promoting the archival heritage of Quebecers.

The Réseau canadien d'information archivistique (RCIA) is an information network launched by the Canadian Council of Archives in October 2001. Its purpose is to make the over 800 fonds and collections held in archives across the country available online.

Herbert Stanley Renton was born on December 27, 1854, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.

He was a businessman, journalist, editor, and book collector. He worked at various branches of his father's Fergus A. Renton (1833-1885) brass foundry and finishing shop business. He invented several successful sanitary devices. Renton became interested in journalism and rose from a pioneer columnist to editor of the Old Brooklyn Globe. He travelled to Australia and Hawaii several times and gave stereopticon lectures on his travel experiences. Renton was president of the Chicago Aero Works, pioneer manufacturers of aeroplanes from 1909 to 1919 when he sold the business and moved to New Rochelle. He spent the last twenty years collecting theatrical books and playbills. He was a well-known authority on the history of American theatre. He was a charter member of the Aero Club of Chicago and an early member of the Chicago Rotary Club.

In 1882, he married Margaret Jane Harned (1860–1905), and in 1906, he married Antonia Christine Rozmarynowski (1872–1935). He died on March 22, 1939, in New Rochelle, Westchester, New York.