Charles Reiner was born in Budapest, Hungary on April 7, 1924, and died in Montreal on August 19, 2006. He moved to Canada in 1951 as part of the Jewish diaspora caused by persecution in Hungary and became a Canadian citizen. Before he left Europe, he was interned at the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria from 1944 to 1945. Afterwards, he returned to Hungary where he attended the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, studying with Arpad Hanak, Arnold Szekely, and Bela Böszörmenyi-Nagy. He won the International Competition for Music Performers in Geneva in 1947 and was awarded the first prize for virtuosity by the Geneva Conservatory the following year. After he came to Canada, Reiner established himself as a successful concert artist and educator. He was particularly adept at collaboration, performing with Hymen Bress, Maureen Forrester, Antonio Janigro, Arthur LeBlanc, Igor Oistrakh, Ruggiero Ricci, Henryk Szeryng, and Richard Verreau, among many others. Reiner frequently performed on CBC Radio and CBC Television during his career, and was a founding member of both the Canadian Piano Quartet and Musica Camerata Montreal. He was a professor at McGill University for 40 years, teaching on the music faculty of the Schulich School of Music.

Herschel Reilley was born in Ontario, and received his B.A. (1913) and M.A. (1914) from McGill. However, he had already begun teaching at McGill in 1911 as an Assistant Demonstrator in physics; he later became Lecturer (1916), Assistant Professor (1918), Associate Professor (1927) and Professor (1944). Reilley's main research interests were in thermal conductivity and acoustics, and under the aegis of the National Research Council he conducted experiments in fire retardation, as well, he did surveys of urban and industrial noise. He was very active in public affairs, serving on the School Board (1925-1944), as a governor of the Montreal General Hospital and as Chairman of the Noise Abatement League. Reilley passed away in 1945.

Ronald S. Reighley was a student in the School for Graduate Nurses at McGill University.