Robert R. Reid is an award-winning typographer, graphic designer and letterpress printer- an acknowledged leader of the private press tradition in Canada. Born in 1927, Reid came to Montreal in 1963 from British Columbia. He spent more than ten years in Montreal from 1963 to 1976. He first held the position as Designer and Production Manager for the McGill University Press, a responsibility he held for five or more years. During that time, he also accomplished really exquisite limited and special editions. The Lande Bibliography (1965) and the Notman Photo Album entitled: Portrait of a Period (1967) are two of the outstanding productions achieved under his direction in that category.

Reid later became Director for a new Publications Service at McGill University, serving the needs of multiple departments for various kinds of “job printing” – event posters, announcements, booklets, invitations, and various printed projects of an ephemeral nature, such as these colourful postage stamps. Reid moved on to New York by 1976, and stayed there for some twenty years. He is now back in British Columbia.

Reid, Levesque & Monk was a notary firm that operated in Montreal in 1822.

James Reid was born in 1769 in Scotland and died in 1848. He came to Canada around 1788. In 1808, he married Elizabeth McGillivray, the sister of William McGillivray, and two years later, purchased a large property situated in the Faubourg, in Montreal. Reid was called to the bar of Lower Canada in 1794 and was appointed a judge of the Court of King’s Bench in Montreal in 1807. He became a Chief Justice by 1825 and was an active member of the Executive Council in 1838 for a few months, before he resigned from the bench. Reid handled many of the North West Company’s contractual and litigation matters.

Helen Richmond Young Reid was born on December 11, 1869, in Montreal, Quebec.

She was a Canadian social reformer and author. She was educated at the Montreal School for Girls. She and several classmates decided to apply to McGill University, though the school was not open to female students. Her mother persuaded Donald A. Smith (future Lord Strathcona) to make an endowment to the university, to cover the cost of separate classes for women. In 1884, Helen was in the first class of "donaldas", as women admitted to McGill were called (B.A., 1889). She continued her studies at the University of Genova, Switzerland, and after her return to Montreal, she dedicated herself to social work. She served on the board of the Montreal Council of Women (1900-1903) and helped start Montreal's chapter of the Victorian Order of Nurses. She founded the McGill School of Social Work and participated in the creation of the School of Nursing. She was an officer of the Canadian Public Health Association, of the Family Welfare Association of America, of the Canadian Welfare Council, and she served on the Dominion Council of Health. She was president of the Montreal Council of Social Agencies and of the Child Welfare Association. A great traveller, polyglot, and golf player, she acquired a national and international reputation. In 1935, Reid was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of her lifetime of "philanthropic services in the Dominion of Canada".

She died on June 8, 1941, in Montreal, Quebec.