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William Tees Curran was a mining promoter, prospector, former President of the Ungava Miners & Traders Limited, and author. He worked alongside Harold A. Calkins and Horace F. Strong, whom were both McGill graduates. Curran was an elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, London on November 27th 1922.

His published works include:
-In Canada's wonderful northland; a story of eight months of travel by canoe, motorboat, and dog-team on t he northern rivers and along the New Quebec coast of Hudson bay - by Curran and H.A. Calkins (published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1917).
-Glimpses of northern Canada: the land of hidden treasure - by Curran and Horace P. Adams (published in Montreal by Cambridge Corp, circa 1910).

Born in Napperton, Ontario, Arthur Currie went to British Columbia as a schoolteacher, but eventually became a businessman in Victoria. At the outbreak of World War I, he was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the militia, and commanded the Vancouver Highland Battalion in the First Canadian Contingent. Thus began a highly successful military career which culminated in 1917 with his succession of Sir Julian Byng as commander of the Canadian Corps. Currie was knighted by King George V on the battlefield in 1918. Upon his return to Canada in 1919, he was appointed inspector-general of the Canadian militia. In 1920, he became Principal of McGill, a position he held until his death in 1933.

James Everett Wilson Currier was born on July 28, 1849, in Ottawa, Ontario.

He was a civil servant. For several years, he was engaged in the lumber business with his father Joseph Merrill Currier (1824-1884), a member of parliament for Ottawa. After retiring from the lumber business, Currier entered the civil service and was private secretary to a few ministers of the crown. He was well connected to the city’s political and cultural elite. He enjoyed skeet shooting and skating and was a regular at the Governor General’s parties.

In 1876, he married Florence Augusta Slater (1859–1914). In 1914, he married Sarah Florence Pratt (1878–1931). He died on March 27, 1919, in Ottawa, Ontario.