Charles Dickson Archibald was born on October 31, 1802, in Truro, Nova Scotia.

He was a lawyer, businessman, and political figure in Nova Scotia. He graduated from Pictou Academy in 1822 and continued to study law in his father's office (Samuel George William Archibald) in Truro. In 1826, he was elected to the Nova Scotia Assembly representing Truro Township. In 1830, he became a chief clerk and registrar for the Supreme Court of Newfoundland, but he resigned this post in 1831. In 1832, he married Bridget Walker, heiress to the Rusland estate in Lancashire, England, and spent most of the remainder of his life in England. In 1840, Archibald was the first Nova Scotian to be accorded the honour of becoming a fellow of the Royal Society of London. He retained close ties with Nova Scotia and frequently visited the province, helping to raise funds to develop an iron mine near Londonderry, Nova Scotia. In 1851, he attended a conference in Toronto regarding a railway linking the Maritimes to Upper and Lower Canada. He filed numerous patents while in England but was made bankrupt shortly before his death in London in 1868.

Sir Edward Mortimer Archibald was born on May 10, 1810, in Truro, Nova Scotia.

He was a British diplomat, a lawyer, and an officeholder active during the transition to responsible government in the colony of Newfoundland. His father Samuel George William Archibald was a lawyer and attorney general for Nova Scotia. Archibald studied law in his office and was admitted to the bar of Nova Scotia in 1831. The same year he was appointed chief clerk and registrar of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland, replacing his brother Charles Dickson Archibald in that position. By 1833 Archibald was an acting assistant judge of the Newfoundland Supreme Court. He also took on the additional job of the chief clerk of the Newfoundland General Assembly. In 1857, Archibald served as British consul to New York, a position he held for twenty-six years until his retirement in 1883. From 1871 he also undertook the additional responsibility of acting as British consul-general for New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.

In 1834, he married Catherine Elizabeth Richardson. One of their daughters, Edith Jessie Archibald was a Canadian suffragist and writer. He died on February 8, 1884, in Steyning, Sussex, England.

A native of Montreal, Edward Achibald received his M.D., C.M. from McGill University in 1896. After post-graduate work in France, Germany and England, he joined the staff of the Royal Victoria Hospital in 1904 as Assistant Surgeon. He was Major in the Canadian Army Medical Corps during World War I and it was at the McGill General Hospital in Boulogne that he developed new techniques in the treatment of war wounds especially those to the lungs. In 1923 Archibald became a Senior Professor of Surgery at McGill University, and in 1939 was named Surgeon-in-Chief of the Royal Victoria Hospital. In the Second World War he served as a consulting surgeon to the Directorate of Medical Services in Ottawa, and at the time of his death was working on a book about war wounds.

Born in Montreal, Ian Thurston Archibald was the son of the eminent architect John S. Archibald who played an influential role in the development of his career. He attended the Montreal High School and worked in his father's office during each summer from 1921 to 1928 while attending courses in the Department of Architecture at McGill University. He graduated from McGill in 1928 and in that year joined his father as a draftsman where he remained for two years until 1930 when he undertook to represent the firm in Vancouver on the site of the new Hotel Vancouver being erected by the Canadian National Railway. He returned to Montreal in early 1934 and upon the death of his father in March of that year established the firm of John S. Archibald Associates in collaboration with Hugh P. Illsley and John A. Currie who had been working in the office since 1927. In April 1937 the firm was renamed Archibald & Illsley. Works they produced include Macy's Drug Store and Dining Room, Sherbrooke Street West at Victoria Avenue in Westmount, 1938; a cabin for Ian T. Archibald, in Montebello, Quebec, 1939 ; a residence for Thurston D. Archibald, Upper Belmont Avenue, 1940; a new Parish Hall for St. George’s Anglican Church, Stanley Street, 1945; and Postal Station B, University Street at Cathcart Street, 1949-50. The Art Deco design for the flagship store of the F.W. Woolworth Co. on Ste. Catherine Street West in 1938 was among their most striking designs. The partnership flourished and in late 1949 they were joined by Frances O. Templeton The firm was dissolved after 1970, and Ian T. Archibald died in Montreal the following year.

The Montreal architectural firm of Archibald, Illsley and Templeton was comprised of the architects Ian Thurston Archibald (1903-71), Hugh Percival Illsley (1896-1992), and Francis Orr Templeton (1904-72). Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Templeton graduated from the Glasgow School of Architeture in 1927. He was assistant to John S. Archibald from 1929 to 1932. He was assistant and later partner with H.G. Hughes in Ottawa. He joined the firm of Archibald & Illsley in 1946 and became a partner in 1948. He retired from the partnership ca. 1970 and died in Scotland in 1972. After Templeton's retirement and Archibald's death, Illsley praticed independantly until his retirement in 1983. Four projects by this firm are documented in the CAC archives by architectural drawings.

For further information, see the CAC's publication, John S. Archibald and His Associates: A Guide to the Archive =John S. Archibald et ses associés: Guide du fonds. Montreal: Canadian Architecture Collection, Blackader-Lauterman Library of Architecture and Art, McGill University, 1990. Also see Irene Puchalski. An Analysis of Four Building Types by John S. Archibald, Architect (1872-1934). M.A. Thesis. Montreal: Concordia University, 1991.

Le cabinet d'architectes montréalais Archibald, Illsley et Templeton était formé des architectes lan Thurston Archibald (1903-1971), Hugh Percival Illsley (1896-1992) et Francis Orr Templeton (1904-1972). Né à Glasgow, en Écosse, Templeton fit des études à l'École d'architecture de Glasgow. Il fut l'assistant de John S. Archibald de 1929 à 1932. Il fut l'assistant et par la suite l'associé de H.G. Hughes à Ottawa. Il se joignit au cabinet de Archibald & Illsley en 1946 et devint un associé en 1948. Il quitta ce cabinet vers 1970 et se retira en Écosse. Après le départ de Templeton et le décès d'Archibald, Illsley continua à exercer de façon indépendante jusqu'à sa retraite en 1983. Quatre des projets de ce cabinet sont documentés par des dessins architecturaux déposés au fonds de la CAC.

Pour plus de renseignements, veuillez consulter la publication de la CAC intitulée John S. Archibald and His Associates: A Guide to the Archive = John S. Archibald et ses associés: Guide du fonds, Montréal : Collection d'architecture canadienne, Bibliothèque Blackader-Lauterman d'architecture et d'art, Université McGill, 1990. Voir aussi Irene Puchalski. An Analysis of Four Building Types by John S. Archibald, Architect (1872-1934). Thèse de maîtrise. Montréal: Université Concordia, 1991.

Isaac Adams Archibald was born on April 1, 1823, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

He was a schoolteacher. In 1846, he left Nova Scotia as part of a Presbyterian missionary expedition to the South Seas islands of New Hebrides (now Vanuatu). He taught in Sydney before settling in the Clarence region, New South Wales.

In 1846, he married Eliza Ann McKenzie (1827–1868), and in 1880, he remarried Sarah Turton (1844–1926). He died on October 18, 1893, in Central Cumberland, New South Wales.

Rev. John Howard Archibald was born on January 26, 1839, in Truro, Nova Scotia.

He was a Presbyterian clergyman. In 1870, he settled in the congregation at Euroa Duck Pond, Longwood, in Australia.

In 1876, he married Charlotte Elizabeth Stewart (1845–1920). He died on January 1, 1902, in Saint Leonards Creek, Walcha Shire, New South Wales, Australia.