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James Dwight Dana was born on February 12, 1813, in Utica, New York.

He was an American geologist, mineralogist, volcanologist, and zoologist. He graduated from Yale College with a degree in science before sailing to the Mediterranean Sea as a teacher of midshipmen in the US Navy in 1833. In 1836 and 1837, he was an assistant professor in the chemical laboratory at Yale and then, for four years, acted as mineralogist and geologist of the United States Exploring Expedition in the Pacific Ocean which also discovered the Antarctic continent. His reports were published in the American Journal of Science and Art, the journal of which he later became joint and chief editor. From 1850 until 1892, Dana was Professor of Natural History and Geology at Yale College. He is responsible for much of the early knowledge of volcanoes, obtained from his time with the US Exploring Expedition and later trips to the Hawaiian Islands in the 1880s. He published over 200 papers and books on mineralogy, geology, zoology, and volcanic studies, including his "Manual of Mineralogy" in 1848, which has been consistently reprinted and is still a standard college text today.

In 1844, he married Henrietta Frances Silliman (1823-1907). He died on April 14, 1895, in New Haven, Connecticut.

The family of Mr. and Mrs. Marc Dancose had a ski housein Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, in 1968-1969.

Marc Dancose was born on July 21, 1924. He was an engineer, land surveyor, town planner, lover of sailing, skiing, and golf. He held the position of chairman of the Fees and Salaries Committee of the Corporation des Arpenteurs-Géomètres de la Province de Québec, one of the oldest and most honoured surveyors' associations. He died on May 25, 2016, in Lachine, Quebec.

Montreal-based singer and songwriter Charles Danford was popular during the late 1940s and 1950s. He had a strong singing voice sometimes described as tenor, and sometimes as baritone. He launched his own song show on weekly radio in 1947 on WWRL in Woodside, New York. After he won the Arthur Godfrey Talent Quest, he was in demand to sing at events in the Montreal region, such as a gala held by the local Dorion newspaper “La presqu’ile.” The biggest night club in Montreal, the Bellevue Casino, hired him as their “house singer.” Although most of his songs were popular classics, he sang selections from George Bizet’s opera “Carmen” in 1952. He was also asked to sing the lead in Franz Lehar’s operetta “The Merry Widow” (La veuve Joyeuse) on a television series of operettas produced in Quebec by Roger Racine in 1954. He recorded several songs for the Montreal Vedettes Record label, including “Dites-lui.” He also composed some songs; popular Montreal singer Roger Doucet had manuscripts of three of his songs: “The Logger,” “My Song is Done,” and “Dans tes yeux.”

Charles Danford, a wealthy independent traveller and amateur ornithologist, organized scientific trips to collect specimens for his collection back in London. In the 1870s, Danford shipped thousands of birds acquired during his Ottoman Turkey expeditions back to England. The shipments included a valuable bald ibis from the town of Birecik, which had been shot despite the residents’ resistance, as the bird held spiritual importance and was considered sacred.