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The Guy Desbarats family lived on Avenue Robert, Montreal, Quebec, in 1968.

George-Édouard-Amable Desbarats was born April 5, 1838, in Quebec, Canada.

He was a lawyer, printer, inventor, and publisher. In 1846, he was sent to the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. In 1852, he enrolled at the Collège Sainte-Marie in Montreal to finish his secondary studies, followed by studying law at the Université Laval. Undecided about whether to become a lawyer or to go into business with his father, queen’s printer, he went on a trip to Europe. On his return, he passed the bar of Lower Canada in 1859 but chose to begin working with his father in the firm of Desbarats et Derbishire. In 1864, upon his father's death, he inherited the business and became co-queen's printer for the Province of Canada. His partner Malcolm Cameron, replacing Stewart Derbishire after his death in 1863, became the new queen's printer. The firm published more than a dozen literary, historical, religious, biographical, and scientific works. Desbarats Block building, housing printing and binding equipment, constructed in Ottawa, was burned down by arson in 1869. In his Montreal business, he went into partnership with engraver William Augustus Leggo (1830-1915). In 1869, Prime Minister John A. Macdonald (1815-1891) made Desbarats the first official Printer of the Dominion of Canada. In 1870, he stepped down when he found it too difficult to run businesses in both Ottawa and Montreal and he returned to Montreal. The firm launched the Canadian Illustrated News, using Leggo's photo-engraving process (leggotype) for reproducing line drawings or black and white engravings. In 1873, they founded the New York Daily Graphic, the world’s first illustrated daily. The venture proved financially disastrous. Desbarats went into personal bankruptcy and opened a small printing atelier in Montreal that he left to three of his sons.

In 1860, he married Lucianne Bosse (1838–1926). He died on February 18, 1893, in Ottawa, Ontario and is buried in Montreal, Quebec.

Guy Desbarats, a Canadian architect was born on July 30, 1925, in Montreal, Quebec. He studied engineering at McGill University before turning to architecture. He graduated in 1948 and started to work at the firm of architects James William Abra, James Watson Balharrie, and David Shore in Ottawa until 1952. Then he returned to McGill University as a research fellow of the Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation) to conduct research on duplexes in Montreal.

In 1953, he founded one of Canada's most prestigious architectural firms, ARCOP (Architects in Co-partnership). As an associate architect, he collaborated on several of the firm's major projects, including the thematic pavilions L'Homme à l'oeuvre and L'Homme interroge l'Univers for Expo 67, the Beaver Lake pavilion on Mount Royal (1955-1958), the National Arts Centre (1969) in Ottawa, Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier (1963), and Place Bonaventure (1967). After the agency's dissolution in 1970, Desbarats held a few positions in the public service, notably with the Department of Public Works Canada. He was Assistant Deputy Minister of Design in 1975 and Assistant Deputy Minister of Design and Construction from 1976 to 1985. He returned to private practice in 1985 and founded Canadian Construction Information Services Limited.

Committed to the training of the next generation, Desbarats became a lecturer at McGill University in 1953 and he also set up an internship program at the Centre des métiers de la construction. In 1964, he became the first director of the new School of Architecture at Université de Montréal. In 1968, through the merger of the School and the Institut d'urbanisme, he formed the Faculté de l'aménagement and became its dean until 1975.

In 1952, he married Aileen Anne Cobban. He died on August 30, 2003, in Sherbrooke, Quebec.

French lyricist Roger Desbois was born in Paris. While not much is known about his life, it seems he was extremely prolific, based on the 438 catalog entries under his name in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, including recordings and sheet music. He published pieces between 1948 and 1998. He sometimes co-wrote lyrics with other writers such as Guy Bertret and Jean Eigel, the pseudonym for Julien Douville. He often wrote under pseudonyms himself, for example: Santos Guerrero, André Clinchant and Claude Giron. Many of his lyrics were French translations of songs in English, such as “Le ciel me sourit,” a French version of Danny Kaye’s “Life Could Not Be Better” from the film “The Court Jester,” or “Baby c’est vous,” from “Baby, It’s You.” Songs with his lyrics were sung by many stars like Josephine Baker (“Quand je pense à ça”) and Dalida (“Helena”). Encyclopédisque has 88 entries listed under his name.