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The A.P. Schmidt Company was a music publishing house and importing company, founded in 1876. It existed until 1960, when it was absorbed by the Summy-Birchard Company of Evanston, Illinois.

The Acadia Apartments were built in 1925 on the site of the 19th-century residence of the Orr Lewis family. The 12-storey apartment building was the first on Sherbrooke Street to take advantage of a new municipal by-law that allowed buildings to exceed 10 stories. Metropole Apartments, the developers, followed the standards and style of apartment houses built in New York City at that time.

Montreal architect David Robertson Brown designed the Acadia Apartments to have a simple and sparingly ornamented façade, reserving most of the architectural detailing and the finest materials for the public spaces and the well-appointed interiors of the 56 apartment suites.

The sober brick exterior is enlivened by ornamental bands of cast Benedict stone and filigreed wrought iron balcony grilles. A handsome entrance canopy and fence bordering the lawn complement the restrained elegance of the building.

Dace Aperāns was born in 1953 in Canada.

She is undeniably one of the most visible Latvian musicians abroad, not only as a composer, commentator, and teacher but also as an organizer of and participant in many Latvian musical endeavours in Latvia and in the North American Latvian community. In 2001, she was awarded Latvia's Three-Star Order in recognition of this work. Additionally, her music has gained wide recognition in Canada and the USA, including an award in 1996 for "Three Songs with Texts by Emily Dickinson" from Opera Works. She has created choral and symphonic music, vocal and instrumental chamber music, and music for the stage.

Richard David James, known professionally as Aphex Twin, was born on August 18, 1971, in Limerick, Ireland.

He is an Irish-born British musician, composer, and DJ. In 1968, his family moved to Canada. Raised in Cornwall, Ontario, James began DJing at free parties and clubs in the area and around the Southwest in the late 1980s. His debut EP, “Analogue Bubblebath,” released in 1991 on Mighty Force Records, brought James an early following. He began to perform across the UK and continental Europe. He is known for his idiosyncratic work in electronic styles such as techno, ambient, and jungle. Journalists from publications including Mixmag, The New York Times, NME, Fact, Clash and The Guardian have called James one of the most influential and important artists in contemporary electronic music.

Rev. Theodore Appel was born on April 30, 1823, in Easton, Pennsylvania.

He was an American author, teacher, and minister. In 1842, he graduated from Marshall College, West Virginia. In 1845, he graduated from the seminary of the Reformed Church in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, and from 1845 to 1851, he served congregations in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, and Cavetown, Maryland. In 1851, he became a professor of mathematics and mechanical philosophy at Marshall College until its merger with Franklin College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1853. There he continued in his position until 1877. He was also a pastor of the local church and editor of the "Mercersburg Review" from 1851 to 1857. In 1872, he was honoured with the degree of Doctor of Divinity, conferred by the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to his educational and pastoral work, he delivered, from 1873 to 1888, several series of popular lectures on astronomy. He published several popular works. From 1878 to 1886 he was missionary superintendent and edited the Reformed Missionary Herald, and from 1889 to 1893 he oversaw the editorial department of the Reformed Church Messenger.

In 1854, he married Susan Burton Wolff. He died on September 28, 1907, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Louis Applebaum was born on April 3, 1918, in Toronto, Ontario.

He was a Canadian composer, administrator, and conductor. After studying at the Toronto Conservatory of Music and the University of Toronto, Applebaum went to New York to study composition. By the mid-1940s, he had moved to Hollywood, where his film scores were in great demand, but in 1949, he returned to Canada. He composed approximately 250 film scores for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) between 1942 and 1960, serving as its music director (1942-1948) and a consultant (1949-1953). He was nominated, along with co-composer Ann Ronell, for an Academy Award for the score of the 1945 war film The Story of G.I. Joe. He won a 1968 Canadian Film Award for his non-feature music score of Athabasca. He won a 1989 Gemini Award for the Best Original Music Score for a Program or Mini-Series for Glory Enough for All. He was the first music director of the Stratford Festival, and in 1955, he established the Stratford Music Festival as an offshoot of the then two-year-old theatre festival. He resigned from his administrative duties at Stratford in 1960, though he continued until 1999 to provide incidental music for festival productions. He was a composer, music director or sound designer for 70 productions over 46 years. His fanfares have been played before every performance at Stratford's main stage since 1953. After resigning from Stratford in 1960, he served as president of Group Four Productions, a documentary and television production company, until 1966. He was a music consultant for CBC Television (1960-1963) and a chairman of the music, opera, and ballet advisory committee for the National Arts Centre (1963-1966). He wrote a 1965 government-commissioned report, which led to the formation of the National Arts Centre Orchestra, as well as a plan for the establishment of a department of music at the University of Ottawa. He served as chairman of a Composers, Authors and Publishers Association of Canada (CAPAC)/Canadian Association of Broadcasters committee for the promotion of Canadian music (1965-1970) and was in charge of member relations for CAPAC (1968–1971), also serving on its board. He served on an advisory arts panel, and was a jury member for the Canada Council (1970-1971) and was a consultant for the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts (1968-1970). He was executive director of the Ontario Arts Council (1971-1980). Working on behalf of the Government of Canada as chairman of the Federal Cultural Policy Review Committee, he co-authored with Jacques Hébert the influential Applebaum-Hébert Report, the first review of Canadian cultural institutions and federal cultural policy since 1951. He also served as vice president of the Canadian League of Composers. In 1976, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. Applebaum was appointed to the Order of Ontario in 1989 and the Companion of the Order of Canada in 1995. In 1997, Applebaum was awarded the inaugural Special Achievement Award at the SOCAN Awards in Toronto. In 1998, the Ontario Arts Foundation established the Louis Applebaum Composers Award.

He died on April 19, 2000, in Toronto, Ontario.