Emily Armitage was a daughter of William Nicholson Nicholson of Roundhay Park, and A sister of William Gustavus Nicholson, 1st Baron Nicholson. In 1860 she married William James Armitage (1819-1895) of Farnley Hall. In 1875, when Farnley Hall was sold, the family moved to Farnley House, Eton Avenue, Hampstead, London, England.

Armour and Ramsay was the leading Montreal printing and publishing company in the 1840s.

The printing and publishing firm of Andrew H. Armour and Company was formed in May 1831 by Robert Armour (1781-1857), a businessman and owner of the Montreal Gazette, and his son Andrew Harvie Armour (1809-1859). In May 1835, Andrew Harvie Armour terminated the partnership with his father and formed another with his brother-in-law, bookseller and publisher Hew Ramsay. The firm Armour and Ramsay acquired Robert Armour’s interest in the Montreal Gazette in May 1836, publishing it until August 1, 1843. Armour and Ramsay were the queen’s printers to the Special Council from 1838 to 1840. They sold the Montreal Gazette to Robert Abraham in 1843. During the 1840s, Armour and Ramsay were the leading booksellers in the Province of Canada, with branches in Kingston and Hamilton, and their business extended into the United States. They issued Armour and Ramsay’s literary newsletter and general record of British literature (1845). In addition, they manufactured ledgers, journals, and cashbooks and published the Presbyterian, established in 1848 as the organ of the Presbyterian Church of Canada in connection with the Church of Scotland. After their partnership dissolved in 1850, Ramsay conducted the Montreal business until he died in 1857, and Andrew Harvie Armour conducted a Toronto bookstore until he died in 1859.

Donald John Armour was born on June 13, 1869, in Coburg, Ontario, the fifth son of the Hon. John Douglas Armour (1830-1903), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ontario.

He was a Canadian surgeon. He was educated at Upper Canada College, University of Toronto (B.A., 1891) and University of London (M.B., 1894; L.R.C.P., 1896; M.R.C.P. and M.R.C.S., 1897). In 1900, he was elected Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and devoted himself to surgery. In 1901, Armour was appointed an assistant demonstrator of anatomy at University College, London. He worked as a surgeon at the National Hospital for Diseases of the Nervous System in Queen Square, Bloomsbury. In 1903, he was appointed assistant surgeon at the West London Hospital and surgeon in 1912. He also served as Dean of the West London Postgraduate School of Medicine. He was a surgeon at the Italian Hospital, the Blackheath and Charlton Hospital and the Acton Hospital. In 1906, he won the Jacksonian prize with an essay on “The diagnosis and treatment of those diseases and morbid growths of the vertebral column, spinal cord, and canal, which are amenable to surgical operations.” In 1908, he was a Hunterian Professor of Surgery and Pathology. At the Medical Society of London, Armour was a Lettsomian lecturer in 1927, when he lectured on the modern surgery dealing with the spinal canal and its membranes. He was also president of the West London Medico-chirurgical Society in 1928, the neurological section of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1928-29, and the Association of British Neurological Surgeons in 1930-32. He was an active member of the British Medical Association. When war began in 1914, he worked as a surgical specialist to several military hospitals with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He also worked at the Canadian hospital supported by the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire. For these services, he was created Companion of St. Michael and St. George (C.M.G.) in 1918.

In 1901, he married Maria Louise Clark Mitchell. He died suddenly on October 23, 1933, in London, England.

Ethel Armstrong was the Secretary of the editorial board of Montreal’s McGill Fortnightly in the 1890s.

Dr. George Eli Armstrong was born on June 15, 1854, in Leeds, Quebec.

He was a Canadian surgeon and educator. He graduated from McGill University (M.D., 1877) and continued his postgraduate training in renowned medical schools in England, Germany, and France. At the Radium Institute in Paris he investigated therapeutic uses of this element and later introduced these techniques to Montreal. He was a surgeon at the Montreal General Hospital until 1911, when he was appointed Chief of Surgery at the Royal Victoria Hospital, a position he held until his retirement in 1923. He also became a Professor of Anatomy in the faculty of medicine at Bishop’s College in Montreal, teaching physiology from 1883 to 1891. Subsequently, he began a brilliant career at McGill University, initially as a senior lecturer, then as an assistant professor (1896), and finally as a full Professor of Surgery (1907). During World War I, he served as a consulting surgeon in The Canadian Army Medical Corps in England. He was given the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in 1917. He was also Dean of Medicine at McGill for one year before he retired. Dr. Armstrong was a past president of the Canadian Medical Association, the American Surgical Association, and the American College of Surgeons. He was actively involved in producing the Montreal Medical Journal, McGill University’s medical and surgical review, which in 1911 became known as the Journal of the Canadian Medical Association. He published numerous papers on medical subjects that brought him international recognition. Recognized as one of the best surgeons of his time, Dr. Armstrong distinguished himself not only by his outstanding surgical skills but also by the quality of his teaching and his participation in the Canadian Army Medical Corps during World War I.

In 1878, he married Mary Hadley (1852-1909), and, in 1917, he remarried Jessie Reid (1881–1966). He died on May 23, 1955, in Montreal, Canada.

George Frederick Armstrong was born on May 15, 1842, in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England.

He was an English engineer and educator specializing in railway, civil, and sanitary engineering. He graduated from King's College, London (1860) and Cambridge University (B.A., 1864; M.A., 1867). Armstrong began his career as an assistant engineer under Richard Johnson, the then Chief Engineer of the Great Northern Railway. By 1869, he returned to work at the company's locomotive works at home in Doncaster and later became engineer of the Isle of Man Railway Company. In 1871, he became the first Professor of Civil Engineering at the Applied Science School of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In 1876, the Chair of Engineering in the then recently founded Yorkshire College at Leeds was established. He accepted the appointment of its first Professor of Engineering, a post he held for about five years. In 1885, Armstrong, who was of Scottish descent, was appointed by the Crown to become the second Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh, a post he held until his death. He inaugurated courses on sanitary engineering for the benefit of the medical students studying public health. He also became an engineering adviser to the Local Government Board for Scotland under the Public Health Act. He was the honorary local secretary for the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the Iron and Steel Institute and the British Association, as well as the Honorary President of the East of Scotland Engineering Association. He was a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and a Fellow of the Geological Society of London. Armstrong was President of the Sanitary Engineering Section of the British Institute of Public Health in Edinburgh in 1893. He was elected President of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts in 1896 and became a Fellow at his alma mater, King's College, in 1899. In his final years, Armstrong was an external examiner in engineering at the University of Wales and a member of the Board of Trustees of Wordsworth College. He served as Justice of the Peace for his home county of Westmorland and Chairman of the Grasmere District Council.

In 1893, he married Margaret Anne Brown (1847–1906). He died on November 16, 1900, in Grasmere, Westmorland, England.

J. R. Armstrong served as the Treasurer (1881-1886) and President of the Ottawa Literary and Scientific Society (1887-1888).

Julian Armstrong is a Canadian food writer and long-time journalist with the Montreal Gazette. During her career, she has extensively researched and written about Quebec's foodways and culinary history. Armstrong was born in Toronto and grew up in the city's Annex neighbourhood. She graduated from the Bishop Strachan School and then from the University of Toronto with a degree in history. During the 1950s, she worked briefly at the Toronto Star newspaper before moving to Montreal and taking a job at the Montreal Gazette, in what was then known as the women's department. Armstrong married Montreal lawyer Robert O'Brien in 1957. After taking a local cooking class, she began writing about food one day a week for the Gazette. She worked as food editor at the Montreal Star from 1964 until the newspaper folded in 1979. In 1986, while a food editor with the Montreal Gazette, Armstrong began to travel around Quebec, speaking with local chefs, home cooks, and food producers, and learning around the region's culinary heritage and practice. These culinary travels served as the basis for two books: Made in Quebec: A culinary journey, published in 2014, and A taste of Quebec, published in 1990 with an updated edition in 2001. She has received numerous journalism awards and is a founding member of the Association of Food Journalists and the association Taste Canada (previously known as the Cuisine Canada culinary alliance).