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William Drysdale was born on April 17, 1847, in Montreal, Quebec.

He was a bookseller and publisher. He was educated in Montreal and right after leaving the school, he entered the office of John Dougall, a publisher of the Weekly Witness. Drysdale successfully managed the book branch of the business. In 1874, he started his own publishing business, one of the most successful in the Dominion. He published several important Canadian works. In 1883, he was one of the founders and promoters of the Canadian Railway News Co. He was also on the executive of the Society for the Protection of Women and Children, the Dominion Temperance Alliance, Boys' Home, Numismatic and Antiquarian Society, the Montreal Dispensary and the Protestant Hospital for the Insane.

In 1880, he married Mary Mathie Wales (1853–1891) and in 1893, he remarried Mary McIntosh (1848–1907). He died on June 16, 1927, in Montreal, Quebec.

Pianist and composer Marcel Dubelski, born in Paris, began composing songs in the late1930s. He wrote “Si c’est une blague” with lyrics by Louis Hennevé in 1938. In 1948, the Fernandel film “Émile l’africain” used his song (co-written with Joe Hajos) “Dans la broussse” in the soundtrack. An operetta he had composed, “Brigand d’amour,” was presented in Montreal in 1951/52 by the “Variétés Lyriques” company. In 1953, “Bonbon – Caramel,” a song he composed in 1953 with Edward Chekker with lyrics by Noel Roux, sung by Annie Cordy, became a hit and was included in the 1954 film “Boum sur Paris.” The same year he was director of the revue “Allez Zou” at the Célestin theater in Lyon. After World War II, the celebrated “Alcazar” music hall re-opened in Marseille, first in 1946 as a cinema and then in 1949 (by Robert Trebor) as a theater for operettas and variety shows; it featured rising stars like Charles Aznavour, Johnny Halliday, Sacha Distel and Jacques Brel; Dubelski’s marriage to one of the singers, Claude Trebor, the daughter of the boss, assured his job as pianist and conductor of the orchestra. It was around this time that Dubelski dropped the last three letters of his name to become Dubel. Their son Richard himself became a musician and actor, having grown up in the theater, accompanying his father on the drums from the age of six; Richard kept the name Dubelski. Competition from television spelled doom for the Alcazar, and so Dubel became its last orchestra leader when bankruptcy forced it to close in 1966.

The family of Mr. and Mrs. Dubney lived at 522 Lansdowne Ave, Westmount, QC, Canada in 1971-1974.

DuBoille was a canon of the Augustinian House of Eaucourt in the diocese of Arras.