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Alexander Francis Dunlop (1842-1923) was a native of Montreal. He studied architecture in Montreal and New York, apprenticing with the Montreal architects George and John James Brown. From 1871 until 1874 Dunlop worked in Detroit, returning to Montreal to set up a practice in 1874. His most important public commission was the design of St. James Methodist Church in 1886. Dunlop had an extensive practice and he designed a number of houses, hotels, schools and factories in Montreal. Among the students who worked for his office were Edward Maxwell (1867-1923) and Robert Findlay (18591951). Dunlop was one of the original members of the Royal Canadian Academy in 1880. He was a member of the organizing committee of the Province of Quebec Association of Architects and a founding member and first president of the Royal Architecture Institute of Canada from 1907 to 1910. The A.F. Dunlop Scholarships in the McGill School of Architecture were set up in his memory.

Alexander Francis Dunlop (1842-1923) est né à Montréal. Il a étudié l'architecture à Montréal et à New York et a été apprenti chez les architectes montréalais George et John James Brown. De 1871 à 1874, Dunlop a travaillé à Détroit, puis il est revenu à Montréal pour ouvrir son propre cabinet en 1874. Sa commande publique la plus importante est l'église méthodiste St. James réalisée en 1886. Dunlop avait une clientèle nombreuse et a dessiné un grand nombre de maisons, d'hôtels, d'écoles et d'usines à Montréal. Au nombre des étudiants qui ont travaillé à son cabinet, signalons Edward Maxwell (1867-1923) et Robert Findlay (1859-1951). Dunlop a été l'un des premiers membres de l'Académie royale du Canada en 1889; il a été membre du comité organisateur de l'Association des architectes de la province de Québec et l'un de ses membres fondateurs ainsi que le premier président de l'Institut royal d'architecture du Canada, de 1907 à 1910. Les Bourses A.F. Dunlop de l'École d'architecture de l'Université McGill furent créées à sa mémoire.

Composer and organist Artie Dunn, born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, managed to play by ear and make his way in the music world without being able to read music. He started out in vaudeville and played the electric organ for radio, but when he partnered with his Brooklyn cousins, Al and Morty Nevins (originally Tepper), he was on his way. In 1939 the three formed a trio they called the “Three Suns” with Al on guitar, Morty on the accordion and Artie on the electric organ. They started out playing at the Adelphia Hotel in Philadelphia, but the next year were hired by the Piccadillo Hotel in New York where they worked for 10 years. In 1944, they wrote “Twilight Time,” which was later recorded with lyrics by Buck Ram. As sung by The Platters, it became the No. 1 pop song in 1958; Andy Williams and Willie Nelson made other renditions. It was said that the “Three Suns” was the favorite group of First Lady Mamie Eisenhower. That same year they signed to appear in short musical films for nine songs for “soundies,” musical jukeboxes. Their 1947 version of the song “Peg o’ My Heart,” with Dunn on vocals, was also a best seller. The group’s membership later became rather fluid, sometimes re-forming to a quartet or quintet, and in 1957 it broke up.

Pamela (Pam) Dunn (née Osla Jane Holt) was born on July 13, 1924, in Canada.

She was a grand-daughter of Sir Herbert Holt, one of Montreal’s richest industrialists. She spent much of her substantial inheritance on philanthropy. She was a long-time supporter of the Royal Victoria Hospital Foundation, Bishop’s University, Sun Youth, Dans la rue, The Douglas Hospital, the Montreal Association for the Blind, the Butters Foundation, the Bahamas National Trust, and numerous other charities. She received an honourary doctorate from Bishop's University. During World War II, she enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy and served in Halifax. With her husband Timothy, she spent most of her time in the Bahamas and at Les Noix, the ancestral Holt property in the Laurentians. She touched the lives of many people with her dynamic energy and enthusiasm for sports, theatre, education, and fundraising.

In 1943, she married Timothy Hibbard Dunn and they had six children. She died on June 24, 2008, in Montréal, Quebec.

Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven was born on February 12, 1841, in Adare, County Limerick, Ireland.

He was an Anglo-Irish journalist, landowner, entrepreneur, sportsman, and politician. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford. After serving as a lieutenant in the 1st Life Guards, a cavalry regiment, in 1867, he became a war correspondent for the London newspaper The Daily Telegraph, covering the Abyssinian War in Africa (1868), the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871), the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878), the Third Carlist War (1872-1876), and the Treaty of Versailles (1871). Dunraven succeeded his father in the earldom in 1871 and took his seat in the House of Lords. He served as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies under Lord Salisbury (1885-1887). He recruited two regiments of sharpshooters, leading them in the South African War (1899-1902). He published "The Outlook in Ireland, the Case for Devolution and Conciliation" (1897). He also successfully presided over the 1902 Land Conference which resulted in the Wyndham Land (Purchase) Act (1903). It terminated the last vestige of absentee landlordism in Ireland and enabled tenants to purchase land from their landlords. He was also a founder of the Irish Reform Association. A big game hunter, in 1874, Dunraven claimed 15,000 acres in Colorado, United States, determined to make the area a game park. He built a tourist hotel there but sold the land in the early 20th century. He was a keen yachtsman and as a sportsman, he wrote a book "Canadian Nights … Reminiscences of Life and Sport in the Rockies etc. " (1914). In 1939, Norfolk Street in London, UK was renamed Dunraven Street in his honour. Dunraven Pass in Yellowstone National Park is named after Lord Dunraven, as is nearby Dunraven Peak, a 3,008 m mountain peak in the Washburn Range.

He married Florence Elizabeth Kerr. He died on June 14, 1926, in London, England.