C. Ashworth, Esq., was a manager of the Bank of Montreal in Toronto, Ontario, in the 1860s. In the 1880s and 1890s, he was manager of the Bank of Montreal in London, England.

Athanasios Asimakopulos was born in Montreal in 1930. He was educated at McGill University earning a B.A. in 1951 and an M.A. in 1953, and in Cambridge obtaining his Ph.D. in 1959. Athanasios Asimakopulos was a Lecturer in Economics and Political Science from 1956 to 1957 at McGill. From 1957 to 1959 he worked as an Assistant Professor at the Royal Military College. In 1959 he returned to McGill and became an assistant professor. Promoted to the position of associate professor in 1963, he became a full professor in 1966. In 1988 he was appointed William Dow Professor of Political Economy. He served as Chairman of the Department of Economics from 1974 to 1978. He wrote extensively on the work of such economic theorists as J.M. Keynes, Joan Robinson, and M. Kalecki. He was active in many professional associations and organizations. He held numerous fellowships and was a Visiting Professor and a Fellow at universities in the United States, England and Australia. From 1976 to 1990 he was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Athanasios Asimakopulos died in 1990.

John Askham was an English working-class poet who published five volumes of poetry. He was born in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, the youngest child of a shoemaker, and attended school for about one year. Before he was ten, his family put him to work in the shoemaking trade. Subsequently he set up his own business, later becoming the librarian of the newly formed Literary Institute at Wellingborough.
In 1871, Askham was elected a member of the first town school board. Three years after, he became school attendance officer and sanitary inspector of the local board of health. Despite his heavy workload, Askham educated himself and started writing poetry. He composed his first verses at the age of twenty-five, and later contributed poems to local newspapers. The fidelity of his nature poetry was remarkable considering that he had few opportunities to enjoy country life. In later years Askham was disabled by paralysis and died in 1894.

John Erskine Askin was born in 1739 in Aughnacloy, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

He was a fur trader, merchant, colonial and militia officer. He came to North America with the British Army in 1758. After the British took over New France, he entered the fur trade and operated a trading post at Fort Michilimackinac (Mackinaw City, Michigan). He became a commissary for the garrison and farmed. In 1767, Askin built a post at the Lake Superior end of Grand Portage, which became operational the following year. His post was among the first to establish Grand Portage as a major redistribution point of the fur trade to the Canadian Prairies and Athabasca country. From 1786 to 1789, he was part of a group of trading companies known as the Miamis Company. He was also involved in the shipping business and land speculation and was one of the partners involved in the Cuyahoga Purchase along the south shore of Lake Erie. In 1789, he was named a justice of the peace at Detroit. When Detroit was turned over to the Americans in 1796, he became a justice of the peace for the Western District and moved to Sandwich, now Windsor, Ontario, in 1802. Askin bought and sold Native American and African American slaves. He owned twenty-three enslaved people during his lifetime, one of them an Odawa woman named Monette or Manette, whom he freed in 1766. They had three children, John, Catherine, and Madeline. He also had one indentured servant.

In 1772, he married Marie Archange Barthe (1749–1820). He died in June 1815 in Sandwich, Essex County, Ontario.

Joseph S. Aspler is a retired Canadian research scientist at the Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada in Pointe-Claire, Quebec. He is also a veteran reader of science fiction and an amateur photographer.

Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, was born on September 12, 1852, in Morley, England.

He was a British politician. He graduated from Oxford University and began to work as a barrister in 1876. In 1886, his interest in politics saw him successfully stand for election as a Member of Parliament for East Fife. He was promoted to Home Secretary in 1892, Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1905, and Prime Minister in 1908. Asquith's government was responsible for constitutional changes within British politics, including Lloyd George's People's Budget in 1909 and the Parliament Act 1911, which limited the powers of the House of Lords in passing legislation. Before the outbreak of World War I, Asquith introduced the Government of Ireland Act 1914, but later proved ineffectual as a war-time leader and resigned in 1916. Following the loss of his seat in the 1918 general election, Asquith remained the leader of the Liberal Party, was elected to represent Paisley in 1920 and became Earl of Oxford and Asquith in 1925. He resigned from the leadership of the Liberal party in 1926.

In 1877, he married Helen Kensall Melland (1854–1891), and in 1894, he remarried Emma Alice Margaret Tennant (1864–1945). He died on February 15, 1928, in Sutton Courtenay, Berkshire, England.

Underground infrastructure has been a staple of Associated Engineering’s portfolio since 1945, when the firm formed as Davis, Ripley and Associates with offices in Edmonton and Calgary. In 1948, the firm renamed itself to the more inclusive Associated Engineering Services Ltd. With offices across Canada, Associated Engineering is one the largest Canadian-headquartered engineering firms designing trenchless projects across the country. With more than 70 years of service in Canada, the firm was incorporating trenchless into its designs long before trenchless was a term in the construction industry lexicon. Today, Associated Engineering is still a leading engineering consultant firm in Regina, Saskatchewan.