Rev. Charles Henry Paisley was born on November 15, 1843, in Fredericton, York County, New Brunswick.
He was a clergyman. He attended the University of New Brunswick. He was ordained in 1870 and served at several Methodist circuits in the Maritimes until he became professor of New Testament and church history and later Dean of the Divinity Faculty at Mount Allison University. In 1900, Paisley received a degree of D.D. from Victoria University.
About 1875, he married Louise Frater Sawers (1844–1927). He died on January 20, 1908, in Sackville, Westmorland County, New Brunswick.
Walter Scott Painter was born on February 15, 1877, in Reading, Pennsylvania.
He was educated in architecture in New York, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. In 1901, he moved to Montreal, Quebec. In 1905, he became the chief architect of the Canadian Pacific Railway, a position he held until 1911. He was responsible for several station and hotel projects in the province of Quebec and elsewhere in Canada. He became a member of the Association des architectes de la province de Québec and the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada in 1909. He formed the Brown and Painter agency in Toronto from 1904 to 1905. He designed the Château Frontenac in Quebec City (1908), Calgary's CPR station, the Banff Springs Hotel, and the Lake Louise Chateau. He also designed Windsor Station in Montreal (1909-1914). During World War I, he returned to the United States and was placed in charge of all wartime projects for the U.S. government. After the war, he went to South America where he pioneered the design of modern school development. He returned to the U.S. as one of the architectural engineers for U.S. Steel in New York City.
In 1947, he retired to Banff, Alberta. In 1906, he married Estelle R Renninger. He died in 1957.
John Painter was a merchant and justice of the peace in Quebec City. Born in approximately 1745 in England, he left for Quebec City in approximately 1765. He worked as a merchant there, importing and selling goods from the UK. Though he returned to England between 1776 and 1783, he then settled permanently in Quebec City. His business was successful, allowing him to purchase a large house that also served as his office. Painter was involved in the Union Company of Quebec, holding several positions including chairman (1810-1814). He also held positions as treasurer and deputy master of Trinity House of Quebec. Painter was also a member of the Fire Society and was a justice of the peace fort he District of Quebec. He married Margaret Stuart on 1 December 1786, and they had six children together. He died on 11 November 1815.
John Alsop Paine was born on January 14, 1840, in Newark, New Jersey.
He was a Presbyterian minister, botanist, educator, archaeologist, and editor. He graduated from Hamilton College (B.A., 1859) and Andover Theological Seminary (M.Div., 1862). After working as a botanist at the University of the State of New York (1862-1865), he continued his studies at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University and the Columbia School of Mines (1865-1866). In 1867, he was ordained a Presbyterian minister and from 1867 to 1869, he was a professor of natural science at the Christian missionary institution Robert College in Istanbul. From 1869 to 1870, he studied at the University of Halle and Leipzig. He taught natural history and German at Lake Forest University in Illinois (1870-1871). Paine was an associate editor for The Independent (1871-1872). From 1872 to 1874, he was an archaeologist and naturalist with the American Palestine Exploration Society working in Syria, east of the Jordan River and the Dead Sea. In 1874, he received an honorary doctorate from Hamilton College in recognition of his research in Palestine. He edited the Journal of Christian Philosophy in New York (1882-1884) and he was on the editorial staff for the Century Dictionary in 1888. Paine was also Curator of Casts with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City (1889-1906). He published several papers in the Journal of the American Oriental Society.
About 1864 he married Maggie (1840-1876), and in 1877, he married Emma Sophia Gillett (1842–1919). He died on July 24, 1912, in Tarrytown, New York.
Peter Paillou was born in London into a Huguenot family and was recognised in his own time as an eminent ‘bird painter’. In 1744 he began to paint for Taylor White and worked for him for almost thirty years, painting chiefly birds and mammals. He painted as well for Robert More, Joseph Banks, and for the Welsh naturalist Thomas Pennant. Many of his paintings of birds were used as the basis for book illustrations, often engraved by his colleague and fellow Huguenot, Peter Mazell. Paillou was elected to the Society of Artists and in 1763 he exhibited ‘A Piece of Birds, in Watercolours; the Hen of the Wood and Cock of the Red Game’. In 1778, to considerable approval, he also showed a picture of ‘A Horned Owl from Peru’, completely made from feathers.
