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Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, was an army officer and a member of the British royal family. He was also the father of Queen Victoria. He was born in 1767 at Buckingham Palace in London, the fifth child of King George III (of Great Britain and Ireland) and Charlotte Sophia of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Edward had a difficult relationship with his father, the king, and was kept out of England for much of his life. He received a military education in Hanover, Lüneburg (Germany) and Geneva (Switzerland). He went on to hold commands in Gibraltar, Quebec, and Nova Scotia. Edward was known to enforce strict discipline among his troops, especially on the topics of proper dress, drunkenness and gambling, and as a result was often unpopular. During his time in Halifax, Edward invested in local infrastructure and fortifications. Edward spent 27 years in a partnership with Thérèse-Bernardine Mongenet (also known as Mme de Saint-Laurent), but parted ways with her when he was pressured into marriage in order to secure the succession of the British throne. In 1818, Edward married Victoria Mary Louisa and one year later their daughter Princess Victoria was born. Edward died of pneumonia in December 1819 at a country house in Sidmouth (near Devon, UK).

Amelia Edwards was a British novelist, travel writer and Egyptologist. An only child born to a middle-aged couple who home-schooled her, she began her writing career with novels. She owed much of her success, however, to a travel book "A Thousand Miles up the Nile", featuring her own illustrations. She explored Egypt going up and down the river in a houseboat, or “dahabeeya", with a group of lady friends, including Lucy Renshaw and Marianne Brocklehurst. Absorbed by Egyptology, she became devoted to the cause of rescuing ancient monuments and archaeological sites so they could be studied before they were spoiled. She co-founded the Egypt Exploration Society in 1882 for this purpose. From 1889 to 1890 she did a lecture tour in the United States. Thanks to this publicity, the last of her nine novels (Lord Brackenbury), published in 1880, went through 15 editions. She has been called the "godmother of Egyptology" as well as a pioneer of the LBGT community. The department of Egyptology at University College in London was created through her bequest; on her recommendation, the archaeologist Flinders Petrie became the first faculty member. Her Egyptian adventures made her the model for the eccentric Victorian lady archaeologist and sleuth, Amelia Peabody, in popular novels by Elizabeth Peters (pen name of archaeologist Barbara Mertz) .

Gordon Edwards was born 20 April 1930 in Montreal and graduated from McGill's School of Architecture in 1954. After graduation he joined the firm of Rother, Bland, and Trudeau Architects and remained there until 1959 when he became a partner in Bland, Lemoyne, and Edwards Architects and Town Planning Consultants.

Edwards taught at Laval University from 1968 to 1969 and in 1968 went on to work with the firm of Papineau Gerin-Lajoie Edwards, where he became a partner in 1969. In 1978 he founded Edwards Lam Associates and in 1980 Gordon Edwards Architects.

An architect who specialized in lighting systems, he worked on many projects including pavilions at Expo 67, new Chancellor Day Hall at McGill University, Mirabel International Airport, Canada Development Corporation in Toronto, and the Guy Favreau project in Montreal. He started teaching at McGill in 1968 as a Visiting Professor and was named as an adjunct professor for the core lighting design course in the School of Architecture in 1985. He was also a President of the Mount Royal Tennis Club in the 1980s. Gordon Edwards died in 2005.

Dr. John Baker Edwards was born on December 27, 1826, in Watford, Hertfordshire, England.

He was a chemist. He was educated at Stockwell Grammar School and in 1841, he apprenticed at the firm of Kendall of Stratford, the producers of botanicals. Then he pursued pharmaceutical studies in London. In 1846, he graduated and became a lecture assistant and general assistant in the Pharmaceutical Laboratory. In 1848, he entered the business as an operative chemist for the supply of chemicals for educational and analytical purposes to students and professors. In 1854, he was appointed lecturer on chemistry and toxicology at the Royal Infirmary School of Medicine, Liverpool. He founded Liverpool Chemists Association and became its first secretary and president. He was a member of the board of examiners of the Pharmaceutical Society. In 1866, he moved to Canada where he lectured on chemistry at McGill Normal School, at Bishop College Medical Faculty and he assisted with the foundation of the Montreal College of Pharmacy. He was also secretary of the Natural History Society. In 1876, he was appointed "Food Analyst" by the Dominion Government, a post he retained until his death in 1900. He was a life member of the British Association, Pharmaceutical Society, and Chemical Society of London. He also obtained a reputation as a decipher of handwriting which frequently brought him into the law courts as an expert witness.

He died on January 15, 1900, in Montreal, Quebec.