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Dr. Kenneth Ormrod was born in Montreal in 1918 and moved to Trois-Rivieres as a child. He was a McGill University student who received a B.Sc. in 1940 and his M.D. in 1943. He interned at Royal Victoria Hospital and served in the RCAMC from 1942 to 1946. From 1945 to 1949 he was in general practice in Birmingham, Alabama. In 1949, he moved to Hartford, Connecticut, and began working at Aetna Life Underwriting and was appointed as Assistant Vice President and Associate Medical Director, Employee Health Services. He worked at Aetna Life for 34 years.

In the 1980s he lived in Avon, Connecticut.

Emanuel Orlick graduated from McGill University with an M.A. in 1941, and a Diploma in Physical Education in 1942. He worked as an Assistant Physical Director in 1941, and Assistant Professor of Physical Education between 1945 and 1950. Then he pursued his career as sports hypnotherapist. He was author of several articles.

Elizabeth Caroline Orkney was born on September 18, 1820, in Montreal, Quebec.

She was a generous benefactor of the Montreal General Hospital, the Verdun Asylum, the Boys' Home, and other Montreal charitable institutions. She was one of the founders of the Art Association of Montreal in 1860. In 1877, her uncle Benaiah Gibb (1798-1977) of Gibb & Co. Ltd. not only donated the core of his art collection, but he also bequeathed a building site on the northeast corner of Phillips Square in downtown Montreal, as well as the sum of $8000.

She died on June 17, 1906, in Montreal, Quebec.

Born in Barbezieux, France, in 1733, Jean Orillat arrived in Canada at a young age and soon became interested in trade. He was involved in the fur trade in Michillimakinac (Mackinaw City, Michigan), stalled by the war, in 1761. In 1763, he obtained a significant investment from merchant Benjamin Comte to invest in trade at the La Baye post (Green Bay, Wisconsin), a partnership that lasted two years. From 1767 to 1771, Orillat worked with partners to bring hides and furs to the London market. In 1774, he founded a third company, trading in furs and selling goods to voyageurs, taking their fur shipments as security. The company was financially successful, reporting over 160,000 pounds in claims secured by deliveries of furs to England. Orillat maintained a shop in Montreal where he sold wholesale and retail trade goods and everyday items. He also lent money on bonds, bought debts, and purchased land. A wealthy merchant and trader, Orillat is known to have owned four black slaves valued at 1,900 pounds. He married his first wife, Marie-Amable Filiau, known as Dubois, in Montreal on September 21, 1761 and remarried Thérèse-Amable Viger on August 27, 1767.

Orillat died in Montreal in 1779, with his fortune passing to his daughter, Marie-Luce-Amable.