Carl Reinhardt was born in Montreal, in July 1876. He graduated from McGill University in the early 1900s with a degree in mining engineering. He moved to Ontario and worked as a civil and mining engineer in Cobalt, and Perth. He died in Perth in 1962.

Robert Jared Bliss Howard was born in 1859, in Montreal, Quebec, the only son of Dr. Robert Palmer Howard (1823-1889), Dean of the Faculty and Professor of Medicine, McGill University.

He was a physician. He studied at McGill University (B.A., 1879) where he won Osler's prize for excellence in the primary examination in 1881 and graduated with the Holmes Gold Medal in 1882 (M.D.). He furthered his studies at London Hospital, in Berlin, Vienna, and Leipzig. In 1883, he was Demonstrator of Anatomy and Surgery at McGill University, Assistant Surgeon and Pathologist at Montreal Hospital, and Surgeon to the Dispensary. During the South African War (1899-1902), he worked at the Guards' Hospital, Rochester Row, London. Later he practised in London as a laryngologist. During World War I (1914-1918), he organized and supervised the Mount Royal Hospital for Officers at Bath, and also worked at the 3rd London General Hospital, Wandsworth, for which he was awarded the Officer of the Order of the British Empire. He became a Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons in 1884.

In 1888, he married Margaret Charlotte Smith (2nd Baroness Strathcona and Mount Royal) (1854–1926). He died on January 9, 1921, in London, England.

Henry Marion Howe was born on March 2, 1848, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.

He was an American metallurgist, educator, and author. He graduated from the Boston Latin School in 1865 and from Harvard College in 1869. In 1871, he graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.Sc.). He worked in the iron and then the copper industries in the U.S., Chile, Quebec, New Jersey, and Arizona from 1872 to 1882. From 1883 to 1897, he was a consulting metallurgist in Boston, and simultaneously a lecturer at M.I.T. In 1897, he became a chair in metallurgy at Columbia University. He wrote the books "Copper Smelting" (1885), "The Metallurgy of Steel" (1891), "Iron, Steel, and Other Alloys" (1903), "The Metallography of Steel and Cast Iron" (1916), and the "Iron and Steel" article for the Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed. (1911). He received the Bessemer Gold Medal of the Iron and Steel Institute (1895), Elliott Cresson Medal of the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia (1895), and John Fritz Gold Medal of the American Association of Engineering Societies (1917). Howe was elected president of the American Institute of Mining Engineers in 1893, and chairman of the American Society for Testing Materials in 1900. He became a member of the National Research Council in 1918 and its chairman in 1919.

He married Fannie Gay (1851-1926). He died on May 14, 1922, in Bedford Hills, Westchester, New York.

Joseph Howe was born on December 13, 1804, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

He was a Nova Scotian journalist, politician, public servant, and poet. He attended the Royal Acadian School before beginning an apprenticeship at his father's printing shop. In 1828, he went into the printing business himself with the purchase of the Novascotian, a Halifax newspaper, soon making it into a popular and influential newspaper. He reported extensively on debates in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly and travelled to every part of the province writing about its geography and people. In 1836, he was elected to the assembly as a liberal reformer, beginning a long and eventful public career. He was instrumental in helping Nova Scotia become the first British colony to win responsible government in 1848. In 1854, as the head of a bi-partisan railway commission, he was successful in completing lines from Halifax to Windsor. He served as premier of Nova Scotia from 1860 to 1863 and led the unsuccessful fight against Canadian Confederation from 1866 to 1868. Howe became the 3rd Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia in 1873. During his life, he wrote and published some poems related to his appreciation of Nova Scotia and its history. In 1874, a year after his death, his family published a book of his poetry “Poems and Essays”.

In 1828, he married Catherine Susan Ann McNab (1807–1890). He died on June 1, 1873, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Edwin Eugene Howell was born on March 12, 1845, in Genesee Township, near Rochester, New York.

He was an American geologist, cartographer, and pioneer of the commercial relief model in the United States. He studied at the University of Rochester and became a geologist of the U.S. Geological Survey in surveys west of the Rocky Mountains (1872-1874). Howell's relief models earned an international reputation for impeccable technique, geographic accuracy, sound construction, and overall artistry. In 1875, he created the first commercial relief model of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado (one copy hangs in Science Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison). He worked for the Smithsonian Institution, universities, natural history museums, and several presidential commissions, and was also an early authority on meteorites. Howell was one of the founders of the Geological Society of America in 1888. In his later years, he devoted his time to the manufacture of geological models and maps first in the Rochester Museum and then in his own company in Washington, D.C., called The Microcosm.

In 1884, he married Marie Huntington Williams (1853-1893). He died on April 16, 1911, in Washington, D.C.

Francis Lamb Howland was born on December 13, 1842, in Whitby, Durham, Ontario.

He was a physician and civil servant. He graduated from McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine with honours in 1867. He practised for a short time in Woodstock, Ontario, and in 1875, he moved to a small community in Huntsville to become the village’s first doctor. Shortly after his arrival, he founded a newspaper named The Liberal. As its editor, he exercised considerable influence in local politics and was successful in petitioning for the extension of the Muskoka Road north of Huntsville. His most important effort for the future growth and development of Huntsville was in persuading the Grand Trunk Railway to route the railway through Huntsville. He served as reeve in 1889, 1890, 1893, 1895, and 1896 and as mayor of Huntsville in 1904.

In 1870, he married Jennie Huggart (1851-1916). He died on November 8, 1916, in Huntsville, Muskoka, Ontario.

Albert Romain Lewis was born abt 1846 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

He was a lawyer, a member of the Ontario bar. In 1862, he enlisted in the army and served during the Civil War until 1865. In 1869, he graduated from McGill University (B.A.) where he was a classmate of B.J. Harrington (1848-1907). In 1885, he served as one of the corporate executives of the Dominion Coal Company. In 1889, he became Queens Counsel.

In 1874, he married Jane Nelson Robertson. He died on December 19, 1928, in York, Ontario.