Dr. Walter Franklin Atlee was born on October 12, 1828, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

He pursued a career in medicine and completed his undergraduate studies at St. Paul's College of Yale University in 1846. In 1850, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a medical degree. Afterward, he went to France, where he met and married Louise Caussade in 1856. Dr. Atlee worked in Paris and several other cities for six years before returning to Philadelphia, where he practiced medicine for half a century. He was a frequent contributor to Hay's American Journal of the Medical Sciences and translated the book “Bernard and Robin on the Blood” (1854). He also edited Nelatin's Clinical Surgery.

He died on August 18, 1910, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Lewis A. Atkinson was one of the managers of the Medical Department of the University of the City of New York in the late 1800s.

John Thomas Atkinson, Esq., was from Selby, Yorkshire. He was elected a member of the Geological Society of London in 1876.

German scholar of Latin poetry and literature.

Wallace G. Atkinson was a landscape architect.

William Henry Atherton was born on November 15, 1867, in Salford, Lancashire, England.

He was a British-born Canadian writer, historian, academic, and scholar. He was educated at Stonyhurst College, a Roman Catholic school. Upon completing his degree in philosophy and theology, he began his career as a teacher in classics at Stonyhurst College and Beaumont College in Berkshire. In 1907, Atherton emigrated to Calgary, Alberta, Canada, to follow his elderly parents. For one year, he taught at a school in Alberta. In 1908, he relocated to Quebec, where he became a faculty member at Loyola College, an anglophone Jesuit college and Collège Notre-Dame du Sacré-Cœur from 1908 until 1918. In 1918, he became a professor of English literature at the Laval University of Quebec - Montreal annex, which became the University of Montreal, where he remained a faculty member until his retirement in 1948. He also taught at the Marguerite Bourgeoys College. For over twenty years, he served on the examining board for Latin and letters for medical students at McGill University, Laval University, and the Université de Montréal. He was an active member of Montreal's literary community, writing fifty books. He wrote the books “Montreal, 1535-1914” (3 vols., 1914), “Old Montreal in the early days of British Canada, 1778-1788” (1925) and “History of the harbour front of Montréal since its discovery by Jacques Cartier in 1535” (1935). He also edited the four-volume work, “The Storied Province of Quebec” (1931-32) and was responsible for writing the volume on Montreal. Atherton was the first in Canada to give broadcast conferences on literature, history, and social reforms, aired on CFCF, a Montreal radio station from 1945. He was a historian of the British Empire Society, the Canadian Catholic Historical Society, and the Catholic Historical Society of Montreal. Rue Atherton was named in his honour by the City of Montreal in 1955. The Williams H. Atherton Award for Excellence in History is presented on an annual basis at Loyola College.

He died unmarried on July 6, 1950, in Montreal, Quebec.

In 1987, the city of Toronto proposed creating a new community of 14,000 called Ataratiri in the West Don Lands area to solve its pressing subsidized housing crisis.

There have been significant and ongoing consultation activities conducted in relation to the Lower Don River and its environs in Toronto, Ontario. In 1991, an Ataratiri Neighbourhood Advisory Council (NAC) was established that included a variety of public interests related to the area of West Don Lands. The role of NAC was to provide advice to City staff. An NAC environmental sub-committee was also created that examined flood risk issues. The Ataratiri project was to have consisted of a mix of subsidized and market-priced housing, like the development of the St. Lawrence neighbourhood further west. The name for the project was taken from the Wyandot word for "supported by clay" in reference to the clay soil of the area. After investing a considerable amount of money in purchasing and clearing the site, the project eventually failed to attract private investors. The industrial history meant the soil was highly polluted and needed expensive cleanup before any residents could live there. The risk of flooding from the Don River also required a flood barrier to be erected. By 1992, the city and province had already invested some $350 million, and new estimates put the final cost at more than a billion dollars more. The real estate market had also collapsed, making any private investment unlikely. The new Ontario government of Bob Rae thus decided to cancel the project in 1992.

Association/Le Vieux-Port was created by the federal government in 1978 as a community organization with the mandate to represent the citizens of Montreal in the planning process of the Old Montreal Port. In 1978-1979, the Association carried out a vast public consultation program to find out how the citizens of Montreal wanted their waterfront redeveloped. In 1979, it published a document "Une stratégie de réaménagement pour Le Vieux-Port de Montréal : un programme réalisable."