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Born in 1900, Horace Noel Fieldhouse was a history professor at the University of Manitoba and McGill University. He was named as Kingsford Professor of History at McGill in 1945 and held a variety of academic administrative posts including chair of the History Department, 1947-1960, Dean of the Faculty of Science, 1948 1962 and Vice-Principal Academic, 1962-1966.

A Bostonian, Harold Files received his B.A. (1915), M.A. (1916) and Ph.D. (1923) from Harvard. In 1923 he joined the English Department at McGill, where he taught until his retirement in 1964. In the late 1940s he established a programme whereby candidates for the M.A. might submit a novel in place of a thesis. Files also served as head of the Humanities Group from 1946 to 1956, and chairman of the English Department from 1947 to 1952.

Raymond Filip (born Filipavicius) was born in 1950 in a displaced person camp in Lübeck, Germany, after World War II.

He is a Lithuanian-Canadian poet, writer, musician, and educator. He is the author of six collections of poetry and one collection of prose. His poetry centres on themes of domestic abuse, war trauma, and immigration. His work has been included in major anthologies: “Canadian Poets of the 80s” edited by Ken Norris (1983), “The New Canadian Poets 1970-1985” edited by Dennis Lee (1985), and “The Penguin Treasury of Canadian Popular Songs and Poems” edited by John Robert Colombo (2002). His work has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, and Lithuanian. In 2012, Filip released a DVD entitled "Rivers Applaud Forever," containing footage of his spoken word/broken music performances. He teaches in the English department at John Abbott College in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec.