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Mezzo-soprano Sarah Fischer was born in Paris of a Polish Family and came to Montréal at the age of twelve or thirteen. Here she began vocal training, and in 1917 won the Strathcona Scholarship, enabling her to study at the Royal College of Music in London for three years. Between the wars she pursued a successful operatic and concert career. In 1940 she inaugurated the Sarah Fischer Concerts for young performers.

Jean-Baptiste Romuald Fiset was born on February 7, 1843, in Saint-Cuthbert, Lanaudiere Region, Quebec.

He was a Canadian physician and politician. He studied medicine at the Collège de Montréal and the Université Laval and opened his practice in Rimouski. In 1872, he was elected to the House of
Commons as a Liberal candidate and got re-elected again in 1874, 1878 and 1887. In 1897, he was appointed Senator for the Division of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, Quebec, a post he held until his death.

In 1869, he married Marie Florrine Aimée Plamondon (1848–1905). In 1911, he married Emilina Loranger (1856-1916). He died on January 5, 1917, in Rimouski, Quebec.