Sir Frederick Haldimand was a military officer and governor who lived in colonial Quebec. He was born in Yverdon, Switzerland on 11 August 1718, the son of François-Louis Haldimand and Marie-Madeleine de Treytorrens. He joined the Prussian Army in 1740 and gained his early experience in Prussia and Holland. He joined the British army in 1756 and served in the Seven Years' War in North America. In 1762, after the conclusion of the war, he received a posting as the military governor of Trois-Rivières. From 1765 to 1773, he served as brigadier general in charge of East and West Florida. He then took a posting in New York, first as acting commander-in-chief of North America, and then as a second in command. In 1777, Haldimand was named governor of Quebec, a position he held from 1778 to 1784, throughout the American Revolutionary War. His main concerns during his office were suppressing dissent within Quebec and increasing the province's military defenses against the threat of American invasion. He also played a significant role in the relocation of American loyalists to Upper Canada, as well as in the creation of the 1784 Haldimand Treaty. This treaty granted land to the Haudenosaunee who served the British during the American Revolutionary War, relocating them from New York to what is now the Six Nations Reserve, in what was then the territory of the Mississaugas. In 1784, Haldimand returned to England, settling in London, but frequently returning home for visits. He died in Switzerland on 5 June 1791.

Horatio Emmons Hale was born on May 3, 1817, in Newport, New Hampshire.

He was an American-Canadian ethnologist, philologist, and businessman. Entering Harvard College in 1833, Hale showed a striking ability for languages. In 1834, he published his remarkable first original work consisting of an Algonkin vocabulary, which he gathered from Indians camping on the college grounds. From 1838 to 1842, he worked with the U.S. Exploring Expedition under Capt. Charles Wilkes of U.S. Navy, visiting South America, Australasia, Polynesia, and North-western America. He received his M.A. degree from Harvard, then studied law, and was admitted to the Chicago bar in 1855. In 1856, after a marriage to a Canadian, he moved to Clinton, Ontario, and began to get involved in local real estate development and other business and educational endeavours. He devoted much attention to the development of the Ontario school system and was influential in introducing co-education of the sexes in high schools and colleges, in increasing the grants to these institutions, in establishing the normal school system, and in improving the methods of examination. He discovered two Indian manuscripts, dating between 1714 and 1735; the only known literary American Indian work extant. In 1883, he published “The Iroquois Book of Rites”, which included his translated and edited versions of these papers. Hale’s judicious introductions, careful translation, and editing add much to the value of the work. He was also the first to identify the Cherokee language as a member of the Iroquoian family of languages. In 1872, he was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society. He reorganized the section of anthropology as an independent department of the American and also British Association for the Advancement of Science. Hale was an honorary fellow of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain.

In 1854, he married Margaret Pugh (1834–1900). He died on December 28, 1896, in Clinton, Ontario.

Robert Grant Haliburton was born on June 3, 1831, in Windsor, Nova Scotia.

He was a Canadian lawyer and anthropologist. He graduated from the University of King's College and was part of the local volunteer militia where he rose to the rank of Lieutenant-colonel. He was a lawyer, called to the bar in 1853. He established a practice in Halifax and shortly after became interpreter and translator of German and French in the Vice-Admiralty Court. In 1868, he became famous after founding the Canada First organization that saw English Canadian society as the "heirs of Aryan northmen" and the French Canadian and Métis cultures as a "bar to progress." In 1876, he was elected a Queen's Counsel and appointed to the council of the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society. He spent some time in Ottawa in the late 1860s and resided in England from 1871 to 1876. In 1877, he set up practice in Ottawa, but ill health forced him to abandon it in 1881 and spend his winters in warm climates. He lived for a considerable time in Jamaica, where he successfully promoted a remedial act to improve the poor-relief system, a measure that was eventually adopted by the other British West Indian colonies. During his later years, Haliburton primarily pursued scientific and anthropological interests.

He died on March 6, 1901, in Pass Christian, Mississippi.