Born in Québec in 1929, France Gagnon Pratte studies architecture and arts history at Laval University after obtaining her arts and philosophy baccalaureate. Graduating in 1981, she's elected in 1985 to the presidency of the Québec Council of Monuments and Historical Sites, an organism devoted to the preservation and valorization of Québec's cultural heritage. In 1986, France Gagnon Pratte takes charge of les Editions Continuité, and the journal of the same name. In 1995, she creates the Fondation québecoise du patrimoine ( Québec's cultural heritage foundation).
France Gagnon Pratte is the author of many books, most notably Country House For Montrealers : the architecture of E. and W.S. Maxwell, and pronounced several lectures on architecture and cultural heritage. In 1994, she donated the material used to write this book to McGill University, in order to preserve a picture of a part of Canadian architecture which was, at that time, demolished or renovated in another taste.
A member of the Order of Canada since 1999, France Gagnon Pratte has been the Québec commissary for the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada, and is or was a member of the C.D. Howe Memorial Foundation, the Canadian Mediterranean Institute, the Canadiana fonds, the National Trust for Historic Preservation (United States), the Commission d'urbanisme et de conservation de la Ville de Québec. She also is Officière of the Ordre National du Québec since 2005.

Bernard Gagnon was born in 1953 and participated in the Quebec avant-garde electroacoustic music scene for two decades. As a young Montreal-based musician, he participated in a seminar on music theory, with Iannis Xenakis, and during a performance project met John Cage. Bernard formed MergélèpeGuorismogue and joined Atelier de musique expérimentale (AME), an organization created by Raymond Gervais, Michel Di Torre, Yves Bouliane, and Robert M. Lepage to promote improvised music in the 1970s in Montreal. Gagnon began experimenting with electronic sounds as a member of Kevin Austin’s MetaMusic and in the 1980s studied under Alcides Lanza, Mariano Etkin, and Paul Pedersen at McGill University, composing and recording his first electroacoustic pieces at the university’s Electronic Music Studio (EMS). In 1981, Gagnon was awarded both the CAPAC Hugh Le Caine Award and Radio-Canada’s Prix national de composition électroacoustique for works composed at McGill University. The compositions he recorded at EMS were released by Tenzier in 2012 on vinyl entitled: Bernard Gagnon: Musique Électronique (1975-1983). Gagnon’s composition “Gwendoline descendue!” was recently featured on the compilation album “Dream Into Dream” by Japan’s DJ Nobu and “GololoMashta” served as the soundtrack for a dance performance by Canadian choreographer Dana Gingras in 2013. Bernard Gagnon currently (2016) resides in Montreal.