McFarlane & Gibb were Montreal tailors. Founded in 1784 by Benaiah Gibb (1755-1826) and Peter McFarlane (1725-1811), McFarlane & Gibb specialized in ready-to-wear clothing for men, especially for wealthy merchants and other influential members of Montreal society. Gibb was born in England to a family of Scottish origins, trained as a tailor in England, and migrated to Quebec in 1774. He worked on his own for a time, but in 1784, he went into partnership with Peter McFarlane, who had also had his own business. They worked together until October 1790, when McFarlane retired. Gibb continued to run a business on his own, by the two men continued to have a friendship, and McFarlane lived with Gibb in his later years. Gibb retired in 1815, and his sons took over the business.

David William McFadden was born on October 11, 1940, in Hamilton, Ontario.

He was a Canadian poet, novelist, and travel writer. He did not go to university but joined the Hamilton Spectator as a proofreader in the 1960s, working his way to a reporter. Following the publication of his first six poetry collections and the experimental novel “The Great Canadian Sonnet” (1974), McFadden left the Hamilton Spectator in 1976 to begin freelance editing and writing. In the 1980s, he published prolifically, including the Writer’s Block column in the Quill and Quire. He served as contributing editor for SwiftCurrent, Canadian Art, Quill and Quire and Hamilton This Month. He became writer-in-residence at Simon Fraser University in 1978 and instructor in the writing program of David Thompson University Centre in Nelson, B.C., from 1979 to 1982. He wrote poems that balanced an account of the daily life of ordinary people with a larger, metaphysical vision influenced by British Romantic poets like William Blake, William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley and 19th-century American poet Walt Whitman. McFadden wrote more than 20 books of poetry, three novels and several travel books. In 2013, he won the prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize for the collection of poems "What’s the Score?". In 2014, he published a short memoir in Toronto Life about being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.

He was married to Merlin Homer. He died on June 6, 2018, in Toronto, Ontario.

Allan G. McEwan, a midshipman in the Royal Navy, served on the battle cruiser H.M.S. Invincible in the waters off the Falkland Islands when she came under German fire at the time of the Battle of the Falkland Islands on December 8, 1914.

Dr. Charles McCallum McEachran was born on May 28, 1864, in Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland.

He was a Doctor of Veterinary Surgery. His brother Duncan McEachran opened the first Montreal Veterinary College in 1866. In 1887, Charles McEachran formed Quebec’s first-ever partnership of practicing veterinarians McEachran, Baker & McEachran.

In 1891, he married Margaret Macfie Allan. He died on October 28, 1919, in Montreal, Canada.