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James McGowing inquired about purchasing land in Hinchinbrooke, Quebec, from the Hall family.

Archibald McGoun, B.A., B.C.L., was born on December 15, 1853, in Montreal, Quebec.

He was a lawyer, accountant, educator, and author. In 1890, he was hired to the second chair as Professor of Legal Bibliography, Librarian, and Faculty of Law Secretary at McGill University. In addition to these duties, performed until his retirement in 1920, he continued his legal practice, first with F. L. Béique and then with his own firm McGoun & England. In 1905, he was created K.C. in Quebec. He was the author of several books and speeches, e.g., "Federation of the Empire: An Address Before the University Literary Society" (1884) and "A Federal Parliament of the British People" (1890). McGoun was an avid snowshoer and Scottish dancer.

In 1887, he married Abigail MacKay (1862–). He died on June 5, 1921, in Montreal, Quebec.

R. McGinnis was a legal professional who worked in Montreal in 1819.

McGillivrays, Thain and Company was formed in 1822 by Thomas Thain, a fur trader and former president of the New North West Company. He managed the company from 1822 to 1825. The company served as a business agent for the Hudson's Bay Company. It encountered serious financial difficulties and was dissolved in 1825.

William McGillivray was born in Dunlichty, Scotland, in 1764 and died in 1825. He was the eldest son of Donald McGillivray and Anne McTavish, daughter of John McTavish of Garthberg and sister to fur trader Simon McTavish. McGillivray moved to Montreal in 1784 to work for the North West Company under his uncle Simon McTavish, after Simon McTavish financed McGillivray’s secondary schooling. In the 1790s, he married Susan, a Cree or Metis woman born near Flin Flon on the Manitoba-Saskatchewan border, “a la façon du pays,” and had one daughter and three sons together. He later married Magdalen McDonald in 1800, daughter of Captain John McDonald of Garth, and had one son and five daughters, four of whom died in infancy. McGillivray was a commissioner and was made partner in McTavish, Frobisher and Company in 1793 and was appointed Justice of the Peace for the “Indian Territories” (now known as south of the Great Lakes between the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers) and for the Province of Quebec, the district of Montreal, and Trois-Rivières. McGillivray was held responsible and arrested for the massacre of Seven Oaks, where the rivalry between the North West Company and the Hudson’s Bay Company left twenty settlers killed. McGillivray was then released on bail in Montreal. He wrote accounts of his travels, and specifically, his interactions with Indigenous peoples in his journal.