Richard George McConnell was born on March 26, 1857, in Chatham, Canada East (now Quebec).

He was a geologist, explorer, and civil servant. He studied at McGill University and joined the Geological Survey of Canada in 1879. For some 30 years, he studied geological phenomena in Canada, particularly in the west and northwest. In 1882, he assisted George Mercer Dawson in exploring the southern Alberta Rockies as well as the Waterton Lakes region, St. Mary River, and Cypress Hills. He explored a large portion of northern BC, the Mackenzie Valley, and the Yukon Territory. In 1889-1890, he conducted an extensive study of the Athabasca tar sands of northeastern Alberta and explored the Peace-Athabasca region. In 1914, he became federal Deputy Minister of Mines, retiring in 1921. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1913.

In 1898, he married Jean (Jeannie) Jessica Turner Botterell (1870–1939). He died on April 1, 1842, in Ottawa, Ontario.

John Wilson McConnell was born in Muskoka, Ontario 01 July 1877 to John McConnell and Margaret Anne (née Wilson) McConnell, both immigrants to Canada of Ulster-Scots origin. McConnell spent his childhood and early teenage years helping on the family farm until around 1891; at which point he moved to Toronto to join an older sister already living in that growing city. The remainder of McConnell’s siblings and his parents soon followed to Toronto around 1894. John Wilson McConnell died November 6, 1963 after a lengthy battle with leukaemia.

J.B. Mcconnell was a physician, surgeon, and accoucheur, and a lecturer in physical diagnosis at the Medical Faculty of Bishop College, Quebec.

The family of Olaf and Virginia "Poppy" McClure lived at 461 Lansdowne Ave., Westmount, QC, Canada in 1971-1994.

Nellie McClung, Jr., was born on March 21, 1929, in Edmonton, Alberta.

She was a Canadian journalist, editor, and poet. She graduated from the University of Alberta and began to work at the Edmonton Bulletin as a reporter in the Women's Department. She edited "Pomegranate: A Selected Anthology of Vancouver Poetry" (1975) and published the books of poetry, "Baraka: The Poems of Nellie McClung" (1978), "Salt Whistle Bay" (1998), “Tea with the Queen” (1980), "I Hate Wives!: Terse Verse" (2003), and "Come Dance With Me in Ireland: Selected Poems" (2011).

She died on February 13, 2009, in Vancouver, British Columbia.

James D. McClintock, born in Ormstown, Quebec, was a salesman when he enlisted with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Winnipeg in 1914. He was a lieutenant with the 27th Battalion when he was killed at Vimy Ridge in 1917.