James Russel Mallory was born in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, in 1916. He was educated at the University of New Brunswick, graduated with a B.A. with Honours in 1937 and an LL.D. in 1968. In 1940 he was awarded an LL.B. from the University of Edinburgh, in 1941 an M.A. from Dalhousie University and in 1978 an LL.D. from Queen’s University. In 1987 James Mallory was awarded an LL.D. from University of Western Ontario and the same year his D.C.L. from Bishop's University. He was Professor of Political Science at McGill from 1959 to 1977. Between 1959 and 1969 he served as Chairman of Department of Economics and Political Science at McGill University. In 1982 he was appointed Emeritus Professor of Political Science and remained in this position until his retirement in 1990. Between 1977 and 1982 James Mallory received several fellowships, was Visiting Professor, Lecturer and Fellow at universities in Canada, Europe and Australia. A prolific writer on Canadian political traditions and structures, and he was an important contributor to the development of social sciences in Canada.

Born in Perth, Ontario, William Bell Malloch was a medical doctor employed by the Hudson's Bay Company from 1869 to 1878. Although stationed at Moose Factory he made trips to other posts whenever his medical expertise was required. Malloch received his M.D.,C.M. from McGill in 1867.

Dr. Archibald Edward Malloch was born on June 14, 1844, in Brockville, Ontario.

Educated at Queens’ University in Kingston, Ontario and at the University of Glasgow in Scotland (1867), where he served as a house surgeon for Dr. Joseph Lister, a founder of the antiseptic system of the treatment of wounds in surgery. Malloch became a firm believer in the method and, after his return to Canada in 1869, was likely the first in the country to use it in its fully developed form. He opened a private practice in Hamilton, Ontario. In 1870, he joined the Faculty of Medicine, Toronto Branch, University of Victoria College in the capacity of demonstrator of anatomy and lecturer on surgical anatomy. He later resumed his practice in Hamilton while also working at the Hamilton City Hospital where he met the resident physician William Osler and formed an enduring friendship with him.

In 1872, he married Helen Milne Ogston. After her death, he married Frances Mary Reynolds in 1877 and in 1892, he married Alice Barbara McNab. He died on August 6, 1919, in Hamilton, Ontario.

Originally from Ontario, the Malloch family, Archibald Edward Malloch, 1844-1919 and his son Thomas Archibald Malloch, 1887-1953, were closely associated with Sir William Osler. The father, Archibald Edward Malloch, took his training at the University of Glasgow, studying under Joseph Lister who chose him as his house-surgeon in 1868. Malloch practiced mainly in Hamilton, Ontario and helped introduce Lister's antiseptic principles to North America. His son, Thomas Archibald Malloch, received his M.D., C.M. from McGill University in 1913 and served during World War I. He was a Demonstrator in Medicine at McGill University, 1923-1925. From 1926 until shortly before his death he was Librarian of the New York Academy of Medicine. He wrote several books, including William Harvey, in 1929. Thomas Archibald Malloch was a close friend of Sir William Osler and Lady Osler.

Anna Jean Mallinson was born on June 13, 1926, in Vancouver, British Columbia.

She is a Canadian poet, writer, literary critic, and educator. She attended the University of British Columbia, the University of Toronto (M.A. in English), and Simon Frasier University. She taught English as a second language at a community college in Vancouver. Mallinson is the author of a collection of short stories "I Will Bring You Berries" (1987), a collection of poems "Between Cup & Lip" ( 2003) and the book "Margaret Atwood and Her Works" (1985). Her memoir "Terra Infirma: A Life Unbalanced” (2007) provides a personal account of her experience with a toxic reaction to the antibiotic Gentamicin, which destroyed the hair follicles in her inner ear, eliminating her body's equilibrium.

Mallinson lives in West Vancouver and contributes essays to The Vocabula Review, e.g. "Gramarye: The Glamour of Grammar" (2015).