Archibald Chaussegros de Léry Macdonald, was the son of Antoine-Eustache Lefebvre de Bellefeuille MacDonald and Marie-Louise de Lotbinière Harwood. He was born in Montreal on 28 June 1862. A Montreal lawyer, business, historian, and collector, he became well known for his historical and genealogical publications. He received a classical education at the Collège Sainte-Marie before studying law at the Université Laval de Montréal. He married Marie-Louise-Dumontine-Augusta Globensky on 24 September 1884. The couple had five children. Macdonald was for some years the law partner of W. D. Lighthall. He acquired the rights to the Seigneurie of Rigaud in 1897. He also served as mayor of Rigaud from 1901 to 1904, and from 1910 et 1913. He died 21 May 1939 at the Hôpital Notre-Dame de Montréal.

Alexander MacDonald was born on October 29, 1863, in Mongenais, Québec. His interest in medicine developed during a recovery from tetanus. He graduated from McGill with a degree in Medicine in 1889. He practiced all his life in Vankleek Hill, Ontario, where he purchased a building and turned it into a hospital. He also donated his time as a physician to nuns and clerics at a local convent. He died on March 1, 1952.

Mr. and Mrs. I. Macdiarmid lived in Ottawa, Ontario in 1978.

Terence MacDermot was born in Jamaica in 1896 and grew up in Montreal. He attended McGill University from 1913 to 1916, where he became editor of the McGill Daily. He was granted a B.A. in 1917, while serving overseas in the 7th Canadian Siege Battery. A Rhodes scholar, he obtained his M.A. from Oxford University in 1922. In 1923, after working for a year at Hotchkiss School, Connecticut, MacDermot returned to Montreal and taught at both, Lower Canada College and at McGill’s History Department. Between 1925 and 1930 he was editor of the McGill News. McGill promoted him to the level of Assistant Professor in 1929, and he remained there until 1934, when he left to serve as national secretary of the League of Nations Society in Canada. The following year Upper Canada College appointed him as its Principal. During the Second World War, he worked first for the War Service Department and then as a Chief Army Examiner for the Toronto district. In 1944, he joined the Department of External Affairs, receiving appointments as High Commissioner to South Africa in 1950-1954, Ambassador to Greece and Israel in 1954-1957, and High Commissioner to Australia in 1957-1961. He then became Professor of Political Science at Bishop’s University. MacDermot received an honorary LL.D. degree from McGill in 1957. He had a life-long interest in the life and works of British writer D.H. Lawrence. He died in 1966.