Charles Leblond was born in Lille, France in 1910. Educated at Free University of Lille he obtained Licencie es Sciences in 1932. In 1934 he achieved M.D. from University in Paris and one year later a D.Sc. from Sorbonne. In 1942 he was granted a PhD. from Universite de Montreal. Charles Leblond has been a Professor of Anatomy at McGill University since 1948. Prior to lecturing at McGill in 1941 and 1942, he was also a lecturer of Histology and Anatomy at universities in Lille and Paris (1934-1935). In 1943 he was appointed Associate Professor, and in 1946 he became Associate Professor of Anatomy. Between 1957 and 1974 he was Chairman of the Anatomy Department of McGill University. Leblond received many special honours such as Prix Saintour from the French Academy in 1935. Flavel medal from Royal Society of Canada in 1961, and the Prix Marie-Victorin de la Provence de Quebec in 1992. He was a Rockefeller Fellow from Yale University, Department of Histology (1935-1937), Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1951) and Royal Society of London (1965). An active member of professional associations, he received numerous special honours, and several honorary degrees. He is the author of “L'acide Ascorbique dans les Tissus et sa Détection” (1936), “Iodine Metabolisme” in “Advance in Biological and Medical Physics” (1948). He also published about 300 articles of original research work in biology and medicine.

Canadian architect and theatre designer born in Warsaw, Poland, 1917. He studied at the Regent Street Polytechnic (1939) in London and immigrated to Canada in 1949, where he became an associate professor of architecture at McGill until 1955. A talented theatre designer, he developed designs for many theatres, in addition to restoration projects in Old Montreal and residential designs. He was fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and an academician of the Royal Canadian Academy. He died in Kingston, Ontario, on 30 July 1985.

Joseph Bowles Learmont was born on May 15, 1839, in Montreal, Quebec.

He was a businessman, the head of the firm of Caverhill, Learmont & Co, wholesale hardware merchants, Montreal (est. 1854). As a very cultured man, he frequently lectured on literary and historical subjects. He was a collector of rare books and manuscripts, etchings, engravings, autograph letters, etc. He was an early member of the Numismatic and Antiques Society. He served on the Committee of Management of Montreal General Hospital and the Montreal Board of Trade. He was a governor of the Victorian Order of Nurses (Montreal Branch), director of Charity Organization Society, member of Executive committee of Lord’s Day Alliance, treasurer of Montreal Art Association, councillor, and treasurer of the Archaeological Institute of America. Learmont was the author of a paper on “Folk-lore” including Canadian folklore, and “The Canadian Indian.”

In 1873, he married Amelia Jane Holton (1849–1875) and in 1882, he remarried Charlotte Smithers (1847–1934). He died on March 12, 1914, in Montreal, Quebec.