Vincent Jolivet was born in Shawinigan, and graduated in Mechanical Engineering from McGill in 1952. After obtaining his M.B.A., 1954 and Doctorate in Finance, 1957 from Harvard, he was appointed assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Washington. In 1966 he left to become Vice President of Rocket Research Corporation, and since 1972 he has worked as a freelance business, financial and economic consultant in Seattle.

Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière was the fourth Premier of Quebec (1878-1879) and the seventh Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (1900-1906). He was involved in the creation of Canada's oldest conservation organization - the Canadian Forestry Association - in 1900.

Alfred Gilpin Jones was born on September 28, 1824, in Weymouth, Nova Scotia.

He was a businessman, politician, and officeholder. He was educated at Weymouth and Yarmouth Academy before moving to Halifax at the age of 18. He began work as a bookkeeper for Thomas Clifford Kinnear, West India merchant, and shipowner, and was made partner as early as 1850. When Kinnear retired in 1872, Jones established his own firm, A.G. Jones and Company, in the same line of business, which he presided over until 1900. He became involved in politics and provided financial and moral support to the Anti-Confederation League prior to his election to the House of Commons as MP for Halifax (1867-1872, 1874-1878, 1887-1891). After 1872, he ran for election as a Liberal. Jones also served as Minister of Militia and Defence (1878) and 8th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (1900-1906). He sat on the boards of Dalhousie University and Halifax Protestant Orphans' Home, served as president of Nova Scotia Marine Insurance Co. and director of Acadia Fire Insurance Co., and was lieutenant-colonel of the Halifax Volunteer Battalion before organizing the Halifax Volunteer Artillery Brigade in 1864.

In 1850, he married Margaret Wiseman Stairs (1825–1875) and in 1877, he remarried Emma Susan Albro (1843–). He died on March 15, 1906, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Dr. Barbara Althea Jones was born in the late 1930s in Barataria, Trinidad and died in Montreal in 1969. She described herself as “a geneticist by vocation, a poet by avocation.” Jones graduated with a B.Sc. in agricultural botany from Imperial College of the University of the West Indies, the first woman to graduate from that institution. She went to Cornell University on a Trinidad Government Scholarship, receiving her M.A. (1962) and Ph.D. (1965) in plant breeding and genetics, becoming the first woman in the West Indies to earn a doctorate. Jones came to Canada in 1966 to do postdoctoral research at Macdonald College. From 1966 to 1968, she taught genetics and biology at Marianopolis College, Sir George Williams University, and McGill University. In 1968, Jones was appointed Assistant Professor of Genetics at McGill. At the time of her death, Jones had published two volumes of poetry and had several others in press or in the planning stages. One of these volumes is titled Among the Potatoes, a wide-ranging collection that touches on many topics, including her life as a student, love, home, mental health, and race. She also published in literary journals and gave frequent talks and readings, in person and on radio and television. Her poetry and other writings revolved around the theme of Black experiences, she wrote in the McGill Reporter in 1968 that her goals were oriented "towards a new Black man, towards the full realization of man's consciousness and potential, and towards a new humanism." In an archived letter, she also asked colleagues to donate scientific books “for universities of developing countries where for some reason it is difficult to obtain texts.”