Douglas Gordon Jones or "D. G." was born on January 1, 1929, in Bancroft, Ontario.

He was a Canadian poet, literary critic, translator, and educator. He attended McGill University (B.A., 1952) and Queen's University (M.A., 1954). He taught English literature at the Royal Military College, Kingston (1954-1955), Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph (1955-1961), Bishop's University (1961-1963) and the University of Sherbrooke (1963-1994). In 1969, Jones co-founded Ellipse: Writers in translation, the only Canadian bilingual literary magazine in which English and French poetry were reciprocally translated. His collection "Under the Thunder the Flowers Light Up the Earth" (1977) received the 1978 Governor General's Award for Poetry. His translation of Normand de Bellefeuille's “Categorics: One, Two and Three” received the 1993 Governor General's Award for Translation. His key work of Canadian literary criticism is “Butterfly on Rock: A Study of Themes and Images in Canadian Literature” (1970). Jones was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2008. In 2014, he donated his personal library of Canadian poetry to the Anne-Hébert Centre at the Service des bibliothèques et archives de l'Université de Sherbrooke.

He died on March 6, 2016, in North Hatley, Quebec.

Major-General Guy Carleton Jones was born on December 28, 1864, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

He was the 4th Canadian Surgeon General. He was educated at the Halifax Medical College and King’s College London. He began his military career in 1896 when he joined the Canadian Militia as Surgeon-Lieutenant in the 1st Halifax Regiment, Canadian Artillery. In 1898, he was transferred to command the first bearer company formed in Canada. During the Boer War, Jones served as second-in-command of the 10th Canadian Field Hospital; and afterwards he became Principal Medical Officer for the Maritime Provinces in the Permanent Force. In 1906, he was appointed the head of the Canadian Army Medical Corps (CAMC) as Director General Medical Services (DGMS) and was reappointed to a second term in 1911. At the beginning of World War I, while still serving as DGMS, Jones was sent overseas as the Assistant Director of Medical Services. When Canada sent a second division, Jones was appointed Director of Medical Services (Canadians) in February 1915, overseeing medical matters for the Canadian overseas forces from headquarters in London, England. Major-General Jones retired from the CAMC in 1920 and left Canada. He was detained by enemy forces in 1941 in Italy, where he had retired with his second wife. He was an honorary Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

In 1889, he married Susan Morrow (1865–1926), and in 1928, he remarried Ginevra Pia Bianca Maria (1891–1942). He died on October 23, 1950, in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Hugh Griffith Jones (1872-1947) was born in Randolph, Wisconsin. He studied architecture at the University of Wisconsin and with G.E. Bertrand of Minneapolis and at the University of Minnesota. He practiced architecture in Chicago and later in New York and in 1908 moved to Montreal and assumed the post of assistant chief architect for the Canadian Pacific Railway Company for which he designed a number of railway hotels and stations.

The Montreal Windsor Station extension was his first important commission in Canada. During the 1920s Jones worked on the Montreal Terminal development, as well as on the design for Union Station in Toronto. His outstanding achievement was a redevelopment plan for the downtown core of Montréal on property owned by the Canadian National Railways; the plan occupied his interest 1923-32 but was thwarted by the world financial slump.

While the majority of Jones' work involved railway companies and stations, he also designed churches and public buildings in Montreal, Dominion-Douglas United Church, Roslyn Avenue, Westmount, 1925- 27 being one of them.

Besides enjoying a successful private practice, Jones received wide recognition for his watercolours and oils, examples of which are in the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal.

John Matthew Jones was born on October 7, 1828, in Montgomery, Montgomeryshire, Wales.

He was a naturalist. About 1854, he moved to America. In 1859, he became a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London. He lived in Bermuda and Nova Scotia where he studied its vegetation and fish. He was the author of numerous articles and publications, e.g., "The Naturalist in Bermuda: A Sketch of the Geology, Zoology, and Botany of That Remarkable Group of Islands, Together with Meteorological Observations" (1859), "Contributions to the Natural History of Nova Scotia" (1870), "On the Vegetation of the Bermudas" (1874), "The Visitor's Guide to Bermuda with a Sketch of Its Natural History" (1876?), and "List of the Fishes of Nova Scotia" (1879).

In 1860, he married Mary Barr Myers (1841–1935). He died on October 7, 1888, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Herbert Kelsey Jones was born on June 17, 1922, in South Norwalk, Connecticut, and died on October 10, 2004, in Montreal. He moved to New Brunswick in 1939 to study with Harold Hamer at the Mount Allison Conservatory. In 1942, Jones lived in Boston during the Second World War and was employed in an optics factory at Harvard University. That same year, he married pianist Rosabelle Smith. In 1945, he received a bachelor's degree in music from Mount Allison University, and in 1947, another bachelor’s degree in music from the University of Toronto, under the tutelage of Sir Ernest MacMillan. From 1948 to 1949, Jones taught music theory and conducted the student orchestra at Mount Allison University. From 1949 to 1950, he studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, France. Throughout the 1950s, he performed and toured with his wife Rosabelle, as duo pianists. In 1950, he founded the Saint John Symphony Orchestra in St. John’s, and conducted here for five years. In 1954, Jones moved to Montreal to teach as a part-time instructor at McGill University. From 1954 to 1984, he taught history, harpsichord, piano, theory and counterpoint (modal, tonal, fugue, canon, etc.) at McGill. Jones co-founded the Baroque Trio of Montreal in 1957, which recorded his Sonata da Camera and Sonata da Chiesa. In 1963, he was commissioned by the Tudor Singers to compose Prophecy of Micah, and in 1965, was commissioned by the Canadian Broadcasting Company to write a chamber opera for their contribution to the Canadian Centennial Celebration. In 1967, Jones’ comic chamber opera Sam Slick, with libretto by Rosabelle Jones, premiered in Halifax for a CBC broadcast performance. Four years later, the Jones’ moved to Cook’s Lines, a municipal of Hinchinbrooke (south of Huntingdon, Quebec) on the Canadian/US border. In 1984, Jones retired and was named Professor Emeritus of McGill University and set up a winter home in Florida in 1984.