Member's only lodge and ski club founded in 1923 in Prévost, Quebec, became the Shawbridge Club in 1927. Jackrabbit Johannsen was a founding member.

Jean Margaret Laurence, née Wemyss, was born on July 18, 1926, in Neepawa, Manitoba, Canada.

She was a Canadian novelist and short-story writer. Having decided as a child on a career as a writer, she contributed to school and college magazines, using the invented name ‘Manawaka’ in a story for a Winnipeg Free Press contest (1939). In 1947, she graduated from Winnipeg's United College and worked as a reporter for the Winnipeg Citizen. In 1949, she moved with her husband, a civil engineer, to England. From 1950 to 1957, they lived in Africa, in the British Protectorate of Somaliland (now Somalia) and Ghana. Laurence developed an admiration for Africa and its various populations, which found expression in her writing. She published "A Tree for Poverty" (1954), an essay on and collection of Somali poetry and prose, and her Somali memoir, "The Prophet's Camel Bell" (1963). After living in England for ten years, she became a writer-in-residence at the University of Toronto in 1969. In 1971, she was named a Companion of the Order of Canada. Laurence served as Chancellor of Trent University in Peterborough from 1981 to 1983. Two of her novels, "A Jest of God" (1966) and "The Diviners" (1974), won the Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction. She spent the last decade of her life writing and speaking on issues such as nuclear disarmament, the environment, and literacy. In 2016, she was named a National Historic Person. Her home in Lakefield is now a museum.

In 1947, she married John Fergus (Jack) Laurence (1916-2014) and divorced in 1969. She died on January 5, 1987, in Lakefield, Ontario.

James Laurence Laughlin was born on October 30, 1914, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

He was an American poet, editor, and literary book publisher who founded New Directions Publishing. His family made its fortune with the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company, founded in 1852. This wealth would partially fund Laughlin's future endeavours in publishing. He matriculated from Harvard University in 1933 and spent the early 1930s travelling in Europe. In 1936, he founded the publishing house New Directions in New York City. Its first publication was “New Directions in Prose & Poetry”, an anthology of poetry and writings by authors such as William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Elizabeth Bishop, Henry Miller, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, and E. E. Cummings. It became an annual publication, issuing its final number in 1991. A natural athlete and an avid skier, Laughlin travelled the world skiing and hiking and founded the Alta Ski Area in Utah. In the early 1950s, he took part in what has come to be known as the Cultural Cold War against the Soviet Union. Laughlin published his first book of poetry, "Some Natural Things", in 1945 and continued to write verses until his death. He won the 1992 Distinguished Contribution to American Letters Award from the National Book Awards Program. The Academy of American Poets' James Laughlin award is named in his honour.

In 1942, he married Margaret Ellen Keyser (1917–1994), and in 1956, he remarried Ann Clark Roser (1925–1989) and, in 1991, Gertrude Beulah Freedman (1919–1998). He died on November 12, 1997, in Norfolk, Connecticut.

Stonemason William Lauder was born in Scotland and came to Canada with his brother to work on military engineering projects, notably the Rideau Canal. He later settled in Montréal and worked on several projects, including the Arts Building of McGill College and the Chambly Canal.

James Clark Lathrop was born on July 29, 1852, in Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut. He was a clerk at the Railroad office, bookkeeper, and cashier at the Freight office in Bridgeport, Conn. In 1874, he married Anna Roselle Manning (1856–1900). He died in 1885 in Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut.