Jean-Baptiste Gustave Lamothe was born on April 16, 1856, in Champlain, Quebec.

He was a Canadian judge and lawyer. He studied the cours classique at the Séminaire Saint-Joseph de Trois-Rivières, and law with François-Xavier-Anselme Trudel in Montreal. He was called to the Quebec bar in 1880 and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1899. In 1921, he was awarded a doctorate in Law by the Université de Montréal. He practiced with Trudel and with Napoléon Charbonneau. He was bâtonnier of the district of Montreal between 1904 and 1905. Involved with the Parti conservateur du Québec, he was vice president of the Association libérale-conservatrice de Montréal. He was the director of the Ligue anti-alcoolique in 1909. He was appointed a judge of the Quebec Superior Court on September 25, 1915. He was also appointed to the Quebec Court of Queen's Bench and made Chief Justice of Quebec on September 19, 1918. On October 16, 1918, he served for a few days as Administrator of Quebec because of the health problems of Pierre-Évariste Leblanc, the Lieutenant Governor of Quebec.

He died on November 24, 1922, in Montreal, Quebec.

Born in 1944, Yvan Lamonde was educated in Quebec. He received his B.A. degree from Joliette and the University of Montreal in 1964 and a M.A. in philosophy from the University of Montreal in 1967. He attended Laval University and graduated with a M.A. in history in 1969 and a PhD in 1978. His doctoral study was entitled L’enseignement de la philosophie au Québec (1665-1920). He began teaching at McGill University in 1972 as a faculty lecturer. In 1978 be became an assistant professor and in 1980 an associate professor. In 1993 he became a full professor and in 2009 a professor emeritus in the French Language and Literature Department. He served as the Director of the French Canadian Studies program from 1980-1985. He has written many publications on Quebec cultural and intellectual history. He won the Governor General’s Literary award for Louis-Antoine Dessaulles, 1818-1895: un seigneur libéral et anti-clerical in 1995. He was also a major contributor for the three volumes of the Histoire du livre et de l’imprimé au Canada.

Robert Henry Lamborn was born on October 29, 1835 or 1836, in Chester, Pennsylvania.

He was a metallurgist, engineer, and collector. He studied mining and metallurgy at the University of Geissen, Germany where he obtained his Ph.D. degree. He also took a course at the École des Mines, Paris, returning to the U.S in the early 1860s. He engaged in the railway business in Pennsylvania, and subsequently became interested in the construction of railways in southwestern states, and was an active promoter and large owner of the Mexican Central Railway. He also served as secretary of the American Iron and Steel Association. Through his enterprises he amassed a fortune and retired from active business about 1887, devoting himself to scientific and literary studies. He collected thousands of objects from six continents pertaining to fine art, history, ethnology, biology, geology, and mineralogy. He traveled constantly and never owned a home, staying in luxury hotels throughout the U.S. and Europe. That was the reason for donating his collections to various museums, e.g., the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History, New York, the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art (now the Philadelphia Museum of Art), the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, and the newly founded Penn Museum. Lamborn helped found the Penn Museum as a vice president of the fundraising body known as the Archaeological Association. He requested that the donated objects be displayed to teach visitors about the history of human development and the diversity of cultures.

He died unmarried on January 14, 1895, in New York City, New York.