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William Badgley (1801-1888), a lawyer, was a founder in 1834 and later the secretary of the Constitutional Association of Montreal. A conservative, Badgley was the Attorney General for Canada East from 1847 to 1848. He joined the teaching staff of McGill's Faculty of Law as a lecturer in 1843 and served as the first Dean from 1853 to 1855. He was a judge of the Court of Queen's Bench from 1866 to 1874. In 1834 he married Elizabeth Wallace Taylor, and they had 6 children, including John Thompson (n.d.) and at least one grandson, Clement (n.d.). William Badgley's brother, James Thompson Badgley (d.1829) was a lieutenant in the Royal Navy and did survey work off the coasts of Africa and India.

Henk Badings was a composer of Indonesian-Dutch origin, born on January 17, 1907, in Bandung, Java, Dutch East Indies. His father, Herman Louis Johan Badings, was an officer in the Dutch East Indies army. Unfortunately, Hendrik Herman Badings became an orphan at the age of seven.

In 1915, he returned to the Netherlands and began learning the violin and piano. However, his family discouraged him from pursuing a career in music. He went on to study at the Delft Polytechnical Institute (later the Technical University) and graduated in 1931. He worked as a mining engineer and paleontologist at Delft until 1937, after which he devoted his life to music. Although largely self-taught, Badings became a student of Willem Pijper, the most respected Dutch composer of the time. However, their musical views varied significantly, and after Pijper tried to discourage Badings from pursuing a career as a composer, Badings broke off contact. His first cello concerto premiered at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam in 1930, marking his initial significant musical success. In addition to composing, Badings taught and lectured in the Netherlands and abroad, served on competition juries, and authored several books. In 1942, Badings was accused of collaborating with the Nazi occupation forces and was briefly barred from professional musical activities. He was reinstated in 1947. Badings' oeuvre includes a wide range of genres, from opera to electronic music, from film music to 14 symphonies, pieces for wind orchestras and chamber ensembles. He received prestigious commissions, such as those for the hundredth anniversary of the Vienna Philharmonic and the sixtieth of the Concertgebouw Orchestra.

At the time of his death on June 26, 1987, in Maarheeze, Netherlands, he had created over a thousand pieces.

He was a successful businessman in Utica, New York, and an amateur ornithologist.

Stanley Clark Bagg was born on December 23, 1820, in Montreal, Quebec.

He was a wealthy Canadian notary and one of the largest landowners on the island of Montreal. He graduated from McGill University. In 1842, he became a notary and practiced in Montreal until 1856. After that date, he managed the real estate he inherited from his father. He donated many of these lands to the city to develop streets and public squares, e.g. Jarry Park. A loyalist, Bagg participated in the Battle of Saint-Eustache during the 1837-1838 rebellions in Lower Canada. He was later considered a close associate of the Conservative Party led by John Alexander Mackenzie. In 1859, he became a justice of the peace. He was also one of the founders of the Montreal Archaeological and Numismatic Society in 1866 and served as its first president. He published several works on the subject, including “Notes on Coins [...]” (1863), “Coins and Medals as Aids to the Study and Verification of Holy Writ” (1863) and “The Antiquities and Legends of Durham” (1866).
The Stanley Bagg Corporation is the real estate company founded in Montreal in 1919 by the heirs of Stanley Clark Bagg.

In 1844, he married Catherine Mitcheson. He died on August 8, 1873, in Montreal, Quebec.

Burton Dillon Bagley was born on September 24, 1858, in Newark, Wayne County, New York.

He served as President of the Christian Literature Company in New York City in the late 1800s. He authored the book “Comparative outlines, employe [sic] representative plans: of the Bethlehem Steel Co., the International Harvester Co., the Standard Oil Co., New Jersey, the Colorado Fuel and Iron Co., the Midvale Steel Co., the Standard Oil Co., Indiana, the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co., prepared for the Underwriters ... “(1919).

In 1884, he married Mary Arnold (1864–1955). He died on July 17, 1933, in Rochester, New York.

Kenneth Sidney Bagnell was born on September 9, 1934, in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia.

He was a journalist, broadcaster, author, and retired United Church of Canada minister. He studied at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick (B.A. in Psychology) and Pine Hill Divinity Hall, now the Atlantic School of Theology, Halifax (B.D.). It was at Mount Allison that his interest in broadcasting and journalism began. He wrote the books “The Little Immigrants: The Orphans Who Came to Canada” (1980) and “Canadese: A Portrait of the Italian Canadians” (1989).

In 1958, he married Barbara Robar. He died on February 15, 2022, in Toronto, Ontario.