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Composer, singer and pianist Charly Bailly was born in Macon, France, and wrote supposedly his first song at age eight. He is known for such early songs as “Le vagabonde de rêve” (1949), Menace de Mort” (1950) and “La femme orchidée” (1952), and for his soundtrack for the 1950 crime film “Le furet” (the ferret). His career took off when he teamed up with André Varel, whom he had met in North Africa during World War II; calling themselves “Varel et Bailly” they created songs for such famous singers as Maurice Chevalier and Edith Piaf. The two became co-directors of “Les Chanteurs de Paris,” a group of 7 young graduates of the Université de Paris, and before that, members of “Les petits chanteurs de Paris.” Varel was the lyricist and Bailly the composer and pianist. In 1956/1957 they made their American debut with great success, performing for four weeks in the Empire Room of the Waldorf Astoria in New York City and making guest appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show and The Garry Moore Show. During their 1959 North American tour they were booked for 65 concerts in 13 weeks, many at college campuses. They began a schedule of American tours during the winter, French tours during the spring, and summers spent at a chateau in Chartres with other musicians, artists and friends, some from Montreal and Vancouver. During his lifetime, Bailly wrote or co-wrote over a hundred songs.

William Hellier Baily was born on July 7, 1819, in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.

He was an English paleontologist. From 1837 to 1844 he was Assistant Curator in the Bristol Museum, a post he relinquished to join the staff of the British Geological Survey in London. In 1854, he became an assistant naturalist. In 1857, he was transferred to the Irish branch of the Geological Survey, as an acting paleontologist and senior geologist, and retained this post until the end of his life. He was responsible for the identification and curation of thousands of fossil specimens found in Ireland. He was the author of many papers on paleontological subjects, and of notes on fossils in the explanatory memoirs of the Geological Survey of Ireland. He published a useful work entitled “Figures of Characteristic British Fossils, with Descriptive Remarks” (1867–1875). He was also an accomplished artist and lithographer.

He died on August 6, 1888, in Dublin, Ireland.

He was a British aviculturist and ornithologist. At age 23, he went to California, where he enjoyed both birdwatching and duck shooting. He also visited Brazil, Norway, Spain and other parts of Europe. He began keeping birds in captivity (1910) and building a collection of approximately 1,000 aviary specimens. The Avicultural Society awarded him 36 medals for his achievements in captive husbandry and bird breeding.

Francis Bain was born on February 25, 1842, in North River, Prince Edward Island. 
 
He was a self-educated farmer, geologist, ornithologist, botanist, author, and artist. As a boy, he was fond of reading and developed a liking for natural science. After the death of his older brother in 1862, the family farm became his sole responsibility, with formal schooling curtailed, but Bain continued studies of classics, mathematics, French, and German on his own. In the 1860s, he began travelling all over the Island to pursue his interest in natural science. He considered himself foremost a geologist. He mapped the province’s bedrock and collected, illustrated, described, and identified many fossils. He also discovered a species of fossil fern on PEI that Sir William Dawson subsequently named Tylodendron baini. In 1892, he was commissioned by the federal government to investigate the feasibility of constructing a submarine tunnel from PEI to New Brunswick. Bain’s enthusiasm to share his learning led him to engage in extensive writing and lecturing. Between 1881 and 1893, he published over twenty scientific papers and two books, “The Natural History of Prince Edward Island” (1890) and “Birds of Prince Edward Island, Their Habits and Characteristics” (1891). He also published over fifty natural science articles in a half-dozen Canadian and American scientific journals. His articles included lists and records of birds, shells, plants, butterflies, fossils, and geological formations. His career as a public speaker on botany, geology, and the proposed tunnel to New Brunswick, often illustrated with his drawings, began about 1885. Bain's knowledge and understanding of natural science mark him as the first Islander to whom the contemporary term ecologist can appropriately be applied.
 
In 1875, he married Caroline Matilda Clark (1852–1913). He died on November 20, 1894, in North River, Prince Edward Island.

John Wilson Bain, Esq., was born on April 24, 1862, in Glasgow, Scotland.

He was an accountant and auditor in Glasgow, Scotland.

In 1903, he married Georgina Burn Oliver (1863–). He died on January 20, 1940, in Glasgow, Scotland.