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.

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.

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.

Dr. Barbara Althea Jones was born in the late 1930s in Barataria, Trinidad and died in Montreal in 1969. She described herself as “a geneticist by vocation, a poet by avocation.” Jones graduated with a B.Sc. in agricultural botany from Imperial College of the University of the West Indies, the first woman to graduate from that institution. She went to Cornell University on a Trinidad Government Scholarship, receiving her M.A. (1962) and Ph.D. (1965) in plant breeding and genetics, becoming the first woman in the West Indies to earn a doctorate. Jones came to Canada in 1966 to do postdoctoral research at Macdonald College. From 1966 to 1968, she taught genetics and biology at Marianopolis College, Sir George Williams University, and McGill University. In 1968, Jones was appointed Assistant Professor of Genetics at McGill. At the time of her death, Jones had published two volumes of poetry and had several others in press or in the planning stages. One of these volumes is titled Among the Potatoes, a wide-ranging collection that touches on many topics, including her life as a student, love, home, mental health, and race. She also published in literary journals and gave frequent talks and readings, in person and on radio and television. Her poetry and other writings revolved around the theme of Black experiences, she wrote in the McGill Reporter in 1968 that her goals were oriented "towards a new Black man, towards the full realization of man's consciousness and potential, and towards a new humanism." In an archived letter, she also asked colleagues to donate scientific books “for universities of developing countries where for some reason it is difficult to obtain texts.”