Eugene Perry Link was born in Paris, Illinois, and grew up in Emporia, Kansas. He graduated with a B.A. degree from the College of Emporia in 1929; three years of graduate study at the University of Chicago followed (1929-1931). In 1931 he left Chicago after winning an honours scholarship to Union Theological Seminary. He was ordained to the ministry of the Congregational Church in 1933, after which he held a succession of academic positions over four decades. Largely through part-time attendance in the late 1930s, Link obtained his Ph.D. in social history from Columbia University in 1941. Through his work, Link increasingly concentrated on those groups that have tended to suffer from the abuses of the capitalist system: laborers, women, minorities, and Third World nations. He served as a Fulbright Lecturer in India two different times (1954 and 1960) and strongly urged the United States government to establish diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China in the 1970s. Among his many publications are The Humanitarian Tradition in American Medicine, The Social Ideas of Physicians, and T.B.'s Progress: Norman Bethune as Artist.

John Young, 1st Baron Lisgar was born on August 31, 1807, in Bombay, India, where his father Sir William Young (1773-1848), 1st Baronet of Bailieborough Castle, was a director of the East India Company.

He was a British diplomat and politician. He was educated at Eton and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, graduating in 1829 (B.A.). In 1834, he was called to the bar of Lincoln’s Inn but never practised law. In 1831, he became a Member of Parliament for the county of Cavan in the House of Commons of the UK, a position he held for 24 years. He served as Secretary of the Treasury in 1844 and Chief Secretary for Ireland (1852-1855). In 1860, he was appointed Governor of New South Wales (1861-1867). He also served as Governor-General of Canada and Governor of Prince Edward Island (1869–1872). He returned to Ireland and was raised to the peerage as Baron Lisgar, of Lisgar and Bailieborough, in the County of Cavan in 1870.

In 1835, he married Adelaide Annabelle Tuite Dalton (1821–1895). He died on October 6, 1876, in Bailieborough, Ireland.

Founded in 1824, the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec (LHSQ) is the oldest existing learned society in Canada. Its history is linked to the intellectual development of Quebec and Canada. The LHSQ manages the Morrin Centre, a nationally recognized heritage site and leading English-language cultural centre, located in the heart of Quebec City’s historic Old City. The Centre’s mission is to provide the English- and French-speaking public with rich, engaging programming in the areas of heritage interpretation, education, and the arts.