H. R. Ives & Co. was a Montreal-based foundry. In 1859, Hubert Root Ives (1833-1911) became a founder of the firm Ives & Allen, the first brass and iron foundry and hardware factory in Canada. They manufactured flat irons, stoves, safes, wrought iron gates and railings, locomotive, and car castings. In 1874, the partnership between Ives & Allen dissolved and, Ives continued alone as H. R. Ives & Co. Manufacturers Montreal. The company was incorporated in 1903.

Sir Henry Hoyle Howorth was born on July 1, 1842, in Lisbon, Portugal.

He was a British Conservative politician, barrister, and amateur historian, and geologist. He was educated at Rossall School before studying law. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1867. He was a Unionist in politics and was elected as Conservative Member of Parliament for Salford South in 1886. He was re-elected in 1892 and 1895 before retiring from the Commons at the 1900 general election. Howorth was deeply interested in archaeology, history, numismatics, and ethnography. He contributed numerous articles on geological, archeological, and historical subjects to The Times and the Quarterly and Edinburgh Reviews. He published many books, e.g., "A History of the Mongols: from the 9th to the 19th Century" (4 pts, 1876-1927), "The Mammoth and the Flood"(1887), "The Glacial Nightmare and the Flood" (1893), and "The History of the Church in England to the Eighth Century" (3 vols., 1912–1917). In 1892, he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Indian Empire in recognition of his works on the history and ethnography of Asia. In 1893, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society. He became Honorary Librarian of Chetham's College, Manchester, and a Trustee of the British Museum. He was also a Member of the Chetham Society, serving as a Member of the Council from 1877 until 1900. He was a Member of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society and a Freemason.

In 1869, he married Katharine Brierley (1847–1921). He died on July 15, 1923, in London, England.

James Patrick Howley was born on July 7, 1847, in Mount Cashel, St. John's, Newfoundland.

He was a naturalist and geologist. He was educated at Saint Bonaventure's College, St. John's, Newfoundland. In 1867, he entered the service of the Newfoundland Government as a clerk in the office of the Colonial Secretary. His work as an assistant and then as Director of the Geological and Topographical Survey of Newfoundland between 1868 and 1909 produced much of the scientific basis for understanding the geography of the island’s interior, geology, and mineral deposits. He became interested and studied the indigenous people of the island of Newfoundland Beothuk. Upon retirement in 1909, Howley lectured, wrote, and represented the colony overseas as the recognized authority on its geology, mineralogy, natural history, geography, and human history. He is regarded as the creator of the institution that became the Provincial Museum of Newfoundland and Labrador and served as its first curator. In 1915, he published the book "The Beothucks or Red Indians - The Aboriginal Inhabitants of Newfoundland" which remains an important source on the Beothuk, whose last member, Shanawdithit, had died in 1829. His never published memoirs "Reminiscences of Forty-two Years of Exploration in and about Newfoundland" have been made available as digital documents.

In 1874, he married Elizabeth Jane Firth (1851–1935). He died on January 1, 1918, in St. John's, Newfoundland.

Francis Lamb Howland was born on December 13, 1842, in Whitby, Durham, Ontario.

He was a physician and civil servant. He graduated from McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine with honours in 1867. He practised for a short time in Woodstock, Ontario, and in 1875, he moved to a small community in Huntsville to become the village’s first doctor. Shortly after his arrival, he founded a newspaper named The Liberal. As its editor, he exercised considerable influence in local politics and was successful in petitioning for the extension of the Muskoka Road north of Huntsville. His most important effort for the future growth and development of Huntsville was in persuading the Grand Trunk Railway to route the railway through Huntsville. He served as reeve in 1889, 1890, 1893, 1895, and 1896 and as mayor of Huntsville in 1904.

In 1870, he married Jennie Huggart (1851-1916). He died on November 8, 1916, in Huntsville, Muskoka, Ontario.

F. S. Howes was born in Paris, Ontario. After serving as a signaller and wireless operator in World War I, he entered McGill University, graduating with honours in electrical engineering in 1924 and earning an M.A. in 1926. Howes then went to Imperial College of the University of London, where he received a Ph.D. for a thesis on the subject which would be his life-time research interest, acoustics. He joined the staff of McGill's Electrical Engineering Department in 1929 as a Lecturer, rising to the rank of Associate Professor in 1946 and Professor in 1956. Besides teaching courses in radio engineering, radar and related topics, Howes organized evening graduate programmes in engineering; this activity led to his appointment as Director of McGill's Extension Department (1949-1960). Howes also acted as a consultant to government and industry on acoustical, radio and television problems and to McGill and Sir George Williams Universities on sound levels in buildings. He succeeded in incorporating a sound-proof (anechoic) chamber as an acoustic laboratory into the design of the McConnell Engineering Building. Finally, Howes campaigned for collective bargaining rights for engineers in his capacity as chairman of the Canadian Council of the Institute of Radio Engineers (1948), and he helped to organize the CAUT and MAUT, serving as president of both bodies. He retired from McGill as Emeritus Professor in 1964.