Hartland St. Clair MacDougall was born on November 11, 1840, in Buckfastleigh, Devon, England.

In 1860, he immigrated to Canada. He was a stockbroker, one of the founders of the Montreal Stock Exchange (1874). He served as its chairman in 1894–95 and 1897–99.

In 1867, he married Elizabeth Adelaide Smith. He died on April 1, 1917.

Alexander Ramsay Macduff was born on January 26, 1846, in Chelsea, London, England.

He was a clergyman. He lived in Montreal, Quebec around 1860. He left for England in the early 1870s. He returned to Canada in 1895 and lived in Ashcroft, B.C. Around 1900, he resided in Phelps, Ontario County, New York.

In 1873, he married Elizabeth Farrer (1839-1874). He died on November 7, 1906, in Montecito, Santa Barbara, California.

David MacFarlane was born in Saskatchewan. He earned his B.S.A. and M.Sc. degrees from the University of Saskatchewan; and his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1942. From 1938 to 1942 he was professor of agriculture at the University of Kentucky. During the war he worked for the U.S. government, and later for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Appointed Professor of agricultural economics at Macdonald College in 1947, he served as Chairman of the department from 1949 until his retirement as Emeritus Professor in 1974. One of his areas of specialisation was agricultural development in the Third World and he conducted consultative research in Mali, Afghanistan and Brazil.

Duncan MacFarlane was born in Auchingray, Scotland. He was educated for the Anglican church at the University of Glasgow (D.D. 1806). From 1824 until his death, he was Principal of Glasgow University and minister of the High Church, Glasgow.