François Victoire Malhiot was born in 1776 in Verchères, Quebec, and died in 1840 in Contrecoeur, Quebec. He was the son of Francois Malhiot and Élisabeth Gamelin. He entered the service of the North West Company as a clerk around 1791. Malhiot was part of the Red River Department from 1796 to 1804. Following this, he was in charge of a post in Lac aux Torches for three years, until he retired from the fur trade in 1807 to settle in Contrecoeur, Lower Canada. The diary he kept during 1804-1805 was published in the Wisconsin Historical Collections.

Anna Jean Mallinson was born on June 13, 1926, in Vancouver, British Columbia.

She is a Canadian poet, writer, literary critic, and educator. She attended the University of British Columbia, the University of Toronto (M.A. in English), and Simon Frasier University. She taught English as a second language at a community college in Vancouver. Mallinson is the author of a collection of short stories "I Will Bring You Berries" (1987), a collection of poems "Between Cup & Lip" ( 2003) and the book "Margaret Atwood and Her Works" (1985). Her memoir "Terra Infirma: A Life Unbalanced” (2007) provides a personal account of her experience with a toxic reaction to the antibiotic Gentamicin, which destroyed the hair follicles in her inner ear, eliminating her body's equilibrium.

Mallinson lives in West Vancouver and contributes essays to The Vocabula Review, e.g. "Gramarye: The Glamour of Grammar" (2015).

Originally from Ontario, the Malloch family, Archibald Edward Malloch, 1844-1919 and his son Thomas Archibald Malloch, 1887-1953, were closely associated with Sir William Osler. The father, Archibald Edward Malloch, took his training at the University of Glasgow, studying under Joseph Lister who chose him as his house-surgeon in 1868. Malloch practiced mainly in Hamilton, Ontario and helped introduce Lister's antiseptic principles to North America. His son, Thomas Archibald Malloch, received his M.D., C.M. from McGill University in 1913 and served during World War I. He was a Demonstrator in Medicine at McGill University, 1923-1925. From 1926 until shortly before his death he was Librarian of the New York Academy of Medicine. He wrote several books, including William Harvey, in 1929. Thomas Archibald Malloch was a close friend of Sir William Osler and Lady Osler.

Dr. Archibald Edward Malloch was born on June 14, 1844, in Brockville, Ontario.

Educated at Queens’ University in Kingston, Ontario and at the University of Glasgow in Scotland (1867), where he served as a house surgeon for Dr. Joseph Lister, a founder of the antiseptic system of the treatment of wounds in surgery. Malloch became a firm believer in the method and, after his return to Canada in 1869, was likely the first in the country to use it in its fully developed form. He opened a private practice in Hamilton, Ontario. In 1870, he joined the Faculty of Medicine, Toronto Branch, University of Victoria College in the capacity of demonstrator of anatomy and lecturer on surgical anatomy. He later resumed his practice in Hamilton while also working at the Hamilton City Hospital where he met the resident physician William Osler and formed an enduring friendship with him.

In 1872, he married Helen Milne Ogston. After her death, he married Frances Mary Reynolds in 1877 and in 1892, he married Alice Barbara McNab. He died on August 6, 1919, in Hamilton, Ontario.