Rev. James McCaul was born on December 25, 1841, in County Armagh or Monaghan, Ireland.

He was a Presbyterian clergyman. In 1849, his family moved to Kingston, Ontario, where he attended school, graduating in 1859. In 1864, he was ordained a minister and moved to Melbourne, Quebec. By 1873, he was the pastor of St. James Presbyterian Church in Trois Rivières, Quebec. In 1878, he relocated to Montreal to the Stanley Street Church. In the late 1880s, he did missionary work in Scotland and Birmingham, England. In 1891, he returned to Montreal and in 1893, he became a minister of the Church of the Covenant on Avenue Road in Toronto, Ontario.

In 1864, he married Barbara Peden (1842–1873) and in 1886, he married Charlotte Jane Fairbain (1861–1948). He died on November 8, 1906, in Toronto, Ontario.

Mark MacCawley was born in January 1964, in Edmonton, Alberta.

He was a Canadian poet, writer, editor, and micro-press publisher. He founded Greensleeve Editions in 1988, a press that produced over fifty chapbook titles by numerous Canadian writers and poets. From 1986 to 1993, he taught poetry and fiction as a creative writing instructor for Continuing Education (now Metro College) in Edmonton, Alberta. Since 1993, he had edited and published the litzine, Urban Graffiti, a print journal that shifted to online publication in 2011. His own fiction and poetry appeared widely in Canada in magazines and the anthologies "Burning Ambitions: The Anthology of Short-Shorts" (1998) and "Grunt & Groan: The New Fiction Anthology of Work and Sex" (2002). MacCawley was the author of nearly a dozen chapbooks of poetry and fiction, e.g., “Fragile Harvest - Fragile Lives” (1988), “The Deadman’s Dance” (1989), “Last Minute Instructions” (1989), “Voices from Earth: Selected Poems”/ with R. Kurt (1990), “Scars and Other Signatures: Prose Poems” (1991), “Stories for People with Brief Attention Spans: Fictions (1992), “Just Another Asshole: Short Stories” (1994), “Collateral Damage” (2008) and “Sick Lazy Fuck” (2008). He blogged regularly for Sensitive Skin and posted music podcasts.

He died on April 19, 2016.

James McClatcher was an attorney who worked in Hinchinbrooke, Quebec in 1805.

James D. McClintock, born in Ormstown, Quebec, was a salesman when he enlisted with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Winnipeg in 1914. He was a lieutenant with the 27th Battalion when he was killed at Vimy Ridge in 1917.

Nellie McClung, Jr., was born on March 21, 1929, in Edmonton, Alberta.

She was a Canadian journalist, editor, and poet. She graduated from the University of Alberta and began to work at the Edmonton Bulletin as a reporter in the Women's Department. She edited "Pomegranate: A Selected Anthology of Vancouver Poetry" (1975) and published the books of poetry, "Baraka: The Poems of Nellie McClung" (1978), "Salt Whistle Bay" (1998), “Tea with the Queen” (1980), "I Hate Wives!: Terse Verse" (2003), and "Come Dance With Me in Ireland: Selected Poems" (2011).

She died on February 13, 2009, in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The family of Olaf and Virginia "Poppy" McClure lived at 461 Lansdowne Ave., Westmount, QC, Canada in 1971-1994.

J.B. Mcconnell was a physician, surgeon, and accoucheur, and a lecturer in physical diagnosis at the Medical Faculty of Bishop College, Quebec.