James Russel Mallory was born in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, in 1916. He was educated at the University of New Brunswick, graduated with a B.A. with Honours in 1937 and an LL.D. in 1968. In 1940 he was awarded an LL.B. from the University of Edinburgh, in 1941 an M.A. from Dalhousie University and in 1978 an LL.D. from Queen’s University. In 1987 James Mallory was awarded an LL.D. from University of Western Ontario and the same year his D.C.L. from Bishop's University. He was Professor of Political Science at McGill from 1959 to 1977. Between 1959 and 1969 he served as Chairman of Department of Economics and Political Science at McGill University. In 1982 he was appointed Emeritus Professor of Political Science and remained in this position until his retirement in 1990. Between 1977 and 1982 James Mallory received several fellowships, was Visiting Professor, Lecturer and Fellow at universities in Canada, Europe and Australia. A prolific writer on Canadian political traditions and structures, and he was an important contributor to the development of social sciences in Canada.

Nello Malo was born about 1918, in Quebec, Canada.

In 1947, he and his brother Anthony Malo, began the plumbing and heating materials company Nelco. Their father’s original business, William Malo and Sons, General Contractor provided the origin of Nelco. They also owned a gas station.

He died in 2007, in Quebec, Canada.

Avrum Zalman Malus was born on December 28, 1938, in Montreal, Quebec.

He was a Canadian poet and educator. He studied at McGill University (B.A.), Rutgers University (M.A.) and Université de Montréal (Ph.D., 1975). His Ph.D. dissertation was “The Face of Holiness in the Writing of Leonard Cohen”. He taught English language and literature at the Université de Sherbrooke from 1969 until he died in 1993. Malus published books as well as articles and poems in the magazines, Ellipse and Matrix. He published a collection of poems, "I Set the Fire which Destroyed Our Home" (1978).

He married Monique Martin. He died on August 9, 1993, in Montreal, Quebec.