Alfred Ernest Barlow was born on June 17, 1861, in Montreal, Quebec. He was a geologist, studying the geological relations and composition of the nickel and copper deposits in Eastern Ontario. He died on May 29, 1914, at sea (Gulf of St. Lawrence).

Otto Loewi, b. June 3, 1873, Frankfurt am Main; d. Dec. 25, 1961, New York City; German-born American physician and pharmacologist; shared Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1936 for discoveries relating to chemical transmission of nerve impulses.

François-Xavier Vassal de Monviel (Monteil, Montviel) was born on November 4, 1759, in Boucherville, Quebec.

He was a militia and army officer, Justice of the Peace, and landowner. In 1776, he joined the army and took part in the campaigns against the Americans. In 1787, he was granted 500 arpents of land near the seigneury of Beauharnois for his services. He was commissioned a captain in the Royal Canadian Volunteer Regiment in 1797 and served in it until it was disbanded in 1802. In 1807, he was appointed deputy adjutant general of the Lower Canadian militia. After the War of 1812, he retained his office and held it until 1841. For his services during the conflict, he also received 1,200 acres in Frampton Township, and in 1828 he obtained a further 1,200 acres. He received commissions as Justice of the Peace from 1813 to 1828. From 1816 to 1830 he served as a Commissioner for building churches and presbyteries.
Designated in 1950 by the Geographical Survey, Canton of Montviel, located about 70 km east of Matagami, Quebec is named in his honour.

About 1800, he married Marie Marguerite Annance. He died on October 25, 1843, in Charlesbourg, Quebec.

William Graff was born in the Netherlands and educated at the University of Louvain, where he received his Ph.D. in 1923. For six years he taught German and Dutch in schools at Huy and St.Truiden Belgium, and conducted dialect research in the Rhineland of Germany for a year. In 1924, Graff was appointed instructor in French and German at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. He came to McGill in 1926 as Assistant Professor of German, became Associate Professor in 1929 and Professor in 1948. He also served as head of the department from 1939 to 1956 and retired in the following year as Emeritus Professor.