Canadian architect and theatre designer born in Warsaw, Poland, 1917. He studied at the Regent Street Polytechnic (1939) in London and immigrated to Canada in 1949, where he became an associate professor of architecture at McGill until 1955. A talented theatre designer, he developed designs for many theatres, in addition to restoration projects in Old Montreal and residential designs. He was fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and an academician of the Royal Canadian Academy. He died in Kingston, Ontario, on 30 July 1985.

Cyrus John MacMillan was born on September 12, 1878, in Wood Islands, Prince Edward Island and died on June 29, 1953. In Montreal in 1916, he married Margaret Eaton Brower, who attended McGill University. They had no children. MacMillan earned his B.A. in 1900 and his M.A. in 1903 from McGill. After receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1909, he returned to McGill as a Lecturer in English. MacMillan served in the First World War with the 6th and 7th Canadian Siege Battery, which he helped to organize. In 1919, he was promoted to Associate Professor and was appointed Chair of the English Department in 1923. From 1940 to 1947, he was Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science. During this period, MacMillan pursued a second career as a politician. He was the Federal Minister of Fisheries in 1930, and federal M.P. for Queen's (P.E.I.) from 1940 to 1945. From 1943 to 1946, MacMillan was the Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of National Defence for Air and served on numerous government committees. MacMillan was a member of the Presbyterian Church of Canada and served as the sole lay delegate to the Church of Scotland assembly in Edinburgh. He also published a book about the history of McGill called McGill and Its Story, 1821-1921, as well as volumes of Canadian folktales and studies of Canadian literature. After 1945 he was chief editorial writer for the Charlottetown Patriot, until his retirement in 1947.

Montreal architects : classified city directory listings, 1842-1950, 1982: 1898 (Hutchison & Wood)
CaQMCCA files, 12/14/1995 (Hutchison & Wood; Hutchison and Wood; 1912 -1918 when the name of J. Melville Miller was added to it)

F. Cyril James, Principal of McGill from 1939 to 1962, was a man of many facets: an economist, professor, writer and speaker, an educator of international reputation and a prominent public figure. James was born in London, England. Before receiving his B.Com. from the London School of Economics (1924), he went to the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, earning his M.A. in 1924 and his Ph.D. in 1926 with theses on the shipbuilding industry. From 1924 to 1939 he taught finance, transportation, and economic history at the Wharton School and published the following studies: The Economics of Money, Banking and Credit (1930), England Today (1931), The Road to Revival (1932), The Economic Doctrines of John Maynard Keynes (1936) and The Growth of Chicago Banks (1938). In 1939 he came to McGill as director of the School of Commerce, and was appointed Principal in the same year. Until his retirement in 1962, James also taught courses in economics and held many important posts outside the university in the fields of government, education, and economics. He served as financial advisor for a number of banks, as well as on the National Bureau of Economic Research in New York, acted as Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Reconstruction and held executive positions in the Commission d'Orientation Economique du Québec, the American Academy of Political and Social Science and various national and international inter-university organizations, culminating in his presidency of the International Association of Universities from 1960 to 1965. After his retirement, James continued his involvement with international education, as well as working for OXFAM in a number of executive posts. When he died at his home in England in 1973, he was working on his memoirs.

Michael Oliver was born in North Bay, Ontario. He earned his B.A. (1948), M.A. (1950) and Ph.D. (1957) from McGill and also studied at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris. In 1958, Oliver was appointed Assistant Professor of economics and political science at McGill. He was promoted to Associate Professor and became Director of the French Canada Studies Programme in 1963. From 1966 until 1971, he was Vice-Principal (Academic), and he served as research director of the Royal Commission on Biculturalism and Bilingualism from 1964 until 1970. Oliver has also been involved in politics as President of the New Democratic Party. He served as President of Carleton University from 1972 to 1978, and since 1979 has been director of the International Development office of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada.

In 1835, he became Governor General of British North America (also Lieutenant-Governor of Lower Canada), and commissioner in the Royal Commission for the Investigation of all Grievances Affecting His Majesty's Subjects of Lower Canada.

Thomas Storrow Brown was born in 1803 in St Andrews, New Brunswick, and died on December 26, 1888, in Montreal. In 1818, he went to Montreal and opened a hardware business, but it failed in 1835. At some point in the 1830s, he became involved with the Patriotes and in 1835, he made his views public. From 1836 to 1837, Brown contributed to the Vindicator, and forwarded a dozen or so open letters, under the pseudonym L.M.N., to the Express (New York). In 1837, he preached revolution to the Fils de la Liberté, and when the members of the Doric Club sacked the offices of the Vindicator during a riot on the 6th of November, Brown was seriously wounded in one eye. Ten days later he left Montreal for Varennes, after the government had issued warrants for the arrest of Patriote leaders. On the 25th of November, when the fight against the government forces at Saint-Charles had scarcely begun, Brown left in search of reinforcements, disappearing from the battlefield. He went to Saint-Denis before fleeing to the United States, reaching Berkshire, Vermont, on December 10th. He was imprisoned for nearly a month for debts contracted in Canada, and then had trouble integrating himself into the group of political refugees. In the spring of 1838, Brown published a long article on the rebellion in the Vermonter (Vergennes, Vermont) and shortly after, left for Florida where he edited the Florida Herald in Key West. When this venture failed, he found himself a post as an auditor but when amnesty was proclaimed in 1844, he returned to Montreal and went back to hardware. In 1862, he left the hardware store following his appointment as official assignee responsible for applying the new bankruptcy law. He kept this post until he became completely blind, about ten years before his death.