Hugh Wylie Becket was born on August 24, 1847, in Montreal, Quebec.

He was one of the original members of the Montreal Bicycle Club (1878) and the treasurer of the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association (1881). He was also a vice-president of the Montreal Snow Shoe Club. In 1882, he wrote the book “The Montreal Snow Shoe Club, Its History and Record: with a Synopsis of the Racing Events of Other Clubs Throughout the Dominion, from 1840 to the Present Time”. He compiled the photographic Actress Album found today at the McCord Museum of Canadian History.

He died in 1903 in Montreal, Quebec.

John C. Becket was born on May 14, 1810, in Kilwinning, Scotland.

He was a printer. In 1832, he moved to Montreal, Canada where he opened a printing shop to which he added a bookstore and a stationery store. Until 1843, Becket was a business partner with Rollo Campbell and then he became self-employed. He had the reputation of having a great mastery of printing techniques. He also trained several talented printers. He worked as a contract printer, printing the annals of the French Canadian Missionary Society and the Montreal Sunday School Union. He printed many books and several magazines such as the French Canadian Missionary Record, the Canada Miscellany, the Canada Temperance Advocate, and the Montreal Witness. He was a director of the Protestant House of Industry and Refuge in Montreal and since 1835, a member of the St. Andrews Society of Montreal, and in 1866, he became its president.

He died on September 5, 1879, in Montreal, Quebec.