Michel Vaïs was born on January 20, 1946, in Tunisia.

He is a Quebecois theatre critic, former avant-garde actor, naturist, journalist, editor, translator, and author. In 1958, at the age of twelve, he immigrated to Canada with his family. He studied at the University of Paris and earned a Ph.D. in theatre studies in 1974. His thesis, published under the title "L’Écrivain scénique aux PUQ," earned him the Prix Révélation de l’Académie Nicola Sabbattini at the Nice Book Festival in 1978. He served as a broadcaster for Chaîne culturelle de Radio-Canada for 22 years and taught for 12 years at the Université de Montréal, McGill University, and Université du Quebec à Montréal (UQAM) from 1980 to 2001. In 1977, he founded the Fédération québécoise de naturisme (Quebec Naturist Federation). He was a leader-writer, critic, and interviewer in cultural affairs at Radio-Canada. Vaïs served as the Secretary General of the International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC) and the President of the Quebec Association of Theatre Critics. He is also the French language editor for the IATC web journal Critical Stages/Scènes. He has published numerous articles and books, including "L’accompagnateur. Parcours d’un critique de théâtre" (2005) and "Nu, simplement. Nudité, nudisme et naturisme" (2012).

Émile Vaillancourt played an energetic and influential role in the development of Caisses populaires in Quebec. Born in Saint-Anselme, Quebec and educated at Université Laval, he began his career working in Joliette as a journalist for L’Étoile du Nord; he then worked for the Quebec department of agriculture in charge of bee-keeping and maple-syrup production and put his journalism experience to use when he founded the periodical L’Abeille (now known as L’Abeille et l’érable). His true talents became evident when he became director of the Caisse-Populaire at Lévis. For the next more than forty years he occupied various important positions there while at the same time serving as general manager for the regional federation of caisses populaires for the Quebec district, then as the first president of the Fédération des caisses populaires for the province of Quebec. He established the periodical Caisse populaire Desjardins (now Révue Desjardins) in 1934. He also served on the Lévis school board (1927-1961) and as president of the St. Vincent de Paul Society at Lévis. In 1944 he was invested as a Commander of the British Empire.

Isaac Newton Vail was born on January 30, 1840, in Belmont, Ohio.

He was an American Quaker, schoolteacher, and pseudoscientist. He was trained and then taught at the Quaker Seminary in Westtown, Pennsylvania. He left to pursue his independent study of flood geology. Vail argued that the Earth once had rings like Saturn's. This theory became known as the "Vailan theory" or "Annular Theory of Evolution." His 1886 "Canopy Theory" proposed that the Earth had been ringed by a toroidal mass of ice, which he named the "firmament." Vail believed that this could explain Noah's Flood and described it in his book "The Earth's Aqueous Ring: or The Deluge and its Cause" (1874). The 1900 census records his occupation as a farmer.

In 1864, he married Rachel D. Wilson (1842–1877), and in 1880, he remarried Mary M. Cope (1838–1920). He died on January 26, 1912, in Pasadena, California.

de V. Payen-Payne, assistant-examiner in French in the University of London, principal of Kensington Coaching College, author of "French idioms and proverbs."