Bruce Graham Trigger was born on June 18, 1937 in Preston, Ontario (now Cambridge) and died on December 1, 2006, in Montreal, Quebec. On December 7, 1968, he married Barbara Marian Welch, whom he had met at McGill University while she was in the midst of a campaign to permit women into the reading room of McGill University’s Faculty Club. They had two children, Isabel Marian and Rosalyn Theodora, who both studied at McGill. Trigger was schooled at St. Mary’s Collegiate Institute in 1951 and the Stratford Collegiate Institute in 1955. He earned his B.A. from the University of Toronto in 1959, and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1964, his Ph.D. thesis was titled “History and Settlement of Lower Nubia.” Trigger spent the following year teaching at Northwestern University and then became assistant professor with the Department of Anthropology at McGill, where he remained for the rest of his career. He published over twenty books, including the book “A History of Archaeological Thought,” which became required reading in the discipline. Trigger also conducted ethnographic research and was best known for The Children of Aataentsic, a two-volume study of the Huron peoples. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada from 1976, was awarded the Cornplanter Medal in 1979, and was made an Officer of the National Order of Quebec in 2001, and in 2005, was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. Trigger wrote that his most cherished honour was his adoption into the Great Turtle Clan of the Huron-Wendat Conferedacy in 1989, where he was given the name Nyemea.

Mark Trifiro is project director at the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Chief of Endocrinology at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, and a professor in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University. Trifiro joined the Jewish General Hospital in 1991 following an endocrinology residency at Harvard and postdoctoral work at the Clinical Research Institute of the Jewish General Hospital. He joined the McGill Group in Medical Genetics in 2001 as a medical endocrinologist.

George Macaulay Trevelyan was born on February 16, 1876, in Stratford-Upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, younger brother of the politician Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (1870-1958).

He was a British historian, public educator, and conservationist. He was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the secret society, the Cambridge Apostles. He was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge (1898-1903). He lectured at Cambridge until 1903 when he left academic life to become a full-time writer. Trevelyan also edited a progressive journal Independent Review. He became active as a conservationist, successfully urging the preservation of the Ashridge estate by the National Trust in 1925. From 1927 to 1943, he was Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge and served as Master of Trinity College from 1940 to 1951. After he retired, he served as Chancellor of Durham University (1950-1958). He was the author of many books, e.g., "England in the Age of Wycliffe" (1899), "England under the Stuarts" (1904), "The Life of John Bright" (1913), and "An Autobiography and Other Essays" (1949). His great work was his Garibaldi trilogy (1907–1911), which established his reputation as the outstanding literary historian of his generation.

In 1904, he married Janet Penrose Ward (1879–1956). He died on July 21, 1962, in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England.

Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan, 3rd Baronet, was born on October 28, 1870, in London, England, elder brother of the historian George Macaulay Trevelyan (1876-1962).

He was a British politician and historian. He was educated at Harrow School (1884–1889) and Trinity College, Cambridge (1889–1892). He was briefly appointed private secretary to Lord Houghton at Dublin Castle but left Ireland in 1893. Trevelyan was elected Liberal Member of Parliament for Elland, Yorkshire (1899-1918) and Labour Member of Parliament for Newcastle Central (1922-1931). He served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education (1908-1914) and President of the Board of Education (1924; 1929-1931). In 1924, he was sworn to the Privy Council. Apart from his political career, Trevelyan was also Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland between 1930 and 1949. In 1942, Trevelyan and his wife donated Wallington Hall, complete with the estate and farms, inherited in 1928, to the National Trust, the first donation of this kind.

In 1904, he married Mary Katharine Bell (1881–1966). He died on January 24, 1958, in Wallington Hall, Northumberland, England.