Henry Alexander Budden was born on April 16, 1828, in Quebec City, Quebec. He was a Montreal lawyer and Vice-President of the Intercolonial Coal Company, operating in Pictou County, Nova Scotia. In 1855, he married Jessica Elizabeth Kerr (1834–1857) and in 1861, Henrietta Cecilia Napier (1840–1892). He died on February 27, 1900, in Montreal, Quebec.

Daniel Andrew Budge was born on April 16, 1851, in Newmarket, Ontario.

He was a General Secretary of the Montreal Y.M.C.A. from 1874 until 1913. His vision and zeal laid the foundation for the Young Men's Christian Association in Montreal and influenced the extension of the movement throughout the world. During World War I, he played a large part in organization and operation of the Red Triangle activities in England and France. In 1937, the Montreal Central Y.M.C.A. on Drummond street renamed its Association Hall the D. A. Budge Memorial Hall in his honour.

In 1876, he married Annie Margaret Watson (1852–1931). He died on February 13, 1933, in Montreal, Quebec.

E. Buek was a prolific and versatile translator who specialized in translations of vocal musical works in the late 19th and early 20th century. Buek could translate equally from German to English and from English to German. One of the best known of these works was the “Standchen “or “Serenade,” an adaptation for voice of the fourth movement (Andante grazioso) of Victor Herbert’s Suite for Cello and Orchestra. It was published in both New York and Berlin in 1889. An example of Buek’s translation skill was the conversion from English to German of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem The Nun of Nidarus for a composition by Daniel Protheroe, a Welsh composer who taught music in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Buek also translated many cantatas and German lieder into English.