Frank Buller (1844-1905) was the first ophthalmologist in Montreal and one of the first to practice this specialty in Canada. He was born in Campbellford, ON, in 1844 and received his M.D. from Victoria University in 1869. He was the first Professor of Ophthalmology and Otology in McGill and became Chief and Director of the Departments of Ophthalmology and Otology at the Royal Victoria Hospital when it opened in 1893.

Henry Bulmer was born in 1822 in Hatfield, Yorkshire, England.

In 1832, he moved to Canada with his family. For many years he was engaged in the building trade and for over a half-century he was identified with the business growth of Montreal. Later in life, he started a career as a member of the Montreal City Council. For years he held a prominent place in the direction of the Montreal Conservative party. He was also chairman of the Montreal Harbor Board.

In 1848, he married Jane Maxwell. He died on October 1, 1912, in Montreal, Quebec.

John Thomas Bulmer was born in 1845 or 1846 in Nappan, Nova Scotia.

He was a lawyer, librarian, bibliophile, and social reformer. He graduated from Amherst Academy, Massachusetts and in 1871, he came to Halifax, where he articled to lawyer Howard Maclean. In 1871, he was called to the bar and he practised law in Halifax for the rest of his life, achieving a considerable reputation as counsel for defendants in criminal trials. He was also an enthusiastic promoter of efficient and scientific librarianship. He served as librarian of the Nova Scotia Historical Society and edited the first volume of its Collections (1878). In 1879, he was appointed a provincial librarian. He would leave behind him a library of over 25,000 volumes, including many rare books and an invaluable array of old Nova Scotian periodicals. When the Dalhousie law school opened its doors in 1883, Bulmer was the logical choice as a librarian. As a social reformer, he was passionately attached to the temperance cause. In 1888, he founded a weekly magazine, the Canadian Voice (Halifax), to promote his agenda, e.g., female suffrage, equal pay for men and women, a fairer distribution of wealth and the black communities’ rights.

In 1877, he married Eleanor Jane McHeffey. He died on February 9, 1901, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.