Rev. William Snodgrass was born on September 4, 1827, in Cardonald Mills, near Paisley, Scotland.

He was a clergyman and educator. He graduated from the University of Glasgow, where he was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1852. The same year he received an appointment from the Colonial Committee of the Church of Scotland as a missionary to Prince Edward Island. He served as minister of St. James' Church in Charlottetown, and in 1856, he accepted the prestigious position of minister of St. Paul’s Church in Montreal. He also served as clerk of the Synod of the Presbyterian Church of Canada (1857-1864) and was editor of the Presbyterian (1863-1865). In 1864, Snodgrass was appointed the 5th Principal of Queen's College, Kingston, Ontario. He had to deal with some trying circumstances, including the end of government grants after the unification of the provinces in 1867. Snodgrass and the Trustees launched a very ambitious, yet remarkably successful fundraising campaign across Canada. After the campaign, Snodgrass was faced with the question of the unification of the Presbyterian Church (split in 1844) and of possible amalgamation with the University of Toronto. He managed to help reach a unity settlement that would allow Queen's to remain as it was. In 1869, the first female students were admitted, the library was substantially expanded, the University Council and the position of Chancellor were created, and the Queen's Journal released its first issue. Exhausted by the burdens of office, Snodgrass resigned in 1877 and accepted a call to a comfortable parish in Canonbie, Scotland. The University of Glasgow conferred on him the honorary degree of D.D. in 1865.

In 1852, he married Jessie Calder Pollok (1828–1908). He died on July 22, 1906, in Kilmacolm, Scotland.

Nancy Sniper is a Canadian writer, poet, actor, singer-songwriter, and director. She holds four university degrees and is a classical pianist and singer-songwriter with three released CDs. Her anti-bullying song, "Be You," was given a special performance during l concert for young adults at Ontario Place in Toronto. She served as an arts columnist for Montreal's Free Press paper from 1999 to 2016 and has been an internationally published travel journalist for over 40 years. An intrepid traveller, Snipper has done archaeology in Greece, worked as a journalist there, acted professionally in its amphitheatres, and interviewed prominent artists from the country. She is the author of eight children's books, including "Les Cinq Sens en Folie" / "The Crazy and Amazing Five Senses Book" (1997), which won a Mr. Christie nomination. She also published a collection of poems, "Beyond the Dream: Epic Solitude" (2014) and a novel, "Floating on Lily Pads" (2015). Her animated film "Tapping Tango" (2018) was presented at the Fantasia International Film Festival. Snipper won Best Director-Animation for her animated film "Fowl Crossing" at multiple international festivals, including Aphrodite Film Awards, New York City, N. Y., Twilight Tokyo Film Festival, Tokyo, Japan, 2021 Drive-In Events, Long Island, N.Y., 2021 Erie International Film Festival, and 2021 Cannes World Film Festival, Cannes, France.

Born in Snelgrove, Ontario, John F. Snell obtained his B.A. from the University of Toronto in 1894 and his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1898. Snell joined the faculty of McGill University in 1907 and became the first Professor of chemistry at Macdonald College. Upon his retirement in 1936 as Professor Emeritus, he was appointed by the Board of Governors at McGill as honorary historian of Macdonald College. The result of his research was published after his death as History of Macdonald College of McGill University (McGill University Press, 1963).

Henry Saxon Snell (1831-1904) worked in the offices of Sir James Pennethorne, Sir Joseph Paxton and Sir William Tite. In 1851 he won the Royal Academy Silver Medal for his measured drawings of St. Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside. About 1866 he was appointed architect to the St.Marylebone Board of Guardians, beginning the reconstruction of the Marylebone Workhouse.He became a member of the Architectural Association in 1850 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1873. Among his principal architectural works were the Boys’ School for the Royal Patriotic Fund, Wandsworth; the Convalescent Home for Children, Norbiton; the Holorn Union Infirmary, Highgate Hill; St. Olave’s Tooly Street Union Infirmary, St. George’s Hanover Square, Union Infirmary; Casual Wards, Marylbone Workhouse; Marylbone Swimming Baths; Infirm Wards and administrative offices for St. Luke’s Workhouse in City Road and Shepherdess Walk.

In 1887 his designs were adopted for a conversion of the front main building of the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary for administrative and clinical purposes only, and for the removal of all the patients into new pavilions at the rear. He was architect jointly with Mr. Alfred Williams, of the Kensington Infirmary, and assisted Capt. Fowke, R.E., on the Dublin Exhibition.

Henry Saxon Snell was afterwards in partnership with his son, Alfred Saxon Snell, under the name of H. Saxon Snell and Son, and carried out extensive works for various Metropolitan Boards of Guardians. He retired in 1897. Under the terms of his will, the sum of £750 was given to the Royal Institute of British Architects for the institution and maintenance of a special triennial Scholarship. Among his publications are Charitable and Parochial Institutions (London: B.T. Batsford, 1881) and Hospital Construction and Management (London: Churchill,1883).

In September 1887,the name of the British architect Henry Saxon Snell (1831-1904) was mentioned by the founders of the RVH as a suitable architect for the project. On December 22, 1887 it was decided to employ Saxon Snell for the preparation of the plans, specifications and working drawings of the hospital. He visited Montreal for the first time in the winter of 1888 bringing with him sketch plans for a proposed hospital. The plans were the subject of much protest because of the size of the buildings. After the change of site for the hospital to University Street, he returned to Montreal in the spring of 1889 with new plans. The final plans showed many changes in the layout, in the staff accommodation, the size of the Out-Patient Department, and in operating room facilities.

Karen Smythe of the architectural firm Smythe and Schyberg, was one of the architects for the residence of J. W. McConnell, Saran Chai in Val David, Quebec, 1929-1930.

Sir Warington Wilkinson Smyth was born on August 26, 1817, in Naples, Italy, where his father, William Henry Smyth (1788-1865), was engaged in the Admiralty Survey of the Mediterranean.

He was a British geologist. He was educated at Westminster and Bedford School. He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A., 1839). After receiving a travelling scholarship, he spent about four years in Europe, Anatolia, Syria, and Egypt, studying mineralogy and mining, examining coal fields, metalliferous mines, and salt-works, and meeting many distinguished geologists and mineralogists. Upon his return to England in 1844, Smyth was appointed mining geologist of the National Geological Survey. In 1851, he became a lecturer at the Royal School of Mines, a post he held until 1881. In 1851, he became Chief Mineral Inspector of the Office of Woods and Forests. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1858. He became president of the Geological Society of London in 1866–1868. In 1879, he was chairman of a Royal Commission on Accidents in Coal Mines, thus becoming part of the reform for safety in mines. In the same year, he became the Foreign Secretary of Geological Society. He contributed papers to the Memoirs of the Geological Survey, the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, and the Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, serving as its president from 1871 to 1879, and again from 1883 to 1890. He was the author of “A Year with the Turks” (1854) and “A Treatise on Coal and Coal-mining” (1867). Smyth was knighted in 1887.

In 1864, he married Anna Maria Antonia Story Maskelyne (1827–1909). He died on June 19, 1890, in London, England.