George Winks Wood was born in 1863, in Montreal, Quebec.

He was educated in Montreal and, at the age of fifteen, he joined Hutchison and Steele firm as an assistant. In 1898, he joined forces with his father-in-law, Alexander Cowper Hutchison, and his brother-in-law William Burnet Hutchison to found Hutchison and Wood, which became one of the most important architectural firms of the early 20th century. From 1909 to 1919, John Melville Miller joined the group that became Hutchison, Wood, and Miller. He designed commercial, industrial, hotel, and office buildings. Among his achievements are the designs of the Guardian building, La Presse, Greenshields, Sovereign Bank, Duluth, Stanley Presbyterian Church, MacDonald College in Sainte-Anne de Bellevue, and the Windsor Hotel expansion. It was under his supervision that the first fireproof buildings in Canada were constructed.

He was a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and one of the oldest members of the Province of Quebec Association of Architects.

He married Helen Hutchison. He died on September 27, 1941, in Montreal, Quebec.

Edmund Wood was born on February 27, 1830, in London, England.

He was a Church of England priest and educator. He attended Turrell’s School, Brighton, University College School, London, and University College, Durham (B.A., 1854; M.A., 1857). He was ordained deacon in 1855 and served at Houghton-le-Spring until 1858, when he moved to Montreal, Quebec. Wood was appointed junior assistant at the pro-cathedral and assigned to minister to the poor in the southeastern part of the parish. He devoted the rest of his life to a work of worship and service to the poor. The original centre of Wood’s mission work was an old stone mortuary chapel in the Protestant burying ground at what is now Dufferin Square. In 1861, Wood acquired a new building at the corner of Saint-Urbain and Dorchester (Blvd. René-Lévesque) and founded the successful St. John the Evangelist parish. The same year he was ordained a priest. His congregation continued to grow, and, in 1874, a larger building was needed. The new church opened for worship in 1878 and, it still stands as a place of Anglo-Catholic worship at Saint-Urbain and Ontario St. in Montreal. By the 1880s, Wood’s reputation as a spiritual counsellor, a relentless advocate of the use of music and ceremonial to enrich the liturgy was becoming widespread. He became vicar general for Canada of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament and founded a society for the study of sacred choral music in his parish. Wood saw the education of the young as an important part of his parochial responsibility and organized a small St. John’s School where he served as both teacher and headmaster. By 1895 the school had seventy students and nine teachers. It remained under Wood’s direction until his death when it moved to another location and became Lower Canada College.

He died unmarried on September 26, 1909, in Montreal, Quebec.

Duncan Wood was born in Marvelville, Ontario on November 1 1867.. He attended Marrisberry Collegiate and taught school at Springhill, Ontario to pay for his education. He graduated from McGill in Medicine in 1895 and had flourishing medical practices in Ashland, Wakefield, and Needhma, Massachusetts. Each summer he returned to his home farm in Ontario to visit his brother Albert and family.