Thomas Andrews was born on December 19, 1813, in Belfast, Ireland, the son of a Belfast linen merchant.

He was an Irish chemist, physicist, and professor. He attended the Belfast Academy and the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, where he studied mathematics. He continued his studies at the University of Glasgow (chemistry), Trinity College, Dublin (classics and science), and the University of Edinburgh (M.D., 1935). Andrews began a successful medical practice in his native Belfast in 1835, also giving instruction in chemistry at the Academical Institution. In 1845, he was appointed Vice-President of the newly established Queen's University of Belfast and its first Professor of Chemistry. He held these two offices until his retirement in 1879. An outstanding experimentalist, he was the first to show that ozone is another form of oxygen. In 1844, the Royal Society awarded him a Royal Medal for his research into gases. In 1867, became president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

In 1842, he married Jane Hardie Walker (1818–1899). He died on November 26, 1885, in Belfast, Ireland.

Louis Andriessen was born on June 6, 1939, in Utrecht, Netherlands.

He was a Dutch composer and pianist. He was born into a musical family of a prolific composer and organist, Hendrik Andriessen. He was educated at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague. In the early 1960s, he wrote for several magazines and newspapers alongside his composing work. In 1969, he co-founded the Studio voor Elektro-Instrumentale Muziek (an Amsterdam-based hub dedicated to technical innovation, experimental music, improvisation, and multi-media projects) and campaigned tirelessly to amplify contemporary music in the Netherlands and Amsterdam in particular. Andriessen’s major international breakthrough came in 1976 with the premiere of De Staat, which sets text from Plato’s The Republic. The composer described it as “a contribution to the debate about the relation of music to politics.” For the next forty-five years, Andriessen composed prolifically across many genres and forms, with notable works including De Materie (the mid-1980s), M is for Man, Music, Mozart (one of several collaborations with film-maker Peter Greenaway), the ‘grotesque stage work’ Theatre of the World (2013-15) and the Dante-inspired opera La Commedia, which won him the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition in 2011. Andriessen’s other awards included honorary doctorates from the University of Amsterdam and Birmingham City University, the Matthijs Vermeulen Award in 1977 and 1992, and the 1993 Edison Award.

In 1996, following a four-decade relationship, he married the guitarist, Jeanette Yanikian. He died on July 1, 2021, in Weesp, Netherlands.

Anerca was a Canadian non-profit independent small-press poetry magazine edited and published by Kedrick James, Adeena Karasick and Wreford Miller. “Anerca” is the Inuit word for both breath and poetry. It was a "monthly" newsletter of poetry and poetics which subsisted primarily on a mailing list of 400 writers and institutions throughout North America and overseas. The first issue was published in May 1986 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Each issue was hand-bound, sewn, or stapled and sent out, often with a handwritten personalized note. In 1987-88, Kedrick James and Adeena Karasick moved to Montreal to spend a year as visiting students at McGill University. During that time, they published an issue of Anerca, which was professionally printed, saddle-stapled, neat and tidy. In the 1990s, the print became rarified. The name Anerca was changed to Anerca Com.p/ost to reflect this change for the final issue in 1990. The editors recognized that passing into a digital era would subsume them and break down the nutrient of poetic effulgence for new growth. The end of Anerca rang an inaudible bell, marking the end of the West Coast literary tradition. In 2016, Kedrick James sold all the Anerca archives to Simon Fraser University Library, Special Collections.

Donald Forbes Angus was born on March 28, 1869, in Montreal, Quebec, a son of a Scottish-Canadian banker, financier, and philanthropist, Richard Bladworth Angus.

He was a Chairman of Standard Life Assurance and President of Guardian Life Assurance. Among other offices held, he was a director of the Bank of Montreal, the Royal Trust Company and the British Columbia Sugar Refinery.

In 1894, he married Mary Ethel Henshaw. He died on January 26, 1943 in Montreal, Quebec.

Frances Ramsay Angus was born on September 3, 1872, in Montreal, Quebec.

She was a Canadian writer, poet, editor, and teacher. She graduated from McGill University (B.A.) and taught French at the School of Education of the University of Chicago. Angus published the books “Fundamentals of French: A Combination of the Direct and Grammar Methods" (1916), “As We Are” (1940), "Sky Ways" (1943) and "The Call of Life" (1957). In 1928, she edited "French Poetry; an anthology, 1100-1925." She also published many poems in the Dalhousie Review (Halifax), London Saturday Review and other journals.

She died on November 18, 1962, in Montreal, Quebec.

Rev. Joseph Mortimer Angus was born on January 16, 1816, in Bolam, England.

He was a central figure in several Baptist institutions in the 19th century, heavily involved in its missionary work as secretary of the Baptist Missionary Society; but like all Baptists, Angus saw education as the key to redemption, to self-improvement, and therefore to making oneself more useful in the service of God. In 1849, he became head of Stepney Baptist College and remained in that post until 1893. Under his leadership, the college thrived and in 1856 moved from the east end of London to Regent’s Park in the centre of the city. It continues today as Regent’s Park College, Oxford, and Joseph’s books still form the heart of its Angus Library, the largest collection of Baptist literature in the world.

In 1841, he married Amelia Gurney. He died on August 28, 1902, in Middlesex, England.

Richard Bladworth Angus, banker, railway executive, businessman, and philanthropist was born on May 28, 1831, in Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland.

By 1857 he had secured a position with the Bank of Montreal. He emigrated to North America and represented the bank in its offices in Chicago and New York City, prior to moving to the bank's headquarters in Montreal, Quebec in 1864. In 1910, he became president of the Bank of Montreal, a position which he held until November 1913.

Angus was one of the wealthiest men in Montreal and well known for his philanthropic activities and generous donations to the causes he allied himself to. He was a founder and governor of the Alexandra Contagious Diseases Hospital of Montreal; President of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal; Vice-President to the Victorian Order of Nurses; Director of the Charity Organisation Society, which he funded; Governor of the Montreal General Hospital; Governor of the Fraser Institute Free Public Library, president of the Mount Royal Club, and an honourary member of the Antiquarian and Numismatic Society of Montreal. He supported McGill University with a considerable sum and served as president of the Montreal Art Association. He was the natural successor to Lord Mount Stephen as president of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1888, but he did not desire the position; he twice refused a knighthood. The CPR Angus Shops were named for him, as was one of the later CP Ships.

In 1878, Angus and his family moved into his new house at 240 Drummond Street in the Golden Square Mile which featured a large conservatory. It provided a suitable space for the art collection that he had started with purchases from Montreal and London dealers in the late 1870s. His collection contained many fine examples of the Old Masters, six of which he donated to the Montreal Art Association. Before his Montreal home was demolished in 1957, it served as McGill University's conservatory of music.

In 1901, Angus commissioned the construction of a grand country house on an estate named Pine Bluff at 218 Senneville Road in Senneville, Quebec, overlooking the Lake of Two Mountains. It was designed in the Châteauesque style by Edward Maxwell and his younger brother, William Maxwell. The house was completed in 1904 and replaced a home that had been built on the site in 1886 for Angus and then remodeled by Edward Maxwell from 1898 to 1899 before being destroyed by fire soon after. The new home, which included an ice house and a beach house, was later remodelled and eventually demolished in the 1950s.

In 1857, he married Mary Anne Daniels and they had three sons and six daughters. He died on Sept. 17, 1922, in Senneville, Quebec.