Bruce Whiteman (born David Bruce Whiteman) was born on June 18, 1952, in Southern Ontario.

He is a Canadian poet, translator, editor, librarian, and essayist. He was educated at Trent University and the University of Toronto. After working as a Rare Books Department librarian at McMaster and McGill Universities, he moved to Los Angeles in 1996 to become a head librarian at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library at UCLA, a position he held until 2010. Whiteman has published extensively as a poet, scholar, cultural historian, and book reviewer. He is the author of numerous books of poetry, including his long ongoing prose poem “The Invisible World is in Decline,” which has now reached the eighth book, with the ninth and final volume due for publication in 2022. His scholarly books include “Lasting Impressions: A Short History of English Publishing in Quebec” (1994) and “J.E.H. Macdonald” (1995). He has also written bibliographies of Leonard Cohen (1980) and Raymond Souster (1984). Whiteman lives in Peterborough, Ontario and regularly contributes book reviews and essays to publications such as TriQuarterly, Rattle, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Frederic Cope Whitehouse was born on November 6, 1842, in Rochester, New York, son of Episcopal bishop Henry John Whitehouse (1803-1874).

He was an archeologist, Egyptologist, author, engineer, and lawyer. He graduated from Columbia University (B.A., 1861; M.A., 1863) and continued his studies in France, Germany, and Italy. In 1871, he was admitted to the Bar of New York state. He later devoted much of his time to historical and scientific research and became an honorary and corresponding member of various learned societies in the United States, Europe, and Egypt. His research included a survey of Lake Moeris in Egypt, a site of engineering works during Ancient Egypt, Fingal's Cave, and the Caves of Staffa. Whitehouse took a deep interest in the better regulation of the waters of the Nile, and he wrote many papers on utilizing it as a reservoir for storing the surplus waters during the flood periods. For his research work, the Khedive of Egypt awarded him Grand Commander of the Medjidie. Whitehouse was an honorary member of the Chicago Historical Society and the Metropolitan Club of New York City.

He died unmarried on November 16, 1911, in New York City, New York.

Edward Ashworth Whitehead Jr. was born on May 24, 1869, in Canada.

In 1904, he purchased a property and built a home for his wife in Dorval on the shore of Lake St. Louis, called Great Elms.

In 1893, he married Ella May Sicotte. He died on May 1, 1908, in Montreal, Quebec.

Charles Ross Whitehead was a Quebec industrialist. He founded of the Wabasso Cotton Company Limited textile factory in Trois-Rivières in 1907 and the Shawinigan Cotton Company Ltd plant in Shawinigan in 1909. In 1910, he co-founded the Wayagamack Pulp and Paper Company Limited in 1910, with JN Greenshield and Rodolphe Forget.

Joseph Frederick Whiteaves was a British palaeontologist, born on December 26, 1835, in Oxford, England. In 1861 he visited Canada and got to know the geology of Quebec and Montreal. In 1863 he was appointed curator of the museum and secretary of the Natural History Society of Montreal, posts which he occupied until 1875. He studied the land and freshwater mollusca of Lower Canada and the marine invertebrates of the coasts. He also carried on researches among the older Silurian fossils of the neighbourhood of Montreal.
In 1875 he joined the palaeontological branch of the Geological Survey of Canada in Montreal. In 1877 he was appointed zoologist and assistant director of the survey.
He published numerous articles on Canadian zoology and palaeontology in the Canadian Naturalist, Transactions and other journals.
In 1900 he received the honorary degree of LL.D from McGill University, Montreal. He was a Fellow of the Geological Society of London and the Royal Society of Canada.
He died on August 8, 1909, in Ottawa, Ontario.

Walter White was born on April 23, 1811, in Reading, Berkshire, England.

He was a librarian and writer. He was educated at two local private schools. At fourteen, White left school to work in his father’s upholstering and cabinet-making business. He spent much of his leisure time reading and studying French, German, and Latin. In 1834, soon after his marriage, he moved his family to the United States in hopes of a better life. White plied his trade in New York City and Poughkeepsie without improving his circumstances and finding the cold winters hard to endure. His account of the emigrant's life, “A Working Man's Recollections of America”, was published in 1846. The family returned to England in 1839, where White rejoined his father's business, but in 1842, he left for London. He worked first as secretary to Joseph Mainzer, a music teacher, and later as an attendant in the Royal Society's library. He became involved in the process of cataloguing and in 1861, he was promoted to assistant secretary. In 1845, White's wife left him, and he was obliged to dispose of the family house. Only his eldest son remained with him. During this time, White wrote extensively for Chambers's Edinburgh Journal and other serials.

In 1830, he married Maria Hamilton (1806–1850). He died on July 18, 1893, in London, England.

Thomas White was born on August 7, 1830, in Montreal, Quebec.

He was a journalist and politician. He was educated at the High School of Montreal, then worked at several jobs in Montreal and Peterborough, Ontario, before entering the printing trade with the Queen's Printer in Toronto in 1850. He relocated to Quebec City in 1851 when the office moved there. In 1852, he joined the editorial staff of the Canada Gazette. He returned to Peterborough in 1853 to found the Peterborough Review with his brother-in-law. He also served as reeve of Peterborough. From 1860 to 1864, he studied law with Sidney Smith in Cobourg but soon returned to journalism. In 1864, White moved to Hamilton to take over the operation of the Daily Spectator and Journal of Commerce. In 1870, with his brother Richard, they bought control of the Montreal Gazette, the leading Conservative newspaper in Canada. White was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1878 elections representing the riding of Cardwell and was re-elected in 1882 and 1887. He also served as Minister of the Interior (1887) and Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs (1888).

In 1853, he married Eleanor Vine (1836–1934). He died on April 21, 1888, in Ottawa, Ontario.