Acquaviva was a Jesuit Catholic priest born in Rome who served as the Superior General of the Society of Jesus from 1581 to 1615.

Action Santé de Pointe St-Charles is a not-for-profit organization operating since 1974 as a self-help group to support and maintain adults living with mental health problems in the community. Its environment offers dignity, human resources, and moral and material support to help participants through periods of crisis, isolation, and psychological distress.

Created in 1981, la Table de concertation (Neighbourhood Round Table) Action-Gardien (la Corporation de développement de Pointe-Saint-Charles) takes its name from the English expression "Watch Dog Committee".
It is a tool that brings together neighbourhood's community organizations. Through cooperation, collective action and citizen mobilization, it aims to strengthen the population's ability to take charge of improving its living conditions. Citizens can collectively exercise power and action on issues that directly affect them: health, housing, income, education, urban planning, justice and advocacy, the environment, safety, historical heritage, culture, living conditions (youth, families, women, seniors, immigrants, etc.).
In 2004, Action-Gardien brought together 26 groups and two observer members, the Éco-quartier de Pointe-Saint-Charles and the Regroupement économique et social du Sud-Ouest (RÉSO) and it still continues to represent the will of citizens to take charge of the future of their neighbourhood.

Action-Housing, Inc. is a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, based organization created in 1957 by its Mayor David Lawrence and philanthropist Richard King Mellon, along with other civic leaders. It was created with the guiding principle that any great city must have not only a vibrant city center, but also strong neighborhoods and good housing for its residents. Its mission is to empower people to build more secure and self-sufficient lives through the provision of decent, affordable housing, essential supportive services, asset building programs, and educational and employment opportunities in Southwestern Pennsylvania.

E. R. Adair was born in London and educated at the Universities of London and Cambridge. During World War I, he was senior history master at Felstead School, Essex, and after the war served as senior assistant in history at University College, London. In 1925 he joined the History Department at McGill, serving as chairman from 1942 to 1947. He was President of the Canadian Historical Association for 1935-1936, and retired from McGill in 1954. He passed away a year later.

Adam Miller & Co. was a publishing firm. The firm that later became W. J. Gage and Company began in Montreal in 1844 as R. & A. Miller, Booksellers and Stationers. The firm expanded to Toronto in 1860, and in 1863, it became Adam Miller & Co. William Gage was hired as a clerk and bookkeeper in 1874. After Mr. Miller died in 1875, Mr. Gage conducted the business with Mrs. Miller until her retirement in 1878. In 1879, the company changed its name to W. J. Gage & Co.

Adam Stevenson & Co. was a Toronto publishing house active in the 1870s.

Parisian-born French composer Adolphe Charles Adam was the son of Alsatian composer and pianist Johann Ludwig (Jean-Louis) Adam. The latter opposed Adolphe’s musical inclinations, but young Adolphe liked to improvise and was secretive about his composing. At the age of 17 he was allowed to attend the Paris Conservatoire after he promised that his musical interests were only for his own amusement, not for a career. He studied organ and harmonium there under François Adrien Boieldieu but did not keep his promise to his father. By 1830 he had completed 28 works for the theater. To escape the political turmoil in Paris, he went to London for a couple of years. On his return in 1832, he composed more operas, the most popular of which was the 1834 comic operetta “Le Chalet,” a joint effort with his friend, librettist Eugene Scribe. His career was assured with another success, “Le postillon de Longjumeau.” After some differences with the Opéra de Paris, in 1847 he decided to open another opera house in Paris, the Théâtre National. The revolutionary political situation in 1848 meant that it was forced to close, causing him to lose both his own investment and the loans he had undertaken. After his father’s death and heavily in debt, he took a position teaching at the Conservatoire in 1849, where ballet composer Léo Delibes was among his pupils. He worked there until he died in his sleep in 1856. In the course of his prolific career he wrote 70 operas and 14 ballets, the best known of which are Giselle (1841) and Le Corsaire (1856). Although Giselle was not particularly popular at the time, after its revival by famous Russian dancer Sergei Diaghilev in 1910, it became one of the most sought-after roles for ballerinas. He also wrote the Christmas carol “O Holy Night,” known in French as “Minuit, Chrétiennes” or “Cantique de Noël.” Played on the violin by Canadian inventor, Reginald Fessenden, on Christmas Eve in 1906, it was the first piece of music ever broadcast on radio.