Edward Mahler Ballon was born on February 14, 1925, in Montreal, Quebec.

He was a Canadian businessman and educator. He attended Selwyn House School, St. Andrew's College, and McGill University in Montreal. He left McGill from 1943 to 1945 to serve as a lieutenant in the Royal Navy. After returning to student life, he became president of the McGill Student Society and captain of the track team. Ballon excelled in running, particularly in the mile, and competed nationally and internationally. In 1950, he earned his MBA from the Harvard Business School. Later in his career, he served as Chairman of the Board of Selwyn House, spent thirty-four years on the Board of Governors of St. Andrew's, and held positions such as President of the McGill Graduate Society and member of its Board of Governors. Additionally, Ballon taught marketing at the University of Toronto Business School, served as an executive for the Hudson's Bay Company, and was Vice President of Retail Operations for Henry Birks & Sons for twenty years. After "retirement," he became the Executive Director of the Business Fund for Canadian Studies in the United States. Ballon had a passion for racquet sports, sailing, the monarchy, bridge, and maintaining long-term friendships. He was known by various titles such as The Admiral, Professor, and Sir Edward. He was remembered for his notable election campaign at McGill, his engaging yet sentimental poetry, his sense of fair play, right-wing politics, and his bold flirting.

In 1958, he married Heather and they had five children. Ballon died on April 26, 2014, in Toronto, Ontario.

William Hosea Ballou was born on September 30, 1857, in Monroe, Franklin, Massachusetts.

He was a geologist, author, and expert on fungi, fish, and reptiles. In 1879, he entered Northwestern University at Evanston, Illinois, focusing on the natural sciences. While there, he was a correspondent of Chicago dailies and an assistant literary editor of one of them. His first magazine article was published in the American Naturalist. He spent most of his life working for the U. S. Department of Agriculture. He was a Government naturalist in the Arctic expedition which rescued Major General A. W. Greely in 1884. He won the approbation and thanks of Queen Victoria for his work in making transportation of animals at sea safe.

He died on December 1, 1937, in Alpine, New Jersey.

Kenneth Balmer is a Canadian recreationist and author who was born in 1946. In 1969, he graduated from the University of Toronto with a B.A. degree and wrote a thesis titled "Park vs Parkway: A Study in Urban Land Use Conflicts." In 1978, he interpreted and prepared a report called "The Elora Prescription: A Future for Recreation," which was developed by a group of concerned recreationists for the Ontario Ministry of Culture and Recreation. In 1994, he published a paper titled "Outdoor Recreation in British Columbia: A Protected Areas Strategy for British Columbia: Background Papers" (1994). He is also the author of the book "Viral Foresight: Exploring the COVID-19 Change Imperative," published in 2020.

Thomas Arthur Ban was born on November 16, 1929, in Budapest, Hungary.

He was a Hungarian-born Canadian psychiatrist, psychopharmacologist, academic, researcher, and theorist. In 1954, he graduated from the Medical School of the Semmelweis University in Budapest and became a Resident Psychiatrist at the National Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology from 1954 to 1956. After the Hungarian Uprising in 1957/58, he emigrated to Canada and served as a rotating intern at the Victoria General Hospital in Halifax from 1957 to 1958, and as a resident psychiatrist in Montreal at the Verdun Protestant Hospital (VPH) from 1958 to 1959, and at the Allan Memorial Institute from 1959 to 1960. In 1960, Ban joined the staff at VPH as Senior Psychiatrist and Chief of the Clinical Research Service. He received his Diploma in Psychiatry from McGill University in 1960, with a thesis on “Conditioning and Psychiatry,” published in 1964. In 1969, he published the first textbook in the emerging field, "Psychopharmacology." In 1970, Ban was awarded the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry Annual Research Fund Award. In 1971, he became the founding director of the first Division of Psychopharmacology in the world at the Department of Psychiatry at McGill University. He was a critic of psychiatric practice, accusing the discipline of lacking a coordinated body of knowledge. Beginning in the 1960s, he was at the vanguard for a biologically based psychiatry at odds with the then-dominant Freudian psychoanalytic approach to treatment. He received the first annual Canadian Psychiatric Association’s McNeil Award in 1969. He won the award again in 1970 and 1973. Additionally, he was on the boards of two Hungarian neuropsychiatric journals, in addition to journals in Argentina, Brazil, Italy, and the United States. In 1976, he became a full professor of psychiatry at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee and the director of the clinical research division of the Tennessee Neuropsychiatric Institute. In 1995, Vanderbilt University appointed him professor of psychiatry, emeritus. In his remaining years, he passionately devoted himself to the history of neuropsychopharmacology, including co-editing with Edward Shorter and David Healy a four-volume autobiographical account series for the Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologicum (CINP), and as editor-in-chief of a ten-volume oral history psychopharmacology series for the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. He was a founder and the first executive editor of The International Network for the History of Neuropsychopharmacology (INHN) website from its inception in 2013 until his death. In 2003, he was bestowed with the Paul Hoch Distinguished Service Award of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.

He died on February 4, 2022.

The Bancroft Library in the center of the Berkeley campus of the University of California, Berkeley, is the university's primary special-collections library. It was acquired from its founder, Hubert Howe Bancroft, in 1905, with the proviso that it retain the name Bancroft Library in perpetuity. The collection at that time consisted of 50,000 volumes of materials on the history of California and the North American West. It is the largest such collection in the world. The building the library is located in, the Doe Annex, was completed in 1950.

Rev. Charles Bancroft, M.A., was born on September 13, 1845, in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Rev. Canon Charles Bancroft (1819-1877).

He was an Anglican clergyman who received his education at Montreal High School, McGill University, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (B.D.). In 1865, he started his service as a deacon and curate at the Holy Trinity Church in Montreal, where his father was the rector. He was ordained a priest in 1869 and served as the rector of Knowlton, Quebec, from 1876 to 1888. Following this, he served as the rector at the Anglican Grace Church in Sutton, Québec, from 1888 to 1893, and at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Nashua, New Hampshire, from 1893 to 1905. In 1906, he retired to Knowlton, Quebec.

In 1869, he married Eunice Foster (1845-1912). He died on December 1, 1906, in Knowlton, Brome, Quebec.

Outram Bangs was born on January 12, 1863, in Watertown, Massachusetts.

He was an American naturalist and ornithologist. In 1884, he graduated from the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University. Harvard awarded him the honorary degree of Master of Arts in 1918. In 1900, Bangs became curator of mammals at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University and, in 1924, curator of birds. He visited Jamaica in 1906 and collected over 100 birds there, but his trip was cut short by dengue fever. His collection of over 10,000 mammalian skins and skulls, including over 100 type specimens, was presented to Harvard College in 1899. In 1908, he presented his collection of over 24,000 bird skins to the Museum of Comparative Zoology. In 1925, he travelled to Europe, visiting museums and ornithologists and arranging scientific exchanges. He wrote over 70 books and articles. He was a Fellow of the American Ornithologist Union, a foreign member of the British Ornithologist Union, and a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Washington Academy of Sciences.

In 1892, he married Elizabeth A. Bangs (1868–1907) and, in 1909, he remarried Annie Freeby. He died on September 22, 1932, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.