Louis Adolphe Huguet-Latour was born on December 31, 1821, in Montreal, Quebec.

He was a notary and historian. In 1857, he was in the military, promoted to Captain, 1st Prince of Wales Rifles, and retired at the rank of Major in 1862. In 1861, he was elected to the American Antiquarian Society and in 1873, to the Editorial Committee of Canadian Antiquarian. He became Chevalier of the Order of St. Gregory the Great in 1878 and in 1894, he became Librarian and Secretary of Société Historique de Montréal. He published "Les Annales de la tempérance" (1854) and numerous editions of the pamphlet "Annuaire de Ville-Marie: origine, utilité et progrès des institutions Catholiques de Montréal" (1863-1882) with reference to the Catholic Church for which Pope Pius X made him a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre.

In 1855, he married Marie Louise Justine Picard (1832–). He died in May 1904, in Montreal, Quebec.

James Laughlin Hughes was born on February 20, 1846, in Orono, Ontario.

He was a teacher, school inspector, and author. In 1866, he graduated from the Normal School of Toronto and became headmaster of the Frankford (County Hastings) school. In 1867, he became a teacher and later principal in the Provincial Model School, Toronto. He specialized in the study of the psychology of children. In 1874, he was appointed Chief Inspector of schools for the city of Toronto, a position he held until his retirement in 1913. He earned an international reputation in the field of primary education. The development of the public school system in Toronto over nearly four decades was in a great measure his work, as his advice was always sought and almost invariably accepted when innovations or expansions were under discussion. He was the author of several works, including "Dickens as an Educator" (1902), "Mistakes in Teaching” (1906), and "Froebel's Educational Laws" (1910).

About 1875 he married Annie Sutherland (1849-1884), in 1885, he married Adaline Augusta Marean (1848–1929), and in 1930, he married Estella Rounding (ca. 1894- ). He died on January 5, 1935, in Toronto, Ontario.