Thomas MacFarlane, born near Glasgow, Scotland, was educated in Glasgow and at the Royal Mining School, Freiburg, Germany. He worked briefly in Norway before coming to Canada in 1860. MacFarlane was employed in various mining projects, and discovered the famous Silver Islet mine on Lake Superior. He was chief analyst to the Department of Inland Revenue, Ottawa from 1886 until his death.

Knutusoff (or Kutusoff) Nicolson (or Nicholson) Macfee was born on April 22, 1851, in St. Jean Chrysostome, Quebec.

He was a Canadian lawyer, barrister, and financial agent. In the 1880s he resided and worked in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and around 1900 he moved to London, England. He was the author of "Imperial Customs Union - A Practical Scheme of Fiscal Union for the Purposes of Defence and Preferential Trade from a Colonist's Standpoint" (1896).

In 1910, he married Janet Louisa Fielding (1891-). He died on December 18, 1911, in London, England.

James Drummond MacGregor was the first Gaelic-speaking minister to settle in Pictou, Nova Scotia.