Barbara Anne Van Nimwegen was born Barbara Anne Byers in 1941 to Donald and Anne Byers of Montreal, Quebec. Barbara attended Miss Edgar's School and Westmount High School. She graduated from the Royal Victoria Hospital Nursing School and worked at the Royal Victoria Hospital as charge nurse on the postpartum ward and operating nurse in the obstetrics operating room. Barbara married Donald Van Nimwegen of Boston, Massachuetts, on October 22, 1966, at the Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul in Montreal. Following her marriage, Barbara moved to the United States, where she worked in the operating room of St. Margaret's Hospital in Boston. In 1969, she returned to Montreal and had her first child, Derrik, while her husband served in Vietnam. She later moved to Seattle where she had children Michael and Kathryn were born.

Addison Van Name was born on November 15, 1835, in Chenango, Broome County, New York.

He was an American philologist and librarian. He graduated from Yale University in 1858. In 1865, he became University Librarian at Yale University, a position he held until 1904. During his forty-year tenure as University Librarian, the number of volumes in the Yale Library increased from 44,500 to 475,000. He taught Hebrew at Yale for four years and was the Librarian of the American Oriental Society. Van Name was made librarian emeritus in 1905. He published "Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University" (1913).

In 1867, he married Julia Gibbs (1836–1916). He died on September 29, 1822, in New Haven, Connecticut.

William Cornelius van Horne was born on February 3, 1843, near Frankfort, Illinois and died on September 11, 1915, in Montreal. He was the eldest child of Cornelius Covenhoven Van Horne and Mary Minier Richards. In 1867, Van Horne married Lucy Hurd, they had three children. Van Horne began working on railroads in 1857, serving in various capacities on the Michigan Central Railway from 1858 to 1864 and then on the Chicago and Alton Railway from 1864 to 1872. He served as the general superintendent of the Chicago and Alton Railway from 1878 to 1879. In 1882 he was appointed general manager of the Canadian Pacific Railway, became vice-president in 1884, and president in 1888, overseeing the construction of the first Canadian transcontinental railroad. Van Horne later invested in the Cuba Railroad Company, which built the first trans-country railway connecting Havana with the two eastern provinces of Camaguey and Oriente in 1901. He presided over the expansion of the CPR into the luxury hotel business and participated in the design of two of the most famous hotels in the chain, the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City and Chateau Lake Louise in Alberta. Van Horne also launched the sea transport division of the CPR, inaugurating a regular service between Vancouver and Hong Kong in 1891 on the Empress luxury liners. Van Horne was a governor of McGill University from 1895 to 1915. He was made honorary Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in Queen Victoria’s 1894 Birthday Honours. The Van Horne Institute based in Calgary is affiliated with the University of Calgary, Athabasca University, and the University of Alberta, and conducts research and policy studies related to all things carriage related, including rail, air, shipping, and road transportation. Van Horne was also a painter; his surviving works now reside in museums like the Montreal Museum of Fine Art.

Lucy Adaline Hurd was born September 19, 1837, in Roylton, New York. She married Sir William Cornelius Van Horne on March 26, 1867. She died January 24, 1929 in Montreal.

Lucy Adaline "Addie" Van Horne was born June 7, 1868, in Bloomington, Illinois. She was the daughter of Sir William Cornelius Van Horne and Lucy Hurd. She died February 24, 1941, in Montreal.