Sir David Kirke (c. 1597 - 1654) was an Scottish adventurer, colonizer and governor. Kirke was raised in English occupied Dieppe. In 1627 Kirke's father and several London merchants formed a company to encourage trade and settlement on the St. Lawrence River.

Charles Albanel (1616 - 11 January 1696) was a French missionary explorer in Canada, and Jesuit priest. In 1649, he arrived in Canada, at Tadoussac. At the time when the Hudson's Bay Company was beginning operations, he was a leader of a French party that went by the Saguenay River, Lake Mistassini, and the Rupert River to Hudson Bay claiming the region for France. On another journey there he was captured in 1674 by the English and taken to England.

Denis Jamet (d. February 26, 1625, Montargis, France) was a French Recollect priest and the first superior of the Canadian mission (1615). Father Jamet, head of the religious province of Saint-Denis in France, in 1615 was chosen by his superiors as provincial commissary and chief of the first band of Recollect friars, who were also the first missionaries of Canada. He sailed from Honfleur on the "St. Étienne" on April 24, 1615 with three other Recollects, …

Denis Jamay (d. 1625) was a Franciscan missionary, who played an important role in the early history of the Canadian Catholic church. No one knows when or where Jamay was born. In 1615, he was he was selected by his superiors in France to be the provincial commissary and chief of the first band of Recollect friars, who were also the first missionaries of Canada. He left on April 24, 1615 and arried at Tadoussac on May 24. Immediately after his arrival, …

François Crépieul was a Jesuit missionary in Canada and vicar apostolic for the Montagnais Indians. As a youth he studied in the Jesuit college of his native town and in that of Douai, becoming a member of the order at Tournai in 1659. He continued his studies at Lille and Douai and taught at Lille and Cambrai. In 1670 he sailed for Canada. Upon the completion of his theological studies in the College of Quebec, he was assigned in October 1671 to the Tadoussac region, …

Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, GCMG, GCVO, PC (August 6, 1820-January 21, 1914) was a Scottish-born Canadian fur trader, financier, railroad baron and politician.

Willard Morse Mitchell (1881-1955) was an artist and architect from Amherst, Nova Scotia best known for his miniature watercolour paintings. They were mostly nature scenes. About 1930 he removed to Montreal where he seems to have decided to focus on the sale of his art as souvenir pieces, mainly depicting scenes from rural Quebec.