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Wilfrid Laurier was born at St-Lin, Quebec. He was educated at l'Assomption College and McGill University. He practised law in Montreal from 1864 to 1866 and in Arthabaska from 1867 to 1896. A radical Liberal in his early years, Laurier was a member of L'Institut Canadien and editor of a liberal newspaper "Le Défricheur", 1866-1867. Laurier was never actively engaged in business but he held directorships in a few companies including the Royal Mutual Life Insurance Company and the Ontario Mutual Life Insurance Company. He married Zoé Lafontaine in 1868; they had no children. In 1871, Laurier was elected to the Quebec Legislative Assembly, representing Drummond-Arthabaska. In 1874, he resigned his seat and was elected to represent the same constituency in the House of Commons. Defeated in a by-election in 1877 when he was appointed to the Cabinet, Laurier won a seat in Quebec East which he represented continuously until his death forty-two years later. In 1887 he became leader of the Liberal Party. He was Prime Minister of Canada from 11 July 1896 to 9 October 1911. This was a period of prosperity and important national development. After his defeat as Prime Minister in 1911, Laurier remained leader of the Liberal Party until his death on 17 February 1919.

Prime minister of Canada, Ottawa, Ont., 1896-1911.

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Agnes C. Laut (1871-1936) was born in Ontario and educated in Manitoba. She was as Canadian journalist, novelist and historian who worked for the Manitoba Free press before emigrating to the United States.

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Alfred Edward Lavell was born in Kingston in 1870 to Michael Lavell, M.D. and Betsy Reeve Lavell. He was educated at Queen's University and Victoria University, Toronto where he obtained a B.A. and D.D. In 1897 he married Laura Ethel Gillespie of St. Catherines, Ontario. They had two daughters. From 1916 to 1919 he served in World War I. He was appointed Parole Commissioner in 1919 and Provincial Historian in 1932. He was the author of The Convicted Criminal and His Reestablishment, A History of the Ontario Hospitals for the Insane and Mentally Defective, and A History of Penal and Reformatory Institutions in Upper Canada, 1792-1932. He was for eight years a member of the Board of Regents, Victoria University. He died in 1951.

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Dr. Michael Lavell was the chair of obstetrics in the Faculty of Medicine at Queen's University (starting in 1860), later the first dean of the Kingston Women's Medical College, and also the surgeon (since 1872) and Warden of Kingston Penitentiary, starting in Janury 1885.