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Charles Augustus Brinley was born on August 23, 1847, in Hartford, Connecticut.

In 1865 and 1866, he became part of a U.S. Army expedition to survey roads for wagons in Arizona and California. As an amateur photographer, he was assigned to photograph the terrain. He was considered a pioneer in this field. After the termination of the expedition, he returned to the East where he graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University in 1869 and did post-graduate work in metallurgy and chemistry. In 1871, the Arizona Territorial Legislature commissioned him and two others to prepare and publish a pamphlet on the resources of Arizona (pastoral, mineral and agricultural). In 1872, he became the superintendent of the Midvale Steel Works in Philadelphia. In 1882, he became a manager at Franklin Sugar Refineries in Philadelphia and then the Managing Director and President of the American Pulley Company. He was a member of many groups, e.g., Society of Mayflower Descendants, Society of Cincinnati, Sons of The American Revolution, Rittenhouse Club, Philadelphia, and Cricket Club.

In 1877, he married Mary Goodrich Frothingham. He died on March 2, 1919, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Charles John Chester Briscoe was born in 1812 or 1813 in the Bay of Bengal, Indian Ocean. He was the only son of Charles J. Briscoe, Esq. (before 1796-1830) and spent many years in St. Andrews, New Brunswick. He served as the comptroller of St. Andrews customs until 1847, when he moved to St. John and took on the role of warehouse keeper.

He died on November 14, 1887, in Witney, Oxfordshire, England.

Canadian specialist in 18th-century French books, antiquarian bookseller, and former rare books curator and librarian at the Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa and Bibliothèque nationale du Quebec in Montreal. He is the author of the books, "Impressions" (1999), "The Printing of Handbills in Quebec City, 1764-1800" (1995) and its French version, "L'imprimerie à Québec au XVIIIe siècle: les feuilles volantes et affiches, 1764-1800" (2005).

Milton Harvey Brissette was born on October 1, 1843, in Chazy, Clinton County, New York.

He was a wholesale druggist and owner of Harvey Medicine Co. on 455 St. Paul St. in Montreal, Quebec (1869), selling patented remedies, e.g., Dr. Harvey's Anti-bilious Pills and Dr. Harvey's Red Pine cough medicine.

He died on February 27, 1897, in Chazy, Clinton County, New York.

For a century after the American Revolution and the peace of 1783, the military in Canada concerned itself almost exclusively with defence against the United States. During the War of 1812 successful defence against the United States was mostly attributable to the British regular regiments and the Royal Navy. In 1838 the regular garrison of British North America numbered over 13,000 men, but fell off to only about 3,000 in 1855 because of the high cost of maintaining such a force. The Militia Act of 1855 set up a new force of volunteers, not more than 5000 strong, which would be uniformed and armed and would undergo a short period of annual training. This volunteer force is the origin of the modern Canadian Army (Militia). The first Militia Act of the Dominion of Canada, passed in 1868, set up a Department of Militia and Defence and divided the country into military districts.