John Smythe Hall
John Smythe Hall (August 7, 1853 – January 8, 1909) was a Canadian lawyer, politician, and editor.
Born in Montreal, the son of John Smythe Hall, a lumber merchant, and Emma Brigham, he attended Bishop's College School in Lennoxville, Quebec and received a Bachelor of Law degree from McGill University in 1875.
He was called to the Quebec Bar in 1876 and then started a law career which would see him become a principal partner of the law firm Hall, Cross, Brown, and Sharp.
He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in the 1886 election for the riding of Montréal-Ouest.
A Conservative, he was acclaimed in the 1890 election in the riding of Montréal division no. 5 and was re-elected in the 1892 election.
He was defeated in the 1897 election.
In 1891, he was appointed provincial treasurer in the cabinet of Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville and served in the cabinet of Louis-Olivier Taillon.
After being ill and spending time to recover in Atlantic City, New Jersey and Denver, Colorado, Hall moved to Calgary, Alberta where he became editor-in-chief of the "Calgary Herald".
As well he opened a law firm call Hall and Stewart.
He was also a member of the Calgary Municipal Council and a city solicitor.
He died in Calgary in 1909 and was buried in Montreal.
Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel
Guillaume- Alphonse Nantel( November 4, 1852 – June 3, 1909) was a Canadian lawyer, journalist, author, newspaper owner, and politician.
Born in Saint- Jérôme, Quebec, he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada as a Conservative candidate in the Quebec riding of Terrebonne in the 1882 federal election.
He resigned less than two months later to allow Joseph- Adolphe Chapleau, the Secretary of State of Canada, to run for office.
In an August 1882 by-election, he was acclaimed to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in the riding of Terrebonne.
He was re-elected in 1886 and 1890.
He was acclaimed again in 1892 and re-elected in 1897.
He was the commissioner of public works in the cabinets of Charles- Eugène Boucher de Boucherville and Louis- Olivier Taillon.
He was also the commissioner of crown lands in the cabinet of Edmund James Flynn.
He was defeated in the 1900 elections.
He died in Montreal in 1909.
His brother, Wilfrid Bruno Nantel, was also a politician.
Louis Olivier Bourbeau
Louis Olivier Bourbeau (2 March 1811 – 6 October 1877) was a French lawyer and politician who became Minister of Education during the Second French Empire.
Jacinthe Taillon
Jacinthe Taillon( born January 1, 1977) is a Canadian competitor in synchronized swimming and Olympic medalist.
Born in Saint- Eustache, Quebec, Taillone participated on the Canadian team that received a bronze medal in synchronized team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.
She also won a gold medal at the 1999 Pan American Games in the team event and a gold medal at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in the Duet event.
Yordan Thimon
Yordan Louis Olivier Thimon( born 10 September 1996) is a Martiniquais football player.
He plays for Club Franciscain.
Louis-Olivier Taillon
Sir Louis-Olivier Taillon, (September 26, 1840 – April 25, 1923) was born in Terrebonne, Lower Canada (now Quebec).
He twice served as the eighth Premier of Quebec.
Taillon's first term of office was just four days, from January 25 to January 29, 1887.
This term came at the end of the Conservative government of his predecessor John Jones Ross.
Ross had lost the 1886 Quebec election, but had tried to cling to power in a minority government for a few more months.
Taillon was Leader of the Opposition from 1887 until 1890, when he lost the 1890 election and his own seat.
He briefly returned to the practice of law, but following the removal of Liberal Honoré Mercier from office by the Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec, Taillon became minister without portfolio in the government of Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville.
Taillon became premier when Boucher de Boucherville resigned.
He resigned in 1896 and moved into federal politics to serve as Postmaster-General in the very short-lived federal Conservative government of Charles Tupper, from May to July 1896.
He failed to gain a federal seat in the 1896 federal election, and likewise failed to secure a seat in the 1900 federal election, ending his political career.
In 1916, he was made a Knight Bachelor.
He died in Montreal in 1923.
Daniel Taillon
Daniel Taillon( born 9 October 1952) is a Canadian hurdler.
He competed in the men's 110 metres hurdles at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Wawrzyniec Żuławski
Wawrzyniec Jerzy Żuławski (14 February 1916 in Zakopane – 18 August 1957 in the Alps), also known as "Wawa", was a Polish alpinist, educator, composer, music critic, and musicologist.
He was a professor of Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Muzyczna in Warsaw.
Żuławski was an initiator and organiser of Polish alpinism.
During World War II he was a member of Armia Krajowa and was a soldier during the Warsaw Uprising.
Żuławski published music reviews in "Ruch MuzycznyExpress WieczornyNowa Kultura".
He also composed orchestral, chamber, piano and vocal pieces.
He was one of the leading Polish alpinists.
He died on Mont Blanc during a rescue action in 1957.
Olivier Métra
Jules- Louis-Olivier Métra( 2 June 1830 – 22 October 1889) was a French composer and conductor.
Pierre-Urgel Archambault
Pierre- Urgel Archambault( January 11, 1812 – August 19, 1871) was a Quebec businessman and political figure.
He was born in L'Assomption, Lower Canada in 1812 and studied at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal.
In 1835, he married Joséphine, the daughter of Benjamin Beaupré.
He was mayor of L'Assomption from 1847 to 1854.
He served in the local militia becoming lieutenant- colonel.
In 1858, he was elected to the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada for Repentigny division and served until Confederation.
Archambault was president of the Société d’ Agriculture of L’Assomption and helped establish the École d’ Agriculture de L’Assomption, an agricultural school.
In 1867, he ran unsuccessfully in L'Assomption for a seat in the House of Commons.
He died at L'Assomption in 1871.
His brother Alexandre also served as mayor of L’Assomption and as a member of the legislative assembly.
His daughter Athala married Ludger Forest, who later represented L'Assomption in the Quebec legislative assembly.
His daughter Louise- Georgiana married Louis- Olivier Taillon, who later became premier of Quebec.

Question: Were both Wawrzyniec Żuławski and Louis-Olivier Taillon, born in the same place?
Answer: no