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Viviane Namaste has a BA from Carleton University, an MA in Sociology from York University and a doctoral degree from Université du Québec à Montréal in Semiotics and Linguistics. She began teaching at Simone de Beauvoir Institute in July 2002 and was Interim Principal from August 2006-May 2008 and Acting Principal from September-December 2018. Namaste was Research Chair in HIV/AIDS and Sexual Health from June 2008-May 2018. In 2016, Namaste was awarded an FAS Curriculum Innovation Fund grant to develop new interdisciplinary teaching for Humanities students. She is the founder of the Quebec Health Action, which began in the 1990s to improve health for Montreal’s transvestite and transsexual community. She was the principal investigator of Projet Polyvalence, which ran from 2004 to 2007, a community-based action research project seeking to contribute to HIV/AIDS and STD prevention of people with bisexual practices. The project resulted in a book “HIV Education and Bisexual Realities” (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012).

• Namaste received the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence.  Concordia University Faculty of Arts and Science in April 2015.
• She also received the Prix Honoris of the Conseil Québécois des Gais et des Lesbiennes in October 2013.
• Namaste was inducted in the Provost’s Circle of Distinction of Concordia University, in June 2012
• On October 25, 2010, she received the Grand prix du Conseil Québécois des Gais et des Lesbiennes.
• Namaste was the recipient of the Award for Action on HIV/AIDS 2009 handed by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and Human Rights Watch, on June 12, 2009.

Namaste is the author of three books about transsexuality:

• Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000) for which she won the Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center in 2001
• Sex Change, Social Change: Reflections on Identity, Institutions, and Imperialism (Toronto : Women’s Press/Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2005)
• C'était du spectacle! L'histoire des artistes transsexuelles à Montréal, 1955-1985 (Montréal : McGill Queen’s University Press, 2005)

The Hungarian Refugee Student Committee was established in December 1956 by the National Conference of Canadian Universities (NCCU) at the request of the Canadian Department of Citizenship and Immigration. Its mandate was to assess Hungarian refugee students, to facilitate their acquisition of English and French, and to direct them to Canadian universities and colleges. With financial aid from the federal government, the committee established an office in a government immigration hostel at 1162 St. Antoine St., Montreal in January 1957. The director was Matilde Elizabeth (Mrs. Frederick) Smith. Douglass Burns Clarke, vice-principal of Sir George Williams University, succeeded Maurice Beauchamp, o.m.i. of Ottawa University and T. H. Matthews of McGill University, as chair of the committee. (In 1965 the NCCU was renamed the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada.)

The Negro Community Centre was established in 1927 under the leadership of Charles H. Este, pastor of the Union United Church in Montreal. Reverend Charles H. Este, along with members of the Union United Church, set out to create an organization to help alleviate distress among Montreal's Black community.

The Centre, which first came into being in the living room of Reverend Charles H. Este, was located in a series of rented room in the St. Antoine Street district, also known as Little Burgundy, during its early years of operation. In 1930, the Centre moved into the basement of the Union United Church, located at 3007 Delisle Street. Due to a lack of space at the Union United Church, some of the Centre's early activities took place at Royal Arthur School. Originally supported by the Canadian National Railway, the Negro Community Centre obtained financial support from the Financial Federation of Montreal beginning in 1929. The Centre was accredited by the Council of Social Agencies in 1928. It was incorporated in 1949.

The Negro Community Centre remained at the Union United Church until 1955, at which time it moved into the Iverley Community Centre, located at 2035 Coursol Street. This move was a consequence of the merger of the Negro Community Centre and the Iverly Community Centre, which occurred as a result of the social welfare planning of the United Red Feather Service (now Centraide). By mutual agreement of the Boards of Directors, the Negro Community Centre moved into the building owned by the Iverley Community Centre on Coursol. The building, which was expanded over the years, included offices, a gymnasium, a sewing room, a kitchen, a library, and a credit union office (Walker Credit Union). The deed to the building was transferred from the Iverley Centre to the Negro Community Centre during the Annual General Meeting held in 1965.

The first programs offered at the Negro Community Centre were oriented towards the educational and recreational needs of children and teenagers. In 1949 under the guidance of Stanley A. Clyke, the Negro Community Centre began to develop age-specific activities for all members, and integrated health and welfare services into its programming. A variety of activities and services were offered over the years, including a daycare, summer camps, dance and music lessons, after-school programs, a seniors program, and language courses, among many others.

Virginia Nixon studied English Literature (B.A.) at Carleton University and Art History (M.A., Ph.D) at Concordia University. She was a lecturer in art history and music history in the Concordia University Liberal Arts College. She published numerous articles on the arts and art-related topics in newspapers such as The Montreal Gazette and in magazines such as Montreal Calendar Magazine, The Canadian Forum, Art Magazine and Vie des Arts. Virginia Nixon died in Montreal on December 9, 2015.

Jean Noël was born in Montreal in 1940. An artist, he was involved in the exhibition Corridart dans la rue Sherbrooke in 1976.