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Irene Wolff, born in 1885 in Quebec City, was a journalist, poet and community worker. She and her husband reared their six daughters in an observant Jewish home. She was the Canadian correspondent for the London, England, newspaper The Jewish Chronicle and, along with her husband, contributed to A.D. Hart's The Jew in Canada, published by the Jewish Publication Limited, 1926. She was a member of the Canadian Authors Association and of the Women's Press Club of Canada. During World War II, she was joint committee chair, with Mrs. Wilder Penfield, of the Montreal branch of the Red Cross and contributed in other significant ways to the war effort. She was also a long-serving member of the Boadicea and Baden-Powell Chapters of the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire. Irene Wolff died in 1940.

Georgette Lizette "Googie" Withers was an English entertainer. She was a dancer and actress, with a lengthy career spanning some nine decades in theatre, film, and television. She was a well-known actress and star of British films during and after World War II.

Ruth Wisse was born in 1936 to Jewish parents in Czernowitz, Ukraine. She grew up in Montreal, Canada, graduating with her PhD from McGill University in 1969. She began teaching at Harvard University in 1993, later becoming the Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University.