Hood Brothers was a firm located in Vancouver, B.C. specializing in real estate, insurance brokering, and notarizing. Originally owned and operated by Robert Allison Hood and his brother William Bennett Hood, who died in 1917, the company provided services to individuals both in Canada and abroad (primarily in the U.S. and in Scotland) in relation to real estate transactions, loans and mortgages, inheritances and estate transfers, investments, insurance policies, and more. The involvement of a third brother, Harry Hood, is unclear.

Margaret Hood became the first instructor of occupational therapy at the University of British Columbia's School of Rehabilitation Medicine in 1961. Before her appointment, she had served as supervisor of occupational therapy at the Workman's Compensation Board Rehabilitation Centre in Vancouver since 1955. Hood also participated in the Cooperative Committee Towards a School of Rehabilitation Medicine. Organized under the Canadian Arthritis and Rheumatism Society, the committee began to lobby for the establishment of the School in 1956.

Robert Allison Hood was born in Scotland and spent his youth in California, where he completed his education at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1906 he came to Vancouver and began his career in finance and real estate. In addition to writing poems, articles, and plays, Hood published several books, including The Chivalry of Keith Leicester: A romance of British Columbia (1918), The Quest of Alistair (1921), The Case of Kinnear (1942), and Ballads of the Pacific Northwest (1946). He was a member of the Canadian Authors' Association from its inception in 1921, and chairman of the Vancouver branch for a period.

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker was born June 30, 1817 in Halesworth, England. He was a botantist noted for his botanical travels and studies and for his encouragement of Charles Darwin. He was assistant director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew from 1855 to 1865, then director from 1865 to 1885. He died on December 10, 1911 in Sunningdale, Berkshire.

Sir William Jackson Hooker was born July 6, 1785 in Norwich, England. He was a botanist and the first director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. He greatly advanced the knowledge of ferns, algae, lichens, and fungi. He died on August 12, 1865 in Surrey, England.