William R. Hope included William Brymner, Maurice Cullen, Edmond Dyonnet, Robert Harris, Stephen Leacock, Lt.-Colonel John McCrae, Sir William Cornelius Van Horne, William Henry Drummond, Louis-Honoré Fréchette, Henri Hébert, Ernest Cormier, William Sutherland Maxwell, Percy Erskine Nobbs and Sir Andrew Macphail. As women were not allowed to join, it helped precipitate the creation of the Women's Art Association of Canada in 1894.
William Hope lived in a house designed for him by the Maxwell Brothers at 664 Dorchester Street West, with an attractive painting studio. He kept a summer house called "Dalmeny" at St. Andrews, New Brunswick - also designed by the Maxwells.
In 1897, he married Constance Kingsmill Jarvis (1872-1960), daughter of Arthur Murray Jarvis (1830-1918) of Toronto; nephew of William Botsford Jarvis. They were the parents of two children.
Hope died February 5, 1931, at the apartments he had retired to at the Ritz-Carlton Montreal Hotel.

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