William Felix Edmund Morley was born on September 25, 1920, in London, England.

He was a librarian, bibliographer, and author. He served with the Royal Air Force from 1940 to 1946 and came to Canada in 1947. He studied at the University of Toronto (B.A., 1952; B.L.S., 1953) and Queen’s University (M.A., 1982). From 1953 to 1954, he was Chief Librarian at YM-YWHA, Montreal, Quebec. He also served as Chief Librarian and Archivist at the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, Montreal (1954-1959). From 1959 to 1964, he was Bibliographer at the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Morley came to Queen's University in 1964 and served as Curator of the Special Collections Unit, Douglas Library, until his retirement in 1985. His many bibliographical publications include “The Atlantic Provinces: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island “ (1967), “La province de Quebec” (with André Beaulieu, 1971), “A Bibliographical Study of Major John Richardson” (1973), and “Ontario and the Canadian North” (1978). Morley also edited a revised version of Freda Farrell Waldon’s “Bibliography of Canadiana published in Great Britain, 1519-1763” (1990). In 1957, he became a member of the Bibliographical Society of Canada (BSC). He served as its Vice-President from 1968 to 1971, President from 1972 to 1973, and was on Council in 1974 and 1975. Morley was a member of the Canadian Historical Association, the Ontario Historical Society, and the Kingston Historical Society. In 1977, he received the Tremaine Medal for services to bibliography and Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal. In 2003, Morley and his second wife, Beth Watters Morley, created and endowed the Watters-Morley Prize of the BSC. He was made an honorary member of the Bibliographical Society of Canada in 2007.

He died on December 19, 2017, in Kingston, Ontario.

Gérard Morisset, born in Cap Santé, has been considered the father of art history in Quebec. He had studied to become a notary at Université Laval, graduating in 1922 and practising for a few years before realizing that his real calling was in art and its history. He headed for Paris first to study architecture, then art history at the École du Louvre, graduating in 1934. On his return in 1935, he became provincial director for the teaching of design in Quebec. In 1937 he undertook an inventory of art works in the province of Quebec, a project completed posthumously in 1969. In 1951 he became secretary of the new Commission des monuments historiques du Québec, then in 1953, the director of the Musée du Quebec. He published 16 books and more than 300 articles.

Dr. Nathaniel Holmes Morison was born on December 14, 1815, in Peterborough, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire.

He was an educator and author. In 1833, he entered Phillips Exeter Academy, New Hampshire. He then attended Harvard University, where he showed a fondness for poetic composition. After graduating in 1839, he moved to Baltimore, where he became a teacher in a girls' school. In 1841, he opened his own school and started to study divinity. In 1867, he became the first Provost of the Peabody Institute of Baltimore and stayed in this position until 1890. He took a great interest in designing all the interior plans of the new library building and also developing its catalogue. He was a member of the Maryland Historical Society and the Archeological Society. He received an honorary degree of LL.D. from St. John's College, Annapolis, in 1871. He published several books, e.g., "Three Thousand Questions in Geography" (1843), "A School Manual" (1867), and "The Captive and Other Early Rhymes" (1888).

In 1842, he married Sidney Buchanan Brown (1818–1893). He died on November 14, 1890, in Baltimore, Maryland.