Dr. William A. De Wolf Smith graduated in medicine from McGill in 1884 with a M.D.,C.M. degree. He was a surgeon at the B.C. Penitentiary, New Westminster, British Columbia.

Smith was a Montreal publisher.

William Osborne Smith was born about 1833 in West Glamorgan, Wales.

He was an army officer and police commissioner. He received a military education and was commissioned into the British Army's 39th Foot Regiment in 1855. He served in the Crimean War and came to Canada with his regiment in 1856. In Montreal, he organized the Victoria Rifles in 1861 and became Lieutenant-Colonel. When his unit was transferred to Bermuda in 1859, Smith sold his commission and became a merchant in Montreal. He later became a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Canadian Militia. After some years of military service, Smith came to Manitoba in 1872 and became Deputy Adjutant General for Manitoba and North-West Territories. From September 25 to October 17, 1873, he served as the first Acting Commissioner of the North-West Mounted Police. He resigned from his post in 1881 and moved to Winnipeg, where he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the House of Commons in 1882 and a seat in the provincial legislature in 1886. During the North West Rebellion in 1885, he raised the Winnipeg Light Infantry Battalion, later known as the 91st Battalion. In 1874, he was founding President of the Manitoba Club and, in 1879, a founding member of the Manitoba Historical Society.

In 1858, he married Janet Colquhoun. He died on May 11, 1887, while visiting Swansea, Wales.

Thomas R. Smith was born on January 16, 1948, in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin.

He is an American poet, essayist, teacher, and editor. His work has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals in the U.S. and internationally. His poems have been featured on The Writer's Almanac, a syndicated national public radio program and podcast hosted by Garrison Keillor. His work was also selected for The Best American Poetry 1999, edited by poet Robert Bly, and in former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser's syndicated newspaper column, American Life in Poetry. Smith has described his own work as drawing from the nature and landscape of his home in Wisconsin. He published several books of poems, e.g., "Keeping the Star" (1988), "The Dark Indigo Current" (2000) and "Waking Before Dawn" (2006). He also edited various books, including three on the subject of fellow poet Robert Bly. His poetry criticism has been published in the St. Paul Pioneer Press, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Great River Review, Ruminator Review, and other periodicals. He lives in River Falls, Wisconsin, with his wife Krista Spieler. He teaches poetry at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.