John Schofield was born on March 15, 1883, in Aughnaseda, Monaghan, Ireland.

He was an architect, who moved to Canada in 1904. In 1907, he became the draftsman for the Canadian Northern Railway in Winnipeg. After the Canadian National Railway formed in 1920, he became its main architect, based in Montreal. As a part of the architectural firm Archibald and Schofield, he was involved in almost every design of the CNR station and hotel, e.g. Château Laurier in Ottawa, Ontario, and Montreal Central Station. He retired in 1948.

In 1910, he married Mary Ethel Graham in Grey, Manitoba. He died on November 16, 1971, in Barbados, West Indies, and is buried in Montreal, Quebec.

Stephen Scobie is a critic, author and poet who was born in Carnoustie, Scotland in 1943 and emigrated to Canada in 1965. Scobie was co-chair along with Douglas Barbour of the League of Canadian Poets between 1971 and 1973. Scobie won the Governor General’s Award for poetry in 1980 for McAlmon's Chinese Opera and the Prix Gabrielle Roy for Canadian Criticism in 1986. He received a PhD at the University of British Columbia and later taught at the University of Alberta and the University of Victoria in the English Department. Scobie is a founding editor of Longspool Press and his critical writings include works on Leonard Cohen, Canadian poet bpNichol and Bob Dylan. He has written over 20 collections of poetry and in 1995 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.