Riddell & Stevenson was a Montreal-based firm of chartered accountants and auditors active in the late 1800s.

Laurence "Laurie" R. Ricou was born on October 17, 1944, in Brandon, Manitoba.

He is a Canadian writer and educator. He graduated from Brandon College (B.A., 1965) and the University of Toronto (M.A., 1957; Ph.D., 1971). He taught for eight years at the University of Lethbridge, where he became a specialist on Canadian Prairie regionalism and prairie writing. In 1978, he moved to Vancouver and joined the University of British Columbia's Department of English. Ricou became editor of Canadian Literature in 2003. He has written or co-authored several books, including "The Arbutus/Madrone Files: Reading the Pacific Northwest" (2002), "A Field Guide to Dungeness Spit" (1997), "Everyday Magic: Child Languages in Canadian Literature" (1991), and "Vertical Man/Horizontal World: Man and Landscape in Canadian Prairie Fiction" (1973). He has also contributed numerous journal articles, conference papers and chapters for books.