The family of Mr. and Mrs. E.N. Riesman lived at 4360 Westmount Ave., Westmount, QC, Canada in 1973-1978.

Paul Friedrich Reinsch was born on March 21, 1836, in Kirchenlamitz, Germany.

He was a German phycologist, paleontologist, botanist, educator, and author. He studied natural sciences in Munich and Erlangen and became a high school teacher in Erlangen, Zweibrücken, and Baselland. During his stay in Baselland, he collected mosses, being inspired by the work of Wilhelm Philippe Schimper and Philipp Bruch. He spent two years travelling across North America and spent some time in Cyprus. In the last twenty years of his life, he focused his energy on the research of fossil Foraminifera. Following retirement, he settled in Erlangen as a private scholar. He published many articles and books regarding his research and his collections.

He died on January 31, 1914, in Erlangen, Germany.

Carl Reinhardt was born in Montreal, in July 1876. He graduated from McGill University in the early 1900s with a degree in mining engineering. He moved to Ontario and worked as a civil and mining engineer in Cobalt, and Perth. He died in Perth in 1962.