Carl Hermann Credner was born on October 1, 1841, in Gotha, Thüringen, Germany.

He was a geologist and author who played a major role in the development of the modern earth sciences. After his studies of mining, mineralogy and geology, the University of Göttingen awarded him a doctorate in 1864. From 1864 to 1868, he made extensive geological investigations in North and Central America, the results of which were published in the Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft, and the Neues Jahrhuch für Mineralogie. In 1870, he was appointed professor of geology at the University of Leipzig, and in 1872, director of the Geological Survey of Saxony. The same year, his textbook entitled “Elemente der Geologie” (“Elements of Geology”) was published for the first time. Credner’s main areas of work focussed on the geological mapping of Saxony and paleontological studies about Stegocephalia as well as macroscopic and instrumental observations of earthquakes. In 1911, the “Hermann-Credner-Stiftung” (Hermann Credner Foundation) was founded in his honour.

In 1888, he married Emma Geller (1862–1914). He died on July 21, 1913, in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany.

George Silas Creed was born on May 27, 1829, in Lockhartville, Kings, Nova Scotia.

He was a postmaster living in South Rawdon, Nova Scotia. A few Mi'kmaq carvings found on the shores of Kejimkujik Lake, Nova Scotia in 1873 and documented by Joseph More sparked his keen interest in Mi'kmaq culture and inspired him to visit the site. He drafted the first detailed records of the carvings along the shores of Kejimkujik Lake and McGowan Lake. He completed his work in 1887-1888. Creed used a special method by tracing the outline of the petroglyphs with an aniline pencil and pressing moist paper against them. Moisture helped transfer the pencil ink onto the paper. This technique created a mirror or inverted image of the carvings. Creed was the first to document rock art in Nova Scotia. Compelled by his desire to preserve those fragile depictions from harsh weather conditions and vandalism, he created a work of legacy. These rock pictures, or petroglyphs, record the lives of the Mi'kmaq and the things they saw around them, including people, animals, daily activities such as hunting and fishing, and traditional clothing of the time. The McGowan Lake carvings are now underwater due to a hydroelectric dam built in the 1940s. Creed’s invaluable tracings are kept at the Nova Scotia Museum.

In 1853, he married Elizabeth Dimock (1831–1897). He died on February 1, 1899, in South Rawdon, Hants County, Nova Scotia.

Robert White Creeley was born on May 21, 1926, in Arlington, Massachusetts.

He was an American poet, writer, publisher, and professor. In 1943, he attended Harvard University but left to serve in the American Field Service in Burma and India in 1944–1945. He returned to Harvard in 1946 but graduated from Black Mountain College (B.A., 1955) and the University of New Mexico (M.A., 1960). He was a chicken farmer briefly in Littleton, New Hampshire, before becoming a teacher in 1949. From 1951 to 1955, Creeley and his family lived on the Spanish island of Mallorca. Together with the British writer Martin Seymour-Smith, they started a publishing company Divers Press. Creeley wrote about half of his published prose while living on the island, including a short-story collection, “The Gold Diggers” (1954), and a novel, “The Island” (1963). He taught at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque (1961-1969, 1978-1980), University of British Columbia, Vancouver (1962-1963), and the State University of New York at Buffalo from 1967 to 2003, when he was appointed a professor at Brown University. Creeley received fame in 1962 for his poetry collection “For Love”. He won numerous awards, e.g., Leviton-Blumenthal Prize (1964); Shelley Award (1981) and Frost Medal (1987), both from Poetry Society of America; Chancellor Norton Medal (1999); Before Columbus Lifetime Achievement Award (1999); Bollingen Prize (1999), and Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award (with Edward Said), Lannan Literary Foundation (2001). He was the New York State Poet laureate from 1989 until 1991. Creeley was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003.

In 1946, he married Ann McKinnon (1925–2009). They divorced in 1957, and he remarried twice (1957 and 1977). He died on March 30, 2005, in Odessa, Texas.

Samuel Creelman was born on November 19, 1808, in Colchester, Nova Scotia.

He was a farmer, teacher, businessman, Justice of the Peace, politician, and office holder. He received a common-school education in Stewiacke, Nova Scotia and laboured on his father’s farm until he was of age. In 1843, he became a Justice of the Peace and a trustee of Truro Academy in Colchester. He was the financial secretary of the province from 1851 to 1856. He publicly supported teachers’ institutes and in 1854, he introduced a bill in the assembly for the creation of a provincial normal school. In 1865, he received a land grant in Upper Stewiacke from the province and by 1871 he had become a successful and prominent farmer. Creelman was also a businessman, making frequent investments in land and mortgages. He was a prominent member and officer in the Young Men’s Christian Association, the Sunday School Convention of the Maritime Provinces, and the Nova Scotia Bible Society. He was a member of the Stewiacke Literary Society, the Nova Scotia Historical Society and was also involved with the Nova Scotia Temperance Alliance.

In 1834, he married Elizabeth Elliot Ellis (1812–1904). He died on June 5, 1891, in Upper Stewiacke, Colchester, Nova Scotia.

Paul-André Crépeau was born 20 May 1926 in Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan, son of a French-American lawyer and his mother was a Québecoise schoolteacher. Crépeau and his wife, Nicole Thomas, had three children. He died in Montreal, 7 July 2011.

Crépeau first pursued his education in Canada. He obtained his Licence in Philosophy at the University of Ottawa (1947), then a B.C.L. at the Université de Montréal (1950). Upon receiving a Rhodes Scholarship, he obtained a Bachelor's of Civil Law at Oxford (1952). Following that, he completed a doctorate (1955) at the Faculty of Law at the Université de Paris, where he wrote his doctoral thesis on medical law (La responsabilité civile du médecin et de l’établissement hospitalier, published in 1965). His thesis won the Prix Robert-Dennery. Crépeau finished his training at the International Faculty for the Teaching of Comparative Law in Strasbourg, where he earned an additional diploma in Comparative Law (1958).

Crépeau began his career as a professor in 1955 at the Faculty of Law of the Université de Montréal. In 1959, he joined the Faculty of Law at McGill University, where he taught law for more than 50 years. His contributions to the study and development of Canadian civil law were numerous and varied. He played a central role in the reform of the Civil Code of Québec and the creation of the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms.

In 1965, he was tasked with updating the Civil Code of Quèbec to reflect contemporary realities and values. As president of the Civil Code Revision Office, he worked for 12 years with close to 150 jurists on the recodification. His draft for an updated Civil Code was presented to the Quebec National Assembly and became the framework for the new Civil Code of Quebec in 1991. In collaboration with McGill professor Frank. R. Scott, Crépeau presented a report in 1971 on a legal framework concerning human rights and freedoms. This project served as the basis of the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms. As an internationally-recognized expert in the area of civil law, Crépeau became involved in the work of the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT; Institut International pour l'Unification du droit privé). He directed an international project to codify contract law in international commerce. The creation of the Paul-André Crépeau Prize in 2001 was in acknowledgment for his contributions to international commercial law.

He spent a large part of his career studying the judicial systems of other countries. His participation in the work of the International Academy of Comparative Law, which he headed from 1990 to 1998, shows his interest in comparative methods. Holder of the Arnold Wainwright Chair in Civil Law from 1976 and Director of the Institute of Comparative Law from 1975 to 1984, he founded the Quebec Research Centre of Private and Comparative Law at McGill University in 1976. His contributions to the field of law also include l'Édition historique et critique du Code civil du Bas Canada/Historical and Critical Edition of the Civil Code of Lower Canada 1866-1993, Traité de droit civil and a Dictionnaire de droit privé et Lexiques bilingues/Private Law Dictionary and Bilingual Lexicons. The jurist assumed numerous responsibilities as an expert consultant to other lawyers and on questions relating to his specialisation.

In addition to receiving six honorable doctorates, Paul-André Crépeau has been awarded with numerous prizes highlighting his contribution to the advancement of civil law in Quebec and elsewhere, notably the Order of Canada (1992), the National Order of Quebec (2000), the Ordre national du Mérite (France, 1984), and the Ordre national des Arts et Lettres (France, 2004).

François Crépin was born on October 30, 1830, in Rochefort, Belgium.

He was an important botanist and director of the National Botanic Garden of Belgium. As a boy, he developed an interest in wild plants, yet he never received formal training in botany. By the late 1850s, he built a large network of correspondents that included botanists in Belgium and abroad. His “Manuel de la flore de Belgique”, published in 1860, became an essential tool for all Belgian botanists. It yielded him a job as a teacher and a place in the inner circles of Belgian field botany. In 1862, he dominated the Société royale de Botanique de Belgique and wrote numerous book reviews and papers on the flora and biogeography of Belgium. He supported young scientists with an interest in laboratory research. The genus Crepinella (Araliaceae) is named after him. As a taxonomist, he circumscribed numerous plants within the genus Rosa. His Belgian herbarium and his herbier des roses are kept in the collections of the Botanic Garden Meise. In 1872, he became a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium and in 1875, he received the full membership.

He died on April 30, 1903, in Brussels, Belgium.