Pierre Meziere was a lawyer working in Montreal in 1786. Likely Pierre-François Mézière, a French lawyer and notary who migrated to Quebec in approximately the 1760s. He was married to Michel-Archange Campeau, with whom he had 15 children, 9 who survived to adulthood. His son, Henry-Antoine Mézière, was a prominent publisher and journalist.

Bertha (Biddy) Meyer was born on October 12, 1899, in Saint Hyacinthe, Quebec.

She was a Canadian educator and author. In 1920, she earned her M.A. degree from McGill University with a thesis on the German writer Theodor Fontane. She chose to study the German language due to her German background and a natural affinity for the language. After graduating, she began teaching German full-time in McGill University's German Department.

During the 1962-63 academic year, Professor Meyer served as the chair of the department. During World War II, she taught German scripts to Canadian government agents who were to work as censors. She published numerous articles and studies on German-Jewish writers and women of the Romantic period.

She died unmarried on December 22, 1980, in Montreal, Quebec.