William Weintraub was born in Montreal on February 19, 1926, and was educated at McGill University. He was a film producer, script writer, novelist, and journalist. He joined the Montreal Gazette as a reporter in the 1950s and later Weekend Magazine. He worked for the National Film Board for over twenty years. His interest in Canadian history is testified by films such as: Turn of the Century, Between Two Wars, Salute to Fight, and Struggle for a Border. In 1955 he was part of the Canadian delegation in the UNESCO Conference on Films and Television in Tangier, Morocco. In 1973 he was a member of the jury at the Cracow Film Festival, Poland. He also served on the pre-selection jury for the Cannes Film Festival and the Quebec Society for the Promotion of English-Language Literature awards jury. From 1976 to1978, he was Director of English Programming at the National Film Board and during that time he visited the film industry in China. He lectured extensively. His satire Why Rock the Boat? became a best-seller and he is also famous for The Underdogs, reflecting his interest in the political situation of Quebec, and his most recent work Crazy about Lily which pictures life in Montreal in the 1940s. In 2004 he was made Officer of the Order of Canada. William Weintraub died in Montreal in 2017.

John William Weidemeyer was born on April 26, 1819, in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

He was an author, music dealer, publisher, and entomologist. He completed his education at the Columbia College Grammar School. He taught at various seminaries in Ohio for a few years but subsequently settled in New York and entered business as a music dealer and publisher. As an amateur entomologist, he made collections of Lepidoptera and discovered several important species, e.g. Limenitis Wedemeyerii of the Adirondack Mountains. His collection of butterflies was sold to a museum in Regensburg, Germany. He contributed articles to the Christian Inquirer and the Atlantic Monthly. He also wrote a play, “The Vagabonds” (1941), produced in New York and Philadelphia, and several books, e.g., "Catalogue of North American Butterflies" (1864), "Real and Ideal: A Collection of Metrical Compositions" (1865), "American Fish, and How to Catch Them" (1885), and "Illustrations of North American Lepidoptera Sphingidae" (1903).

He married Mary Cecelia Hartt (1831-1904). He died on January 19, 1896, in New York, New York.