Born in Belleville, Ontario, of Irish immigrants, oldest of seven children, future poet Lily Alice Cooke was sent to the Villa Maria Convent in Montreal for her education. In 1886, she married Dr. John Lefevre, the Pacific District surgeon for Canadian Pacific, and the couple moved to Vancouver where she spent the rest of her life. She was left a widow with no children when the doctor died in 1906, having had a successful career not only in medicine but also as a city councillor and as president of the Vancouver Board of Trade. Their home, known as “Langaravine,” was a magnet for artists, writers and intellectuals; she became a patron of the arts, while continuing to write and publish her own poety both in Montreal and Vancouver. Among her frequent guests were fellow members of the Vancouver Poetry Society, the editor of the Vancouver Sun, Robert Cromie, William and Annie Dalton, E.J. Pratt, and Pelham Edgar. In 1931, she helped found the Vancouver Art Gallery. When Edward VII was crowned in 1901, she organized a Vancouver branch of the Imperial Order of Daughters of the Empire.

L'histoire de la famille Lefebvre de Bellefeuille à Québec remonte à l'arrivée en Nouvelle France, quelque temps avant 1669, de Thomas Lefebvre, né à Rouen en France en 1647. Il fut un voyageur et un interprète du Roi pour le langage Abenaki. In 1703, on concéda à Lefebvre le territoire de Koessanouskek, près de la frontière du Maine, comme seigneurie. Son fils, Jean-François, s'établit à Terre-Neuve au début du XVIIIième siècle mais partit aussitôt que les Anglais prirent contrôle en 1713. Lefebvre de Bellefeuille fut le seul seigneur à s'établir de façon permanente dans une Seigneurie de Gaspé durant le régime français. Lui et ses fils, Georges et François, eurent beaucoup de succès dans la pêche et le séchage du poisson même après la mort du père en 1744.

Seth Penn Leet was born on April 26, 1851, in Richmond, Le Val-Saint-François, Quebec.

He was a Canadian lawyer and judge. He was educated at Danville Academy, obtained a Model School diploma, and worked as a school teacher for a few years. In 1879, he graduated from McGill University (B.C.L.) and was called to the bar in 1880. He practised in Montreal in partnership with Dr. J.J. Maclaren and R.C. Smith. After the dissolution of the firm in 1895, he practised by himself. In 1880, he became a Secretary of the Canadian Sunday School Union. He also served on the Executive Committee of the Dominion Alliance.

In 1874, he married Catherine O. Colwell and in 1920, he remarried Mary Annis Adams Griffith (1865-1952). He died on July 26, 1926, in Montreal, Quebec.

Rev. Wilfred Neill (Nevill) Leeson was born abt. 1847, in London, England.

He was a clergyman. He studied theology at Pembrooke College of Oxford University (B.D.). He was ordained deacon in 1873 and priest in 1874. He served as Champlain at Port Chalmers, New Zealand (1876-1877), Vicar of Witham-on-the-Hill, Lincolnshire, England (1877-1881), and Vicar of Patcham, Sussex (1881-1886).

In 1881, he married Agnes Eliza Ashby (1846–1941). He died on August 6, 1909, in Steyning, Sussex, England.

John Leeming was born on January 2, 1814, in Colne, Lancashire, England. He was a Montreal auctioneer, real estate agent, commission merchant, and owner of the company John Leeming & Co. Auctioneers. In 1836, he married Sarah Coates (1814–1887). He died on July 29, 1876, in St. Lambert, Quebec and is buried in Montreal, Quebec.