Geoffrey was born in Montreal in 1918 and raised in Salmon Arm, B.C. He graduated in geology at the University of British Columbia and recieved a MSc from Queen’s University in 1944. He graduated with his PhD from Princeton in 1949 and joined the Geological Survey of Canada in Ottawa. Dr. Leech spent 33 years as a field geologist and research scientist.

John Wesley Lee was born on October 15, 1820, in Pennsylvania, USA.

He was one of the leading architects and builders of the city of Baltimore, a charter member of the Maryland Academy of Sciences, and an amateur mineralogist, whose superb collection of minerals was bequeathed to Western Maryland College. He designed fine dwellings, several churches in the city, and the Mount Vernon Cotton Duck Mills at Woodberry, built in 1874 and said to have been a quarter of a century in advance of the modern building methods of that period. Mr. Lee retired from active business after the completion of these buildings, to devote his time to his financial interests, and to his scientific researches in the fields of geology and mineralogy.

In 1844, he married Lucinda Green Fowler (1827–1920). He died on June 7, 1900, in Baltimore, Maryland.

Dennis Beynon Lee was born on August 31, 1939, in Toronto, Ontario.

He is a Canadian poet, teacher, editor, and literary critic. He graduated from the University of Toronto (B.A., 1962; M.A., 1964). He taught English at Victoria College, the University of Toronto (1963-1967) and served as a "resource person" for Rochdale College. In 1967, Lee co-founded House of Anansi Press and served as its editorial director until 1972. From 1974 to 1979, he was a consulting editor for Macmillan of Canada. He served as a writer-in-residence at Trent University in 1975 and the University of Toronto from 1978 to 1979. Lee wrote lyrics for the children's television series Fraggle Rock (Jim Henson Associates and CBC-TV, 1982–1986). In 1986, he received the Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People. Lee's poetry uses Canadian place names ingeniously and depicts spunky children unafraid to engage in weird adventures. In 1972, he received the Governor General's Award for Poetry for "Civil Elegies." His book of children's rhymes "Alligator Pie" (1974) won the Canadian Library Association’s Book of the Year award. In 1994, he became an Officer of the Order of Canada and received an honorary doctorate from Trent University.

He is married to Susan Perly, a writer and former Canadian Broadcasting Corporation journalist.