Ross C. Leckie was born in 1953 in Lachine, Quebec.

He is a Canadian poet, editor, and educator. He graduated from McGill, Concordia and the University of Toronto (Ph.D.). He also completed coursework at Harvard University and post-doctoral work at Princeton University. He has been teaching literature and creative writing at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton since 1997. Leckie is the editor of the famous Canadian literary journal The Fiddlehead and poetry editor for the poetry book series published by Goose Lane Editions. Both his poetry and critical essays have appeared in leading Canadian and American periodicals. In 2008, he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship. He is the author of several collections of poems, e.g., “A Slow Light” (1983), "The Authority of Roses" (1997), and "Gravity's Plumb Line" (2005).

George Alexander Louis Lebour was born in 1847, in St. Homer, France.

He was an English geologist and author. He was educated at the Royal School of Mines, London, and was a staff member of the Geological Survey from 1873 to 1876. In 1876, he became a lecturer in geological surveying at the Durham College of Science and held this position until his death in 1918. He wrote, "Handbook to the Geology and Natural History of Northumberland and Durham" (1879). He was the author of more than 100 papers on carboniferous geology, the thermal conductivity of rocks, and underground temperature. He was awarded the Murchison Medal in 1904.

In 1870, he married Emily Nona Hodding (1847–1937). He died on February 21, 1918, in Hexham, Northumberland. England.