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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.

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.