Augusta LaPaix was born in 1952 or 1953. She is a former Canadian radio personality, best known as the original host and co-creator of the night show Brave New Waves. Originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia, she worked in Montreal as a freelance news reporter for CBC Radio and an occasional guest host of Morningside. She was given Brave New Waves in 1984 after submitting a demo tape for a show on avant-garde culture, featuring music by Laurie Anderson, Brian Eno, Klaus Nomi, and Nina Hagen. She left Brave New Waves in 1985 and moved on to other roles with the CBC, including stints as host of Cross Country Checkup, Two New Hours, Arts National and Home Run, the network's local afternoon program in Montreal. She also narrated several documentary films, e.g., “Latin America: The Thirsty Cities” (1993), “Just Before the Dawn” (1990), and “When the Day Comes” (1991).

Broadcast journalist and historian, Laurier LaPierre was born at Lac Mégantic, Québec, and received his bachelor's (1955), master's (1957) and doctoral (1962) degrees from the University of Toronto. He lectured in history at the University of Western Ontario from 1959 to 1961, and at Loyola, Montréal, from 1961 to 1963. In 1962 he came to McGill as Lecturer in history; he was promoted to Assistant Professor in 1963 and Associate Professor in 1965. In 1963 he served as secretary, and in 1965 as Director of McGill's French-Canada Studies Programme. LaPierre is best known to Canadians as co-host of C.B.C. television's public affairs programme, This Hour Has Seven Days and of LaPierre. He also ran as an N.D.P. candidate in Lachine in 1968 and has been involved in a number of publication ventures. In 1978 he left McGill to become a commentator for radio station CKVU in Vancouver.

André Laplante was likely a voyageur in the Canadian fur trade, and visited the fur trade depot in Grand Portage, Minnesota in 1772.

Claudia Lapp was born in 1946 in Stuttgart, Germany.

She is an American poet and critic. After graduating from Bennington College, Vermont (B.A. in French and German Literature, minor in Music, 1968), she lived for eleven years in Montreal, publishing and performing with the Vehicule Poets. She also taught Literature at John Abbott College, St.-Anne-De-Belle-Vue, Quebec, and worked at the Montreal Museum of Fine Art in the Education department. In 1979, she moved to Maryland and then Oregon in 1991. She has given readings in Montreal, Vancouver, the Northeast, Santa Fe and in many local Oregon venues including the Newport Arts Center, Portland, Corvallis, TSUNAMI Books, and COZMIC PIZZA, where she hosted a popular weekly poetry series in 2002. She also worked as an Exhibit Interpreter at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum, University of Oregon. Lapp published several collections of poems, e.g., "Honey" (1973/1977), "Dakini" (1974), "Water and Fire" (1998), and "Buch" (2013). She received the Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Award in 1996. She is also a practicing astrologer and film photographer.

She lives in Eugene, Oregon, with her husband.