Born in Sault Ste-Marie, Michigan, of English parents, Nora Livingston moved to Como, Québec when she was a child. She went back to the United States to study nursing and graduated from the New York Hospital's Training School for Nurses. In 1890, she became the Lady Superintendent of the Montreal General Hospital and was the founder and director of the hospital's training school for nurses. Due to illness, she resigned from her position in 1919.

Colin Hamilton Livingstone was born on June 3, 1863 or 1864, in Saint John, New Brunswick.

He was an American banker and railroad executive. He attended McGill University (B.A., 1886). He was president of the Great Falls and Old Dominion Railroad, reorganized into the Washington and Old Dominion Railroad in 1911. He also served as a vice-president of the American National Bank, president of the Virginia Shipbuilding Corporation in Alexandria, and Washington and Virginia Real Estate Company. He was an organizer of the Boy Scouts of America in 1910 and president of its national council for 15 years. Livingstone served as a secretary to Senator Stephen Benton Elkins of West Virginia as well as the secretary of the Interstate Commerce Committee of the U.S. Senate.

In 1889, he married Anna Louise van de Boe (1865–1937). He died on February 1, 1943, in Fishersville, Virginia.

Abraham Jacob Livinson was born in Montréal and educated at the High School of Montreal. He received his B.A. from McGill in 1911, his B.C.L. in 1914, and his M.A. in 1916. His master's thesis was entitled "The Pedagogical Value and Psychical Influence of the Motion Picture on Present Day Educational Systems".

William Home Lizars was born on May 4, 1788, in Edinburgh, Scotland, the son of Daniel Lizars (1758-1812), a 19th-century Scottish engraver, map-maker, and publisher.
He was a Scottish painter and engraver. He was first apprenticed to his father, from whom he learned engraving. In order to pursue his ambition to become a professional painter, he entered as a student under John Graham the Trustees' Academy at Edinburgh. In 1812, upon his father’s death, Lizars had to carry on the business of engraving and copperplate printing in order to support his family. In 1826, he encountered J. J. Audubon (1785-1851), an American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter and he published his "Birds of America" (1827-1839). Lizars perfected a method of copper-engraving that imitated the effect of wood-engraving. From 1808 to 1815, he was a frequent exhibitor of portraits and genre paintings at exhibitions in Edinburgh. He was closely involved with the founding of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1826 and was appointed an associate engraver. The family firm which he ran with his brother Daniel was known as W. and D. Lizars or W.H. and D. Lizars and produced many illustrated maps, charts, anatomical plates, and Scottish scenes.
In 1820, he married Henrietta Wilson (1802–1870). He died on March 30, 1859, in Jedburgh, Scotland.