Walery was a series of photography studios run by Count Stanislaw Julian Ostrotog (1836-1890) and his son, Stanislaw Julian Ignacy Ostrorog (1863-1929). Born into Polish nobility, Ostroróg the father migrated to London in approximately 1856, and then Paris in 1857, after serving in the Ottoman army. He opened photography studios in Marseilles and Paris, and later one in Nice in 1879. He sold these in approximately 1884 to open a studio in London. The studios specialized in portraiture, especially of the upper classes, and the studio's customers included Queen Victoria. Upon his death in 1890, Ostroróg's son took over the business, having learned photography from his father. He eventually partnered with theatrical photographer Alfred Ellis (1854–1930) as "Ellis and Walery." In 1900, Ostroróg moved to Paris and opened a studio there, specializing in portraits and cabinet cards of theatre and cabaret stars.He died in 1929.

Anne Waldman was born on April 2, 1945, in Millville, New Jersey, and raised in New York City's Greenwich Village.

She is an American poet, writer, performer, professor, publisher, editor, scholar, and cultural/political activist. She graduated from Bennington College (B.A., 1966). From 1966 to 1968, she served as Assistant Director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in New York City and, from 1968 to 1978, as the Project's Director. In the early 1960s, Waldman became a student of Buddhism. While attending the Berkeley Poetry Conference in 1965 with poet Lewis Warsh, they founded Angel Hair, a small press that produced a magazine of the same name and several smaller books. In 1974, she became one of the co-founders of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado (now Naropa University), where she remains a Distinguished Professor of Poetics and the Director of Naropa's celebrated Summer Writing Program. Waldman has been a fervent activist for social change, opposing the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons facility ten miles south of Boulder, Colorado, in the 1970s. In 1980, she married Reed Bye and their son, Edwin Ambrose Bye, was born on October 21, 1980. Nowadays, Waldman and her son perform together. They also created a New York City label Fast Speaking Music, producing multiple albums. Her work has been connected to the Beat Generation poets. Waldman has published more than forty books of poetry. Her work has been widely anthologized, e.g., “Up Late” (1988), “Postmodern American Poetry” (1994), “Women of the Beat Generation” (1996), “All Poets Welcome” (2003), and “Breaking the Cool” (2004). Her poems have been translated into French, Italian, German, Turkish, Spanish, and Chinese. She has held residencies at various universities all over the world, including Tokyo, Vienna, and Prague. In 2011, Waldman was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets

Charles Doolittle Walcott was born on March 31, 1850, in New York Mills, New York.

He was a paleontologist. He attended various schools in Utica but never completed his formal education. He took his hobby of collecting fossils and turned it into a lucrative career both commercially and scientifically. After meeting Louis Agassiz of Harvard, who encouraged him to pursue the field of paleontology, he began to work as an assistant to James Hall, the State Geologist of New York. In 1879, he was appointed to the newly formed U.S. Geological Survey and rose to become chief paleologist in 1893 and then director in 1894. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1896. In 1901, he served as president of the Geological Society of America. In 1907, Walcott left the Geological Survey to become the 4th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, a position he held until 1927. In 1921, he was awarded the inaugural Mary Clark Thompson Medal from the National Academy of Sciences. He was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and served as its president in 1923. The Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal is awarded by the National Academy every five years to stimulate work in Precambrian and Cambrian paleontology. The Walcott Peak, where he first discovered the Burgess Shale, a fossil-bearing deposit exposed in the Canadian Rockies on Mount Burgess of British Columbia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, was named after him.

In 1872, he married Lura Ann Rust (1843–1876), in 1888, he remarried Helena B. Stevens (1858–1911), and in 1914, Mary Morris Vaux (1860–1940), an amateur artist and avid naturalist. He died on February 9, 1927, in Washington, D.C.

William McLea Walbank (1856-1909) was born in St. John's, NF; he studied architecture and civil engineering at Queen's University in Ireland, and civil and mechanical engineering at McGill University, where he graduated in 1877. Working in Montreal, Walbank practised as an architect, an engineer and a land surveyor.

William McLea Walbank (1856-1909) est né à St. John's (Terre-Neuve); il a étudié l'architecture et le génie civil à l'Université Queen's en Irlande puis le génie civil et mécanique à l'Université McGill où il a obtenu son diplôme en 1877. À Montréal, Walbank a exercé des fonctions d'architecte, d'ingénieur et d'arpenteur.

William Wainwright was born on April 30, 1840, in Manchester, England.

He was a railway executive. In 1858, he entered the service of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway as a Secretary to the General Manager. In 1862, he moved to Canada to serve as chief clerk in the accountant's office of the Grand Trunk Railway. Over the next fifty-two years, he held many leading offices in Grand Trunk. In 1911, he rose to the position of Senior Vice-President and the Second Vice-President of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. Wainwright developed and maintained a thorough understanding of the finance, history, and physical character of the Grand Trunk Railway, often appearing before Parliament in Ottawa on behalf of the company. In conjunction with his duties at the Grand Trunk, he was a director of the Montreal Telegraph Company and vice-president of the Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Company. Wainwright Basin in British Columbia was named in his honour in 1908.

In 1867, he married Rosabella Hilda Arnold (1848–1876), and in 1878, he remarried Mary Emily Arnold (1850–1905). He died on May 14, 1914, in Atlantic City, New Jersey and is buried in Montreal, Quebec.