Robert Leigh Weaver was born on January 6, 1921, in Niagara Falls, Ontario.

He was a Canadian anthologist, editor, and radio broadcaster. From 1942 to 1945, he served first in the Royal Canadian Air Force and then in the Canadian Army. After his discharge, he enrolled at the University of Toronto and studied Philosophy and English. In 1948, he was hired by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) as a program organizer in the Talks and Public Affairs Department and in this role, he was associated with a number of the most important cultural programs on Canadian radio, including Critically Speaking, Canadian Short Stories, Stories with John Drainie (1959-1965), and Anthology (1953-1985). Through these shows, he worked tirelessly to discover, nurture and sustain several generations of Canadian writers such as Alice Munro, Mordecai Richler, Timothy Findley, Margaret Atwood, and Leonard Cohen. He founded the literary journal The Tamarack Review (1956-1982) and created the CBC Literary Awards in 1979. He retired from CBC in 1985. He edited numerous anthologies, including the five Oxford volumes "Canadian Short Stories: First series (1960), Second series (1968), Third series (1978), Fourth series (1985), and Fifth series (1991)," "The Oxford Anthology of Canadian Literature" (16 editions, 1973-2004), and "Small Wonders: New Stories by Twelve Distinguished Canadian Authors" (1982). Weaver also wrote for the Toronto Star, making his first contribution in 1969 and writing a regular column reviewing murder mysteries from 1972 to 1979. In 2007, Elaine Kalman Naves published Robert Weaver’s biography, "Robert Weaver: Godfather of Canadian Literature."

In 1950, he married Mary Isabel McKellar (1924–2008). After their divorce in 1965, he remarried Audrey Marlene McKellar (1935–2014) in 1966. He died on January 26, 2008, in Toronto, Ontario.

Robert Watts was born on July 10, 1820, in Moneylane, County Down, Ireland.

He was a clergyman, educator, and theological writer. He was educated at the Royal Academical Institution, Belfast. In 1848, he went to America, where he graduated from Washington College (now Washington and Lee University), Lexington, Virginia, in 1849 and studied theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. In 1852, he organized a Presbyterian mission in Philadelphia, gathered a congregation in Franklin House Hall, and was ordained its pastor in 1853. In 1863, on a visit to Ireland, he accepted a call to Lower Gloucester Street congregation, Dublin. In 1866, he was elected to the Chair of Systematic Theology at the Assembly's College, Belfast. Watts served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Ireland from 1879 to 1880 and represented the pan-Presbyterian councils in the 1870s and 1880s. He wrote books on theological and doctrinal issues and contributed many articles to presbyterian and other periodicals.

In 1853, he married Margaret Newell (1822–1901). He died on July 26, 1895, in College Park, Belfast, Ireland.

David Allan Poe Watt was born on April 2, 1830, in Ayrshire, Scotland.

He was a merchant, lobbyist, social reformer, and amateur naturalist. He was educated in grammar schools in Scotland before arriving in Montreal in 1846. Watt entered the mercantile trade as a commission merchant and broker specializing in produce. He served as treasurer of the Montreal Board of Trade from 1862 to 1865. He worked tirelessly throughout his career to protect and promote the commercial interests of Montreal merchants. Watt was also one of the organizers of the Montreal Corn Exchange, the Citizens' League, and the Montreal Art Association. Around 1882 he went into business for himself as a broker, and later he became a grain merchant. In 1912, he accepted the post of manager of North American export freight for Hugh Allan’s Montreal Ocean Steamship Company (the Allan Line), a post he held until his death. Watt contributed articles on North American ferns to the Canadian Naturalist and served as its editor.

In 1857, he married Frances Macintosh (1826–1876)). He died on December 13, 1917, in Montreal, Quebec.