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Johan Timan was born in Holland. After he immigrated to Canada, he found employment at the Canadian Locomotive Company from 1954 until its closing in 1969.

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Frank T. Lent was born in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. on 3 March 1855 and entered the military academy there at a young age. He later graduated from Rutgers University in New Jersey and began an apprenticeship with the leading New York firm of Potter & Roberston. After 1880 he practiced his profession in Colorado, in New York City (in 1890 and again in 1896-97), in Lowell, Mass. in 1894, and in Boston after 1897. One of his major projects from this period was an elaborate Colonial style summer mansion located in York Cliffs, Maine, part of a seaside estate of 13 mansions, eight of which still stand and are now listed on United States National Register of Historic Places (26 July 1984). This residence, for an unidentified client, may be the mansion now called "Boulder Cottage" (c. 1894), or the mansion called "Pinehurst Cottage", (c. 1895). From 1900 Lent appears to have taken up permanent year-round residency in Gananoque, Ont. where he served a large number of American and Canadian clients who spent their summers in the nearby resort area of the Thousand Islands. By 1910 he had left Ontario and had moved to Leominster, Massachusetts where he continued to practise.

As an author, he published three pattern books of plans including Sensible Suburban Residences (1894), Sound Sense in Suburban Architecture (1895), and Summer Homes and Camps (1899). Many of these designs were likely used as the basis for summer house projects in the Thousand Islands on both sides of the Canadian-American border, particularly in the summer town of Thousand Island Park on Wellesley Island, N.Y. Lent died in Sterling, Mass. on 3 December 1919.

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Dr. Norris (Joe) E. Hunt was born in 1920. From 1940 to 1942, he served in the Royal Canadian Air Force as a pilot. He was taken prisoner and held in Stalag Luft 3, located in Luckenwalde, Germany from 1942-1945. After the war he attended Queen's University and graduated in Medicine in 1951. Dr. Hunt practised family medicine in Oakville and Huntsville, Ontario until his retirement. He passed away October 4, 2004.

Alister William Mathews was born in Watford, Hertfordshire, England on April 7th, 1907. He was the son of noted Australian ornithologist and rare book collector Gregory M. Mathews, CBE (1876-1949). His name is often misspelt but can be verified as Alister Mathews through his advertisements in 'Master Drawings'. As a young man Mathews was involved in the private press movement, founding The Grayhound Press in 1926 through which he published his friend Monk Gibbon.

He briefly taught modern languages at Bedales School in Hampshire from 1932 to 1935. According to school records, Mathews was also in charge of the student printing press. In 1935 he married Germaine Gaillard (1905-1999), who also worked at Bedales. After their marriage, the couple apparently moved to Grenoble, France with the intention of taking English students as lodgers.

Mathews' career as a rare book and print dealer appears to have begun in the early 1940s in Clooney Beg, Swanage, Dorset. He established a relationship with the British Museum as early as 1943, when he sold three 18th-century drawings to the institution. Sometime after 1947 Mathews moved to Poole, Dorest. He later settled in nearby Bournemouth, where he lived from 1968 until his death in 1985. Mathews conducted business by appointment from his home and through illustrated sale catalogues. As late as 1949 he was still identified as a dealer in rare books; however, after World War II he increasingly specialized in European and British drawings and watercolors. A significant dealer in this field, many of the works he handled are now represented in major museums, including the British Museum; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Morgan Library & Museum, and Victoria & Albert Museum. Mathews died in Bournemouth in 1985.

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