Michele Koppes (b. 1973) is a Canadian professor of geography at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on how the Earth’s landscapes, glaciers, and human cultures are responding to climate change.

Reference: WGSBN Bulletin, Volume 5, Number 23, Page 7

William Gladstone Colgrove (1872–1958) was a Canadian amateur astronomer, botanical taxonomist and skilled machinist who won the RASC Chant Medal in 1942 for designing and building models for use in astronomical teaching, such as the Sotellunium, which is described here
https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1938JRASC..32..405C
and here
https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1940PA.....48..482C

Aidan J. MacDougall (b. 2003) is a Canadian student of astrophysics at the University of Waterloo as well as an intern at the Canadian Space Agency. He is a close collaborator with the Optical Transient Survey conducted at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria.

Reference: WGSBN Bulletin, volume 5, Number 20, page 7

Rachel Friesen (b. 1979) is a Canadian astronomer and Assistant Professor at the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on the analysis of the structure and composition of dense gas in star-forming
molecular clouds through observations at multiple single-dish and interferometer telescope facilities.

Reference: WGSBN Bulletin, volume 5, Number 20, page 7

Julie Bolduc-Duval (b. 1978) is a Canadian astronomer and the Director of the astronomy education program “Discover the Universe” which is supported by the Dunlap Institute of the University of Toronto. She is a former student at the University of Victoria.

Reference: WGSBN Bulletin, volume 5, Number 20, page 7

David Patton (b. 1968) is a Canadian astronomer and Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Trent University. His research is focused on the study of interacting and merging galaxies, using observations and simulations. David is a former
graduate student of the University of Victoria.

Reference: WGSBN Bulletin, volume 5, Number 20, page 7

Ashley Dawn Leonty (b. 1987) is the daughter-in-law of the discoverer. She is an Alberta government social worker in Edmonton, Canada.

Reference: WGSBN Bulletin, Volume 4, Number 2, page 8

Madeleine Nettie Senegas-Lowe (b. 2023) is the first granddaughter of the discoverer.

Reference: WGSBN Bulletin, Volume 4, Number 2, page 8