Leo Melanson is a lifelong resident of Massachusetts, a long-time amateur historian and a descendent of Canadian families. He has been a teacher, a public-school administrator and a college instructor, teaching school administration to graduate students. His master’s thesis in History, A History of Taunton, Massachusetts in the First World War is a reference book at the Old Colony Historical Society in Taunton. His self-published, Canadian Maritime Disasters 1912-1917 was well received by several history buffa.