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Thomas Brown Patton was born on September 29, 1863 in Paris, Brant County, Ontario. He received his primary and secondary education in Paris and attended Brantford Collegiate Institute. Patton worked for the McCormick Harvesting Company prior to permanently settling in Regina, North-West Territories (now known as Saskatchewan) around 1904. Patton established several businesses in Regina, including the Regina Lumber and Supply Company and Kerr Patton Coal Company. Patton served as an alderman for the City of Regina (1912-1913) and was involved with various organizations, including the Regina Board of Trade and Regina Exhibition Association. After retiring in 1918, Patton worked as an income tax returns adjustor. He died in Regina on March 17, 1927.

Elizabeth Ann Patton, wife of Thomas B. Patton, was born on June 17, 1863 in Brantford, Ontario to Richard and Elizabeth Oxtoby. Patton was involved with various organizations in Regina and served as an executive member of the Regina Council of Women; the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire and the Saskatchewan Division and Regina Branch of the Canadian Red Cross Society. She was awarded life memberships in the Regina Council of Women and the Canadian Red Cross Society, Regina Branch. Elizabeth Patton died in Regina on December 15, 1938.

John McDonald Patton, son of Thomas B. and Elizabeth Patton, was born on December 15, 1886 in Hamilton, Ontario. He received his primary and secondary education in Hamilton and attended the University of Toronto, where he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering in 1912. After graduation, Patton was employed as an engineer with the City of Regina and the Saskatchewan Water Commission. In 1916, he joined the Saskatchewan Department of Highways and held positions as assistant bridge engineer and chief bridge engineer (1947-1952). Patton served as president of the Association of Professional Engineers in Saskatchewan and as chairman of the Saskatchewan Branch of the Engineering Institute of Canada. He died in Regina on January 23, 1963. He never married nor had children.

Leonard Gillespie Bell Sr. was born in Armagh, Ireland in 1826 and immigrated to Canada from 1867. He lived for a time in Quebec and New Brunswick before he moved to Saskatchewan on July 12, 1882, where he homesteaded in the Qu'Appelle area on NW 1/4 4-18-14 W2.

Trained as a civil engineer, Bell worked on an engineering project in Regina between November 1896 and July 1897. Most of his efforts; however, were directed towards farming.

Commissioned by Bell Sr. in 1894 and completed in 1896, a stone house was built south of Qu'Appelle. The home, which came to be known as "The Gables" was designed by architect James Allen Macdonald, who at the time resided in Regina.

Bell Sr. and his wife, Sarah Louisa, had two children: Leonard Gillespie Jr. and Laura.

Bell Sr. died in 1911 while visiting his sisters in Armagh, Ireland. He was buried there.

Leonard G. Bell Jr. attended Nisbet Academy in Prince Albert and trained at the Agricultural College in Guelph, Ontario before returning to Qu'Appelle. When he married Florence Emily Tanner in 1905 they moved into "The Gables" and Mr. and Mrs. Bell Sr. moved into Qu'Appelle.

Bell Jr. and his wife Florence had at least one child, Benjamin Bell, who in 1940 married Cornelia Russell.

Laura Bell taught Sunday School during the 1890s, and married Fred Blakeney of Detroit, Michigan.

The John and Rebecca Russell family homesteaded in the Crescent Lake, Saskatchewan district.

Theodore Henry James Charmbury was born on May 14, 1879 in Nuthurst, Sussex, England. He apprenticed as a photographer in Aldershot, Hampshire before immigrating to Canada in 1900. On December 21, 1900, Charmbury arrived in Prince Albert, North-West Territories (now Saskatchewan), where he briefly apprenticed with photographer William James before establishing his own photography studio. Charmbury married Aphra Roundtree Jones in Prince Albert on April 29, 1902. The Charmburys had nine children: Gordon, Robert, Harry, Phyllis, Rose, Pat, Jeanette, Theodora (Mike) and Aphra. Theodore Charmbury also travelled throughout the North-West Territories taking pictures and worked briefly in real estate with Clarence M. Turner.

In 1918, the Charmbury family moved to Saskatoon, where Theodore Charmbury established Charmbury's Studios. Gordon and Harry Charmbury assisted Theodore in operating the studio, which did portraiture work, weddings, funerals, harvest scenes, and theatrical group pictures. Two fires, in 1931 and 1942, destroyed many of the early negatives that Theodore Charmbury had accumulated. Around 1938, Theodore Charmbury retired and his son, Harry, became proprietor of the studio, which he ran until 1970. In 1942, Gordon Charmbury returned to Saskatoon after working as a photographer in Toronto, Ontario to assist Harry in operating the studio. In 1957, Gordon Charmbury moved to Calgary, Alberta to take over the family's studio, which he operated until his retirement.

Theodore Charmbury died in Saskatoon on December 5, 1945. Aphra Charmbury died on May 20, 1946. Gordon Charmbury died on August 7, 1980 in Calgary. Harry Charmbury died in Saskatoon on August 15, 1993.