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William Cronyn McCheane was born in Birmingham, England on January 26, 1841. He was a member of the Fritchley Meeting of the Society of Friends (Quakers). William McCheane married Caroline Mettam in Birmingham on April 2, 1869. Caroline Mettam was born in Taddington, Derbyshire, England on September 18, 1841 to James and Mary Mettam. William and Caroline McCheane had six children: Lydia, Catherine (died 1894), Hannah Mary, John, William, and Edward Cronyn.

William McCheane and his son John immigrated to Canada in 1903 and settled in a district near Borden, Saskatchewan. William named the district Halcyonia. He was granted patent to a homestead at NW14-40-8-W3. He returned to England, bringing the rest of the family to Halcyonia in 1904. William McCheane operated the first post office in the district. He established the Halcyonia Meeting of the Society of Friends, and held meetings in his house until a meeting house was built around 1915. William McCheane remained in the Halcyonia district until his death in Borden on December 6, 1923.

Edward Cronyn McCheane was born in England on January 16, 1883 to William Cronyn and Caroline (Mettam) McCheane. He was accepted as a member of the Fritchley Meeting of the Society of Friends in 1883. He immigrated to Canada with his family and settled in the Halcyonia district near Borden. Edward McCheane married Edith Mary Hinde in Borden on September 1, 1920. Edward and Edith McCheane resided in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan where Edward ran a commercial art studio. They had one son, Gordon Edward. Edward McCheane died in Saskatoon on June 12, 1946. Edith McCheane returned to her family's ranch where she lived until her death in Borden on October 22, 1961.

William Henry Reed was born in Bruce County, Ontario on October 4, 1869. He later moved with his parents to the Brandon, Manitoba district, where the family engaged in farming. Reed then worked as a grain buyer and salesman for the Sylvester Farm Machinery Company. As a salesman, he traveled to South Africa and various points in Western Canada to introduce machinery.

Reed married Eliza Nelles, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lonsdale Nelles, on April 5, 1893. Annie Elizabeth (Eliza) Nelles was born in Cayuga, Ontario on May 3, 1873. The Reeds settled in Wapella, Saskatchewan, where W.H. Reed worked as a salesman for Kidd and Clements. Reed also farmed in the Rosa Glen district. In 1908, the Reeds moved into Wapella, where W.H. Reed operated a flour and feed business, shipped livestock and worked as an auctioneer.

William and Eliza Reed had four children: Eva; Henrietta; Marion and Nelles. William Reed died in 1936. Eliza Reed died around 1950.

Alfred William Smith Hipperson was born in England on September 7, 1884 to Alfred K. Hipperson and Mary Elizabeth Smith. He had four sisters: Lois; Lily; Irene and Anna. William emigrated from Norwich, England to the Peterborough, Ontario district around 1901 and moved to Regina, Saskatchewan in 1906. Around the same time, William began to drop the Alfred and Smith from his name and signed legal and business documents as simply William Hipperson.

Hipperson married Wilhelmina Gumpricht on December 15, 1911 in Peterborough, Ontario. Wilhelmina passed away on May 19, 1920. William and his second wife, Margaret, raised three children: William Lloyd (born around 1916), Evelyn Margaret Wilhelmina (born August 4, 1925), and Donald Kemp Hipperson (born August 8, 1928). Donald Kemp Hipperson and his wife Nancy had four children: Karen Jane (born ca. 1953), Donald Ramsay (born June 2, 1955), Douglas John (born November 11, 1957), and Gordon Kemp (born April 6, 1960).

William worked as a carpenter and a general contractor in Peterborough and in Saskatchewan, and by 1927 had established Hipperson Construction Ltd. in Regina. William also entered into several related business enterprises, including Regina Sash and Door Limited; Hy-Grade Millwork Limited; Qu'Appelle Apartments Ltd.; Somerset Properties Ltd.; and Southfields Investments Ltd.. The family also owned three farming operations in the Cymric, Duval and Cupar areas of Saskatchewan that included grain farming, livestock (Southfields Hereford Farm), and fur farming (Hygrade Silverfox Company).

The family's participation in these businesses ranged from acting as the principle shareholders to actively managing and administering their operations as directors and executive office holders. The family's involvement in additional business operations continued after Donald Hipperson took primary control of the businesses in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Donald further established companies such as Hipperson Investments Ltd., Hipperson Holdings Ltd., and D.K.H. Enterprises Ltd., but the family has subsequently divested itself of its involvement in the farming and fur operations and Regina Sash and Door and Hy-Grade Millwork. Gordon Hipperson has continued many of the family businesses, including restructuring Hipperson Construction as a new corporation, Hipperson Construction Company (1996) Ltd.

William Hipperson died in Regina on April 2, 1966. Margaret Hipperson died on January 20, 1990. Donald K. and Nancy E. Hipperson currently (2010) live in Regina.

William John (W.J.) James was born on December 23, 1870 to William, Sr. and Maria James of the Fordwich area, Howick Township, Huron County, Ontario. His father was a blacksmith and carriage maker in Ontario, and first travelled west with the Wolseley Red River Expedition in 1870.

W. J. James came to Prince Albert, Northwest Territories ca.1890. His family followed around 1893. Both James and his father were employed by the James Sanderson sawmill as labourers. W.J. James became a barber while also establishing a photography business briefly with W.J. Jackson in 1894. James continued in barbering while also working as an itinerant photographer in the 1890s. He hired Theodore Charmbury as a photographer in his studio between 1901 and 1903, and operated a branch studio at Indian Head in 1904-1906. James operated the City Art Studio (1909-1919) and W.J. James & Co. (est.1927) in Prince Alberta until his retirement in the mid-1930s. James' professional career as an itinerant, commercial and portrait photographer spanned over forty years during which he travelled extensively in the Prince Albert district and northern parkland regions of Saskatchewan documenting settlement, local industry and everyday life.

W.J. James married Maude Rebecca Courtney, daughter of local rancher, Thomas W. and Matilda Courtney, on April 27, 1904 in Prince Albert. Maude Courtney was born in Bobcaygeon, Ontario on December 31, 1882 and came to the Prince Albert area with her family as a child.

W. J. and Maude James had four daughters: Mossie (b. 1904; died at 8 months); 'Eva' Eunice (b. 1906, married (1) Charles Musk; (2) William Bramwell McKenzie); Norma (b. 1908, married Nelson Thurson) and Murl (b. 1914, married W.B. Smith). Both Maude James and daughter Norma worked at the family studio, becoming proprietors of W.J. James & Co. following James' death in 1944. Norma James is listed in commercial directories as a photographer in the mid-1940s. W. J. James & Co. ceased operation in 1957.

William John James died on September 9, 1944 in Prince Albert. Maude James died in December 1956. Both are buried in St. Mary's Cemetery in Prince Albert.

Shirley Collins, daughter of Eunice McKenzie and granddaughter of W.J. James currently (2007) resides in Saskatoon.