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Rubena Andrews was born in Owen Sound, Ontario on June 19, 1903 to Abel James Hindle and Mary Ann Sinclair. The family moved to Saskatchewan when Rubena was young, and her father served as Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the riding of Willow Bunch from 1917-1924. Rubena began her career as a teacher in about 1920, and later worked for the Department of Education (about 1922-1931).

She married Vernard Reginald Andrews in 1931 and they moved to Ontario where they had 3 children.

Rubena passed away on January 4, 1993 in North Bay, Ontario.

Archibald (Archie) Jamieson was born in Valleyfield, Quebec on July 8, 1888 to John and Agnes (McFarlane) Jamieson. His family had emigrated from Paisley, Renfrew County, Scotland in 1886 or 1887. Jamieson had five siblings: Agnes, John, Malcolm, William, and Annie.

Jamieson lived in Rhode Island from 1906 to 1910 and studied mechanical engineering at university in Providence. Following graduation, he moved to Pawtucket, Rhode Island and then to Baltimore, Maryland. On September 12, 1912, he married Rosamond Ihley of Milltown, New Jersey. After briefly living in Baltimore, the Jamiesons moved to Toronto, Ontario in 1913. From 1913 to 1918, Jamieson worked for Consolidated Steel Company. The Jamiesons had two children: John (born 1920) and Malcolm (Mack) (born 1922). Rosamond Jamieson died in 1923.

In May 1923, Jamieson moved to Fort Frances, Ontario to be closer to his brother, John. Archie Jamieson remained in the area briefly and worked in the local lumber industry. By 1925, Jamieson had returned to Toronto and taken a position with Central Scientific Company. In 1927, Jamieson attended and graduated from the Ontario College for Technical Teachers in Hamilton, Ontario. He was then employed as a mechanical engineer and foreman at the Victory Gold Mine in Goldboro, Nova Scotia.

On June 26, 1929, Archie Jamieson married Edna Georgina Peitzsche in the Goldboro Baptist Church. They had their first child, William Archibald (Archie Jr.) on January 22, 1933 while in Goldboro. The family remained in Goldboro while Jamieson pursued other career opportunities in the mining industry by first moving to Quebec and then to Lee Lake, Ontario. The family joined him in Lee Lake in June 1934, but when the mine in Lee Lake closed the following year, Edna and Archie Jr. returned to Goldboro and Jamieson went on to Goldfields, Saskatchewan to set up a gold mine (Althona). The family would not join him in Goldfields until 1937. While living in Goldfields, the Jamiesons had two more children: David, born on December 29, 1937, and Bernice, born in 1939. When the Goldfields mine closed in 1939, the family returned to Goldboro. Jamieson then moved to Outpost Island on Great Slave Lake in the North West Territories to rebuild the gold mine there in 1940, but returned to Goldboro in 1941. The Jamiesons' fourth child, Sheila Anne, was born on May 5, 1942 in Amherst, Nova Scotia. In the fall of 1946, the family moved to Walton, Nova Scotia and remained there until Archie Jamieson's death on March 1, 1960. Edna Jamieson died in Halifax, Nova Scotia on May 21, 1998.

David Jamieson, son of Archie and Edna Jamieson, attended high school in Nova Scotia and Mount Allison University in New Brunswick. In 1958, he moved to Tempe, Arizona to study at Arizona State College/University and while there he met and married Carol Warner. David and Carol had two sons: David Jr. (born 1961) and Derek (born 1963). In 1962, the family moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where David Jamieson worked for various insurance companies. The family moved to Western Canada in 1970 and settled in Medicine Hat, Alberta in 1980. David and Carol Jamieson divorced in 1982. In 1985, David Jamieson began working in the real estate industry and married Patricia (Pat) Ann Gilroy. The Jamiesons currently (2015) reside near Medicine Hat, Alberta.

Lucy Margaret Baker was born at Summertown, Glengarry County, Ontario in 1836. Lucy was young when her mother passed away and she was adopted by her father's sister, Mrs. Buchanan of Dundee, Quebec. She was educated in Dundee, Quebec and Fort Covington, NY. She returned to Dundee to teach and became involved in missionary and Sunday school work in Zion Presbyterian church, pastured by Rev. Donald Ross. Baker also taught in New Orleans during the American Civil War, and later in Lancaster, ON. Her old pastor, Rev. Ross, was heading the school in Lancaster at the time. In 1878, Ross was appointed by the Home Mission Board of the Presbyterian church to go to Prince Albert. The Board asked Baker to accompany Mr. and Mrs. Ross to Prince Albert to teach at the day school started by Rev. James Nisbet.

Baker became the first female missionary of the Presbyterian Church to the Indians of the North-West. She taught at the mission day school until 1885, and then taught at the newly-built Presbyterian high school in Prince Albert for several years. She then moved to teach on the Makoce Waste reserve, a reserve of Sioux Indians from the United States who had taken refuge in Canada in the 1860's. She continued to teach at the reserve until 1905, when she retired due to failing health. She died on May 30, 1909 in Montreal and she was buried in the Zion Presbyterian churchyard in Dundee, Quebec.

A high school in Prince Albert is named after Lucy M. Baker.

Allan W. Blair was born in Brussels, Ontario, in 1900. He received his early education in Regina, Saskatchewan. After graduating in medicine from McGill University in 1928, he took postgraduate studies in cancer and radiotherapy in the United States and Europe. In the early 1930s, he worked as the Associate Director of the Toronto General Hospital. In 1939 he returned to the west to become Director of Cancer Services for Saskatchewan and Director of the Cancer Clinic in Regina. In 1947 he was invited by the National Cancer Institute of Canada to carry out a survey of cancer facilities across the country, and he spent the next year collecting data in the various provinces. He died of a heart attack in November 1948, before the final report was written. Nonetheless, this survey is still remembered as the Blair Report, and his contributions are memorialized in the name of the Allan Blair Clinic in Regina.