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Ruth Catherine Shewchuk (nee Dulmage) was born in Yorkton, Saskatchewan on February 9, 1923 to George and Harriet Dulmage. She attended school in Melfort and Yorkton and graduated from the Regina General Hospital as a registered nurse in 1946. In 1948, Shewchuk was sent by the Canadian Red Cross to close the Red Cross Outpost Hospital at Paddockwood, which had been the first of its kind when it opened in 1920. Use of the hospital had waned with the rise of publicly funded health care in the region. She served as the head nurse for six months, and took a number of photographs with her box camera to commemorate the experience. During the remainder of her career, she mainly served as a maternity nurse, but at various times also worked with Public Health, the Victorian Order of Nurses, and the Salvation Army. She was a strong supporter of the Red Cross, Girl Guides, Eastern Star, and McClure United Church in Saskatoon.

In 2000, Shewchuk and her colleague, Betty Elliott, head nurse from the Buffalo Narrows Red Cross Outpost Hospital, coordinated a reunion of staff and community that supported the two Red Cross outpost hospitals. The reunion took place in 2002 in the former Paddockwood Hospital, which had been converted into the home of local artist Anita Shaw (current as of 2010). The event featured the donation of a replica of the original Paddockwood Hospital to the Red Cross Archives, and received local press coverage. Shewchuk and Elliot then compiled and distributed copies of a scrapbook containing reprints of her original photographs along with additional memorabilia from the hospitals and the reunion.

Ruth Shewchuk died on February 19, 2004 in Saskatoon. She and her husband, Nick, had two children: Jan and Joan.

Lorne Aubrey McLaren was born on August 17, 1928 in Saltcoats, Saskatchewan to Aird McLaren and Mildred Vaughan. He attended Aston School and received his secondary education in Saltcoats.

McLaren joined the Morris Rod Weeder Company in Yorkton, Saskatchewan in 1951 as a partsman and became president in 1979. McLaren served as a trustee on the Yorkton Public School board and was provincial finance chairman for the Progressive Conservative Party.

McLaren was first elected to the Saskatchewan Legislature in 1982 and served as a Progressive Conservative MLA for the Yorkton constituency until 1991. McLaren served in the Grant Devine Government as Minister of Labour (1982-1985). He was Minister Responsible for Labour Relations Board (1982-1985); Workers' Compensation Board (1982-1985); Workers' Advocate (1982-1985); Minimum Wage Board (1982-1985); Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan (1982-1983); Saskatchewan Power Corporation (1982-1985) and Crown Investments Corporation (1983-1985).

McLaren's Cabinet appointments were discontinued on December 16, 1985, when Premier Devine shuffled his Cabinet and reduced the number of ministers from 23 to 19. McLaren did not seek re-election in the 1991 provincial general election and Clay Serby (NDP) became the MLA for the Yorkton constituency.

Lorne McLaren died in Regina on January 4, 2009.

Lorne McLaren and his first wife, Audrey Hillis, married in 1951 and had four children: Blaine, Tenley, Bonnalyn and Coralee. McLaren was divorced in 1984 and later was married to Barbara McLaren.

Edward Dmytro Bayda was born on September 9, 1931 in Alvena, Saskatchewan to Dymtro and Mary (Bilinski) Bayda. He attended Alvena High School, and City Park Collegiate in Saskatoon. Bayda continued his education at the University of Saskatchewan and received a Bachelor of Arts degree with majors in Philosophy and Political Science in 1951, and a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1953. He graduated cum laude and won Carswell Prizes in his first and third years of law school. Bayda articled under M.A. MacPherson, Q.C. of MacPherson, Leslie & Tyerman and was admitted to the Saskatchewan Bar on June 30, 1954.

Bayda continued to practise law with MacPherson, Leslie & Tyerman, and later with A.M. Kindred in Yorkton. He was a partner with Johnson, Bayda & Trudelle, and a senior partner with Bayda, Halvorson, Scheibel & Thompson from 1966 to 1972. He specialized primarily in civil law, but also worked in criminal law, appeals and commercial transactions. Bayda was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1966, Justice to the Court of Queen's Bench in 1972, and Justice to the Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan in 1974. From 1981 to 2006, Bayda served as Chief Justice of Saskatchewan.

Bayda was a past president and past director of the Regina Bar Association, a past Bencher with the Law Society of Saskatchewan, and a past chairman for the Saskatchewan Civil Justice Section of the Canadian Bar Association. He was appointed Commissioner of the Vancouver Port Area Grain Handling Industrial Inquiry (1974-1975), the Saskatchewan Law Reform Commission (1974-1976) and the Cluff Lake Board of Inquiry (1977-1978). Chief Justice Bayda received Honourary Doctor of Laws degrees from the University of Saskatchewan (1989) and the University of Regina (2006).

Other honours awarded to Bayda included: the Commemorative Medal for the 125th Anniversary of Confederation (1992); the B'nai B'rith Citizen of the Year (1995); the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal (2002); the Saskatchewan Centennial Medal (2005); the University of Saskatchewan's 100 Alumni of Influence (2007); the Ukrainian Canadian Congress Nation Builders Award (2008) and the Saskatchewan Order of Merit (2008).

Bayda was involved in a number of service, church and business clubs. His involvement in the Kinsmen Club included serving as president and executive member of the Queen City Kinsmen Club, as well as serving as National Registrar of the Association of Kinsmen Clubs. He also served as president of the St. Anne's Men's Club and served on councils for the Knights of Columbus and the Canadian Association of the Sovereign & Military Order of Malta. Bayda was a director of the Assiniboia Club in Regina and was a former member of the Regina Chamber of Commerce. He served (2005) as Honourary Patron to the Regina Lyric Light Opera Society and Patron to the Canadian Club of Regina. Bayda was a longtime supporter of the United Way of Regina, Campion College, Regina's Globe Theatre, and various other charitable campaigns.

E.D. Bayda married Yvonne Gagné in May, 1953. They had six children: Paula, Christopher, Margot, Marie-Thérèse, Sheila and Kathryn. Yvonne Bayda died on January 10, 2002. He was subsequently married to Lorraine Bethell. Bayda died while on vacation in Izmir, Turkey on April 2, 2010.