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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.

Stuart Houston was born on September 26, 1927 in North Dakota where his parents, Dr Sigga Christianson Houston and Dr. Clarence Joseph Houston practiced briefly before relocating to Yorkton, Saskatchewan.

Stuart completed his medical degree at the University of Manitoba and spent eight years in General Practice in Yorkton. Stuart then specialized in Radiology (now Medical Imaging) at the University of Saskatchewan with one year in Boston, pursuing a particular interest in pediatric radiology. He returned to a faculty position at the University of Saskatchewan where he stayed for his professional career. He served a term as chair of the department but particularly enjoyed his term as editor of the Journal of the Canadian Association of Radiologists. He served on the Council of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons and was the only professor in the College of Medicine to have been named honourary president of the Student Medical Society three times.

Stuart's interest in ornithology began as a boy in Yorkton, fostered by an amateur naturalist, Isabel Priestly and subsequently by his work for Ducks Unlimited. He maintained a lifelong commitment to ornithology, mainly expressed through banding birds. To 2014 he had had banded 150,283 individual birds of 211 species, with 3,945 recoveries of 84 species, the highest number of species recovered of any Canadian bander. Over decades he cultivated a large network of people dedicated to the protection of birds. He was an active member of the Saskatoon and provincial Natural History societies and participated extensively in their activities. His work in ornithology included four books on Saskatchewan natural history and 311 articles in ornithology and natural history journals, and culminated in 2020 with the publication with Frank Roy and Alan Smith of the definitive book on the Birds of Saskatchewan. He remained keenly involved in his most recent project, banding and wing-tagging turkey vultures.

Houston was also an historian, writing 13 books with historical subjects including early Canadian explorer naturalists with the Franklin expedition, biographies of pioneer Saskatchewan doctors and Saskatchewan's early achievements in health care (Steps on the Road to Medicare).

Stuart married Mary in Dilke, SK in 1951. She died in 2019. They had 4 children: Stan, Margaret, David and Donald.

Houston received many honours including D. Litt and D CnL degrees, Saskatchewan Order of Merit, Officer of the Order of Canada, and innumerable other awards, local, national and international, in all three spheres of his activities.

Stuart Houston died on July 22, 2021.

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.