Dr. John Roddick Byers was born in 1876. In 1902, he obtained his M.D. at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. He was one of the pioneers in the fight against tuberculosis in Canada. In the early twenties, Dr. Byers played a key role in the setting up of the Laurentian Sanatorium Association in Ste. Agathe, Quebec. By 1925, this Association was able to place 200 beds at the disposal of civilians ill with tuberculosis. After leaving Ste. Agathe, he opened a consulting practice in Montreal and continued to take an active interest in veterans who had contracted tuberculosis. In 1903, he married Sarah May Davis. He died in Gananoque, Ontario on May 1, 1963.

Dr. William Gordon Matthew Byers was born on December 18, 1872, in Gananoque, Leeds, Ontario. He obtained his M.D. in ophthalmology at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. In 1901, he published a study from the Royal Victoria Hospital “The Primary Intradural Tumours of the Optic Nerve: (fibromatosis Nervi Optici)” and the article "An Atypical Case of Retinitis Pigmentosa". He died on August 1, 1957, in Montreal, Quebec.

Edwin Lee Byington was born on August 20, 1852, in Ogdensburg, New York.

Around 1861 he spent time at Hope, Ontario with his mother. He earned an M.A. degree and in 1882, he became the first Principal of Central Normal School (1882-1884), the only Normal School in Manitoba at the time. During his tenure here, he was an Officer of the Winnipeg Teachers’ Association (1883-?) and the IOOF (The Independent Order of Odd Fellows). In 1884, he left for Omaha, Nebraska. By January 1886, he had accepted a position as School Inspector at Colorado Springs, Colorado and worked with former Winnipeg teacher J. D. Hunt.

In 1885, he married Helene Maud Cleghorn (1861-1907). He died in 1891 in Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado.