Rev. George H. Sheldrake was born in 1844 in Little Hallingbury, Essex, England.

He was a clergyman and author. He served at the Goshen Presbyterian Church in Winchester, Tennessee, Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Mayfield, Kentucky, Presbytery of Winnebago, Chicago, Illinois, and Presbytery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He wrote the book "Medium Theory of Atonement, and Review of Dr. Burney's Soteriology" (1888).

John Sharp Shearer was born on March 11, 1834, in Tyrie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

He was a businessman. He was educated in Scotland, and as a young man, he moved to Canada. He spent forty years as a commission and general wholesale merchant in Montreal. He owned a wholesale dry goods business with John Mackedie, called Shearer, Mackedie & Co. He was a member of the Montreal Board of Trade and a governor of the General Hospital. He occupied the offices of treasurer of the Microscopical Society and the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society. He was first vice-president of the Natural History Society, a Chevalier des Alps, Maritimes of Nice, France, and president of the Montreal Dispensary and the Canadian National League. He was the chairman of the finance committee of the Maisonneuve Monument.

In 1874, he married Caroline Henrietta Pelton (1846–1922). He died on May 15, 1901, in Montreal, Quebec.

Caroline Henrietta Pelton was born in 1846 in Quebec, Canada. In 1874, she married John Sharp Shearer (1834-1901), a Montreal merchant, member of the Board of Trade, and the Governor of the Montreal General Hospital. She died in 1922, in Montreal.

Sarah Sheard was born on February 13, 1953, in Toronto, Ontario.

She is a Canadian novelist, educator, editor, and psychotherapist. She was educated at York University (M.F.A., Music, 1977). She also studied conversational Japanese at the University of Toronto (1983-1984). Sheard has had numerous writing-related occupations. She was a creative writing instructor for various Toronto area high schools (1980-1988), and from 1980 onwards, she has been a guest lecturer on creative writing at several Ontario colleges, including York University's Glendon College and the Humber School of Creative Writing. She has also been a writer-in-residence at the Bolton Public Library (1988) and electronic writer-in-residence at Dr. Marian Hilliard Secondary School. Sheard was the Ontario representative of the Literary Press Group (1980-1981) and the Toronto Book Fair executive in 1983 and 1984. She has been a member of the editorial board of Coach House Press since 1979. Sheard's fiction and non-fiction have been published in a variety of periodicals and anthologies. She is the author of the novels “Almost Japanese” (1985), “Swing Era” (1993), “The Hypnotist” (1999) and “Krank: Love in the New Dark Times” (2012). She has a private practice as a psychotherapist with M.A. in Counselling Psychology and certification as a Gestalt Therapist, specializing in couple and family counselling.

Robert Farquhar Shaw-Stewart was born on March 3, 1836, in Inverkip, Renfrew, Scotland, son of Sir Michael Shaw-Stewart (1788-1836), 6th Baronet of Greenock and Blackhall, and Eliza Mary Farquhar (1802-1916).

He was an officer of the Scots Fusiliers Guards. He joined it as Lieutenant in 1854 and reached the rank of Captain.

In 1859, he married Isabella Jane Warner (1835–1916). He died on October 29, 1911, in Bournemouth, Dorset, England.