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Thomas Hazen Prissick was born on September 25, 1868, in Quebec City, Quebec.

He was educated at Tonbridge School in England. In the late 1880s, he returned to Canada and joined the Bank of Montreal where he worked for over 40 years, retiring as head teller at its head office. An all-round athlete, he played football for the M.A.A A. and was an enthusiastic oarsman. He was also one of the first members of the Royal Montreal Golf Club.

He died on February 22, 1941, in Montreal, Quebec.

Marion Mortimer Mercer was the sister of Margaret Mercer Dawson. In 1842, she married George Primrose. A letter written in December 1898 by Tina Pettigrew to Margaret Mercer Dawson mentions Marion's death at age 88.

James Primrose was born in 1803 in Scotland.

He was a merchant. He moved to Pictou, Nova Scotia, where he was an agent of the Bank of Nova Scotia. He founded a firm Primrose Sons, involved in insurance, banking, lumber, shipbuilding, coal mines, and the Marine Railroad Company. His sons Clarence Primrose (1830-1902) and Howard Primrose (1833-1906) became the other senior partners. After his retirement in 1864, the firm became Primrose Brothers. The same year William Norman Rudolph (1835-1886) made the transition from the clerk of the firm to merchant partner, and they became known as Primrose & Rudolph.

In 1829, he married Annie Gordon (–1834), and in 1834, he married Eliza Brown. He died in 1882 in Pictou, Nova Scotia.

Howard Primrose was the son of James Primrose, a prominent businessman in Pictou, Nova Scotia, head of the Primrose firm. He and his brother Clarence had a strict Calvinist upbringing and joined their father in the business. The Primrose firm was involved with ship building, coal mines, and the Marine Railroad Company, among other investments. Howard, who was deaf, wrote the annual report of the Marine Railroad Company; he also attended to the firm’s correspondence as well as to business related to the Customs House. In 1864 he became director of the Marine Assurance Company. Howard is listed in “Canada, Seafarers of the Atlantic” as the owner of eleven vessels, most registered in Pictou. He married Olivia Campbell. Their son Alexander, who studied in Edinburgh University, became an authority on medical education.