Rev. Thomas Gales was born in 1838 in Biddlesdon, Leicestershire, England.

He was a Protestant minister. In 1866, he was a Secretary of Quebec Temperance and Prohibitory League. In 1877, he founded The Dominion Alliance for the Total Suppression of the Liquor Traffic.

In 1862, he married Ann Marie Wright (1840–1909). He died on October 24, 1880, in Montreal, Quebec.

Rev. William Brown Galloway was born on November 7, 1811, in Glasgow, Scotland.

He was an evangelical clergyman and author. In 1831, he graduated from the University of Glasgow with a degree of M.A. In 1836-1837, he conducted a Moral Philosophy class and published "Philosophy and Religion with Their Mutual Bearings Comprehensively Considered and Satisfactorily Determined on Scientific Principles" (1837). He served as a curate of churches at Barnard Castle, Durham County, England, and Brompton and St. Pancras Church, London. In 1858, he was appointed the first Vicar of St. Mark's Church in Regent's Park, London, but had to wait another 38 years before the money could be raised to complete the chancel. A memorial tablet, put up by his friends in the year of his death, can be seen on the north wall of the church. He was the author of the books "Physical Facts and the Scriptural Record" (1872), "Science and Geology in Relation to the Universal Deluge" (1888), and "Testimony of Science to the Deluge" (1895).

In 1844, he married Ellen Jane Benning (1815–1878) and in 1879, he married Margaret Bell Leader (1818–1888). He died on March 23, 1903, in Hampstead, England.

Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt was born on September 6, 1817, in Chelsea, London, England.

He was a politician and one of the fathers of the Canadian Confederation. He was educated at Reading School, England. Between 1864 and 1867, he was a member of the Great Coalition government in the Province of Canada that secured Confederation in 1867. He served as an Inspector-General of Canada. He was a Member of the Canadian Parliament for Sherbrooke (1867–1872) and the 1st Canadian Minister of Finance (July 1- November 7, 1867). In 1877, the British appointed him as their representative in the Halifax Fisheries Commission concerning American fishing rights in Canadian waters. He also became the 1st Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (1880-1883). In 1882, with his son Elliot, he established the Alberta Railway and Coal Company to build two narrow-gauge rail lines and create a coal mining industry that could bring settlers to the Northwest Territories. He has a street named after him, Avenue Galt in the borough of Verdun, Quebec, in the city of Montreal where he owned lands. In Sherbrooke, Quebec, he has two streets named after him, rue Galt Est/Ouest and rue Alexandre. The Galt Gardens public park and Galt Museum (formerly a hospital) in Lethbridge, Alberta, are named after him.

In 1848, he married Elliott Torrance (1828–1850) and in 1852, he married her sister Amy Gordon Torrance (1834–1911). He died on September 19, 1893, in Montreal, Quebec.

Amy Gordon Torrance was born in Montreal, one of 11 children of John Torrance and Elizabeth Fisher Torrance. In 1851 she married Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation. He was the Member of the Legislative Assembly for Sherbrooke. A Quebec capitalist he raised support for the Grand Trunk Railway. Finance minister in the government of John A. Macdonald in 1858, he formulated the financial terms for the Confederation of 1867 that brought Canada into being. Together Lady Amy Gordon Torrance and Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt had eight children.

John Galt was the son of Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt, and Lady Amy Gordon Torrance Galt.