Miranda Louisa Parker was born on November 10, 1833, in Danville, Quebec, the daughter of the minister Ammi James Parker (1802-1877) who organized the Danville Congregational Church in 1832 and remained there for 40 years.

In 1854, she married Rev. John McNaughton McKillican (1824–1911). She died on May 3, 1920, in Montreal, Quebec.

Rev. John McNaughton McKillican was born on May 24, 1824, in Vankleek Hill, County Glengarry, Ontario.

He was a clergyman. He was educated at the Congregational College in Toronto. In 1850, he was called to Glengarry Congregational Church, established in 1823 by his father William McKillican (1776-1849). He was ordained here in 1851. As secretary and travelling agent for the Sunday School Union in Montreal, he became well known throughout Quebec and the Maritime Provinces. He organized over 1,200 Sunday schools with 6,000 teachers and over 40,000 scholars. He visited ever 8,500 schools and delivered over 41,000 sermons and addresses. McKillican was a great temperance advocate and a member of the executive of the Dominion Alliance for the Total Suppression of the Liquor Traffic.

In 1854, he married Miranda Louisa Parker (1833–1920). He died on June 27, 1911, in Montreal, Quebec.

Dr. Robert Tait McKenzie or MacKenzie was born on May 26, 1867, in Ramsay, Ontario.

He was a physician, sculptor, educator, athlete, soldier, and Scouter. He attended McGill University in Montreal as an undergraduate and medical student. He won the All-round Gymnastic Championship, was the Canadian Intercollegiate Champion in the high jump, a good hurdler, a first-rate boxer, and a member of the varsity football team. In 1892, he graduated from McGill and got an internship at Montreal General Hospital. A year later he became an instructor in anatomy and specialist in orthopedic surgery at McGill and also developed an active medical practice in Montreal where he was appointed house physician to the Governor-General of Canada, the Marquis of Aberdeen. During the 1890s, McKenzie asked McGill to develop a department and school of physical education, but the university declined, citing lack of money. In 1904, he moved to the United States to teach at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He also became its director of physical education.

He pioneered physical fitness programs in Canada. During World War I, his methods and inventions for restoring and rehabilitating wounded soldiers laid a foundation for modern physiotherapy practices. He attained fame in the medical world by his original ideas on the treatment of scoliosis and by his conviction of the need for preventive medicine.

His interest in sculpting was a result of his extensive knowledge of human anatomy. He sculptured memorials and statues of athletes.

He died on April 28, 1938, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.