Clara Mills was the mother of Canadian soldier Jack Mills. In 1943-1944 she lived in Vancouver, B.C.

R.C. Parsons was born in Lavoie, Atlanta in 1917. He moved to Vancouver, BC, in 1938. Soon after, he married Peggy Parsons. During the Second World War, he served as an officer in the Seaforth Highlanders. After returning home from the war, Parsons worked with Wood Gundy Securities Ltd. He and Peggy had two children, Louise L. Parsons and Linda H. Parsons. He died in Coquitlam 2 July 1975.

William McTavish Stuart Barnston was born c. 1856 in North West Territories, Canada, where his father George Barnston (c.1800-1883) was an HBC fur-trader and naturalist. His brother James Barnston (1831-1858) was a physician and botanist.

He married in 1875 in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, and had three daughters and three sons. He died on November 25, 1891. in New York, New York, and is buried in Montreal, Quebec.

Butler & Tanner Ltd was Britain’s oldest printing company. William Langford, a chemist, established a small printing business in 1845 in Frome, England. Initially set up for his own printing needs, such as medicine labels and advertising leaflets for the latest pharmaceutical preparations, the press’s output was soon expanded. He had been joined in the business by his friend, William Butler, and the firm was named Langford & Butler. It became the forerunner of the Butler and Tanner partnership. In 1848, Langford retired from the printing side of the business, and Butler was running it alone. In 1863, he was joined in partnership by Joseph Tanner, who invested in new machinery to speed up production and the ability to produce high-quality printing. They became known as Butler & Tanner. The partnership between Butler and Tanner was dissolved in 1868, but their association lasted until 1879.

Adam Crooks was born on December 11, 1827, in West Flamborough, Ontario.

He was a lawyer and politician. He studied at Upper Canada College and the University of Toronto (B.C.L, 1851; B.A., 1852; M.A., 1853). He was called to the bar in 1851. Practising in Toronto, he specialized in the remunerative field of equity law. His most famous case, in 1862, the Commercial Bank of Canada v. the Great Western Railway Company, was a $900,000 civil suit. He received a D.C.L. from the University of Toronto and was named a Queen's Counsel in 1863. He served as Attorney General from 1871 to 1872 and provincial treasurer from 1872 to 1877. Crooks played a major role in developing the 1876 liquor licence act, also known as the Crooks Act, which attempted to control the sale of alcohol within the province. He also served as the first Minister of Education in Ontario (1876-1883). In 1884, he suffered a decline in mental and physical health, and by the fall of 1884, he was confined to an asylum in Hartford, Conn., where he died in 1885.

In 1856, he married Emily Anne C. Evans (1828–1868). He died on December 28, 1885, in Hartford, Connecticut.

Sir Francis Walter de Winton was born on June 21, 1835, in Pitsford, Northamptonshire, England.

He was a British Army officer and colonial administrator. He was educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1854. He served in the Crimean War and was present at the Siege of Sevastopol. For his service, he received the Légion d'Honneur (5th class). He was promoted to captain in 1861 and served in British North America and Gibraltar before working as a military attaché in Constantinople (1877-1878). From 1878 to 1883, he was secretary to the Marquess of Lorne, the Governor-General of Canada. De Winton was promoted to lieutenant-colonel in 1880 and brevet-colonel in 1884. He was made a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George in 1882 and a Knight in 1884. He held administrative appointments in several African colonies, e.g., Congo Free State and Swaziland (1889). He was made a Commander of the Order of Leopold by the Belgian government and a Companion of the Order of the Bath. In 1890, de Winton retired from the army with the honorary rank of major-general. He was appointed governor of the Imperial British East Africa Company's possessions but resigned in 1891. In 1892, he became Controller and Treasurer in the household of Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, and Avondale and later he served in the household of the Duke and Duchess of York. He was invested as a Knight Grand Cross in 1893.

In 1864, he married Lady Evelyn Rawson (1846–1907). He died on December 16, 1901, in Llanstephan, Llyswen, Wales.

Edwin Alexander Gaviller was born in 1841 in London, England.

He was a physician. In 1873, he graduated M.D. from McGill University. He practised in Chippawa and Hamilton, Ontario.

In 1864, he married Caroline "Carrie" Amy Louisa Dewar (1846–1919). He died on August 8, 1914, in Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario.

Erastus Otis Haven was born on November 1, 1820, in Boston, Massachusetts.

He was an American educator and clergyman. Upon graduating from Wesleyan University in 1842, he established a life-long pattern of combining the ministry with teaching. This eventually led him to assume the presidencies of the University of Michigan (1863) and Northwestern University (1869), as well as the chancellorship of Syracuse University (1874). Haven was deeply interested in educational issues affecting students at all levels and in helping to develop a strong Methodist presence among institutions of higher learning. He also served as the editor of Zion's Herald in Boston, and in 1872, he became Secretary of the Board of Education for the Methodist Episcopal Church. Haven served two terms in the Massachusetts Senate, and in 1880, he was elected a bishop, residing in San Francisco. He received an honorary degree of D.D. from Union College in 1854 and LL.D. from Ohio Wesleyan University. When he died, he left an unfinished autobiography, completed from his writings by the editor in 1883.

In 1847, he married Mary Frances Coles (1825–1912). He died on August 2, 1881, in Salem, Oregon.

William A. Hendry was born c. 1823 in Scotland.

He was a surveyor and civil engineer. He was chief engineer of the Provincial Highway Board of Nova Scotia, Commissioner of Crown Lands in Nova Scotia, and an Associate Member of the Engineering Institute of Canada. He served as president of the Nova Scotia Society of Engineers.

In 1848, he married Harriett Sophia Smith (1827–1885). He died on May 11, 1908, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Romyn Hitchcock was born on December 1, 1851, in St. Louis, Missouri.

He was a research botanist, chemist, and educator. He attended Cornell University and graduated from Columbia School of Mines in 1872. He was an assistant professor of chemistry at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Penn., (1872-1874) and engaged in testing heavy guns at the government arsenal in Springfield, Mass. (1874-1877). He taught chemistry and toxicology at the Chicago Homeopathic Medical College (1876-1877) and served as an editor of the American Quarterly Microscopical Journal and the American Microscopical Journal (1878-1886). From 1883 to 1886, he was a curator of the National Museum in Washington, D.C. He was professor of English at the Koto Chu Gakko, a Japanese Government school in Osaka (1886-1889), and oversaw the photographic work of the U.S. eclipse expedition to Japan in 1887. He also served as U.S. commissioner to China for the World Columbian Exposition (1887-1889). He later conducted botanical research. He was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Royal Microscopical Society of England and a member of the American Chemical Society, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the New York Microscopical Society.

In 1875, he married Emma Louise Bingham (1852–1933). He died on November 30, 1923, in Baltimore, Maryland.