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Ted Acorn is a musician from Claresholm, Alberta.

Randall (Randy) Adams was born on 27 September 1951 in Edmonton, AB. Adams was a photographer whose work has been exhibited at galleries such as the Edmonton Art Gallery, the Glenbow Museum, and the South Okanagan Art Gallery in Penticton, BC. His work is also part of the permanent collections of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and the Art Gallery of Alberta.

Randall Adams died on 25 April 2015 in Nanaimo, BC.

Reverend (Rev.) A.R. (Albert Richard) Aldridge was born about 1865 in Berkshire, England and came to Canada in 1884. He initially worked as a student minister in Canadian Pacific Railway construction camps. He attended Wesley College and the University of Manitoba, graduating from the latter in 1891. He was ordained in the Methodist Church in 1895, ministering in Manitoba for a few years before returning to England. He returned to Canada in 1901 to Fort Saskatchewan, Northwest Territories. He also served in a number of Alberta areas including Vermilion, Wetaskiwin, Edmonton, and Calgary. In 1938, Rev. Aldridge was presented with a Doctor of Divinity degree by Welsey College. He and wife Mildred (McGorman) had one daughter, Mrs. W.B. (Ruth) Crichton, and five sons: Hardy C., Lawrence, Athelstan, Edward, and Samuel Richard who died in 1917 while serving the First World War. Rev. A.R. Aldridge died in Calgary on July 13, 1949.

<p>Alexander Blair McPherson was born in High River, Alberta in 1926 and grew up on a farm outside of Caley, Alberta. He attended the Caley Public School before studying at the University of Alberta, where he received Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Divinity degrees. Blair was ordained as a minister by the United Church in 1952 and pursued a Master of Sacred Theology degree at McGill University, where he met Lorna Bisset. <p>Blair and Lorna married on August 8, 1953 and subsequently moved to Bellevue, Alberta where Blair served as minister to several United Churches in the Crowsnest Pass. In 1955, the McPherson family moved to Ottawa where Blair worked as minister for Carleton Memorial United Church for six years. While in Ottawa, Blair also taught at the Ottawa Teachers' College and was active in efforts to preserve Sundays as a restricted day in Ontario. <p>In 1961, the McPhersons returned to Alberta when Blair secured a position as minister of Kirk United Church in Edmonton. The aspect of ministerial work that most appealed to Blair was counseling, so he studied at the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan and received a Diploma in Pastoral Care. He then returned to the University of Alberta to complete requirements to become a registered psychologist. Upon achieving this, he worked as Counselor/Chaplain at Alberta College and as a Family Counselor at the Family Service Association. He then embarked into private practice with a specialization in marriage and vocational counseling. <p>Blair and Lorna McPherson had four children: Alexander James (1954-), Donald Blair (1955-), Robert John (1958-), and Cheryl Anne (1964-). <p>In his retirement, Blair remained an engaged citizen, writing letters to newspapers on a variety of contemporary issues and participating in community organizations related to education and seniors' issues. <p>Blair McPherson died in July, 2007. The Edmonton Public School Board then named A. Blair McPherson School in his honour.</p>

Iris Constance Allan was born in 1910 in Stratford, Ontario, the youngest daughter of Robert and Mabel (MacDonald) Sommerville, and sister to Winnipeg, Manitoba author Nan Shipley. She was primarily raised in Transcona, Manitoba, and later moved to Edmonton, Alberta. She married Robert Fredrick Allan. She wrote a column in the <em>Edmonton Journal</em> entitled "The Third Column," and later wrote extensively about western Canadian history, which she primarily aimed at school-aged children. Her works include <em>Boy in Buckskins: The Early Life of John McDougall</em> (1959), <em>John Rowand, fur trader: A Story of the Old Northwest</em> (1963),<em> Wop May: bush pilot</em> (1966), <em>Young Fur Trader</em> (1966, for the Edmonton Public School Board), <em>White Sioux: Major Walsh of the Mounted Police</em> (1969), and <em>Mother and her Family</em> (1977). In 1979, Iris Allan received an Alberta Achievement Award for Literature.

The Allchin family (also spelled Alchin) lived in Oshawa, Ontario ca. 1891.

Hugh Wright Allen was born on April 30, 1889 in Stella, Amherst Island, Ontario to William Allen and Mary Wright. He attended public school and Kingston Collegiate Institute and was trained as a schoolteacher, but worked as a chemist with the Ontario Powder Company in Tweed, Ontario for three years. He married Mable Sills of Tweed, Ontario on January 8, 1911 and they moved to a farm in an area near Beaverlodge, Alberta located at Section 3, Township 71, Range 9, West of the 6th Meridian (3-71-9-W6). In 1929 the farm and environs were named Huallen in honor of Hugh Allen. Allen was a United Farmers of Alberta (UFA) candidate for nomination for the Peace River constituency in the provincial election of 1921 and was elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the Peace River constituency in the general election of 1926. He was re-elected in the election of 1930 and appointed Minister of Lands and Mine and Municipal Affairs in 1934, but lost his re-election bid in 1935. Allen was active in various agricultural organizations and, after losing in the 1935 election, served as a director of the UFA for a time. He was a founding member and director of the Grande Prairie Co-operative Livestock Marketing Association, and a founding member and the first president of the Alberta Livestock Cooperative, serving from 1940 to 1949. Allen was appointed as a director on the board of the United Grain Growers Limited in 1946, a position he retained until 1964 and he was also a director in the Alberta and Canadian Federations of Agriculture. Allen was also active in his community and was a member of the South Beaverlodge Rural Electrification Association, a trustee for the Lower Beaver Lodge School District No. 2812, and a subscriber to the Lower Beaver Lodge Mutual Telephone Company. Allen sold his farm in 1964 and moved to a house on 95th Avenue in Grande Prairie, Alberta with his second wife, Lulu Sherk Edgerton, and was inducted to the Alberta Agriculture Hall of Fame in 1967. He died on March 3, 1972, survived by his wife.