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John Harold Adams, commonly known as “Johnny”, was born on July 6, 1906 in Colwyn Bay, Caernafonshire, Wales to John McConnell Adams and Alice Mabella Jones. He had an older brother, William “Wilfred” Frederick; an older sister, Sarah Caroline; and two younger brothers, Leonard Robert and Arthur Roland. Adams moved to Canada in 1924 and worked in banking and business for ten years before joining the Workman’s Occupation Board as a Claims Officer. On August 31, 1935 he married Helen Churchill Worden. Helen was born on July 30, 1904 in Calgary, Alberta to Winslow Ernest Worden and Mima Eulalia Milne. She was a pianist, working as both a music teacher and recitalist. At the beginning of the Second World War John joined the Edmonton Regiment as a Lieutenant and proceeded overseas in charge of one of the advance parties in November 1939. He was promoted to Captain and then Major while with the unit in England before serving in several different positions in various army Headquarters for the remainder of the war. Helen also came overseas to live in England in 1940. After the Second World War, John and Helen returned to Canada and John rejoined the Loyal Edmonton Regiment, now part of the Canadian Militia, before retiring in 1949. He also resumed working at the Workmen’s Compensation Board, becoming chairman of the board of review before his retirement in 1971. Helen passed away on March 4, 1976 in Edmonton, Alberta. John passed away on August 19, 1980 in Edmonton, Alberta.

Thomas Roy McLean, born in Edmonton in 1912, was the youngest of three children born to Leroy McLean and his wife. Thomas worked in a creamery while studying to be an electrician and radio specialist. In 1938 he married Helen Leicht of Hay Lakes, AB. They moved to Athabasca in 1941 to work in the Athabasca Creamery. In 1947 Thomas opened "Radio Electric Service". Helen's brother, Herman Leicht, joined the business in 1949. Thomas and Helen had two children: Corinne and Wayne. Thomas died in 1979 and Helen in 2011.

Margaret is the daughter of John George Hees, who emigrated to Athabasca in 1926, and Berta Durr, who he returned to Germany to marry in 1936. Margaret began school at West Athabasca School in 1943 and graduated from Athabasca High School in 1955. She worked in Edmonton where she met and married Ken Suitor. They inherited the farm now known as the Hees sub-division.

The Pickell family lived in Andrew, Alberta. The Pickell House became the Alberta Provincial Police barracks.

Robert Pickering (1877-1951) was born and educated in Cheshire, England. He served as a sapper in the Second South African War. In 1911, he and his first wife, Mabel Southall Pickering (1891-1921) immigrated to Canada. They farmed in the Durham district near Sylvan Lake, Alberta. The couple had six children: William (1912-1993), John (1913-1990), Henry (1915-1990), Arthur (?-post 2002), Dorothy (1919-1923), and Robert (1921). In 1926, Robert married Elizabeth Irwin, formerly of London, Ontario. They had two children: Norman (1927-2002), and Robert Jr. (1931-1998). Robert Sr. was active in the farm movement and acted as secretary-treasurer for the Norma and Durham school district.

Andrew Craig Pierce, 1884-1955, known as Craig, was born in Pennsylvania, USA, and attended the Shady Side Academy in Pittsburgh and Lehigh University in Bethlehem. He travelled extensively in Central America and the United States before he came to Alberta in 1909 as a surveyor with the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) near Brooks. Over the following years Pierce spent several months in the Calgary area each summer, but continued his extensive travel in the western USA. In 1918 he purchased a farm near Drumheller and operated it for the remainder of his life, except for a brief residence in Spokane, Washington. He was very active in farm and business organizations and served as president of the Calgary Board of Trade in 1938. He and his wife, Margaret Adele Moore, 1882-1961, had four children, Laura Allison, 1916-1959, Henrietta Torrence "Hetty", 1918-1992, Lucy Adele, 1920-1982, and Mary Margaret, 1921-2005. For further information see "The Theory and Practice of Life Writing : A Group Biography of Adele, Craig, Laura, Henrietta, Lucy and Mary Pierce, 1915-1940" / A. Mary Murphy. -- Memorial University of Newfoundland : unpublished PhD thesis, 2003. See also Pierce : Six Prairie Lives / A. Mary Murphy. -- Calgary : Detselig, 2010.

Frederick Pilcher Jr., M.D., d.1954, and his son, Frederick Pilcher, were avid amateur photographers who visited Canada regularly. F. Pilcher Jr. made early use of Kodachrome in backcountry photography.