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Archibald W. G. Allen, b. 1873, was born in Portsmouth, England. He became an accountant. In 1897 he married Kate Minkinnick. They had four children, Marjorie, Blake, Grace, and George. The family emigrated to Red Deer, N.W.T. in 1904, and Archibald established an accounting business. He moved his family to a farm near Pine Lake, Alberta while he served in France during the First World War. In 1920 he accepted employment with the City Assessor's office in Calgary, while Blake managed and eventually took over the farm. In the 1930s Archibald and Kate were engaged in fruit farming in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia. Blake married Edith Pierce

Sussex Gerard de Wilton, (1869-1939), was a career cavalry officer, attaining the rank of captain in the Royal Scots Greys. About 1895, he married Edith Juliet Hughenden-Holloway (1871-1955), who had been a Home Nurse in India (1887-1888). They had one child, Edith Doreen de Wilton (1898-1968). After his retirement, the family immigrated to the Hill End district near Red Deer, Alberta in 1903. In 1907 they homesteaded at Hardisty, Alberta. In 1915, Sussex and his wife returned to England. The following year Edith (Mrs. de Wilton) was commissioned a lieutenant-colonel in the Women's Volunteer Corps, which later became the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps. By 1918, she was the principal at the Agricultural Tractor Section School at Barrow Green. Edith Doreen de Wilton was born in Ropley, Hampshire, England, on 25th March 1898 to Sussex Gerald de Wilton, (1869-1939) and Edith Juliette Hughenden-Holloway (1871-1955). Just after her seventeenth birthday, Edith married Herbert Warren Cluff of Hardisty, but the marriage was very short lived. In the summer of 1915, she left Alberta and took the stage name Olive de Wilton and joined several touring companies which played in Eastern Canada and in New York State. She was the common law spouse of William Henry Pratt (Boris Karloff) from 1915 to 1919. They were not able to make the marriage "legal' because of the de Wilton's short lived liaison with Cluff. In 1919, she returned to England and became a minor player and business manager with several acting companies. By 1925, Olive had married fellow actor Richard Meadows-White (ca. 1905-1973) and they had one child: Rosalind Edith Charlotte Meadows-White (1929-?). They founded the Northern Repertory Theatre (1925-1929), which collapsed after the couple separated. Between 1939 and 1951, Olive moved between Canada and England to teach drama as well as to direct and act in several plays. In 1952 Olive moved to Montreal, Quebec, where she was involved in Montreal Repertory Theatre, acted on local English radio and television, and wrote for the National Film Board. By 1966, Olive had taken up residence in Lacombe, Alberta. She died in 1968 in Lacombe and is buried in the local cemetery.

Camille J. Lerouge (1893-1971) was born in Lille, France to Auguste Lerouge and Marie Widar. In 1907, the Lerouge family emigrated to Canada, settling, initially in Innisfail, Alberta, but moving to Red Deer shortly thereafter. In 1910, Camille Lerouge found work with the Canadian Pacific Railway in Red Deer. He remained with the C.P.R. for 47 years. He married Catherine Mary Van Dyck (1913-2004) of Bluffton, Alberta in 1936, they had five children: Marguerite, Aline, Cecelia, Camille-Joseph, and Robert. Mr. Lerouge was active in the church and community, in the 1930s he served one term on the North Red Deer village council. From 1917 to 1951, he served on the Red Deer Separate School board, serving as secretary-treasurer for 31 years. At the Sacred Heart Church, he was choir director as well as a member of the Parish Council for over 25 years. In 1968, the new Catholic high school in Red Deer was named the Camille J. Lerouge Collegiate, and renamed Ecole Camille Lerouge in 1996. Both Camille and Mary Lerouge are buried in the Red Deer Cemetery.

Joseph Reid McMullen, 1855-1942, was born and raised in Sarnia, Ontario, a son of Robert Clinton McMullen, fl. 1850, a notary public and coroner in that city. He married Mary Elizabeth Bradley in 1880. They had four children: Frank, ?-1935, Lillian, 1895-1896, Claude, ?-1916, and Louis, ?-1951. In 1896 the family left Port Arthur, Ontario after the death of Lillian and moved west. They finally settled in Calgary, Alberta in 1912, where Joseph became a soap company salesman. After the death of Louis, her husband, Ruby E. McMullen, 1911-1989, moved to Red Deer to reside with her daughter and granddaughter

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.

Samuel Pye (1875-1939) left Newfoundland for central Alberta in 1898. His brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. George Domoney, as well as his brother Thomas Elijah Pye, had settled just south of Red Deer, Alberta a few years earlier. Samuel Pye married Virginia Holloway (1876-1955) in 1900, the couple had seven children. Hollis (1909-1987) was the fifth of seven children of Samuel and Virginia Pye, he married Marjorie Orr (1918-1993) in 1947. Hollis and Marjorie operated a mixed farm in the Horn Hill district southeast of Red Deer. The couple had four children, Evelyn Mae (1947-1952), Robert George (b. 1950), Sandra Joyce (b. 1955) and Jean Cherri (b. 1958). Both Hollis and Marjorie Pye are buried in the Horn Hill Cemetery.

Indridi Frederik "Henry" Reinholt, 1862-1952, was born in Akyri, Iceland. As a young man his family moved to North Dakota. There he married Ingaborg (Bertha) Thordson, 1862-1943, and worked as a stone mason. In 1888, he moved with his family to Calgary, Alberta, where he worked as a stone mason and building contractor. In 1892, Henry, as he now called himself, began farming near Burnt Lake, Alberta, at NW-14-38-1-W5, raising horses. By 1898, Henry was acting as a general contractor and shipper to Athabasca Landing. In 1902 he moved to the town of Red Deer, Alberta, and purchased former Canadian Pacific Railway land at SW-19-38-W4. Henry and his sons acted as building contractors for many public and private projects in and around Red Deer. His company also ran a relatively successful quarry near Red Deer. He joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force in 1915 and served in France until being severely wounded and discharged unfit in 1917. In 1919 he sold all his interests and moved north to farm near Meanook, Alberta. He retired from farming shortly after his wife's death in 1943, and then lived in Calgary. Henry and Bertha had 8 children: Theodor, Frederik, Richard, Haidie, Ferdinand, Anna, Pearl, and Lillie

William H. Rich (1860-1937) was born and educated in Lauceston, Devon, England. When he was 14 years old, he came to Canada to work for an uncle who farmed in Ontario. He married Lydia Luddington (1863-1915) of Woodstock, Ontario in 1882. The couple had 8 children. In 1894 William Rich and his family returned to England to their ancestral family farm. Their stay, however, was brief, and in 1897 after choosing Canada over New Zealand, they settled in the Poplar Ridge area near Red Deer, Alberta. In 1899, the William Rich family moved to the Village of North Red Deer so the children could attend the public school. Two years after the death of his first wife in 1915, William Rich married Mrs. Ellen McCrimmon (ca. 1870-1944). William Rich served as Reeve of North Red Deer in 1917. John Hall Rich (1884-1961), the eldest son of William and Lydia Rich, farmed and cut timber on a half-section near his father. In 1922 John H. married Annie Bradley (1887-1968), and the couple had one son, John Blois Rich (1923-2002). John B. Rich was born and educated in Red Deer. He farmed in the area until his retirement in 1975. In 1978, he married Kay Dosso, and the couple moved to Chilliwack B.C. Before he left, John B. Rich was active in the Red Deer and District Museum Society. He is buried in Chilliwack B.C.

Alfred James Russell, 1868-1946, was born in Butternut Ridge, New Brunswick. He left home at the age of 14 and worked as a cook in a lumber camp, peddler, and necktie maker. In 1887 he established a restaurant in Springhill, Nova Scotia. He married Robina Taylor and had four children by her, but she died while they were still young. By 1894 he had moved to Saint John, New Brunswick, where he established a chain of three candy stores and ice cream parlours and a candy factory. There he married Velma MacDonald. In 1911, following a series of disastrous fires, he left the children of his first marriage in care of relatives, and moved with Velma and his younger children to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Two years later they settled in Red Deer, Alberta, where Alfred established a candy store and factory. According to family tradition, he is credited with inventing the banana split, the all-day sucker, coconut brittle, puffed wheat squares, and rice crisp squares. Alfred and Velma had six children, Alta, Eileen (Greer), Donald, Joy, Alan, and Victoria "Vick" (Ford). Victoria became a teacher and married Tom Ford.

Hilda Sawyer was born in Seattle in 1903. She moved with her parents, John and Katrina Halverson, to Sylvan Lake in 1904. She attended school in Burnt Lake and married Dwight Sawyer in 1934. They farmed in the Burnt Lake area until 1986. Predeceased by her husband in 1989, she died in 1991