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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.

Joseph Pinsonnault came to Dawson City, Yukon with two of his brothers, Camille and Marcel in 1898 or 1899. They mined on Sulphur, Dominion, and Ophir Creeks areas of the Yukon. In 1905 Joseph left to get married and returned in 1906 with his wife, Emma. They had one child who died in 1907. In 1908, Emma was pregnant again, and they left the Yukon, leaving Camille behind. Camille stayed and mined until 1913.