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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

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.

Thomas A. Wiltshire (1882-1965) was born in Worcestershire, England, he came to Canada in 1912. In England, he received his master's certificate for baking, and upon his arrival, took a job with Standard Brands Company of Calgary selling baking supplies. In 1913 he came to Red Deer and took a job with the local baker, C.W. Hamilton. In 1916, Thomas Wiltshire and Mr. Hamilton entered a partnership, and by 1921, Mr. Wiltshire became the sole proprietor of Red Deer Bakery. Mr. Wiltshire's children, Agnes (1903-1998) and Harold (1907-1976) worked at the bakery with their father until his retirement in 1960. Agnes Wiltshire married Clifford Fowler (1907-1980) in 1943, the couple did not have any children. Harold Wiltshire married Alice Grant (1904-1997) in 1929, they too did not have any children. Harold also served with the Kings Own Calgary Regiment from 1941 to 1946. Following the retirement of T.A. Wiltshire, Clifford and Agnes Fowler, and Harold Wiltshire operated the Red Deer Bakery. The bakery provided a comfortable living for all involved, but in 1972 all three, Clifford and Agnes and Harold decided to retire, and they sold the business.

Reginald Whyte (1895-1952), was born and raised in Brandon, Manitoba. In 1912, his father Andrew Whyte (1865-1960) moved the family to Edmonton, Alberta. Reginald served overseas with the Canadian Expeditionary Force. His two brothers, Lieutenant Cecil B. Whyte (1892-1918) and Major Wilfred Whyte (1889-1918) were killed in France. After the war Reginald Whyte began working for Dominion Motors in Edmonton. In 1922, he married Ruth Peterson (1897-1948). They had three children: Cecil John (1922-1944), Charles Andrew (1930-1994), and Patricia Mortimer (?-?). In 1925 the family moved to Red Deer, where Reginald took over the Ford dealership under the new name of Whyte Motors Ltd. He married Lillian Lindskog in 1950. Cecil B. Whyte (1892-1918) was an engineer in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, from 1915-1917, before transferring to the Royal Flying Corps in 1917. He was shot down and killed only 21 days after joining his squadron near the front

Andrew Hill Trimble, 1846-1936, was born at Pembroke, Ontario. He served in a militia regiment during the Fenian Raids, and learned the trade of cheese making. He married Cynthia Wright, d. 1886, and they had eight sons, Horace, Albert, Herbert, Frederick, Benjamin, William, Garnet, and Clarence. In 1888 he married his second cousin Lydia Anne Trimble, and they had five children, Amy (Prout), Roy, Janie (Rogers) (Orme), Gladys, and Delmer. In 1889 the family migrated to southern Alberta, and in 1890 settled in the Red Deer area, where they established several farms and creameries in Red Deer and in the Clearview and Pine Lake districts. Herbert Willard "Herb" Trimble, b. 1875, took over the management of the Trimble Creamery in Red Deer and was also a partner in a fox ranch. He married Levina Brett, and they had three children, Willard, Velma (Bell), and Elaine (Henderson). Willard Dean Trimble, 1904-1969, operated a sign painting and postcard business in Red Deer. He married Emily Margaret Sveinson, 1904?-1996, and they had three children, Gary, Joan (Snell), and Dawn (Hansen).

Donald Thatcher, 1884-1972, was born in Staplehurst, Kent, England. He came to Canada in 1905; and settled as a farmer in the Red Deer area in 1907. He was well known as a piano turner and as an organist at the Gaetz Memorial United Church. In 1918 he married Sadie Stewart Patterson, 1888-1962 -- a resident of Red Deer since her widowed mother arrived from Scotland in 1906. They had no children.

E. Fabian Swanson (1898-1989) was born in Talsjo, Fredrika, Sweden. The family emigrated to Wetaskiwin, Alberta, in 1904. In 1920, Fabian Swanson joined the Alberta Government Bridge Crew, eventually becoming a bridge foreman. In 1929, he married Alice Mary Pearce (1905-1994) and they moved to Red Deer, Alberta the same year. Fabian Swanson served as an engineer and instructor with the Royal Canadian Engineers in Alberta and British Columbia (1941-1945). He returned to work as a bridge foreman with the Department of Highways, until his retirement in 1963. He then was a member of the Corp of Commissionaires, working at the Penhold air base until 1968;Alice Mary Swanson, 1905-1994, was born in South Wales. Her parents, Richard and Annie Pearce, emigrated first to Tacoma, Washington, then to the village of North Red Deer in 1911. After her schooling in Red Deer, Alice worked at the Red Deer post office. She was an active member of the St. Luke's Anglican Church choir, and active in the Admiral Sir Christopher Craddock chapter of the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire, and the Legion Ladies Auxiliary in Red Deer, Alberta