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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.

Derryn Yeomans, 1948?- , was born in Calgary and moved to Red Deer, Alberta around 1980. She had worked in advertising, public relations, and journalism, and in 1982 she became Community Relations Coordinator for Red Deer College. She later worked as a fundraiser for Red Deer College, as a family counsellor, and as an instructor in community relations at Red Deer College

Marjorie Marshall, 1913-2002, was born in Crookston, Minnesota, U.S. In 1918 she emigrated with her parents to the Iowalta district near Lacombe, Alberta. In 1921 the family moved to the Brooksley district near Joffre, and in 1927 to Red Deer. Marjorie attended high school in Red Deer and played hockey with the highly successful Amazons women's hockey team. In 1936 she married the naturalist and writer Kerry Wood. They had two daughters and a son, Rondo, Heather (Ion), and Gregory. Marjorie was an active volunteer and leader with the Girl Guides, the Alberta Natural History Society, the Home and School Association, and the Presbyterian Church. After her husband contracted a chronic illness in 1956, Marjorie became his collaborator on most of his writing projects.

The naturalist and writer Edgar Allardyce Wood, C.M., LL.D., 1907-1998, was born in New York, N.Y. to William Campbell Wood and Elizabeth Callon Wood. He used the pen-name Kerry Wood throughout his literary career. The family moved to various places in Ontario and the west before finally arriving in Calgary, Alberta, where Kerry Wood first started school. The family moved to Red Deer in 1918. Kerry Wood, known to family and friends as Nobby, joined the Alberta Natural History Society and the Boy Scouts shortly afterwards. In 1922, the family left for British Columbia. Kerry Wood, having decided to try his luck as a writer, remained behind in Red Deer. After many struggles, he was able to derive a meagre yet steady income out of his writing. During the early 1930s Kerry Wood was one of the few full-time freelance writers in Canada to survive solely on his writing income. In 1936, he married Marjorie Marshall, 1913- ; they had three children: Rondo, 1939- , Heather, 1943- , and Gregory, 1947- . In 1937 Kerry Wood started an archery business for extra income. His literary career took off after the publication of his first book, Three Mile Bend in 1945. It was the first of over 26 books. Kerry Wood was twice the recipient of the Governor-General's Medal for Juvenile Literature: in 1955 for The Map-Maker; and in 1957 for The Great Chief. In 1969, he received an honourary doctorate of laws from the University of Alberta for his contributions to literature in Alberta; and in 1990 he was made a Member of the Order of Canada for his contributions to Canadian literature and for his ongoing philanthropy. Kerry Wood died and is buried in Red Deer. See also Biography of Kerry Wood / by Marjorie M. Wood. -- Red Deer, Alta. : Kerry Wood Nature Centre, 1995

In 1887 the first Women's World Prayer Day was started in the United States. The concept had reached Canada by 1918. The first known celebration of the event in Red Deer, Alberta occurred in 1932. The first coordinating body for Women's World Prayer Day was the Inter-Board Committee of the Women's Missionary Societies of Canada. By 1950 that body had changed into the Women's Inter-Church Council of Canada, the group which still sponsors the event throughout Canada. The event was a means of raising money from various Christian denominations to fund foreign missions and development projects. By 1959 the name of the event had been changed to World Day of Prayer to reflect the participation of children

The Dominion Women's Christian Temperance Union was incorporated in 1894 (and its name changed to the Canadian Women's Christian Temperance Union in 1925). The mandate of the organization was to encourage abstinence from drink and narcotics. In 1912 the Alberta Provincial Women's Christian Temperance Union was created. The province was divided into three districts, each of which held about 15 local unions. By 1916, the Red Deer Local Union of the Alberta Provincial Women's Christian Temperance Union had been active in the community for at least a decade. In 1999, the Red Deer Local Union, one of only four remaining unions in the province, disbanded for lack of membership