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Thomas Bell and his wife Emma Bell (née Ray), from Belleview, Manitoba, settled at Millerfield, an isolated district north of the Red Deer River near Dorothy, Alberta, in 1910. They had six children, Raymond C., Aubrey T., Marjorie, Leslie, Mildred, and Marion. Raymond and Aubrey served in France during the First World War; Aubrey was missing in action in 1917 and was eventually declared dead. In 1919 Thomas and Emma retired to Victoria, B.C., and Raymond took over the family farm. He married Mary Lawson of Dorothy, and they had four children. They moved to a ranch in the Wintering Hills. In 1942 they moved to a grain farm near Carstairs, Alberta, and eventually retired to Victoria. Leslie became a geologist. Marjorie, Mildred, and Marion all married and eventually all settled on Vancouver Island. For further information, see Raymond Bell's article "Millerfield and the Bell family", pp. 192-211 in: The grass roots of Dorothy, 1895-1970 / compiled and edited by Hazel B. Roen. -- Dorothy, Alta. : published by the Dorothy community, 1971.

Alfred James Girling, 1871-1960, was born near Norwich, England. He immigrated to Canada before the First World War and began work for the Canadian Pacific Railway at Ogden shops in Calgary, Alberta. He also worked on repair crews in the mountains west of Calgary. Alfred and his wife lived in Ontario for a few years, then returned to Lethbridge, Alberta. He and his wife had one son, Edgar Theodore, 1896-1974. Edgar apprenticed at the Ogden shops where he played soccer. He enlisted in the military during the First World War, was wounded. During his recuperation he met Isabella Horsburgh, whom he married. They had three sons, James A."Jim", William H. "Bill", 1921-2009, and Roy. After the war Edgar worked for the Post Office in Calgary and Cranbrook, British Columbia. In 1951 Bill married Dorothy Dingley, 1926- .

Thomas Byron, ?-1940 and Cecil Byron, ?-1911, grew up in Surrey, England. Thomas immigrated to Olds, Alberta in 1898 and established the Eagle Hill Ranch. He eventually moved to Cowichan Station on Vancouver Island. His brother Cecil moved to St. John, New Brunswick where he was married. Later he establishment a ranch in the Jumping Pound district west of Calgary, Alberta.

Thomas Walter Moores, 1856-1943, was born in Camberwell, England, and ran a grocery business in Hampshire. In 1884 he married Lillian Garland, 1860-1941, who was born at Southall, Middlesex, England. They had eight children, Mabel (Harris), Leonard, Eustace, Ethel (Churchill), Helena, Beatrice (died in infancy), Cyril and Olive (Lockhart). The family came to Canada in 1904 or 1905 and homesteaded near Invermay, Saskatchewan. In about 1929 the senior Moores retired to Lethbridge, Alberta.

William Hyndman Carlyle, 1885-1949, and his brother Samuel Carlyle, ca. 1870-1936, were born in Morewood, Ontario. They moved to Calgary, Alberta about 1906 where they operated a livery stable. William joined the army in 1917 and served in the Forestry Company from southern Alberta in the Canadian Forestry Corps. After the war he established a ranch near Monarch, Alberta and later moved to the Crowsnest Pass area where he ranched and managed ponies for the coal mines. Samuel worked in the Maple Leaf coal mine. They were related to the Carlyle family who operated United Dairies in Calgary and the Maple Leaf (later Hillcrest-Mohawk) mine in the Pass.

Lucien Mason Hanks, Junior (nicknamed "June"), 1910-1989, was born in Wisconsin, USA. He obtained a PhD in psychology from Columbia University in 1936, and taught at the University of Illinois, 1937-1942. He subsequently specialized in Southeast Asia Studies, and worked for Bennington College, the Washington Office of Strategic Services, the US Education Foundation in Thailand, and the Cornell Centre in Bangkok. In late 1938 he married Jane Richardson. Jane Richardson, 1908-2014, was born in California, USA. She received a PhD in anthropology from Columbia University in 1939. She too later specialized in Southeast Asia, and worked for Bennington College and Cornell University. The Hanks undertook a research project on the Blackfoot (Siksika) reserve in Southern Alberta during the summers of 1938, 1939 and 1941. In 1950 they published the results of their research in Tribe Under Trust : A Study of the Blackfoot Reserve of Alberta. -- Toronto : University of Toronto Press.

Charles Selby Haultain, 1862-1903, was born in Ontario, the son of Isabella and Francis Mitchell Haultain. He studied medicine in Toronto, but took a break during his third year to serve as a medical officer in the 1885 Riel Rebellion (North West Rebellion). He then completed his medical courses in Toronto, and subsequently obtained his LRCP in England. He set up practice as a physician in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He spent the summer of 1888 as a doctor at the North-West Mounted Police post at Wood Mountain, Saskatchewan, and when offered a commission in the NWMP as assistant surgeon in 1890, he accepted. In 1890 he also married Henrietta Eleanor "Etta" Dennistoun, 1866-1945, the daughter of Kate Kirkpatrick and James Dennistoun of Castleknock, Peterborough, Ontario. They had five children, Robert Mitchell "Robin", 1891-?; Frederick, 1893-1894; Norman, 1895-?; Henrietta, 1897 or 1898-?; and Charles Frederick, 1901 or 1902-?. In 1890 the Haultains were stationed in Maple Creek, Saskatchewan. They were subsequently stationed at Regina, Saskatchewan, 1891-1894; Fort Macleod, Alberta, 1894-1902; and Battleford, Saskatchewan, 1902-1903. Charles and Etta spent the summer of 1901 on leave in Pacific Grove, California. Charles died of influenza in Battleford in 1903, and was buried at Fort Macleod. In 1904 Etta and the children returned to Port Hope, Ontario, where Etta spent the rest of her life. Charles' brother, Theodore Arnold Haultain, was a well-known essayist, who fought in the South African War.

Nicholas Andress came from the United States to Alberta in 1912, traveling over the Edson Trail that year with his wife and five children: William, Ellis, Charles, Ellen and Elmer. They were accompanied by Elmer's wife Martha and his children (Merle, Ivah, and Laverne); Will's wife, Jessie and 2 daughters (Theresa and Nada); the Rockefeller family, who were some relation; and Allen Petty. Martha kept a diary of the journey which started on August 29th in Edson, and ended at Grande Prairie on October 7.

Nicholas, Charles and Ellis took homesteads beside Dead Horse Creek (later renamed Crystal Creek) in Township 71, Range 4, about 10 miles east of Grande Prairie, and Elmer and William filed in the same area in 1914.

In 1920, the Rockefeller family returned to the USA. Mrs. Andress passed away in 1920 and then Charles Andress, the third son, lost his life in a sawmill accident. As the children married, they moved away, and in 1926 Nicholas returned to the United States with his sons Ellis and Elmer and their families. Only Allen Petty remained in this area. He passed away in 1954.

In 1905, Andrew Moe along with his brother-in-law, Lorentz Pettersen, emigrated from Norway to the U.S. A year or so later, his wife, Thea, and young son, Arvid, joined him. Their daughter, Olaug, however, had recently died of diptheria in Norway. Andrew and Lorentz worked as labourers until 1911 when they heard about the availability of 160 acres for $10 in the Peace River country. Andrew and Lorentz made the Edson trail trip first and Andrew filed on the NW 32-73-7 W6 in the Buffalo Lakes area before returning to Minneapolis to work until he had money enough to purchase a team and wagon and other necessities. The Johnsons (an uncle and aunt) agreed to travel on the settlers’ railroad car with the shipment of animals and household effects, and all arrived in Edmonton in the fall of 1911. The three families stayed there until February, 1912, when they loaded three sleighs hitched to two teams of horses and one team of oxen and set out for the north. Despite their inexperience in handling teams and hauling large loads up and down steep inclines, the journey to the Buffalo Lakes area was made in about a month. The first summer, 4 1/2 acres were broken and seeded to oats and a well was dug. The first few winters Andrew spent working in the Buffalo Lakes Sawmill. In 1916, the family purchased and moved to the homestead of Peter Melsethe, where a good spring provided water. Andrew Moe died in 1951 and his wife Thea died in 1975.

Marion Florence Mackay Nicoll, 1909-1985, was born in Calgary. She studied at the Ontario College of Art, 1927-1929, and under A.C. Leighton at the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art (now Alberta College of Art), 1929-1932. She accepted a teaching position in crafts and design at the Institute in 1933 and taught there until 1940 and again from 1946 to 1966. Through the influence of A.C. Leighton, Jock Macdonald and automatic drawing, and Will Barnet, her art evolved from landscape painting to a distinct style of classical abstraction. She married Jim Nicoll in 1940 and they settled in Bowness in 1945. James McLaren Nicoll, 1892-1986, was born in Fort Macleod and grew up in Fernie and Nelson, British Columbia. He served in the First World War, then trained as a civil engineer at the University of Alberta. Although he worked as an engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) and J.O.G. Sanderson for many years, his first love was art. He was a poet and writer, and began to paint in 1930. Both he and Marion exhibited their art during the 1960s-1970s. They were involved in a number of organizations in the community such as Alberta Society of Artists, Calgary Allied Arts Council, Calgary Kinsmen, Old Cabin Crafts Society, Bowness Recreation Centre and Bowness Library Board. Jim was the author of The Poetry and Prose of Jim Nicoll. -- Calgary : Sandstone, 1980. For further information see Marion Nicoll : Art and Influences / Christopher Jackson. -- Calgary : Glenbow Museum, 1986; Beyond "the Artist's Wife" : Women, Artist-Couple Marriage and the Exhibition Experience in Postwar Canada / Catherine Margaret Mastin. -- unpublished PhD thesis, University of Alberta, 2012; Almost Outnumbered : The Role of Alberta in the Life and Work of Marion Nicoll / Natasha Pashak. --unpublished MA thesis, Concordia University, 2010; and Marion Nicoll : Silence and Alchemy / Ann Davis, Jennifer E. Salahub, Christine Sowiak and Elizabeth Herbert. -- Calgary : University of Calgary Press, 2013.