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James (Jim) Thompson opened the Thompson Realty Company in Athabasca Landing in the new Woods Building on Strathcona Street in July 1911. In December 1912, he married Hazel Torrance Nicol of Guelph, ON. They lived in Athabasca and later in Mirror Landing.

Edwin Edgar Hall, an American citizen, was the telegraph operator at the Calling River Station from about 1922 or 23 to 1924 or 25. His wife, Etta, and he had three boys, Leroy, Walter and Kenneth. Kenneth died at the age of four in about 1924 or 25 and he is buried at Calling River, AB. Edwin left Calling River and worked for the railroad. When he divorced Etta, he changed his name to Edward Edmond Love. Love was his mother’s maiden name. He married Mary Apollonia (sp?) and had four daughter Rosemary, twins Barbara and Betty, and Catherine. Betty died at the age of 1 year. From 1942 to 1946 Edward was the telegraph operator ot Pelican Portage. The family then moved to Fort Vermilion.

Kydd, George Newton (aka Patrick (Pat) Kidd), (1883 to March 28, 1956) was a freighter, served as a corporal during WWI, an agent for Wallis Tractors and for Fairbanks-Morse Power and Light Plants, Watering Systems and Electrical Equipment, a United Grain Growers buyer at the Gillespie Grain elevator in Colinton, Alberta, and postmaster at the Colinton, Alberta post office. He was per-deceased by his wife in 1952.

George (Mickey) Thomas Monson was born September 4m 1880 in Killarney, Ireland. He immigrated to Canada in 1899 and joined the North West Mounted Police (NWMP) in Regina, Saskatchewan. From 1909 - 1914 he was a prospector and also worked for Dayton Hydraulic Co. In 1915 he enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, returning to Canada in 1919. He then returned to the RNWMP for two years. In 1924 he became a telegraph operator working at House River, and later, Calling River, Alberta, from which he retired in 1945.
In 1925 he married Julia Powder who died in 1928. They had three daughters. In 1935 he married Salome (Sally) Marquette who was born in Edmonton in 1908. They had two daughters. The family moved to Athabasca in 1945 where Mickey Monson worked for Imperial Lumber and Plains Western Gas until 1957. He was a member of the BPOE (Elks) and the Royal Canadian Legion. At the time of his death in 1976 he was the oldest RCMP member in Canada.
Salome Monson worked for the Athabasca District Agricultural office until 1973. She was a member of the Anglican Church and the Royal Canadian Legion. She died in 1987.

The Athabasca Economic Development Association's "I Want to be a Millionaire Program" encouraged a number of student initiatives in Athabasca, Alberta in 1994. One of these was the publication of a kids' newspaper by two girls who were going into Grade Seven; Catherine Mol and Rachelle Smalldon. Local businesses that sponsored the paper included Value Drug Mart, Athabasca Video, Donna's Hairstyling and the Athabasca Medical Centre. The cost was $0.50. The newspaper published poetry, reading and colouring contests, events, movie reviews, recipes, puzzles and articles.

Phillias Daoust was born in Three Rivers, Quebec, 1n 1880. At age 15 he came west and started a trapline northeast of Athabasca. In 1902 he settled on NW 36-66-24-W4 in the Parkhurst District, and built a house. He retired from farming in 1950 but continued trapping. He died in 1957.

Robert Fisher Mahood served with the Ambulance Corps in France during WWI. His sister Elizabeth was married to William Dent who owned a sawmill in Athabasca, Alberta. This may be why Robert sought work in Athabasca and became the engineer at the waterworks plant. Robert married Florence Martin, a native of PEI, who was a nurse at the Athabasca hospital. When their son Alexander Martin Fisher Mahood was three, the family moved to Anioch, BC, a mining community in northern BC.

Percy Griffith Davies, (1902 - 1992), was Captain and Adjutant for the University of Alberta Contingent of C.O.T.C. (Canadian Officer Training Corps). He graduated from the bar in 1927 and moved to Clyde, AB to start a practice. In 1932, Percy Davies was elected as MP, Conservative, for the riding of Athabaska. He served his term and did not run again in 1935. In 1938, he bought the legal practice of Patrick W. L. Clark in Athabasca in preparation for the graduation of his brother Trevor from the Faculty of Law, U of A. They had a suite of rooms on the second floor of the Taylor Block. In 1952, Davies announced the opening of a law office in Athabasca in partnership with Lloyd Chamberlain under the name Davies and Chamberlain. Davies died in Edmonton, AB in 1992.

In Athabasca Town and County, a need for an emergency support system for the elderly and those with severe handicaps was identified and the Home Outreach Society of Athabasca was formed to identify and fund raise for an emergency support system. The system was designed to summon assistance 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and to be available in either private homes or institutionalized settings. HOSA opted for the Apello System which was Canadian made and did not require a central monitoring or answering service to forward distress calls. Society members were President, Barb Wilkinson; Vice President, Nola-Jean Paterson; Treasurer, Mike Chute; and secretary, Denise Armstrong. The society operated under the leadership of 14 directors with four representatives from the Athabasca General and Auxiliary Hospital, three representatives from the Athabasca Health Unit, one representative from Athabasca Family and Community Support Services, one representative from the Athabasca Senior Citizen’s Society and six representatives from interested community groups including the Athabasca Hospital Auxiliary. To raise funds for the project the first annual Athabasca Canada Day Canoe Race was conceived. Eight people in Athabasca Town and County were identified as being in need of an emergency support system and the system the society decided to purchase was the Apello System at a cost of $1,115.00 per unit.

Margaret Joan (Jody) Lawrence was born to Samuel and Margaret Lawrence in Victoric, BC in 1932. In 1953, she married Howard James (bud) Howells. They had two sons; Randy and Stephen. In 1979, they retired to Baptiste Lake, Alberta. Jody worked as a secretary at the Town of Athabasca, later retiring to play golf and volunteer at Athabasca Archives. Jody died in 1999 and Bud died in 2008.