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James Seymour was born in Ireland and emigrated to Canada in 1858; he served Methodist New Connexion circuits in Ontario until retirement in 1864. From 1874 to 1882 he assisted his son, James Cooke Seymour, in his ministry in Ontario--the junior Seymour retired in 1894. James Cooke Seymour published several books, including Christ, the Apocalypse.

Frederick Clark Stephenson (1864-1941) was the secretary of young people's foreign missions groups in the Methodist and United Church. He was born near Bowmanton, Ontario. After studying at Albert College, Belleville and Trinity Medical College, Toronto, he applied to work in foreign missions. He began his work as organizer of the Student Missionary Campaign in 1894 and then became the first and only Secretary of the Young People's Forward Movement for Missions, 1906 to 1925, and of the Young People's Missionary Education Committee from 1925 to 1936. Annie Devina Watson (1862-1939) worked in missions as editor, writer, teacher, and speaker. She married F.C. Stephenson in 1896 and worked in for the above mission organizations as well as the Woman's Missionary Society and the General Board of Missions until her death.

The Hockin Family included Arthur Hockin, his son Arthur, Jr., his daughter-in-law Lily Hockin [nee Howie], and their daughter, Katharine. The three eldest served the Methodist Church of Canada, Arthur as a minister in Nova Scotia, his son and son's wife as missionaries in China. Katharine Hockin served as a missionary in China, and as an educator in Canada. Lily [Howie] Hockin was a daughter of the manse, her father Isaac was a Methodist minister in New Brunswick, and her sister, Jessie Howie, was a missionary in Japan with that church.

Harry Glaves was born in 1908 and graduated from Smithville High School in 1928. He worked for Bell Canada for 35 years, retiring in 1968. Margery Glaves was born Margery Doris Hughes in 1908. She attended St. James Collegiate (Winnipeg), Sarnia Collegiate and Alma College, Sarnia. She worked as a clerk-typist and stenographer. In 1968, Harry and Margery Glaves went to Zambia as missionaries, where Harry Glaves worked as a hospital administrator until 1976

James Young Ferguson and Harriet Ferguson were Presbyterian missionaries to Formosa. James Young Ferguson was born in 1875. He studied arts, theology and medicine at Queen's University. He was ordained in 1905, and sent to northern Formosa (Taiwan) by the Presbyterian Church. The founder and first superintendent of Mackay Memorial Hospital in Taipei, completed in 1912, he returned to Canada in 1919 due to poor health. He was chief of staff and chief surgeon at Toronto East General Hospital for eighteen years, after which he turned to private practice. He died in 1965. Harriet Ferguson was married to James Young Ferguson. She served as a teacher at the Formosa mission between 1905 and 1919. Harriet Ferguson died in 1960.

Wilfrid Arnold Burbidge and Pearl Anderson United Church missionaries to Korea. Wilfrid Arnold Burbidge was born in Nova Scotia in 1897. He was educated at Mount Allison and Victoria College (earning the degrees B.A. and B.D.), and ordained as a Methodist minister. He was sent to Korea by the Presbyterian Foreign Mission Board of The United Church of Canada, where he was effective in religious as well as agricultural improvement. He was evacuated in 1941, and served the Scotland Pastoral Charge and Grace United Church, Hamilton. He retired to Toronto in 1967, and continued to serve, first as hospital chaplain at Riverdale Hospital, and then as the first minister of the Korean United Church. Wilfrid Arnold Burbidge died in 1978. Pearl Anderson was born at Westmeath, Ontario on January 13, 1900. She was educated at the Normal School in North Bay and the Presbyterian Deaconess Training School in Toronto. In 1923, Pearl Anderson was appointed to Korea by the Women's Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church. In 1926, she resigned to marry Rev. Wilfrid Arnold Burbidge. Mrs. Burbidge died in 1997.

The Bowslaugh family was a Methodist family in Ontario. Peter Bowslaugh (1756-1848) was a lay preacher on the Ancaster Circuit.

The Albrights were a Methodist/United Church family in Beamsville, Ontario. Charles Raymond Albright was born 1888 March 26 in South Cayuga. His parents were Josiah D. Albright and Sarah Moyer. He grew up in Beamsville, Ontario. In June 1917, he was ordained into the ministry of the Methodist Church. He retired in June 1952 and returned to Beamsville. His wife was Jean Little Wright. Other family members were his brother F.S. Albright (Fred), killed at Passchaendale in 1917, his brother W.D. Albright (Don) and his sister Mrs. Roy Hobden (Margaret). Before his death in 1960, Rev. Albright gave to The United Church of Canada a piece of property in Beamsville. This property later became the location for Albright Gardens, a community for retired United Church personnel.

The Mitchell family served as missionaries from the Presbyterian Church of Canada and the United Church of Canada to India and China in the latter half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century.