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Thomas McCord (1872-1957) was a Presbyterian/United Church minister in British Columbia, Manitoba, and Ontario was born in Ireland in 1872, and was raised in London, Ontario. He studied at Knox College, and was ordained by the Presbyterian Church in 1904. He served charges in British Columbia, Manitoba, and Ontario, and retired in 1940. After retirement he worked for the Ontario Temperance Federation and the British and Foreign Bible Society.

Joseph Albert George Lousley (1870-1962) was a Methodist/United Church minister and missionary in Manitoba. He was born near Peterborough, Ontario, and was a Methodist probationer in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, 1892-1894. He studied at Albert, Wesley, and Victoria Colleges, and was ordained in 1900. After serving a charge in Manitoba, he was appointed Principal of the Indian Residential School at Norway House, Manitoba, in 1902. He was also appointed Superintendent of Island Lake, God's Lake, and Oxford House Missions--a circuit of 900 miles by canoe and dog sled. From 1916 he served pastorates in Manitoba; he was the last President of the Methodist Manitoba Conference. He retired in 1936 to Long Branch, Ontario.

Ashley Woodward Lindsay (1884-1968) was a medical missionary to China. He was born in Magog, Quebec, and graduated from the Royal College of Dental Surgeons in Toronto. He was appointed the first missionary solely for dental work to West China, in 1907. Appointed to the Faculty of Medicine of West China Union University in 1918, he organized the Faculty of Dentistry the following year. He was Dean of Dentistry for thirty years, left China in 1950, and retired in 1952.

Adam Lillie (1803-1869) was a Congregational minister and theologian. He was born in Scotland and studied at Glasgow University and the Theological Academy at Gosport. He was sent by the London Missionary Society (Congregational) to India in 1826, but poor health forced his return the following year. He was called to preach in Upper Canada in 1834, and appointed to teach at the new Congregational Theological Institute in 1839. He died suddenly in 1869.

Charles Ladner (1839-1928) was a Methodist minister in Newfoundland, Manitoba and British Columbia. He was born in Cornwall, England, and his family immigrated to Prince Edward Island, [ca. 1845]. He volunteered for missionary work in Newfoundland in 1861, and served there until 1882, having been ordained by the Methodist Church in 1865. He was elected President of Newfoundland Conference in 1881. He also served charges in Brandon, and in British Columbia, 1888-1904. He was elected President of British Columbia Conference in 1896. Rev. Ladner retired to Vancouver.

James B. Kennedy (1847-1914) was a Methodist minister in Ontario. He was born in Gainsboro Township, Ontario, studied at Albert College, and was ordained by the Methodist Church in 1874. He served circuits in southwestern Ontario, and retired in 1909.

William Kendall (1868-1953) was a Methodist/United Church missionary in Ontario and Quebec. He was born in England and educated in France and Belgium. In 1904 he gave up a career in law, and came to Canada as a missionary student in the Methodist Church. He was ordained in 1911. The rest of his life was spent as a missionary to the Aboriginal Peoples of Ontario and Quebec. He married Mary Martin, daughter of an Iroquois Chief.

Thomas J. Jewitt (1876-1972) was a Presbyterian/United Church minister in Ontario. Born in Chinguacousy Township, he attended Queen's University, graduating in arts in 1906 and from the Theological College in 1909. He was ordained by the Presbyterian Church in 1909, and served a number of charges in Ontario. He retired in 1944 to Brampton, Ontario.

Sarah Bird Daniels (fl. 1914-1952) was born in 1897, the grand-daughter of Richard Seaborn, a Primitive Methodist pastor from London England and of Henry Bird.

Charles A. Myers (1874-1968) was a Presbyterian/United Church minister and church administrator. He was born in Prince Edward Island and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in the Synod of British Columbia in 1905. In 1912 he was made Educational Secretary of the Board of Sabbath Schools of the Presbyterian Church in Canada. Until 1947, he served various national educational offices of the Presbyterian and the United Churches. Dr. Myers also had sixteen years of service with the Toronto Home Mission Council when he supervised the establishment of some twenty new congregations.

Harold Ross Tufts (fl. 1944) was the son of Rev. Dr. Alban J. Tufts.

John Thomson Taylor (1870-1955) was a Presbyterian/United Church missionary to India. He was born near Galt, Ontario. In 1899, he married Harriet Ellen Copeland and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister. The same year, the Taylors went to India to work as missionaries. Rev. Taylor served as Principal of the Theological Seminary at Indore. He retired from the United Church in 1945.

George Milledge Tuttle (1915-) was a United Church minister, administrator and Moderator. He was born at Medicine Hat, Alberta, the son of Methodist minister Aubrey Stephen Tuttle. He obtained a doctorate in theology from Victoria University. He had several mission fields, a pastorate in Sangudo, Alberta and a term as assistant minister in Toronto. As well, he served as National Director of Youth Work, Professor at Union College, Vancouver, 1951-1966, and Principal of St. Stephen's College, Edmonton, 1966-1979. He was President of British Columbia Conference in 1963, on the Executive of General Council in 1974 and served as Moderator from 1977 to his retirement in 1980.

Sidney Barley Stokes (1890-1993 ) was a Methodist/United Church minister in Ontario.

George Rogers (1831-1913) was a Methodist minister in Ontario and Quebec. He was born in Yorkshire, England and came to Canada in 1833. He spent three years following the gold rush in Australia. When he returned to Ontario in 1863, he was received on trial for the Methodist ministry and was ordained in 1867.

Anne M. Davison (1913- ) was a United Church missionary to China and Korea. She was born in Sturgeon Falls, Ontario and was trained as a social worker and was appointed by the Woman's Missionary Society to Honan in 1945. She served in China from 1946 to 1951. From 1953 to 1961 she was re-assigned to Korea. Anne M. Storey is her married name.