Annie Charlotte Dalton was born in Birkby, Yorkshire, England on 9 December 1865. She was the daughter of John Armitage (1837-?) and Sarah Elizabeth Stoney (1842-?). As a child, she developed an illness that left her hearing impaired. She was educated privately by her grandparents and turned to writing as a refuge. In 1891, she married businessman William Dalton (1866-1953) and the couple moved to Vancouver in 1904, where they both became involved in the artistic scene. William served as director of the Vancouver Art Gallery while Annie served as vice-president of the Vancouver Poetry Club and was an active member of the Vancouver Poetry Society and Canadian Authors Association. Dalton published her first collection of verse, The Marriage of Music, in 1910. Following the publication of eleven volumes of verse, she was named Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1935 and was awarded the Tweedsmuir medal for best poem in the Canadian Poetry Magazine in 1937. She died of a spinal embolism in 1938.

Kaye Walsh was the District Commissioner of the St. Andrews Girl Guides. She was appointed to that position in 1954 and was closely involved with several notable events involving the St. Andrews Girl Guides in following years. In 1956 she was the leader of a group of St. Andrews Girl Guides who attended Provincial Patrol Leaders Camp at Lake Utopia, in 1962 she was the leader of a group of St. Andrews Girl Guides who visited a cabana in Mexico, and in 1966 she visited Guide Headquarters in London. In 1970 she was appointed to the position of St. Andrews Division Guide Trainer.

Nehemiah Marks was born in Derby, Connecticut, on 9 October 1746. He was the son of Mordecai Marks (1706-1771), a Sephardic Jew who emigrated from London, England, in 1721 and became a prosperous merchant. He converted to the Anglican faith and in 1729 married Elizabeth [Hawkins] of Derby, Connecticut. Soon after the Revolution began, Nehemiah Marks went to New York where it is believed he carried despatches for the British army. He served as a captain in the Armed Boatmen, a Loyalist corps, with a commission dated 5 October 1782. His commission as a lieutenant in the Maryland Loyalists, dated 1 October 1783, can be found among the papers of his son, Nehemiah Marks, Jr. With the evacuation of New York City, Nehemiah Marks, Sr. was forced to seek refuge in Nova Scotia, and on 1 November 1783, he was appointed a captain in the Nova Scotia Militia for the District of Port Mouton, and charged with the responsibility of settling his men and their families. The refugees remained at Port Mouton for the winter of 1783, but in 1784 Captain Marks decided to move to the Falls of the St. Croix River (St. Stephen, New Brunswick), and a number of his men chose to accompany him. On May 23, 1784, a group of about 200 including men, women and children led by Capt. Nehemiah Marks, steered up the St. Croix River to the head of tide and landed on the Canadian banks of the St. Croix River.
For their loyalty, King George III granted them land, which over time they made prosperous. A large community grew around shipbuilding and lumbering industries, which would eventually become the Town of St. Stephen.
In 1770, Nehemiah Marks married Betsy (Elizabeth) Hawkins (1751-1812), the daughter of Abraham Hawkins (b.1725) and his wife, Elizabeth Basset (b.1728) of Derby, Connecticut. Eight of their children are known to have survived, including: Elizabeth Ann (b.1772), Betsy (b.1774), Hannah (b.1776), George Beckwith (b.1778), John, Nehemiah (1794-1853), Rebecca, and Abraham Hawkins (b.1796). When Nehemiah Marks died in 1799 at the age of fifty-two years, he left an estate that included a house and a store in St. Stephen, a large tract of land on which much of the present Town of St. Stephen is built, and several hundred acres of woodland.

George [Gardiner or Gardner] was born on 8 March 1856 in Weymouth, Dorset, England. He was the son of William Gardner and Anna [Mylard or Myland]. He came to Canada at about age 16 and began working here. He came to St. Andrews in approximately 1894. He was married to Mildred Gardner. He died on 28 April 1938 in St. Andrews, New Brunswick and is buried in the Rural Cemetery.

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Katie, known also as “KB,” was born in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, in 1890, receiving much of her education in boarding schools abroad, including several years in Cape Town, South Africa. She went on to attend McDonald College, McGill’s agricultural college, one of the few female students at the time. During World War One she took a job at the Saint John Daily Telegraph, where she became the paper’s first woman reporter. She continued her career as a reporter for over 43 years. For much of her life she spent summers at a cottage in St. Andrews shared with her sister Mabel who, like Katie, never married. Katie died December 30, 1977, at the age of 87.

The McLaughlin family of Woodstock, New Brunswick, is descended from John E. McLaughlin, a dry goods and clothing dealer. John E. McLaughlin was born in Woodstock in 1849, the son of Harriet Chase and James McLaughlin (b.1864 ) and grandson of mathematician John McLaughlin of Ireland. John E. McLaughlin received a business education in Woodstock's common schools and worked as a clerk in a dry goods store. In 1876, he formed a partnership with R. B. Jones, under the business name of Jones & McLaughlin, in order to buy a dry goods business. In 1879, McLaughlin bought Jones' shares and continued to operate the mercantile establishment on his own. During his life, John McLaughlin served as Town Clerk, Town Assessor, and a member of the town council. He married Annie Maguire, whose parents were of Irish descent, and they had six children together: Bessie, Harry, Roy, Guy, Marguerite, and Anna M. John E. McLaughlin died in 1932; his wife Annie, in 1934.

The Hay family of Carleton County, New Brunswick, is descended from William and Martha Hay of Northampton, NB. Originally from Scotland, William Hay came to New Brunswick as a child in 1822. William married Martha, a woman of Irish descent, born in New Brunswick. They lived in Northampton where William was a farmer, later moving to Millville. According to the census, in 1871 William and Martha had nine children living at home. The family members included: Walter (1844-1922), John, Mary, Mildred, William Allen, Alice M., James H., Anne, and Margaret. Hannah, a widow, aged 85, who was possibly William's mother, was also living with the Hay family. Walter was listed as a farmer. James and William Allen would later work as partners in a lumber business in Millville until James moved to Woodstock and formed a partnership with his sons. At the time of the 1871 census, all members of the Hay family except Hannah were Methodists.