Harold Pope was born on Oct. 25, 1899, in London, Ontario. From 1911 he lived in Moose Jaw and received his public schooling. He served with the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War. After the war, Pope attended Osgood Hall in Toronto. Pope was admitted to the Saskatchewan Bar in 1922. He was appointed as a member of the King's Counsel in 1937, and as a District Court Judge in 1955. He served on the Moose Jaw City Council for twelve years. He was a president of the Chamber of Commerce, the Saskatchewan Fish and Game League, the Moose Jaw Rotary Club, the Saskatchewan Division of the Canadian Cancer Soceity, the Saskatchewan Rivers Development Association, and the Western Canada Reclamation Association.

Pope served as counsel for Canada before the International Joint Commission from 1948 to 1955. He was also counsel for the province of Saskatchewan on international and interprovincial water issues. He was also counsel to the Royal Commission on the South Saskatchewan River Dam. He was appointed Chairman of the Saskatchewan Water Resources Commission in 1965, a position he held until the winding-up of the Commission's activities in 1972.

Harry Moore Porteous was born in 1883 in Lancashire, England. His mother, Annie Bryce McNee Porteous (1845-1920) was born in Lochgilphead, Argyll and Bute, Scotland in 1845. He had siblings Sanford Drysdale Porteous (1883-1964) and Clive Hope Porteous (1887-1960). Harry is listed in the 1911 Census of Canada as living in Regina and working as a labourer.

He died March 22, 1922 in Saskatoon.

Dr. Andrew Everett Porter was born at River Hebert, Nova Scotia in 1855. He attended Dalhousie University and later graduated with a degree in Medicine from the University of Pennsylvania in 1876. He received an opportunity to practice medicine in the Northwest Territories, and settled in Prince Albert in 1878 with the distinction of being the first registered physician. Dr. Porter married Marie MacPherson, in 1884, and they had three daughters and one son before Marie died in 1893. Later he returned to Nova Scotia where he married Alice Pugsley of River Hebert, and had two more daughters. Dr. Porter's activities and experiences were somewhat varied. He assisted Lieutenant Governor Laird in negotiating a treaty with Big Bear in 1878. In the area of politics, he ran against D.H. McDowell on the issue of autonomy for the North West. During the Reil Rebellion of 1885, he was appointed a medical officer. He recieved a similar appointment to the 218 O.S. Regiment in World War I, and after the war opened the Frank Sanitorium for tubercular soldier, in Frank, British Columbia. Andrew Porter was also a noted traveller who undertook extensive trips throughout Canada, the United States, the West Indies and South America. He chose Edmonton, however, to continue his medical practice until his retirement in 1928. He died in 1940 at the age of 85.