George Kitchener Wild was born August 19, 1914 in Middlesbrough, England. He was a WWII war veteran who served with the Duke of Wellington’s Light Infantry in India. He married Margaret Wild and had two children: Joyce and Michael. He died February 7, 2007 in Moose Jaw. George and Margaret are buried at the Rosedale Cemetery in Moose Jaw.

Frederick (Fred) Alfred Wilkes was born on a farm in Ridgedale, Saskatchewan in 1919. He studied agriculture at the University of Saskatchewan and theology at St. Andrew’s College in Saskatoon. He was ordained by the Saskatchewan Conference in 1953 and was a United Church minister in Saskatchewan and later in Ontario and Quebec. Wilkes published a history of the Canadian pioneers in the prairies, with a specific emphasis on southern Saskatchewan. The book, entitled They Rose from the Dust, was developed from the Golden Jubilee project of the Tugaske, Eyebrow, Brownlee, Bridgeford and Eskbank communities. He also wrote a serial called Tuxford of the Plains based on the letters of George Tuxford from 1888-1918. The series was published in the Western Producer in 1967-1968. Wilkes retired from ministering in 1984 and died in 1999 in Ontario.

George Stuart Tuxford was born on February 7, 1870 in Penmorfa, Caernarvonshire, North Wales. He immigrated to a farm in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan with his wife in the 1890s. During the height of the Klondike gold rush in 1898, Tuxford led a herd of cattle from Moose Jaw to Dawson City. His cattle drive is the longest in Canadian history. Tuxford also had a decorated military career, joining the militia in 1906. He was a member of the 16th Mounted Rifles, and when the squadron expanded and renamed the 27th Light Horse, was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. In August 1914, he became the 5th Battalion’s first commanding officer. In 1915 he led his battalion in the Second Battle of Ypres and the Battle of Festubert. Tuxford was promoted to Brigadier-General in 1916 and lead troops in many important battles throughout WWII. In 1934 he received the Efficiency decoration and in 1937 the King George VI medal. He died in Victoria, B.C in 1943.

William Pearce was born on February 1, 1848 in Elgin County, Ontario, the son of John and Elizabeth (nee Moorhouse) Pearce. He received his education in St. Thomas and at the University of Toronto. He married Margaret A. Meyer in 1881. He was engaged on private and railway surveys until 1873, and was in charge of survey parties in Manitoba and the North-West from 1874 to 1881. In 1882 he was appointed an Inspector of Agencies on the Dominion Lands Board. In 1884 Pearce was appointed Superintendent of Mines and was responsible investigating, reporting and making recommendations on disputed land claims.

Many disputed land claims extended from the Red River to the Rocky Mountains and from the 49th to the 56th parallels and were between settlers, large land interests and Metis communities. Pearce became Chief Inspector of Surveys in 1901. He voluntarily left his federal government post. From 1904 to 1911 Pearce worked for the Canadian Pacific Railway in the administration of irrigated lands and land in British Columbia.

He was responsible for reporting on potential land resources in regions of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia. He was particularly occupied with the drainage of the Athabasca and Pearce Rivers. After 1912 Pearce was hired as a Statistician to the Department of Colonization and Development for the Canadian Pacific Railway, based in Calgary.

David Colwyn Williams was born in Swansea, South Wales, in 1916. He received a BA (1938) from the University of Wales and both another BA and an LL.B. (1940) from Cambridge. During World War Two, Williams served with the South Wales Borderers in India, the Middle East, and Leros, where he was taken prisoner by German forces in 1943. At the end of the war, he returned to Cambridge for one year as a law supervisor, then accepted the post of Lecturer in Law at Queen's University, Belfast. While on leave in 1958, Williams earned an LL.M from the University of California, Berkeley. He accepted a position as Associate Professor at the University of Saskatchewan in 1961, was promoted to Professor in 1964, and in 1969 was named Assistant Dean of the College of Law. Williams was the author of a number of publications, notably in the fields of Public and Private International Law and Legal History. He also served with various organizations, including the United Nations Association, Canadian Institute of International Affairs, and the Advisory Group to the Minister of External Affairs. Colwyn Williams died suddenly at his Saskatoon home on December 26, 1971.