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.

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.

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.

Architect Clifford Wiens was born in Saskatchewan in 1926. He studied at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, receiving a Bachelor of Science in Architecture in 1954. In 1957 he became a registered architect in Saskatchewan, and set up practice in Regina under the firm name Clifford Wiens Architect Ltd. On September 5, 1970 the name of the firm was changed to Wiens and Associates Ltd. It became Wiens Johnstone Architects Ltd. from 1981 to 1986. From 1986 until 1995, he practiced as "Clifford Wiens Architect Ltd." Then moving to Vancouver he has continued to practice as "Clifford Wiens Architect". In 2010 he was given life membership in the Saskatchewan Association of Architects.

As an architect, Wiens created numerous public, private, residential, commercial, and industrial buildings and projects throughout Saskatchewan, including schools, houses, apartments, stores, campsites and picnic shelters, motels, churches, and heritage restoration projects. His work has earned several awards such as three Massey Awards Silver Medals in 1967 and 1970, two National Design Council of Canada Awards in 1967, and a City of Regina Heritage Award in 1983. In 2011 he received the award of the century for the design of the Heating and Cooling Plant at the University of Regina, known as the PRIX du XXe Siecle Award.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, an Associate Member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, and formerly a registered architect in the United Kingdom (1975).

He taught architecture and design as a visiting professor at the University of Manitoba (1968), the University of Calgary (1977), and the University of British Columbia (1985), the University of Arizona (1990) and the Arizona State University (1995). He has also lectured at the University of Saskatchewan (1966-1967), and North Dakota State University (1970).

He has served on juries for various architectural competitions, and his work has been widely published in architectural journals and reference books. He was active in local and national professional organizations, serving the Saskatchewan Association of Architects as president (1970) and council member (1967-1973), the Regina Chapter of Architects as president and past president (1960-1969), and the Canada Department of Public Works as a member of the Advisory Committee on Art for Public Buildings, 1974-1981.

Born in Vancouver, Victor Wiebe began his academic career by studying Chemistry at the University of British Columbia, earning a B.Sc. in 1966 and an M.Sc. in 1968. He went on to study at University of Western Ontario earning a M.L.S. in 1974. Wiebe worked at the National Research Council before joining the University of Saskatchewan faculty as a Librarian I in 1976. He worked in variety of Library Departments including Reference, Government Publications, Engineering and Veterinary Medicine before retiring in 2008 as a Librarian IV.

Emma Riis Whittome was born in 1920 on her family's farm located at SW 1/2 Sec. 24 Township 46 Range 18 W2nd. Her parents were Walter Christian Nygaard and Kristina Nygaard (Mark). Her middle name, Riis, was a family name pronounced "Reese". In 1940 Emma married Steven Whittome. The ceremony was held in the Melfort Anglican Church manse. Emma and Steven had two children, Deanna Muriel and Steve Murray. Emma worked off and on as a hired girl and she was a house wife. Emma was interested in collecting and preserving antiques and artifacts. Her interests in this area lead her to become a member of the original committee that worked to open the Melfort and District museum in 1971. She also sat on the museum's board and was a dedicated volunteer.

Ernest Francis Laughton Whitmore was born in 1904 in Winchester, England. He immigrated to the Saskatoon area with his parents in 1911. He graduated from Nutana Collegiate in Saskatoon and then attended the University of Saskatchewan, earning an LL.B. with Great Distinction in 1925 and the Wetmore Scholarship in Law. Whitmore was called to the Bar in 1928. He married Mary Anne MacLean of Saskatoon. After graduating, Whitmore practiced law in Saskatoon with the firm of Sibbald, Caswell and Whitmore. Whitmore was also solicitor for Saskatoon City Hospital from 1935 to 1936 and a legal adviser to the United Farmers of Canada, Saskatchewan section. Whitmore began teaching classes as a lecturer at the University of Saskatchewan in 1929. He was appointed an Assistant Professor in the College of Law at the University of Saskatchewan in 1939 and was granted a full professorship in 1943. He was appointed King’s Counsel in 1951. He taught at the University of Saskatchewan until 1956, when he left to join Regina law firm MacPherson, Leslie and Tyerman as an Associate Counsel. Whitmore was regarded as a well-known legal expert in Saskatchewan. His obituary in the Saskatchewan Bar Review notes “ ‘Ernie’ Whitmore will be remembered by scores of his students for the meticulous way in which he organized his material, his encyclopaedic knowledge of the case law and for his willingness to spend hours of his time discussing legal problems with his students.” (Volume 29, Issue 3, September 1964, p. 142) Whitmore died on August 16, 1964 at the age of 60.