Robert Amos was born in Belleville, Ontario in 1950. He graduated from York University – having studied painting with Doug Morton and David Bolduc – and subsequently moved to Victoria, where from 1975 to 1980 he worked at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria as the Assistant to the Director. Since 1986 he was written a weekly art column for the Time Colonist. Amos is an active painter and has extensively depicted the Victoria region. In 1984 he was made an Honorary Citizen of Victoria and in 1996 he was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

Gerald Smedley Andrews lived in Victoria, B.C. and was formerly Surveyor-General of B.C.

J. H. Ansley was a British Army officer (musketry instructor).

Charles Apps was the Great- Grandfather of George E. Apps, former Director of Buildings and Grounds at the University of Victoria. He was apprenticed, commencing October 3, 1846, to Charles Townsend Halsted, Henry Halsted, and John Halsted (Ironmongers) of Chichester, England, to learn the trade of a whitesmith.

Aqua-Tex Scientific Consulting was established in 1993 to provide consulting services in aquatic ecology. In 1998, the company began the Photopoint Monitoring of Urban Creeks on Southern Vancouver Island Project The study was conducted during July and August of 1998 in the Capital Regional District urban creeks of Blenkinsop, Colwood and Latoria using a technique called Photopoint Monitoring. The purpose of the project was to modify the photopoint monitoring technique, apply the modified technique to three urban creeks, and to assess the viability of the technique for future urban applications. The project team was supervised by David E. Jensen, and sponsored by the Aqua-Tex scientists, Cori L. Barraclough and William P. Lucey. The photopoint monitoring technique was later applied to Leeds Creek. In 2000, the company participated in a water quality monitoring plan for the Kootenai River Basin.