Wallace Cuthbert Trotter was born on March 26, 1851, in Forest of Dean, England.

He was a businessman. He was educated at Lydney College, Forest of Dean. He worked at Trotter, Thomas & Co., Forest of Dean, England (1867-1871) and Trotter Bros., Montreal (1877-1884). In 1884, Trotter established the Standard Drain Pipe Company and started the production of drainpipes and refractory products. The property was transferred to the Standard Clay Products, Ltd. of St. Johns, Quebec and New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. Trotter was its founder, president, and general manager. He served with Montreal Garrison Artillery (1879-1900) and commanded No. 1 Battery as Captain during Riel Rebellion in 1885. He retired with the rank of Major. He was a member of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers.

In 1879, he married Kate Moss Sugden-Evans (1855–1909). He died on June 11, 1928, in Montreal, Quebec.

Rev. Thomas Trotter was born in 1782 in Berwickshire, Scotland.

He was a clergyman, educator, and author. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh before changing to theology. He was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1808 and was called to Johnshaven, Scotland, where he served for the next ten years. In 1818, he accepted a call from the congregation in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. The parish at Antigonish covered an extensive area, but its population was small. To augment his income, Trotter farmed and, in 1819, opened a grammar school. He taught Latin and Greek and lectured on a variety of scientific issues, particularly geology. In addition to his preaching, teaching, and writing on various theological and scientific topics, he also served as a school trustee. He devoted considerable time to promoting better farming methods, and he built a grist mill and later a fulling mill. Trotter contributed letters and articles to the provincial press and occasionally to British publications.

In 1808, he married Elizabeth Eadie (1783–1866). He died on April 2, 1855, in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.

Ellen Maud Freeman Trotter was born on June 7, 1860, in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.

She was an educator and editor. She received her education at Horton Collegiate Academy, Acadia Seminary, Wolfville, and Fredericton Normal School. She taught school in Fredericton and Saint John before attending Wellesley College in Boston for two years. In 1885, she became Principal of Woodstock College, Ontario. After she married Rev. Thomas Trotter, minister of Woodstock Baptist Church, she accompanied him to Wolfville following his appointment as President of Acadia University. After his death, she moved to Toronto in 1919 and served as the 1st Dean of Wallingford Hall at McMaster University in Toronto for ten years. For fifteen years, Mrs. Trotter served as editor of The Canadian Missionary Link; a magazine published by the Baptist Women's Mission Board. She was also editor of the foreign news section of the successor publication The Link and Visitor until 1934.

In 1887, she married Rev. Thomas Trotter (1853-1918). Their son Bernard Freeman Trotter (1890–1917) was a Canadian soldier-poet, the author of a collection of poems "A Canadian Twighlight and Other poems of War and of Peace” (1917). She died on October 13, 1938, in Toronto, Ontario.