Guy Boyer was born on May 7, 1876, in Quebec, Canada to Jean Charles Adolphe Boyer and Emma Lilah Guy.
In 1901, he married Marie-Blanche Forget, a daughter of the Hon. Louis-Joseph Forget, President of the Montreal Stock Exchange, President of the Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Company, and founder of the brokerage firm L.J. Forget et Cie.

John Wallace Boyes was born on 27 January 1907. He studied at the University of Saskatchewan and at the University of Wisconsin, where he earned his PhD. His career brought him to McGill University following that. He was involved with Council Canada, 1939-1940, and was an assistant professor of genetics at the University of Alberta from 1940-1942. A genetics researcher, he was a member of the American Genetics Association and the International Society of Plant Morphologists, served as president of the International Congress of Genetics, and acted as a consultant for the Montreal Children's Hospital.

David Boyle was born on May 1, 1842, in Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland.

He was a Canadian blacksmith, teacher, archaeologist, museum curator, and historian. Boyle arrived in Canada from Scotland in 1856 and apprenticed to a blacksmith. Upon finishing his apprenticeship in 1860, he secured a blacksmith’s job in Elora, Ontario in order to attend grammar school. He graduated in 1864 and became a teacher. He was a gifted pedagogue who followed what were then "radical child-centered theories" of Swiss educator Johann Pestalozzi. After six years of rural teaching, he obtained the position of principal of the Elora Public School in 1871. He also contributed to the foundation of the Elora Natural History Society in 1874 for the purpose of generating wider public interest in science, through a program of field trips, lectures, and publications. He was curator of the Canadian Institute Museum (1884-1896) and the Ontario Provincial Museum (1886-1911). He cultivated a core of loyal collectors across southern and central Ontario who assisted him in archaeological digs and in collecting artifacts for the museums. He was also the Secretary of the Ontario Historical Society. In 1898, Boyle began to conduct ethnographic fieldwork at the Six Nations of the Grand River reserve near Brantford, Ontario. Between 1887 and 1911, he published “Annual Archaeological Reports for Ontario”, Canada's first journal dedicated to archaeology. By the turn of the century, Boyle had achieved recognition as Canada’s pre-eminent archeologist. In 1902, he became a founding member of the American Anthropological Association and he was appointed to the editorial board of the new American Anthropologist. In 1908, he was the third recipient of the Cornplanter Medal (an award for scholastic and other contributions to the betterment of knowledge of the Iroquois people). The University of Toronto acknowledged his accomplishments in 1909 by conferring an LL.D. upon him.

He died on February 11, 1911, in Toronto, Ontario.

Sir Edward Boyle was born on June 12, 1878, in London, England.

He was a barrister, civil servant, writer, and businessman. He was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford (M.A.). He was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1902 and started to practice as a barrister. Edward succeeded as the 2nd Baronet Boyle, of Ockham, Salehurst, Sussex, in 1909 and became known as Sir Edward Boyle. In 1914, he served as a Chairman of the Balkan Committee and Hon. Treasurer of the Serbian Relief Fund. He became a British Commissioner to Serbia in 1915 and oversaw Serbian refugee colonies in Corsica in 1916. He was also a director of Richard Thomas & Company. In 1927, he held the office of High Sheriff of Sussex and the Justice of the Peace for Sussex. For his extraordinary service in the Balkans, Sir Edward Boyle was awarded Grand Cordon, Order of Civil Merit of Bulgaria; the Red Cross Decoration of Serbia 1st class; the Grand Officer, the Order of St. Slava of Serbia; the Grand Cordon, Order of Skanderberg of Albania, and the Croix de Charité. In 1939, he graduated from Sofia University, Bulgaria, with a degree of Doctor of Law. He was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and published the book "Biographical Essays, 1790-1890" (1936).

In 1920, he married Beatrice Ethel May Greig (1890–1961). He died on March 31, 1945, in Dorchester, England.

The Boys' Farm and Training School, now Shawbridge Youth Centres, is a farm in Shawbridge, Quebec. It was originally used either as a training home for underprivileged, wayward, and orphaned boys or as a youth detention center. Criminals under the age of 21 were sent there to serve time for charges such as robbery, assault, or theft. The houses on the farm were built from local materials such as red bricks and fieldstone quarried from the rock falls of the Piedmont mountain cliffs right behind Shawbridge.