Anne Virginia Winslow-Spragge was born in approximately 1919-1920, the daughter of Lois Sybil Harrington and Edward Winslow-Spragge. She married Donald N. Byers, and they had four children: Barbara, Gordon, Jane, and Jennifer. She died on 23 May 2011.

Dr. John Roddick Byers was born in 1876. In 1902, he obtained his M.D. at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. He was one of the pioneers in the fight against tuberculosis in Canada. In the early twenties, Dr. Byers played a key role in the setting up of the Laurentian Sanatorium Association in Ste. Agathe, Quebec. By 1925, this Association was able to place 200 beds at the disposal of civilians ill with tuberculosis. After leaving Ste. Agathe, he opened a consulting practice in Montreal and continued to take an active interest in veterans who had contracted tuberculosis. In 1903, he married Sarah May Davis. He died in Gananoque, Ontario on May 1, 1963.

Dr. William Gordon Matthew Byers was born on December 18, 1872, in Gananoque, Leeds, Ontario. He obtained his M.D. in ophthalmology at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. In 1901, he published a study from the Royal Victoria Hospital “The Primary Intradural Tumours of the Optic Nerve: (fibromatosis Nervi Optici)” and the article "An Atypical Case of Retinitis Pigmentosa". He died on August 1, 1957, in Montreal, Quebec.