The Rev. Charles Dod Baldwin, D.D., was a Methodist Church minister. He was born on July 31, 1855 in Youghal, County Cork, Ireland to Robert and Mary Baldwin. He attended school at Lismore College in County Waterford before moving to Dublin. There, while working for a hardware company, he preached and taught Sunday school at the Charleston Road Methodist Church and was involved with the Y.M.C.A.

He moved to Canada in August 1882 and enrolled in the Wesleyan Theological College, Montreal, where he won prizes in theology and the natural sciences. He was ordained in 1887. His time in the ministry was split between the Montreal and Ontario Conferences: Dunham (1882, 1895-1896), Levis and Bourg Louis (1883), Island Brook (1884), Montreal (1885-1886), Hendersonville (1887-1888), Lawrenceville (1889-1891), Cookshire (1893-1894), Lacolle (1897-1899), North Augusta (1901-1902), Mallorytown (1902-1095), Metcalfe (1905-1907), Westmeath (1907-1909), Ashton (1909-1911), St. Paul, Montreal (1911-1913), Westport (1913-1916), Addison (1916-1918), Aultsville (1918-1921), and Sharbot Lake (1921-1922). He retired from the ministry to Kingston in 1922, where he became connected to Sydenham Street United Church. Baldwin was also involved in the governance of the Montreal Conference. He held numerous positions, including: journal secretary (1892-1903, 1919-1921), assistant secretary (1905), secretary (1906, 1920-1921), General Conference statistician (1913-1918), and was elected President of the Montreal Conference in 1922.

Baldwin was known to be proficient in pen and ink illuminations. He married Catherine Elizabeth Teskey in 1889; she predeceased him in February 1947. Baldwin died on January 29, 1949 at the age of 94.

Richard T. Courtice (1846-1904) was a Bible Christian, and Methodist minister. He was born at Dumbarton, Township of Pickering in 1846, and became an active member of the Bible Christian Church as a teenager. He was ordained in June, 1869 at Hampton. Before the union of the Bible Christian Church with the Methodist Church of Canada in 1884 he travelled the circuits of Dummer, Manilla, Toronto, Cleveland, Clinton, Lindsay, Cobourg and Welcome. He was also Secretary of Conference. After union his circuits included Bethany, Cannifton, Newtonville, Seymour, Hilton, Demorestville (1901-1902) and Frankford (1902-1904). He was married to Betsy Courtice.

John Douse (1801-1886) was a Wesleyan Methodist minister and administrator. Born in Hull, England, Douse migrated to Canada as a missionary to Indigenous peoples in 1834. He was received on trial and ordained in 1834-1835 at Grand River. He served some of Ontario's largest and most prestigious Wesleyan Methodist charges, including the St. Clair Mission (Sarnia Township) for five years. He was also a Chairman of Districts and a long-time treasurer of the Superannuated Ministers' Fund.

Virgil Chittenden Hart (1840-1904) was a founder of the West China mission of The Methodist Church of Canada. He was born in 1840 in Jefferson County, New York State. He graduated in 1865, then was sent to China under the Missionary Board of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He worked for two years at Fuzhou, then he was sent to establish and superintend a mission in Central China, at Kin-Kiang [Jin Jiang] where he remained for 20 years. In 1887 he was sent by the Missionary Board to the western province of Szechuan [Sichuan]. In 1889 he took a leave and returned to Canada and settled in Burlington, Ontario. In 1890, he was appointed Superintendent of the new mission to West China. In 1891 he established a school and hospital in the capital, Chengtu [Chengdu]. He also established the Canadian Mission Press while in West China. In 1896, he returned to Canada. He retired in 1900, and died in 1904. During his career, he published two books: "West China" and "The Temple and the Sage." Hart Memorial College at West China Union University is named in his honour. He was married to Adeline Gilliland Hart.

Robert Hughes was a Methodist Church (Canada) then United Church of Canada minister. He worked for a time in Dawson City, Yukon and the remainder of his career was in British Columbia: White Rock, 1925-1927, Ocean Park, 1928-1954. He died June, 1955.

John Edwin Hunter (1856-1919) was a Methodist Evangelist. He was born in Rochester, Upper Canada. Raised in a Methodist family, Hunter was converted in 1871 under Methodist preaching at Kirby, Ont. In 1875 he was received as an exhorter and spent the next three years on the Woodslee and Thamesville circuits. From 1878-1880 he studied at Victoria College in Cobourg. After serving at Ancaster and then at Waterdown for two years, he was ordained in 1882. That same year he married his wife, Jennie Jones. Next he volunteered for service in western Canada and was appointed to Dominion City, Manitoba. By 1884 Hunter turned to evangelism. He collaborated with Hugh Thomas Crossley in evangelist campaigns until 1909 when he was incapacitated by Parkinson's disease. During their time Crossley & Hunter were considered Canada's leading evangelists and campaigned all over the country, into the United States and Bermuda.

The Rev. William Jenkins was one of the first Presbyterian ministers in Upper Canada. Born on September 26, 1779 in Kirriemuir, Scotland, Jenkins studied at the University of Edinburgh with the intention of becoming a minister in the Associate Synod of the Secession Church in Scotland, but left before he graduated.

In 1799, Jenkins immigrated to New York, where he continued his theological studies in connection with the Associate Reformed Presbytery of Saratoga, with noted proficiency in Hebrew and Greek. He was licensed to preach and ordained in 1807, and called as a missionary to the Onyota'a:ka, or Oneida, in Oneida Castle. He would remain here until 1816 when, following the death of Onyota'a:ka Chief John Skenandoa, he was sent to minister to various communities in Upper Canada. He made enough of an impression on the residents of Richmond Hill that they petitioned the Presbytery of Saratoga to have him as their permanent minister. Jenkins moved to Markham Township in 1817 and purchased a 200 acre farm near Cashel.

Upon his arrival, Jenkins was the only Presbyterian minister in Upper Canada. As a result, his itinerant ministry took him as far west as the Grand River and as far east as the Bay of Quinte, although he was primarily based out of Richmond Hill and Scarborough. Because he was one of the few outside of the Anglican Church who was allowed to perform marriages, he regularly married Methodists, Baptists, Mennonites, and Quakers.

More Presbyterian ministers started to arrive after Jenkins. In 1818 the Presbytery of the Canadas was formed, which he joined in 1819 after being released by the Presbytery of Saratoga. In 1825, it was dissolved and replaced with the United Synod of Upper Canada. However, it eventually entered into union with the Church of Scotland and agreed to accept money from the clergy reserves. As a voluntarist, Jenkins believed this linked it too closely to the British state, which he viewed as tyrannical and oppressive, and he left in 1834. He was admitted into the Missionary Presbytery of the Canadas in 1837, which was linked to the United Associate Synod of the Secession Church of Scotland and therefore not formally connected to the state in any way.

Jenkins was politically active against the Family Compact and the government of Upper Canada, frequently speaking out and denouncing them from the pulpit. He was a founding member of the Friends of Religious Liberty, a group formally opposed to the actions of the government. While he never formally joining, he was sympathetic to William Lyon Mackenzie's 1837 rebellion. Jenkins' son, who did join the rebellion, was forced to flee to the United States with Mackenzie upon its failure.

Jenkins was married in Scotland to Jane Forrest, but she died before he emigrated. He met and married Mary Hatfield Stockton while in Oneida Castle. Together they would have eleven children, nine of whom survived into adulthood. After a prolonged illness that gradually restricted his ability to continue his itinerant ministry, Jenkins died on September 25, 1843 at the age of 63.

Kuper Island Residential School was located on Penelakut Island (formerly Kuper Island) near the community of Chemainus, Vancouver Island. It was funded by The Government of Canada and operated by the Roman Catholic Church from 1890-1969. After 1969, the federal government took over administration of the school until it closed in 1975.

Ethel Susan McEachran was a Presbyterian, and later United Church, missionary and educator. She was born on September 13, 1881 in York County to Colin and Martha (née Proctor) McEachran. She attended the London Normal School and taught for nine years. While the exact dates are unknown, records indicate McEachran also attended the Ontario College of Education and the Presbyterian Missionary and Deaconess Training Home.

In 1913, McEachran was appointed by the Presbyterian Church in Canada's Foreign Mission Committee, Western Section to Korea. From 1913-1915 she was stationed in Sŏngjin (now Kimch'aek) to learn Korean and probably to teach at the local girls' school. In 1915 she founded the Young Saing Girls' School in Hamhŭng, becoming its first principal. She took a leave of absence and returned to Canada in order to attend Queen's University in Kingston, from which she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1922. She remained principal until 1941 when the wartime exodus of missionaries forced McEachran to return to Canada.

She continued her missionary work in a domestic setting, being stationed as superintendent of St. Columba House in Montreal between 1941 and 1943, then at Settlement House, Regina between 1945 and 1947, and finally to carry out community work in Saskatoon. McEachran retired to Toronto in 1951, but continued teaching English classes for immigrant communities.

McEachran died on October 27, 1959 at the age of 78, and is buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto.

Joseph Edwin James Millyard (1876-1950) was a Methodist, then United Church Minister. He served as Conference President for the Methodist Church. He worked in the following areas in Ontario after 1925: Wesley, London (1925-1928), George Street, Peterborough (1929-1934), Hyatt, London (1935-1937). He retired in London in 1938 and died June, 1950.

Benjamin Slight (1798-1858) was a Wesleyan Methodist missionary to Upper Canada. Born in England, he was sent to Canada as a missionary by the Wesleyan Missionary Committee in London, England in 1834, and was ordained for missionary work in Hamilton in 1835. He began his mission work in western Upper Canada at Amherstburg, where he ministered to settlers, Indigenous people and a colony of formerly enslaved Americans. He next served at the Credit Mission, near York and later worked in different parts of Eastern and Western Canada until his death. He was married to Elizabeth Slight (d. 1871).

Margaret Luella Thibaudeau was a deaconness with The Methodist Church of Canada. She graduated from the Methodist Deaconess Home and Training School in 1906, and worked for a time at Wesley Methodist Church (Hamilton, Ont.).

Egerton Ryerson Young (Jr.) (1869-1962) was a Methodist/United Church minister in Ontario and assistant editor of the Christian Guardian. He was born in Norway House, Manitoba, where his father was a missionary to the Norway House Cree Nation. He attended Victoria College and was ordained in 1896. He served at Zion Church, Toronto, 1896-1897, and was Assistant Editor of the Christian Guardian, 1898-1900. He was then at Copper Cliff, 1901-1902; Port Carling, 1902-1905; Malton, 1906-1908; Chatsworth, 1909-1911; Bracebridge, 1912-1915; Orangeville, 1916-1919; Islington, 1920-1924; Newtonbrook, 1925-1929; Barrie, 1930-1931; and was then superannuated at Toronto, 1932-1961. He was married to Edith Ella Allen.