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Jessie Alfred lived at Pelly Crossing with her husband Johnny Alfred and their family.

Ross P. Alger, 1921-1992, was born in Prelate, Saskatchewan. He moved to Calgary, Alberta in the 1930s and served in the air force in the Second World War. He became an accountant and helped found RGO Office Products. He was chairman of the Calgary School Board, President of the Calgary Chamber of Commerce, 1970-1971, and Mayor of Calgary, 1977-1980. He and his wife, Lois, had three children, Frances, Libby and Gordon.

Alina Dabrowska was an instructor in the Department of Interior Design at Mount Royal College from 1979 to 2007. Born in Poland in 1932, she immigrated to Great Britain in 1972 and then to Calgary in 1979. Dabrowska had a successful career as an architect, engineer, college instructor, and artist.

James Alexander “Alex” Allan, 1915-1998, had a career with the Calgary Power Company (later Transalta Utilities). He worked in southern Alberta from the late 1940s until 1954, then in the Edmonton area at the Wabamun power plant.

Alexander Allan, 1857-1927, was born in Bucksburn, Scotland, emigrated to Canada in 1880, and came to Calgary, Alberta in 1884 where he opened a dry goods business in partnership with Andrew Rankin. Alexander was an alderman in 1887, customs collector from 1901 to 1911, member of the School and Hospitals Boards and member of Knox United Church. He married Mary Jane Short, 1857-1950, in 1885 and they had two children, Ida Nellie (Graves), 1888-1986, and Elwin Hamilton Wyness, 1886-?. For further information see "Rankin & Allan : Dry Goods Merchants" in Eye on the Future : Business People in Calgary and the Bow Valley, 1870-1900 / Henry C. Klassen. -- Calgary : University of Calgary Press, 2002, p. 105-107.

Elwin H. Allan and his family were early residents of Calgary, Alberta.