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George Stanley Worsley was born on June 20, 1866 in St. Hyacinthe Quebec. His father was Colonel Pennyman White Worsley of the 60th Canadian Militia Regiment. He attended and graduated from the Royal Military College in Kingston Ontario. In June 1885, he enlisted in the British Imperial Army and received a Commission as a Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery. After receiving artillery training, he was posted to: India, Malta and Gibraltar. By 1895, George had been promoted to the rank of Captain. Instead of continuing his military career, he resigned from the British Army in 1896 and moved back to Canada.

In October 1897, while residing in Halifax Nova Scotia, he expressed interest in obtaining a Commissioned rank in the North West Mounted Police. HIs request was not fulfilled. From 1897 to 1900, George Worsley made his way to the Yukon to familiarize himself with the Canadian frontier life and seems to have briefly been a General Merchant in company with Beringer at Peace River Crossing, North West Territories.

In early 1900, George Worsley was able to meet Commissioner Bowen Perry in Edmonton and December 4, 1900, Sir Wilfred Laurier directed Fred White to advance George Worsley’s name as the next Commissioned Officer in the NWMP. On October 1, 1914, George was promoted to the rank of Superintendent and became the Commanding Officer of Depot.

George Stanley Worsley died in Victoria, B.C. in 1945.

Charles L. Worsley was born in or around 1877. His father was Colonel Pennyman White Worsley of the 60th Canadian Militia Regiment. Charles worked in Ontario (St. Mary's) for the Bank of Montreal for over 40 years and retired to Victoria in or around 1945. He was twice widowed and died married to his third wife Harriette Keating.

Gerald Buist is a collector based in Kingston, Ontario.

William Malcolm Cutts (December 16, 1857 – January 29, 1943) was a painter of landscapes and marine studies in oil and watercolour.

Cutts was born at Allahabad, India, the child of an East India Company official. His father died in India during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and Cutts and his mother moved to England where he attended primary school. As a boy of 13 he had a serious interest in painting. In 1870 he came to Canada with his mother and stepfather and settled in Stratford, Ontario, where he first began to work as an artist. He worked for several years as a fireman on the Grand Trunk Railroad, then moved to Toronto in 1880. He visited England for a short period to study painting.

On his return to Canada he painted portraits for the next 25 years. He visited Ontario towns as a portrait painter. He exhibited portraits, landscapes and marine studies (the latter two he began to paint around 1905) at the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts annual shows from 1891 to 1929. With his second wife, Gertrude Spurr Cutts, he lived at St. Ives, Cornwall, England, for three years (1909-1912) and sketched in southern England and Wales. He also painted in Jamaica and eastern United States along the Atlantic seaboard. The Cutts shared a studio in Toronto until 1915 when they settled in Port Perry, Ontario. Like his wife, he died in Port Perry, Gertrude in 1941 and William two years later at the age of 86.

Yuli Turovsky is a musician.

Amadeus Ensemble is a musical ensemble.

Gryphon Trio is a musical ensemble.

Penderecki String Quartet is a musical ensemble.

Noel Edison is a musician.

Elora Festival Singers is a musical ensemble.