Frank Hoffman was a Presbyterian and later United Church minister and missionary to Hungarians in Saskatchewan. He was born in Hungary, in 1877, the son of a Calvinist pastor. He taught agriculture and assisted the Hungarian Lieutenant-Governor until World War I, when he became an officer in the Hungarian National Guard. After being captured by the Russians, Frank Hoffman escaped to Canada. He studied at Manitoba College and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1922. He served as a home missionary to Hungarians in Saskatchewan from 1925 to 1945, then retired and moved to Vancouver Island. He died in October 1958.

Iver Clifton was born February 11, 1930 in Hodgeville, Saskatchewan. He began his schooling at Ensz, a one-room country school, and then on to Luxor school in Neidpath, where he completed grade 10. He then went to Herbert High School to complete grades 11 & 12, where he graduated in 1947. While attending school in Herbert he joined the Herbert High School Cadet Corp., that same year becoming a member of the Armoured Reserve Regiment, the14th Canadian Hussars.

He qualified as Lieutenant in 1948 while attending the Armoured Corps. school in Camp Borden, Ontario. In 1950 he was given the opportunity to be a member of the Canadian Armoured Units going overseas to the Korean War, but his plans changed due to his father's illness and he stayed to help on the family farm. He continued with the reserve army training, completing a number of examinations and was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, then was appointed Commanding Officer of the 14th Hussars, which he held until the regiment was disbanded in 1968.

Through this time he farmed and ran a cat and scraper, building many roads, dugouts and dams in the area. In 1958 he purchased his own farm just outside of Swift Current. He married Glennis on June 9, 1962, and celebrated with a military wedding. The farm became home for him and his wife, where they raised three sons and a daughter. The farm was home to grain, livestock and a large scale vehicle salvage operation. Being a very good mechanic, many people came to him for advice, parts, repairs and complete vehicles.

Iver was a member of the Swift Current Chamber of Commerce and president from 1976 to 1979, the first farmer in the area to hold this position. He was president of the Saskatchewan Army Cadet League and the Army Cadet League of Canada. He was a member of the Swift Current Masonic Lodge and the Swift Current Shrine Club. He was a Life Member of the Royal Arch Masons, the Damascus Preceptory, the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps. Association and the Swift Current Royal Canadian Legion Branch #56. As a member of the Shrine Club, he was their drum major for over 20 years, traveling to numerous places performing in over 260 parades and competitions.

Iver had the great experience and good fortune to be appointed Aide-de-Camp for three Lt. Governors, each serving a five year term. He organized the purchase of the Swift Current Mayoral Chain of Office in 2003. He organized and financed the retrieval and placement of the WWII armoured military tank, which is placed at the Rec Center. Among his numerous accomplishments, one of the biggest and most recent that he was able to enjoy, was the renaming of the Rec Center to the Lieutenant Colonel Clifton Recreational Center. In 2012, he was the recipient of the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Medal.

Iver was very involved in all of his children's activities, always there for their different events or accomplishments, as well as teaching them different aspects of life that he felt important. Iver was a man of many 'hats'- soldier, colonel, heavy equipment operator, farmer, parts man, mechanic, Shriner, friend, brother, husband, father and grandfather.

Aldeo Lalonde married Clara May Beeching in 1953 and farmed near Bjorkdale, Saskatchewan from 1954 to 1974 raising a family of four children.

William H. Chew was born April 15, 1911. He immigrated from Hong Kong, China to Swift Current, Saskatchewan in the late 1930s or early 1940s and became a prominent business man. His two eldest sons, Andrew and Charles Chew, were born in China and received permission to immigrate to Canada in 1948. His youngest son, Victor William Chew, was born in Canada in 1940. In the summer of 1948 Mr. Chew returned to Hong Kong for a year sojourn.

William H. Chew passed away on December 14, 1972 (age 61) and is buried in Memory Gardens Cemetery in Swift Current. His son, Victor William passed away on August 24, 2007 (age 63) and is buried in the same cemetery

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D.S. Dix was a prominent Presbyterian and then United Church clergyman, whose work included serving as minister to Saskatoon's Westminster Church, as lecturer and professor at the Presbyterian Theological College – which became St. Andrew's College – in Saskatoon, as Principal of St.Andrew's College, and as President of Saskatchewan Conference.

Born in 1875, in Woodbridge (York County), Ontario, Dix trained as a teacher and taught for 6 years before enrolling in the Presbyterian Knox College (University of Toronto). He graduated with a degree in theology, in 1907, and pursued further studies in divinity at Glasgow University (Scotland), the University of Chicago, and Union Seminary (New York). He served as minister to St. James Church (Dartmouth, Nova Scotia), 1908-1910, to Chalmers Church (Guelph, Ontario), 1910-1913, and Westminster Church (Saskatoon), 1913-1919. Dix was also a lecturer and then professor at the Presbyterian Theological College, which became St. Andrew's College (Saskatoon), under its first Principal, Rev. E.H. Oliver. In 1935, Dix was appointed Principal of the College, after the death of E.H. Oliver.

In June 1946, Dix officially retired but remained associated with St. Andrew's College. He served on the United Church Board of Overseas Missions and as President of Saskatchewan Conference (1934-1935). He was Conference Archivist (1947-1953), and chairman of the Conference Historical Committee until his death, in 1956.

Emerick Csendes was a missionary and later United Church minister in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. He was born in Transylvania, southeast Hungary, in October 1886. From 1914-1919, he served in the army and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. In 1924, Csendes left to become a missionary in Western Canada. He worked with Hungarian congregations in Manitoba and Saskatchewan – at Bekevar and Otthon – and studied at St. Andrew’s College (Saskatoon), from 1925 to 1928. He served in Winnipeg from 1929 until 1934, when he transferred to the Rothermere Mission field (Battleford Presbytery). In 1940, he returned to Otthon-Halmok Patoral Charge (Yorkton Presbytery), where he remained until 1951, when he transferred to Toronto’s Church of All Nations. He retired around 1956.

The Dominion Commission (officially "The Commission appointed pursuant to The United Church Act, chapter 100 of the Statutes of Canada, 1924") was formed to enable the distribution of property between the United Church of Canada, which about 70% of Presbyterian Churches in Canada joined, and the remaining "non-concurring" Presbyterian Church.