Harry Moore Porteous was born in 1883 in Lancashire, England. His mother, Annie Bryce McNee Porteous (1845-1920) was born in Lochgilphead, Argyll and Bute, Scotland in 1845. He had siblings Sanford Drysdale Porteous (1883-1964) and Clive Hope Porteous (1887-1960). Harry is listed in the 1911 Census of Canada as living in Regina and working as a labourer.

He died March 22, 1922 in Saskatoon.

The Glynfield school was built in 1916 and located on the northwest quarter of 19-35-24 W 2nd. The school closed in June 1965

Glen Etling was born in Dauphin, Manitoba to William Etling and Elizabeth Etling (nee Reader) in 1908. He came to Melfort, Saskatchewan on a harvest excursion train in 1928, and homesteaded in the Choiceland district. Glen married Grace Patterson, who had grown up in the Willowdale district, on December 21, 1932. They would have five children. They moved to Le Pas in 1965, where he farmed. As the land when they arrived was heavy with willows, Glen was forced to be inventive; he made a homemade sawmill, a shingle mill, rotary and V-snow plows and root pickers. He retired in Melfort in 1976.

Gerald C. Fitzgerald, the son of Maurice C. Fitzgeral, was born on March 6, 1924. In his youth, he lived in Melfort, Saskatchewan for two years from 1931 - 1933. His father, Maurice Fitzgerald, was at that time serving as principal of the Melfort High School.

Gerald Fawcett attended Rothwell School in his youth ca. 1952.