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Born in England, Edward Izard started working for Yarrows Shipbuilders in Scotland at the age of 18 and was trained in then new technologies including marine turbines. He came to Esquimalt in 1914 as the assistant manager when the shipyard had been purchased by Sir Alfred Yarrow. Edward Izard became General Manager and remained with the shipyard until 1957.

Captain Cook was a noted British Naval officer who excelled as an explorer, cartographer, and navigator. He was on the northwest coast of North American from 1778 to 1779.

Admiral Finch-Noyes was a Canadian naval officer from 1926 to 1982. He served as Flag Officer Pacific Coast from 1960 to 1962, was Executive Officer on HMCS Prince Henry in 1943 and commanded HMCS Prince Robert in 1943.

HMS Excellent was a Royal Navy gunnery training establishment in Portsmouth harbour between 1830 and 1985. Training was initially done in the hulk of a wooden warship named Excellent built in 1797. In 1886, the school moved ashore to Whale Island in. The school finally closed in 1985. HMS Excellent re-opened in 1994 and is now the location of the Damage Control School.

16,810 gross tons, passenger liner in Canadian Pacific Railway’s transpacific service from 1913 to 1914. She served as an armed merchant cruiser from 1914 to 1916, returned to Pacific service, then served as a troopship in the Atlantic from 1918 to 1919. After WWI, she resumed transpacific service until 1941, again served as troopship from 1941 1945, and was destroyed by fire at Barrow in 1945 and scrapped.

26,032 gross tons passenger liner. Originally named RMS Empress of Japan, she served in the Canadian Pacific Railway’s transpacific service from 1930 to 1939, and as a troopship from 1939 to 1948. She was renamed Empress of Scotland in 1942, and resumed Canadian Pacific Railway’s transatlantic service from 1950 to 1957, when she was sold to Hamburg Atlantic. She was destroyed by fire in New York City in 1966 and scrapped.

Captain Frank E. Unwin was a British Columbia coast pilot.

George Bradley Dyne came to Saanich, B.C., in 1896. Dyne trained at the Thames Nautical Training College and was a midshipman of the mercantile marine.

Commander G.H. Davidson was the executive officer of the Royal Canadian Navy Barracks, Esquimalt, B.C., in 1954. HMCS Naden was the name of the location of the naval barracks, training schools and housing in the Pacific Command, Esquimalt, B.C., before the unification of the Canadian Armed Forces.

Captain G. R. Newell was a marine surveyor in 1962 and 1963 and resided in Victoria, B.C. In 1945, Newell was master of SS Bowness Park (liberty class).