Frederick Ernest Grubb served as a naval officer in the Royal Canadian Navy from 1928 to 1960. Commander Grubb served on the staff of the Flag Officer Pacific as Assistant Chief of Staff (Training and Administration) from 1956 to 1960 and retired in the rank of Commander. During his career, he commanded two corvettes during World War II, one of which, Chambly, helped sink U-501 off Greenland in 1941. Commander Grubb was well known in the Navy in the 1950s and 1960s for his succinct notes providing guidance for junior officers on naval etiquette. In retirement, Commander Grubb was registrar and curator at the Maritime Museum of B.C.
John Guzzwell is a noted small boat sailor originally from England who immigrated to Canada at the age 25 and built the yacht Trekka in Victoria in the early 1950s. He then sailed her around the world single-handed. When he returned to Victoria in 1959 his was the smallest sailing yacht to have completed a circumnavigation. John Guzzwell then went on to have a successful career as a boatbuilder.