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Captain Donald Boucher MacPherson worked for Victoria Tug Co., Island Tug & Barge, and spent 15 years as master on the Kootenay Lake Ferry System. During WWII, he was warrant officer serving as skipper for the R.C.A.S.C.

Edward A. MacFayden became a merchant seaman in 1924. He joined the Royal Canadian Navy a few years later and became a gunnery instructor with the rank of Chief Petty Officer by 1939. He was commissioned a Lieutenant during World War II. After 1951 he was stationed at H.M.C.S. Naden, and he retired in 1960. He was curator of the British Columbia Maritime Museum, then located in Esquimalt, from 1955 to ca. 1961.