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Herbert Reginald (Reg) Turner was born in Fort Saskatchewan in 1931 and moved to Edmonton in 1941, remaining a proud Edmontonian ever since. Reg worked for the City of Edmonton Fire Department, retiring in 1989. In the mid-1990s that he discovered the joy of watercolour painting. His paintings portray Edmonton as he recalls it in the 1940s. His intent was to portray his paintings in a manner that was pleasing to the eye, and hopefully satisfying to those who want to ponder the past. He often printed his watercolour drawings as Christmas Cards and encloses stories or reminiscences to accompany the drawing, which he sent to family and friends.

Reg Turner married Doris Patricia Bannister in 1953. They had one daughter, Diane. Doris Turner died in 2015, and Reg passed away in 2017.

The Edmonton Drillers Soccer Club was a member of the North American Soccer League and the franchise was owned by Peter Pocklington. The team played both indoors at the Northlands Coliseum and outdoors at Commonwealth Stadium and Clarke Stadium. Their general manager was Joe Petrone and were coached by Hans Kraay from 1979 to 1980, Timo Liekoski in 1981 and Petrone was the caretaker coach until they folded in 1982. Financial difficulties and a general lack of interest in the sport forced the owner to fold the team in 1982.

Peter Pocklington would reconstitute the team in August 1996 as a part of the National Professional Soccer League. Ownership passed to Wojtek Wojcicki in 1998 and would fold in November 2000.

The Daughters of Penelope is the women’s division of the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (AHEPA), one of the largest Hellenic heritage and community service groups in the world. The AHEPA family is an umbrella organization that encompasses four divisions: AHEPA, the men’s division; the Daughters of Penelope, the women’s division; and the male and female youth divisions, Sons of Pericles and the Maids of Athena respectively.

The goals of the Daughters of Penelope are to promote the social, ethical, and intellectual interests of its members; to cultivate good citizenship, and to disseminate the Hellenic culture therein.

On a national level, the Daughters award scholarships for excellence in education and sports. They also support many other projects such as St. Basil’s Academy Seal Drive, the Penelopean Shelter Home, the Papanicolaou Cancer Research Institute, Cooley’s Anemia, as well as shelters for victims of domestic abuse.

The Boreas Chapter 268 (Edmonton chapter) of the Daughters of Penelope was organized on January 17, 1954, with Mrs. Elizabeth Gardener filling the role of Chapter President. Locally, the Boreas Chapter has supported many charities, educational scholarship programs, cultural programs, as well as support of Edmonton’s Greek schools and Greek Orthodox Church.

Mary Ann (Anna or Annie) Pink was born on 11 September 1867 to Charles S. Pink and Elizabeth (Lizzie) Strachan in Hull, Quebec. She would marry Charles Henry Moran in either 25 December 1896 or 25 December 1901 in Carleton, Ontario. Her family is recorded as living in the Edmonton area in the 1921 census and having two children, Aubrey and Doris Moran. By the 1931 census only one child is listed as living with her, Doris. She died on 18 November 1950 in Warburg, Alberta.

Joe Mun “George” Yee was born on November 16, 1907 in Zhong Shan, China. George arrived in Canada from China in 1923 at the age of thirteen after being selected by his village elders to go to Canada to help his family and village. George arrived in Canada only one month before the Head Tax was supplanted by the passing of the Chinese Immigration Act.

Upon arriving in Canada George worked as a farmer and labourer in segregated Chinese communities in Victoria and Vancouver, British Columbia. In 1936, George finally paid off his $500 head tax debt he received when arriving into the country.

In 1941 George married seventeen year old Yuen (Lorna) Lim, who was a Chinese woman from Cumberland, British Columbia. Yuen was born in Canada but lost her British subject status when she married George and was then considered a Chinese national by the Canadian government.

George and Yuen relocated to Black Diamond, Alberta, located in the Turner Valley, and purchased a three acre plot of land. The couple opened a market garden where they had a greenhouse, some cattle and a small shingle mill. George drove his truck to various communities in the area to sell their produce. George and Yuen had eight children; Norman Yee (born October 20, 1942), James “Jim” Yee (born February 11, 1944), Dorothy Yee (born March 14, 1946), Rose Yee (born January 6, 1948), Tom Yee (born October 10, 1949), John Yee (born January 23, 1954), and Darlene Yee (born September 22, 1957). The family was one of three Chinese families in their town.

In 1958 George became a Canadian citizen. George died on January 27, 1978, almost 30 years before the Canadian government issued an official apology to the victims of the Head Tax and Chinese Immigration Act in 2006. Yuen received a $20,000 payment as the spouse of a payee. Yuen died on July 1, 2008.

James “Jim” Yee [囯伩] was born on February 11, 1944 to Joe Mun “George” Yee [桂倫 or 桂侕] and Yuen Yee (nee Lim) [悅园]. Jim was raised in Black Diamond, Alberta on his father’s market garden along with his siblings; Norman Yee [囯中], Dorothy Yee [美玲], Rose Yee, Tom Yee [囯楽], John Yee [囯明], and Darlene Yee. Jim was the second oldest among his siblings.

Jim was a member of the Royal Canadian Army Cadets and took part in a training camp in Millarville, before it moved to Black Diamond. In 1962 Jim served as a Canadian Army Transport Operator in the Royal Canadian Army Cadets. In 1963, Jim moved to Edmonton from Black Diamond and attended a vocational school.

Jim married Jenny “Gin” Wong on August 10, 1969. Together they had two children, Tim (born October 25, 1971) and Sueanne (born June 6, 1974). Throughout his life and career as a mechanic, Jim worked for various companies and organizations including Grosser Parts (1967-1967), Crosstown (1967-1971) Kingsway Toyota (1971-1979), and the City of Edmonton (1979-1999). Jim also received a range of certifications and certificates and was a landlord for an apartment building in Edmonton.

In 1971, Jim, along with his brother Tom and with financial support from his parents, bought 40 acres of land. On the acreage Jim and Tom built a duplex with a basement suite for their parents. The acreage was built by Jim and his siblings. In 1973 Jim and his family moved to the acreage. In 1990 Tom sold his part of the acreage to Jim. In 2001 Jim's brother John’s old house was moved onto the acreage and Jim, Jenny and their daughter Sueanne moved into the house.

Jim is a Christian and involved with the Edmonton Chinese Christian Church (ECCC) and was baptized in 1995. Following his retirement in 1999, Jim traveled. In 2006 Jim took part in the Redress of the Head Tax and Chinese Exclusion Act in Ottawa, Jim's father George was a payee. In the mid to late 2000s Jim and Jenny divorced. Jim continues to travel and enjoy his retirement.

Eva McKitrick was born in 1894 to Jane Timney and Austin Gordon McKitrick in Saddle Lake, Alberta. The family moved to Edmonton in 1906 and Eva attended McKay Avenue School. She graduated from the University of Alberta in 1922 and taught rural schools until the early 1940s when she returned to Edmonton.

Eva was widely recognized for her knowledge of Edmonton's history. She compiled an informative account of her family's experiences and she directed historical research for the Northern Alberta Pioneers and Old Timers Association, as well as serving on the Edmonton Historical Board. Eva was also an active member of the Knox Metropolitan United Church.

Eva McKitrick died 8 Dec 1993 in Edmonton.

Margaret Morgan Chappelle was born Margaret Ayling in 1915 to Edward and Mary Ayling. The Aylings moved to Edmonton shortly after Margaret's birth, where Edward Ayling worked for the John Deere Plow Company. He was a member of the Masons, and served as President of the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce.

In 1936 she married local doctor Gerard Chappelle, son of Walter Chappelle and Anna Nash. Mrs. Chappelle, an accomplished artist, was a long-standing member of the Alberta Society of Artists, the Federation of Canadian Artists, and president of the Edmonton Art Club. In 1947 Mrs. Chappelle trained in the University of Alberta's Fine Arts Department under H.G. Glyde and Jack Taylor. From an early age Margaret had a love of animals and nature that led to her becoming a civil activist in the 1960s. She was instrumental in halting the MacKinnon Ravine Freeway in 1965. This action also started the movement towards urban reform in the 1970s. In 1958 Dr. and Mrs. Chappelle were admitted to the Social Register of Canada Association. Mrs. Chappelle's paintings and ceramics were exhibited in many galleries across Canada. In 1962 she won the medal of honour for ceramics at the International Exposition of Contemporary Ceramics in Prague. Margaret Chappelle died on June 29th 1992 leaving her estate of $3.7 million to the Edmonton SPCA (now known as the Edmonton Humane Society).

Jordon Hon was born in 1995 in Edmonton to Jeannie Hon and Royce Hon. His parents immigrated from Hong Kong to Alberta at different times. His mother, Jeannie, in the early 1970's and his father, Royce, in the early 1980's. He has an older sister, Jordana Hon. Jordon attended the Mandarin bilingual school system at Caernarvon School and Dovercourt School then later Lynnwood Elementary School, Crestwood Junior High School, and Archbishop MacDonald High School.

Jordon went on to receive his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Alberta from 2013-2018 then worked full-time for the same university in the Office of the Registrar's Marketing and Communications department as a photographer and videographer from 2018-2022.

In April 2022, Jordon left his full time job at the university to start his own photography business, Be My Guest Portrait Studio Inc. and to work on community projects in Chinatown. Notable projects include A Portrait of Chinatown, a six part docuseries where Jordon deepened his relationship with his cultural heritage and home city by exploring Edmonton's Chinatown. Afterwards, Jordon worked with Chinatown Greetings to lead and curate a project showcasing photographs and short essays provided by eleven community members related to Chinatown in a project called Untouchable Chinatown.

Jordon uses a camera to document his relations, urban spaces, and cultural communities while also curating art projects and organizing local experiences to bring people together. Jordon believes in the power of art, specifically photography, to shed light on truths, archive moments in time, and spark radical imagination.

Yong Fei Guan is a Chinese Canadian artist-researcher who lives in Edmonton. The Living History of Gojis in Edmonton was her first bilingual book. Guan wrote it from 2020-2023, in conjunction with her Master of Fine Arts thesis at the University of Alberta.

Formally trained as an elementary school teacher in China, Guan taught Chinese in her hometown in Jiujiang, in Guangdong province for three years. After receiving her fine arts degree from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2014, Guan started to explore multicultural identity, politics and their relationship to environmental issues in her work. She has been involved in public and community art projects including 塑胶狮 Su Jiao Shi and 金猪 Golden Pig, in which she created public art installations made from plastic waste diverted from the landfill. She received the Waste Reduction Hero Award from the City of Edmonton in 2018 and the Edmonton Trust Fund Award in 2019 and 2021. Her artworks have been publicized in many media reviews and interviews including CBC Edmonton, Edmonton Journal, Edmonton Sun, CTV News Edmonton, Global News Edmonton and CKUA.