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Bruce Whaley came from Toronto to Edmonton in the late thirties. He worked for Edmonton City Dairy until he and George F. Downes Jr., son of Magistrate George F. Downes, became partners in Sundown Brand (Selected Farm Products). Barbara May Large moved to Edmonton in February 1939 where she met and later married Bruce. She would stay in an apartment in Edmonton while Bruce worked all week at Sundown. Bruce and Barbara Whaley had a daughter, Deborah Bodiam, now living in Fergus, Ontario.

The "Beverly Advertiser" was a publication which advertised the services and goods of merchants in Beverly, a small town to the northeast of Edmonton, until it was annexed in 1963.

John Michael Wetherill was born 18 Sep 1932 in Birmingham, England. John moved to Edmonton and had a career with the Alberta Government in radiation health protection. John served as a music instructor and organist at St. Joseph’s Basilica for 38 years and was an accompanist for the Richard Eaton Singers.
He was an avid photographer who focused on photography projects in his retirement including the documentation of churches in the Edmonton area, (many of which he had played in), as well as other public buildings and spaces.
John Wetherill died 12 Oct 2009.

Westmount Presbyterian Church was founded in the Westmount neighbourhood of Edmonton in 1913. In 1988 it celebrated its 75th anniversary.

The Western Canada Mortgage Company (WCM) was incorporated in 1911 and involved in the mortgage business in Alberta and Saskatchewan. The company purchased the assets of Edmonton Home Builders in 1911 to expand its scope in real estate investment

However the company’s viability was affected by the collapse of the Canadian Agency in 1914. At that time the Western Canada Mortgage ended all active mortgage lending and concentrated on realizing its assets and paying out its bondholders.

In an effort to restructure his finances, H.M.E. Evans acquired the assets of the Great West Supply Company in 1921 and then the Edmonton Land Syndicate in 1926. This was done in part to help Western Canada Mortgage meet its financial commitments as well as assist in changing the company’s direction to more investment business.

Though the name Western Canada Mortgage was phased out in the early 1960s, it’s business was assumed by another Evans company, Hemevans Investment Limited.

In 1906, the Western Canada Land Company purchased some 500,000 acres of land from the Canadian Pacific Railway. This land was then offered for agricultural use to prospective farmers and settlers. In order to publicize the potential of the land that they offered, the W.C.L. operated a model farm in the Wabamun Lake district west of Edmonton. They also offered land that had been developed into ready-made farms, which utilized their corporate affiliation with other companies such as Western Homebuilders and Great West Supply Company. The future of W.C.L. appeared very bright when, in 1912, the company acquired the holdings of two other English-based land companies, Anglo-Canadian Lands and the Edmonton Land Syndicate.

However the W.C.L. suffered considerably when the Canadian Agency went into receivership in June of 1914. H.M.E. Evans, acting for both companies, was able to keep the W.C.L. Company active while selling off its vast real estate holdings.

Following his military career, W.A. West was the Programme Head, Advertising and Public Relations Programme of Grant MacEwan Community College, and was heavily involved in the preservation and commemoration of western Canada's military history.

West Edmonton Lodge No. 101 is a member of the Grand Lodge of Alberta, A.F.& A.M., G.R.A. The head office is located in Calgary, AB. The Lodge met in the Freemason's Hall of Edmonton (100 Avenue west of 103 Street). The Lodge was constituted on October 3, 1917, originally located in a community hall in the Calder area. The original members were made up of staff working in the Grand Trunk Railway yards in Calder, which ultimately became part of the Canadian National Railway.

Freemasonry is a world-wide fraternity of men which originated from the old craft Masons who were responsible for the construction of many of the churches and castles in the United Kingdom and Europe in the past centuries. In the early 1700s they began to accept non-craftsmen as members and a number of those Lodges agreed to combine to form the original Grand Lodge of Masons in London, England. As those members began to migrate to other countries, they took their ideals with them and formed new lodges around the world.

Jack K. Weir was born in Alberta on May 17, 1910 to Hester Weir. Jack was married to his wife Vera Weir (née Abram) and together they had a daughter Irene and a son Ralph. Jack Weir was a long time resident of Edmonton.
Jack died on April 9, 2007 in Edmonton.

George Weber was born in Munich, Germany in 1907. As a draughtsman, he trained in wallpaper design and display. He immigrated to Canada in 1929 and first settled in Toronto. He worked as a wallpaper designer and studied composition, colour and commercial silkscreen at the Ontario College of Art. He moved west during the Depression, working on farms before moving to Edmonton AB, where worked as a commercial printer for the Hamly Press and Reliable Printing. Weber lectured on the silkscreen process (serigraphy) at the University of Alberta in 1948 and in the early 1950s led workshops at the Edmonton Art Gallery.
He was a founder of the Edmonton branch of the Canadian Painters and Etchers and served as president of the Federation of Canadian Artists. Weber was one of the first Canadian artists to use silk-screening techniques as a fine art form. His silkscreen prints and watercolours became increasingly popular in the 1970s and 1980s.
In 1985 his serigraph of Moraine Lake was chosen by Canada Post for the $2.00 stamp commemorating the centennial of Canada's National Parks. He was represented by Canadian Galleries and ARTrageous Gallery in Edmonton, AB, and Canadian Native Prints in Vancouver, B.C. In 1976 he received the Edmonton Historical Board’s Recognition Award for his sketches and watercolours of historic buildings and sites in Edmonton.
He married Doris Evelyn ? and they had three children, Evelyn, Donna and Carol.
George Weber died on 26 Apr 2002 in Edmonton, Alberta.