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Arthur Stewart came to Saanich from Scotland in the early 1900s. A contractor and mason, he built many houses in the Quadra and Tattersall areas. He worked on the Empress Hotel and Carnegie Library and completed the cenotaph in Vancouver after his brother, also a stonemason, was killed during its construction. He started the Lakehill jitney and bus service which ran from Fort and Douglas to the Pumping Station at 3940 Quadra. Arthur died in 1938.

Charles Gordon Stuart was born in Napier, New Zealand in 1862. He was an engineer who came to Canada in the mid-1890s. In 1905, he married Jane Tetlow (nee Armstrong), a widow with a four-year-old daughter named Neva. He retired with his family to a house in Cadboro Bay in 1912. Charles Gordon Stuart died in Cadboro Bay in 1935, and Jane Stuart died in 1937. They are both buried in Colwood Burial Park. Their daughter, Mrs. Neva Elizabeth Gray, inherited the family home in Cadboro Bay and continued to own it until 1968. She died in 1970. The house at 3927 Cadboro Bay Road, now demolished, was on the Saanich Heritage Register.

George and Grace Swan were residents of 3937 Blenkinsop Road in the 1930s. Grace Swan died in 1976 at age 90, and George Swan died in 1983 at age 97.

Thomas Arthur (d. 1939) and Catherine Ellen (Bernard) Nicholson (d. 1947) were immigrants from England. By 1912 they were living in the Royal Oak area of Saanich with their daughter Nellie Muriel Nicholson (d. 1979), and they later moved to Sidney. Their son and daughter-in-law, Arthur Nevil and Molly Nicholson, lived in Saskatchewn where Nevil served as a Sergeant Major in the RNWMP. Molly died in 1916, and Nevil was killed in a Mounted Police training exercise in 1917. Their other son, Thomas Gordon Nicholson, served with the 231st Battalion C.E.F. during WW1, and eventually moved to Australia.

See Tod Inlet Boating Association

The Tod Inlet Boating Association was formed in 1946, when its first slate of officers was elected. Its purpose was the installation, operation, maintenance and repair of boating facilities for Association members. This was later expanded to include the public. Throughout its history, the Association averaged 30 members at a time. The Tod Inlet Boating Association had a lease agreement, renewed annually, with the British Columbia Cement Company Limited which granted access to Tod Inlet as well as mooring privileges. Later ownership companies included Ocean Construction Supplies Limited, B.A.C.M. Development Corporation Limited and Genstar Development. Uncertainty during the 1970s about possible development of the lands frequently called the future of the Association into question. The rental agreement between the Association and Genstar was terminated by the latter in 1981 due to a prospective purchase of the land. As a result, the Tod Inlet Boating Association membership agreed to formally dissolve the organization under the Societies Act but continued as an informal club into the 1990s, sending representatives to the Gowlland / Tod Park Lands Advisory Group in 1995.