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Richard Grenville Rice was born on August 10, 1888 in Derby, England to George Rice and Constance Hardwick. He was already married to wife Gladys E. Evans when he enlisted at age 28 in the Engineer Training Depot of the C.E.F. at Victoria on December 4, 1916. On his Attestation Papers he listed his occupation as draughtsman, living at 2559 Vancouver Street in Victoria. Rice served in France with the 1st Bn. C.E. and was discharged on April 16, 1919. He was a draftsman for the E&N Railway and then for the BC Department of Public Works. He was co-architect (with Karl Spurgin) of the Saanich War Memorial Health Centre (4353 West Saanich Road) built in 1920 and was the artist of the Saanich WWI Honour Roll. After the war, Rice lived with his wife and children Hilda and Richard H. at 1325 Finlayson Street in Victoria until moving to Seattle ca. 1923 in order to pursue architectural work. Richard Grenville Rice died on June 7, 1941 in Seattle.

Born in Saanich in 1918, Leslie (Lee) Kellow grew up with eight brothers and sisters in Cordova Bay. His parents, Alfred and Jessie Kellow, owned a small farm in the Sunnymead area. Leslie attended Royal Oak Elementary School, and graduated from Mount Douglas High School in 1936. In 1939, he enlisted with the Royal Air Force and left for training in England. For several years Leslie repaired Lancaster Bombers, then was sent for flight training at the South African Air Force training facility at Kimberley, South Africa. Assigned to the 49th Squadron in Lancashire, England he earned the rank of Pilot Officer. On March 30, 1944, Leslie Kellow died when his plane was shot down during a bombing mission over Nuremberg, Germany.

John Robb Tolmie Andrews was born on June 1, 1923 in Vancouver to Leonard Robb Andrews and Jane Florence Alison Tolmie (daughter of Simon Fraser Tolmie). As a child, he spent a number of years living at Cloverdale, home of the Tolmie family. Simon Fraser Tolmie was his grandfather. J.R.T. Andrews became a Forester, studying at the University of Toronto and Yale University. He married Helen Catherine Mary Holmes on June 11, 1949 in St. James United Church, Ottawa. They had one child, Jeanne Lou Andrews, born on July 25, 1950 in Ottawa. J.R.T. Andrews died on December 22, 2008 in Vancouver. Daughter Jeanne did not marry or have children. She died in Ottawa on August 5, 2017.

Thomas Russell was a teenager when he arrived in Victoria in 1853 aboard the Hudson's Bay Company ship Norman Morison. He married Sarah Collier. In 1865, Thomas Russell was appointed teacher at Craigflower School, the third in the school's history. A year later, he left his teaching position and moved to Victoria where he opened a grocery. Thomas Russell's subsequent occupations were superintendent of the Queen Charlotte Mining Company; assessor for the City of Victoria; and accountant in both Washington State and Victoria.

Marion Isabel Rousay Underwood was born in Prince Rupert, BC on March 23, 1922. Her parents, Mary (nee Baxter) and Thomas Mowat Rousay, were born in Scotland. Her parents met and married after immigrating to Canada after World War I. When her father was killed in 1930, the family moved to Victoria. Marion moved to Saanich in the 1940s and lived in the municipality from then on. Marion attended Tolmie School and Mount View High School in Saanich. During World War II, she began working at the Dockyard in Esquimalt and continued to work there for 27 years. In 1952, she married Saanich resident Ghazi Underwood. The couple purchased 65 acres on West Saanich Road, and over the years, they built a number of houses on the site. Marion lived in their home at 5172 West Saanich Road until her death in [2018]. She bequeathed 1.95 hectares of her property to the District of Saanich to be used as a natural park.

Nine years after the death of William George Bradshaw, his wife Sarah Payne Windsor Bradshaw left Placentia, Newfoundland on July 24, 1907 with her children for Victoria. Albert Bradshaw, Sarah's brother-in-law, accompanied the family on the journey. Her brother, Augustus Windsor, built a new home for her and her family in the Mount Tolmie area of Saanich. The family resided at 3701 Palo Alto Street until 1950.

Daughter Ethel May Bradshaw studied shorthand, typing, and bookkeeping in 1909. She briefly worked in the B.C. Hardware office and then at Coles & Oddy's. In 1910, Ethel took a stenographer position in Jordan River with the B.C. Electric of Vancouver Power Company. The following year she became engaged to Leonard Claude Lytton. She returned to Victoria and worked at the local B.C. Electric Company office. Ethel and Claude were married at St. Luke's Church on September 17, 1912 and approximately one month later moved into their new home "Oakdale" at 1941 Connaught Avenue (now Ernest Avenue). They had five children: Gerald Bradshaw (1913), Evelyn Margaret (1914), Brian Claude (1918), Roger (1923), and Beatrice Joyce (1927). Beatrice Joyce (known as Joyce) attended St. Margaret's School. She later married A.D. Wheeler.

Arthur Eben Lewis (1866-1947) was born in Hasting, Ontario. He married Silena Hull (1873-1957) in in Cardston, Alberta in 1895, before coming to live at 1145 Rock St, Saanich. Silena and Arthur had five children together: Mary Louisa (1896-1978), Ethel Kathleen (1897-1899), Frederick Roberts (1899-1924), Arthur Eben Jr. (1900-1984) and Ella Elizabeth (1905-1993). Arthur Eben Jr. attended Queen's university, where he studied medicine and was an avid football and rugby player. Frederick was a teacher at Princeton, but died young in a train incident in 1924. Mary Louisa was a teacher who taught in England between 1935-1940, before coming back and marrying William H. Muncy of James Bay. Ella Elizabeth (donor's mother) was a teacher who taught at Lansdowne and Richmond Ave Elementary.

The District of Saanich was incorporated on March 1, 1906. The first meeting of Saanich Council was held on Saturday March 10, 1906. Thomas Brydon served as the Municipality's first Reeve. In 1908, Saanich was divided into six (and later seven) administrative wards. Each ward had a representative on council, and the Reeve was elected at large. The ward system was abolished in 1949. Ward 6 seceded from the District of Saanich in 1950 to form the District of Central Saanich. The District of Saanich celebrated its centennial in 2006.

The Royal Oak War Agricultural Committee (later the Saanich Peninsula Farm Labour Committee) was formed in response to a shortage of farm labour on the Saanich Peninsula during the Second World War.  The first meeting was held at the Royal Oak Institute Hall April 15, 1943, and was attended by both farmers in need of laborers and government officials from the Emergency Farm Labour Service.  It was to be a Dominion and provincially-subsidized emergency farm labour service. In the initial stages, the committee decided to employ conscientious objectors, school children over 14 years of age, and armed forces men on leave. The farmers were to set the wages. The first chairman was H.C. Oldfield who held this position for many years. Saanich Municipal Hall on West Saanich Road became the Committee's headquarters, moving to Vernon Avenue when the new Hall was completed in 1965.  The workers were transported each day to their employers on a special bus. Mount Newton High School was used as a hostel for pickers during summer vacations. The total number of farm workers placed each year by the committee rose rapidly in the early years, from 767 in 1943 to 1163 in 1947.  In 1962 the name of the group was changed to the Saanich Peninsula Farm Labour Committee, and during that year the Sidney office was closed. By the early 1970s, there were fewer farms and no special subsidized transportation of farm workers. In 1975, the Committee ceased operations.