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Thomas Bailey and his wife, Isabella Dougla Bailey (nee Appleton), lived in Esquimalt. Thomas was chartered accountant and Isabella was a Sunday school teacher at Esquimalt United church. Thomas's father, Fred Bailey, worked as a timekeeper in the Dockyards. Thomas and Isabella's daughter, D.J. Bailey, married into the Munro family. Her husband was an electrician and she became a teacher at Bank St. Elementary. They had 4 children: Lynne, Bruce, Robert, John.

The Cramb family were residents of Esquimalt. George Douglas Cramb worked at Drydock and was a shipyard engineer and Assistant General Manager of Yarrows Limited.

The Emery family originally settled in the San Juan Valley (Port Renfrew, B.C.) ca. 1893 and later resided in Esquimalt. Anne Emery married Rev. J. C. Jackson. Her brother, Samuel Emery, worked for Yarrows Limited. Samuel married Zeno Marjorie Gladys Coldwell on 17 April 1930. They had two children: Zeno Anne (b. 1930) and William Arthur. Zeno Anne married Jack Fisher and had two sons. William Arthur (Bill), married Marilyn and had two sons.

John and Ethel Acreman were married in 1915 and resided in Esquimalt, B.C. with their children, Doris and Douglas. John Acreman was Esquimalt's Chief of Police from 1926 to 1930.

Walter was born in Victoria on February 10, 1919, and grew up in the community of Esquimalt. He served his country in the Second World War as a Flight Lt. in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Walter flew many missions in Tunisia, Egypt, Palestine and Italy with his Spitfire Squadron 225, and was decorated with the Distinguished Flying Cross by King George VI. After the war he returned to Victoria with his bride Gladys (Beard), where they raised their four children. (Source- Times Colonist).

The Locks ran the family business, Lock & Sons Meat Market at 939 Esquimalt Road, after WWII. Walter was elected to Esquimalt Council in 1962 and served for 8 1/2 years. Walter died on May 25, 2002.

Heather McPherson was the estate executor for Leigh Burpee Robinson and donated a image of the Robinson's home at 445 Admirals Road along with a hand-written poem by Leigh Burpee Robinson.

Leigh Burpee Robinson (L.B. Robinson) was an author and historian who wrote a history of Esquimalt (Esquimalt: Place of Shoaling Waters, 1948). She was born Leila Ada Burpee in New Brunswick in September 1882. She married Bertram Digby Robinson in Esquimalt in 1927. The couple lived in Esquimalt where Bertram Robinson was private secretary to Norman Yarrow of Yarrows Shipyard. Bertram Robinson died in 1953 and Leigh Burpee Robinson died in 1974. (Source - BC Archives)