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Ernest W. Dunn was a resident of Rossland, B.C.

Henri Dumas (1877-1960), born in France, lived in Canada from 1904 to 1914. In 1904, he arrived in Winnipeg or Edmonton and became a cowboy. Working for the Revillons Freres fur company, he served on an expedition to Great Slave Lake. In 1907-1909, he was cutting wood fnear Edmonton, and eventually bought a ranch (Arifat Ranch) near Calgary. Around 1911 or 1912, he moved to North Vancouver, B.C., where he ran a carriage service that took sightseers to Capilano Canyon. (This business appears to have the B.C. Livery Feed and Sale Stable.) In 1914, he returned to France and was mobilized in Lyon.

Edmund Duchesnay was a civil engineer with the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Gordon Dubberley was born November 5, 1905 in Vancouver, B.C. He was a safety officer and photographer at Woodfibre, B.C. and died in Saanichton on November 18, 1986.

Ken Drushka was a researcher and author interested in tugboating in B.C.

Richard Low Drury was a Liberal party politician elected in Victoria in 1903. In 1908, he was sent to Japan to discuss immigration quotas for Japanese emigrants. He was also a newspaper editor at the Victoria Times, a newspaper owned by William Templeman.

A. Driscoll was a land surveyor employed by the federal government.

Edward Woodman White was born July 26, 1887 in Hamilton, Ontario, the son of Rev. James Henry White and Sarah Brooks. His family moved to New Westminster when he was a baby.

He attended the Ontario Agricultural College in Guelph, graduating in 1912. In the summer of 1911, along with fellow student E.A. Weir, White completed an agricultural survey in the northern valleys of British Columbia, between Prince Rupert and Fort George. They undertook this survey on behalf of the British Columbia Dept. of Agriculture.

He married Violet Latham in New Westminster in June 1916 and joined the Dept. of Agriculture as a staff member around 1917. He worked in the horticultural division for over 35 years and retired in 1952 as Supervisor Horticulturalist for Vancouver Island.

Edward White died in Victoria on November 22, 1962.

Captain G.M. Downton was a land surveyor from Lillooet, B.C.

Art Downs was a writer, publisher and editor for the "Cariboo Digest", "Northwest Digest" and "B.C. Outdoors".

Wellington Dowler was secretary-treasurer of the British Pacific Gold Property Company and City Clerk of Victoria.