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As a young girl, Marion Barrie and Eleanor Taylor took a plane ride with a barnstorming pilot at a North Dumfries plowing match. Eleanor met her future husband, Roger Hadfield, in Frank Ferguson’s class at GCI. They are the parents of astronaut Chris Hadfield.

One of the greatest athletes in Canadian history, Syl Apps was an Olympic pole vaulter and Commonwealth Games champion and legendary captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Walter Barrie was part of the pioneering Barrie family who came from Scotland in the 1830s. He became a cowboy in the west, taking part in cattle drives from the American southwest to Canada.

John Bayne, who came from Scotland in 1835, was an influential presbyterian minister in Galt who broke with the Church of Scotland in 1843., and formed the Free Church in Canada.

R.A. Briscoe was a successful businessman in Galt, but he received some unwanted publicity following the disappearance, and murder, of his lover, Emma Orr, in the summer of 1897.    

Blair author Jessie Beattie wrote A Rope in the Hand about ship captain and  founder of F.J. Brown & Son, utilizing the diaries, memoirs and Letters of Captain Francis J. Brown (1877-1909).