James Barker (1851-1943) and Amelia Crumbach (1854-1925) married in 1875 and arrived in Victoria in 1887. Amelia (Crumbach) was an experienced midwife and often assisted in the births of neighbours children. They had 7 children including: Amelia (1881-1957), William James and David (twins, b. 1877), James Henry (b. 1885). In 1894, they purchased 20 acres on Wellington Road (now Hastings Street) in Strawberry Vale, naming it Hollyhedge Farm. The farmhouse (current address 1335 Roy Road) was moved to Hollyhedge from the site of the old Christ Church Cathedral in Victoria.
Daughter Amelia Barker lived at the farm house until her death. William James Barker married Christina Scafe in 1899 and had 5 children, settling near the family farm on Holland Avenue. William worked as a blacksmith as well as a farmer and later started a prosperous dairy farm. He also purchased 35 acres on old West Saanich Road in 1911. James Henry Barker went to England and met Edith Anne (nee Mann) whom he married in 1913. They moved to Strawberry Vale. Later, they moved to Saanich and farmed the Mathew farm. In 1919, they bought the Scafe property, and James Henry helped John Scafe make a trail to the Highland Elementary School on Millstream Road. James Henry and Edith had two children, Kathleen and Richard. Richard married Martha in 1941.

The View Royal Airport was a small operation that accommodated float planes flying in and out of Limekiln Cove. The administrative building for the airport was located at 327 Stewart Ave. The planes often travelled between Vancouver, Seattle, and View Royal. They transported a variety of clientele, from celebrities to prisoners.

Tom Seymonsbergen designed the original View Royal town logo. Originally living in Amsterdam, he was a very talented artist and worked for a top advertising firm in Holland until WWII. He served in the army, eventually becoming Master Sgt. for the American Army. After the war he and his family moved to Canada, eventually landing in Victoria in 1958 where he continued his career in art. Besides designing View Royal logo, he also designed the crest for the Times Colonist.

Brian Barker is a descendant of the Barker family.

Susan Bowes is the daughter of Merlin Thomas Earle (nicknamed "Fat") and Peggy Atkinson. Their family lived at 286 Island Hwy. M.T.E. Atkinson developed the Glenairlie neighborhood in View Royal, and named the streets after Susan (Suzanne Place), and her two brothers, Glen (Glenairlie Drive) and Brian (Brian Place).

Nina Joy Cooke was born in Edmonton, AB. She married Rod Trail and had four children. She was a prolific writer of poems, newspaper columns, and magazine articles. She also volunteered with the View Royal Ratepayers and Community Association, as well as the View Royal Library.

Winona McKeage's parents were Fred (b. 1819) and Maria (nee Manley) (1819-1954) Bennett, who moved to Canada from England in 1911. They then moved to Quincy Street in View Royal in 1915. Winona married William Thomas McKeage (1877-1966) in 1939 in Vancouver. They later moved to her parents house on Quincy Street. They operated Seaside Farm in Sooke, BC. Winona later became a realtor in Victoria for many years. Winona was sister to Marguerite Chandler.

John Forsythe (d. 1905) and Lizzie (nee Denham, d. 1912) Chandler moved to Victoria in 1878 and settled in the Colquitz neighbourhood of Saanich on Wellington Road (now Hastings Street) near Interurban Road and North Road. John was an accountant for the Hudson's Bay Company and Lizzie was a teacher at Cedar Hill and Central Schools. They had three children, Earle (1883-), Roy Dunsterville (1885-1980) who married Marguarite Winnifred Brooke Bennett (1898-1975), and Rena (1889-) who married George Bryson Patenaude in 1912. Before the war, Roy and Earle had a successful real estate business.
During World War I, Roy served in the Army overseas for 5 years. After the war, Roy and Marguerite had 3 children: Peter (b. 1924), Louise (b. 1927), and Daisy (b. 1932). The familiy initially lived on Wilkinson Road, Victoria in the home built by Roy's parents in 1890. Roy worked as a foreman at Layritz nursery for a time, but due to the traumas he experienced during the war, Roy suffered from PTSD. This prompted the family to move to a farm in the Comox Valley to escape the stresses of city life. By the end of 1941 the family moved to View Royal, settling at 19 Eaton Avenue.

Fred Jones Holland (1869-1954) from Oswestry, Shropshire, England, married Aurina (Rena) Renhardt Primrose (b. 1871) from Ferry Port on Craig, Fife, Scotland, in Victoria, BC on November 14, 1895. Daughter (Annie) Rena was born in Victoria on August 25, 1896. Son Fredrick James was born December 17, 1897 and died on March 19, 1898. The family moved to the Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, arriving on the S.S. Mabel F. ca. 1900. Fred operated the Montague Roadhouse in Whitehorse from 1904-1907. The family returned to Victoria, BC ca. 1908 and may have lived at 1409 Camosun Street. Daughter Velda Jones Primrose was born in Victoria, BC on October 2, 1909 (d. 2002) and did not marry. The family moved to 1315 Camosun Street and lived there from 1910-1954. Son Charles Edward was born in British Columbia in 1911 (d. 2000) and married Lila Margaret McNab (1915-2005) on August 14, 1945 in Victoria, BC. Rena married Ernest Archibald Hunt (1893-1966) on April 10, 1921 in Victoria, BC. They had two children, Rod and Linda. Rena remarried in 1967 to John Herbert Shouldice (1911-1971) in Victoria, BC.