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Dora Alice Sly was a patient at the Mountain Sanatorium for six months in 1940. She was born on May 15, 1913 and graduated as a nurse from Brockville Ontario Hospital in 1936. She worked at the Woodstock Ontario Hospital when it opened in 1940. She contacted Tuberculosis and was sent to the Mountain Sanatorium for treatment. She married Walter Gilbert on August 30, 1946 and they had two children together: George Edward and Sandra Elizabeth. After her husband passed away in 1955, she returned to work at the Oxford Regional Centre until her retirement in 1978. She passed away in 1984.

William Frederick Slater was born in Birmingham, England on September 2nd, 1908, to James and Julia Slater. When he was about 6 years old, his father was called up for service in the First World War and lost his life due to injuries from shrapnel. Slater started education at a grammar school in Chester, England, and, at the age of 14, he went to Canada, where he attended high school at Copetown and Hagersville along with his cousin. After graduation from high school, he worked at different jobs in Hagersville as a truck driver, a staff in a bakery and a worker in a stone quarry. In the meanwhile, he taught himself sociology and economics, getting acquainted with the intellectuals and philosophy of the left-wing politics. He also volunteered at the office of The Daily Worker (later The Clarion), the communist newspaper at that time.

With the outbreak of Spanish Civil War, Slater left for Spain in July 1937. He went from Toronto to La Harve, from La Harve to Paris, and Paris to Perpignan, marching over the Pyrenees and finally reached Figueras, an old fortress in the north of Spain. Along with other 95 or so volunteers, he was assembled at Albacete, the headquarter of the International Brigade. Due to his ability to drive and speak Spanish, he was kept around Albacete as an ambulance driver, serving for the 15th Division Service Sanitaire. Slater returned to Canada on 11 February 1939 and was later involved with the MacPap Veterans Association.

Slater passed away in 1982.

Harold Nathan Segall was born in Jassy, Romania on October 17, 1897, to Fischel Segall and Craina Solomon under the Hebrew name Chain Nissin Segall. In 1990, he migrated to Canada with his family, living in the French-Canadian district in Montreal. He received medical training at the McGill medical school from 1915 to 1920 and served as an assistant curator at McGill for a year after graduation. He worked briefly in the Department of Pathology at McGill before leaving for Boston, where he worked with Dr. James H. Means ‘s thyroid clinic as an assistant and later worked for Paul White and Starling in cardiology. Funded by the Libman Fellowship, Dr. Segall went to Europe in1924, during which period of time he traveled to London, Vienna and Paris, obtaining specialized training and clinical experience in cardiology. In 1926, Dr. Segall returned to Montreal. Appointed as an assistant demonstrator in medicine at McGill, he participated in the establishment of the cardiac clinic at the Montreal General Hospital, one of Canada's first cardiac clinics. In late 1920’s, Dr. Segall opened cardiac clinics at the Herzel Dispensary and the Women's General Hospital (later Reddy Memorial Hospital). From 1928 to 1929, Dr. Segall was involved in the campaign of building a Jewish hospital and later became one of the chiefs of the hospital. from 1934 on, Dr. Segall concentrated his activities at the Jewish General Hospital, where he ran the largest cardiac clinic in the city and gave extensive courses in cardiology to general practitioners. He was also the first in Canada to have an official post-graduate course in electrocardiography, which promoted the use of portable electrocardiographs in Canada.

As Montreal's first fully trained cardiologist and the leader of cardiology, Dr. Segall contributed to the profession in many capacities. He acted as an assistant Professor at the Montreal General Hospital in clinical medicine from 1949 to 1960, becoming the first Jew in the hospital to rise to the position of lecturer and then the associate in medicine. He served as the secretary of the Montreal Clinical Society for a number of years and became the president of the Montreal Clinical Society in 1937. He was actively involved in the founding of the Montreal Cardiac Society in 1946, the Canadian Heart Association in 1947, the Canadian Heart Foundation, and the Quebec Heart Foundation and became the president of the Canadian Heart Association, the Montreal Cardiac Society, and the Quebec Heart Foundation, as well as vice-president of the Canadian Heart Foundation. Dr. Segall also took a strong interest in medical history and published many works on the history of his field, including Pioneers of Cardiology in Canada, 1820-1970: The Genesis of Canadian Cardiology. He was made the honorary president of the McGill's Osler Society twice and was a curator of McGill's Osler Library of the History of Medicine.

Dr. Segall married Dorothy Violet Caplin (Dolly) in Montreal in 1934, with whom he had two children: Carol Tova Segall (born 15 Nov. 1934) and Jack Oba Segall (born 20 Nov. 1936). Dr. Segall died in 1990 in Montreal at the age of 92.

Ronald Schofield was born in Lancashire, England in 1912 and immigrated to Canada in 1928 to join his father and brother. In 1931 Schofield travelled around the country to work in government camps with the many other unemployed men affected by the Great Depression. In 1935, Schofield participated in the “On-to-Ottawa trek”, a mass protest movement organized by restless relief camp workers. This event is widely recognized as helping to unseat Prime Minister R.B. Bennett’s Conservative government in the next election.

When the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936, Schofield became interested in the plight of the Spanish people and feared, like many others, that the conflict could ignite another World War. He vowed to get involved and in spring of 1937, travelled to Spain as part of the International Brigades. Schofield first served as an infantryman until a slight wound and bout of anemia landed him in a convalescent hospital near Madrid, Spain. When the hospital’s quartermaster post became vacant, Schofield filled it and stayed on for three months until the hospital was shut down. He was then sent to Teruel, Spain to join the Canadian Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion. In summer 1938, Schofield took a two-week first aid course and became a first aid man, stretcher-bearer, and grave digger.

After the dissolution of the International Brigades when the Civil War ended, Schofield and other soldiers were kept for some time and interviewed in Ripoll, Spain, near the French border. The Americans and English were sent home, but the Canadians were not. It was only because he was suffering from acute dysentery and his status as a British citizen that Schofield was allowed to leave for England. He remained there for three months convalescing before he was given passage back to Canada.

Earle Parkhill Scarlett was born in High Bluff, Manitoba in 1896 to Reverend Robert A. Scarlett and Alma Parkhill Scarlett. In 1906, the family moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba. Scarlett left home at the age of 15 and made his way by teaching summer school. He entered Wesley College (now the University of Winnipeg) at 16 where he pursued his Bachelor of Arts. During this time, he served as editor of the college journal, Vox Wesleyana. After receiving his Bachelor of Arts in 1916, Scarlett joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force and fought in WWI, becoming severely wounded in the Battle of Arras. Following his time in the military, Scarlett decided to study medicine and enrolled at the University of Toronto. While there, he fostered his passion for academic journals, founding and editing the first undergraduate medical journal in North America, the University of Toronto Medical Journal. Scarlett achieved his Bachelor of Medicine in 1924 and that same year he married Jean Odell, with whom he went on to have three children, Robert, Elizabeth, and Katherine.

After graduation, Scarlett did his postgraduate work and fellowship at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan from 1925-27. He was then an associate professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the State University of Lowa from 1927-30. In 1930, Scarlett moved back to Canada, settling in Calgary, Alberta where he joined the Calgary Associate Clinic as a specialist in internal medicine. From 1931-51, he conducted sexual education classes for high school boys through the YMCA, the first venture of its kind in the city. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada in 1932 and a fellow of the American College of Physicians in 1946. Along with his Clinic colleague Dr. George Stanley, Scarlett founded the Historical Bulletin, a quarterly medical history journal, which ran from 1936-58. Scarlett served as president of the Calgary Associate Clinic as well as a senior consultant in medicine at Colonel Belcher Hospital, both from 1947-58.

Dr. Earle Parkhill Scarlett received honorary doctorates from the University of Toronto, the University of Alberta, and the University of Calgary. Scarlett was a prolific writer, authoring more than 450 papers, articles, monographs, and book contributions. He died in 1982 at the age of 86.