Born in Terrebonne, Quebec, in 1863, Fr. Dubois was one of the few French Canadian Oblates in the Southern Missions in the early days. He was ordained at St. Albert by Bishop Grandin in 1896 and passed away in St. Albert in 1949.

Born in Cardigan, Prince Edward Island, in 1884, Father Bowlen was ordained for the Calgary Diocese at St. Mary's Cathedral on September 8, 1915. He served as an assistant at the Cathedral for a year and then became the pastor at Oyen for seven years. For the rest of his priestly life in the Diocese, Father Bowlen served as the pastor at High River. In 1944, he became ill and passed away at the age of sixty while on sick leave in Prince Edward Island died in his sixtieth years

He was born in Drumheller in 1926. In 1946, he entered St. Joseph's Seminary in Edmonton and was ordained in Calgary in 1953 by Bishop Carroll. In 1969, he obtained a leave of absence for further study at the University of Ottawa, and in 1971, he applied for laicization.