Ontario-born Dan McPhee (b. ca. 1886) moved to the Dunster area in the early 1920s. A licensed log scaler, he worked for local mills, and sold hay to their horse-logging operations.

Mary Adeline Amelia McPhee (b. Alexandria, Ontario, 1895, d. McBride, 1962) was resident of Dunster since the late 1920s, when she came west to join her brother, Dan McPhee, at the Dunster farm.