Brother XII was born Edward Arthur Wilson in Birmingham, England, into a religious family. He was a sailor who turned up in B.C. by the late 1920s. Believing he was in touch with an ancient Egyptian spirit who named him Brother XII, he created the Aquarian Foundation in 1927.

David Alexander Snow, an eccentric antiques dealer from Orangeville went on a two week crime spree of kidnapping, rape, robbery and violence, before being apprehended by North Vancouver RCMP on July 12, 1992.