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Descended from Irish, Roman Catholic stock, Declan Foley arrived via Chicago, in the newly settled community of Westport, Canada West, in the early 1850's. He soon established a general store and by the following decade, he had begun, along with several other family members, a thriving mercantile, forwarding, and pharmacy business. With his store located on the banks of Upper Rideau Lake, he was able to provide service to both the agricultural/lumbering and Rideau Canal shipping communities. For nearly seventy years D. Foley and Co. was an important member of Westport's commercial life.

John Protaise Foley, a son of Declan's, opened a law office in Westport, following his graduation from Osgoode Hall in Toronto. For over forty years he maintained a successful general practice, engaging primarily in real estate and estate law. Following his death in 1942, his sister Ursula carried on his affairs, and those of the general store for a lenghty period, as she slowly wound down both interests.

James Foley, a brother of John's, aspired to a clerkship in the Senate, in his early years. Over time his efforts were rewarded as he finally attained the position of Clerk of the Crown in Chancery for Canada, a post he held through the first two decades of the twentieth century. As such, his name appeared as the author of many publications dealing with federal elections and their attendant electoral maps.

Grant Foley is a photographer.

Roy S. Foley was born in Lansdowne, Ontario in 1887. He attended Kingston Collegiate Institute before entering Queen's University in the Faculty of Arts in 1905. He received his B.A in 1909, and a specialist certificate from the Faculty of Education in 1911. Mr. Foley was a teacher at a public school in Toronto until 1913 when he joined the staff of the Central Technical School as a teacher in the Department of English and Modern Languages. He served overseas in World War I from 1916-1918, then returned to teaching at the Central Technical School. He married Margaret Blanche Armstrong in 1919, and they had one son, Derwyn. In 1923, he received his M.A from Queen's. Mr. Foley was appointed the head of the English and Modern Languages Department at the Danforth Technical School in 1930, and remained there until his retirement in 1952. Roy S. Foley passed away on September 23, 1983.

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Kenneth Keith Forbes OC RCA (July 4, 1892 – 1980) was a portrait and landscape painter.

Born in Toronto, Ontario, Forbes was the son of John Colin Forbes, R.C.A. (1846–1925) a distinguished portraitist who painted such notable figures as William Gladstone, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and Sir Wilfrid Laurier. John Forbes' penultimate commission was the portraits of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra which were destroyed in the 1952 fire in the Parliamentary Library in Ottawa.

Kenneth Forbes studied first at the Newlyn School, Cornwall with Stanhope Forbes, where he won a four-year scholarship to the Hospitalfield House school, Arbroath, Scotland. He won a Chase Scholarship in London with a portrait sketch, and at 19 had a portrait accepted for exhibition at the Royal Academy. In all, twelve of Kenneth Forbes portraits were exhibited at the Royal Academy.

Forbes enlisted in the 10th "Pals" Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers in 1914 and was later commissioned from the ranks. He was wounded in action and gassed. Forbes ended his combat service as second in command of the 32nd Battalion, Machine Gun Corps. After being transferred to Lord Beaverbrook's Canadian War Memorials Fund in 1918, Forbes became an official Canadian war artist. Forbes was twice Mentioned in Dispatches for his service.

According to a Toronto newspaper report from April 1918, Forbes had recently received a commission from Lord Beaverbrook (Max Aitken) to paint a series of official war pictures at the front.

Forbes was also a successful amateur boxer, being light and middle weight champion of the University of London while attending the Slade School of Fine Art. He continued his boxing while in the army, becoming champion of the British Army's 111th Brigade.

In late 1918, Forbes married his wife Jean Mary Edgell, another art student, in London. They had a daughter, June Forbes McCormack

In 1953 Forbes resigned from the Ontario Society of Artists in protest against what he considered the unwarranted recognition and attention given to abstract and what was then called "modern art". In 1958 he resigned from the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts for the same reasons. He later published a short book, Great Art to the Grotesque with an introduction and biographical sketch by Roy Greenaway, as a full statement of his rejection of the artistic worth of abstract or "Modern Art".

In 1958, Forbes, Manley MacDonald, Victor Llewellyn Child, Gordon Roy Conn and others established the Ontario Institute of Painters as a body for traditional or "realist" artists. Members included Douglas Ferguson Elliott, J. R. Tate, and Marion Long.

Forbes was awarded the Thomas R. Proctor Prize for portraiture by the National Academy of Design, New York (Now known as the National Academy Museum and School) on two occasions: 1932 and 1939.

In 1967, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada "for his contributions to the arts as a landscape and portrait painter". In 1972 he had a book published, Great Art to the Grotesque.

Kenneth Forbes died in Toronto on February 25, 1980.