The Irish Sons who went to Canada

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During my recent visit to Northern Ireland, my 90 year old relative handed on to me this photo of my great grandparents William & Eliza Mewhort with their five sons and daughter, taken about 1895 to 1900.
William Mewhort was a descendant of a Dutch or Brandenburg soldier who had come to Ireland to support Prince William of Orange in the Williamite campaign in 1688 to 1691. He and his wife moved to Scotland - census records show they lived in Renfrew by 1881. He died in 1913 and is buried in Arkleston Cemetery, Renfrew. My grandfather, John, leftmost in the back row remained in Scotland, while his four brothers all emigrated to Canada. Bill never married, but Tom, Dan and James between them produced 19 children, so my mother had many Canadian cousins, who in turn produced many more children and grandchildren.
Perhaps the best known to Canadian x-markers will be Dan's oldest son, Daniel, born 1907, co-author of the school textbooks, Mathematics for Canadians, by Mewhort and Godbold. When he retired in 1972 he was Associate Director of Education to the Toronto Board of Education. He died of cancer, aged 82, on 6th July, 1989.