Peter Hoover is the son of prominent Mennonite minister Anson Hoover (1920-2008) and his wife Sarah (Martin) Hoover (DOB: unknown; daughter of Leah: 1895-1974 and Manoah: 1899-1975 )[REF] He was born in Kitchener, Ontario as the sixth and last child of his parents.
In 2006, Hoover was featured on the American television program, Dr. Phil, for his involvement in an effort to find and recover the children of an American mother whose father was concealing them in a Christian community in Belize.