NBBS was established on February 25, 1940 and aired radio programmes until April 1945.

Nicolas Wines was established in Paris in 1822 with a shop at 53 rue Sainte-Anne. They were the first French company to sell wine in bottles directly to the consumer and now have over 490 stores in France alone.

In November 1932, the company’s name was changed to Norddeutsche Rundfunk GmbH.

The Department of Public Instruction was founded in 1850. The Department of of Public Instruction was replaced by the Department of Education in 1876. In 1972, the Department of Education was renamed the Ministry of Education.

Pan Politae began as a Hi-Y club organized by twenty-five students at Kitchener Collegiate Institute, Kitchener, Ontario in 1937. Its purpose was to work with the Kitchener-Waterloo Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) in organizing boys' groups, to help with repairs and renovations at camps run by the YMCA, and to provide fellowship for their group with social and sports facilities of the YMCA. From 1941 to 1945, the club suspended activities until 1945 when it was re-organized as a Y's Men's club. For the next 28 years, Pan Politae supported many YMCA programs through fundraising and service. The 1970's saw an increase in YMCA membership and diversity of programming, while Y's Men's membership declined. In 1973, Pan Politae ceased operating as an active Men's Club.

The Parents' Information Bureau (PIB) was a clinic for family planning and birth control set up by A.R. Kaufman of the Kaufman Rubber Company in the 1930's in Kitchener, Ont. Kaufman became interested in birth control during the Great Depression after determining that seasonal employees with large families were disproportionately impacted by layoffs. He began offering family planning services to his employees, eventually extending them to anyone in Canada with the founding of the PIB. At its peak, the organization employed approximately 50 people in locations across the country who provided services to families in their homes, rather than at clinics. The model allowed families to order supplies by mail, receiving kits that included spermicides, condoms and information about purchasing additional items like diaphragms.

The Paulin-Chambers Company Limited, a biscuit manufacturer, was established in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1876 and was incorporated in 1899. Paulins (as the company was usually called) was acquired in 1926 by the Canada Biscuit Company Limited of London, Ontario.

The Canada Biscuit Company Limited's name changed to McCormick's Limited in 1935. McCormick was in turn acquired by George Weston Limited in 1937.

In 1972, a number of Weston-owned biscuit companies were amalgamated under the name InterBake Foods. At the time, InterBake Foods operated biscuit plants in London, Ontario (at the former McCormick's Limited factory) and Winnipeg, Manitoba (at the former Paulin's plant).

In 1989, InterBake Foods was sold to the Culinar, Inc., a firm in Montreal, Quebec.

The Paulin's plant in Winnipeg, Manitoba was closed by InterBake Foods in 1991 and production was moved to London, Ontario and to other Culinar-owned plants in Montreal, Quebec. In the mid-1990's, Culinar moved all biscuit manufacturing out of the plant in London, Ontario and into its Montreal-based factories.

Culinar Inc. was, in turn, sold to Saputo Inc., a company based in Montreal, Quebec in 1999.

Dare acquired Culinar's biscuit-related assets in 2001.

The Playwrights Union of Canada started at the Playwrights Circle in 1971 with the central mandate of preserving Canadian plays. Later it became the Playwrights Co-op in 1972 and also focused on publishing works by Canadian playwrights as well as handling rights of intellectual property for playwrights and organizing tours for promotion. By 1977, member established the Guild of Canadian Playwrights to promote the power of playwrights to lobby, negotiate and improve the status of Canadian playwrights' status domestically in Canada as well as internationally. The Playwright Union came about in 1984 with the merger of the Guild and the CO-op. BY 2002 the organization was transformed into the Playwrights Guild of Canada which mediates with the Professional Association of Canadian Theaters as well as printing and publishing plays.

The Poets Club was a group establish in London, England in 1908 by Henry Simpson and T.E. Hulme with the purpose of meeting to discuss poetry. The club also published four anthologies of poetry between 1908 and 1913.

The newspaper was founded in 1911 and ceased publication in 2010.

In 1874 Robert Forbes of Scotland purchased the Randall, Farr & Co. Woollen Mill on Queen St. West in Hespeler. The company was incorporated in 1888 as R. Forbes & Co. Ltd. with Robert's sons George and James serving as president and company director respectively. In 1895 with the passing of Robert and James, George took over full operation of the company building it into the largest textile mill in the British Commonwealth. George continued to lead the company until 1928 when it was sold to the Dominion Woollens and Worsteds Co. Ltd.

Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft (RRG) was established on May 15, 1925 as an umbrella organization by nine regional broadcasters. In 1931, the company was headquartered in the Haus des Rundfunks (House of Broadcasting) on Masurenalle in Berlin-Westend.

By 1934, the German government gained full control over the corporation. The RRG was nationalized by the Nazi government was used extensively by the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda under Joseph Goebbels to dictate radio programming.

On April 1, 1934 the regional broadcasting companies were incorporated as Reichssender. On 1 January 1939 the RRG was renamed Großdeutscher Rundfunk.

After the Invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, the former RRG became a vital instrument of wartime propaganda. From July 9, 1940 onwards, all Reichssender aired the same uniform nationwide program, which ended with the occupation of the Haus des Rundfunks by the Red Army during the Battle of Berlin on 2 May 1945.

James T. Relf (1847-1909) operated a photography business with his brother Will Relf and Arthur McKay from 1870 to 1880, before starting his own company in 1880.

Rotary International was begun by Paul Harris in Chicago on February 23, 1905. In 1912 the first Rotary Club was charted in Canada, in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Rotary Club of Kitchener was sponsored by the Rotary Club of Guelph in September 1922 as the Rotary Club of Kitchener and Waterloo. The first officers were: President- A.J. Cundick; Vice-President- T.A. Witzel; Secretary- H.M. Cook; Treasurer- P.V. Wilson; Sergeant at Arms- W.M.O. Lochead. Directors included C.A. Boehm, L.O. Breithaupt, P.E. Heeney, Jerome Lang and Oscar Rumpel. By the end of the first year the membership had grown to forty members. As of 2013 membership was sitting at 70 members.

The main project of the Rotary Club of Kitchener is the KidsAbility Centre, a Childrens Treatment Centre that serves children with a range of special needs. As well, the Rotary Club of Kitchener takes part in youth development programs, grants, a car draw fundraiser, a golf tournament, environmental protection projects, a children's Christmas party, the Rotary African Women's Education Fund, study exchange programs and more.

Since 1922 Rotary clubs have also been charted in Kitchener-Grand River, Kitchener-Westmount, Waterloo, Kitchener-Conestoga, Cambridge North, Cambridge Sunrise, and Preston Hespler.

Royal Air Forces Ex-P.O.W. Association was established in the 1950s by a small group of ex-prisoners of war who met occasionally at a pub in the Holborn district of London, England.

The Royal Canadian Air Force Association was formed by a government order-in-council in May 1948.

The Schneider Employees' Association (SEA) was established in 1945 after workers at the Schneider Foods plant voted to be represented by an internal employee association. At the time United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA) was also vying to represent the employees. Prior to the employee association being established, Schneider Foods was well known for its positive relationship with its employees and benefits including free meals, sick leave, and employee redistribution to help ensure everyone had a fair number of hours. The history of the SEA indicates that the Committee for Industrial Organizations (CIO) specifically targeted Schneider Foods for unionization because of this relationship, believing that if they could organize here where workers had an amiable relationship with their management, they would be able to organize anywhere. A group of 12 workers at Schneider Foods felt that an internal employee association would be better able to understand the needs of the workers than an outside organization and as such they drafted a proposed constitution and elected officers.

The original executive consisted of John Albrecht (president), Edwin Yanke (vice-president), Edwin Hurlbut (secretary) and Cecil James (treasurer). This employee association was sanctioned by the management and they began recruiting members. Almost one year after the SEA was established, workers at the plant voted to elect the SEA as the legal bargaining unit and the first meeting was held December 10, 1945. The first collective agreement was signed on September 23, 1946 granting employees a 12 cent per hour raise. In June of 1947 a hospital, medical and sick leave benefit plan was agreed to that covered employees as well as their families and in 1949 an employee pension plan was arranged. By 1956 there was some disagreement among employees as to whether the SEA was still the best choice, or if they should be represented by the United Packinghouse and Commercial Workers of America (UFCWA). A vote on April 4, 1956 saw the SEA continue to represent employees and negotiate a new two year agreement. Throughout the next few decades the agreement would be updated, and benefits changed, to keep in line with the changing needs of the employees, including equal pay for women workers in 1971.

During the mid 20th century there were more changes at the plant and to the agreements, including covering employees in Ayr, Wellesley, Thunder Bay, Manitoba, and Alberta. Throughout the years there was only one strike, in 1988, and relations between the employees and the company remained amiable through many changes in ownership after the Schneider family sold the company in 1997. In 2014 the Schneider Foods plant in Kitchener closed for good and the SEA ended after almost 70 years.

Stark Brothers Nurseries was founded in Louisiana, Missouri in 1816. They are known for popularizing the Golden Delicious varietal of apple and are the oldest continuously operating nursery in the United States.