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John Patterson was a member of the Muskoka Lakes Association between 1980 and 1994 and acted as president between 1990 and 1992. John acted also as a Muskoka Lakes Association Director between 1985 and 1986 as 2nd Vice-President and Taxation. He was a member of the Canadian Coalition on Acid Rain between 1982 and 1983.
E Palmer Patterson II is a writer and former faculty member at the University of Waterloo and St. Jerome's University.
Patterson was born in 1927 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His history PhD thesis focused on the life and career of Andrew (Andy) Paull. He briefly taught in the United States before moving to Canada in 1962 to accept a faculty position at St. Jerome's University. He taught there until 1964, at which time he transferred to the University of Waterloo where he taught courses in the Department of History.
Patterson's research and the courses he taught focused on the history of Indigenous peoples in Canada and the American south during the post civil war period. He wrote a number of publications about Indigenous peoples in Canada for academic journals as well as textbooks for elementary and secondary school children in Ontario and British Columbia. One of his most notable works remains, "The Canadian Indian: a history since 1500," published between 1971-1972.
Patterson married his wife Nancy-Lou in Seattle, Washington on June 10, 1951. Together they raised eight children.
Louise Evelyn Breithaupt was born June 11, 1882, in Berlin (later Kitchener), Ontario, the first child of Louis Jacob Breithaupt and Emma Alvarene Devitt. She had six siblings: Emma Lillian; Martha Edna; Rose Melvina; Louise Orville; William Walter; Catherine Olive and Paul Theodore. She married Doctor John Roland Parry of Dunnville October 31, 1906 and the couple lived in Hamilton, Ontario. They had four children: Margaret Magdalen, Emma Elizabeth, Rosa Evelyn and Louis John. Louise died in Hamilton October 20, 1939. Husband John died August 27, 1956.
John Roland Parry was a Canadian physician. He was born June 13, 1879 in Dunville, Ontario to John Parry and Margaret Jane Gailbraith. He married Louise Evelyn Breithaupt on October 31, 1906. The couple live in the Hamilton area and had four children: Margaret Magdalen; Emma Elizabeth; Rosa Evelyn and Louis John. John died in Hamilton on August 27, 1956 and was interred at the Hamilton Cemetery.
Educator James Hoyes Panton was born in Ontario and moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba in the early 1880's. He was a member of the Manitoba Historical Society and collected geological specimens throughout the province. In 1884 he returned to Ontario to be professor of Geology and Natural History at the Ontario Agricultural College (University of Guelph) where he remained until 1897. He died February 2, 1898.
John Panabaker is the former President of the Mutual Life Assurance Company of Canada. Panabaker attended McMaster University where he received his B.A. Hons in Political Economy (1950) and his M.A. in Political Economy (1954). After leaving McMaster he began working for the Mutual Life Assurance Company of Canada where he would eventually be named President (1973) and later CEO (1982-1985). He retired from Mutual Life in 1989.
Panabaker has also been involved with a number of organizations in Kitchener-Waterloo and nationally including serving as Chairman of the Board of the Canadian Life and Health Assurance Association, as a trustee of the Toronto School of Theology, as president of the Kitchener-Waterloo Community Foundation, and as a director of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra Association. Panabaker was also the Chancellor of McMaster University from 1986-1992 and holds honorary degrees from McMaster, Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo. In 1990, Panabaker was made a member of the Order of Canada.
Dorothea Palmer was born 1908 in England. She had some training in a hospital in England. She was employed as a nurse by the Parents' Information Bureau of Kitchener, Ont. to visit homes of those known to be poor or relatively poor, and to offer to needy mothers the opportunity of applying for certain contraceptive materials. Miss Palmer was arrested at Eastview, an Ottawa suburb, as she was leaving the home of a French Roman Catholic family which was on relief and had a large number of children. The mother had telephoned Miss Palmer and asked her to call. Miss Palmer was arrested on the charge of distributing birth control information and contraceptive devices. The trial occupied nineteen days of testimony and four of argument, and during which forty witnesses were examined. The case was a remarkable one in that the decision overruled religious and medical objections to the dissemination of birth control information. She was acquitted March 17, 1937 after a trial that extended over a period of six months. The Crown appealed the case which was heard on the 1st and 2nd of June 1937, by the Court of Appeal for Ontario, presided over by the Chief Justice of Ontario and two Associate Judges. The Appeal was dismissed without Defence Counsel F.W. Wegenast being called. Dorothea died in 1992.
Margaret "Marnie" Catherine Anthes Paisley was a teacher born in Berlin, now Kitchener, Ontario on November 1, 1906 to Talmon and Martha Rieder. She graduated in 1929 with an arts degree from the University of Toronto, where she played women's hockey. Following graduation she spent a year working alongside Emma Razt Kaufman to expand the YWCA in Japan. She married Elmer Paisley, with whom she had two children: Mary ("Penny ") and Ian. Paisley taught at the Kitchener Collegiate Institute and Waterloo Collegiate between 1955 and 1969. She was also an active member of the United Church, serving as a Sunday school teacher and director of summer camps. Paisley died June 11, 2003 and was interred at Mount Hope Cemetery in Kitchener.
Forsey Pemberton Bull Page, architect, was born September 22, 1885. He went into partnership in 1926 with Harland W. Steele to form Page and Steele, Architects, in Toronto, Ontario. He died November 22, 1970.
Amelia Alderson was an English Romantic author. Amelia was born November 12, 1769 in Norwich, England and married the painter John Opie in 1798. She was a radical thinker and involved in a circle that included John Horne Tooke and Mary Wollstonecraft. In 1801 Amelia published her first work under her name, "Father and Daughter," and subsequently wrote 25 more novels, biographies and volumes of verse. Amelia died in 1853.
Arthur Eugene O'Meara was born in 1859 in Port Hope, Ontario.
He obtained a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto in 1882 and was called to the bar in 1885. He also became a clergyman around age 40.
Arthur O'Meara worked closely with Indigenous peoples primarily in British Columbia to bring protests and concerns over land claims to government bodies. He notably served as a counsel member during the Allied Tribes of British Columbia's historic presentation regarding land claims to the 1927 Special Committee of the Senate and the House of Commons
Richard Warren Oliver, lansdcape architect, was born February 9, 1897 in Hamilton, Ontario to Thomas Oliver and Mary Ellen Riddle. He married Helen Catharine Campbell on September 23, 1926. He worked as a horticulturist at the Dominion Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa, Ontario as well as taking on private commissions. He died December 27, 1969.
Wasyl Odynsky was born on January 8, 1924.
During the Second World War, Odynsky served as a guard in an auxiliary unit at the Trawniki and Poniatowa forced labour camps in Poland.
Following the war, Odynsky immigrated to Canada in 1949.
On September 24, 1997, Odynsky was charged by the Canadian Government for having misrepresented himself upon immigrating to Canada. The Canadian Government tried to revoke Odysnky’s Canadian citizenship through the denaturalization and deportation process. On March 2, 2001, Judge Andrew MacKay of the Federal Court of Canada concluded that Odynsky’s service was not voluntary and he did not personally participate in any incident involving the mistreatment of prisoners or of any other person during his service. Although his citizenship was not revoked, numerous bids were made to try and revoke Odynsky’s Canadian citizenship in subsequent years.
Wasyl Odynsky died on May 16, 2014.
Helmut Oberlander was born on February 15, 1924 in Halbstadt, a Russian Mennonite settlement in what is now Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine.
During the Second World War, he served in the Waffen-SS and acted as an interpreter for the Einsatzkommando 10a. He was also a member of the Sicherheitsdienst and Sicherheitspolizei. The Einsatzkommando was a mobile killing squad in Nazis Germany responsible for the deaths of thousands of people during the war. Oberlander maintains he was forcibly conscripted into military service and that his duties only included translating Russian radio transmissions, acting as an interpreter, and guarding military supplies.
Oberlander immigrated to Canada in 1954 and settled in the Kitchener-Waterloo area. He opened a construction business and became a Canadian citizen in 1960.
The Government of Canada initiated a denaturalization and deportation process against Oberlander in 1995 for not disclosing his wartime record during his immigration interview in 1953. Between 1995 and 2018, numerous court orders were filed to strip Oberlander of his citizenship. Oberlander consistently appealed these orders.
In 2000, Judge Andrew Mackay concluded that while Oberlander may not have disclosed his wartime record there was no evidence proving he was involved in committing any war crimes or crimes against humanity.
In 2017 the Government of Canada stripped Oberlander of his citizenship for a fourth time through an Order in Council. In 2018, the Federal Court ruled that this revocation was lawful. Oberlander's appeal was dismissed in the Federal Court of Appeal in April 2019. The Supreme Court of Canada declined to grant Oberlander's leave to appeal the Federal Court decision December 2019. In 2020, Oberlander also lost his appeal to the Immigration and Refugee Board.
Melinda Carolina Cook was born January 12, 1841 in Beverly Township, Wentworth County, Ontario to James and Elizabeth Cook. She married Aaron B. Oberholtzer (1836-1910) on September 7, 1858. Melinda Carolina Oberholtzer died December 12, 1912.
Dr. Warren Ober (b. 1925) is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Ober came to Waterloo in 1965 from Northern Illinois University when he accepted the position of Chair of English, and retired in 1994. He has written, or collaborated on, works about Keats, Wordsworth, Alice Munro, Thomas Crofton Croker, William Blake, and Pearl Harbor.
Padraig O Broin was born in Clontarf, Ireland in 1908. He emigrated with his family to Toronto, Ontario as a child. O Broin was the founding editor of Teangadoir. As a writer and poet he published numerous works including the collections Than any Star (1962) and No Casual Trespass (1967). He was also the editor and publisher of the Gaelic literary magazine Teangadoir worked contributed "Feargus Rua Cecinit" to a historical anthology of Gaelic lyrics.
Henry Nyberg, Swedish engineer and car manufacturer, was born on September 11, 1872 in Helvi, Gotland, Sweden and left Sweden for the United States, arriving in Chicago, Illinois in January, 1896. He was first president of the Swedish Engineers' Society of Chicago, founded in 1908. In 1913, he went to Kitchener, Ontario to run a factory for the Regal Motor Car Company, and there he started the Dominion Truck Equipment Company. In 1919, he moved to England, where he started the Four Wheel Drive Lorry Company. He retired to Sweden in 1932.
Ekwele Lobe Nwalipenja was a Cameroonian teacher and government official. Nwalipenja was November 26, 1930 at Lobe Batanga in the Ndian division of what is now Cameroon. He attended elementary school in Kurumeh and Kumba, going on to study at the Government Teachers Training College, Kumba, in 1950 and then to Bambili where he studied rural science in 1958. He worked as a school manager from 1961 to 1964. In 1964 he was awarded a scholarship from the Presbyterian Church in Canada, where he travelled at the age of 35 to study at St. Paul's University College in Waterloo, Ontario, leaving a wife and four children in Cameroon. He graduated from St. Paul's with a Bachelor of Arts in history and political science in 1966, returning to Cameroon where he went on to spend the remainder of his career in various government roles. He served as Secretary for all council schools of what was then West Cameroon in 1967, and a year later was appointed Education Officer in the North West Province. In 1972 he was appointed Secretary of State of the economic division of the Prime Minister's office and went on to serve as Member of Parliament for Ndian Division, among other roles, including Minister Plenipotentiary.
Florence Nightingale was a social reformer who established modern nursing practice after her time working as a nurse during the Crimean War. In 1860 she founded the world's first secular nursing school at St. Thomas' Hospital in London, England. Her social reform work related to women's rights and included improvements to healthcare, the abolishment of prostitution laws, and fighting for greater opportunities for women in the workforce.
Florence Helen Kempt was born April 24, 1876 in Glasgow, Scotland to Irvine Kempt and Margaret Davidson. In 1903 she married Arthur Forbes Nicol. In 1930 she moved with him to Kilninver Estate near Oban, Argyll. Florence Helen Nicol died May 24, 1962.
Arthur Forbes Nicol was born on December 10, 1870 in Scotland to James Nicol and Margaret Agnes Wyllie. He prospered in business, a traveler and adventurer in London, England, India and the Yukon. In 1903 he married Florence Helen Kempt, daughter of Irvine Kempt and Margaret Davidson of Glasgow. In 1928 he purchased property near Oban, Argyll, that included the Kilninver Estate, where he lived until his death in 1958.
Norman Nicholson was born November 10, 1874 to Donald Nicholson and Ellen Chisholm. He was in the book and paper trade in Kitchener and Hamilton, Ontario. He died in Hamilton on August 19, 1934.
Howard B. Nicholson was a librarian with the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford.
Barrie Phillip Nichol, who often went by his lower-case initials and last name, with no spaces (bpNichol), was a Canadian poet born in Vancouver in 1944. He became widely known for his concrete poetry in the 1960s. Concrete, pattern, or shape poetry is an arrangement of linguistic elements in which the typographical effect is more important in conveying meaning than verbal significance. The words are arranged in such a way as to depict their subject.
Nichol received his elementary teaching certificate from the University of British Columbia in 1963, but he only worked a brief stint as a teacher.
His most famous published work is probably The Martyrology, a long poem encompassing nine books in six volumes. In The Martyrology different ways of speaking testify to a journey through different ways of being.
Nichol also worked in a wide variety of other genres, including musical theatre, children's books, collage/assemblage, pamphlets, spoken word, computer texts, fiction, and television. Sadly, B.P. Nichol died due to complications following routine back surgery in September of 1988. Despite having such a brief lifespan, Nichol was highly prolific and produced a substantial volume of work.
Frank Stanley Newman was born in Merrickville, Ontario on April 9, 1889 to John Jarvis Newman and Emma Chester. He studied forestry at the University of Toronto and from 1919 until 1954 was the superintendent of the St. Williams Forestry Station. He died in 1966.
Mabel Edena Neiley was born in Greenwood, Nova Scotia on September 27, 1887 (although some census records indicate 1889 as her birth year). She lived in Greenwood, Kingston, and Yarmouth (Nova Scotia) before migrating to the United States of America on December 11, 1913.
Neiley trained as a nurse and was called into active service on July 1, 1918. Since then and until April 15, 1920, Neiley worked as a U.S. Army nurse living in New York, Washington D.C., Georgia, and Ohio being part of the nursing U.S. staff during part of the First World War and the 1918 Influenza pandemic. During that time, she served in at least three hospitals: Walter Reeds in Washington D.C., Camp Gordon in Georgia, and the Columbus Barracks in Ohio.
In March 1925, Neiley moved to Los Angeles County and lived in Palo Alto, Pasadena, and Ventura. While in California, Neiley worked at the Pasadena Preventorium (Pasadena, California) as a nurse and superintendent.
Mabel E. Neiley died in Ventura (California) on March 14, 1976, at 88 and is buried at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Los Angeles.
Ira George Needles was an industrial executive and university administrator who served as chancellor at the University of Waterloo from 1966 to 1975. Needles was born September 1, 1893 in Mount Vernon, Linn, Iowa to Elson Reed Needles and Anna Edna Hunter. He and his wife Marian had three children, Lauranna Jones, William and Myron (Bud). After school, Needles began working at B. F. Goodrich (now known as Goodrich Corporation) in 1916 in Akron, Ohio. He moved to Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1925 after Goodrich purchased the Ames-Holden Rubber Company, and worked at its office as an assistant sales manager, and was eventually promoted to several positions including general manager of the tire division (1930), vice-president of sales, and chairman of the board (1958). After 26 years, he eventually rose to the position of president of B.F. Goodrich Canada, in 1951. He resigned from B.F. Goodrich in 1960.
In the summer of 1956, Needles gave a speech at the Rotary Club of Kitchener-Waterloo entitled WANTED: 150,000 Engineers – The Waterloo Plan. In this presentation, Needles offered a different approach to education that would include both studies in the classroom and training in industry that would eventually become the basis of the cooperative education program at the University of Waterloo. Waterloo College (now Wilfrid Laurier University) planned to open a science faculty that would become known as the Waterloo College Associate Faculties in 1957. Needles—along with his B.F. Goodrich colleague, then-president of Waterloo College, and first president of the University of Waterloo, Gerald Hagey—founded the Waterloo College Associate Faculties, which later became the University of Waterloo, with Needles' vision of a cooperative education program that involved industry. After founding the university, Needles served as chairman of its board of governors from 1956 to 1966 and then became chancellor from 1966 to 1975.
Ira Needles died on January 6, 1986.
During World War II, Needles served as a technical advisor for the Government of Canada to help ration rubber, which was a strategic material during the war. After the war, he founded the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, where his son, William, became an actor.
Emily Ferguson Murphy was born in Cookstown, Ontario in 1868 and educated at Bishop Strachan School, Toronto. She married Rev. Arthur Murphy in 1887. In 1916 she was appointed by the Alberta Government as the first woman Magistrate in the British Empire. It was she who inaugurated and brought to a successful issue the movement that resulted in the Privy Council, in 1929, declaring that women were "persons" under the British North America Act, and therefore had a right to be appointed to the Senate of Canada. She was the first President of the Federated Women's Institute of Canada. Prime mover in the establishment of the Victorian Order of Nurses in Edmonton 1910, she was the first woman member of the hospital board in the City of Edmonton. In 1911 she organized the Women's Canadian Club in Edmonton and was elected as their first President. Under the pen name "Janey Canuck" she was well known as a writer. In 1913 she was elected National President of the Canadian Women's Press Club. In 1915 she was decorated by His Majesty the King as Lady of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem.
Martha Magdalena Anthes was born to parents Jacob Anthes and Magdalena Stricker in North Perth, Ontario, October 18, 1869. She was educated as a teacher, and is listed in the 1901 census as lodging with Jared and Ellen Creary and teaching in Assiniboia East, Wapella, North West Territories. She married John A. Munn also of Wapella (date unknown) and the couple had a son, Robert Anthes born March 11, 1904 in Saskatchewan. A daughter Elizabeth Sutherland was born in Kitchener April 9, 1907. Another son, Arthur was born circa 1908. The 1916 census of Qu'appelle, Saskatchewan finds John and Martha living with their sons, Robert A., aged 12 and Arthur, aged 8. There is no mention of the child Elizabeth in this census record. Martha Munn died in 1944, John in 1960 and they are interred in Wolseley Cemetery, Saskatchewan.
Nelson Mulloy, physician, was born February 15, 1842 to John Mulloy and Mary Ann Daley Mulloy. He married Elizabeth Hanley Chapman on August 2, 1869 in Doon, Ontario. He died on August 28, 1913.
Mary Anne Daley was born ca. 1817 on the Isle of Wight. She and her husband John Mulloy (ca. 1817-February 28, 1894) had three children, one of whom was Dr. Nelson Mulloy (1842-1913). Mary Ann and John Mulloy are both buried in the Elmira Union Cemetery, Elmira, Ontario.
Ronald Cleveland Mullin is a Waterloo Distinguished Professor Emeritus and the first person to receive a degree from the Waterloo; an MA in mathematics in 1960. Mullin completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Western Ontario, and after taking his doctorate in 1964 he joined the Faculty of Mathematics. During his tenure at Waterloo, Mullin acted as chair of Combinatorics and Optimization, and contributed to the establishment of the Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research. He was named a Distinguished Professor Emeritus upon his retirement in 1996. The following year, Mullin was the first recipient awarded the Stanton Medal by the Institute for Combinatorics and its Applications.
Tobias Moyer was born to Abraham Bechtel Moyer and Mary Gross Moyer (nee Nash) in 1832.
He died on December 28, 1909 in Kitchener, Ontario.
Sophia Nash Moyer was born to Abraham Bechtel Moyer and Mary Gross Moyer (nee Nash) on October 10, 1847 in Haldimand Co., Ontario.
She married John H. Book in 1869.
Sophia died on November 13, 1870 in Lafayette, Missouri, United States.
Samuel Gross Moyer was born to Abraham Bechtel Moyer and Mary Gross Moyer (nee Nash) on March 19, 1835 in Lincoln, Ontario. He married Emma Brainard Bliss on May 22, 1867. Samuel died in 1917 and was buried Parkholm Cemetery in La Grange Park, Illinois.
Mary Gross Nash was born to Abraham Abram Nash (1778-1823) and Mary Krall Gross (1778-1861) on March 2, 1808 in Tinicum Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Mary married Abraham Bechtel Moyer on March 23, 1830. The couple had nine children; Anna N. Moyer (1831-?), Tobias Moyer (1832-1909), Samuel Gross Moyer (1835-?), Abraham Nash Moyer (1837-?), Mary Gross Moyer (1840-1935), Jacob Nash Moyer (1842-?), Levi Nash Moyer (1845-1916), Sophia Nash Moyer (1847-1870), Jessie Gross Moyer (1850-?).
Mary died on November 8, 1885 in Plumstead Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Mary Elizabeth Raymond was born April 17, 1851 in New York City to John Coe and Elizabeth (nee Bladwin) Raymond. She married Reverend Levi Nash Moyer in La Salle, Illinois on June 20, 1871. Together they had six children. Mary Elizabeth died March 2, 1914 in Bridgewater, New Jersey at the home of her son, Harry Rollin Moyer. She was buried at Fairview Cemetery in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
Louise Moyer was born February 24, 1880 in Cedar Falls, Iowa to to Samuel and Emma Moyer. She graduated from the Iowa State Teachers College in 1900, teaching at the school for two years as a faculty member, before relocating with her family to Chicago and then Plainfield, New Jersey where she pursed a career in banking. She also attended the American Institute of Banking and completed post-graduate courses at New York University. Moyer retired from the Plainfield Trust Company in 1948 after a 30 year career with the company. During that time she worked as a head teller in the women's department before taking on roles as trust solicitor and director of publicity and new business.
Moyer was active in the Plainfield community serving as one time board member and finance chairman of the YWCA. She was a charter member of the Business and Professional Women's Club of Plainfield and was as the group's president from 1919-1922. She was also affiliated with the Plainfield Art Association and Historical Society, and was at one point the director of the Financial Advertisers Association. She was a member of the Plainfield College Club and the Plainfield Branch of the American Association of University Women. In 1936 she was named as one of Plainfield's outstanding women by the Business and Professional Women's Club.
Moyer died in Belle Mead, New Jersey on February 24, 1958 and was buried at Hillside Cemetery.
Levi Nash Moyer was born in Ontario to Abraham Bechtel Moyer and Mary Gross Moyer (nee Nash) on June 19, 1845. He emigrated to the United States at twenty years of age first going to Illinois before settling in Cedar Falls, Iowa and work for several years in the dry goods industry. He moved to Chicago in 1890 where he worked with Carson, Pirie, Scott & Company. Moyer eventually landed in Plainfield, New Jersey where he spent the last seven years of his life.
He married Mary Elizabeth Raymond (1851-1914) on June 20, 1871 in La Salle, Illinois. Together they had six children. Levi died in April 13, 1919 in Bridgewater, New Jersey at the home of his son Harry.
Jessie Watt was born in Galva Illinois on June 30, 1878 to Charles R. and Mary C. (née Ward) Watt. She married Ela Moyer on June 13, 1899 at her sister Mrs. F.M. Ferris' home in Danville, Illinois. She died in 1961 and was buried in Parkholm Cemetery.
Jesse Gross Moyer was born to Abraham Bechtel Moyer and Mary Gross Moyer (nee Nash) on February 28, 1850 in Ontario.
He married Anna E. Tomlins on October 15, 1874 in La Salle, Illinois.
Jennie Moyer was born in Iowa in February 1885 to Levi Nash and Mary Elizabeth Moyer. She died at 18 years of age in Cook County, Illinois on April 26, 1903.
Jacob Nash Moyer was born to Abraham Bechtel Moyer and Mary Gross Moyer (nee Nash) on October 23, 1842.
He married Mary Jane Miller (1854-1913) on April 20, 1886.