John Harvey Robertson was born August 12, 1829 in Insch, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, son of John Robertson and Janet Harvey Robertson. His father died ca. 1832 and his mother remarried in 1836 to James Sims. The family emigrated to Canada shortly after, settling near Hawkesville, Wellesley Township, now in the Region of Waterloo. He married Ann Hawk and moved to Kelvin, Windham Township, Norfolk County. He died there on October 5, 1912.

Born in Vinton, Iowa in 1876. Married Rice Hugh "Hugh" Roberts in Buena Vista, Iowa on June 28, 1897.

Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts KCMG FRSC (January 10, 1860 – November 26, 1943) was a Canadian poet and prose writer. He was one of the first Canadian authors to be internationally known, publishing various works on Canadian exploration and natural history, verse, travel books, and fiction.

Thomas Frederick Ritchie was born April 24, 1888 in Bryson, Quebec. In the late 1930's, he was a chief assistant at the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa, Ontario. He died February 28, 1976.

Walter Riss worked as a photographer for Studio Two in Mississauga, ON.

Mary Elizabeth Riggs was born ca. 1857 to Mary McLaughlin and William Riggs of Ireland. She began missionary work in the 1890s, first in China with the China Inland Mission, and later in India. She worked as missionary for over 40 years. She later returned to North American and settled in Ohio, where she died June 5, 1953.

Annie Riggs was born to Mary McLaughlin and William Riggs of Ireland. She married William Best September 6, 1883, James Renwick Brown May 28, 1892 and William Reddick June 9, 1913. In 1904 she was appointed as a Female Inspector of Factories, the second such woman in Ontario. She became involved with issues related to child labour, factory and store wages, and other labour welfare movements. She retired from the position in 1925. She had one son, Arthur Frederick Best, who married Elma Sophia Hamel January 9, 1909. Annie died August 30, 1939 and is buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto.

Talmon Henry Rider was an industrialist and rubber company executive in Berlin and Montreal. He was born in New Hamburg on August 10, 1878, the eldest child of Peter Rieder (1850-1936) and Emeline Merner (1857-1940). Talmon had eight siblings: Maude, Idella (Della), Elmer, Loretta, Esther, Eva, Talma (May), and Alma.

Talmon attended the Berlin High School, completing a year of school on June 1894, then going to work in his father's general store before entering business through his first job at the Berlin Gas Works. On October 1, 1906 he married Martha Melvina Anthes (1878-1971), daughter of John Schmitt Anthes (1844-1915) and Lydia Catherine Herlan (1849-1935), and they had four children (Paul, Edward Anthes, Margaret Catherine, and Helen Elizabeth). Talmon and his young family moved to Montreal in 1914 when he took up a position there.

Talmon died unexpectedly after a sudden illness on April 14, 1922 due to complications from pneumonia that affected his heart. At the time he was head of Ames-Holden McCready, Limited in Montreal, and had just started the development of the Westmount area of Kitchener into a contemporary garden suburb, inspired in part by the Westmount area in Montreal where he and his family lived. He was interred in Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener. Martha and their children moved back to Kitchener soon after Talmon's death.

Peter Rieder was a merchant and an early white settler of what is today the Region of Waterloo. He was born in Perth Township July 27, 1850 to Daniel Rieder of Switzerland and Christina Goettinger Rieder of Germany. Rieder was one of eleven children which included both full siblings and half siblings born to his mother and her second husband Conrad Kabel, who she married after Daniel Rieder's death.

By 1877 Rieder was living in New Hamburg and was married to Emeline Merner Rieder, the daughter of white settlers from Switzerland and Germany. Peter was also partners in Rieder and Ruby, General Merchants of New Hamburg, possibly with Emmanual Ruby (1844-1883).

Peter and Emiline had nine children: Talmon Henry (1878), Maude Matilda (1880), Idella Rose (1882), Elmer Alfred (1884), Lauretta Elizabeth (1886), Esther Emiline (1891), Eva Sarah (1892), Mary (1896), Alma (1900).

Peter Rieder retired in 1912 and died May 31, 1936 at the age of 85. Emeline died January 17, 1940 at the age of 82.

Martha Melvina Rieder was a Canadian homemaker. She was born November 19, 1879, the fourth child of John Schmitt and Lydia Anthes. Martha went to the Central School in Berlin (later Kitchener), Ontario and attended Ontario Ladies' College in Whitby. In 1906 she married Talmon Henry Rieder and they had four children. Margaret Catherine (1906-2003), called Marnie, was a teacher; she married Elmer Paisley. Edward Anthes (1908-1966) worked at the Mutual Life Assurance Company and served as president of the company from 1959 to 1964; he married Jean Rudell. Helen Elizabeth (1911-1959), and Henry Paul (1914-[19--?]), called Paul. Martha died in 1971 and was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery with Talmon.

Lauretta Rieder was born October 31, 1886 in New Hamburg, the child of Peter and Emeline Merner. She died at 21 years of age of meningitis and was buried in the Rieder family plot at Mount Hope Cemetery.

Henry Paul "Paul" Rieder was a sales manager at the Waterloo Manufacturing Co. He was born in 1914 in Montreal to Talmon and Martha Rieder. He married Dorothy Scheifele in 1941 at St. John's Lutheran Church in Waterloo. Rieder died in 1991 and was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery.

Emeline Rieder was born April 27, 1857 in Wilmot Township. The daughter of white settlers her father, Christian Merner, was born in Switzerland, and her mother, Elizabeth Young Merner, was born in Germany. She married Peter Rieder, a merchant and early white settler of what is today the Region of Waterloo. Together they had several children, including industrialist and rubber merchant, Talmon H. Rieder. In addition to raising a family, Rieder was active in the local evangelical association. She died January 17, 1940 and was buried at Mount Hope Cemetery.

Edward Anthes Rieder was a Canadian actuary who spent the entirety of his career with Mutual Life of Canada. Born October 6, 1908 in Berlin, Ontario (now Kitchener), he was the second child of Talmon and Martha (nee Anthes) Rieder. He graduated with a bachelor of commerce from the University of Toronto in 1931, landing a job in the actuarial department of Mutual Life the same year. He held several roles at the company, rising through the ranks over the course of several decades. He was named assistant general manager and actuary in 1954, and vice-president and general manager in 1958. Named vice-president in 1959, he held the role until 1964 when he was elected chairman of the board.

Rieder married Jean Patricia Rudell in Kitchener, Ontario on September 26, 1936 and together they had several children.

Rieder died at the Toronto General Hospital on May 23, 1966 following a lengthy illness and was buried at Mount Hope Cemetery. He was survived by his mother, wife Jean (nee Rudell, and several children.

Mary Raleigh Richardson was born in Belleville, Ontario and moved to Europe in 1898. Here she became involved with the fight for women's suffrage and joined the Women's Social and Political Union. Richardson was arrested nine times for acts including arson, smashing windows, a bombing, and slashing Velazquez's Rokeby Venus painting. While imprisoned she was one of the first women to be force fed and she wrote about this experience. In 1932 she joined the British Union of Facists and was with them until 1936. She died in 1961 in Hastings.

Arthur Herbert Richardson, known as “Mr. Conservation,” was appointed as the first Chairman of The Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (MTRCA) in 1957, after a long career in reforestation and conservation.

Kathleen (Kay) Amelia Rex was a Canadian reporter and writer. She was born in 1918, the daughter of Lionel and Grace Rex of Woodstock, Ontario. In 1941, after graduating from university, Rex began work with the Woodstock Sentinel, a local daily newspaper, moving to the Canadian Press (CP) in 1942, where she worked in various CP bureaus across the country including Vancouver, Ottawa and Toronto. In 1953, Rex left the Canadian Press, thereafter gaining employment with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). In 1957 she began work as a freelance journalist, traveling first to Mexico City. In 1959 Rex joined the Globe and Mail where she worked until 1983. Her stories brought to the paper an early form of feminism, highlighting women's issues including poverty, daycare, immigration, health, employment and peace.

Upon retirement from the Globe and Mail, Rex became president of the Toronto Branch of the Canadian Authors Association. Her retirement from journalism also allowed Rex to begin research on a history of the Canadian Women's Press Club of which she was a member. Published in 1995, No Daughter of Mine: The Women and History of the Canadian Women's Press Club, 1904-1971 tells the stories of the female journalists who were its members. Rex died on July 10, 2006 in Toronto and was interred at Woodstock Presbyterian Cemetery.

John Ivan Rempel (1905-) MRAIC, architect and architectural historian, was born September 29, 1905 near Ekaterinoslav, Russia (now Ukraine) to Dutch parents. In 1924 he emigrated to Canada and settled in Kitchener, Ontario where he completed high school at Kitchener Collegiate Institute, graduating in 1928. John attended the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto and graduated in 1933, receiving an honours degree, a Bachelor of Architecture, and the Architectural Gold Medal. He began practising as an architect in 1939 after having completed early work with such well known firms as Templin and Wells, Craig and Madill, and Horwood and White.

Throughout his career, John's major interests were research into historic building technology and architectural restoration, to which he has made significant contributions through writing and practice. John was a member of a variety of architectural heritage committees and spoke on television and the radio in connection with campaigns for local preservation. John also published a number of significant works related to architectural heritage conservation and in 1967 he published Building With Wood, considered by many to be an outstanding documentation of the empirical approach to the study of vernacular buildings in Canada and other parts of North America. John Rempel was also a well known speaker in Canada and the United States having spoken at the American Society of Architectural Historians, the Canadian Museums Association, and others. John also worked professionally as a heritage consultant for restoration projects across southern Ontario and was Chief Research Architect in Historic Building Technology for the reconstruction of Fort William and an architectural consultant during the establishment of Upper Canada Village.

In addition, John was the head of the Architectural Drafting department at the Danforth Technical School in Toronto and a lecturer at the Ontario College of Education. For his work John won numerous awards including a Senior Canada Council Fellowship and the Gabrielle Léger Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Heritage Conservation.

Earl "Dutch" Reibel was a Canadian hockey player who played in the NHL from 1953 to 1958. Reibel was born in Kitchener, Ontario on July 21, 1930, the youngest child of Albert and Anna (nee Felbaum). His hockey career started in Kitchener, where he played for various teams including the Greenshirts. In 1949, he was a member of the Junior "B" Ontario Hockey Association (OHA) championship team and was recognized with a most sportsmanlike award. During the 1949-1950 season with the Windsor Spitfires, Reibel was the first player in the OHA to achieve a 100 point season, with a scoring title of 129 points.

In 1953 he joined the Detroit Red Wings, playing for two Stanley Cup Wins in 1954 and 1955 and earning more points than Gordie Howe during the 1954-1955 season. In 1956 he was once again recognized for his sportsmanlike behaviour as the recipient of the Lady Byng Trophy. His final years in the National Hockey League were spent with the Chicago Black Hawks (1957-1958) and the Boston Bruins (1958-1959), where he was coached by Kitchener native Milt Schmidt. Reibel ended his career in the American Hockey League playing with the Providence Reds (1959-1961).

Reibel died January 3, 2007 in Kitchener of complications from a stroke.

Alfred Rehder was curator of the herbarium at the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plains, New York.

Chris Redmond worked in internal communications for 38 years. Redmond joined Waterloo in 1973 as editor of the Gazette and was responsible for the newspaper until it's printing ended in 2004. He also edited the Daily Bulletin from 1993 until 2011, working on the publication as it transitioned from text-based to web-based editions. Redmond retired in February 2012

Sir Arthur Shuldham Redfern was secretary to the Governor General of Canada from 1935-1946.

Saroja Reddy was a professor of physiology. She was born October 1, 1937 in Nellore, India to Adieseaiddy and Rukminamma Ketireddy. Reddy completed an M.S. in zoology (1959) and a PhD in physiology (1963) at the Sri Venkateswara University in Tirupati India. She moved to Waterloo, Ontario in 1964 where she completed a post-doctoral fellowship. She joined the faculty at Palmer College of Chiropractic in the mid-1970s, where she spent the remainder of her career as professor of physiology. Reddy died September 21, 1999 in Davenport, Iowa following an automobile collision. Her husband, K.B. Subba Reddy (1933-1995), whom she married November 20, 1964, graduated from the University of Waterloo with a doctorate in chemical engineering.

George Elmore Reaman was an author, educator, lecturer and columnist. Born at Concord Ontario on July 22, 1889, he received his later education at the University of Toronto (B.A. 1911; M.A. 1913), McMaster University (M.A. 1916), Queen's University (B. Paed. 1917), and Cornell University (Phd. 1920). Employment included teaching at Moose Jaw College (1913-14), Woodstock College (1915), Educational Director of the Y.M.C.A., Toronto from 1920 to 1924, editor at the Macmillan Co. of Canada, Superintendent of the Boys Training School at Bowmanville from 1925 to 1932, principal of Glen Lawrence School, Toronto from 1932 to 1939, Head of the English Department, Ontario Agricultural College from 1939 to 1954 and Director of Adult Education at the University of Waterloo from 1957 to his retirement in 1967. In 1967 he was awarded a Centennial medal; in 1969 he received an honourary doctorate from the University of Waterloo.

G.E. Reaman was active in a number of organizations and held office in most of them: first Canadian president of the International Association for Exceptional Children, also first Canadian President of the International Platform Association. He was founder of several historical organizations, among them the Pennsylvania German Folklore Society, the Ontario Genealogical Society and of the Huguenot Society of Ontario. He also published more than twenty books, the first of which was English for New Canadians, first published in 1919 and re-published over a period of 30 years. His historical publications include Trail of the Black Walnut (1956); Trail of the Huguenots (1963); Trail of the Iroquois Indians and History of Agriculture in Ontario, 1969.

G.E. Reaman married Flora Josephine Green in 1914 and had one daughter, Elaine. He died December 7, 1969.

Flora Josephine Green was born on October 3, 1890, in Ingersoll, Ontario, to William Collis Green and Ellen Bateman. She married George Elmore Reaman on July 22, 1914, in York, Ontario. They had one child during their marriage, Elaine Reaman. She died on December 25, 1981, at the age of 91.

Dr. Ronald C. Read was a professor in the Faculty of Mathematics from 1970-1990.

John Henry Ratz was born November 9, 1830 in Woolwhich Township. He married Christina Eidt with and together they had 10 children. He died July 5, 1881 and was buried in Oetzel Evangelical Cemetery in the Ratzburg area of Perth County, Ontario.

Ratz attended the Hamilton Central Collegiate Institute. He graduated with a B.A.Sc. in engineering physics from the University of Toronto, before obtaining an M.Sc. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ratz married Jean Isabel Fairles (?-1999) at Ryerson United Church on July 23.

Henry Eidt Ratz was born April 30, 1877 in the Gads Hill area of Perth County, Ontario. He was the youngest of Henry and Christina (nee Eidt) Ratz's ten children. He was the mayor of Waterloo from 1935 to 1936, in addition to numerous terms as a Waterloo city councillor and Deputry Reeve, and as Warden for the County of Waterloo. Ratz married Margaret Hill and together they had two children: Gladys Ruby and Lloyd Henry. He died in 1954 and was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery.

Ratz died March 29, 1974 in Hamilton, Ontario and was buried at Woodland Cemetery.

Clara Dunke was born April 8, 1868 in Elmira, Ontario. She married George Ratz on September 8, 1863 and together they had six children: Leroy Henry, Elmer George, Ruth Elizabeth, Roswell, Reginald Guy, and Herbert. She died April 13, 1933 in Toronto, Ontario and was buried in Elmira Union Cemetery.

Christina Eidt was born June 30, 1834 in Germany.

Eleanor Rathbone was a leader figure in the British women's rights movement as well as being a member of parliament and a campaigner for the cause of family allowance. Born to social reformer William Rathbone V she worked for him after her graduation from Oxford investigating social and industrial conditions in Liverpool. In 1897 she joined the Liverpool Women's Suffrage Society and was Honorary Secretary and in 1913 co-founded the Liverpool Women's Citizen's Association. At the beginning of the Second World War she founded the charity now known as SSAFA which supports spouses and dependents of soldiers. When Millicent Fawcett retired in 1919 Eleanor took over as president of the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship. After the society disbanded upon women receiving equal franchise, she became a member of parliament and was an outspoken critic of the government's policy of appeasement in the Second World War. In 1945 the Family Allowances Act, a lifetime social cause for her, came into effect and Eleanor died the next year in London.

Catharina Breithaupt Raquet was born in Buffalo, New York on February 18, 1847 to parents Liborius Breithaupt and Barbara Catharina Goetz, who had emigrated from Germany in 1843. Catharina married Jacob Raquet in New York March 3, 1864 and the couple had six children: William Jacob; Clara Maria; Edward David; Henrietta Catharine Philomene; Emilie Louise; and Joseph John Louise, living in Buffalo and the Detroit, Michigan area, where Jacob was a farmer. Jacob died March 11, 1886 in Detroit. The 1920 United States census has Catharina living in Santa Monica, California with her daughter Emilie. Catharina's death date is unknown.

Rebecca Anne Deacon was a homemaker and the second wife of Colin Rankin. Born March 23, 1850 in Dublin, Ireland to James and Catherine (nee Elliott) Deacon, she married Rankin at the age of 23 in 1873. She died in Montreal, Quebec on January 15, 1934 and was interred at Riverside Cemetery in Lindsay, Ontario.

John Ireland Rankin was a Canadian mining executive born May 18, 1879 in Lindsay, Ontario to Colin and Rebecca (nee Deacon) Rankin. After graduating from the Lindsay Collegiate Institute he worked with the Bank of Ottawa. In 1914 he joined the N.A. Timmins Corporation, later becoming managing director. Over the course of his career he held director and executive positions at various companies including Labrador Mining and Exploration, McVittie-Graham Mines Limited, and Brompton Pulp and Paper Company. At the time of his death on September 4, 1961, he was the director of Hollinger Consolidated Gold Mines and Noranda Mines.

Colin Scott Rankin was a Canadian lawyer born to Colin and Rebecca (nee Scott) Rankin in the St. Maurice District of Quebec on May 22, 1857. He was a member of the bar in Ontario and was working in Winnipeg, Manitoba as a barrister when he died at the age of 27 on August 21, 1883.

Colin Rankin, Hudson's Bay Company factor, was born July 29, [1826] in New Brunswick. He was married twice, first in 1856 to Rebecca Scott (1838-1870) and again in 1873 to Rebecca Deacon. Engaged by Sir George Simpson in March 1848, he became a Chief Trader for the Hudson's Bay Company in 1868, a Factor in 1872, and a Chief Factor in 1879. He was in charge of Mattawa Post for several years; left for Lachine in August, 1853; then to St. Maurice district; spent the winter at Kickendatch Post; was called to Montreal in August, 1854, and appointed to succeed Chief Trader Anderson in charge of Bersimis Post. In June, 1856, he was appointed to take charge of St. Maurice district, where the Company was erecting a Post and constructing new buildings. He was ordered to Montreal and appointed to Lake Superior district in 1860. In July, 1866, he was transferred to Saguenay district and there remained until November 1873, when he was ordered to take charge of Simcoe and Ottawa River districts. In 1873 he was appointed to Temiskaming district, until 1882, when headquarters moved to Mattawa, Ont. Mr. Rankin retired from the service in 1898. He was mayor of Mattawa and was a magistrate there as well (n.d.). He was also commissioned to be a Justice of the Peace in and for the North West Territories (1874). Colin Rankin died April 20, 1921.

Sheldon Lloyd Rahn was born on September 8, 1918 in just out side of Lanark, Illinois to Lloyd Nelson and C. Elizabeth (nee Carter). Following his from Cornell College, Rahn went on to earn a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary and a Master of Social Work at Columbia University, completed a degree program at Wayne State University. He married Barbara Ripley Myers on May 10, 1941 and together they had three children. The family moved to Waterloo, Ontario in 1966 where Rahn was the founding Dean of the Faculty of Social Work at Wilfrid Laurier University. Rahn died in Tavistock, Ontario on March 23, 2014 at the age of 95.

Barbara Ripley Rahn (nee Myers) was born in Clarks Green Pennsylvania on November 17, 1916 to Marjorie (nee Clapp) and James Myers. Following her graduation from Oberlin College, she perused graduate studies in early childhood education at the Bank Street School for Teachers and later worked at schools across the United States. On May 10, 1941 she married Sheldon Rahn in New York City and together they had three children. The family relocated to Waterloo, Ontario in 1966 where Rahn served for six years as executive director of the YWCA of Kitchener-Waterloo, followed by supervising positions for Kitchener's first municipal day care centre and a regional home day care program.

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