Alice Riggs Hunt, journalist and activist, was born in New York City June 14, 1884. She was educated at private schools in New York City, one being Graham's School for Girls from 1895-1898. In 1907-1908 she attended Columbia University as a student in the School of Journalism. Later she attended the Drake Business School. She was organizer, speaker and writer on both New York Campaigns for Women's Suffrage and in several other states. She contributed to the New York Evening Post, New York Tribune, New York Evening Mail, New York Call, London Daily Herald, La Vie Ouvriere (Paris), The Workers' Dreadnought, London, Bulletin of the Peoples, Council of America, and Bulletin of the American Woman Suffrage Association. She attended the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, attached to the American Commission to Negotiate Peace as special correspondent for the New York Evening Post. She attended the International Congress of Women in Zurich, 1919, as part of the American delegation. She was a member of Colonial Dames of America, Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America and Huguenot Society of New York. She died August 21, 1974 in Calgary, Alberta. (Description from original in-house finding aid)

Violet Marie Byers was born November 15, 1908 in Missouri to John Lester and Sarah (nee Murray) Boyers. She married Harry J. Byers on October 21, 1929 and together they had four children: Robert John (May 12, 1932), Jean Mildred (October 20, 1933), James Allen (January 20, 1942), and Shirley Marie (April 3, 1943).

Byers died April 15 1943 in Listowel, Ontario as a result of complications from childbirth.

George Elmore Reaman (1889-1969) 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 Dec. 7, 1969.

Jenny O'Hara Pincock was born in Madoc, Hastings County, Ontario on April 13, 1891. Her great-grandfather had been a settler in the area. Pincock studied music at the Ontario Ladies' College in Whitby, Ontario (ca. 1908) and at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto (ca. 1912). On June 15, 1915 she married osteopath Robert Newton Pincock (1883-1928) and moved with him to St. Catharines where he maintained a practice.

In 1927, along with her sister Minnie and brother-in-law Rev. Fred J.T. Maines, who was minister of the Church of Divine Revelation in St. Catharine's, Pincock began to organize seances with Mr. William Cartheuser, an American medium. She was often responsible for taking notes. In 1935 Jenny Pincock ceased connection with Cartheuser and with the Church of Divine Revelation. Two years later she moved from St. Catharines to Kitchener, Ontario. In 1942 she purchased and moved to property formerly owned by her grandfather near Madoc. Pincock died on July 13, 1948 in Kitchener.

A book of verse by Jenny Pincock titled Hidden Springs was published posthumously (Privately printed, 1950) with an introduction by E.J. Pratt.

Blanche Mildred Clement Kelly (1881-1945) was born July 16th, 1881 to Edwin Perry Clement and Janie Elizabeth Bowlby Clement in Waterloo. In 1915 at the age of 34 she married 28 year old Frederick Bowman Kelly (1887-1984) of Guelph. The two moved to Guelph where Frederick was employed as a merchant. The two had no children. Blanche died in 1945 at the home of her sister Florence and Frederick lived until the age of 97, dying in 1984.

Edwin Oliver Clement (1885-1953) was born March 13th, 1885 to Edwin Oliver Clement and Janie Elizabeth Bowlby Clement in Berlin (Kitchener). Edwin lived in Berlin for the first part of his life and worked as a banker for CIBC. His work took him to Lethbridge Alberta for a period of time and he was living there in 1916 until he was drafted into WWI in 1917. After the war he moved to the Simcoe region and in 1925, and the age of 40 he married 31 year old Helen Keefer Thompson (1894-1968) of Penetanguishene. The two had two daughters: Julia Clement who married Ian Donald McKillop and Christine Clement who married David Hebscher. Edwin died in 1953 and Helen in 1968.

Adam Bowlby (1792-1883) was born in 1792 to Richard Bowlby, and wife Elizabeth Hawksworth. Adam moved to Upper Canada in 1815 to live with his uncle Thomas Bowlby, the first Bowlby family member to come to Upper Canada and here Adam set up a gristmill. After a few years manufacturing tools and implements for farmers, Adam purchased a small parcel of 450 acres in Townsend around the time of his marriage, in 1819, to Elizabeth Sovereign of New Jersey. The farm was built up over a period of 21 years to approximately 3,000 acres. During this 21 year period Adam and Elizabeth had six children: Alfred Bowlby in 1820, William Bowlby in 1822, David Sovereign Bowlby in 1828, Mary Ursula Bowlby Powell in 1830, Ward Hamilton Bowlby, in 1834, John Wedgewood Bowlby in 1837. During this time Adam served as magistrate and district councilor, treasurer of the Masonic Lodge and Captain of the Waterford Company during the rebellions of 1837-38. Adam eventually left his farm to son William (the only farmer in the family) and settled in Berlin (Kitchener) where he died in 1883 at the age of 91.

Alfred Bowlby (1820-1915) was born August 26, 1820 in New Jersey, USA, the eldest son of Adam and Elizabeth. He grew up largely on the family farm in Townsend and began receiving an education at home from an early age. He, along with his brothers, was taught to read from the New Testament and was taught multiplication by his mother. He began formal schooling at the age of nine and would eventually go on to study medicine at Columbia, graduating in 1945. After a failed attempt to continue his studies at University of Toronto due to religious difference, he studied another two years at McGill. In 1846 he finally opened his own practice in Waterford. In 1854 at the age of 34 Alfred married 22 year old Margaret (Mary) Chrysler (1831-1917) of Ancaster, Upper Canada. The two would go on to have eight children together and live in Townsend for the rest of their lives. Alfred continued to practice medicine until his death in 1915 at the age of 95. Margaret passed in 1917 at the age of 86.

Margaret (Peggy) Chellew Adams Clement Forbes was born to Dorothy and Stanley Adams in 1921 in Hamilton, through whom she had a brother Donald Adams. She was later adopted by her Aunt and Uncle William Pope Clement and Muriel Alberta Kerr Clement. Peggy graduated from University of Toronto as an occupational therapist and served overseas with the Red Cross in WWII. Peggy was very involved in the arts and established the LaCloche Art Show in 1977 as well as being involved in many other artistic organizations. Peggy married 21 year old Capt. Donald Rossell Forbes (1920-2005) in 1942 and they had two children: Diana Forbes and Jock Forbes. Donald died in 2005 and Peggy in 2010.

Charles Dickens Creighton was born January 1, 1875 to businessman and politician David Creighton (b. 1843) and Jane Elizabeth Krammer (b. 1852). Charles' father David was editor and published of the Owen Sound Times and an MPP for Grey North. In 1887 the family moved to Toronto where David helped established The Empire newspaper with Sir John A. Macdonald and later was appointed assistant Receiver-General. Charles Dickens attended the University of Toronto, graduating in 1897 and later worked as a journalist, and in education. In 1923 Charles married Gwendolyn Lloyd (1887-1976) of Milwaukee and they had a son, John David (1926-1991). Charles died January 20, 1963.

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.

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.

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.

Vincent Dewell was born about 1813 in Broome, New York. He had a wife named Harriet (nee Ogden) who was born in 1811 and died in 1901. They had four kids together, Daniel [1849-1882], Cyrus [1836-?]. Mahala [1834-?], Franklin [1851-?]. According to a 1851 census of Canada West (Ontario), Durham County district, Dewell was a farmer and his wife was a weaver.

Emma Allen Bowlby Boyd was born August 17, 1862 and died January 25, 1897.

Reverend Edwin Clement was born in Plymouth England on June 2, 1819. He married Mary Couch Pope (1825-1910) in Plymouth on August 4th, 1847. The same year they couple left England for North America, landing in the United States. They later settled in Ontario where Rev. Clement would spend a few years in different cities preaching his ministry. Together he and Mary had seven children: John James Clement (1848), Catherine Louise Clement (1850), Mary Alice Clement (1851), Edwin Perry Clement (1853), Margaret Elizabeth Clement (1856), William Henry Pope Clement (1858) and George Thomas Clement (1860). Rev. Clement died, possibly of liver disease, in the Parkdale area of Toronto on April 4, 1885 and was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery.

Mary Couch Pope was born in 1825 in St. Vincent, West Indies while her father was there as a Wesleyan Methodist Missionary. The family returned to England shortly after her birth and Pope was raised in Plymouth. In 1847 she married Rev. Edwin Clement and the two left England for North America. The couple landed in the United States and later settled in Ontario where Rev. Clement would spend a few years in different cities preaching his ministry. Together they had seven children: John James Clement (1848), Catherine Louise Clement (1850), Mary Alice Clement (1851), Edwin Perry Clement (1853), Margaret Elizabeth Clement (1856), William Henry Pope Clement (1858) and George Thomas Clement (1860). She died in Collingwood, Ontario in 1910.

Pierre Eliot Trudeau was the prime minister of Canada in 1968 to 1979 and 1980 to 1984. Born in Montreal on October 18, 1919, Trudeau was a politician, constitutional lawyer, and a writer. Trudeau was an prominent figure in Canadian politics as well as internationally. He is known for negotiating the independence of Canada from Britain and creating a new Canadian Constitution with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. He was married to Margaret Sinclair and had four children. Trudeau died on September 28, 2000 in Montreal.

Born in Stettler, Alberta on July 11, 1911, Helen MacArthur was a nursing Administrator who later became the head of the Canadian Red Cross in the nineteen 1950s to 1960s. She was awarded in 1954 with the Florence Nightingale Award for her service while in Korea during the 1950s. She retired in 1971, 3 years before her death on December 15, 1974.

Jules Schwerin was a film director.

Suzanne Charlton is a director. She revised one of the plays written by John Herbert, "The Butterfly and The Nightingale".

Tony Kelly worked at a Literary Manager of the Berkeley Repertory Theatre.

Iris Turcott was a dramaturge, director, and actor. She obtained an Honours degree with the University of Western Ontario on English and Drama as well as a Bachelor of Education at the University of Toronto. Turcott has worked with many Canadian stage companies such as the Canadian Stage and the Stratford Festival. She was also part of international plays in Manchester, Melbourne, and the Abbey Theatre. Turcott was also involved in the education and mentorship of the arts, having taught at the National Theatre School of Canada. She was the recipient of the George Luscombe Award in 2008 and the Playwrights Guild of Canada's Honorary Award in 2013. Turcott died on September 22, 2016.

David Rothenberg was a producer, director, and author. Rothenberg is also the founder of the Fortune Society which is an organization that focuses on helping former prisoners to reintegrate back into society. In 1967, Rothenberg helped to produce John Herbert's play, "Fortune and Men's Eyes", which depicts the hardships in prison life. This spurred Rothenberg to later establish the Fortune Society.

Fay Wray was born on September 15, 1907 in Cardston, Alberta. Wray was a Canadian-American actress who found much success in Hollywood. She is most known for her role as Ann Darrow in the movie "King Kong" (1933). She is also considered as the first scream queens in cinema. Wray was a well-rounded actress appearing in all genres of film ranging from dramas and comedies as well as Westerns and horror roles. She also performed her own stunts in films. She died on August 2, 2004.

Gerry Hall was a journalist and editor who worked for the Toronto Star for 37 years. Hall was in charge of various positions at the Star including the Travel, Sports, and Sunday editor, and managing editor for features. He retired in 1991. Hall died on September 12, 2018.

Rienzi Crusz was a poet and retired librarian living in Waterloo, ON. Born in Galle, Sri Lanka, Crusz was educated at the University of Ceylon (B.A. Hons.) and was employed as Chief Research Librarian for the Central Bank of Ceylon. After emigrating to Canada in 1965, he attended the University of Toronto (B.L.S.) and the University of Waterloo (M.A.). He worked at the University of Toronto Library and in 1969 was appointed as a reference and collections development librarian at the University of Waterloo, a position he held until his retirement in 1993.

His creative work first began to appear in periodicals and newspapers in 1968, and in 1974, his first collection of poems was published under the title Flesh and thorn. Since then, numerous other collections have been published. Crusz is an active voice among Canadian immigrant poets, and his work depicts the contrasts between South Asian and Canadian life. In 1994, he won the literature award in the Kitchener-Waterloo Arts Awards.