Barbara Davidson is an award-winning Canadian photographer. Born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, she graduated from Concordia University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Photography and Film Studies. From 1992 to 1996 she worked as a photographer for the Kitchener-Waterloo Record. Since leaving the paper she has covered the war in Bosnia, and conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and has worked for news outlets including The Washington Times and the Los Angeles Times. In 2011 she won a Pullitzer Prize and a National Emmy for her work documenting victims of gang violence in Los Angeles.

Catherine Davidson was born May 15, 1814 in Aberdeen, Scotland, daughter of John and Margaret Davidson. She was a sister of George Davidson, first Sheriff of Waterloo County, Ontario. She lived in Aberdeen with another brother, John, an advocate, until his death in 1884. She died ca. 1900.

Frances (Fannie) Mabee Thorold was born in Charlotteville, Norfolk County on April 6, 1859 to William and Eliza Thorold. She married Alexander Davidson, physician, on September 16, 1886 and died on December 11, 1945.

George Davidson was born May 14, 1814 in Aberdeen, Scotland and came to Canada on his own in 1835 with the Bon Accord settlers who had purchased land near Fergus, Ontario. George developed the village of New Aberdeen but left the businesses he had started there and moved to Berlin (now Kitchener), Ontario. He was the first postmaster of Berlin and in 1853 was appointed first sheriff of Waterloo County. He married Margaret Garden (1811-1894), also from Aberdeen, on June 27, 1836 in Hamilton, Ontario. Together they had six living children, four sons and two daughters. Their daughter Margaret (1839-1900) married Irvine Kempt of Glasgow, Scotland, and her younger sister Elizabeth (1843-1928) married William Roos and stayed in Berlin. George Davidson died April 27, 1881.

Brigade Surgeon Lieutenant Colonel James Davidson was born September 7, 1840, to Alexander Davidson (ca. 1804-October 24, 1888) and Ann Davidson in New Deer, Aberdeenshire. He joined the Indian Medical Service in 1867 and retired in 1892. He died July 26, 1917 in Turiff, Aberdeenshire.

John Davidson, advocate, was born in 1820 to John and Margaret Davidson in Aberdeen, Scotland. He was a brother of George Davidson, first sheriff of Waterloo County, Ontario. He lived in Aberdeen with their sister Catherine until his death in March of 1884.

John Davidson of Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland was an uncle of George Davidson, first sheriff of Waterloo County, Ontario, born approximately 1785 and died after 1848.

Margaret Garden was born on August 31, 1811 in Inverurie, Aberdeen, Scotland to Robert Garden and Jean Davidson. She married George Davidson (1814-1881) on June 27, 1836 in Hamilton, Ontario. They resided in Berlin (now Kitchener), Ontario. Margaret Davidson died on January 24, 1894.

Margaret (Maggie) Rennie Struthers was born in 1854 to Robert and Sarah Struthers. She married Robert Garden Davidson on October 3, 1882. She died on November 26, 1889.

Robert Garden Davidson was born in Berlin (now Kitchener), Ontario on August 2, 1851 to Sheriff George Davidson and Margaret Garden Davidson. He married Margaret (Maggie) Rennie Struthers on October 3, 1882. He died November 17, 1923 in Toronto, Ontario.

Wilhelmina Topp was born September 5, 1855 to Alexander and Jane Topp. She married William Davidson, KC, on September 20, 1877. She died in Toronto, Ontario on September 22, 1943.

William Davidson was born February 7, 1846 in New Aberdeen, Ontario, son of Sheriff George Davidson and Margaret Garden Davidson. He married Wilhelmina (Mina) Topp on September 20, 1877 In York, Ontario. William was a lawyer, eventually becoming a Kings Counsel. He died in Toronto, Ontario on March 13, 1932.

Emily Davies was a British suffragist and activist for women's rights to attend university. Davies was friends with Elizabeth and Millicent Garrett, and helped to found to the Kensington Society along with them. She was also the editor of the English Woman's Journal. Her key area of activism was for education rights for girls and she was key in allowing women to sit official secondary school exams. After campaigning for women to be allowed to attend Cambridge, Oxford, and the University of London, she founded the first college for women in England, which would go on to become Girton College. Although the British senate did not allow to sit for higher education examinations, she continued to teach women these unofficially. In 1906 Davies headed a delegation to parliament to push for women's suffrage. Davies died in 1921.

Bertram Rolland Davis was born in Bristol in 1897. Financial and familial situations prevented him from attending University, and after high school he began to work for the cable company established by his father, where he would stay for forty years. When not working he spent his free time as an amateur scholar with an interest in the Romantics and their links to Bristol. In particular, his interests tended towards former Poet Laureate Robert Southey and boy poet Thomas Chatterton. He corresponded with many of the leading Romantic scholars and critics of the twentieth century including Raymond D. Havens, E.H.W. Meyerstein, Maurice H. Fitzgerald, and Earl Leslie Griggs, and others. Davis also played an active role in preserving the history of Bristol and its famous residents.
To support his research, Davis purchased as many documents relating to the Romantics as he could afford. He amassed a collection of forty-five manuscript groups comprised of original documents by Southey, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and their contemporaries as well as an extensive library relating to his academic interests. His library is known as the Bertram R. Davis “Robert Southey” collection.
After Davis’ death, his personal library, manuscript groups, correspondence, and research files were acquired by the University of Waterloo.
(Bertram R. Davis / Kenneth Curry.)
(Catalogue of the Bertram R. Davis "Robert Southey" Collection / compiled by Jane Britton. -- Waterloo: University of Waterloo Library, 1990.)

Malcolm Bancroft Davis was born January 19, 1890 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. He was Dominion Horticulturist at the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa, Ontario from 1933-1955.He died May 9, 1979.

Emily Wilding Davison was a suffragette who was the first woman martyred for the cause. A member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) beginning in 1906 she was arrested on ten occasions, went on seven hunger strikes, and was force fed 49 times for her protest actions. These actions included arson, throwing stones, breaking windows, and even hiding overnight in the Palace of Westminster. By 1909 Emily had left her job and was working full time for the WSPU and was described by Sylvia Pankhurst as "one of the most daring and reckless of the militants." After being force-fed in Holloway Prison, she attempted to commit suicide by leaping off of the balcony of the prison stating that she felt "by nothing buy the sacrifice of human life would the nation by brought to realize the horrible torture women face!" In 1913 Emily attended the Epsom Derby where she ran onto the race track and was run down by King George V's horse Anmer. It is speculated that she may have been trying to put a suffrage banner on the horse. She died three days later on June 8, 1913.

Sir John William Dawson was born in Port Pictou, Nova Scotia, on October 13, 1820. Dawson was an educationist, geologist, and naturalist. He received his education at Pictou Academy. Additionally, Dawson held an honorary Doctor of Law degree from McGill and a Master of Arts degree from the University of Edinburgh. Dawson became the Superintendent of Education for Nova Scotia in 1850, an office that he held for three years. In 1855, he became Principal and Professor of Natural History at McGill University. Two years later, he was appointed Principal of McGill Normal School for the Training of School Teachers. Dawson established the School of Civil Engineering at McGill in 1858. He was a member of the Natural History Society of Montreal, the Canadian Institute in Toronto, as well as a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. Additionally, Dawson was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an honorary member of the Botanical Society of Canada. He had numerous essays and articles published. Dawson died in 1899.

William Bruce Dendy, Canadian architectural historian, was born in Edmonton, Alberta in 1948 and died May 29, 1993 in Toronto, Ontario. Dendy graduated from the University of Toronto in 1971, received a B.A. in Architectural History from Cambridge University in 1973, and in 1979 received two Masters degrees in architectural history, one from the University of Cambridge, and one from Columbia University in New York. He worked as an architectural historian for the Toronto Historical Board from 1973 until 1976, taught Canadian architectural history at the University of Toronto, at the University of Waterloo, at Carleton University in Ottawa, at Ryerson Polytechnic Institute in Toronto, and at the Toronto Urban Studies Centre. Dendy also worked on a consultancy basis as architectural historian to many Toronto-based architectural firms, developers, and government agencies, and also led architectural walking tours of Toronto.
Dendy's two published works, Lost Toronto (1978) and Toronto Observed: Its Architecture, Patrons, and History (1986), were both published by the Oxford University Press and both won Toronto Book Awards. In 1993 Dendy was awarded an honorary membership in the Ontario Association of Architects, and in the same year he was given an Allied Arts Award for his lectures and books on historical architecture.
(Sources: Freedman, Adele. "A Life's Work: The William Dendy Collection", University of Waterloo Alumni Magazine (spring 1995): 11-15; "Historian Won 2 Toronto Awards", The Globe and Mail, Monday, 31 May 1993; Hume, Christopher. "Architectural Historian's Death a Significant Loss", Toronto Star, Tuesday, 1 June 1993, sec. B., p. 6; "Will Bequest Establishes the William Dendy Collection", Insights (spring 1995): 1-2.)

The Denison family arrived in North America in 1792. They were United Empire Loyalists and a military family.

Denny and the Dinos was made up of graduate students in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at the University of Waterloo.

G. Desrat was a French professor of dance. He wrote many books on the subject including "Le Cotillon" (1855), "Traité de la danse" (ca 1890), "Méthode de danse de salon" (ca 1864), and "Dictionnaire de la danse, historique, théorique, pratique et bibliographique, depuis l'origine de la danse jusqu'a nos jours" (1895).

Dr. John D. Detwiler was an educator born in Roseville, Ontario on July 21, 1878. He was educated at Galt Collegiate Institute, Queens University and the University of Western Ontario. He was a teacher in public and high schools, and became an instructor of entomology and rural education at Cornell University, 1918-1921. At the University of Western Ontario he was assistant professor of zoology 1921-1925, associate professor 1925-1929, professor of applied biology 1929-1946, head of the Department of Applied Biology 1946-1949. He retired in 1949.

Detwiler also acted for a number of years as an investigator for the Biological Board of Canada, the Dept. of Mines and Fisheries, and the Dept. of Game and Fisheries. He served as President of the Canadian Conservation Association 1940-1951.

Detwiler married Hughena Mackenzie Campbell on July 12, 1919. After his retirement he lived in Ayr, Ont. where he died on Aug. 30, 1966.

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.

William Dickson was born in Dumfries, Scotland, in 1769. Dickson was a legislative councillor of Upper Canada, politician, colonizer and founder of Galt, Ontario. He immigrated to Canada in 1792 and later became a lawyer in Niagara. In 1815, after having served as an officer in the Canadian militia in the War of 1812, he was named a member of the Legislative Council of Upper Canada. It was also in 1815 that he purchased the township of Dumfries and began the process of bringing in settlers. From 1827 to 1836, he lived in Galt, Upper Canada. He returned to Niagara in 1836 and died there February 19, 1846.

Edith Louise Anthes was a homemaker born in Guelph, Ontario on , August 1, 1901 to John Isaac Franklin Anthes and Cyrena H. Simmonds. She married Ralph Waldo Emerson Dilworth of Toronto, Ontario on April 2, 1938 in Montreal at the home of her mother. Following their honeymoon, the couple settled in Toronto. Edith died in 1986 and was entombed at Mount Pleasant Cemetery.

Ross Vernon Dixon was an entrepreneur and philanthropist in Kitchener, Ontario. He had a career in industrial relations and his entrepreneurial interests included construction and investment businesses. Dixon was born in Toronto in 1914, and attended the Hillcrest Private School (now Hillfield Strathallan College) in Hamilton. During the 1930s, his family moved back to Toronto where his father started a sporting goods business. Dixon worked for his father for almost ten years, during which time he formed a company to manufacture felt crests for sports uniforms and took extension courses in business administration from the University of Toronto. During that time he also met Doris McRae Whiting from Orillia, Ontario, and they were married in 1942.

Dixon began his career in industrial relations in 1940 when he was hired as Assistant Personnel Manager at Research Enterprises Limited in Leaside, Ontario. In 1944, he became Personnel Manager at Otaco Limited in Orillia, Ontario. In 1947 he accepted the position of Industrial Relations Manager for the Dominion Rubber Company, Footwear Division, in Kitchener, and in 1959 he became the Director of Industrial Relations for the company (which eventually became Uniroyal Canada). Throughout his career, he was an active member of the Industrial Accident Prevention Association, serving as president from 1959 to 1960.

Shortly after Ross and Doris moved to Kitchener, he formed the Westmount Construction Company, which built around 150 homes in Kitchener and Waterloo during the 1950s and 1960s in the area surrounding the Westmount Golf and Country Club. Around 1953, he also formed Westmont Enterprises Limited as a holding company for the Westmount Construction Company and several other interests in which he was involved.

Dixon retired from Uniroyal Canada in 1977 and became a local agent for the Morgan Trust Company, and a year later formed Ross Dixon and Associates. In 1990 he sold a majority interest to a holding company and Ross Dixon Financial Services was formed. This company eventually had thirty franchises in Ontario.

Ross and Doris Dixon were active philanthropists in their community, supporting many charitable organizations as well as providing scholarships for students at Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo through the Ross and Doris Dixon Charitable Foundation. Ross served as a member of the Board of Governors of Wilfrid Laurier University for eight years. In 2002, Ross and Doris Dixon received honourary degrees (LLD) from Wilfrid Laurier University.