Herbert J. Gifford, proprietor.

Gilbert & Bacon was a portrait studio that developed out of the Trask & Bacon partnership in 1870. The studio began under the leadership of William Frank Bacon and found continued success under Frank T. Bacon. William Bacon was the main photographer for the studio. By 1878, the studio gained membership in the Philadelphia Photographic Society. The studio ran out of 830 Arch Street in Philadelphia, while a second gallery was opened in 1886 on 1030 Chestnut Street.

Arthur Clark Gilbey was born April 17, 1893 in England. He lived in Fonthill and in the late 1930's was Nursery Sales Manager, Nursery Stock, at E.D. Smith and Sons, Winona, Ontario. He died in 1949.

Colleen O'Hara Gildner was a translator, homemaker and volunteer born October 18, 1925 in St. Catharines to Minnie and Frederick Maines. She majored in languages at Victoria College in Toronto, graduating in 1947, and worked for several years as a translator for Sunshine Waterloo Company. Together with husband Earl Gildner, she stayed at home to raise their children and volunteered with the Cancer Society and the Heart and Stroke Association. Gildner died November 20, 2023 and was interred at Woodland Cemetery in Kitchener.

Arthur Eric Rowton Gill was born February 22, 1882 in Steyning, Sussex, England. He attended the Chichester Technical and Art School and later moved to London to study to become an architect. While there he took courses in stonemasonry and calligraphy with the Westminster Technical Institute and the Central School of Arts and Crafts. In 1903 he left the architectural profession to focus on calligraphy, letter-cutting and monumental masonry.

Gill's first success as a sculptor came in 1912 while he was living at Sopers in Ditchling, Sussex with his wife Ethel Hester Moore (1878-1961). Gill and Moore had married in 1904 and moved to Sopers in 1907. In 1913 Gill moved to Hopkin's Crank at Ditchling Common and later that year Gill was commissioned to sculpt the Stations of the Cross in Westminster Cathedral.

After the First World War, Gill along with Hilary Pepler and Desmond Chute established The Guild of St. Joseph and St. Dominic, an artist's commune at Ditchling. Over the next ten years over forty people would come to live and work on the Common, which was grounded in Roman Catholic beliefs. During this time Gill and Mary had three girls, Petra, Joan and Betty and adopted one son, Gordian.

By 1924 Gill had moved to Capel-y-ffin, Wales where he established a new workshop. It was here that his work in typeface began, and in 1927 he cut Gill Sans, his most famous typeface.

In 1928 Gill wanted to move closer to London to be near his clients and moved to Pigotts at Speen in Buckinghamshire. From here he carved sculptures for the London Electric Railway, Marlborough College, Queen Mary College and the BBC's Broadcasting House.
Gill's other works include designing the first George VI stamp series for the Post Office and producing a bas relief for the League of Nations building in Geneva. He was also made Royal Designer for Industry and was a founding member of the Faculty of Royal Designers for Industry.
Throughout his career Gill also worked in woodblock cuts and created commissions for a number of personal clients as well as for private press editions.

Gill also founded or partnered in a number of presses, including Hague and Gill with his son-in-law Rene Hague and Saint Dominic's Press with others at The Guild of St. Joseph and St. Dominic. He was also heavily involved with Nonesuch Press and Golden Cockerel Press, providing prints for many of their works.

Gill died of lung cancer in November 17, 1940.

Founded in 1971, the Glow Centre for Sexual and Gender Diversity is longest running queer and trans student organization in Canada.

Run entirely by dedicated student volunteers, Glow promotes a healthy attitude towards all sexual orientations and gender identities at the University of Waterloo by providing a wide variety of peer support, social events, advocacy work, and resources.

For a brief period the organization produced, GLOW News, a newsletter which acted as an educational resource on homosexuality as well as a support and social group for the gay community. Edited by GLOW membership the newsletter consisted of ten issues released between December 1982 and September 1983. Copies of GLOW News are held by Special Collections & Archives [call number UWA 0120]. GLOW News is available on the Waterloo Digital Library.

The Glow Centre for Sexual and Gender Diversity was previously known as Gay Liberation of Waterloo (GLOW), Gays and Lesbians of Waterloo and the Glow Queer and Questioning Community Centre.

Judy Godfrey (1940-) is a researcher and writer from Toronto, Ontario. In the late 1970s, Judy became actively involved in raising awareness of the issue of acid rain, particularly in the Muskoka area of Ontario, and lobbying the governments of Ontario and Canada for action on the issue of acid-rain causing emissions. As a member of the Muskoka Acid Rain Petition Committee, she played a key role in raising support for a petition for action on acid rain. Judy and her husband, lawyer Sheldon Godfrey, have been inovlved in several charitable, environmental, and civic initatives over the years, including the preservation of Ontario's architectural heritage, and have co-authored books and articles about the history of Canadian Jews. (Source: http://archivesfa.library.yorku.ca/fonds/ON00370-f0000435.htm, and content of the fonds.)

Alfred Schneider Gofton was born in Kitchener, Ontario on March 9, 1889 to parents Roger and Elizabeth Schneider Gofton, J.M. Schneider's sister. He lived with the J.M. Schneider family for a time, worked at the plant, and was a friend of J.M.'s son Norman. During World War I Gofton served overseas in the Canadian Army Service Corps in a motor transport unit. He enlisted in 1914 and was not discharged until 1919. He married Charlotte Elizabeth Braun June 6, 1923 with whom he had four children: Eleanor, Marion, Jerene, and Annette. He died November 19, 1985 and was buried at Woodland Cemetery.

Elizabeth Gofton Schneider was born on July 26, 1862 to parents Johann Christoph and Anna Schneider. She was married to Roger Fonger Gofton in 1886 with whom she had one child named Alfred. She died unexpectedly, at the age of 35, on October 15, 1894.

Roger E. Gofton was born on January 4,1863 in Wilmot Township to Robert and Rosannah Fonger Gofton. His occupation was in woodworking. He married Elizabeth Schnieder, the sister of J.M. Schneider, October 20, 1886. Together they had a son named Alfred Schneider Gofton. After the unexpected death of Elizabeth in 1894, Gofton married Anna Woelfle with whom he had 8 children. He died April 3, 1949 and was buried at Mount Hope Cemetery.

Alexander Rodgers Goldie was born June 4, 1873 in Galt (now Cambridge), Ontario to to John Goldie and Margaret Rodgers. After graduating as an engineer in 1893, he went to work in the Goldie McCullough Company, partly owned by his father. He became became president of Babcock-Wilcox & Goldie-McCulloch Co. Ltd. in 1932, and was active in local affairs throughout his life. He died November 9, 1951.

John Goldie was born in Ayreshire, Scotland. He married Margaret Smith on June 18, 1815 and they had eight children : William, John, Elizabeth, James, Jane, Margaret, David and Mary. A botanist and plant collector, he travelled to Canada, New York State, the Maritimes and Russia and discovered species unknown at the time. In 1844 Goldie moved his family to Ontario, to a property which became known as Greenfield, near Ayr, where the family founded first a sawmill, and then a flour and oatmeal mill in 1848.

James Goldie (1824-1912) was the third son of John Goldie. He had moved to the United States in 1842, where he was employed as a gardener and was involved in the flour and lumber business. In 1860 he moved to Guelph, where he built the Speedvale Mill. He operated the mill until 1898, at which time it became the James Goldie Company, Ltd.

Manette Emma Irene (Moser) Anderson Goldsworthy was born in 1916 and died February 6, 2000 in Kitchener Ontario.

Gordon Ray Good as a Kaufman Rubber employee. Good was born August 13, 1905 to Reverend Cyrus Good and Livy C. Hallman in Aylmer, Ontario. Gordon’s father was a New Mennonite Church minister and he and Livy had three children besides Gordon: Grace (b. 1901), Ira (b. 1903) and Myrtle (b. 1909). The family moved frequently during his childhood and they first came to Kitchener in 1910. In 1913 they moved to Blair (now Cambridge) and in 1917 back to Kitchener where Gordon would settle for his adult life.

Good originally began working for Merchant’s Rubber, a subsidiary of Dominion Rubber, in 1923 as a pay clerk in the factory office. After two years with Dominion Rubber, he decided to move on and applied at Kaufman Rubber. He began working in the factory office in the Costs & Payroll department on September 2, 1925. Upon the death of his supervisor Ed Snyder, Good took over as head of Costs and Payroll. He remained with Kaufman until his retirement in September of 1972. He died May 5, 2000.

Armistead Churchill Gordon was an American lawyer and writer born December 20, 1855 in Virginia. Gordon attended the University of Virginia, and later studied law, being called to the bar in 1879. Involved in many aspects of higher education in Virginia he was a member of the Board of Visitors of the College of William & Mary and the University of Virginia, as well as being the first chairman of the Virginia State Library Board. Outside of his work in the law, he published multiple books on the history and peoples of Virginia, as well as collections of poetry.

Ruth Anna Catharine Breithaupt was born April 12, 1910 in Berlin (later Kitchener) Ontario to Albert Liborius and Lydia Louisa Anthes. Her siblings were: Frederick Albert; Maria Martha Louise; Rudolph Anthes; David John; and Arthur Liborius. Ruth was educated as a registered nurse. She married Roderick Gordon (date unknown) and the couple had three children, Catharine Anne, Janet Elizabeth and R. A. James. Ruth died in 2003 in Toronto, Ontario.

Miss Oktoberfest 1974.

Johanna Miriam Priscilla Gowdy was born in 1874 in Waterloo Township. She married John Spiers Taylor in Kingston, Ontario on September 4, 1895.

James Wesley Graham was a Canadian computing pioneer who was known as the "father of computing" at the University of Waterloo and who was "chiefly responsible for the university's international reputation in software development." (Donn Downey, The Globe and Mail).

Born in Copper Cliff, Ontario on Jan. 17, 1932, he studied mathematics and physics at the University of Toronto from 1950-1955. He worked for IBM Canada until 1959 when he joined the University of Waterloo. At first he taught statistics in the the Dept. of Mathematics where a "Computing Centre" was established in 1960. When it became a separate department in 1962, he became the director. He pioneered the creation of software to support education, especially in the teaching of computer programming and in making computing accessible. In the 1960's he worked with the Ministry of Education to develop computer programming instruction courses for high school students. He received the Order of Canada in 1999 for his contributions to computer science. James Wesley Graham died in 1999.

August Gralke Jr. was born in Germany to August and Catherine (nee Krause) Gralke. He died in Berlin, Ontario (now Kitchener) at 20 years of age from tuberculosis and was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery.

The Grand River Conservation Authority is a corporate body governing the cooperative management of the Grand River watershed and its natural resources by municipalities, landowners and other organizations within the watershed. Formed in 1966 following the merging of the Grand River Conservation Commission and the Grand Valley Conservation Authority, the GRCA's origins date back to the 1930s.

In the early 1800s, the Grand River was a source of transportation, power and water for local communities. Settlement led to deforestation, intensive farming and urbanization, which began to hinder the natural cycles of the river. By the 1930s river conditions had become so severe that annual floods, drought and pollution were affecting public health and the economic development of the communities up and down the Grand.

Sponsored by the Grand Valley Boards of Trade and modeled on the fledging Tennessee Valley Authority in the United States, the "Grand River Conservation Commission Act" was passed by the Province of Ontario in 1932. The Grand River Conservation Commission (GRCC) was the first watershed management agency in Canada when it received its formal Letters Patent in August, 1934. The formation of the GRCC marked the first time local municipalities had banded together to address water management issues on a watershed scale. The founding partner municipalities were Brantford, Galt, Kitchener, Fergus and Caledonia. William Philip of Galt was the first chairman, and the commission's head office was in Brantford. Other municipalities soon joined the partnership.

In 1942 the commission completed the Shand Dam near Fergus, the first dam in Canada built for flood control, water supply and water quality purposes. This was followed by the Luther Marsh Dam in 1954 and the Conestogo Dam in 1958. Funding was shared between the federal and provincial governments, (each paid 37.5 per cent) and the local municipalities paid 25 per cent. The GRCC also planted more than two million trees and undertook some of the province's first large scale reforestation projects. The success of the commission, its watershed scope and municipal partnership model led to the Guelph Conference on Conservation in 1941, and the Conservation Authorities Act of Ontario in 1946. This new act led to the creation of 36 conservation authorities across the province.

In 1948, the Grand River watershed municipalities formed their own Grand Valley Conservation Authority (GVCA) under this new act. This new agency had extended powers in the 1950s, which allowed it to acquire many wetlands, forests and natural areas in the watershed. The GVCA also acquired park land for camping, swimming, fishing and canoeing including what would become the Elora Gorge, Rockwood, Pinehurst Lake and Byng Island.

Over time the GVCA's objectives began to parallel those of the GRCC and the two agencies merged in 1966 to form the Grand River Conservation Authority (GRCA), which operates under the Conservation Authorities Act of Ontario. As a corporate body, through which municipalities work cooperatively to manage the water and natural resources in the watershed for everyone's benefit.

The Grand River Conservation Commission was the first watershed management agency in Canada when it received its formal Letters Patent in August, 1934. This was the first time local municipalities had banded together to address water management issues on a watershed scale. The founding partner municipalities were Brantford, Galt, Kitchener, Fergus and Caledonia. William Philip of Galt was the first chairman, and the Commission's head office was in Brantford. Other municipalities soon joined the partnership.

"During the Depression, the federal and provincial governments were more interested in helping people by providing government relief. But the tide was turning: governments were thinking about large-scale public works projects that would provide jobs and help the economy. The federal government’s National Employment Commission supported a proposal for a dam across the Grand River. By April 1938, the province and federal government had each agreed to contribute 37.5 per cent of the project. This left the municipalities to cover the remaining 25 per cent, an amount they could manage. This was divided among the municipalities differently based on tax assessment and benefits such as water supply, flood protection and sewage disposal. A second Grand River Conservation Commission Act was passed by the province in 1938 to broaden the commission’s responsibilities so it could manage the construction projects."

In 1942 the Commission completed the Shand Dam near Fergus, the first dam in Canada built for flood control, water supply and water quality purposes. This was followed by the Luther Marsh Dam in 1954 and the Conestogo Dam in 1958. The Commission also planted more than two million trees on their land and undertook some of the province's first large scale reforestation projects.

The success of the Commission, its watershed scope and municipal partnership model led to the Guelph Conference on Conservation in 1941, and the Conservation Authorities Act of Ontario in 1946. This new act led to the creation of 36 conservation authorities across the province. In fact, the commission supported the creation of the Grand Valley Conservation Authority in 1948 and the two organizations — the GVCA and GRCC had the same chair, William Philip of Galt. They amalgamated in 1966 to form the present day Grand River Conservation Authority and are the two founding organizations of the Grand River Conservation Authority.

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