Jean May Schneider was born on March 18, 1923 to Frederick Henry and Ella Daniels Schneider. She studied at McMaster University, graduating in 1943, and served as a photographer for the Royal Canadian Air Force during the remainder of the Second World War. She married Robert Hawkings on June 16, 1945, with whom she had three sons: Rob, Bruce and Jim. The family lived for a time in Deep River. She was an active member of the Church of the Good Shepherd (Kitchener) and the Deep River Community Church. Later in life she was involved with the Waterloo chapter of the Canadian Federation of University Women. Hawkings died July 30, 2011 in Waterloo, Ontario.

Elliott Hayes was born on June 22, 1956 in Stratford, Ontario. Hayes was a playwright from a heavily theatre influenced family with his grandfather and father both being actors. His family played a large role in preserving the old city hall in Stratford as well as the gallery in the city. Hayes worked for many years in Hollywood before returning to Stratford in 1981 where he was the Stratford Festival's literary manager, assistant director, and lyricist. In his short career, Hayes created several short stories, poems, and plays such as "Homeward Bound". He died February 22, 1994.

Brita Hazell was born on March 21, 1931. The third child of Norman and Ethel Schneider, she was raised in Kitchener, Ontario alongside brothers Herbert and Howard. Her first marriage was to Robert White, which took place on October 10, 1953. Her second marriage to Roy Graham Hazell (1930-2000) took place March 29, 1969 in San Francisco, California.

Helen Elizabeth Rieder was born to Talmon Henry and Martha Melvina Rieder in 1911, in Berlin. She married Joseph Henderson.

Brian P. Hendley is a member of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo who served as Dean of the Faculty Arts from July 1, 1991, to June 30, 1999.

Dr. John Hepburn is the CEO and Scientific Director at Mitacs.

He received his BSc from the University of Waterloo in 1976, and PhD from the University of Toronto in 1980. He completed two years as a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

John Hepburn began his academic career teaching at the University of Waterloo. He was appointed Assistant Professor in Chemistry and Physics in 1982 and Chair of Chemistry in 1998.

In 2001, he accepted a position at the University of British Columbia as Head of Chemistry and Professor of Chemistry with a joint appointment to Physics & Astronomy. He served as the Dean of Science in 2003, and Vice-President, Research in 2005.

From June 2016 until January 2020, he served as Vice-President, Research and Partnerships at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR).

He began his current role as CEO and Scientific Director of Mitacs in February 2020.

Her Majesty's Stationery Office was the publisher for the Government of the United Kingdom. The corporation published a range of official publications for government departments and other bodies.

The corporation was privatized in 1996.

John Herbert was a Canadian playwright and theatre director. Born and raised in Toronto, Herbert attended Dora Mavor Moore's New Play Society and the National Ballet School of Canada. In 1960 Herbert founded the Garret Theatre with his sister Nana Brundage, and in 1964 wrote his most famous work, Fortune and Men's Eyes, which was in part inspired by his arrest for dressing as a woman and subsequent time spent in a youth reformatory. It was first staged in 1967 in New York and remained his most popular play. Herbert died in 2001.

Caroline Demarez was born November 13, 1813 in Friedrichstal, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. She married Francis Herlan and the couple had four children: Caroline D, Francis Demarez "Frank", Catherine and Lydia Catherine. She died March 12, 1889 in West Seneca, New York.

The Hespeler Furniture Company was started in 1901 in Hespeler, Ontario (now a part of Cambridge) by Mr. George A. Gruetzner, who was originally from Buffalo, N.Y. He worked for The Simpson Co. of Berlin (now Kitchener), Ont., first as a salesman and then as the manager of its factory in Berlin. When this company merged with the Canada Furniture Syndicate, Gruetzner established his own factory in Hespeler in 1901.
George Greutzner was active in the community, serving on the Parks Board, and then on Town Council. He was elected mayor of Hespeler in 1925 and served for five years. He died in 1949. (Source Waterloo Historical Society 37 (1949): 45.)

Alfred Russell Hewetson was born May 31, 1887 in Toronto, Ontario to parents John William and Eliza Jackson. His father founded the J.W. Hewetson Shoe Company in 1908 in a factory he built in Toronto. The company initially fared well but their progress was abruptly halted in 1913 when the Toronto factory caught fire and was completely destroyed. J.W. Hewetson was determined to rebuild his business and decided to move his company to Brampton, where both land and labour were less costly. In order to obtain a loan from the town of Brampton, Russell had to be involved in the running of the company. Russell was studying for the ministry at the time at the University of Toronto, but he gave up his studies and went into business with his father. Russell sought to integrate his social ideals into the operation of the Hewetson Shoe Company by turning the company into a cooperative where workers shared in the profits. Had it been· achieved this would have been a significant innovation in the business realm, however, he died at age 40 on February 8, 1928. Russell was buried in Brampton Cemetery, Brampton.

Russell, as he was known, met Rosa Melvina Breithaupt of Kitchener through their Christian Endeavour work and they married on October 10, 1917. The couple lived in Brampton and had four children: Ruth Evelyn; Dorothy "Dodie" Elizabeth; Rosemary "Posey" and John Russell "Russ". After Russell's death, Rosa remarried Herbert Spencer Clark in 1932 and together the couple founded The Guild of All Arts in Scarborough.

Annie Elizabeth May Hewlett (1887-1974) was a writer in Saskatchewan. She was born Annie Elizabeth May Brown in Sutton-on-Hull, Yorkshire, England, on February 25, 1887. At the age of 12 she established a newspaper that continued to circulate in her district for years after she immigrated to Canada. She attended teachers college in London and taught school prior to her sailing for Canada in the spring of 1911. That summer, she taught painting at Banff, and in December of that year, she married Arthur Hewlett. Early in 1912, Arthur and Annie Hewlett moved to Cannington Manor in southeast Saskatchewan. During the depression years, Annie wrote a column called "Down on the farm" for the Saskatchewan Farmer. In 1970, at the age of 83, she published her first book, A too short yesterday, and in 1972-1973 a serial, "The gate," appeared in the Western Producer. Exhibitions of her watercolour paintings were held at the Regina Public Library, as well as one in Laguna Beach, California. She was the first president of the Saskatchewan Homemakers' Association for farm wives, and a member of the Canadian Women's Press Club.

Percy R. Hilborn was born in Berlin (now Kitchener), Ont. in 1886. He graduated from McGill University and became a prominent industrialist and philanthropist in Preston, Ont., now part of Cambridge. He was involved in furniture manufacture, including the Canadian Office and School Furniture Co. and Canada Sand Papers Ltd.
He served the community in many ways: he was charter president of the Rotary Club of Preston-Hespeler, chairman of the Preston Planning Board, and a charter governor on the Board of Governors of the University of Waterloo in 1957. He was named to the honour roll of the Grand River Conservation Authority after donating a 145 acre park.

Britton L. Hill was born on June 11, 1884 to Reverend Lewis W. Hill and Margaret M. Long in Brock, Ontario.

He married Grace Mildred Huff on May 28, 1908 and together they had three children; Lewis Eugene Hill (1909-1976), Margaret Elizabeth Hill (1911-1990), and Cameron Clare Hill (1920-1988).

Britton and his family moved to Kitchener, Ontario in 1930 and lived in a house at 49 Simeon Street.

Britton died on April 14, 1959.

Cameron "Cam" Clare Hill was born on November 17, 1920 to Britton L. Hill and Grace Mildred Huff in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He was raised alongside his two siblings; Lewis Eugene Hill (1909-1976) and Margaret Elizabeth Hill (1911-1990).

Cameron and his family moved to Kitchener, Ontario in 1930 and lived in a house at 49 Simeon Street.

Cameron attended Suddaby Public School, originally known as Central School, and then Kitchener Waterloo Collegiate and Vocational School. As a teenager, Cameron enjoyed skiing and was a member of the Chicopee Ski Club in Kitchener, Ontario.

On June 27, 1940, Cameron enlisted to serve with the Royal Canadian Air Force Special Reserve during the Second World War. Cameron's attestation papers are dated October 14, 1940. He was assigned ID # R75616.

Subsequently, Cameron was enrolled in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP), a joint military aircrew training program created by the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand during the Second World War. Between 1940 and 1941, Cameron Hill was stationed at three different airbases and received specialized training in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP). He was certified as a Bomb Aimer & Air Gunner at the Royal Canadian Air Force Station Jarvis in the No. 1 Bombing and Gunnery School. He was also certified as an Astronomical Navigator at the Royal Canadian Air Force Station Rivers (later renamed CFB Rivers) in the No. 1 Air Navigation School. In addition, he was certified as an Observer at the Royal Canadian Air Force Station Malton in the No. 1 Air Observer School. Cameron celebrated his BCATP Wings Parade on June 7, 1941 and was promoted to the rank of Flight Sergeant.

On August 15, 1941, Cameron Hill sailed with a convoy transporting Allied troops from Halifax Harbour in Halifax, Nova Scotia to Liverpool, England. The convoy briefly stopped over in Iceland. Cameron was temporarily stationed in England from September 1941 to May 1942 to complete additional training. He was assigned to No. 11 Operational Training Unit RAF (11 OTU) on September 30, 1941.

Shortly after, he was assigned to the No. 40 Squadron of the Royal Air Force and eventually was deployed from England to the Middle East in May 1942. The No. 40 Squadron of the Royal Air Force was based near El Alamein, Egypt less than 100 kilometers from the cities of Cairo and Alexandria. The Squadron commenced operations near El Alamein on June 23, 1942 and carried out raids to Tobruk, Libya, Beersheba, Israel, and El Dabaa, Egypt.

On October 7, 1942, Cameron and fellow aircrew left the base at El Alamein, Egypt to complete a flight operation flying towards Tobruk, Libya. During the flight, the aircraft propeller fell off and the engine failed. All aircrew members were forced to bail out of the Vickers Wellington aircraft by parachute in the early morning hours on October 8, 1942. Cameron and fellow crew member, Pilot Bowhill, were separated from the other four members of the aircrew during the crash landing and set out on foot for British lines. Cameron and Bowhilll were captured by Axis powers on October 11, 1942.

Between October 1942 and May 1945, Cameron Hill was held in custody as a prisoner of war (POW) and sent to POW camps in Libya, Italy, Austria, Prussia, Poland, and Germany. In May and September 1942, Cameron received two rank promotions to Commissioned Officer.

In the early months of 1945, Cameron Hill was forced to march westward across Germany along with many other Allied prisoners of war during the final stages of the Second World War. On May 2, 1945 Cameron was near the town of Kittlitz when a patrol of vehicles of the British Second Army arrived and liberated the Allied prisoners of war.

Cameron returned to England on May 11, 1945 and was repatriated back to Canada on June 1, 1945. Cameron was honourably released from service on September 21, 1945 and transferred to the Reserve, General Section, Class "E." He received five medals for his service during the Second World War including the 1939-1945 Star, Africa Star, Defence Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, and the War Medal 1939-1945.

After the war, Cameron completed some business courses at the University of Toronto with benefits from the Veteran's Charter. Eventually, he joined his father in the family business, Bernardo Hill Tile & Terrazzo (later Hill & Glasser Ltd.)

Cameron married Jean Margaret Thompson on May 19, 1948 and together they had three children; James Cameron Hill (b. May 13, 1949) and twins Barbara Jean Hill and Gregory John Hill (b. May 7, 1951). Cameron was actively involved with the Kitchener-Waterloo Young Men's Christian Association and received the YMCA's highest honour, the Lou Buckley Award, after forty years of service.

Cameron died on October 31, 1988 in Kitchener, Ontario.

David Hill was an American artist, born Nov. 19, 1914 in New York and who died Aug. 31, 1977 in Paris, France. He grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, worked and painted in New York from 1942-1947, and moved to Paris in 1947, where he spent the rest of his life.

Grace Mildred Huff was born on December 8, 1888 to William James Huff and Elizabeth Starkweather in Dresden, Ontario.

She married Britton L. Hill on May 28, 1908 and together they had three children; Lewis Eugene Hill (1909-1976), Margaret Elizabeth Hill (1911-1990), and Cameron Clare Hill (1920-1988).

Grace and her family moved to Kitchener, Ontario in 1930 and lived in a house at 49 Simeon Street.

Grace died on June 10, 1943.

Graham Hill received a B.A. from the University of Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1968, an M.A. from the University of Lancaster in 1969, and an M.L.S. from the University of Western Ontario in 1970. He joined McMaster University in January 1971.

Hill served as the University Librarian at McMaster University from 1979 until his retirement in 2005.