James T. Relf (1847-1909) operated a photography business with his brother Will Relf and Arthur McKay from 1870 to 1880, before starting his own company in 1880.

Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft (RRG) was established on May 15, 1925 as an umbrella organization by nine regional broadcasters. In 1931, the company was headquartered in the Haus des Rundfunks (House of Broadcasting) on Masurenalle in Berlin-Westend.

By 1934, the German government gained full control over the corporation. The RRG was nationalized by the Nazi government was used extensively by the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda under Joseph Goebbels to dictate radio programming.

On April 1, 1934 the regional broadcasting companies were incorporated as Reichssender. On 1 January 1939 the RRG was renamed Großdeutscher Rundfunk.

After the Invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, the former RRG became a vital instrument of wartime propaganda. From July 9, 1940 onwards, all Reichssender aired the same uniform nationwide program, which ended with the occupation of the Haus des Rundfunks by the Red Army during the Battle of Berlin on 2 May 1945.

In 1874 Robert Forbes of Scotland purchased the Randall, Farr & Co. Woollen Mill on Queen St. West in Hespeler. The company was incorporated in 1888 as R. Forbes & Co. Ltd. with Robert's sons George and James serving as president and company director respectively. In 1895 with the passing of Robert and James, George took over full operation of the company building it into the largest textile mill in the British Commonwealth. George continued to lead the company until 1928 when it was sold to the Dominion Woollens and Worsteds Co. Ltd.

The newspaper was founded in 1911 and ceased publication in 2010.

The Poets Club was a group establish in London, England in 1908 by Henry Simpson and T.E. Hulme with the purpose of meeting to discuss poetry. The club also published four anthologies of poetry between 1908 and 1913.

The Playwrights Union of Canada started at the Playwrights Circle in 1971 with the central mandate of preserving Canadian plays. Later it became the Playwrights Co-op in 1972 and also focused on publishing works by Canadian playwrights as well as handling rights of intellectual property for playwrights and organizing tours for promotion. By 1977, member established the Guild of Canadian Playwrights to promote the power of playwrights to lobby, negotiate and improve the status of Canadian playwrights' status domestically in Canada as well as internationally. The Playwright Union came about in 1984 with the merger of the Guild and the CO-op. BY 2002 the organization was transformed into the Playwrights Guild of Canada which mediates with the Professional Association of Canadian Theaters as well as printing and publishing plays.

The Paulin-Chambers Company Limited, a biscuit manufacturer, was established in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1876 and was incorporated in 1899. Paulins (as the company was usually called) was acquired in 1926 by the Canada Biscuit Company Limited of London, Ontario.

The Canada Biscuit Company Limited's name changed to McCormick's Limited in 1935. McCormick was in turn acquired by George Weston Limited in 1937.

In 1972, a number of Weston-owned biscuit companies were amalgamated under the name InterBake Foods. At the time, InterBake Foods operated biscuit plants in London, Ontario (at the former McCormick's Limited factory) and Winnipeg, Manitoba (at the former Paulin's plant).

In 1989, InterBake Foods was sold to the Culinar, Inc., a firm in Montreal, Quebec.

The Paulin's plant in Winnipeg, Manitoba was closed by InterBake Foods in 1991 and production was moved to London, Ontario and to other Culinar-owned plants in Montreal, Quebec. In the mid-1990's, Culinar moved all biscuit manufacturing out of the plant in London, Ontario and into its Montreal-based factories.

Culinar Inc. was, in turn, sold to Saputo Inc., a company based in Montreal, Quebec in 1999.

Dare acquired Culinar's biscuit-related assets in 2001.

The Parents' Information Bureau (PIB) was a clinic for family planning and birth control set up by A.R. Kaufman of the Kaufman Rubber Company in the 1930's in Kitchener, Ont. Kaufman became interested in birth control during the Great Depression after determining that seasonal employees with large families were disproportionately impacted by layoffs. He began offering family planning services to his employees, eventually extending them to anyone in Canada with the founding of the PIB. At its peak, the organization employed approximately 50 people in locations across the country who provided services to families in their homes, rather than at clinics. The model allowed families to order supplies by mail, receiving kits that included spermicides, condoms and information about purchasing additional items like diaphragms.

Pan Politae began as a Hi-Y club organized by twenty-five students at Kitchener Collegiate Institute, Kitchener, Ontario in 1937. Its purpose was to work with the Kitchener-Waterloo Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) in organizing boys' groups, to help with repairs and renovations at camps run by the YMCA, and to provide fellowship for their group with social and sports facilities of the YMCA. From 1941 to 1945, the club suspended activities until 1945 when it was re-organized as a Y's Men's club. For the next 28 years, Pan Politae supported many YMCA programs through fundraising and service. The 1970's saw an increase in YMCA membership and diversity of programming, while Y's Men's membership declined. In 1973, Pan Politae ceased operating as an active Men's Club.

The Department of Public Instruction was founded in 1850. The Department of of Public Instruction was replaced by the Department of Education in 1876. In 1972, the Department of Education was renamed the Ministry of Education.

In November 1932, the company’s name was changed to Norddeutsche Rundfunk GmbH.

Nicolas Wines was established in Paris in 1822 with a shop at 53 rue Sainte-Anne. They were the first French company to sell wine in bottles directly to the consumer and now have over 490 stores in France alone.

NBBS was established on February 25, 1940 and aired radio programmes until April 1945.

The National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship was the successor of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies. Eleanor Rathbone was the first president of the society and members included Irene Hancock, Elizabeth Macadam, Eva Marian Hubback, and Corbett Ashby. The society disbanded in 1928 after women received equal suffrage.

The British Women's Temperance Association (BWTA), now called the White Ribbon Association (WRA), is a temperance organization that was founded in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1876 with the goal of education the public about the dangers of drugs and alcohol. They became an affiliate member of the World Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1885, and in 1893 a schism split the group into the Women's Total Abstinence Union and the National British Women's Temperance Association who campaigned also for suffrage. in 2004 the organization changed its name to the White Ribbon Association and today it offers free resources focusing on health education relating to alcohol, drugs and gambling.

International Association of Parents & Professionals for Safe Alternatives in Childbirth was founded in 1975 by David and Lee Stewart. They were inspired to found the organization after being unable to find help for their own home birth, and after over a decade of work in Missouri advocating for alternatives to hospital based births. At its peak the organization had 8,000 members and was focused on lobbying for alternatives to hospital births including midwifery, home births, and natural births.

"The Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing was established in 1981 from the amalgamation of the Ministry of Housing (1973-1981) with the municipal affairs functions of the Ministry of Intergovernmental Affairs (essentially the Office of the Assistant Deputy Minister - Municipal Affairs and the Local Government Division).

Administratively, the Ministry consisted of the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, the Deputy Minister, and four Assistant Deputy Ministers. The four areas over which the Assistant Deputy Ministers were responsible were: Land Development (renamed Real Estate in 1983); Community Planning; Municipal Affairs; and Community Development.

Agencies which reported to the Ministry included the Ontario Land Corporation, the Ontario Mortgage Corporation, and the Ontario Housing Corporation.

The Ministry existed until 1985, when it was divided to form the Ministry of Housing (1985-1995) and the Ministry of Municipal Affairs." (Source: Archives of Ontario: Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing 1981-1985)

"The branches of the Ministry were grouped together under the administration of either the Deputy Minister or one of three Assistant Deputy Ministers. The divisions over which the Assistant Deputy Ministers presided were the Corporate Resources Management Division, the Housing Policy Division (renamed the Housing Planning and Policy Division in 1993), and the Housing Operations Division (originally named the Social Housing Division).

In addition, several agencies reported to the Legislature through the Minister of Housing. These included the Ontario Housing Corporation, the Ontario Mortgage Corporation, the Residential Tenancy Commission, the Residential Rental Standards Board, and the Rent Review Hearings Board.

The Ministry continued to exist until 1995, when it was re-joined with the Ministry of Municipal Affairs to form the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing (1995- )." (Source: Archives of Ontario: Ministry of Housing 1985-1995)

The post was created by the 1940 War Measures Act. The post was merged into the current post of the Minister of National Defence (Canada) in 1946.