Edith Louisa Ahrens MacDonald was born April 23, 1900 in Berlin (later Kitchener) Ontario to Henry Jacob Ahrens and Caroline Seiler. She married Hyalie Harris MacDonald May 21, 1925 in Berlin. Edith died in 1993 and was interred in Woodland Cemetery, Kitchener.

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.

General Douglas MacArthur was Commander of the U.S. Army Forces in the Far East, the Philippines, during World War II.

Elizabeth Macadam was a British suffragist and leader in the development of social work. She studied social work at the Women's University Settlement in Southwark, London and then became the warden of the Victoria Women's Settlement in Liverpool where she worked with Eleanor Rathbone. In 1919 she became an officer of the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship as well as editor of the paper, the Woman's Leader. She lived with Eleanor Rathbone at a home in London until Eleanor's death in 1946. Elizabeth died in 1948 in Edinburgh.

John H. Luxton was born September 10, 1898 in Grey County, Ontario, to Norman G. and Mary Isabel Luxton.On September 3, 1929, he married Lillian Grace McLachlan. He was a 2nd Lieutenant in the Scots Fusiliers of Canada ca. 1942. In 1968, he was working as an investment counselor and living in Kitchener, Ontario.

Erneset (Ernie) S. Lucy was a university administrator who served as Dean of Students at the University of Waterloo from 1987 until retiring in 1991. Born September 23, 1923 in Rochester, New York he served in World War II as a member of the United States Air Force. Following the war, he studied Hobart College and completed graduate studies in social psychology, sociology and industrial relations at the University of Minnesota and the University of Illinois, where he obtaining a PhD. After several year working in industry, Lucy joined Waterloo in March 1963 as assistance to the director of Co-ordination and Placement, which would later become Co-operative Education and Career Action. He worked as an adjunct professor in Psychology and a Sociology lecturer in the University's academic program in personnel and administrative studies (PAS) before being named was named Director of the program in 1981. Named Director, Personnel Student Services in 1983, he went on to serve as Dean of Students in 1987. Lucy died at home on October 14, 2014.

Frances Loring was a Canadian sculptor. She was born in Wardner, Idaho. She studied art in Europe as well as Chicago, Boston, and New York. In New York, she shared a studio with Florence Wyle. Loring and Wyle moved to Toronto in 1912, and in 1920 bought an old church and converted it into a studio. Loring and Wyle were both active in Canadian art movements and were founding members of the Sculptors Society of Canada in 1928. Their work can be seen at the National Gallery in Ottawa, Art Gallery of Toronto, and in the streets of Toronto on such buildings as the Toronto General Hospital and Timothy Eaton Memorial Church, and on memorials in small towns in Ontario, New Brunswick and Maine.

Ethel Carol Longfellow (b. 1881) and Anne Sewall Longfellow (b. 1883) were born in Byfield, Massachusetts to Horace and Hannah Longfellow on the family farm. The two sisters attended Smith College, both graduating in the class in 1906. After college both Anne and Ethel moved to Boston and worked in the stenographic and secretarial fields.

Elizabeth Dundas Long was a Canadian journalist and broadcaster who was head of the Women's Talks Department at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba on October 10, 1891, Long was educated at the University of Manitoba where she received her Master of Arts in English Poetry. In 1920 she began working as Reporter of Women's Activities for the Winnipeg Tribune and in 1922 became Editor of the Social and Women's Department at the Winnipeg Free Press. Long worked there until 1926 when she became Associate Editor of the Free Press Prairie Farmer. In 1938 Long joined the CBC, the first woman to be hired by the corporation in an executive capacity, as head of women's interests. She later worked as special advisor to the CBC on women's interests until her retirement in 1956. During this time, and in her retirement years, she held many positions such as Vice President of the International Council of Women. Long died in 1978.

1955: Loney's founded by Yves Hudon.

1961: Yves Hudon buys Grissol and folds Loney's into Grissol Foods Limited.

1972: Grissol, including Loney's, was purchased by Imasco Foods Limited, the food arm of the Imperial Tobacco company.

1983: Imasco Foods, including Grissol, purchased by Culinar, Inc., of Montreal, Quebec.

1999: Montreal cheese company Saputo Inc. buys Culinar, made up of the Vachon snack cakes businesses and the CFS (Cookies, Fine Breads and Soups) Division.

2001: Dare Foods Limited buys Culinar CFS (Cookies, Fine Breads and Soups) from Saputo Inc. Culinar is dissolved. Loney's soups continue to be made in the Grissol fine breads (Melba toast) plant in Ste-Martine, 30 km south of Montreal, Quebec.

2004: Dare Foods Limited sells the Loney's soups business (with related manufacturing equipment) to Produits Alimentaires Berthelet of Montreal, Quebec. Production of Loney's soups moves from the Grissol Ste-Martine plant to Berthelet's facilities in Montreal.

James Lockie was born ca. 1833 in Scotland. He married Margaret Sharp on June 13, 1862. He worked as inspector and then president of the Mercantile Fire Insurance Company and died suddenly on November 11, 1898.

Irene Anthes was born September 8, 1878 to Henry William and Elizabeth "Libbie" (nee Lawrence) Anthes. She married Herbert Alfred Locke in York, Ontario November 23, 1910. She died July 16, 1963 at the age of 84 in Barrie, Ontario and was buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery.

Johanna Maria (Jeny) Lind was a Swedish opera singer who was known as the Swedish Nightingale. Lind was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music and performed across Sweden, Europe, and the United States. In 1849 at the age 29 Lind announced her retirement from opera singing. However, in 1950 P.T. Barnum invited Lind to tour the United States which she did, giving 93 large concerts. She continued to tour the US herself and donated the proceeds of her concerts to charity. For the remainder of her life she gave only occasional concerts, and worked as a professor of singing at the Royal College of Music in England.

Catherine Margaret Liebler was born January 10, 1863 in Manheim, Ontario to Christian and Salome Feick (nee Anthes). She married widower Menno Liebler, originally of Zurich, Ontario, in Perth, Ontario on December 16, 1896.

The Librarians' and Archivists’ Association of the University of Waterloo (LAAUW) exists to support, promote, and create opportunities for professional librarians and archivists at the University of Waterloo Library.

LAAUW was established on October 22, 1976. On this day, a draft constitution was assembled and presented to librarians who then voted to create the association and accept the draft constitution in principle. Shorty after, a nominating committee was established to accept nominations for the posts of President, Vice-President, and Secretary. The first Executive Committee elected consisted of Murray Genoe (President), Gene Damon (Vice-President), and Carla Hagstrom (Secretary). The first duty of the executive was to present a final version of the Constitution to members for approval. A final version of the Constitution was presented to members on January 19, 1977 and was approved. At this time, the Programs Committee and the Compensation Committee were also formed.

LAAUW was active until 1995 and then underwent several years of dormancy. A motion to formally revive the association was passed during the annual general meeting on March 23, 2000.

The association was formally known as the Librarians’ Association of the University of Waterloo (LAUW) until Archivists was added to the association’s name in 2019.

Practiced 1867-1876.

Doris Eileen Lewis (née Pringle) was the first University Librarian of the University of Waterloo Library. Born in Toronto in 1911, she attended the University of Toronto, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1933, a Diploma in Library Science in 1934, and a Bachelor of Library Science degree in 1963.

With the exception of a two-year period (1934-1936) as a circulation librarian at the University of Toronto, Doris Lewis devoted her professional career to the University of Waterloo and its precursor, Waterloo College. She became a lecturer in library science at Waterloo College in 1949, and went on to serve as the head librarian of Waterloo College from 1951 to 1959.

In 1959, she joined the University of Waterloo as its first University Librarian, a post that she held until 1969. From 1969 until her retirement in 1976, Mrs. Lewis served as a collections development librarian.

After retiring from the University of Waterloo, Mrs. Lewis was appointed as a consultant to the book dealer, B.H. Blackwell Ltd. of Oxford. She was active in this capacity while continuing to enjoy her personal library, her country home and her garden until her death in 1985.

The University of Waterloo Library began as a collection of between four and six thousand volumes in science and engineering housed in a single classroom in Engineering 1, the first building on the new campus. Under the leadership of Doris Lewis, the Library's holdings grew to over a million volumes by 1975.

Throughout her career, Doris Lewis was at the forefront of academic library development in Canada. A key figure during the period of rapid expansion of universities during the 1960s, Doris Lewis prepared the original briefs and documentation for the construction of the University of Waterloo's Dana Porter Library. The excellence of her work in this regard led to an invitation from Trent University to act as consultant in the preparation of its library, and in 1969, Doris Lewis was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree by Trent University.

She served as president of the Canadian Association of University Libraries and was a founder of the Ontario Association of College and University Librarians. When the Committee of Presidents of the Universities of Ontario formed the Ontario Council of University Librarians, Doris Lewis was appointed the first chairman of the council.

In 1967, she became the first chairman of the Advisory Joint Council on the Coordination of University Library Research Facilities. She contributed to the preparation of library briefs to the Spinks Commission (the Commission to Study the Development of Graduate Programmes in Ontario Universities, 1966) and to the Bladen Commission (the Commission on the Financing of Higher Education, 1965).

Doris Lewis was a recipient of the Canadian Silver Jubilee Medal (1977), an award that honoured distinguished Canadians in a wide range of endeavours on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II.

In 1982, the University of Waterloo presented the University's 25th Anniversary Medal to Doris Lewis to acknowledge her vital contributions to the university during its formative years.

In recognition and appreciation of her outstanding contributions to the University of Waterloo, the Doris Lewis Rare Book Room, named in her honour, opened in 1976.