Major General Sherman Miles was the Assistant Chief of Staff G-2 (the head of the Military Intelligence Division) in the time leading up to World War II.

Alexander M. Millar was born November 4, 1835 in Berlin (now Kitchener), Ontario to Frederick Gourlay Millar and Isabella Henderson. He became a solicitor, was called to the Bar in 1863, and practised in Berlin. He was appointed Q.C. in 1889. During the course of his career, he served in many official roles, including as solicitor for the town of Berlin from 1869 to 1884 and as Mayor of Berlin in 1884-1885. He married Margaret Warren in 1865 and had three children. Alexander Millar died December 11, 1918.

Dr. Anne Millar completed her PhD in history at the University of Ottawa and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo, where she conducted oral histories of women in engineering.

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.

"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)

Roy Matthews Mitchell was born in Fort Gratiot, Michigan, in 1884. Mitchell attended the University of Toronto and received a BA in journalism, a career he worked in for 13 years. He later founded the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto where he was involved in staging dramatic productions. In 1919, he became the first director of the Hart House Theatre, leaving in 1921 to return to New York where he worked in the theatre, and later as a professor of Drama at New York University. He died in 1944.

Joan Molloy was an administrative secretary. She was bon June 21, 1931 in Sault Ste. Marie. She joined the University of Waterloo in 1960 as secretary for Ted Batke. Prior to retiring in 1993 she served as secretary for two Waterloo vice-presidents and four presidents, including J. G. Hagey. Outside of work Molloy enjoyed travelling and wintering in Floria. She was a member of the University Women's Club and the First United Church in Waterloo. She died at St. Mary's Hospital in Kitchener, Ontario on April 20, 2003 and was buried at Parkview Cemetery in Waterloo.

Frances Kathleen Montgomery was a Canadian academic, writer and poet. She was born in Woodstock, Ont., on Feb. 19, 1903, the daughter of Robert D. and Genevieve Montgomery. She received her early education in Woodstock and graduated from Woodstock Collegiate Institute in 1923, winning an entrance scholarship to the University of Western Ontario for French, German and History. During her undergraduate years there, from 1923 to 1927, she continued to excel in her studies, winning several awards and scholarships. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1927 and a Master of Arts degree, French and German, in 1928, after which she was awarded a provincial scholarship from the Ontario Dept. of Education for study in France. She studied for two years at the Sorbonne, and received a Doctorat de l'Université de Paris in 1930.

Upon her return to Canada, Montgomery was hired to teach at the University of Western Ontario, where she remained until retirement in 1963. During those years she continued to study, in Spain, Mexico and again in France. She interrupted her teaching career to join the Canadian Women's Army Corps and served from 1942-1945, rising in rank from private to captain. In 1963 Frances Montgomery was hired by the University of Waterloo to start a Department of French. She was appointed as a full professor in 1963, and was the first Chair of the Dept. of French. She retired to Victoria, B.C. in 1968.

Montgomery's interests and activities were many and varied. She was an accomplished musician from an early age, playing both piano and violin. She played tennis and golf and for many years engaged in camping and climbing holidays. As well, she had a reputation as an excellent cook and a witty conversationalist. Many articles and poems written by her were published in newspapers over the years. Her interest in discrimination against female academics led her to submit a brief to the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada in 1968.

Montgomery died August 23, 1989 in Victoria, British Columbia and was interred at Hatley Memorial Gardens.

Linda Mortsch is a Senior Researcher at Environment and Climate Change Canada as well as an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Waterloo. Her research areas include impacts of climate change on water resources and wetlands in Canada, climate change scenario development, and "effective" communication of climate change information. With over 20 years of research experience, Mortsch has led a Canada-U.S. integrated climate change impact assessment in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Basin, been federal co-chair of the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment (CCME) Indicators Task Group, was a lead author for the Water Chapter the Canada Country Study and a co-author in Environment Canada’s “Threats to water availability in Canada” and has provided expert advice to organizations including the United Kingdom Climate Impacts Program (UKCIP), the U.S. National Climate Assessment, OURANOS, Standing Committee of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region, Natural Resources Canada, International Joint Commission, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. In 2007 Mortsch was co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for her work as the Coordinating Lead Author of the North America Chapter of the 2007 IPCC Fourth Assessment Report.

The Kitchener branch of the Motz family came to Canada on June 2nd, 1848 when John Motz (1830-1911) followed his elder sister Regina Motz (1819-1909) and her husband Frederick Noll (1810-1871) from Germany to Waterloo County. John Motz was born to Johannes Motz and Margaretha Schroeter in 1830 in Diedorf, Germany. As his elder brother Lorenz was set to inherit the family land, John opted to take the 64 day ocean voyage from Hamburg to Quebec City to find a new life for himself in Canada. Once he made his way to Kitchener he stayed with his sister and brother-in-law and worked briefly as a farmer and woodcutter before finding work as an apprentice tailor with Christoph Nahrgang. John Motz apprenticed with Nahrgang for three years and in 1857 moved to Rockwood, Ill. It was here that he met Joachim Kalbfleisch and the two moved back to Canada to settle in Kitchener. Kalbfleisch would later go on to run the Canadische Bauernfreund Newspaper of Waterloo.
On his return to Kitchener, John Motz enrolled in grammar school with the objective to learn English and become a teacher. However, his plans were sidetracked by his friend Frederick Rittinger who had come to Canada from Germany in the same year. Rittinger had been apprenticing as a printer with the Deutsche Canadier and in 1859 the two attempted to buy out the paper. When this proved to be unsuccessful, they decided to set up their own printing company and establish a new paper, the Berliner Journal. The first issue was published on December 29, 1859 and the two continued in partnership for almost 40 years until October 12, 1897 when a sudden illness took Frederick Rittinger. In 1880 John Motz was made mayor of Berlin and in 1900 he was appointed honorary Sheriff of Waterloo County after his 1899 retirement from the newspaper.
By this time John Motz had met and married Helena Vogt (1832-1924) on February 17, 1868. Helena had emigrated from Germany with her family in 1852. Helena’s older sister Barbara (1823-1890) married Rienhold Lang (1817-1883) in Germany and the two of them also immigrated to Canada in 1846 where they would found the Lang Tannery. John and Helena had four children: Mary (1868-1933), William John (1870-1946), Louisa (1874-1944) and Carl Joseph (1878). Mary became Sister Maria Anna, a nun of the order of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, Louisa married John A. Zinger (1871-1903) and lived on a portion of the Motz family lands in Kitchener with their daughter Leone, and William John followed in his father’s footsteps.

William John Motz took over his father’s place in Rittinger & Motz in 1899 when John retired. He and Frederick Rittinger’s son John Adam continued to run the company and the newspaper. By the time that William John took over from his father, the Berliner Journal had begun to amalgamate with other newspapers in the area. In 1897 they purchased the Daily News and Berlin Daily Record, in 1899 the Berlin News Record and Berlin Daily Express, in 1904 Die Ontario Glocke, in 1906 Der Kanadische Kolonist, in 1908 Canadische Volksblatt, and in 1090 Der Canadische Bauernfreund. In 1917 the Berliner Journal is renamed the Ontario Journal and absorbs the Daily News and Berlin Daily Record becoming the exclusively English language Berlin News Record, and in 1918 the Kitchener Daily Record.
While the name of the paper was undergoing its own changes, so was the ownership. In 1915 John Adam Rittinger died and his share in the company was purchased by Senator William Daum Euler. Euler and William John did not see eye to eye and correspondence in the collection shows that their business relationship was tense. Euler’s share in the company ended up becoming a minority share and was eventually purchased in 1953. In his personal life, William John had married Rose Huck (1875-1950) in 1901. Together they had two children, John George (1906-1908) and John Edward (1909-1975). William John was very involved in the publishing community and served as the President of the Canadian Daily Newspapers Association.

In 1946 William John died and his share of the company passed to his son John Edward who took over his father’s position as publisher. In 1948 the paper was renamed the Kitchener-Waterloo Record, a name that it would be known by until 1994. John E. Motz married Mary Helen Stoody (1912-1967) in 1932 and together they had eight children: William John (1933-?), John Edward (1934), Rosemary Eileen (1935-1962), Margaret Ann (1937-?), Mary (1941), John George (1943-?), Ann Elizabeth (1947-?) and Paul John (1950-?). In 1975 John Edward stepped down from his position at the Record, but three of his sons were still working there. In 1990 the Kitchener-Waterloo Record finally left the hands of the Motz family when it was sold to Southam.

Motz was elected mayor of Berlin in July 1880 following the death of Louis Breithaupt, Sr and re-elected again into the position in January 1881.