Benjamin Shantz was a farmer and mill operator born September 21, 1811 to Christian Schantz and Hannah Paul. He married Lydia Kolb on November 5, 1833 and together the couple had eleven children; Josiah K. Shantz (1834-1913), Catharine Shantz (May 17, 1836-February 28, 1917), Hannah Shantz (April 1, 1838-August 20, 1841), Christian Shantz (January 20, 1840-?), Tobias Kolb Schantz, Abraham K. Shantz (September 20, 1844-?), Benjamin K. Shantz (December 5, 1846), Menno K. Shantz (January 31, 1849-July 6, 1888), Lydia Kolb Shantz (1851-1900), Sarah K. Shantz (April 1, 1854-April 10, 1878), and Enoch K. Shantz (October 7, 1856-May 25, 1888).

After Benjamin married Lydia he worked on his father's farm in Freeport, Ontario. In 1853, Benjamin and his family moved to Saugeen, Bruce County, Ontario. At some point, Benjamin owned a gristmill in Port Elgin, Ontario.

Lydia died on November 9, 1862.

Following the death of his wife Lydia, Benjamin remarried. He married Margaret Swinton on March 9, 1863. The couple had four children; Jacob S. Shantz (December 23, 1863-July 16, 1865), Israel S. Shantz (July 8, 1865-?), Isaac S. Shantz (February 17, 1867-?), and Rebecca S. Shantz (October 9, 1868-?).

Around 1864 or 1865 Benjamin and his family moved to Montgomery County, Missouri, and later to Dallas County, Missouri.

Benjamin died on November 9, 1868.

Christian Shantz was a white settler who, along with his wife and children, was the first of the Schantz Russel family ancestors to make a home in what is now the Region of Waterloo. He was born July 11, 1769 in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania to Jacob Shanz, originally from Switzerland, and Catherine Beary. Shantz married Hannah Paul, also from Montgomery County, in 1791 and together they had ten children: Catharine, Elizabeth, Magdalena, Jacob, David, Heinrich, Susannah, Hannah, Benjamin and Rebecca. In 1810 the family emigrated to Canada, settling at Freeport on the Grand River. Shantz died April 7, 1857 in what is now Kitchener, Ontario and was buried in the First Mennonite Cemetery.

Hannah Shantz was a white settler who, along with her husband and children, was the first of the Schantz Russell family members to make a home in what is today the Region of Waterloo. She was born in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania on September 10, 1772 to Friedrich and Maria Sophia (nee Bauer) Paul. She married Christian Shantz, also of Montgomery County, in 1791 and together they had ten children: Catharine, Elizabeth, Magdalena, Jacob, David, Heinrich, Susannah, Hannah, Benjamin and Rebecca. In 1810 the family emigrated to Canada, settling at Freeport on the Grand River. Shantz died July 10, 1845 in what is now Kitchener, Ontario and was buried in the First Mennonite Cemetery.

Josiah Kolb Shantz was a farmer and caretaker born in Freeport, Ontario to Benjamin Shantz and Lydia Kolb on December 5, 1834. He married Anna Kolb on October 6, 1860 and together they had several children: Elizabeth, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Lorena Anna ad Elo Josiah. Shantz died in Kitchener on August 3, 1913 and was buried in the First Mennonite Cemetery.

Lorne Rayborn "Ray" Shantz was born March 16, 1905 in Plattsville, Ontario, the son of Jacob M. Shantz and Mary Ann Bingeman. He moved to Kitchener in 1925, where he met and married Lorraine Schneider. Shantz retired from his position as Advertising and Public Relations Manager at J.M. Schneider Inc. in 1970. He was first elected to the Kitchener Public School Board in 1946, serving as the chairman of Physical Health and Safety Committee in 1947 and as Board chairman from 1948 to 1949 and in 1953. He died January 1, 1982 and was buried at Woodland Cemetery.

Lorne Raymond Shantz was born August 1, 1934 to Lorne Rayborn and Lorraine Shantz (nee) Schneider. He worked for J.M. Schneider, Inc. for 41 years. Shantz moved to Southampton, Ontario following his retirement, where he died November 25, 2009 at 75 years of age. He was buried at Woodland Cemetery in Kitchener.

Lorraine Schneider Shantz was born on July 27,1910 and was the only child of Charles and Georgina Schneider. She married Lorne Rayburn Shantz and together they had two children:, Lorne Raymond and Charles Alexander. Shantz died at St. Mary's Hospital on September 12, 1993 and was buried at Woodland Cemetery.

Lydia Kolb was born on May 13, 1814 to Deacon Jacob Kolb Sr. (April 17, 1781-January 3, 1869) and Catharine Clemens (May 21, 1782-January 25, 1869) in Pennsylvania.

Lydia married Benjamin Shantz on November 5, 1883 and together the couple had eleven children; Josiah K. Shantz (December 5, 1834-August 3, 1913), Catharine Shantz (May 17, 1836-February 28, 1917), Hannah Shantz (April 1, 1838-August 20, 1841), Christian Shantz (January 20, 1840-?), Tobias Kolb Schantz, Abraham K. Shantz (September 20, 1844-?), Benjamin K. Shantz (December 5, 1846), Menno K. Shantz (January 31, 1849-July 6, 1888), Lydia K. Shantz (August 17, 1851-July 16, 1900), Sarah K. Shantz (April 1, 1854-April 10, 1878), and Enoch K. Shantz (October 7, 1856-May 25, 1888).

After Lydia and Benjamin married, they moved to Freeport, Ontario so that Benjamin could work on his father's farm. In 1853, Lydia and her family moved to Saugeen, Bruce County, Ontario.

Lydia died on November 9, 1862 in Bruce County, Ontario.

Margaret Swinton was born to Alexander and Jane Swinton on July 5, 1840.

On March 9, 1863, Margaret married Benjamin Shantz and together the couple had four children; Jacob S. Shantz (December 23-1863-July 16, 1865), Israel S. Shantz (July 8, 1865-?), Isaac S. Shantz (February 17, 1867-?), and Rebecca S. Shantz (October 9, 1868-?).

Around 1864 or 1865 Margaret and her family moved to Montgomery County, Missouri, and later to Dallas County, Missouri.

Daughter of Stanley and Charlotte Shupe. Died August 11, 1986 at Sudbury Laurentian Hospital.

Nellie Sharpe was born Nellie Sims on February 11, 1877, to James Campbell and Martha Sims. She married Richard C. Sharpe in 1905. She died in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1959.

K. Mary E. Shaw was a teacher and/or student at the Battersea Polytechnic Institute in 1904. Battersea College of Education had its origins in the department of ‘Women’s Studies’ at Battersea Polytechnic Institute. A special grant had been given to the Polytechnic by London County Council to open a teacher training school in domestic economy, and the first eleven full-time students started their course in 1894. The department was reorganized by the Board of Education as a teachers’ training school in 1895. The Battersea Polytechnic Institute eventually became the University of Surrey. (Source: Pickering & Chatto antiquarian booksellers – catalogue)

Robert Jon Meyer Shipley was born in Toronto on February 26, 1948, the youngest of three children to Miriam Irene (Smith) and Captain Vernon Meyer Shipley (captain in the Pay Corps and served as paymaster at the Royal Military College). Shortly after his birth, the family moved to Kingston (1952) and later to London (1959).

Robert J. M. Shipley got an Honours BA from the University of Western Ontario in History and Philosophy in 1972. Between 1972 and 1976 he was an officer of the Canadian Armed Forces serving in Calgary, Chilliwack, Halifax, Atlantic Canada, the Caribbean, Europe, and London (Ontario). In 1976, Shipley was released from the Armed Forces and became a freelance writer, publishing articles in different media (sometimes under the pseudonym Jon Meyer) and receiving several research grants for his work on Canadian history and heritage. During this time, Robert Shipley also worked as an editor, wrote and published poetry and theatre plays, taught courses on writing in schools throughout Ontario, and illustrated many of his own articles and publications. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Shipley’s work focused on corporate and community histories, political speeches, planning studies, and tourist promotions, and publishing history and fiction books.

Shipley’s paintings were selected in the Western Ontario Jury Show; were displayed in galleries in Halifax, Toronto, and London; and appeared regularly in Perception Magazine. In 1978, he travelled to Cyprus to illustrate a book about Canadian soldiers on UN peacekeeping duty titled The 8th Hussar: Cyprus 1978-1979.
Between 1984 and 1987, Robert Shipley worked as the administrator at the Welland Canals Preservation Association (WCPA) and, in 1987, he became the senior developer consultant for the Welland Canals Society. In the late 1980s, Shipley’s work focused on cultural heritage, heritage-based tourism, and community development.

In 1990, Shipley began his Ph.D. studies at the University of Waterloo, becoming an active associate of the University’s Heritage Resources Centre (HRC). Shipley received his doctorate in 1997 with his dissertation Visioning in strategic planning : theory, practice and evaluation, and joined the University of Waterloo's Faculty of Environment as Professor and Associate Director of the School of Planning. While at the University of Waterloo, Shipley conducted international research on cultural heritage issues and published dozens of articles, book chapters and consulting reports. In 2003, he became the director at the HRC. As an academic, Shipley was a guest lecturer at Michigan State University, the University of Western Ontario, Brock University and Niagara College.

Robert Shipley retired in 2016 and, in 2018, he received the National Trust for Canada’s Governors’’ Award.

In 1983, Shipley married Pamela Fielding. The couple had a son, Ceilidh Jamieson Meyer, in 1985. The couple divorced in the 1990s. In the 1990s, Shipley met who would become his second wife, Dana Švihlová.

During his professional years, Robert Shipley published numerous books, including, among others:

• Relation ships (1984),
• To mark our place : a history of Canadian war memorials (1987),
• St. Catharines, garden on the canal : an illustrated history (1987),
• The girl who got stuck in the… mud (1987),
• Written with Fred A. Addis and part of the Great Lakes Album series: Paddle wheelers (1990), Schooners (1990), Propellers (1992), and Wrecks and disasters (1992),
• Exploring the value of heritage properties (1992),
• On leaving Bai Di Cheng : the culture of China’s Yangzi Gorges with Caroline Walker, Ruth Lor Malloy, and Fu Kailin (1993),
• Editor of The first 50 years by the Faculty of Environment at the University of Waterloo (2019).

Arthur Gordon Shoosmith (1888-1974), an English architect who worked in India, was born in St. Petersburg in 1888. He grew up in Russia and Finland and was educated in England at Haileybury. He served his articles in Reading, and then attended the Royal Academy Schools in 1911. After serving in the war as an interpreter for the Intelligence Corps, he worked for the architectural practices of H.S. Gooodhart-Rendel, and J.J. Burnet. In 1920 he won the Soane Medallion and was appointed as Edwin Lutyens's representative in New Delhi, where he worked from 1920-1931. He was nominated by Lutyens for the commission of the design of St. Martin's Garrison Church in New Delhi (1928-1930), and his other major work is the Lady Hardinge Serai in New Delhi (1931). Shoosmith returned to England in 1931, where he made a career of teaching and as an inspector with the Ministry of Town and Country Planning. He retired in 1957, and died in 1974. Source: Davies, Philip: "Shoosmith, Arthur (Gordon)" The Grove Dictionary of Art Online, (Oxford University Press, Accessed [13 April 2004]) http://www.groveart.com.

William E. Short was born in Tottenham, England on Dec. 18, 1878. He enlisted with the 34th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Jan., 1915 in Galt, Ont., trained in Canada and England, and arrived in France on Aug. 3, 1915, where he was attached to the 1st Battalion. He was promoted to Corporal on Oct. 11, 1916 and to acting Company Quartermaster Sergeant on Feb. 1, 1917. William Short married Lilly Meechum August 7, 1918, while on leave in London, England, a fact not noted in his diary. W.E.Short returned to Canada in May, 1919. (Source: attestation papers, diary contents.)

Elizabeth Smith was born January 18, 1859 at 'Mountain Hall', Vinemount. She was educated by a governess in the home, at Winona School and at the Hamilton Collegiate Institute. She attended Queen's University, Kingston and received her degree in medicine at the Royal Medical College in 1884 (one of the first 3 women M.D.'s in Canada). She also received a diploma from the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons.

For two years Dr. Elizabeth Smith practised in Hamilton. She was married December 3, 1886 to Adam Shortt. They moved to Kingston where Elizabeth lectured at Queen's on Medical Jurisprudence and Sanitary Science. She worked for the first Y.W.C.A. in Canada and served as its president, and was a sponsor of the Kingston Musical Club and presided over it for seven years.

In September 1908 she and her husband, Dr. Adam Shortt, moved to Ottawa where she became very active in the local, provincial, and National Council of Women affairs. In connection with these organizations she wrote pamphlets on social aspects of tuberculosis, housing, inspection of markets, clean-up weeks, fly control, pasteurization of milk, care of mentally deficient, child welfare, and mother's pensions'. In 1911 she was the first Convener of the Public Health and Mental Hygiene Committee of the National Council of Women. She was also Convener of the Committee on Immigration in the Council and was instrumental in organizing a hostel for women immigrants in Ottawa. She was largely responsible in convening a committee to petition the Provincial Government to establish Mother's Allowances in Ontario, and when this was accomplished in 1920, she was appointed vice-chairman of the Provincial Board of Mother's Allowances and acted in that capacity for seven years. She died in Ottawa Jan. 14, 1949.

Muriel Shortt and Roger Clark married in 1917 and settled into fruit farming in Vineland. Her portion of the fonds contains details of the struggle to become established in this field.
Lorraine Shortt, a graduate of Queen's, chose a field in the public service - social work, and the collection traces her successful career in this area.

The diaries of Rev. J. H. Shoults provide details of his life history over the period 1870-1884. Rev. Shoults worked as a minister with the Christian Church during this period. The majority of diary entries relate to his work with this church though reference is also made to his work as a teacher, family affairs, farming and gardening activities, shopping and errands, prices of food and farm goods, his personal finances, social visits (Rev. Shoults had many friends and acquaintances), and to weather conditions.
Rev. Shoults was born on Mar. 27, 1843. At the time of writing the diaries he has already married and many references are made to "Mrs. Shoults" or "Mrs. S." Diary entries also include references to his three children - Ella, Herschel, and Bertha. Rev. Shoults appears to have begun his career working as a school teacher and in 1870 (the first year for which the diaries are available) he was teaching and living on a farm in Whitevale, Ont. During this year he was also involved in the activities of both the Baptist and Christian churches, and he began to play a small part in preaching for the Christian Church working with Elder Jesse Tatton. In 1871 Rev. Shoults became involved in working as a Minister of the Christian Church on a full-time basis preaching in Bloomington, Ringwood, Markham, and Brougham. Rev. Shoults writes increasingly of his preaching, church meetings, funerals, and baptisms, and other activities of the Christian Church.
In Apr. 1872 Rev. Shoults moved from Whitevale to Altona, Ont. and in 1873 he moved from Altona to Little Britain, Ont. In 1879 he took up a new position as an Evangelist under the direction of the Mission Board and lived in a rented house in Newmarket, Ont. During 1880 Rev. Shoults moved from Newmarket to Kettleby and later in this same year he moved to live in J. Steven's house called "Mt. Pleasant" on the third line of King Township.
In 1883 Rev. Shoults' circumstances suddenly changed when he decided to rent a store and dwelling at 345 Yonge St., Toronto. However, his plan to open a store selling stationery and books was never realized, as he returned to the country and resumed working as a Minister with the Christian Church, first living at Bro. George's residence in Markham, and then in Oct. 1883 moving to Orono. In Feb. 1884 Rev. Shoults' daughter Bertha died of an illness. The final year covered by the diaries is 1884.
(Source : Materials in GA 110 Rev. J. H. Shoults Fonds.)

Jennifer Shousterman has been in the Office of the President since 2015, and is currently an Executive Assistant, although she previously held roles as Information and Project Specialist. She enjoys being the link between the President’s office and members of the university community, as well as external stakeholders. As a life-long resident of the Waterloo Region, she also enjoys giving back to the community within various volunteer roles.

The Shtaxʼhéen Ḵwáan, or Stikine Tlingit, are an Indigenous people and a Tlingit ḵwáan (tribe). The Shtaxʼhéen Ḵwáan community is located in Wrangell, Alaska. Their historical territory included Wrangell Island and other islands of the Alexander Archipelago, as well as the basin of the lower Stikine River.

The name Shtaxʼhéen Ḵwáan in the Tlingit language translates to Bitter Water Tribe.

Charlotte "Lottie" Mary Ahrens was born in January 12, 1885 in Berlin (later Kitchener) Ontario to parents Charles August Ahrens and Laura Emma Hirschy. She had two siblings; Frederick Hirschy and Florence Louisa. She married Stanley Shupe of Dunnville, Ontario on January 11, 1916. In the 1921 Census the couple and a son, Charles, aged 5 were living with her parents in Berlin. She died July 11, 1969 and was buried in Woodland Cemetery, Kitchener.

Reverend Cornelius Louis Siegfried was born in Formosa, Ontario on September 7, 1916. He attended school in nearby Walkerton, before attending St. Jerome's College. He graduated from Western, Ontario in 1938 with a Bachelor of Arts and was ordained as a minister in 1941. Siegfried earned a teaching certificate from the Ontario College of Education (1942-1943), going on to teach science and mathematics at St. Jerome's high school until 1946, at which time he enrolled at the University of Michigan, where he obtained a Master of Science in 1948. The same year, at the age of 31, he was appointment to president of St. Jerome's College. He served in the role until 1953, from 1955 to 1965, and again from 1973 to 1979. Between his first and second terms as president at St. Jerome's he served as president of North Bay College. He played an active role in developing a university charter for the school (1959) and federating with the University of Waterloo (1960). In 1966 Siegfried was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws Degree by the University of Waterloo in recognition for his role in founding the school. In 1980 he was later named President Emeritus by the governors of St. Jerome's. Siegfried resigned form his role as president of St. Jerome's in 1979 due to poor health. He died August 2, 1989.