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Dame Clara Ellen Butt was a British contralto singer. She performed in operatic productions, as well as in popular concerts with her husband Kennerley Rumford. During the First World War many of her concerts were fundraisers for service charities. She died in 1936 in Oxfordshire.

Paul S. Burtness was a professor at Northern Illinois University when, along with Warren U. Ober, he began researching the events surrounding the attack on Pearl Harbor and the war in the Pacific. Both men are U.S. Navy Veterans of World War II. Letters were written to a number of prominent military figures who were in power either at the time of the attack or shortly after America entered into the conflict. The letters, and subsequent research, have lead to a variety of publications over a fifty year period. (From GA 261 and http://english50th.uwaterloo.ca/faculty/profiles/WOber.html).

George Burrett is an environmental activist known for work in related to peace and nuclear disarmament. He was a member of the Waterloo Region Peace Network and, before retiring, performed home energy audits in the Waterloo Region.

Alida Burrett (nee Schriel) was a Dutch-born Canadian teacher and environmentalist known for her women's rights and environmental activism. Born August 26, 1944 in Rotterdam, Netherlands to Johannes and Anne (nee Klein) Schriel, she immigrated to Canada at the age of six with her family where she graduated from Trent University with a B.A. (class of 1974) and Brock University with a B.Ed. (class of 1976). As a student at Trent, she met future husbad, George Burrett, whom she married in 1973. Burrett worked for B.F. Goodrich where she became involved in expanding the role of women in the company, and later worked as an elementary school teacher in Mississauga.

Burrett's passion for women's rights and environmental protection led her to become active in the student movement in the 1970s, helping to produce an early environmental magazine. Following graduation she became a champion of female equality as outlined in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. She was a member of the Kitchener-Waterloo Status of Women Group in the 1980s and in 1997 she founded the Citizen's Advisory Council on Air Quality. In 2010 Burrett was awarded the YWCA Women of Distinction Award in recognition of her advocacy work.

George Burrett is also politically and professionally active in environmental protection as well as peace, particularly in terms of nuclear disarmament. George was a member of the Waterloo Region Peace Network and performs home energy audits in the Waterloo Region.

Alida Burrett died March 25, 2011, survived by husband George and daughter Melanie.

Virgil Burnett was an American author, illustrator, and instructor of fine arts. Born in Kansas in 1928, he received his undergraduate education at Columbia University in New York, where he studied with Edward Melcarth, a Social Realist painter. In 1950, he was drafted, trained as a combat engineer, and sent to Europe where he served for two years in a propaganda company as an artist-illustrator. After his military service, he attended graduate school at Berkeley, taking a master's degree in Art History. When a Fulbright scholarship took Burnett to Paris in 1956, he encountered other expat artists including David Hill, whom he remained close friends with until Hill's death in 1977. Burnett also met Maurice Darantiere, a French publisher who made him aware of the expressive possibilities of the book arts. By 1960, he was working primarily as an illustrator. In the 1970s, he began as a professor in the Fine Arts department at the University of Waterloo. Burnett died in 2012

Anne Pippin Burnett was an American classics scholar with a specialization in Greek literature and poetry.

Cornelius Franklin Burk was an engineer and civil servant. Born in Chicago, Cornelius Franklin Burk came to Canada in 1920 and was granted Canadian citizenship in 1934. He obtained a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. from the University of Toronto before working as a draftsman and test engineer at Sheldon's Ltd. in Galt in 1929. He later spent several years working in Talara, Peru as an employee of International Petrolium Ltd. Burk served as the Director of development at the University of Waterloo from 1959 to 1961 before becoming secretary-manager of the Waterloo Chamber of Commerce. He succeeded Clifford N. Hall in the role, who had held the position from it's creation in 1952 until 1961.

Fred C. Burden was born September 3, 1863 in Michigan. He died October 8, 1949 in Los Angeles, California.

Budds Department Store was a family-owned business that first opened in Kitchener, Ontario in 1926. Four brothers from Saint John, New Brunswick, Lou, Jack, Mort, and Nat Budd purchased the Davis Economical Store at 227 King St. W. in Downtown Kitchener, reopening the doors shortly after as Budds Department Store. In 1931 the brothers opened a second location in Guelph. In 1933 the Kitchener store moved to a larger location to accommodate their growing business, and in 1937 a third location opened in Simcoe, turning their family business into a chain. Nat Budd's sons Howie and Stan got involved in the business in the 1960s, and later Howie’s son Jeff joined the business, taking over operations management and advertising in 1997. In 2015 the Budd family announced that all three locations would be shutting down due to Howie and Stan's wish to retire. In early January 2016 the Kitchener and Guelph locations closed their doors, and the Simcoe location followed within a month. Budds Department Store was just shy of its 90th anniversary.

Miss Oktoberfest 1992.

Barbara Buchanan was born in 1931 to Gertrude Woelfle (1898-175) and Victor Buchanan (1899-1981). She was the youngest of three siblings, with a brother Ross Buchanan (?-1997) and sister Phyllis Buchanan Orr (1929-?). Her maternal grandparents were shoe magnate Wellington Ervin Woelfle (1873-1949) and Lydia McEwan (1873-1952).

Barbara was born and raised in Kitchener, attended Ovenden School in Barrie, and subsequently Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto. After school she moved to Hamilton, and worked for the Blood Donor Clinic and the Canadian Red Cross, before moving back to Kitchener to live in the family home. Barbara had many pastimes, including supporting the Hamilton Tiger Cats, golfing and curling at the Westmount Golf and Country Club, and driving her Triumph TR at British Sport Car Club events.

Barbara lived in the home at 123 Young Street that was occupied by her grandparents, and later her aunt, until her passing in 2022.

Miss Oktoberfest 1985.

J. Fraser Bryce was born in Dundas, Ontario in 1852. He operated as a Toronto-based photographer between 1877 and 1909, working and travelling in the United States for stretches during this period.

Hattie A. Bruce was born in 1857 in or near Guelph, Ontario to George A. Bruce and Margaret Keith. She lived in Kitchener, Ontario, and supported herself independently, remaining unmarried until her death in 1930.

Hannah Maria Cook was born January 1, 1837 in Waterloo Township, now in the Region Of Waterloo, Ontario, to James and Elizabeth Cook. She married John A. Brubacher (1844-1837) on October 15, 1872. Hannah Brubacher died October 13, 1921.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (nee Moulton-Barrett) was a British poet and activist of the Victorian period. Known for her prolific output, she was one of the leading poets of her time and was a contender for Poet Laureate. She was also a campaigner for the abolition of slavery and reform in child labour laws.

Thomas Austen Brown was the son of a drawing-master. He was a student of the Royal Scottish Academy School, and soon caught the attention of the critics at the exhibitions. His paintings, The Strawberry Harvest (1884), 'Love Lightens Toil' (1885), 'Hark! The Cuckoo' (1886) and 'Playmates' (R.A 1886) were scenes from country life, and were noted for their vibrant colours and sentimentality. As a result of his work at Cambuskenneth, Brown became closely associated with the Glasgow movement, working in both oil and watercolour. As a result, he also shared their early success in London and on the Continent. Brown later lived in the north of France, where he continued to paint in watercolour, and completed much of his later work. Brown was a successful artist, who won several first-class medals at print exhibitions in Munich, Dresden, Barcelona and Budapest (1861-1911).

Dr. Steven Brown was the nephew of Ross Dixon.

The Y.M.C.A. chorus of which R. J. Brown was a member, was founded in the mid-1930s by Don McLaren. It was formed with the support of the Y.M.C.A. quartette which had been established some years earlier. The chorus was disbanded during World War II when many of the chorus members served in the armed forces. Moreover, in 1941 Don McLaren moved overseas to become a representative of the Y. M.C.A. in England.

The first year of this chorus was 1935 and as it started to grow and become more proficient, rehearsals came to be held twice a week instead of once a week. Later on a female section was added to the chorus. This included five girls and a female pianist, Miss Dorothy Schweitzer, who replaced the previous pianist, Freddie Oliver, who had moved to Toronto. The Y.M.C.A. Chorus broadcast over C.F.R.B., Toronto in both 1938 and 1939 for J. M. Schneider Ltd. The broadcasts were carried out from the Y.M.C.A. gymnasium on the corner of Queen and Weber Street in Kitchener.

Mayor of Kitchener, Ontario, 1946-1947.

James Renwick Brown was born in Edinburgh, Scotland March 5, 1831. At the age of 14 he enlisted in the 71st Highland Light Infantry and spent eleven years in this service. He came to Canada with his troop at the age of 16 and was stationed in Quebec City and Montreal. He went back to Europe to fight in the Crimean War, and then returned to Edinburgh where he married Elizabeth Oswald on April 27, 1847. He then returned to Canada and settled in Oshawa, where he joined the 34th Battalion and saw action during the Fenian Raids. He worked as a factory inspector for the Province of Ontario for seventeen years. He married Annie Riggs May 28, 1892 and together they had one son. James died November 18, 1909 and is interred at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto.

Irene Brown was born Irene Coombs on Feb. 10, 1920 in Huddersfield in Yorkshire, England. Her youth was spent travelling with her theatrical parents. She attended Longley Hall School and after the death of her mother moved to Blackpool with her father and step-mother. At the onset of WWII she began nursing training at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport and at Blackpool Victoria Hospital. She worked in the Civil Nursing Reserve and was assigned to the Kirkham Emergency Hospital. She met and married Edward Brown and had three children. Irene and Edward Brown and their children emigrated to Canada in 1956.

Doris Lillian Brown (nee Harrison) was an Executive Director of the Young Women's Christian Association of Kitchener-Waterloo. Born in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Brown studied liberal arts at the University of King's College in Halifax, graduating in 1941.

Brown's affiliation with the Y began in 1946 when she was hired as a program secretary at the Y in Halifax. While there she worked jointly with Missions to Seamen to entertain ship crew coming into the city and with the Y travellers aid program organizing English classes for new Canadians. She left Halifax in 1952 to work for a year as Executive Director in Galt and then in Toronto as membership secretary. Brown joined the YWCA of KW in 1955 as Executive Director taking responsibility for 15 members of staff and more than 150 volunteers.

Brown died in Ottawa on May 29, 2003. She was predeceased by her husband Albert Reed Brown. The couple married in 1959 and together raised a daughter.

Matt Broman was born February 2, 1895 in Sweden. He became a landscape architect, working in and around Hamilton, Ontario. In the late 1930's, he was Superintendent of Arboriculture at the Niagara Parks Commission and was working at that time with T.B. McQuesten on designing the Royal Botanical Gardens. Matt Broman Park in Hamilton is named in his honour. He died in 1989.

Leonard Walter Brockington was born in Cardiff, Wales, April 6, 1888 and died in Toronto on Deptember 15, 1966. He had a long and multifaceted career, perhaps best known as the first Chairman of the CBC from 1936-1939. He served as Special Assistant to Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King from 1939-1942.
See: Babe, Robert E., "Leonard Walter Brockington" (2008) in The Canadian Encyclopedia of Biography: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/leonard-walter-brockington