Marita Williams is an Anglican priest and a graduate and former employee of the University of Waterloo. Born in Jamaica, she grew up on Negril beach where her parents provided lodging to researchers and tourists in the area. Her father was Protestant, and her mother was Anglican. As a child, Marita enjoyed attending church but was discriminated against for being a girl. She was not allowed to go up to the altar, and she could not be a server, acolyte, or a priest.

Marita left her childhood home and attended college in Kingston, Jamaica. In 1966, she then transferred to Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University) in Toronto, Ontario to study business and marketing management. While in Toronto, Marita attended church but was asked to stop attending by the minister who feared he would lose membership because she was Black. He suggested Marita attend a Black church instead. Marita did not attend church for several years following this racist encounter.

Although Marita intended to return to Jamaica and take over her parent’s business, by then a restaurant, she changed plans when she met and married Henry Williams, a Ghanaian studying at the University of Toronto. Marita and Henry had two sons. Marita and her family attended St. Matthew’s Anglican Church in Cambridge and she served as a deacon.

Marita became the manager of space information and resource planning at the University of Waterloo and later worked as the scheduling coordinator in the Registrar’s Office. She also studied at Waterloo, receiving a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in psychology which she worked towards part-time over ten years. Marita received her degree during the convocation ceremony held on Saturday, October 25, 1997. Celebrating with her at the ceremony was her son, Prempeh Williams, who received a Bachelor of Science (BSc), Honours Health Studies, from the University of Waterloo in Spring 1997. Marita retired from Waterloo in 1999.

Following her retirement, Marita made the decision to become a priest. To achieve her goal, she studied at Waterloo Lutheran Seminary at Wilfrid Laurier University, Conrad Grebel University College and Huron College in Western University for her Master’s degree in divinity. She also trained with Reverend Canon Christopher Pratt at the Anglican Church of St. John the Evangelist in Kitchener. In 2009, Marita was called to the priesthood. Marita was believed to be the only Black, female, Anglican priest in the Huron diocese at the time and may still be.

Marita has worked an itinerant priest leading services and presiding over funerals, weddings, and baptisms. She served as the Assistant Priest at St. George’s of Forest Hill in Kitchener for three years and has a regular assignment at Trinity Anglican Church in Cambridge. In 2023, Bishop Townshend appointed Reverend Marita Williams as the interim Priest-in-Charge of St. James, Cambridge.

Ephraim William Willson was born August 26, 1862 in Waterloo County, Ontario. He married Mary Elizabeth Anthes September 30, 1886 and the couple had five children: Leslie A.; Ford Isaac; William Claremont; Norma Margaret Hattin; and Martha Bell (Marthabell) Cook.. He died in September of 1950 and is buried with Mary in Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener.

Mary Elizabeth Anthes was born in Wilmot township February 11, 1860 to parents Jacob Anthes and Magdalena Stricker. She was married September 30, 1886 to Ephraim William Willson and the couple had five children: Leslie A.; Ford Isaac; William Claremont; Norma Margaret; and Martha Bell (Marthabell). She died September 14, 1928 and is buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener.

Bettie Bernice Wilson was born in Hamilton (Ontario) in 1917 to David Thomas Wilson and Monica Elesta Robinson. Wilson enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force Women's Division on March 31, 1942, she completed her basic training at the No. 6 "M." Depot in Toronto (Ontario), her trade training at No. 1 Technical Training School in St. Thomas (Ontario), and was posted in 1942 at the No. 16 Service Flying Training School (SFTS) Hagersville (Ontario). She was discharged on September 8, 1945. Bettie Bernice Wilson died in Galt (now Cambridge, Ontario) in 2000 and was buried in Mountview Cemetery.

Pamela Margaret Wilson was born on February 16, 1950 to Margaret "Peg" Isabel Forbes and Colin Andrew "Joe" Wilson.

Pamela attended Bishop Strachan School in Toronto, Ontario.

Pamela passed away at age 62 on March 7, 2011 and was buried in Parkview Cemetery and Crematorium in Waterloo, Ontario.

Ross Alexander Wilson was born on August 14, 1952 to Margaret "Peg" Isabel Forbes and Colin Andrew "Joe" Wilson.

Johann Friedrich (John) Woelfle was born in Berlin (now Kitchener), Ontario, 1870. He was the son of John Jacob Woelfle (1828-1888), a German emigrant who farmed and made and sold ploughs in Berlin, Ontario. John Jacob Woelfle married his second wife, Emilia Krug, in 1864 and of their nine children, John Woelfle was the second son, and Eduard E. Woelfle (born in 1873) was the fourth son.
At the time these letter were written John Woelfle was a commercial traveller for the firm of Callaghan and Company of Chicago, Illinois, a publisher of legal reports, digests and material of interest to lawyers and the legal profession. Eduard E. Woelfle, to whom the letters are addressed, was born in Berlin, Ontario on July 4, 1873. He served as a machinist's apprentice at Goldie and McCulloch in Galt, Ont., worked as a journeyman in the United States, and returned to Berlin in 1906 to open a business with his brother Gustave. This was incorporated in 1920 under the name of Woelfle Brothers, Limited. John Woelfle died in 1896.
Sources: Lamb, Kathryn Hansuld. "Bridgeport's Lancaster Hotel and its owners 1853-1989." Waterloo Historical Society. 1989. 77: 120-141, Middleton, Jesse Edgar and Landon, Fred. "Edward E. Woelfle and Gustave A. Woelfle." The Province of Ontario: a history, 1615-1927. Toronto: Dominion Publishing Company, 1927. vol. 4, p. 436, and Moogk, Peter N. "Nach Amerika: the Krugs of Eulersdorf come to Canada West." Waterloo Historical Society. 1992. 80: 142-155.

The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is an international temperance organization that was founded in Hillsboro, Ohio on December 23, 1873. Dedicated to the cause of temperance (total abstinence from alcohol and drugs) the WCTU believe that many social ills were caused by, and were a consequence of, alcohol. The organization also campaigned for suffrage, better labour conditions, against sex work, for public health and sanitation and for international peace. At its peak in the 1920s the WCTU was active in 40 countries through the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union and had more than 766,000 members. The WCTUS still operates today with members in the United States and in 36 other countries.

The Women's Health and Abortion Project was established in New York City initially to support opposition to anti-abortion laws. The organization also provided low cost abortions, education, doctor referrals, and more to female patients with an emphasis on women having knowledge of, and control over, their own bodies and medical procedures.

The Canadian Women's Press Club was founded in 1904 by a group of Canadian woman reporters returning from a complimentary trip to the St. Louis Exposition. The club was suggested by George Henry Ham, the CPR's publicity director, and the first president was Kathleen Blake "Kit" Coleman. The Toronto Branch was founded in 1909, one of 15 regional branches organized over the years. Established as a "craft club" to help and promote its members in the profession of journalism, the Club remained active until the 1990's, counting as members most Canadian women journalists of note. In 1971 the Canadian Women's Press Club became the Media Club of Canada, and the Toronto Branch of the Club became the Media Club of Canada, Toronto Branch. In 1976 the Toronto Branch became an autonomous group under the name Toronto Women's Press Club, later changed to the Women's Press Club of Toronto. The Toronto Branch ceased in 199? and the Media Club of Canada suspended operations in 199?

By the 1980's the Women's Press Club of Toronto had launched a history project and put Kay Rex, a long-time member, in charge of collecting materials and writing a history of the Canadian Women's Press Club to 1971. Her book No Daughter of Mine: The Women and History of the Canadian Women's Press Club, 1904-1971 was published in 1995 by the University of Toronto Press.

Married Ernest Wood of Massachusetts on October 18, 1906 in Waterloo.

Fay Wray was born on September 15, 1907 in Cardston, Alberta. Wray was a Canadian-American actress who found much success in Hollywood. She is most known for her role as Ann Darrow in the movie "King Kong" (1933). She is also considered as the first scream queens in cinema. Wray was a well-rounded actress appearing in all genres of film ranging from dramas and comedies as well as Westerns and horror roles. She also performed her own stunts in films. She died on August 2, 2004.

Douglas Tyndall Wright was born October 4, 1927 in Toronto, Ontario to George Charles and Etta Frances (Tyndall) Wright. He received a B.A.Sc. from the University of Toronto in 1949, a Master of Science degree in 1952 from the University of Illinois, and a Ph.D. from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1954. In 1954, he joined the Department of Civil Engineering at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, becoming Associate Professor by 1958. In 1958, he became a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He was Chairman of the Department of Civil Engineering from 1958 to 1963 and was Dean of the Faculty of Engineering from 1959 to 1966. During his tenure Waterloo developed the largest School of Engineering in Canada.

From 1967 to 1972, Doug was the Chairman of the Committee on University Affairs for the Province of Ontario. From 1969 to 1972, he was the Chairman of the Commission on Post Secondary Education in Ontario. From 1972 to 1979, he was Deputy Provincial Secretary for Social Development and from 1979 to 1980, he was Deputy Minister of Culture and Recreation. From 1981 to 1993, he served as the President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Waterloo.

He has served as an advisor to the Government of Ontario and to the Government of Canada. In 1992 he was appointed Chairman of the Canadian Working Group of the Trilateral Task Force on North American Co operation in Higher Education and Research.

Wright died at his home May 21, 2020.