Ann Argo was born in 1823 in Scotland and married James Argo; together they had nine children. They farmed in Eramosa, Wellington County, Ontario. She died June 29, 1896.

Ernest George Barrie was born October 6, 1894 in Galt (now Cambridge), Ontario, son of George Redpath Barrie and Mary Carrick. He served in the First World War and afterwards managed Barrie Glove and Knitting Company Ltd. from 1921 until 1969. He was associated with the Royal Highland Fusiliers of Canada and was made Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1944. He died October 21, 1989.

Carl A. Borgstrom, landscape architect, was born March 30, 1886 in Backa, Sweden. In 1928-1929, while with Wilson, Bunnell & Borgstrom, he designed the rock garden for the entrance to the City of Hamilton. This garden, in what had been a gravel pit, is now part of the Royal Botanical Gardens. In 1934, he was one of the founders of the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects and Town Planners. He died April 13, 1951 in Meadowvale, Ontario.

James Boyd was born ca. 1910. He was made a Lieutenant with the Canadian Army Medical Corps in 1927. He became an orthodontist in Waterloo, Ontario. James Boyd married Mildred Eidt, widow of Dr. Thoman Burton Feick, sometime after Feick's death in 1956. James Boyd died sometime after 1965.

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.

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.

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

John R. Connon was born ca. 1840 in Elora, Ontario, the son of Thomas Connon and Jean Keith. He was a photographer, inventor and a local historian. He died in 1931.

Alexander Davidson was born January 1, 1782 to James and Jannet Davidson, and lived in Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He married three times, to Jane Stephen Davidson, 1783–1812 (married 1810), Jean Angus Davidson,1794–1825 (married 1814), Christina Harvey Davidson,1804–1871 (married 1830) and had several children. Alexander Davidson died in Port Elphinsone, Aberdeen, Scotland, on February 13, 1858.

Alexander Davidson, physician, was born in Berlin (now Kitchener), Ontario in 1854 to Sheriff George Davidson and Margaret Garden Davidson. He married Frances (Fannie) Mabee Thorold September 16, 1886. He died February 24, 1927 in Toronto, Ontario.

Catherine Davidson was born May 15, 1814 in Aberdeen, Scotland, daughter of John and Margaret Davidson. She was a sister of George Davidson, first Sheriff of Waterloo County, Ontario. She lived in Aberdeen with another brother, John, an advocate, until his death in 1884. She died ca. 1900.

George Davidson was born May 14, 1814 in Aberdeen, Scotland and came to Canada on his own in 1835 with the Bon Accord settlers who had purchased land near Fergus, Ontario. George developed the village of New Aberdeen but left the businesses he had started there and moved to Berlin (now Kitchener), Ontario. He was the first postmaster of Berlin and in 1853 was appointed first sheriff of Waterloo County. He married Margaret Garden (1811-1894), also from Aberdeen, on June 27, 1836 in Hamilton, Ontario. Together they had six living children, four sons and two daughters. Their daughter Margaret (1839-1900) married Irvine Kempt of Glasgow, Scotland, and her younger sister Elizabeth (1843-1928) married William Roos and stayed in Berlin. George Davidson died April 27, 1881.

Brigade Surgeon Lieutenant Colonel James Davidson was born September 7, 1840, to Alexander Davidson (ca. 1804-October 24, 1888) and Ann Davidson in New Deer, Aberdeenshire. He joined the Indian Medical Service in 1867 and retired in 1892. He died July 26, 1917 in Turiff, Aberdeenshire.

John Davidson, advocate, was born in 1820 to John and Margaret Davidson in Aberdeen, Scotland. He was a brother of George Davidson, first sheriff of Waterloo County, Ontario. He lived in Aberdeen with their sister Catherine until his death in March of 1884.

John Davidson of Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland was an uncle of George Davidson, first sheriff of Waterloo County, Ontario, born approximately 1785 and died after 1848.

Margaret (Maggie) Rennie Struthers was born in 1854 to Robert and Sarah Struthers. She married Robert Garden Davidson on October 3, 1882. She died on November 26, 1889.

Frances (Fannie) Mabee Thorold was born in Charlotteville, Norfolk County on April 6, 1859 to William and Eliza Thorold. She married Alexander Davidson, physician, on September 16, 1886 and died on December 11, 1945.

Robert Garden Davidson was born in Berlin (now Kitchener), Ontario on August 2, 1851 to Sheriff George Davidson and Margaret Garden Davidson. He married Margaret (Maggie) Rennie Struthers on October 3, 1882. He died November 17, 1923 in Toronto, Ontario.

Wilhelmina Topp was born September 5, 1855 to Alexander and Jane Topp. She married William Davidson, KC, on September 20, 1877. She died in Toronto, Ontario on September 22, 1943.

William Davidson was born February 7, 1846 in New Aberdeen, Ontario, son of Sheriff George Davidson and Margaret Garden Davidson. He married Wilhelmina (Mina) Topp on September 20, 1877 In York, Ontario. William was a lawyer, eventually becoming a Kings Counsel. He died in Toronto, Ontario on March 13, 1932.

Malcolm Bancroft Davis was born January 19, 1890 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. He was Dominion Horticulturist at the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa, Ontario from 1933-1955.He died May 9, 1979.

Thomas Alexander Ferguson, Wesleyan Methodist minister, was born in 1827 in Scotland. Between 1860 and 1880, he held several charges in Ontario, including Berlin (now Kitchener) from 1868 to 1871. He married Eliza Frances Wilkinson (Dec. 17, 1840- ) daughter of the Rev Henry and Mary Ann Wilkinson in Prescott, Ontario. He died after 1881.

John Garden was born August 30 or 31, 1811 in Inverurie, Scotland, to Robert Garden (1785-1832) and Jean Davidson (1783-1821). He was one of six children, the others being Margaret, born Aug. 30 or 31, 1811 (who married George Davidson, first sheriff of Waterloo County, Ontario), James (1812-), Jane (1814-), Janet (1817-) and Robert (1821-). John died in 1836.

Robert Garden was born in 1821 in Aberdeen, Scotland to Robert Garden (1785-1832) and Jean Davidson (1783-1821). He was one of six children, the others being John, (August 30 or 31, 1811), Margaret (born Aug. 30 or 31 1811, who married George Davidson, first sheriff of Waterloo County, Ontario), James (1812-), Jane (1814-), and Janet (1817-).

Arthur Clark Gilbey was born April 17, 1893 in England. He lived in Fonthill and in the late 1930's was Nursery Sales Manager, Nursery Stock, at E.D. Smith and Sons, Winona, Ontario. He died in 1949.

Alexander Rodgers Goldie was born June 4, 1873 in Galt (now Cambridge), Ontario to to John Goldie and Margaret Rodgers. After graduating as an engineer in 1893, he went to work in the Goldie McCullough Company, partly owned by his father. He became became president of Babcock-Wilcox & Goldie-McCulloch Co. Ltd. in 1932, and was active in local affairs throughout his life. He died November 9, 1951.

Manette Emma Irene (Moser) Anderson Goldsworthy was born in 1916 and died February 6, 2000 in Kitchener Ontario.

Johanna Miriam Priscilla Gowdy was born in 1874 in Waterloo Township. She married John Spiers Taylor in Kingston, Ontario on September 4, 1895.

Philip Hohmeier was born December 9, 1848 in Waterloo, Ontario. He partnered with P.H. Sims in the invention of improvements to hot-air stoves and furnaces. He died January 11, 1938.

Walter Idington was born in 1846 in Puslinch, Ontario. He married Marion Eskdale on October 17, 1878. He died November 29, 1882.

Christian Ellison Kaumeyer was born on October 12, 1895 in Chippewa, Ontario. He was appointed general manager of the Niagara Parks Commission in 1934. He was appointed one of the original commissioners when the Niagara Falls Bridge Commission came into being in 1938, and became general manager in 1941, which post he held until 1966. He died June 21, 1967.

Irvine Kempt jr. was born April 21, 1871 in Glasgow to Irvine Kempt (1831-May 14, 1920) and Margaret Davidson (Nov. 26, 1839-January 17, 1900), daughter of George Davidson, first sheriff of Waterloo County, Ontario and Margaret Garden.

Nigel Kennedy Kempt was born March 22, 1910 in Glasgow, Scotland, son of Irvine Kempt jr. (1871-1920) and Louise Ashton Kennedy. He died July 7, 1955.

Wilfred (Ed) Knorr was born July 16, 1908 and died January 14, 1969. Ca. 1955 he was secretary-treasurer of the Woelfle Shoe Co. in Kitchener, Ontario.

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.

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.

Leonard S. McLaine was born June 27, 1887 in Manchester, England. After his education in the United States he worked for the Division of Entomology, Department of Agriculture, Canada. On July 16, 1942, he was appointed Dominion Entomologist and Assistant Director of Science Service. He died July 20, 1943.

Robert Angus McLaren was born July 28, 1895. He was the longest-serving superintendent of Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, holding that position from 1934 until 1963. He died on January 27, 1972.

John McQueen was born February 20, 1827 to James McQueen and Helen McFarlane. He married Janet Sims on December 26, 1856 in Hawkesville, Ontario and died September 17, 1905 in Hillman, Michigan.

Thomas Baker McQuesten was born June 30, 1882 in Cambridge, Ontario. He was a Liberal politician representing Hamilton in the Ontario Provincial Legislature from 1934 until 1943, serving as Minister of Public Works and Highways from 1934 to 1943, Minister of Mines in 1940 and Minister of Municipal Affairs from 1940 to 1943. He served on the Hamilton Board of Park Management from 1934-1948, and was involved in the creation of the Royal Botanical Gardens. He also served as chair of the Niagara Parks Commission. He died on January 13, 1948.

W. Howard Measures was born on October 16, 1894. “Howard Measures, public servant, was secretary to two Prime Ministers, R.B. Bennett and W.L. Mackenzie King. He originated Canada's diplomatic protocol service and was Chief of Protocol, Department of External Affairs and Director, Protocol Branch, Department of the Secretary of State.” (From Library and Archives Canada) He died on March 14, 1985.

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.

Mary Anne Daley was born ca. 1817 on the Isle of Wight. She and her husband John Mulloy (ca. 1817-February 28, 1894) had three children, one of whom was Dr. Nelson Mulloy (1842-1913). Mary Ann and John Mulloy are both buried in the Elmira Union Cemetery, Elmira, Ontario.

Nelson Mulloy, physician, was born February 15, 1842 to John Mulloy and Mary Ann Daley Mulloy. He married Elizabeth Hanley Chapman on August 2, 1869 in Doon, Ontario. He died on August 28, 1913.

Frank Stanley Newman was born in Merrickville, Ontario on April 9, 1889 to John Jarvis Newman and Emma Chester. He studied forestry at the University of Toronto and from 1919 until 1954 was the superintendent of the St. Williams Forestry Station. He died in 1966.

Norman Nicholson was born November 10, 1874 to Donald Nicholson and Ellen Chisholm. He was in the book and paper trade in Kitchener and Hamilton, Ontario. He died in Hamilton on August 19, 1934.

Henry Nyberg, Swedish engineer and car manufacturer, was born on September 11, 1872 in Helvi, Gotland, Sweden and left Sweden for the United States, arriving in Chicago, Illinois in January, 1896. He was first president of the Swedish Engineers' Society of Chicago, founded in 1908. In 1913, he went to Kitchener, Ontario to run a factory for the Regal Motor Car Company, and there he started the Dominion Truck Equipment Company. In 1919, he moved to England, where he started the Four Wheel Drive Lorry Company. He retired to Sweden in 1932.

Richard Warren Oliver, lansdcape architect, was born February 9, 1897 in Hamilton, Ontario to Thomas Oliver and Mary Ellen Riddle. He married Helen Catharine Campbell on September 23, 1926. He worked as a horticulturist at the Dominion Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa, Ontario as well as taking on private commissions. He died December 27, 1969.

Joan Patteson was born Mary Joan McWhirter in Woodstock, Ontario on November 27, 1869. On November 25, 1895, she married Godfroy Patteson. Joan and Godfroy Patteson were close friends of William Lyon Mackenzie King. Joan died on April 23, 1960.

William A. Philip, banker and conservationist, was born on February 11, 1873 in Fergus, Ontario. He resided in Galt (now Cambridge), Ontario. He was a founder of the Grand River Conservation Commission and its president for 18 years; he later served as chair of the Grand Valley Conservation Authority. He died April 7, 1964.

Sir Arthur Shuldham Redfern was secretary to the Governor General of Canada from 1935-1946.

Alfred Rehder was curator of the herbarium at the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plains, New York.

Arthur Herbert Richardson, known as “Mr. Conservation,” was appointed as the first Chairman of The Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (MTRCA) in 1957, after a long career in reforestation and conservation.

Thomas Frederick Ritchie was born April 24, 1888 in Bryson, Quebec. In the late 1930's, he was a chief assistant at the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa, Ontario. He died February 28, 1976.

John Harvey Robertson was born August 12, 1829 in Insch, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, son of John Robertson and Janet Harvey Robertson. His father died ca. 1832 and his mother remarried in 1836 to James Sims. The family emigrated to Canada shortly after, settling near Hawkesville, Wellesley Township, now in the Region of Waterloo. He married Ann Hawk and moved to Kelvin, Windham Township, Norfolk County. He died there on October 5, 1912.

Norman McLeod Rogers was born July 25, 1894 in Amherst, Nova Scotia. From 1927 to 1929, he was private secretary to William Lyon Mackenzie King. He was elected as a Liberal MP for Kingston in 1935, served as Minister of Labour from 1935 to 1939, and as Minister of National Defence from 1939 to 1940. He died on June 10, 1940 in a plane crash.

Elizabeth Davidson was born December 5, 1843 in Berlin (now Kitchener), Ontario to Sheriff George Davidson and Margaret Davidson. She married William Roos (1842-1922) on January 15, 1873. They had four children of whom the eldest, daughter Florence Katherine Roos, married Harvey James Sims. Elizabeth died January 31, 1928.

Jack Ryrie was a Canadian architect based in Toronto.

Charles R. Sanderson was chief librarian of the Toronto Public Library from 1937 to 1956.

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.

Gay Estill Sims, born September 7, 1884, was the second wife of Harvey J. Sims of Kitchener, Ontario. She died May 8, 1970.

Florence Katherine Roos was born December 22, 1873 in Berlin (now Kitchener), Ontario to William Roos and Elizabeth Davidson. She married Harvey J. Sims on October 29, 1902 and together they had two children, James Kenneth Sims, born July 12, 1904 and William Harvey Sims, born June 27, 1908. Florence Sims died June 20, 1938.

Oscar Douglas Skelton was born July 13, 1878. He was appointed Undersecretary of State for External Affairs in 1925 by William Lyon Mackenzie King and filled that position until he died on January 28, 1941.

Colonel Herbert D. Smith, K.C. (November 2, 1866-November 2, 1938) was County Crown Attorney in Chatham, Ontario in the 1930s.

Rosanna Stauffer was born August 25, 1860 to John Stauffer (1824-1887) and Lucinda Stauffer (1836-1909). Rosanna died in 1919.

John Ross Stewart was born ca. 1879 in Uxbridge, Ontario. He married Rella May Sims on November 7, 1907. They lived in Hartford, CT where he was in insurance. He died there August 22, 1940.

Adam Julius Strohm was born in Sweden on February 16, 1870 and emigrated to the United Sates in 1892. He was chief librarian of the Detroit Public Library from 1912 until 1941. He died October 30, 1951.

Alfred Harding Tomlinson was born in England in 1880. After graduating from the Ontario Agricultural College in Guelph, Ontario, specializing in ornamental horticulture, Tomlinson was taken on as a lecturer and taught for almost 30 years. He died in Alberta on July 25, 1946.

Hugh Trenchard, first Viscount Trenchard, was born in Taunton, England on February 3, 1873. He was a British officer best known for his role in the formation of the Royal Air Force. He died February 10, 1956.

Alice Wanless was born Alice Philp in 1861. She married George A. Wanless on January 5, 1887 and resided in Kitchener, Ontario for a short time. She died November 27, 1955 in Edmonton, Alberta.

Margaret Cameron Washburn (nee Gillespie) was born ca. 1867. She married Clark Grant Washburn on October 27, 1890 and resided afterwards in Berlin (now Kitchener), Ontario. She died in 1963.

Henrietta Josephine Cook was born on May 7, 1854 near Preston, Ontario to James Cook and Elizabeth Williams Cook. She married Jacob B. Weaver (1852-1932), lived in Kitchener, Ontario and died January 22, 1931.

Henry B. Weaver was born August 4, 1830 in Lancaster County, PA. He married twice and had 14 children by his first wife Hetty Rohrer Mosser (1833-1889). His second wife was Anna Martin Witmer (1826-1921). He died August 30, 1923.

James Herbert White, author of Forest Trees of Ontario, was born September 21, 1875. In 1909, he became the first person to receive a degree in forestry at the University of Toronto, and taught there for 37 years. He is recognized as a pioneer in forestry conservation in Ontario. He died November 14, 1957.

Alice Egan was born in Halifax in 1872. She attended Mount Saint Vincent Academy and the Victoria School of Art and Design (later the Nova Scotia College of Art), as well as at the Osgood Art School in New York. One of her first commissions came when she was selected to paint twelve plates for the Lady Aberdeen State Dinner Set, presented to Lady Aberdeen by the Canadian Senate at the time of the retirement of her husband as Governor General in 1898. In 1901 Alice Egan married John Hagen, an official of the Halifax and Bermuda Cable Company, and in 1910 transferred with him to Jamaica where she continued to work and teach. Her work was widely exhibited in the Islands and for her contribution to art in Jamaica Mrs. Hagen was awarded the bronze, and later the silver Sir Anthony Musgrave Medals, the first woman to be so honoured. In 1916 the Hagens returned to Halifax, settling finally in 1932 in Mahone Bay, where Alice Hagen began a new career as a potter, teaching, exhibiting and winning awards. Forty-eight pieces of her handpainted china, glass and pottery were presented to the Nova Scotia government and are displayed at the Citadel Museum in Halifax. Alice Mary Hagen died in January, 1972.

Cora Hind was born in 1861, educated in Flesherton and Orillia, Ontario and in 1882 moved to Winnipeg where she became the first typist in western Canada. She was Financial and Agricultural editor of the Winnipeg Free Press from 1910-1930 and was a recognized world authority on grain and livestock. She was a founding member of the Canadian Women's Press Club. In 1964 Cora Hind's portrait was hung in the Hall of Fame at the Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto.

Claire Wallace was a Canadian radio broadcaster and journalist, and one of the first women to broadcast nationally over the CBC. Born in Orangeville, Ont., she attended Branksome Hall and initially worked for The Toronto Star writing a column titled "Over the Teacups" which parlayed into, as radio show on station CFRB Toronto in 1935, called "Teatime topics." She joined CBC in 1936 and by 1942 she was hosting the thrice weekly show "They Tell Me." She married James C. Stutt in the same year. In 1946 she won the Beaver Award from Broadcaster Magazine as Canada's top woman commentator. Beginning in the 1940's she also became an advocate for women's rights, and could lay to claim to many "first woman to..." titles. In 1952 Claire returned to broadcasting on CFRB where should would continue for many years while writing books such as "Mind Your Manners", an etiquette guide, which was published in 1953. For several years, beginning in 1955, she ran the Claire Wallace Travel Bureau in Toronto taking tourists to such locations as China and Russia. Claire was also a member of many organizations including the Canadian Women's Press Club and the Heliconian Club for artists and worked actively to raise money for several charities. Claire died in 1968 in Toronto.

Caleb Benjamin Tillinghast was born in West Greenwich, Rhode Island on April 3, 1843. He was the State Librarian for over 25 years. In 1870, he was part of The Boston Journal staff and later became the city editor. Nine years later, Tillinghast became the Acting Librarian of the State Librarian and later became the State Librarian in 1883. He also became the Chairman of the Free Public Library Commission, as well as Treasurer for the Board of Education. He died in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 28, 1909.

Gladys Lilian King was born in Exeter, Devon to Joseph and Mary King. In 1911 King emigrated to Canada to work as a secretary but returned to England in 1915 to do war work. She became a member of the Women Police Service during the war and worked in factories and hostels before becoming employed at the "Beaver Hut", a refuge for Commonwealth soldiers. King worked at the Beaver Hut from September 30, 1918 to August 21, 1919. When the Beaver Hut closed at the end of the war King took up police work in Reading. In 1940 she gave up police work to become the full time female probation officer, a position she held until her retirement in 1949. King died in Reading on June 4, 1970.

Educator James Hoyes Panton was born in Ontario and moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba in the early 1880's. He was a member of the Manitoba Historical Society and collected geological specimens throughout the province. In 1884 he returned to Ontario to be professor of Geology and Natural History at the Ontario Agricultural College (University of Guelph) where he remained until 1897. He died February 2, 1898.

Martha Louise Black, Canadian politician and second woman elected to the Canadian House of Commons, was born in Chicago on February 24, 1866. She attended St. Mary's College in Notre Dame Indiana. In 1877 Black married Will Purdy and together they had two sons, Warren and Donald. She and Purdy had plans to joint the Klondike gold rush in 1899 but Purdy backed out and instead moved to Hawaii, leaving her to travel to the Klondike via the Chilkoot Pass in 1898 with her brother. In January of 1899 she stopped in Dawson City to give birth to her and Purdy's third son Lyman. She then returned briefly to Chicago before going again to the Klondike in 1900 where she would live for 54 years. Here she earned money by staking gold mining claims and running a sawmill and iron ore crushing plant. In 1904 Black met and married George Black, Commissioner of the Yukon from 1912-1916.

In 1921 Black was elected to the House of Commons and was speaker of the house from 1930-1935. She ran in the federal election and was elected in the Yukon riding as an Independent Conservative in 1935, taking over for her ailing husband. Black was also involved in a variety of social and charity organizations including supporting IODE, the Victorian Order of Nurses, and as a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of England.

In 1938 Black published the book "My Seventy Years" an autobiography, which was later updated as "My Ninety Years." She was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1946 for her social and cultural contributions to the Yukon. She died in Whitehorse on October 31, 1957.

Herbert Spencer Clark was born on October 10, 1903 to John Ernest Clark (March 8, 1864-February 1, 1945) and Esther Louisa Alexander (January 15, 1865-January 31, 1943). He was raised alongside his four siblings; John Alexander Clark (October 23, 1891-September 23, 1950), Samuel Ernest Clark (September 11, 1894-1961), Florence Mabel Clark (June 12, 1896-December 1, 1972), and Wilfred Harold Clark (August 8, 1905-April 21, 1982).

As a young adult, Spencer graduated from the University of Toronto School of Applied Sciences in 1924, and pursued an engineering career for several years, most notably with the Ontario Hydro Electric Power Commission in building the Queenston-Chippewa Power Station.

In the summer of 1931, Spencer visited Europe as part of a study group led by Dr. Sherwood Eddy. Members of the group observed social and economic conditions in the major nations of Europe, including the Soviet Union.

While organizing the Robert Owen Foundation in Toronto with Professor Henri Lassere of the University of Toronto, Spencer met this future wife, Rosa Melvina Breithaupt Hewetson Clark. Spencer married Rosa on August 7, 1932. During that same year, Spencer and Rosa purchased property in Scarborough, Ontario and founded the Guild of All Arts, one of the earliest Canadian co-operative communities of artists and creative workers. Subsequently, Spencer's activities expanded to include a key role in the development of Guildwood Village and the transformation of the Guild from a centre for artists and craftsmen during the pre-war period to a hotel and conference centre following the Second World War. In the 1960's and 70's, his focus shifted once more, this time to the area of public sculpture, architectural conservancy and preservation.

Throughout his life, Spencer was a prolific correspondent and diarist.

Herbert Spencer Clark died on February 11, 1986.