The Department of Public Instruction was founded in 1850. The Department of of Public Instruction was replaced by the Department of Education in 1876. In 1972, the Department of Education was renamed the Ministry of Education.

Stark Brothers Nurseries was founded in Louisiana, Missouri in 1816. They are known for popularizing the Golden Delicious varietal of apple and are the oldest continuously operating nursery in the United States.

Herbert J. Gifford, proprietor.

Fritsch Pharmacy began in 1920 as Beger and Schaefer at 191 King Street West in Kitchener. By 1926 the business was operated solely by Gordon Schaefer and in 1929 was taken over by E.G. Fahrner. Fahrner came from London, Ontario where he worked as a druggist at the corner of Ridout and Dundas. From 1929 until 1958 Fahrner and his wife operated the store, at times also housing his wife's hair dressing business. In 1960 after Fahrner's passing the store was taken over by Michael Fritsch who had been working there since 1942, originally as a delivery boy. In 1988 Fritsch closed the dispensary and converted the store to selling perfumes, opening Fritsch Fragrances. Fritsch Fragrances closed in 2018 and Michael Fritsch died in 2023. Over the years the numbering system of King Street has change numerous times, but the store currently stands at 201 King Street West.

The Paulin-Chambers Company Limited, a biscuit manufacturer, was established in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1876 and was incorporated in 1899. Paulins (as the company was usually called) was acquired in 1926 by the Canada Biscuit Company Limited of London, Ontario.

The Canada Biscuit Company Limited's name changed to McCormick's Limited in 1935. McCormick was in turn acquired by George Weston Limited in 1937.

In 1972, a number of Weston-owned biscuit companies were amalgamated under the name InterBake Foods. At the time, InterBake Foods operated biscuit plants in London, Ontario (at the former McCormick's Limited factory) and Winnipeg, Manitoba (at the former Paulin's plant).

In 1989, InterBake Foods was sold to the Culinar, Inc., a firm in Montreal, Quebec.

The Paulin's plant in Winnipeg, Manitoba was closed by InterBake Foods in 1991 and production was moved to London, Ontario and to other Culinar-owned plants in Montreal, Quebec. In the mid-1990's, Culinar moved all biscuit manufacturing out of the plant in London, Ontario and into its Montreal-based factories.

Culinar Inc. was, in turn, sold to Saputo Inc., a company based in Montreal, Quebec in 1999.

Dare acquired Culinar's biscuit-related assets in 2001.

1955: Loney's founded by Yves Hudon.

1961: Yves Hudon buys Grissol and folds Loney's into Grissol Foods Limited.

1972: Grissol, including Loney's, was purchased by Imasco Foods Limited, the food arm of the Imperial Tobacco company.

1983: Imasco Foods, including Grissol, purchased by Culinar, Inc., of Montreal, Quebec.

1999: Montreal cheese company Saputo Inc. buys Culinar, made up of the Vachon snack cakes businesses and the CFS (Cookies, Fine Breads and Soups) Division.

2001: Dare Foods Limited buys Culinar CFS (Cookies, Fine Breads and Soups) from Saputo Inc. Culinar is dissolved. Loney's soups continue to be made in the Grissol fine breads (Melba toast) plant in Ste-Martine, 30 km south of Montreal, Quebec.

2004: Dare Foods Limited sells the Loney's soups business (with related manufacturing equipment) to Produits Alimentaires Berthelet of Montreal, Quebec. Production of Loney's soups moves from the Grissol Ste-Martine plant to Berthelet's facilities in Montreal.

Daniel H. Alger was a plant manager born in Broughham, Ontario in 1884. He went to Colborne High School and studied at the Ontario College of Pharmacy. He worked from 1926 to 1927 at Lindsay Distilleries Ltd., before joining Joseph E. Seagram and Son's in Waterloo as a plant manager in 1929. Alger was a member of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association, the Waterloo Board of Trade, and a member of various golf clubs including Westmount Golf and Country Club. He died August 12, 1936 in Toronto, Ontario following an automobile crash north of Orangeville, Ontario while returning to Waterloo from his summer home in Georgian Bay. Alger's wife and a maid employed by the couple, who were in the car with Alger, survived the crash. He was entombed at Woodland Cemetery in Kitchener.

Angela M. Lang (nee Kelly) was born in October 1896 in Albany, New York. She married Reinhold Lang in the same city on September 1915 with whom she had six children. The family lived in Kitchener, where Reinhold's family operated Lang Tanning Co. Ltd, and Lang ran the Magda Lang Dress Shop. She died September 1, 1979 and was buried at Mount Hope Cemetery.

William Daum Euler was born in Conestogo, Ontario, in 1875. Euler worked as a businessman, based in Kitchener, and was involved with multiple companies during his career including the Economical Fire Insurance Company, Dominion Life Assurance Company, Waterloo Trust Company, and J.C. Jaimit Company Limited.

He later moved on to a career in politics with his first job as Mayor of Berlin during 1913 to 1914. After that experience, Euler moved to federal politics where he represented the Liberal Party of Canada for the Waterloo North constituency. Between 1917 and 1940, he was a Member of the House of Commons. In the many year he worked in Ottawa, Euler was the Minister of Trade and Commerce, Minister of National Revenue, and Minister of Customs and Excise. Appointed by William Lyon Mackenzie King, Euler had a term as senator from 1940 until 1961. He died on July 15, 1961.

Mary Margaret Watson was born in Exeter, Devonshire, in England. Homer Ransford Watson and Roxanna "Roxa" Betchtel adopted her in December of 1907. She was their only living child. Mary Watson died on July 14, 1982, in Cambridge, Ontario.

Rudolph Ackermann (20 April 1764 in Schneeberg, Electorate of Saxony – 30 March 1834 in Finchley, London) was an Anglo-German bookseller, inventor, lithographer, publisher and businessman.

Mayor of Kitchener from 1954 to 1955.