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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Janet Sims was born March 1, 1838 to James Sims and Janet Harvey Sims shortly after the family's arrival in Canada. She married John McQueen on December 26, 1856 in Hawkesville, Ontario and died in Hillman, Michigan on June 3, 1926.

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.

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.

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

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.

The Reverend James Sims was born ca.1812 in Insch, Aberdeenshire, Scotland and was largely self-educated. On June 1, 1836, he married the widow Janet Harvey Robertson and in 1837 came to what is now Canada with a large party of relatives: his father and mother, his wife and step-children Alexander, John and Jane Robertson, his brothers Peter and Andrew, his sister Margaret, and nephews James and Peter Sims.

In the spring of 1838 the family settled as squatters in Queen's Bush near Hawkesville, Wellesley Township. The journey was likely complicated by the birth of James and Janet’s first child, Janet Sims, born March 1, 1838. They later had three sons: James Campbell Sims (1842-1929), Peter Harvey Sims (1844-1920) and William Andrew Sims (1846-1930). The family worked to clear a homestead on the land with James working as a labourer in surrounding areas when needed. He was ordained a minister on October 5, 1841, after joining the Baptist Church in Blair, and began working as an active itinerant preacher. In addition to preaching at the church in Blair every other weekend, he oversaw marriages, funerals and baptisms, and supported both Black and white residents in and around the Queen's Bush. He left the Baptist Church in the 1860s to join the Christadelphian faith.

Excerpts from Waterloo Region Hall of Fame describe him as "a significant religious and educational leader in Waterloo County in the 1800s. [...] Sims was perhaps best known for his significant leadership role in promoting public education. In 1853, when Waterloo County was established, he became the first Superintendent of Schools for the Townships of Woolwich and Wellesley. He also became the first Chairman of the Board of Public Instruction.”

James Sims died October 31, 1880 and was buried in Kitchener's Mount Hope Cemetery.

Janet Harvey was born ca. 1806 in Insch, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. On January 2, 1823, she married John Robertson with whom she had four children, Alexander, James, John and Jane. Her husband died ca. 1832 and on June 1, 1836 she married James Sims. They emigrated to what is now Canada in 1837, settling as squatters on Queen's Bush land near Hawkesville, Ontario. Together Janet and James had four children: Janet McQueen, James Campbell Sims, Peter Harvey Sims and William Andrew Sims. Janet Harvey Sims died October 3, 1881 and was buried in Kitchener's Mount Hope Cemetery.

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.

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.

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.

William (Bill) Thomson (b. 1926) is an urban planner who has worked extensively in the Waterloo Region. Bill obtained his BA in Geography from McMaster University, and his MA in Geography and Urban Economics from the University of Indiana in 1953. In 1961 Bill became the first Planning Director for the City of Kitchener, and later the first Commissioner of Planning and Development for the Regional Municipality of Waterloo. In 1985, Bill became the Commissioner of Economic Development for Kitchener. Bill later entered the consulting world and in 1992 joined the firm Thomson McGough Consultants Inc. and later founded his own firm Bill Thomson Consultant Inc. During this period Bill was also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Waterloo in the School of Urban and Regional Planning and also taught a course on economic development.
Bill is a member of many organizations and has served on the board of a variety of these, including the Canadian Institute of Planners, the Town Planning Institute of Canada, and the Energy Conservation Planning Task Force for the Canadian Institute of Planners. Bill retired in 2008.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a suffragist, social reformer, abolitionist and women's rights activist. Born to a prominent New York family, Elizabeth learned law from her father and was educated at Johnstown Academy and later the Troy Female Seminary, although she had wanted to attend Union College like her male peers but was kept out because of her gender. In 1840 she married abolitionist Henry Brewster Stanton (1805-1887) removing the line "promise to obey" from her wedding vows. The pair had seven children and it is speculated that they used birth control methods to control the spacing of the births.
Stanton was friends with many prominent activists, abolitionists and writers of the day and kept social circles with some of the elite of Boston, where the family settled after their marriage, and later in Seneca Falls.
While traveling in Europe in 1840 on her honeymoon, Stanton met Lucretia Mott with whom she bonded after the two were told they were not allowed to attend the World Anti-Slavery Convention on account of their gender. Back in Seneca Falls, in 1848, Stanton, Mott, Martha Coffin Wright, Jane Hunt, and others organized the Seneca Falls Convention on July 19th and 20th. Stanton wrote and read the Declaration of Sentiments proclaiming that men and women are created equal. This declaration is credited with initiating the first organized women's suffrage movement in the United States and solidified Stanton as a major voice in the women's rights movement. In 1851 Stanton met Susan B. Anthony for whom she wrote many speeches when she was unable to travel to speak due to family obligations.
In the post-Civil War era, Stanton went against her former abolitionist leanings and lobbied against the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, arguing that expanding the number of men granted the right to vote would increase the number of voters prepared to vote against women's suffrage and that more men should not be given the right to vote without women being included. She frequently use racist language including stating that giving wealthy, refined, educated women the right to vote would help counteract the votes of men who were former slaves or immigrants and who exhibited the characteristics of pauperism and ignorance. Her stance on race lead to a split between her and many of her former abolitionist friends, as well as between her and other suffragists. The schism was so great that by 1869 the woman's suffrage movement had split into two separate groups. Stanton and Anthony founded the National Women Suffrage Association (NWSA), opposing the Fifteenth Amendment, and Lucy Stone, Alice Stone Blackwell and Julia Ward Howe founded the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), supporting the Fifteenth Amendment.
Increasingly, Stanton became more at odds with other suffragists as she began to advocate for more women's rights beyond suffrage, and began to speak out against what she felt were the dangers of Christianity to the women's rights movement, describing it as patriarchal and oppressive. However, in 1890 both the NWSA and the AWSA merged back into one organization, the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) and Stanton became the first president.
In 1892 Stanton, along with Anthony, Stone and Isabella Hooker spoke before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary on suffrage. In 1895 she published the first volume of "The Woman's Bible" which argues against Christianity, as well as all organized religion. Although it was highly criticized by many both outside and inside of the suffrage movement, it was a best seller and was reprinted twice in the year following its publication.
By the time she published the second volume of "The Woman's Bible" in 1898, Stanton was aging and was unable to attend public events. She died of heart failure at her home in 1902.

Herbert Maplin Snyder was born April 21, 1873. He was a prominent citizen, a a furniture and upholstery manufacturer in Waterloo, Ontario. He died February 1, 1942.

John Collier was born in Atlanta, Georgia on May 4, 1884.

In his early career, John worked as a teacher and was involved with social work and community development. He then served as the United States Commissioner of Indian Affairs between 1933 and 1945. Later, he served as an adviser on trusteeship to the United Nations and as a professor of sociology at City College of New York. Between 1926 and 1933, John Collier also edited American Indian Life Magazine.

John Collier died on May 8, 1968.

A chief of the Nisga'a.

Charles Andrew Ahrens was an industrialist, businessman and bookkeeper born July 11, 1827 in Hohen-Wesdt, Holstein, Germany. He emigrated to Berlin (now Kitchener) in 1851 at the age of 24. He began working as a bookkeeper at Louis Breithaupt's tannery 1857. He later worked for Beardmores in Toronto for 5 years. On April 16, 1854, Ahrens married Henrietta Charlotte Roth, who had emigrated from Germany to Preston, Ontario in 1852. Together they had twelve children. The family lived for a time in Port Elgin, where Charles operated a general store, in partnership with a Mr. Kinzie. Upon their return to Kitchener, Charles worked as bookkeeper for the Hepburn Shoe Factory. Charles was also the clerk and treasurer for the town of Berlin and in 1886 he was a Town Councillor. In 1879 he opened his own shoe store, and later a factory, C.A. Ahrens Shoe Co., which operated across from the Walper Hotel on Queen Street South. By the early 1900's, the shoe factory was a thriving and eventually taken over by Ahrens' son, Charles August.The company was purchased by Savage Shoe Co. in 1949. Charles Andrew died on August 18, 1903 following a series of strokes and was interred at Mount Hope Cemetery in Kitchener, Ontario.

Jacob Anthes, the son of Martin Anthes and Catharine Schmitt, was born March 25, 1836 in Kitchener, Ontario. Jacob married Magdalena Stricker circa 1857 and the couple had six children: Sarah Anna, Mary Elizabeth, Martin Franklin, Catharine A., Martha Magdalena, Clarissa Lovina and Emma Caroline.

The 1861 census lists Jacob as a farmer, religion as Methodist, located on land close to his father's in Wilmot township. In 1867 Jacob moved his family to Carrick Township, near Mildmay, Ontario where Jacob preached for the Evangelical Association. He had a local congregation but also rode far and wide across the countryside to preach to widely scattered congregations. He and his family moved again in 1868 to Port Elgin where Jacob helped to build the Evangelical Association Church. By 1871, Jacob's occupation in the census was listed as "preacher" and his religion as "Evangelical Association." Jacob and his family relocated to Kitchener in 1873 where he served as pastor of Zion Evangelical Church. He died unexpectedly in 1874 at the age of only 38 of what is described as "brain fever."

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.

Catharine [sometimes Catherine] Emelia Anthes was born April 30, 1864 to parents Jacob Anthes and Magdalena Stricker. She married Moses E. Braendle (date unknown) and the couple had a son, Harold Anthes born July 17, 1893, in Woolwich Township. Moses died in 1952 and was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Ontario. Catherine who died January 23, 1953. Son, Harold died in Florida, July 17, 1974.

Liborius Breithaupt was born in 1797 in Allendorf an der Werra, Kurhessen, Germany to Martha Elisabeth Kroschell, age 20, and Johann Christian Breithaupt, age 22. He married Barbara Catharina Goetz on October 24, 1826 in Allendorf. The couple had a son, Philip Ludwig (Louis) born November 8, 1827, also in Allendorf. A daughter Marie Elisabeth Frederica, born June 14, 1829, died May 13, 1834. In 1843, Liborius, Catharina and Louis emigrated from Hesse, Germany to Buffalo, New York. While there, they had another daughter, Catharina, born February 18, 1847. A fire damage report dated October 14, 1850 by Liborius lists extensive damage to his "sheep skin factory" on Steuben Street in Buffalo. Liborius died in Buffalo in May of 1851. Around 1861, Catharina moved to Berlin, Ontario where her son Philip Louis had been living since his marriage to Catherine Hailer in 1853.

Marie Elisabeth Fredericka Breithaupt was born on June 14,1829, in Allendorf an der Werra, Kurhessen, Germany, the second child of Liborius Breithaupt and Barbara Catharina Goetz. She died as a young child on May 13, 1834.

Catharina Breithaupt Raquet was born in Buffalo, New York on February 18, 1847 to parents Liborius Breithaupt and Barbara Catharina Goetz, who had emigrated from Germany in 1843. Catharina married Jacob Raquet in New York March 3, 1864 and the couple had six children: William Jacob; Clara Maria; Edward David; Henrietta Catharine Philomene; Emilie Louise; and Joseph John Louise, living in Buffalo and the Detroit, Michigan area, where Jacob was a farmer. Jacob died March 11, 1886 in Detroit. The 1920 United States census has Catharina living in Santa Monica, California with her daughter Emilie. Catharina's death date is unknown.

Lucy Doyle was a well-known newspaper reporter and amateur historian. Her career at the Toronto Telegram began in the 1890's with work as a 'copy girl'. She eventually became a reporter, drama and music critic, gossip columnist, and editor of the women's page at the Telegram. Among the highlights of her newspaper career was the opportunity to cover the Prince of Wales' tours of Canada and the United States. She spent her later years doing research for several planned but never published books, including a biography of the Prince of Wales and a work about the history of Scarborough. For 18 years, she occupied a log cabin on the grounds of the Guild of All Arts in Scarborough, Ontario, as the guest of Spencer and Rosa Clark.

Walter Henry Ahrens was an industrialist born July 24, 1885 in Berlin (later Kitchener), Ontario to parents Henry Jacob Ahrens and Caroline Seiler. Walter moved to the United States as an adult and lived variously in Chicago, Arkansas and Oklahoma. He founded the Tulsa-based Southern Mill and Manufacturing Co., which produced per-fabricated homes, in 1919. The company first made its mark in the 1920s, building residential homes for oil companies with land leases, a relationship that continued into the 1930s with the growth of the drilling in the east Texas oil fields. Southern Mill and Manufacturing Co. was later awarded a grant from the Federal Works Agency, during World War II, to address the need for quickly available housing around defense plants. Outside of work, Ahrens helped established the Oaks Country Club, and was a member of the Kiwanis club and the Trinity Espiscopal Church, and served as direct of the Tulsa Chamber of Commerce and Fourth National Bank. Ahrens married Alberta Vivian Francisco January 17, 1906 in Winslow, Arkansas and together they had five children. He died May 30, 1959 in Tulsa, where he was buried.

George Seiler Ahrens was a businessman born in Berlin (later Kitchener) Ontario March 27, 1887 to Henry Jacob Ahrens and Caroline Seiler. He married Rose Margueritte Lloyd, born in Ireland, on June 24, 1908. They had a daughter, Muriel Kathleen (later Sharpe) (1909-1998). He managed a luggage company in Kitchener, before moving to the United States in 1926, to join his brother Walter in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Ahrens served as secretary-treasurer for the company Walter company, the Southern Mill and Manufacturing Co., which was founded in 1919 and produced pre-fabricated housing. He was a member of the Tulsa Rotary Club and the Oaks Country Club, and attended Trinity Episcopal Church. George died in Tulsa on May 24, 1962 and was entombed in Rose Hill Mausoleum. Rose died March 17, 1969 in Toronto.

Sara Caskey was born March 2, 1895 in Youngstown, Ohio to parents Herbert C. Caskey and Mary McElwey. She married Louis Orville Breithaupt of Kitchener on November 27, 1919 in Toronto. The couple had four children: Mary Scott; Louis Paul; Sara (Sally) Caroline and Herbert Caskey. Sara died in Kitchener February 14, 1989 and is buried with her husband in Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener.

Friederich Adolph "Adolph" Breithaupt was born August 25, 1875 in Berlin (later Kitchener) Ontario to parents Philip Ludwig (Louis) and Catherine Hailer. He died as a child on June 21, 1883 while visiting family with his mother in Cleveland, Ohio. He was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener.

Philip William was born December 16, 1898 in New York City, New York to parents William Henry Breithaupt and Martha Cunningham Murphy.

Henry Herbert Anthes was born in Berlin (later Kitchener) Ontario on September 5, 1908. He was the son of John Isaac Franklin Anthes and Cyrena Harriet Simmonds. The 1921 census has the family living in Montréal, Quebec. According to Henry's United States Second World War draft registration card, he was living in Sausalito, California and working for Proctor & Gamble in April of 1945. He became a US citizen in 1949 at which time he was living in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Henry died in September of 1984 in Ohio and was buried at the Anthes family in Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener.

Christian Bechler was born on January 8, 1828 in Germany. Christian was married to Christina Floetke. Together they had at least three children, Gottfried, Edward, and Henrietta Wilhelmine (1859-1925). Others may have included Frederick (1854-1937) and Marie (ca.1862-1904). The Bechler family immigrated to Canada in the 1870s where they lived in Wilmot Township before settling in Berlin (later Kitchener), Ontario. Christian worked as a farmer and later as a labourer. Christian passed away on March 14, 1897.

Anna (Annie) Schmidt was born in Germany to Joachim Schmidt and Marie Knopp in 1877. Anna married Edward Bechler on April 18, 1899 in Berlin (later Kitchener). Anna passed away in 1953 and was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery.

Frederick Bechler was born in Germany on February 27, 1854. It is probable Frederick was the brother of Christian Bechler. Frederick immigrated to Canada in 1878 or 1880. Frederick worked as a labourer, button maker, and button turner in Berlin (later Kitchener). It is probable that Frederick Bechler was the brother of Christian Bechler.

Frederick married Auguste “Maria” Schultz (Mary) (b. 1858, d. 1897) in 1879. Frederick and Maria had four children: August Gustave Bechler (b. 1880, d. 1914), Wilhelmina Henrietta Bechler (b. 1882, d. 1903), Willie Bechler (b. 1884, d. 1884), and Carl Gottfried Bechler (b. 1885, d. 1968).

Gustav (August Gustave) Bechler worked as a cigar maker in Berlin. Bechler married Margth Reeger on November 11th, 1903. The couple lived in Michigan with their daughters Ella (b. 1907) and Ethel (b. 1909).

Minnie (Wilhelmina Henrietta) Bechler worked as a cigar maker in Berlin. Wilhelmina passed away in 1903.

Carl Gottfried (Charles Godfrey) Bechler worked as a cabinet maker in Berlin. Charles married Mary Hazel Reid on November 30th, 1910 in Guelph.

After Maria’s death, Frederick remarried on July 6th, 1897 to Matilda Rogge-Wiese (b. 1868, d. 1951) in Berlin, Ontario. Frederick and Matilda had two children: Viola Maria Bechler (b. 1898, d. 1994) and Walter Edward Bechler (b. 1903, d. 1979).

Walter Bechler worked as a shoemaker in Kitchener. Walter married Dorothy Regan (b. 1906, d. 1979) on July 1st, 1937 in Kitchener.

Frederick Bechler passed away on November 24, 1937.

Mabel Krug was born in Bristol, Pennsylvania. She moved to Montreal as a child, where her father moved the family to start a business. She went on to study music at McGill University's Conservatory of Music, with plans for an opera career, changing course after marrying Henry Krug and moving to Kitchener.

Awarded K-W Jaycee's Citizen of the Year Award in 1963 in recognition of work with Cancer Society and area cultural groups. Krug was received the Order of Canada in 1973 in recognition of her contributions to the lives of Canadians at a local and regional level.

Rudolph Anthes "Dolph" Breithaupt was born in Berlin (later Kitchener) Ontario October 21, 1906 to parents Albert Liborius and Lydia Louisa Anthes. He became a Major in the Canadian military a member of the Scots Fusiliers of Canada receiving the Order of the British Empire. He married Marion Elizabeth Roos on August 24, 1928. Dolph died March 21, 1960 and was interred in Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener.

Maria Martha Louise Breithaupt was born in Berlin (later Kitchener) Ontario on December 15, 1903 to parents Albert Liborius and Lydia Louisa Anthes. Maria was trained as a nurse and worked in that profession in Kitchener. She married Hugh Emerson Martin of Toronto on June 4, 1938. Maria's death date is unknown.

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.

Thomas Land was born on March 29, 1959 to Millicent Elizabeth "Betty" Forbes and William "Bill" Land.

Cathie Coward worked as a photojournalist for the Kitchener-Waterloo Record from approximately 1987 until she went to the Hamilton Spectator in January of 1990. She has been repeatedly recognized by both the Ontario Newspaper Awards and the National Newspaper Awards for her news and feature photography.

Helen Mary Kaufman was the daughter of Alvin Ratz and Jean Helen Kaufman. She married Bernard Danton Sandwell, of Montreal, at her parents' summer resident outside of Kitchener on June 10, 1939.