Ann Thompson was born to James Peter Thompson and Helen Charette in 1949. In 1969, she married Gary Lauzon and they had two children.

Charles August Ahrens was an industrialist born on August 28, 1856 in Port Elgin, Ontario to parents Charles Andrew and Charlotte Henrietta Ahrens. He was a harness maker and went to Iowa to specialize in making special harnesses for horse racing. He married Laura Emma Hirschy September 21, 1882 in Wayne, Ohio. He founded Chas. A. Ahrens Ltd. in Berlin, now Kitchener, Ontario in 1882, which he operated for 55 years. in addition to his business activities, he built several buildings and homes in the area. Ahrens was a charter member of the Kitchener Board of Trade, and served for a time on the Board of Health and the K-W Hospital Board. Together he and Laura had three children: Fredrick Hirschy; Charlotte Mary; and Florence L. He died September 14, 1937 and was entombed at Woodland Cemetery, Kitchener. At the time of his death, he held the record within the Dominion for the uninterrupted operation of a show factory by the same person.

Laura Emma Hirschy was born in Fredericksburg, Ohio December 20, 1858 to Henry and Mary (nee Hurst) Hirschy. She married Charles August Ahrens formerly of Berlin (later Kitchener), Ontario in Wayne, Ohio. They later relocated to Berlin (now Kitchener), Ontario where Charles founded Chas. A. Ahrens Ltd. in in 1882. Together Laura and Charles had three children: Frederick Hirschy; Charlotte Mary; and Florence Louise. Laura attended the Church of the Good Shepherd and was a member of the Ladies Aid Society, the Indepedent Dorcas, and the Order of the Eatern Star. She died February 21, 1949 and was entombed at Woodland Cemetery.

Carl "Charles" Hermann Ahrens was a business executive born September 17, 1891 in Kitchener, Ontario to Henry Jacob Ahrens and Caroline Seiler Ahrens. He married Edith (Edythe) Diana Woefle on June 2, 1923 in Niagara, New York. Ahrens served as vice-president of the Southern Mill and Manufacturing Company in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a per-fabricated homes business founded by his bother Walter Henry Ahrens. Edith died in August of 1958 and is buried in Rose Hill Memorial Park, Tulsa. Carl married Maude Claire Braunhich in 1959. He died August 29, 1960 in Tulsa and was buried with Edith.

Emma Ahrens was born April 27, 1865 in Kitchener, Ontario. Her parents were Charles Andrew Ahrens and Charlotte Henrietta Roth Ahrens. Emma died December 27, 1945 in Kitchener and was interred at Mount Hope Cemetery in Kitchener.

Laura "Lola" Emma Ahrens was born in Berlin (Kitchener) Ontario to parents Charles Andrew Ahrens and Henrietta Charlotte Roth. She married George Henry Hachborn also of Berlin on September 26, 1894. The couple lived in Berlin and had four children: Marguerite Helen (Koenig) ; Laura Isabella Hachborn; Rudolph Albert and Robert Carl Hachborn.

Laura died December 9, 1939 and was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener alongside George who predeceased her on July 1, 1934.

Helena Schneider was community builder and volunteer born in Berlin (no Kitchener) Ontario on November 1, 1859 to parents Charles Andrew Ahrens and Charlotte Henrietta Roth at the family home on Queen Street. Helena married John Metz Schneider of Berlin on November 8th, 1883. The couple had five children: Charles Alexander; Herbert John; Norman Christoph; Frederick Henry and Emma Louise. John was the founder of J.M. Schneider Limited; he began making and selling sausages around 1890 from their home after an injury prohibited him from working at his job at a button factory.

Helena was an active member of the Good Shepherd church, the Ladies Auxiliary and of the Independent Dorcas Society and the Kitchener Red Cross. She served for a number of years on the Kitchener Orphanage Board, and was active in relief work, particularly during the depression years. Helena died on November 3rd, 1944 and is entombed at Woodland Cemetery, Kitchener with her husband who died in 1942.

Henry Jacob Ahrens was a grocer born March 2, 1858 in Port Elgin, Ontario to Charles Andrew Ahrens and Henrietta Charlotte Roth. He married Caroline Seiler April 16, 1884 and together they had five children: Walter Henry, George Seiler, Mabel Laura, Carl Hermann "Charles", and Edith Louisa. Ahrens owned and operated Five Points Grocery at the corner of Frederick and Lancaster until his retirement in [1919]. He died January 25, 1933 following a stroke and was buried in Woodland Cemetery, Kitchener. Caroline, who died in 1944, was buried with him.

Johann Christoph Schneider was born in Germany, in Unteröwisheim, Baden, on August 27, 1831. His father, a farmer, was also Johann Christoph Schneider; his mother was Margarethe Elizabeth Zoller. He left Germany in 1847 when he was sixteen years old and settled in Berlin (now Kitchener), Ontario, where a substantial German settlement already existed. He worked as a carpenter and later as a mechanic, and by 1858 was a building contractor. He married Anna Elizabeth Metz on April 26, 1857 and started married life in a house on what is now College St. in Kitchener. Together they had seven children, of whom John Metz Schneider was the first.

In 1860 Schneider purchased a 100-acre farm in what is now the Victoria/Lawrence St. area of Kitchener, cleared the land and spent the next thirty-seven years as a farmer. He contributed to the growth of Berlin as a builder, helping to construct buildings such as the Waterloo County Court House and the Breithaupt tanneries. He was also a founding member of the Church of the New Jerusalem, a Swedenborgian congregation. He died December 20, 1900 and was buried at Mount Hope Cemetery.

Mabel Ahrens was born October 11, 1888, in Berlin (later Kitchener) Ontario to parents Henry J., Ahrens and Caroline Seiler. She married William Pickard on April 7, 1921. Mabel died November 29, 1943 in Toronto, Ontario and was buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery.

John Metz Schneider was a business owner and community builder. The first child of Christoph and Anna Schneider, he was born in Berlin (later Kitchener) on February 17, 1859. He grew up on the family farm but moved into Berlin as a young man to find work in the Dominion Button Works. It was there that he met Helena Ahrens, and they were married on November 8, 1883 at the Ahrens home in Berlin, Ontario. Together they had five children: Charles Alexander, Herbert John, Norman Christoph, Frederick Henry and Emma Louise.

An accident at Dominion Button Works in 1886 kept J.M. home for an extended period. His future as the founder of a major food processing company started with his efforts at this time to support his family. He and his family began to make sausages at home and J.M. sold them, door to door, even after he returned to work at the button factory. The success of this enterprise encouraged him to become a full time butcher, and in 1890 he built his own plant and shop on Courtland Avenue in Berlin . J.M. Schneider Limited became one of the most important industries in Kitchener, known around the world, its reputation based on J.M. Schneider’s personal virtues of thrift, honesty, quality and equality.

Beyond his business pursuits, Schneider was a trustee of the Church of the Good Shepherd, sang in the choir and helped lay the cornerstone of the new church in 1935. He was a member of the Board of Trade, was an alderman in 1905-1907, sponsored radio broadcasts of the Y.M.C.A. choir, and in 1938 started the Schneider Male Chorus.

J.M. died February 23, 1942 and was entombed at Woodland Cemetery, Kitchener.

Elizabeth Gofton Schneider was born on July 26, 1862 to parents Johann Christoph and Anna Schneider. She was married to Roger Fonger Gofton in 1886 with whom she had one child named Alfred. She died unexpectedly, at the age of 35, on October 15, 1984.

Alfred Schneider Gofton was born in Kitchener, Ontario on March 9, 1889 to parents Roger and Elizabeth Schneider Gofton, J.M. Schneider's sister. He lived with the J.M. Schneider family for a time, worked at the plant, and was a friend of J.M.'s son Norman. During World War I Gofton served overseas in the Canadian Army Service Corps in a motor transport unit. He enlisted in 1914 and was not discharged until 1919. He married Charlotte Elizabeth Braun June 6, 1923 with whom he had four children: Eleanor, Marion, Jerene, and Annette. He died November 19, 1985 and was buried at Woodland Cemetery.

Norman Christoph Schneider was born in Berlin, Ontario (now Kitchener) on December 9, 1888, the third son of John Metz and Helena Ahrens. He was an engineer and worked from 1905-1910 at Tuerk Tool and Engine company, before joining J.M. Schneider Inc. as a stationary engineer. Over the course of his time with the company he served as company vice-president, president, chairman of the board and as a director, retiring in 1976. He was married to Ethel May Lapsley with whom he had three children: Herbert John, Howard George and Brita.

Beyond his work at Schneider's he served with the 118th Battalion, during the First World War, and served as a Member of Parliament for the riding of North Waterloo from 1952-1958. He won a by-election in 1952, was re-elected in 1953 and 1956, but was defeated in 1958 by Conservative O.W. Weichel. He participated actively in community affairs, serving with the Kitchener Young Men's Club, the Red Cross, the Kitchener Rotary Club, Chamber of Commerce, Federated Charities, Salvation Army, Children's Aid, YWCA, University of Waterloo, St. Mary's Hospital, Doon Pioneer Village, K-W High School Board, Kitchener Citizen's Fire Prevention Committee, Waterloo Township Plowman's Association, Grand River Valley Conservation Commission, Kitchener Downtown Urban Renewal Development Committee, the Schneider Male Choir, and as a director of the Economical Mutual Insurance Co. He was a lifelong member of the Church of the Good Shepherd (Swedenborgian) and served for twenty-five years as Sunday school superintendent and member of the Board of Directors.

Schneider was an aviation enthusiast influencing the development of related amenities in the Region of Waterloo. He was involved in establishing the Kitchener-Waterloo Airport on Lexington Road in Waterloo in 1930 and assisted with the selection of the site of the Waterloo-Wellington Airport in Breslau, Ontario. He served on the airport commission from its founding in 1946 until 1971 and in 1973 the new terminal building was named in his honour. Schneider became an avid skier in his 40's and was a founding member of the Chicopee Ski Club. He also had an interest in motorcycles and automobiles resulting in the 1956 of a LeRoy car built in Kitchener in 1899, which he subsequently donated to Doon Pioneer Village. Finally, an active amateur photographer, he covered the Olympics in Berlin for The Record and in 1929 was the official movie photographer for Kitchener when the King and Queen visited the city.

He was awarded an honorary doctorate by Waterloo Lutheran University (now Wilfrid Laurier University) in 1966 and a Centennial medal in 1967 on the occasion of Canada's 100th birthday.

Schneider died August 26, 1985 at his home in Kitchener and was buried at Woodland Cemetery.

Roger E. Gofton was born on January 4,1863 in Wilmot Township to Robert and Rosannah Fonger Gofton. His occupation was in woodworking. He married Elizabeth Schnieder, the sister of J.M. Schneider, October 20, 1886. Together they had a son named Alfred Schneider Gofton. After the unexpected death of Elizabeth in 1894, Gofton married Anna Woelfle with whom he had 8 children. He died April 3, 1949 and was buried at Mount Hope Cemetery.

Alberta Schneider was born on October 8, 1901 to parents Heinrich Metz and Louise Schneider. She married a widower named Clarence Edwin Traeder with whom she moved to Wisconsin with from 1956-1960. After that, they resided in Phoenix, Arizona.

Wilhelm Christoph Schneider was born on September 30, 1867 to parents Johann Christoph and Anna Schneider. He married Emma Kennedy, with whom he had nine children: Edwin, Alvin, Walter, Alfred, Carl, Lenore, Edna, Eva, and Isabelle. In 1901 he was a farmer and then in 1911 he went into the business of tannery. He died at his Kitchener home on February 10, 1952.

Georgina Allendorf was born on February 16, 1887 to parents Conrad and Magdalena Allendorf. She was the eighth of fourteen children and came from a family of wagon makers. She married Charles Alexander Schneider on October 26, 1862 with whom she had one daughter: Lorraine Katharine. Schneider died August 15,1959 in Kitchener and was buried at Woodland Cemetery.

Herbert John Schneider was born July 5, 1926 in Kitchener, Ontario to Norman and Ethel Schneider. Educated in local public schools he graduated from the Ontario Agricultural College in 1949 with a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture. He was married to Betty Ruppel on October 6, 1949 with whom he four children: Gretchen Ann, Eric Norman, Nancy Beth, and Michael Kurt.

Schneider joined J.M. Schneider Inc. in 1948 holding the positions of Production Supervisor and Plant Superintendent, and becoming Vice-President of Personnel and Public Relations, Vice-President and Vice Chairman of Schneider Corporation. He jointed the Board of Directors in 1952 and served as a member until 1997 when he retired as Chairman.

Over the course of his career he was Chairman of the Public Affairs and Marketing Committee of the Canadian Meat Council and a trustee of the National Institute of Nutrition. He was served as councillor for Waterloo Township, member of the Waterloo County Area Planning Board, Pine Grove Community Association, the K-W YMCA Board of Directors, the Vice-President of K-W Oktoberfest, and Chairman of the Town and Country Dinner. He has also served as President of the Board of Directors of the Church of the Good Shepherd (Swedenborgian).

Schneider died suddenly on January 29, 2006.

Lorne Rayborn "Ray" Shantz was born March 16, 1905 in Plattsville, Ontario, the son of Jacob M. Shantz and Mary Ann Bingeman. He moved to Kitchener in 1925, where he met and married Lorraine Schneider. Shantz retired from his position as Advertising and Public Relations Manager at J.M. Schneider Inc. in 1970. He was first elected to the Kitchener Public School Board in 1946, serving as the chairman of Physical Health and Safety Committee in 1947 and as Board chairman from 1948 to 1949 and in 1953. He died January 1, 1982 and was buried at Woodland Cemetery.

Ethel May Lapsley was born in Galt, Ontario (now Cambridge) on March 31, 1894 to William Henry and Clara Sophia Lapsley. She was married to Norman Christoph, owner of J.M. Schneider’s Ltd., with whom she had three children: Herbert John, Howard George, and Brita. She was an active member of the Canadian Red Cross, volunteering with the organization for 60 years. Schneider died at Victoria Place in Kitchener on September 23, 1988 and was buried at Woodland Cemetery.

Hyalie Harris MacDonald was born February 15, 1895 in Wellington, Ontario. He married Edna Louise Ahrens on May 21, 1925. MacDonald died November 10, 1947 in Kitchener, Ontario and was buried at Woodland Cemetery.

Irmengarde Louisa Hagen was born in Berlin, Ontario (now Kitchener) in 1898 to Charles and Caroline Edith (nee Rehmann) Hagen. She was along time employee of J.M. Schneider Inc. Hagen died in 1999 and was buried in Preston Cemetery.

Charlotte "Lottie" Mary Ahrens was born in January 12, 1885 in Berlin (later Kitchener) Ontario to parents Charles August Ahrens and Laura Emma Hirschy. She had two siblings; Frederick Hirschy and Florence Louisa. She married Stanley Shupe of Dunnville, Ontario on January 11, 1916. In the 1921 Census the couple and a son, Charles, aged 5 were living with her parents in Berlin. She died July 11, 1969 and was buried in Woodland Cemetery, Kitchener.

Herbert John was born October 20, 1886 to parents John Metz Schneider and Helena Ahrens. He died of typhoid fever on October 11, 1905 after contracting the infection two weeks prior.

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

Peter Harvey Sims was born May 18, 1844 in Hawkesville, Wellesley Township to the Rev. James Sims and Janet Harvey Robertson. He married Jemima Cook on May 18, 1869 and together they had two children: Harvey James and Rella May. He became a school teacher, serving for a time as principal of the Waterloo Central School. He later went in to insurance, eventually founding the Mercantile Fire Insurance Co in Waterloo, Ontario. As an adult he supported those of his family who did not flourish in Canada, including his parents James and Janet Sims and his sister Janet McQueen. At the time of his death, Sims was vice-president of the Dominion Life Assurance Co. He died November November 20, 1920 of pneumonia in Kitchener at the home of his son, Henry James Sims. He was entombed at the Forest Lawn Mausoleum in Toronto, Ontario.

Melinda Carolina Cook was born January 12, 1841 in Beverly Township, Wentworth County, Ontario to James and Elizabeth Cook. She married Aaron B. Oberholtzer (1836-1910) on September 7, 1858. Melinda Carolina Oberholtzer died December 12, 1912.

Clara Oberholtzer was born September 24, 1861 to Aaron B. and Melinda Carolina (Cook) Oberholtzer. She married R.H. Sanford on January 7, 1894. Clara Sanford died July 20, 1925 in Kitchener, Ontario.

Brita Hazell was born on March 21, 1931. The third child of Norman and Ethel Schneider, she was raised in Kitchener, Ontario alongside brothers Herbert and Howard. Her first marriage was to Robert White, which took place on October 10, 1953. Her second marriage to Roy Graham Hazell (1930-2000) took place March 29, 1969 in San Francisco, California.

Albert Benjamin Augustine was a teacher and school principal born on March 6, 1859 in Racine, Wisconsin to Samuel C. Augustine (1831-1897) and Barbara Lahr (1825-1904). He graduated from the Racine high school in 1876 and from Northwestern College in Naperville, Illinois in 1879. He taught in Montana, Wisconsin and New Berlin, Pennsylvania before returning to Racine where he was eventually named principal of the Third Ward School (later Winslow School) in 1884. He remained in the position until his death. He married Caroline Margaret Barbara Breithaupt on August 3, 1887 in Berlin (now Kitchener), Ontario and together they had three children: Albert William Augustine, Laurine Catherine Augustine, and Grace Melvina Louise Augustine. Albert died on April 10, 1909 in Racine and was buried in Mound Cemetery, Racine. Caroline and the children moved to Berlin after his death; Grace returning to the US to live and work until after 1954 when she returned to live in Kitchener.

Samuel Fried was born in Bucks County Pennsylvania in 1804. In 1825 he and Abraham Moyer walked to Canada and settled in Roseville, Waterloo County where he worked as a farmer. He married Nancy Ziegler, also an immigrant from Pennsylvania, and the pair had 7 children together.

Andrew Peter Telegdi was born on May 28, 1946 in Budapest, Hungary to Alexander Sandor Telegdi (1919-2001) and Elenora Maria Freidrich (1921-1997).

In 1957, Telegdi fled Hungary alongside his parents and two siblings during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Telegdi and his family immigrated to Canada. He later attended schools in Vancouver, British Columbia and Toronto, Ontario.

During the 1960s and early 1970s, Telegdi worked as a professional rock music promoter. In addition, he owned the Village Bistro; a coffee house located at 2081 West 4th Avenue in the Kitsilano neighbourhood of Vancouver. The Village Bistro also functioned as a concert venue for rock and folk music performers. Telegdi likely sold or closed the Village Bistro around 1969.

Telegdi attended the University of Waterloo and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology in 1980. During his time at the University of Waterloo, Telegdi was involved in many organizations on campus. In January 1972, he served as the student representative on the Campus Centre (now the Student Life Centre) board. He was elected President of the Federation of Students (now the Waterloo Undergraduate Student Association) in 1973 and served two terms until 1975. He also served as the Arts Undergraduate Student Representative on the Senate at the University of Waterloo from 1975 to 1976.

Between August 1975 and May 1976, Telegdi worked as an administrator and caseworker for Young People in Legal Difficulty, a support program for youth aged 12-25 in Kitchener and Waterloo, Ontario. From June 1976 to 1993 and from 2013 to 2017, Telegdi served as the Executive Director of Youth in Conflict with the Law, a program that offers bail supervision for youth in the community. In 1979, Telegdi helped coordinate the first Justice Week in Canada hosted in Waterloo.

Telegdi worked as an elected Councillor on the City of Waterloo Council between 1985 and 1993. He also served as a Regional Councillor on the Council of the Regional Municipality of Waterloo between 1988 and 1993.

As a member of the Liberal Party of Canada, Telegdi ran in the 1990 Ontario general election to represent the riding of Waterloo North as a Member of Provincial Parliament. On September 6, 1990, Telegdi lost the election to Elizabeth Witmer, a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.

Telegdi was elected to federal office as Member of Parliament representing the riding of Waterloo in the 1993 Canadian federal election. Telegdi successfully kept his seat as a Member of Parliament through the 1997, 2000, 2004, and 2006 Canadian federal elections. Telegdi lost his seat during the 2008 Canadian federal elections to Peter Braid, a member of the Conservative Party. During his career as a Member of Parliament, Telegdi addressed many political issues including reforms to citizenship legislation, the legalization of same-sex marriage in Canada, immigration, crime, Canadian participation in wars or conflicts, and diplomatic relations.

Telegdi was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration in 1998. He served in this role from July 16, 1998 until his resignation on May 18, 2000. Telegdi resigned from this position in objection to certain provisions in the government’s proposed citizenship legislation.

Telegdi was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister with special emphasis on Aboriginal Affairs in 2004. He served in this role from January 30, 2004 until June 27, 2004.

Andrew Telegdi married Nancy Curtin-Telegdi in 1985 and together they had one child; Erin Telegdi. Telegdi died on January 23, 2017 at the age of 70.

Sinnathamby Thambithurai Ariaratnam is an engineer who was born in Chavakacheri, Sri Lanka on September 2, 1933. He graduated from the University of Ceylon with a B.Sc. in engineer in 1953, before obtaining a B.Sc. (1955) and M.Sc. (1956) at the University of London. In 1960 Ariaratnam completed a PhD in engineering at the University of Cambridge, followed by a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Birmingham, before accepting a research association position (1961-1962) at the Brown University. He was named an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Waterloo in 1962, becoming a Professor in 1962. Ariaratnam is recognized for his work in the field of random vibration and his contributions to research regarding stochastic modelling and nonlinear dynamics.