Rienzi Crusz was a poet and retired librarian living in Waterloo, ON. Born in Galle, Sri Lanka, Crusz was educated at the University of Ceylon (B.A. Hons.) and was employed as Chief Research Librarian for the Central Bank of Ceylon. After emigrating to Canada in 1965, he attended the University of Toronto (B.L.S.) and the University of Waterloo (M.A.). He worked at the University of Toronto Library and in 1969 was appointed as a reference and collections development librarian at the University of Waterloo, a position he held until his retirement in 1993.

His creative work first began to appear in periodicals and newspapers in 1968, and in 1974, his first collection of poems was published under the title Flesh and thorn. Since then, numerous other collections have been published. Crusz is an active voice among Canadian immigrant poets, and his work depicts the contrasts between South Asian and Canadian life. In 1994, he won the literature award in the Kitchener-Waterloo Arts Awards.

Anne Innis Dagg is a former a faculty member at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, in Independent Studies. She is a scholar and writer in several areas of interest, from zoology to women's studies. The daughter of Mary Quayle Innis and Harold Adams Innis, Anne was born on January 25, 1933, in Toronto, Ontario.

She became interested in giraffes as a child, and went on to take a BA from the University of Toronto in Honours Biology in 1955 (as gold medalist), and an MA from the University of Toronto in genetics in 1956, where she was also a demonstrator for botany and genetics from 1954-1956. She then traveled alone to South Africa to study the giraffe in 1956-1957.

In 1957 she married Ian Dagg, a physicist. They moved to Waterloo, Ontario, in 1959, where Ian became a professor at the new University of Waterloo.

Anne worked as a part-time lecturer at Waterloo Lutheran University in anatomy and physiology from 1962-1965, and then as an anatomy demonstrator at the University of Waterloo in 1966. In 1967 she earned her PhD, which examined gaits and their development in Infraorder Pecora, from the University of Waterloo. She was also a sessional assistant professor at the University of Guelph, Department of Zoology that year.

Anne Innis Dagg did research at the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia, in 1967-1968, when on Ian’s sabbatical with their family of three children. She was an assistant professor at the University of Guelph, Department of Zoology, from 1968-1972 where she taught mammalogy, wildlife management and general biology. She became a resource person for Integrated Studies at the University of Waterloo from 1978-1985, the Academic Director for Independent Studies (the same program but renamed) from 1986-1989, and finally senior academic advisor for this program from 1989 to the present.

Anne Innis Dagg started Otter Press in 1972 with the publication of Matrix Optics by Ian Dagg and in 1974 Mammals of Waterloo and South Wellington counties by herself. Other books she has written include: Canadian wildlife and man (McClelland and Stewart, 1974); Mammals of Ontario (Otter Press, 1974); The giraffe: its biology, behavior and ecology with J.B. Foster, (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1976; 1982); Wildlife management in Europe (Otter Press, 1977); Running, walking and jumping: the science of locomotion (Wykeham Science Series, 1977); Camel quest: Research on the Saharan camel (York Publishing,1978, 1989); A reference book of urban ecology (Otter Press, 1981); The camel: its ecology, behavior and relationship with man (University of Chicago Press, 1981); Harems and other horrors: sexual bias in behavioral biology (Otter Press, 1983); The fifty per cent solution. Why should woman pay for men’s culture? (Otter Press, 1986); Moreton Island: its history and natural history (Moreton Island Press, 1986); MisEducation: women and Canadian universities (with P.J. Thompson), OISE Press, 1988); User-friendly university: what every student should know (Otter Press, 1994); The feminine gaze: a Canadian compendium of non-fiction women authors and their books, 1836-1945 (Wilfrid University Press, 2001), and five more books since that time.

Peter Dallas was an alumnus of the University of Waterloo. He studied Kinesiology and received a Bachelor of Science (BSc), Honours Kinesiology in 1972. During his time as a student at the University, he played for the Warriors football team.

Peter Dallas also completed a Bachelor of Education at the University of Toronto.

The Dana Porter Library officially opened on October 23, 1965 as the Arts Library Building. It was designed by Toronto based Shore and Moffatt and Partners and was built between 1964 and 1970. The 10-storey building had floors added over time, with work on the final three beginning in 1969 by Hamilton-based Eaglewood Construction.

The opening of the building in 1965 was marked by a special convocation ceremony during which honorary degrees were presented to Bertha Bassam, Robert Harold Blackburn, and Jack Ernest Brown. Afterwards, the academic procession proceeded directly from Convocation to the main entrance of the Arts Library Building. The Arts Library Building was dedicated to and named after Dana Harris Porter, the first chancellor of the University of Waterloo, on October 27, 1967.

Nazla L. Dane was born in Indian Head Sask., in 1906 and spent her early years in Saskatchewan. She taught public and secondary school in Saskatchewan from 1925-1933, worked for various businesses in Regina and Vancouver, and then worked in the Departments of Munitions and Supply and Transport in Ottawa from 1941-1945. She worked as director of both the Women's and Educational Divisions of the Canadian Life Insurance Association from 1945 to 1971. In the course of her work she wrote news columns and travelled across the country speaking to women's groups not only about finances and money management, but about women's issues such as rights, laws and employment. Nazla Dane was elected President of the Toronto Business and Professional Women's Club 1949-1951, President of the Ontario BPW 1958-61, President of the Canadian BPW 1964-1966 and from 1971-1974 served as President of the International Federation of Business and Professional Women. She has been active all her life in many women's organizations, including the YWCA, VON, Women's Canadian Club, Toronto and Area Council of Women, among others. In 1977 she received the Queen Elizabeth Silver Jubilee Medal and in 1985 received the Persons Award from Governor-General Jeanne Sauve.

Dare Foods Limited is a family-owned business based in Kitchener, Ontario. It manufactures cookies, crackers, candies and fine breads at its seven plants in Ontario, Quebec and South Carolina. Dare candies are made in Toronto and Milton, Ontario.

In 1889, Charles H. Doerr opened a grocery store on the corner of Breithaupt and Gzowski (now Weber) Streets in Berlin (now Kitchener, Ontario) that by 1892 had become a biscuit-manufacturing operation. In 1919 a larger bakery was built in Kitchener to replace the original plant and at the same time a line of candies was added. In 1942 the Kitchener plant was destroyed by a fire and in 1943 a smaller wartime replacement was constructed on a former flying field on the outskirts of Kitchener. A new office building was constructed in Kitchener in 1952. In 2003 a new Kitchener office building was constructed to preserve and highlight the original 1952 yellow-brick structure.

The company now known as Dare Foods Limited was originally known as the C.H. Doerr Co. When Charles H. Doerr died in 1941 his grandson, Carl M. Doerr, became President of the company and began an expansion program that introduced Dare products in more than 40 countries. In 1945 the company and family name was changed from “Doerr” to “Dare” creating The Dare Company, Limited, later renamed Dare Foods Limited. With the help of his sons Bryan and Graham, Carl Dare continued to guide Dare Foods Ltd. until 2002. In Nov. 2002 Fred Jacques was appointed as President, the first non-family member to head the company in 111 years. Bryan and Graham Dare remain co-chairmen of the company’s Board of Directors.

The business history of Dare Foods is complex: it has formed, acquired, merged and dissolved other companies and its own divisions over the years. One of Carl M. Doerr’s first expansion acquisitions was The Howe Candy Company in Hamilton, Ontario. Other acquisitions include Saratoga Products, St. Jacobs Canning Company, Mother Dell’s Bakeries, Dairy Maid Chocolates, Bremner Biscuit Co., Saputo/Culinar CFS.

In 1960 a sales office was opened in Montreal, establishing Les Aliments Dare Limitée, Dare’s selling and distributing organization in the Province of Quebec. The Western Division was established in 1962 with the opening of a bakery and sales office in North Surrey, Vancouver, B.C., serving British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta.

In 1954 The Dare Company, Limited was the first Canadian cookie company to use the new recloseable tin tie packages that had been used successfully in the coffee industry and which have become standard packaging in the cookie industry in Canada.

George Davidson, born May 14, 1814 in Aberdeen, Scotland, came to Canada on his own in 1835 with the Bon Accord settlers. According to his granddaughter Florence Sims, he “took up two hundred acres of land, partially cleared, at Winterbourne, in the Township of Woolwich, County of Waterloo, and improved it until about 1841, when he moved to Berlin, now Kitchener.” He went into business with his brother, William Davidson, who had followed him later to Canada. George developed the village of New Aberdeen but left the businesses he had started there and returned to Berlin. He was the first postmaster of Berlin and in 1853 was appointed Sheriff of Waterloo County. He married Margaret Garden (1811-1894), also from Aberdeen, in 1836 and together they had six living children, four sons and two daughters. Margaret (1839-1900) married Irvine Kempt of Glasgow, Scotland, and Elizabeth (1843-1928) married William Roos and stayed in Berlin. Of George Davidson Florence Sims says: “Sheriff Davidson had a keen love of outdoor life – farming and gardening. He built Forest Hill … and spent days and years planning and planting its beautiful surrounding park and gardens. He was an energetic, pushing business man, resolute, persevering, and industrious, the type needed in a new country.

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.

Barbara Davidson is an award-winning Canadian photographer. Born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, she graduated from Concordia University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Photography and Film Studies. From 1992 to 1996 she worked as a photographer for the Kitchener-Waterloo Record. Since leaving the paper she has covered the war in Bosnia, and conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and has worked for news outlets including The Washington Times and the Los Angeles Times. In 2011 she won a Pullitzer Prize and a National Emmy for her work documenting victims of gang violence in Los Angeles.

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.

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.

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 Garden was born on August 31, 1811 in Inverurie, Aberdeen, Scotland to Robert Garden and Jean Davidson. She married George Davidson (1814-1881) on June 27, 1836 in Hamilton, Ontario. They resided in Berlin (now Kitchener), Ontario. Margaret Davidson died on January 24, 1894.

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.

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.

Emily Davies was a British suffragist and activist for women's rights to attend university. Davies was friends with Elizabeth and Millicent Garrett, and helped to found to the Kensington Society along with them. She was also the editor of the English Woman's Journal. Her key area of activism was for education rights for girls and she was key in allowing women to sit official secondary school exams. After campaigning for women to be allowed to attend Cambridge, Oxford, and the University of London, she founded the first college for women in England, which would go on to become Girton College. Although the British senate did not allow to sit for higher education examinations, she continued to teach women these unofficially. In 1906 Davies headed a delegation to parliament to push for women's suffrage. Davies died in 1921.

Bertram Rolland Davis was born in Bristol in 1897. Financial and familial situations prevented him from attending University, and after high school he began to work for the cable company established by his father, where he would stay for forty years. When not working he spent his free time as an amateur scholar with an interest in the Romantics and their links to Bristol. In particular, his interests tended towards former Poet Laureate Robert Southey and boy poet Thomas Chatterton. He corresponded with many of the leading Romantic scholars and critics of the twentieth century including Raymond D. Havens, E.H.W. Meyerstein, Maurice H. Fitzgerald, and Earl Leslie Griggs, and others. Davis also played an active role in preserving the history of Bristol and its famous residents.
To support his research, Davis purchased as many documents relating to the Romantics as he could afford. He amassed a collection of forty-five manuscript groups comprised of original documents by Southey, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and their contemporaries as well as an extensive library relating to his academic interests. His library is known as the Bertram R. Davis “Robert Southey” collection.
After Davis’ death, his personal library, manuscript groups, correspondence, and research files were acquired by the University of Waterloo.
(Bertram R. Davis / Kenneth Curry.)
(Catalogue of the Bertram R. Davis "Robert Southey" Collection / compiled by Jane Britton. -- Waterloo: University of Waterloo Library, 1990.)

Miss Oktoberfest 1978.

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.

Emily Wilding Davison was a suffragette who was the first woman martyred for the cause. A member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) beginning in 1906 she was arrested on ten occasions, went on seven hunger strikes, and was force fed 49 times for her protest actions. These actions included arson, throwing stones, breaking windows, and even hiding overnight in the Palace of Westminster. By 1909 Emily had left her job and was working full time for the WSPU and was described by Sylvia Pankhurst as "one of the most daring and reckless of the militants." After being force-fed in Holloway Prison, she attempted to commit suicide by leaping off of the balcony of the prison stating that she felt "by nothing buy the sacrifice of human life would the nation by brought to realize the horrible torture women face!" In 1913 Emily attended the Epsom Derby where she ran onto the race track and was run down by King George V's horse Anmer. It is speculated that she may have been trying to put a suffrage banner on the horse. She died three days later on June 8, 1913.

Sir John William Dawson was born in Port Pictou, Nova Scotia, on October 13, 1820. Dawson was an educationist, geologist, and naturalist. He received his education at Pictou Academy. Additionally, Dawson held an honorary Doctor of Law degree from McGill and a Master of Arts degree from the University of Edinburgh. Dawson became the Superintendent of Education for Nova Scotia in 1850, an office that he held for three years. In 1855, he became Principal and Professor of Natural History at McGill University. Two years later, he was appointed Principal of McGill Normal School for the Training of School Teachers. Dawson established the School of Civil Engineering at McGill in 1858. He was a member of the Natural History Society of Montreal, the Canadian Institute in Toronto, as well as a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. Additionally, Dawson was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an honorary member of the Botanical Society of Canada. He had numerous essays and articles published. Dawson died in 1899.