Falstaff Press was a private United States publisher of erotica. Their first publication was Musk, Hashish and Blood in 1900. On November 26, 1935 Ben and Anne Rebhuhn and their nephew Ben Raeburn were charged with sending obscene matter through the mails. The three were convicted in May 1939.

Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett was a British suffragist, writer, activist and political leader. Her elder sister Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was the first female doctor in England and influenced Millicent's views. Millicent, her sister and fellow suffragist Emily Davies along with others formed the Kensington Society - a group devoted to the discussion of women's suffrage. Millicent continued to be involved in the cause later becoming secretary for the London Society for Women's Suffrage. Millicent and her husband, Henry Fawcett, also published works on social and political subjects and were considered radicals in their time. Not only interested in the cause of suffrage, Millicent also campaigned for laws to curb child abuse and against gendered laws that punished sex workers for having sexually transmitted infections. Millicent became the leader of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies in 1890 and held this post until 1919, after women had been granted the right to vote. In her later life she focused on her writing until her death in 1929.

Grace Esther Fennell (née Bowlby) was born May 19, 1871 to David Sovereign Bowlby and Martha Esther Murphy Bowlby in Berlin (Kitchener). An active member of the community, Grace was an officer of the Princess of Wales chapter of I.O.D.E., a member of the parish workers and the Woman’s Auxiliary of St. John’s Anglican Church, as well as a district commissioner of the Girl Guides. In 1902, at the age of 31 she married 32 year old James Philip Fennell, a hardware merchant also from Berlin. The two had one daughter, Patricia Grace Fennell born in 1908 who married Rev. Harold Vaughn. On October 30, 1936 Grace was shopping at Goudie’s Department Store when she had a heart attack and passed away. She was survived by her husband.

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.

Mary Augustus Fiske was a resident of Massachusetts and the wife of General William O. Fiske. Fiske was the only child of Josiah B. Fielding of Lowell. According to an 1870 United States Federal Consensus, she may have been born around 1850.

Miss Kitchener-Waterloo, 1987.

Melvina Dorthula Flagler was born in Illinois in 1842 to A.B. and Elizabeth Browne. She married Samuel Adee Flagler (1837-1905) on October 24, 1858 in Union, Illinois. She died June 21, 1921 and was buried in Forest Home Cemetery next to her husband.

Samule Adee Flagler was born June 28, 1937 in New York to William Benton and Cornelia Caroline Flagler. He married Melvina Dorthula Browne on October 24, 1858 in Union, Illinois. He died September 19, 1905 in Illinois and was buried in Forest Home Cemetery in a plot shared with his wife.

Flagler was born April 21, 1873 to Samuel Adee and Melvina Dorthula (nee Browne) Flagler. He married Nell Frances Johnston in December 8, 1897 at her parents home in Kansas City. The couple lived in the Morton Park area of Chicago. He died in April 1929.

Miss Oktoberfest 1983.

Millicent Elizabeth "Betty" Forbes was born in Hespeler, Ontario on July 10, 1924 alongside her twin sister, Peg, to parents Millicent Lyall and George Alexander Forbes. Betty grew up at the Forbes family estate, Hillhead, in Hespeler and attended Bishop Strachan School in Toronto.

Betty later attended the School for Nurses at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto for between 1943 and 1946. In 1946, Betty graduated as a Registered Nurse from the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto with a scholarship in Child Psychology from the University of Toronto. Betty nursed in Vancouver before returning to Sick Kids to repay the scholarship. Betty was second in command of the country branch at Thistletown and then at K.W. Hospital.

Betty married William "Bill" Douglas Land on May 29, 1954. The couple had three children: Jennifer, Janet, and Thomas.

Betty passed away on June 30, 2013 at the age of 88 and was buried in New Hope Cemetery in Cambridge, Ontario.

George Alexander "Alex" Forbes was born on January 2, 1897 in Hespeler, Ontario to parents Amy Victoria Ellis (1868-1941) and George Duthie Forbes (1860-1934).

Forbes' father, George Duthie Forbes, was elected the mayor of Hespeler in 1901.

During the First World War, George Alexander Forbes was drafted into the 1st Depot Battalion of the Western Ontario Regiment on April 26, 1918 in London, Ontario. He then transferred to the Royal Flying Corps.

On January 19, 1922 George Alexander Forbes married Millicent Lyall Buck. Millicent and George had twin daughters, Millicent Elizabeth "Betty" and Margaret "Peg" Isabel, on July 10, 1924.

George was elected as a councilor of Hespeler in 1930.

After the death of his father, George Duthie Forbes, George Alexander Forbes became the director of a number of companies his father owned interest in.

George Alexander died in 1986 and was buried in New Hope Cemetery in Cambridge, Ontario.

Margaret (Peggy) Chellew Adams Clement Forbes was born to Dorothy and Stanley Adams in 1921 in Hamilton, through whom she had a brother Donald Adams. She was later adopted by her Aunt and Uncle William Pope Clement and Muriel Alberta Kerr Clement. Peggy graduated from University of Toronto as an occupational therapist and served overseas with the Red Cross in WWII. Peggy was very involved in the arts and established the LaCloche Art Show in 1977 as well as being involved in many other artistic organizations. Peggy married 21 year old Capt. Donald Rossell Forbes (1920-2005) in 1942 and they had two children: Diana Forbes and Jock Forbes. Donald died in 2005 and Peggy in 2010.

Millicent “Millie” Lyall Buck was born on November 22, 1899 in Brantford, Ontario to George Philip Buck (September 5, 1864-September 21, 1925) and Mary Evelyn "Effie" Agnew (June 23, 1868-September 17, 1941).

George Buck and Mary Agnew were married on June 19, 1890.

Millicent was raised alongside her sisters Phyllis “Fiddy” Agnew Buck (1897-1959), Kathleen Isabelle Cockshutt (April 26, 1895-1961), Evelyn Alice Foster Ferguson (1893-1979), Florence "Flore" or "Tiny" Mary Louise Middleton (August 2, 1902-April 22, 1983), and Isabelle “Diddy” Alexandra Burt (1901-1980).

Millicent attended St. Hilda’s College in Toronto, Ontario between 1918 and 1920.

On January 19, 1922 Millicent married George Alexander Forbes. Millicent and George had twin daughters named Millicent Elizabeth “Betty” Forbes and Margaret “Peg” Isabel Forbes. The twins were born on July 10, 1924.

Millicent died on September 7, 1973 and was buried in New Hope Cemetery in Cambridge, Ontario.

Margaret "Peg" Isabel Forbes was born in Hespeler, Ontario on July 10, 1924 alongside her twin sister, Betty, to parents Millicent Lyall Forbes and George Alexander Forbes.

Peg grew up at the Forbes' family estate, Hillhead, in Hespeler and attended Bishop Strachan School in Toronto. Peg later attended the School for Nurses at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario for 3 years and graduated in 1946.

Peg married Colin Andrew "Joe" Wilson on October 9, 1948. The couple had two children: Pamela and Ross. Peg later married William "Bill" Hutton Kaufman on May 12, 1968.

Peg passed away on October 22, 2016 at the age of 92 and was buried in Woodland Cemetery in Kitchener, Ontario.

Robert Forbes, a native of Scotland, came to Canada and by 1851 was listed as being the proprietor of a tannery, shoestore and saw-mill. All of his businesses were located in Hespeler and Puslinch Township.

In 1874 Robert Forbes purchased the Randall, Farr & Co. Woollen Mill on Queen St. West in Hespeler. The company was incorporated in 1888 as R. Forbes & Co. Ltd.