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.

William A. Philip, banker and conservationist, was born on February 11, 1873 in Fergus, Ontario. He resided in Galt (now Cambridge), Ontario. He was a founder of the Grand River Conservation Commission and its president for 18 years; he later served as chair of the Grand Valley Conservation Authority. He died April 7, 1964.

Prince Philip (born June 10, 1921) was the son of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and Princess Alice. Philip was married to Elizabeth II, the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Together they had four children together: Prince Charles, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, and Prince Edward. He died April 9, 2021.

Swaran Phatak was an Indian-born librarian. Phatak was born December 8, 1927 in New Delhi, India, the only child of Pritam Das and Krishna Devi. After graduating from Punjab University with a bachelor of arts, she obtained an MLIS from London Polytechnic in 1956. She held a variety of roles in libraries in India, England, the West Indies, Canada and the United States including as librarian at the New Delhi Public Library, the British Council Library, the U.S. Library of Congress Book Procurement Centre and the London Public Library. Phatak moved to Kitchener-Waterloo from Rochester, New York in 1964 where she served as children's librarian at Kitchener Public Library (1964-65); chief librarian at the Preston Public Library; and as deputy chief librarian at Waterloo Public Library.

Phatak moved to Georgia in 1975 with her husband, Sharad C. Phatak, and their two children where Sharad worked as an associate professor at the University of Georgia. Phatak died November 21, 2009 in Tifton, Georgia.

Madame Pestel was the trade name of the photographer Ann Pestel (Chetham) who operated a studio in Eastbourne, U.K. from 1900 until 1930. Pestel took over her husband’s (Henry Pestel, 1869-1900) photographic portrait studio at 49 Terminus Road, Eastbourne when he died in 1900 at the age of 32.

Robert T.G. Nicol, professional photographer and owner of Personal Studio, was born Aug. 16, 1922 in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. In 1927 the family moved to Stratford, Ont., where he attended local public and high schools. In 1940 his family moved again, this time to Kitchener, Ont; he finished high school at Kitchener Collegiate that year. His photographic career had started earlier, in 1939, when as a 16-year he took pictures of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth when they stopped in Stratford on June 6, 1939 as part of their Royal Tour of Canada. The drugstore where he took the negatives to be developed marketed the photographs which subsequently appeared in many publications.
After completing high school Robert Nicol worked in a variety of jobs in Kitchener-Waterloo, including at Zapfe's Machine Shop, Waterloo Manufacturing and the Ontario Die Co. In 1945 he and an old school friend began to plan a photographic studio that opened for business on March 21, 1946, and of which Nicol was the sole owner by the fall of 1946. For the next fifty years Robert Nicol documented the Waterloo Region through personal and commercial photography. He pioneered the concept of wedding albums in the local area. He had started flying in 1961 and from that time on took aerial photographs as well as studio and candid photography. In the course of his career he maintained memberships in professional photographers' organizations as well as completing continuing photographic educational courses offered by those organizations. He retired as a professional photographer in 1996.
Robert Nicol married Marjorie Gray on Aug. 8, 1941 and had two children, a son and a daughter. Marjorie died in 1987. Robert Nicol married again in 1996 to Renie Andersen, a long-time companion.

Marcel Pequegnat was a civil engineer in Kitchener, Ontario, who spent his professional career with the Kitchener Water Commission as superintendent and consultant. He was also involved in the Grand River Conservation Commission and the Arthur Pequegnat Clock Company.

Pequegnat was born in Berlin (now Kitchener) April 27, 1886 to clockmaker Arthur Pequegnat and his wife Hortense (nee Marchand), Marcel studied engineering at the University of Toronto. After graduating he taught at the University and worked for several summers for the Berlin City Enginneers. In 1910-1911, he surveyed land in Manitoba, and in 1913, he was appointed assistant city engineer in Berlin. In 1919, he became superintendent of the Kitchener Water Commission, holding this position until 1957 when he became a consultant until retiring in 1970. Pequegnat also served for 27 years on the Kitchener Planning Board and for 30 years on the Kitchener Suburban Roads Commission. He was president of the Arthur Pequegnat Clock Company from 1940 to 1964, though for most of that time the company was dormant, having ceased clock production by 1942.

Pequegnat was a founding member of the Grand River Conservation Commission (GRCC) when it formed in 1932 and served as vice-chairman from 1938 to 1952, chairman from 1953-1959, and chief engineer from 1962 to 1965. His period of service with the GRCC coincided with the building of the Shand, Luther, and Conestogo dams. He was also Life Member of the Engineering Institute of Canada, a charter member of the Professional Engineers of Ontario, and received their Citizenship Award in 1973. He also was awarded Life Membership in the American Waterworks Association.

Pequegnat married Nellie Elizabeth Klippert (1888-1972) December 28, 1910 and together they had three children. He died in 1988 and was buried alongside Elizabeth in Mount Hope Cemetery.

Andrew (Andy) Paull was born to Dan Paull and Theresa Paull (née Lacket-Joe) on February 6, 1892 at Potlach Creek, near Squamish. He was raised in the village of Stawamus, near Squamish, British Columbia but later moved the village of Eslha7an in North Vancouver, British Columbia.

He attended St. Paul's Indian Residential School when it first opened in 1899 and remained a student there for six years. During this time, Paull served as an altar boy at the St. Paul's Mission Church. Afterwards, he likely spent two years receiving special instruction in Squamish affairs from local Squamish chiefs.

In 1907, he went to the law offices of Hugh St. Quentin Cayley and learned about the practice of law.

In 1911, Paull served as Secretary when chiefs from different Squamish reserves met together. In 1923, the seventeen Squamish bands were united into one. Paull served as the Secretary of the new Squamish Band Council between 1923 and 1934. Around this time, he also served as the Secretary of the Allied Tribes of British Columbia.

During the Allied Tribes of British Columbia's historic presentation regarding land claims to the 1927 Special Committee of the Senate and the House of Commons, Paull acted as a witness. Although the Committee rejected the land claims of the Allied Tribes, Paull's testimony was well-received and he achieved national recognition in Ottawa.

Throughout his life, Paull was a Squamish leader and activist. He fought for a number of issues including Indigenous rights and title, education, potlatching, and political organizing.

Paull was also a freelance sports reporter for the Vancouver Province in the 1930s and frequently played, managed or promoted sports such as baseball, lacrosse, boxing, and canoe racing. He occasionally appeared on radio programmes.

Andrew Paull married Josephine Joseph in 1914 and together they had seven children. Paull died on July 28, 1959 at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver.

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.

Joan Patteson was born Mary Joan McWhirter in Woodstock, Ontario on November 27, 1869. On November 25, 1895, she married Godfroy Patteson. Joan and Godfroy Patteson were close friends of William Lyon Mackenzie King. Joan died on April 23, 1960.

The daughter of academic parents, Nancy-Lou Patterson was born in 1929 in Worcester, Mass. She received her BA in Fine Arts from the University of Washington in 1951, afterwards working for two years as a scientific illustrator at the University of Kansas and at the Smithsonian and then for nine years as a lecturer at Seattle University.

In 1962 she moved to the Waterloo Region with her husband, Dr. E Palmer Patterson, who was to teach at the University of Waterloo. In addition to her position as Director of Art and Curator of the University's art gallery, in 1966 Professor Patterson taught the University of Waterloo's first Fine Arts course, and in 1968 she founded the Department of Fine Arts, twice serving as Department Chair.

As a scholar Nancy-Lou Patterson is well known for her writings in the area of mythopoeic art and literature, with particular focus on the works of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, George MacDonald, Charles Williams and Dorothy L. Sayers. She has written extensively on the traditional arts of Swiss German and Dutch-German Mennonites of Waterloo County, and also on the art of Native Canadians. Her work includes both book and exhibition reviews, and exhibition catalogues. She has published both poetry and fiction, including her three novels Apple Staff and Silver Crown (1985), The Painted Hallway (1992), and Barricade Summer (1996). Nancy-Lou Patterson's artistic career began in 1953 when she created a mural for an Anglican Church in Kansas, and includes a series of stained glass windows designed in 1964 for Conrad Grebel Chapel at the University of Waterloo. Her liturgical commissions have involved work in textiles, stained glass, wood, metal, terra cotta, and calligraphy.

In 1993 Nancy-Lou Patterson was named "Distinguished Professor Emerita" by the University of Waterloo, and in the same year received an honorary doctor of letters degree from Wilfrid Laurier University in recognition of "a life dedicated to expression."

Patterson died in Kitchener on October 15, 2018.

John Patterson was a member of the Muskoka Lakes Association between 1980 and 1994 and acted as president between 1990 and 1992. John acted also as a Muskoka Lakes Association Director between 1985 and 1986 as 2nd Vice-President and Taxation. He was a member of the Canadian Coalition on Acid Rain between 1982 and 1983.

E Palmer Patterson II is a writer and former faculty member at the University of Waterloo and St. Jerome's University.

Patterson was born in 1927 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His history PhD thesis focused on the life and career of Andrew (Andy) Paull. He briefly taught in the United States before moving to Canada in 1962 to accept a faculty position at St. Jerome's University. He taught there until 1964, at which time he transferred to the University of Waterloo where he taught courses in the Department of History.

Patterson's research and the courses he taught focused on the history of Indigenous peoples in Canada and the American south during the post civil war period. He wrote a number of publications about Indigenous peoples in Canada for academic journals as well as textbooks for elementary and secondary school children in Ontario and British Columbia. One of his most notable works remains, "The Canadian Indian: a history since 1500," published between 1971-1972.

Patterson married his wife Nancy-Lou in Seattle, Washington on June 10, 1951. Together they raised eight children.

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Eric Honeywood Partridge was a lexicographer of the English language. Born in Waimata Valley, New Zealand, Partridge and his family later moved to Australia where he studied at the University of Queensland. After his time serving in the First World War he returned to university obtaining his BA and later becoming the Queensland Traveling Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford, working on an MA and a B.Litt. He later taught at the University of Manchester and the University of London and spent fifty years researching at the British Library for his over forty books on the history of slang and the English language. Partridge died in 1979.

Louise Evelyn Breithaupt was born June 11, 1882, in Berlin (later Kitchener), Ontario, the first child of Louis Jacob Breithaupt and Emma Alvarene Devitt. She had six siblings: Emma Lillian; Martha Edna; Rose Melvina; Louise Orville; William Walter; Catherine Olive and Paul Theodore. She married Doctor John Roland Parry of Dunnville October 31, 1906 and the couple lived in Hamilton, Ontario. They had four children: Margaret Magdalen, Emma Elizabeth, Rosa Evelyn and Louis John. Louise died in Hamilton October 20, 1939. Husband John died August 27, 1956.

John Roland Parry was a Canadian physician. He was born June 13, 1879 in Dunville, Ontario to John Parry and Margaret Jane Gailbraith. He married Louise Evelyn Breithaupt on October 31, 1906. The couple live in the Hamilton area and had four children: Margaret Magdalen; Emma Elizabeth; Rosa Evelyn and Louis John. John died in Hamilton on August 27, 1956 and was interred at the Hamilton Cemetery.

The Parents' Information Bureau (PIB) was a clinic for family planning and birth control set up by A.R. Kaufman of the Kaufman Rubber Company in the 1930's in Kitchener, Ont. Kaufman became interested in birth control during the Great Depression after determining that seasonal employees with large families were disproportionately impacted by layoffs. He began offering family planning services to his employees, eventually extending them to anyone in Canada with the founding of the PIB. At its peak, the organization employed approximately 50 people in locations across the country who provided services to families in their homes, rather than at clinics. The model allowed families to order supplies by mail, receiving kits that included spermicides, condoms and information about purchasing additional items like diaphragms.

Panurge Press was an American publisher founded by Esar Levine, who co-owned Falstaff Press and Robin Hood House as well. In 1926, he was convicted and imprisoned for trafficking in obscene books as a result of his attempts to publish Frank Harris's My Life and Loves.

Educator James Hoyes Panton was born in Ontario and moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba in the early 1880's. He was a member of the Manitoba Historical Society and collected geological specimens throughout the province. In 1884 he returned to Ontario to be professor of Geology and Natural History at the Ontario Agricultural College (University of Guelph) where he remained until 1897. He died February 2, 1898.

Possibly referred to business as Panabaker Home Portraits.

John Panabaker is the former President of the Mutual Life Assurance Company of Canada. Panabaker attended McMaster University where he received his B.A. Hons in Political Economy (1950) and his M.A. in Political Economy (1954). After leaving McMaster he began working for the Mutual Life Assurance Company of Canada where he would eventually be named President (1973) and later CEO (1982-1985). He retired from Mutual Life in 1989.
Panabaker has also been involved with a number of organizations in Kitchener-Waterloo and nationally including serving as Chairman of the Board of the Canadian Life and Health Assurance Association, as a trustee of the Toronto School of Theology, as president of the Kitchener-Waterloo Community Foundation, and as a director of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra Association. Panabaker was also the Chancellor of McMaster University from 1986-1992 and holds honorary degrees from McMaster, Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo. In 1990, Panabaker was made a member of the Order of Canada.

Pan Politae began as a Hi-Y club organized by twenty-five students at Kitchener Collegiate Institute, Kitchener, Ontario in 1937. Its purpose was to work with the Kitchener-Waterloo Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) in organizing boys' groups, to help with repairs and renovations at camps run by the YMCA, and to provide fellowship for their group with social and sports facilities of the YMCA. From 1941 to 1945, the club suspended activities until 1945 when it was re-organized as a Y's Men's club. For the next 28 years, Pan Politae supported many YMCA programs through fundraising and service. The 1970's saw an increase in YMCA membership and diversity of programming, while Y's Men's membership declined. In 1973, Pan Politae ceased operating as an active Men's Club.