Dorothea Palmer was born 1908 in England. She had some training in a hospital in England. She was employed as a nurse by the Parents' Information Bureau of Kitchener, Ont. to visit homes of those known to be poor or relatively poor, and to offer to needy mothers the opportunity of applying for certain contraceptive materials. Miss Palmer was arrested at Eastview, an Ottawa suburb, as she was leaving the home of a French Roman Catholic family which was on relief and had a large number of children. The mother had telephoned Miss Palmer and asked her to call. Miss Palmer was arrested on the charge of distributing birth control information and contraceptive devices. The trial occupied nineteen days of testimony and four of argument, and during which forty witnesses were examined. The case was a remarkable one in that the decision overruled religious and medical objections to the dissemination of birth control information. She was acquitted March 17, 1937 after a trial that extended over a period of six months. The Crown appealed the case which was heard on the 1st and 2nd of June 1937, by the Court of Appeal for Ontario, presided over by the Chief Justice of Ontario and two Associate Judges. The Appeal was dismissed without Defence Counsel F.W. Wegenast being called. Dorothea died in 1992.

Margaret "Marnie" Catherine Anthes Paisley was a teacher born in Berlin, now Kitchener, Ontario on November 1, 1906 to Talmon and Martha Rieder. She graduated in 1929 with an arts degree from the University of Toronto, where she played women's hockey. Following graduation she spent a year working alongside Emma Razt Kaufman to expand the YWCA in Japan. She married Elmer Paisley, with whom she had two children: Mary ("Penny ") and Ian. Paisley taught at the Kitchener Collegiate Institute and Waterloo Collegiate between 1955 and 1969. She was also an active member of the United Church, serving as a Sunday school teacher and director of summer camps. Paisley died June 11, 2003 and was interred at Mount Hope Cemetery in Kitchener.

Forsey Pemberton Bull Page, architect, was born September 22, 1885. He went into partnership in 1926 with Harland W. Steele to form Page and Steele, Architects, in Toronto, Ontario. He died November 22, 1970.

Anne Innis Dagg is 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 in animal behaviour 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.

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Amelia Alderson was an English Romantic author. Amelia was born November 12, 1769 in Norwich, England and married the painter John Opie in 1798. She was a radical thinker and involved in a circle that included John Horne Tooke and Mary Wollstonecraft. In 1801 Amelia published her first work under her name, "Father and Daughter," and subsequently wrote 25 more novels, biographies and volumes of verse. Amelia died in 1853.

The Department of Public Instruction was founded in 1850. The Department of of Public Instruction was replaced by the Department of Education in 1876. In 1972, the Department of Education was renamed the Ministry of Education.

The Ontario Association of Architects was founded in 1889 and is the regulatory body for the profession in Ontario. It is responsible for registering and licensing all architects legally entitled to practice in the province.

Arthur Eugene O'Meara was born in 1859 in Port Hope, Ontario.

He obtained a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto in 1882 and was called to the bar in 1885. He also became a clergyman around age 40.

Arthur O'Meara worked closely with Indigenous peoples primarily in British Columbia to bring protests and concerns over land claims to government bodies. He notably served as a counsel member 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

Richard Warren Oliver, lansdcape architect, was born February 9, 1897 in Hamilton, Ontario to Thomas Oliver and Mary Ellen Riddle. He married Helen Catharine Campbell on September 23, 1926. He worked as a horticulturist at the Dominion Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa, Ontario as well as taking on private commissions. He died December 27, 1969.

Wasyl Odynsky was born on January 8, 1924.

During the Second World War, Odynsky served as a guard in an auxiliary unit at the Trawniki and Poniatowa forced labour camps in Poland.

Following the war, Odynsky immigrated to Canada in 1949.

On September 24, 1997, Odynsky was charged by the Canadian Government for having misrepresented himself upon immigrating to Canada. The Canadian Government tried to revoke Odysnky’s Canadian citizenship through the denaturalization and deportation process. On March 2, 2001, Judge Andrew MacKay of the Federal Court of Canada concluded that Odynsky’s service was not voluntary and he did not personally participate in any incident involving the mistreatment of prisoners or of any other person during his service. Although his citizenship was not revoked, numerous bids were made to try and revoke Odynsky’s Canadian citizenship in subsequent years.

Wasyl Odynsky died on May 16, 2014.

Herbert Odd (1902-1999) was a toolmaker, engineer and artist in the Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario area. He was born in Scotland and attended elementary school there until 1916. He then completed an apprenticeship, qualified for a responsible trade practice, and extended his studies at Glasgow Royal Technical College until 1928, working in the field of tool and manufacturing engineering. He came to Canada from Scotland in 1928, and moved to Kitchener in 1929. He met members of the K-W Art Society in the early 1930s, moved to Montreal briefly, returned to Kitchener in 1944, and from 1946 onward made trips across Canada, the United States, Scotland, and Continental Europe, filling many sketchbooks on his journeys. He was the owner of H&O Centerless Grinding of Waterloo, Ontario and was a supporter of the K-W Symphony Orchestra, the K-W Art Gallery, and the K-W Chamber Music Society. He was a member of the K- Art Society, the American Society for Metals, and the American Society of Tool & Manufacturing Engineers. Herbert Odd built a studio in 1964, and when he retired from the engineering industry in 1968 he spent an increasing amount of time on his artwork. In 1977 there was a solo exhibition of 26 of Herbert Odd's watercolours and line drawings at the Galt Library Gallery, and in 1995 the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery housed an exhibition of about 40 of his sketchbooks. His paintings reside in many private collections across Ontario, Montreal, Vancouver, Scotland, West Germany, Australia, and the United States. Herbert Odd died in Cambridge in 1999, at the age of 97.

Helmut Oberlander was born on February 15, 1924 in Halbstadt, a Russian Mennonite settlement in what is now Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine.

During the Second World War, he served in the Waffen-SS and acted as an interpreter for the Einsatzkommando 10a. He was also a member of the Sicherheitsdienst and Sicherheitspolizei. The Einsatzkommando was a mobile killing squad in Nazis Germany responsible for the deaths of thousands of people during the war. Oberlander maintains he was forcibly conscripted into military service and that his duties only included translating Russian radio transmissions, acting as an interpreter, and guarding military supplies.

Oberlander immigrated to Canada in 1954 and settled in the Kitchener-Waterloo area. He opened a construction business and became a Canadian citizen in 1960.

The Government of Canada initiated a denaturalization and deportation process against Oberlander in 1995 for not disclosing his wartime record during his immigration interview in 1953. Between 1995 and 2018, numerous court orders were filed to strip Oberlander of his citizenship. Oberlander consistently appealed these orders.

In 2000, Judge Andrew Mackay concluded that while Oberlander may not have disclosed his wartime record there was no evidence proving he was involved in committing any war crimes or crimes against humanity.

In 2017 the Government of Canada stripped Oberlander of his citizenship for a fourth time through an Order in Council. In 2018, the Federal Court ruled that this revocation was lawful. Oberlander's appeal was dismissed in the Federal Court of Appeal in April 2019. The Supreme Court of Canada declined to grant Oberlander's leave to appeal the Federal Court decision December 2019. In 2020, Oberlander also lost his appeal to the Immigration and Refugee Board.

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.