John Herbert was a Canadian playwright and theatre director. Born and raised in Toronto, Herbert attended Dora Mavor Moore's New Play Society and the National Ballet School of Canada. In 1960 Herbert founded the Garret Theatre with his sister Nana Brundage, and in 1964 wrote his most famous work, Fortune and Men's Eyes, which was in part inspired by his arrest for dressing as a woman and subsequent time spent in a youth reformatory. It was first staged in 1967 in New York and remained his most popular play. Herbert died in 2001.

Caroline Demarez was born November 13, 1813 in Friedrichstal, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. She married Francis Herlan and the couple had four children: Caroline D, Francis Demarez "Frank", Catherine and Lydia Catherine. She died March 12, 1889 in West Seneca, New York.

The Hespeler Furniture Company was started in 1901 in Hespeler, Ontario (now a part of Cambridge) by Mr. George A. Gruetzner, who was originally from Buffalo, N.Y. He worked for The Simpson Co. of Berlin (now Kitchener), Ont., first as a salesman and then as the manager of its factory in Berlin. When this company merged with the Canada Furniture Syndicate, Gruetzner established his own factory in Hespeler in 1901.
George Greutzner was active in the community, serving on the Parks Board, and then on Town Council. He was elected mayor of Hespeler in 1925 and served for five years. He died in 1949. (Source Waterloo Historical Society 37 (1949): 45.)

Alfred Russell Hewetson was born May 31, 1887 in Toronto, Ontario to parents John William and Eliza Jackson. His father founded the J.W. Hewetson Shoe Company in 1908 in a factory he built in Toronto. The company initially fared well but their progress was abruptly halted in 1913 when the Toronto factory caught fire and was completely destroyed. J.W. Hewetson was determined to rebuild his business and decided to move his company to Brampton, where both land and labour were less costly. In order to obtain a loan from the town of Brampton, Russell had to be involved in the running of the company. Russell was studying for the ministry at the time at the University of Toronto, but he gave up his studies and went into business with his father. Russell sought to integrate his social ideals into the operation of the Hewetson Shoe Company by turning the company into a cooperative where workers shared in the profits. Had it been· achieved this would have been a significant innovation in the business realm, however, he died at age 40 on February 8, 1928. Russell was buried in Brampton Cemetery, Brampton.

Russell, as he was known, met Rosa Melvina Breithaupt of Kitchener through their Christian Endeavour work and they married on October 10, 1917. The couple lived in Brampton and had four children: Ruth Evelyn; Dorothy "Dodie" Elizabeth; Rosemary "Posey" and John Russell "Russ". After Russell's death, Rosa remarried Herbert Spencer Clark in 1932 and together the couple founded The Guild of All Arts in Scarborough.

Annie Elizabeth May Hewlett (1887-1974) was a writer in Saskatchewan. She was born Annie Elizabeth May Brown in Sutton-on-Hull, Yorkshire, England, on February 25, 1887. At the age of 12 she established a newspaper that continued to circulate in her district for years after she immigrated to Canada. She attended teachers college in London and taught school prior to her sailing for Canada in the spring of 1911. That summer, she taught painting at Banff, and in December of that year, she married Arthur Hewlett. Early in 1912, Arthur and Annie Hewlett moved to Cannington Manor in southeast Saskatchewan. During the depression years, Annie wrote a column called "Down on the farm" for the Saskatchewan Farmer. In 1970, at the age of 83, she published her first book, A too short yesterday, and in 1972-1973 a serial, "The gate," appeared in the Western Producer. Exhibitions of her watercolour paintings were held at the Regina Public Library, as well as one in Laguna Beach, California. She was the first president of the Saskatchewan Homemakers' Association for farm wives, and a member of the Canadian Women's Press Club.

Percy R. Hilborn was born in Berlin (now Kitchener), Ont. in 1886. He graduated from McGill University and became a prominent industrialist and philanthropist in Preston, Ont., now part of Cambridge. He was involved in furniture manufacture, including the Canadian Office and School Furniture Co. and Canada Sand Papers Ltd.
He served the community in many ways: he was charter president of the Rotary Club of Preston-Hespeler, chairman of the Preston Planning Board, and a charter governor on the Board of Governors of the University of Waterloo in 1957. He was named to the honour roll of the Grand River Conservation Authority after donating a 145 acre park.

Britton L. Hill was born on June 11, 1884 to Reverend Lewis W. Hill and Margaret M. Long in Brock, Ontario.

He married Grace Mildred Huff on May 28, 1908 and together they had three children; Lewis Eugene Hill (1909-1976), Margaret Elizabeth Hill (1911-1990), and Cameron Clare Hill (1920-1988).

Britton and his family moved to Kitchener, Ontario in 1930 and lived in a house at 49 Simeon Street.

Britton died on April 14, 1959.

Cameron "Cam" Clare Hill was born on November 17, 1920 to Britton L. Hill and Grace Mildred Huff in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He was raised alongside his two siblings; Lewis Eugene Hill (1909-1976) and Margaret Elizabeth Hill (1911-1990).

Cameron and his family moved to Kitchener, Ontario in 1930 and lived in a house at 49 Simeon Street.

Cameron attended Suddaby Public School, originally known as Central School, and then Kitchener Waterloo Collegiate and Vocational School. As a teenager, Cameron enjoyed skiing and was a member of the Chicopee Ski Club in Kitchener, Ontario.

On June 27, 1940, Cameron enlisted to serve with the Royal Canadian Air Force Special Reserve during the Second World War. Cameron's attestation papers are dated October 14, 1940. He was assigned ID # R75616.

Subsequently, Cameron was enrolled in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP), a joint military aircrew training program created by the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand during the Second World War. Between 1940 and 1941, Cameron Hill was stationed at three different airbases and received specialized training in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP). He was certified as a Bomb Aimer & Air Gunner at the Royal Canadian Air Force Station Jarvis in the No. 1 Bombing and Gunnery School. He was also certified as an Astronomical Navigator at the Royal Canadian Air Force Station Rivers (later renamed CFB Rivers) in the No. 1 Air Navigation School. In addition, he was certified as an Observer at the Royal Canadian Air Force Station Malton in the No. 1 Air Observer School. Cameron celebrated his BCATP Wings Parade on June 7, 1941 and was promoted to the rank of Flight Sergeant.

On August 15, 1941, Cameron Hill sailed with a convoy transporting Allied troops from Halifax Harbour in Halifax, Nova Scotia to Liverpool, England. The convoy briefly stopped over in Iceland. Cameron was temporarily stationed in England from September 1941 to May 1942 to complete additional training. He was assigned to No. 11 Operational Training Unit RAF (11 OTU) on September 30, 1941.

Shortly after, he was assigned to the No. 40 Squadron of the Royal Air Force and eventually was deployed from England to the Middle East in May 1942. The No. 40 Squadron of the Royal Air Force was based near El Alamein, Egypt less than 100 kilometers from the cities of Cairo and Alexandria. The Squadron commenced operations near El Alamein on June 23, 1942 and carried out raids to Tobruk, Libya, Beersheba, Israel, and El Dabaa, Egypt.

On October 7, 1942, Cameron and fellow aircrew left the base at El Alamein, Egypt to complete a flight operation flying towards Tobruk, Libya. During the flight, the aircraft propeller fell off and the engine failed. All aircrew members were forced to bail out of the Vickers Wellington aircraft by parachute in the early morning hours on October 8, 1942. Cameron and fellow crew member, Pilot Bowhill, were separated from the other four members of the aircrew during the crash landing and set out on foot for British lines. Cameron and Bowhilll were captured by Axis powers on October 11, 1942.

Between October 1942 and May 1945, Cameron Hill was held in custody as a prisoner of war (POW) and sent to POW camps in Libya, Italy, Austria, Prussia, Poland, and Germany. In May and September 1942, Cameron received two rank promotions to Commissioned Officer.

In the early months of 1945, Cameron Hill was forced to march westward across Germany along with many other Allied prisoners of war during the final stages of the Second World War. On May 2, 1945 Cameron was near the town of Kittlitz when a patrol of vehicles of the British Second Army arrived and liberated the Allied prisoners of war.

Cameron returned to England on May 11, 1945 and was repatriated back to Canada on June 1, 1945. Cameron was honourably released from service on September 21, 1945 and transferred to the Reserve, General Section, Class "E." He received five medals for his service during the Second World War including the 1939-1945 Star, Africa Star, Defence Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, and the War Medal 1939-1945.

After the war, Cameron completed some business courses at the University of Toronto with benefits from the Veteran's Charter. Eventually, he joined his father in the family business, Bernardo Hill Tile & Terrazzo (later Hill & Glasser Ltd.)

Cameron married Jean Margaret Thompson on May 19, 1948 and together they had three children; James Cameron Hill (b. May 13, 1949) and twins Barbara Jean Hill and Gregory John Hill (b. May 7, 1951). Cameron was actively involved with the Kitchener-Waterloo Young Men's Christian Association and received the YMCA's highest honour, the Lou Buckley Award, after forty years of service.

Cameron died on October 31, 1988 in Kitchener, Ontario.

David Hill was an American artist, born Nov. 19, 1914 in New York and who died Aug. 31, 1977 in Paris, France. He grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, worked and painted in New York from 1942-1947, and moved to Paris in 1947, where he spent the rest of his life.

Grace Mildred Huff was born on December 8, 1888 to William James Huff and Elizabeth Starkweather in Dresden, Ontario.

She married Britton L. Hill on May 28, 1908 and together they had three children; Lewis Eugene Hill (1909-1976), Margaret Elizabeth Hill (1911-1990), and Cameron Clare Hill (1920-1988).

Grace and her family moved to Kitchener, Ontario in 1930 and lived in a house at 49 Simeon Street.

Grace died on June 10, 1943.

Graham Hill received a B.A. from the University of Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1968, an M.A. from the University of Lancaster in 1969, and an M.L.S. from the University of Western Ontario in 1970. He joined McMaster University in January 1971.

Hill served as the University Librarian at McMaster University from 1979 until his retirement in 2005.

Cora Hind was born in 1861, educated in Flesherton and Orillia, Ontario and in 1882 moved to Winnipeg where she became the first typist in western Canada. She was Financial and Agricultural editor of the Winnipeg Free Press from 1910-1930 and was a recognized world authority on grain and livestock. She was a founding member of the Canadian Women's Press Club. In 1964 Cora Hind's portrait was hung in the Hall of Fame at the Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto.

William Daryl Hine was a Canadian poet and translator.

Richard Hobson (1938) was born to Wilfred Hobson (1899-1995) and Kathleen McKittrick (1904-1992). The family has its roots in the United Kingdom, and Hobson’s paternal grandfather Edward came to Canada from Ireland in 1884 and his father Wilfred from England in 1910. The two families settled in Ontario and Kathleen and Wilfred met in Toronto at St. Clement’s Church Tennis Club. Kathleen and Wilifred married and went on to have three children: John Edward (1933), Richard James (1938) and Kathleen Margaret Stephanie (?).

Richard Hobson married Mary (Penny) Paisley (b.1939), daughter of Elmer Paisley (1907-1976) and Margaret Rieder. Penny Paisley’s mother Margaret was the daughter of local prominent businessman Talmon Rieder and his wife Martha Anthes. (from Ancestry and "Hobson, Richard. One tree many roots. Waterloo: Richard Hobson, 2010").

Household Science Secretary of the Tokyo Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA)

In 1996, the KW Record described Hoffman as "a longtime genealogical society member who works on contract with the Kitchener Public Library as an oral historian, interviewing people on the history of the Region".

Philip Hohmeier was born December 9, 1848 in Waterloo, Ontario. He partnered with P.H. Sims in the invention of improvements to hot-air stoves and furnaces. He died January 11, 1938.

The photo is labelled Hollefreund, A.R., Milverton and Tavistock. Ontario Photographers List lists him as being in Milverton from 1908 to 1912 and in Stratford from 1909 to 1925, and also the proprietor of Maitland Photo(graphic) Studio from 1910 to 1925. No listing is given for Tavistock.

Joan May Hollobon is a Canadian writer and reporter. She was born January 29, 1920, in the Isle of Wight (United Kingdom) to Ernest Frederick “Tony” and Alice Hollobon (nee Ford), and grew up in North Wales (United Kingdom).

During World War II, Hollobon volunteered as an administrative and press officer with the British Red Cross and the St. John War Organization in Wales. From 1946 to 1948, she worked in Berlin for the Allied Control Commission of Germany and Austria (a British Army bureau). And, in 1949, she worked for the Canadian and British Reader’s Digest. In 1952, Hollobon emigrated to Canada where she worked at the Kirkland Lake Northern Daily News (Kirkland Lake, Ontario), first as editor of the women’s section, later as a general reporter. In 1954, Hollobon moved to the daily North Bay Nugget (North Bay, Ontario) where she worked as general reporter and columnist.

In 1956, Hollobon began working as a general reporter for the Globe and Mail in Toronto. After covering medical news in the early 1960s, Hollobon received the fellowship in the Advancement of Science Writing and attended the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University in 1963-1964. Upon her return to Canada, and during the 1960s and 1970s, Hollobon wrote in-depth pieces on medical subjects that gained her national recognition. Some pieces included the Saskatchewan Medicare crisis of 1962, reportages on mental care facilities, and a three-part series on transsexuality and the first sex reassignment operation in Canada, among others.

During the 1970s, she travelled to Dublin for the Canadian, British, and Irish Medical Associations Conference and, from there, she wrote several articles about the medical conditions in the Isles, especially focusing on Northern Ireland during the Troubles. Also during the 1970s, Hollobon was part of the organizing committee for the Canadian Science Writers Association.

In 1983, Hollobon became assignment editor for the Globe and Mail. She retired in 1985 and, shortly after, she received the Canadian Medical Association Medal of Honour (1986), and published the book The lion’s tail: a history of the Wellesley Hospital 1912-1987 (1987). In 1987, the Health Care Public Relations Association of Canada (today Canadian Public Relations Society) presented the Hollobon Award for the first time. The award is given to members of the media whose work has contributed significantly to the public’s understanding of healthcare. And, in 2019, Hollobon was named Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2022, the National Newspaper Awards named their Beat Reporting award after Joan Hollobon.

In retirement, Hollobon shared a house with her friend Kay Rex.

Rear-Admiral Charles Holmes (1711-1761) was the sea commander who led a landing party of marines into Quebec at the time of its capture by Wolfe in 1759. He was third in command under Wolfe.

Dr. J.F. (Jerome Fry) Honsberger, 1859-1937, practiced medicine in Delhi, Ont. for eight years before moving to Berlin, Ont. (now Kitchener) in 1895. He served as Waterloo County Coronor from 1904 to 1937, was appointed medical health officer for the city of Kitchener in 1907. From 1921 to 1929 he was medical director for the Mutual Life Assurance Co. He was one of the founders of the Freeport Sanitarium, completed in 1915. His medical practice spanned 50 years.

Dr. Honsberger was active in the community from the time of his arrival, working in various capacities on the city's Board of Education, on the Urban Trustees Association, on the board of the YMCA, on the Berlin Orphanage board, and on the Board of Trustees of Trinity United Church. He was elected alderman in 1902 and served for two years; and from 1931 to 1935 served on the Kitchener Old Age Pensions Commission. He was active in the Canadian Club and organized a Kitchener Branch of the League of Nations Society. In 1911 he represented Canada at the International Hygiene Congress in Dresden, Germany.

Elsie Hooper was born in Udhagamandalam, India to David Hooper (1858-1906) and Hannah Hooper (nee Evans) (1868-1948). Hannah Carr Evans and David Hooper met and were married in Udhagamandalam in 1886. Hannah's parents Rev. Thomas Evans and Rhoda Helen Rowe were both Baptist missionaries, as were Rhoda's parents and grand-parents. Hannah was born in Prayagraj (then known as Allahabad). David was born in Wales and after attending seminary traveled to India in 1855. Elsie was sent to school in England and remained there. She married Herbert Prior Boulton (1884-1960) in 1915.

Eduard was born to Dr. Julius Wilhelm Bêtaz Höpken and Anne Lukrezia Höpken likely in Germany on September 23, 1887. Eduard had at least one brother; Friederich (Frederico) Höpken who was born April 6, 1889 and died April 8, 1970. Friederich married Alice Regina (nee Michaels) and lived in Brazil for a period of his life.

Eduard married Elisabeth on September 27, 1919 and together they had six children; Gisela, Johann, Walter, Karl, Wilhelm and Peter.

Eduard had a doctoral degree and worked as a Headmaster at a school in Germany. During World War II, he was drafted into the Volkssturmmann, a paramilitary rank of the German Volkssturm and fought against the Russians. He was relieved of duty on July 18 near Göttingen, Germany. It is not known what year he was relieved of duty. Afterwards, he was reinstated as a Headmaster in Hanover, Germany.

Eduard claimed to be a dedicated member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany since the early 1930s. He restored his support for the political party after 1945 and with the conclusion of World War II.

Eduard died on January 21, 1974.

Elisabeth was born to Karl Goebel and Emilie Freudenberg likely in Germany on September 7, 1890. She married Eduard Höpken on September 27, 1919 and together they had six children; Gisela, Johann, Walter, Karl, Wilhelm and Peter.

Elisabeth died in September 1987.

Johann was born to Eduard and Elisabeth Höpken on January 21, 1922 and raised in Germany alongside his five siblings; Gisela, Walter, Karl, Wilhelm and Peter.

He served as an Engineer Lieutenant during World War II and never returned from a patrol in Russia in 1941. Johann's parents made several attempts to discover what happened to their son and even contacted the Red Cross after the war. However, they were unable to determine what happened to Johann and they never heard from him again. Eventually, they had Johann declared legally dead.

Karl was born to Eduard and Elisabeth Höpken on October 2, 1926 and raised in Germany alongside his five siblings; Gisela, Johann, Walter, Wilhelm and Peter.

Karl was involved in an unknown accident when he was 2 years old and subsequently died on June 29, 1929.

Peter was born to Eduard and Elisabeth Höpken on May 9, 1930 and raised in Germany alongside his five siblings; Gisela, Johann, Walter, Karl, and Wilhelm.

After graduating from secondary school, Peter worked as an apprentice for a wholesale paper firm. Once his apprenticeship was complete, he worked as a representative for a wholesale paper firm in Hamburg, Germany. In 1960, Peter opened his own store in northwestern Hamburg, Germany on the other side of the Außenalster. He enjoyed working in retail, and especially liked customer service.

In 1959, Peter married and had two children; Hans (b.1962) and Michael (b. 1966). The name of his wife is unknown.

Peter was known to have a carefree personality. He also enjoyed playing handball.

Walter was born to Eduard and Elisabeth Höpken on March 3, 1924 and raised in Germany alongside his five siblings; Gisela, Johann, Karl, Wilhelm and Peter.

Walter served in the Reich Labour Service during World War II until he contracted tuberculosis. Although he fully recovered from this illness, he was deemed unfit for military service. In 1942, he began studying medicine in Graz, Austria and continued his studies in Düsseldorf, Germany after the war. He wrote his state exams in 1947.

Afterwards, he accepted a position as an intern at a hospital in Lüneburg, Germany and wrote his medical exams. In 1949, Walter worked as a practical hygienist and as a scientific researcher in the area of bacteriology and virology. Later he worked as an assistant at the Medizinaluntersuchungsamt in Lüneburg and Osnabrück, Germany and then successively accepted positions at the Institute for Cellular Research and Tissue Cultivation, the Robert Koch Institute and at the Lower Saxon Medizinaluntersuchungsamt as the Chief Medical Officer after 1954. At some point, Walter also spent half a year working at John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland after receiving a scholarship. Walter travelled frequently for his work and specialized in researching influenza viruses.

Sometime before 1960, Walter married a woman in Gratz, Austria and had two children; Fritz and Anne. Fritz was considered a good student and enjoyed studying German and English. He hoped to become a lecturer. Anne became a nurse and moved from Gratz, Austria to Hanover, Germany to care for her stepmother. Afterwards, Anne moved to Toronto and travelled to Canada by ship. She met a young Swiss man on the ship and they married a year later. Anne and her husband eventually moved to Switzerland. Walter's first wife's name is unknown.

In 1960, Walter married for the second time and had a son named Jens (b. 1962). His second wife's name is unknown.

It appears that Walter also had another son named Thomas (b. April 13, 1953).

Wilhelm was born to Eduard and Elisabeth Höpken on October 24, 1928 and raised in Germany alongside his five siblings; Gisela, Johann, Walter, Karl, and Peter.

Wilhelm was recruited as a secondary student to be a helper in the Luftwaffe, the German Air Force during World War II. He was involved in the German retreat from East Prussia to Berlin, Germany in 1945. He landed near Berlin, Germany and was taken to a Russian prison camp. In the prison camp, he was reportedly treated relatively well because of his young age and was shortly released. Afterwards, he worked as a manual labourer. Wilhelm met with his mother in Neuhaldensleben, Germany (now Haldensleben, Germany) in September 1945. Wilhelm and his mother then met with his brother Peter Höpken and together they all travelled to Lüneburg, Germany. They travelled to Lüneburg, Germany because Wilhelm's father was working there at the time.

Wilhelm finished his secondary school education in Lüneburg, Germany in 1948. Afterwards, he studied law in Göttingen, Germany. He wrote his exams in Celle, Germany and then accepted an articleship in Hamburg, Germany. He stayed in this articleship until he graduated from his civil servant exams in 1957. By the end of 1958, he accepted a job as a legal official with the revenue office in Hamburg, Germany. He eventually became a Senior Executive Officer with the Office of Finance for corporate bodies. He enjoyed his career and particularly like to work with large corporate bodies in trade and industry.

Wilhelm married Helga Grotefend in 1953 and together they had four daughters; Elisabeth (b. September 18, 1957), Ulrike, Stephanie (b. March 29, 1965) and Christine (b. April 20, 1966). Wilhelm was regarded as a quiet, level-headed and smart individual.

Albert (Bert) W. Hopton was a vice-president and director of the Dominion Rubber Company Ltd. and was one of the original members of the University of Waterloo Board of Governors.

Hopton joined the staff of Dominion Rubber in 1917 had moved to Kitchener-Waterloo in 1935. He served as the president of the K-W Rotary Club, Westmount Golf Club, and the Kitchener Chamber of Commerce. Hopton also served as the chairman of the Society of Automotive Engineers, the vice-president of the Athletic Association of Kitchener and Waterloo, an honorary director of the Y.M.C.A., a director of the Freeport Sanatorium, and an elder of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church.

Hopton was married to Marjorie Brown and had three children.[1]