Hahnemann Lancaster was born in Galt on July 26, 1858 to Dr. Joseph J. Lancaster and Mariett Woodruff Peterson. Census records show him moving back and forth between the United States and Canada several times during his life. In the 1880s, he ran a photography studio in Cedar Falls, Iowa, along with his brother Whitfield.

William "Bill" Douglas Land was born on April 27, 1922 in Glasgow, Scotland.

Bill enlisted in the Royal Scots Regiment in February of 1941 and had a cadetship in the Indian Army. In August of 1941, Bill left Gourock, Scotland for Bombay, India on board the H.M.S. Strathallan for the Second World War. Bill was stationed in Italy when the war ended.

Bill married Millicent Elizabeth "Betty" Forbes on May 29, 1954 in Hespeler, Ontario. The couple had three children: Jennifer, Janet, and Thomas. Bill passed away on November 8, 1983 at the age of 61.

James Land was an alumnus of the University of Waterloo. He studied under a general program and received a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1972.

Janet Land was born on October 29, 1956 to Millicent Elizabeth "Betty" Forbes and William "Bill" Land.

Jennifer Land was born on August 11, 1955 to Millicent Elizabeth "Betty" Forbes and William "Bill" Land.

Kathleen Land is an alumna of the University of Waterloo. She studied English literature and received a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1999.

Thomas Land was born on March 29, 1959 to Millicent Elizabeth "Betty" Forbes and William "Bill" Land.

The founder of The Lang Tanning Company Limited, Reinhold Lang, came to Berlin (now Kitchener) from a small village in the German Rhineland with his eldest son George, and established a small tannery in 1849. The tannery was located on Foundry (now Ontario) Street in Berlin, and was moved to an area between Wilmot (now Victoria) and Francis Streets after fire destroyed the original plant. This area was chosen because there was a natural spring there that could be used as water supply for the tannery. The Lang Tanning Company then went on to become the largest sole leather producer in the British Empire, and Reinhold Lang, who was also a member of the Berlin Council in 1859, became a prominent local citizen. During the First World War, Lang Tanning produced huge amounts of saddle material, and in the Second World War it supplied sole leather and leather linings for aircraft gasoline tanks. The company discontinued operations as a tannery in 1954 due to competition from synthetic materials, but kept its five-acre downtown site and complex of 35 buildings until 1974, when the property was sold to Ball Brothers Limited (a Kitchener contracting firm). In 1954, at the time that the Lang Tanning Company ceased operations, Jerome Lang was president, and Reinhold (Bun) Lang was Chairman of the Board. In 1974, at which time the President of the company was Reinhold (Bun) Lang, the company held a final meeting where they wound up business: the payment of bills, the disposition of assets, and the surrender of the 1917 charter to the Federal Government.

Angela M. Lang (nee Kelly) was born in October 1896 in Albany, New York. She married Reinhold Lang in the same city on September 1915 with whom she had six children. The family lived in Kitchener, where Reinhold's family operated Lang Tanning Co. Ltd, and Lang ran the Magda Lang Dress Shop. She died September 1, 1979 and was buried at Mount Hope Cemetery.

Arthur Lang emigrated from Scotland to Canada in 1820 to settle in Ramsay Township, Ontario.

Peter Joseph Lang was born in Kitchener, Ontario on November 19, 1950.

During his career, Peter worked as a coroner, physician, and psychiatrist.

He was elected as a Member of Parliament serving Ontario's Kitchener riding on February 18, 1980. He was a member of the Liberal Party of Canada.

He served as a Member of Parliament for four years until he lost his seat in the elections to John Reimer of the Progressive Conservative party in September 1984.

Samantha Lange is a student studying physics in the Faculty of Science at the University of Waterloo. She was among the first to take courses in the Black Studies program, which launched during in 2022.

Lange was born in St. Joseph, Trinidad and grew up in the Northwest part of the country in Maraval. She and twin sister, Sharon, were raised by their father, following the death of their mother shortly after giving birth.

As a Waterloo student, Samantha has served as the president of the Science Society, is a member of FemPhys and worked as a Residence Ambassador.

Jane Stuart Larrington was a teacher, writer and editor, and was an early member of the Toronto Branch of the Canadian Women's Press Club. She was born in 1890 in Middlesex County, Ont. and her first work was published in the Globe when she was 13, after which she continued to write and publish sketches and articles. After two and a half years of teaching she moved to Toronto and became, first, assistant editor of Methodist Sunday School Publications and later, editorial assistant with Presbyterian Publications. She joined the Toronto Women's Press Club in 1914 and was a member until her death at the age of 97 in 1987. (Sources: GA 94 File 47: Canadian Women's Press Club, Biographical Scrapbook, 1921.)

Ann Thompson was born to James Peter Thompson and Helen Charette in 1949. In 1969, she married Gary Lauzon and they had two children.

Professor Anita Layton is the Canada 150 Chair in Mathematical Biology and Medicine, and Professor of Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Pharmacy and Biology at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Layton also serves as the Associate Dean, Research and International in the Faculty of Mathematics as well as leads the Layton group: a diverse and interdisciplinary team of researchers using computational modeling tools to better understand aspects of health and disease.

Dr. S.F. Leavine, a public servant and member of Kitchener's medical profession, was born in 1896 in Elgin in Leeds County, a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Francis Leavine. He received a public school education in the village of Elgin and attended Athens Highs School in Ontario. Leavine studied medicine at Queen's University in Kingston. He put himself through medical school by working in a cheese factory during summer vacations and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1920. After graduating he interned at Kingston General Hospital from 1920 to 1921, followed by a year of postgraduate studies at Belleview and Allied Hospitals in New York.

In 1921 Leavine married Desta G. Buse in Kingston. Two years later, they moved to Kitchener where Leavine opened a medical practice. He also served on the Kitchener Board of Health, the K-W Hospital Commission, and served as the President of the North Waterloo Academy of Medicine. Additionally, he was a member of the Ontario Medical Association and the Waterloo County Medical Association, and wrote several medical papers which were published in the British Medical Journal. During World War II Leavine served as a captain with the 24th Field Ambulance Reserve.

Leavine joined Kitchener city council as an alderman in 1938 and served in the role every year but one until 1949. He was elected Mayor of Kitchener in December 1949, serving his first two terms in 1950 and 1951. In Nov. 1951 Leavine was elected Progressive Conservative member for Waterloo North and served as M.P.P. until 1956 when he was defeated by John J. Wintermeyer of the Liberal party. In 1956 Leavine returned to city council as an alderman. He was elected as Mayor of Kitchener once again in December 1957.

Leavine was a member of the Waterloo College Board and of Queen's University Alumni. He was also a member of the original organizing group of the Ontario Pioneer Community Foundation, a member of several lodges including Twin City Lodge, AF and AM; Lodge of Perfection; Rose Croix; Moore Consistory, Hamilton; Grand Union Lodge, IOOF; and Mocha Temple.

Leavine died July 27, 1958 at the age of 61 at the Kitchener-Waterloo Hospital where he had been admitted several days previous following a heart seizure. He was survived by his wife, and two daughters, Dr. Desta F. Leavine, and Pauline Leavine. In 1965 a ceremonial mace was represented to the University of Waterloo in honour of Leavine by the family and his daughter Desta later created the memorial Dr. Stanley F. Leavine Scholarship that is presented each year to an upper year undergraduate student interested in pursuing a career in medicine or medical research student.

Dr. Ken Ledbetter was a professor of English at the University of Waterloo and a writer. He joined the English department in 1966 and served as deputy dean of arts from 1968-1969, associate dean (special programs) from 1975-1981, and acting director of the correspondence program from 1980-1981. He received a Distinguised Teacher Award in 1983. He also founded several programs in the Faculty of Arts, including the English language proficiency program. Ledbetter was also a writer of short stories and novels, and his biggest success was Too Many Blackbirds (1984).

Miss Oktoberfest 1994.

Doris Eileen Lewis (née Pringle) was the first University Librarian of the University of Waterloo Library. Born in Toronto in 1911, she attended the University of Toronto, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1933, a Diploma in Library Science in 1934, and a Bachelor of Library Science degree in 1963.

With the exception of a two-year period (1934-1936) as a circulation librarian at the University of Toronto, Doris Lewis devoted her professional career to the University of Waterloo and its precursor, Waterloo College. She became a lecturer in library science at Waterloo College in 1949, and went on to serve as the head librarian of Waterloo College from 1951 to 1959.

In 1959, she joined the University of Waterloo as its first University Librarian, a post that she held until 1969. From 1969 until her retirement in 1976, Mrs. Lewis served as a collections development librarian.

After retiring from the University of Waterloo, Mrs. Lewis was appointed as a consultant to the book dealer, B.H. Blackwell Ltd. of Oxford. She was active in this capacity while continuing to enjoy her personal library, her country home and her garden until her death in 1985.

The University of Waterloo Library began as a collection of between four and six thousand volumes in science and engineering housed in a single classroom in Engineering 1, the first building on the new campus. Under the leadership of Doris Lewis, the Library's holdings grew to over a million volumes by 1975.

Throughout her career, Doris Lewis was at the forefront of academic library development in Canada. A key figure during the period of rapid expansion of universities during the 1960s, Doris Lewis prepared the original briefs and documentation for the construction of the University of Waterloo's Dana Porter Library. The excellence of her work in this regard led to an invitation from Trent University to act as consultant in the preparation of its library, and in 1969, Doris Lewis was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree by Trent University.

She served as president of the Canadian Association of University Libraries and was a founder of the Ontario Association of College and University Librarians. When the Committee of Presidents of the Universities of Ontario formed the Ontario Council of University Librarians, Doris Lewis was appointed the first chairman of the council.

In 1967, she became the first chairman of the Advisory Joint Council on the Coordination of University Library Research Facilities. She contributed to the preparation of library briefs to the Spinks Commission (the Commission to Study the Development of Graduate Programmes in Ontario Universities, 1966) and to the Bladen Commission (the Commission on the Financing of Higher Education, 1965).

Doris Lewis was a recipient of the Canadian Silver Jubilee Medal (1977), an award that honoured distinguished Canadians in a wide range of endeavours on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II.

In 1982, the University of Waterloo presented the University's 25th Anniversary Medal to Doris Lewis to acknowledge her vital contributions to the university during its formative years.

In recognition and appreciation of her outstanding contributions to the University of Waterloo, the Doris Lewis Rare Book Room, named in her honour, opened in 1976.