The Kitchener-Waterloo Young Men's Christian Association was founded in 1895 in Berlin (now Kitchener), Ontario by a group of citizens "eager to promote the spiritual welfare of young men and boys of the city." The first officers were all prominent community members: President E.P. Clement, Vice-President Louis J. Breithaupt, Recording Secretary T.M. Turnbull, and Treasurer E.D. Lang. First known as the Berlin Young Men's Christian Association, the Association was active until 1906 when financial difficulties and limited facilities made it necessary to cease local operations. It was reconstituted in 1919 when a fund-raising campaign resulted in the building of the structure at the corner of Queen and Weber Streets in Kitchener. This building remained its headquarters until the Association moved to its present locations on Carwood Ave. in Kitchener.

The Kitchener-Waterloo Record began with the publication of the Daily News of Berlin on February 9, 1878 and was the first daily paper in the area. It was published by Peter Moyer. Over the years it had several names and publishers: in January of 1897 it was purchased by the German Printing and Publishing Company and was amalgamated with that company's Berlin Daily Record to become the Berlin News Record, and later still the News Record, all published by William (Ben) V. Uttley. In 1918 the publishers of the German-language paper the Berliner Journal, William D. Euler (later Senator for North Waterloo) and William J. Motz, purchased the News Record and changed the name to the Kitchener Daily Record. On July 17, 1922 the Record absorbed the other daily, the Daily Telegraph. With that event, the original three daily papers (the News Record, the Berlin Daily Record, and the Daily Telegraph) became one.

The Berliner Journal began in December 29, 1859 by Frederick Rittinger and John Motz, and was located on Queen Street south, Kitchener. Motz remained editor until his death in 1899, at which time his son William acquired his father's interest. When Rittinger died in 1915 his share was acquired by William D. Euler. The weekly Journal ended on May 10, 1924. The Record’s first staff photographer was Harry Huehnergard, who worked for the paper for 49 years before retiring in 1986 as Manager of the Photographic Department.

In 1948 the Kitchener Daily Record was re-named the Kitchener-Waterloo Record, which name it retained until 1994, when it became simply The Record. In 1928 the paper moved from its home at 49 King Street west to a new building at 30 Queen Street north where it was to stay for 44 years until moving in May 1973 to 225 Fairway Road. When William J. Motz died in 1946 his son John E. Motz took over as publisher. The by-then Senator Euler sold his interest to Southam Press in 1953. John E. Motz died in 1975 and the Motz Family continued to own a controlling interest in the paper until 1990, when it was sold to Southam. In 1998, The Record was sold to Sun Media Corporation, and then in March 1999, to Torstar Corporation. In January 2005, the paper moved its offices to Market Square on King Street east in Kitchener's downtown core, and on March 11, 2008, the name was changed to the Waterloo Region Record.

The Kitchener-Waterloo Council of Friendship was formed as a separate group in 1943. Its beginnings were in the International Club of the Kitchener-Waterloo YWCA headed by Mrs. W.P. Clement. Its membership was made up of Canadians, other national groups, community groups, service clubs, and women's organizations. Minnie Maines was part of the Executive Committee.
The Council offered language classes, a scholarship fund, special events, and other activities.

The Kitchener Waterloo Sales and Ad Club was begun in 1933 with charter members including John Motz and J.G. Hagey. The club provided social and professional development opportunities for men engaged in the sales and advertising professions. Women were admitted into the club in the 1970's. In 2006, the Kitchener Waterloo Sales and Ad Club (then called iCON Sales & Marketing Club) decided to go on permanent hiatus.

The Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation was established in 1984 by a group of citizens in Kitchener and Waterloo, Ontario, led by Walter Bean. It had originally been established as a trust by The Waterloo Trust (now Canada Trust) in August, 1930. "On May 1, 1984 the Ontario Legislature passed an act incorporating the K-W Community Foundation to take over the assets and assume the responsibilities of the original foundation bearing the same name."(KWCF document, May 1, 1985). The Foundation is administered by a board of directors who are responsible for overseeing its policies and practices. Donations to the Foundation are invested, with the income from the funds distributed in the form of grants to community organizations serving a wide range of needs, including cultural, educational, health and community services.

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"William Lyon Mackenzie King had a long political career. He was leader of the Liberal Party for 29 eventful years through the buoyant expansion of the 1920s, the depression of the 1930s, the shock of World War II, and then the post-war reconstruction, and for 21 of these years he was Canada’s prime minister. His decisions during this time contributed significantly to the shaping of Canada and to its development as an influential middle power in world affairs. During his lifetime his achievements were sometimes obscured by a style notable for its compromises. After his death his political career was sometimes overshadowed by the revelation of his unsuspected personal idiosyncrasies."

James Horace King was born on January 18, 1873, in Chipman (Queens Co., New Brunswick) to George Gerald and Esther King (nee Briggs). He attended McGill University and earned a medical degree in 1895. He practiced in New Brunswick until 1898, when he moved to the Kootenays (British Columbia). In 1907, he married Nellie Mae Sadler (1876-1949). And, in 1951, King married Flora May Johnson (1881-1967).
In 1903, James Horace King was elected as a member of the Liberal party in British Columbia and served in the Legislative Assembly for Cranbrook riding. In 1916 he won a provincial seat, becoming a representative of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. In 1922, King joined the federal government with Prime Minister Hon. William Lyon Mackenzie King as the Minister of Public Works (1922-1926), later becoming acting Minister of Labour (1925-1926), Minister of Soldiers’ Civil Re-establishment (1926-1928), Minister of Health (1926-1928), and Minister of Pensions and National Health (1928-1930). In 1942, King became Minister without Portfolio (1942-1945) and Senator until his death on July 14, 1955.

Gladys Lilian King was born in Exeter, Devon to Joseph and Mary King. In 1911 King emigrated to Canada to work as a secretary but returned to England in 1915 to do war work. She became a member of the Women Police Service during the war and worked in factories and hostels before becoming employed at the "Beaver Hut", a refuge for Commonwealth soldiers. King worked at the Beaver Hut from September 30, 1918 to August 21, 1919. When the Beaver Hut closed at the end of the war King took up police work in Reading. In 1940 she gave up police work to become the full time female probation officer, a position she held until her retirement in 1949. King died in Reading on June 4, 1970.

William Kindree was an undergraduate student of mathematics at the University of Waterloo in the 1960s and part of the team led by mathematics lecturers Paul Dirksen and Paul Cress that developed the WATFOR 360 compiler in 1966-1967 as well as its successor WATFIV.

Admiral Husband E. Kimmel was Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, Hawaii, during World War II.

Benjamin West Kilburn (December 10, 1827 – January 15, 1909) was an American photographer and stereoscopic view (stereograph) publisher famous for his landscape images and his visual record of the great migrations at the end of the nineteenth century.

James (Jim) Keron is an alumnus of the University of Waterloo. Keron graduated with a Bachelor of Mathematics (BMath) in 1970 and a Bachelor of Arts (BA), Anthropology in 1986. Keron also received a Master of Arts (MA), Archeology in 2003 and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioarcheology in 2015 from Western University.

During his time as a student at the University of Waterloo, Keron was actively involved in various clubs and committees, including the Folk Music Club and the Federation of Students (now known as the Waterloo Undergraduate Student Association, WUSA).

Keron served on the Orientation Committee in 1967, where he played a key role in coordinating events and activities for incoming students. He also served on the Homecoming Committee in 1967 and helped organize the celebration.

In 1968, Keron took on the role of Chairman for Summer Weekend 68, a multi-day event featuring activities and musical performances for the university community, which was organized by the Federation of Students. Additionally, he served as the Chairman of the Board of Student Activities during Fall 1968.

In 1969, Keron served as Chairman of the Orientation Committee and worked as the Treasurer of the Federation of Students between 1969 and 1970.

As a student, Keron also worked with the concert technology group providing sound and lighting for concerts on campus and for performances held at Wilfrid Laurier University, McMaster University, and other venues.

The Kent County Home Economics Association was established on January 18, 1978 as the Kent Family and Consumer Studies Association. The group was established as a professional organization to provide support, networking, and learning opportunities for home economists in the Chatham-Kent area of Ontario. Membership included those in the fields of consumerism, child studies, foods and nutrition, housing, and textiles. The organization hosted guest speakers and demonstrations on a variety of topics including special education, fitness, healthy cooking, work-life balance, women's experiences, personal finance, early childhood education, crafting, adolescent sexuality, and more. In April of 1981 the name of the group changed to the Kent Home Economics Association, to keep in the line with the recently established Ontario Home Economics Association. The organization disbanded sometime after 1987.

Nigel Kennedy Kempt was born March 22, 1910 in Glasgow, Scotland, son of Irvine Kempt jr. (1871-1920) and Louise Ashton Kennedy. He died July 7, 1955.

Margaret Davidson was born November 26, 1839 in Bridgeport (now Kitchener), Ontario to Sheriff George Davidson and Margaret Garden. She married Irvine Kempt in Glasgow, Scotland on July 17, 1867. Margaret Kempt died January 17, 1900.

Irvine Kempt jr. was born April 21, 1871 in Glasgow to Irvine Kempt (1831-May 14, 1920) and Margaret Davidson (Nov. 26, 1839-January 17, 1900), daughter of George Davidson, first sheriff of Waterloo County, Ontario and Margaret Garden.

Robert Julius Kelp was born in Hamburg (Germany) in 1926 to Karl and Katherine (Kruse) Kelp.
In 1944, Kelp joined the Luftwaffe (the aerial-warfare branch of the German armed forces or Wehrmacht) where he served as a paratrooper on the Western Front, primarily in Belgium and the Netherlands.
During his time as a member of the Wehrmacht, Kelp was injured and spent time in a hospital and visiting family. He returned to the front and was captured by the British forces in the winter of 1945. From 1945 to 1948, Kelp was a prisoner of war and was transferred to different prisoner-of-war camps, ending in France where he was assigned to work removing landmines in Normandy and working on several farms in the area. In 1946, Kelp and his colleagues tried to escape to Germany and ended up in the Cherche-Midi prison in Paris. In November 1948, Kelp returned to Hamburg with his family, where he trained and worked as a tool and die maker.
In 1958, Kelp emigrated to Toronto where he worked with Frank Stronach (founder of Magna International). In 1963, he was joined in Canada by his girlfriend Gitta Hartmann (1932-2018) whom he married soon after and with whom he had two children. The family soon moved to Kitchener-Waterloo for work-related reasons. In 1967, Kelp became a Canadian citizen.
Robert Julius Kelp died in 2013, aged 87.

Tony Kelly worked at a Literary Manager of the Berkeley Repertory Theatre.

Peter Reginald Kelly was born at Skidegate, British Columbia on April 21, 1885. He was a member of the Haida.

Peter studied theology at Coqualeetza Institute and Columbia College, both Methodist institutions. He taught school for five years at Skidegate, British Columbia before becoming a lay preacher. Later, he became an ordained minister and served in several pastorates and as captain of the Thomas Crosby III and Thomas Crosby IV mission ships.

Peter was an advocate for Indigenous rights, particularly surrounding BC land claims. As president of the Allied Tribes of BC (ATBC), he testified on Indigenous grievances before a special parliamentary committee in 1927. He was active in the Native Brotherhood of BC in the 1930s and he was a key figure in the consultations of the late 1940s that led to a revision of the Indian Act.

In 1948, Kelly received an honorary degree in theology from the University of British Columbia. In 1957, he was elected president of the Conference of the United Church in British Columbia.

Peter Reginald Kelly died at Nanaimo, British Columbia on March 2, 1966.

Blanche Mildred Clement Kelly (1881-1945) was born July 16th, 1881 to Edwin Perry Clement and Janie Elizabeth Bowlby Clement in Waterloo. In 1915 at the age of 34 she married 28 year old Frederick Bowman Kelly (1887-1984) of Guelph. The two moved to Guelph where Frederick was employed as a merchant. The two had no children. Blanche died in 1945 at the home of her sister Florence and Frederick lived until the age of 97, dying in 1984.

Naila Keleta-Mae is an artist, poet and Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Waterloo. The principal investigator of the Black and Free research-creation project, Keleta-Mae is a National Research Council of Canada Dorothy Killam Fellow, and the Tier 2 SSHRC Canada Research Chair in Race, Gender and Performance. Known for her work in Black expressive culture and Black feminisms, her scholarly contributions focus on the cultural production of Black women including music, videos, performances, plays, and poetry, and has authored two books Beyoncé And Beyond: 2013-2016 (2023) and Performing Female Blackness (2023).

Keleta-Mae was born in Toronto, Ontario and was heavily influenced by her parents, who immigrated to Canada from Jamaica in the 1960s, and were active in community building, including as members of the Afro-Caribbean Association of Manitoba during the 1970s. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in journalism and Spanish from Concordia University. Keleta-Mae completed a Masters of Arts in 2005 and a Doctorate of Philosophy, Theater Studies in 2012, both at York University. She worked as a faculty advisor at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont for two years, before joining the University of Waterloo as a lecturer in 2011, where she was promoted to Associate Professor in 2020.

In addition to scholarly contributions, research and theatrical performances, since joining Waterloo, Keleta-Mae has regularly written and commentates for major media outlets, and gained international attention in 2015 for centering Beyoncé as a topic of focus in an undergraduate Gender and Performance course. Founded in 2017, her Black and Free research-creation project, which examines Black expression in the 21st century, consists of multi-year research partnerships and includes a research team of more than 30 people. In 2022, Keleta-Mae received the UWaterloo Arts Award for Excellence in Research.

Ivan Wilbur Keffer was born March 21, 1890 in Berlin (now Kitchener), Ontario. He married Mary Louise Elligsen of Sebringville in 1917. Keffer began working for the F.W. Woolworth Co. in Hamilton, Ontario in 1912, after graduating from high school. He was named manager of a store in Stratford, Ontario in 1915, later working as a district superintendent and then buyer based in Toronto, Ontario. In 1927, the company opened the subsidiary F.W. Woolworth GmbH in Germany. The same year Keffer accepted a position to organize and develop the, moving with his wife and daughter Mary Jane to Berlin, Germany. He became managing director of the German company in 1933. The Keffers lived in Berlin until 1939 when they returned to Canada and settled in Toronto because of the political and economic tensions in Germany. Keffer continued to serve Woolworth’s as Canadian General Manager. In 1945, he was appointed executive vice president and treasurer of the company and the family moved to New York. Upon his retirement in 1953, the Keffers moved back to Toronto and lived in an apartment there as well as the house they built in Port Elgin. Keffer died January 7, 1965 and was buried in the family plot at Zion Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery in Vaughn, Ontario.

Percy S. Keeting was born ca. 1895 in England and immigrated to the United States in 1933.

Miss Oktoberfest 1988.

John Keble was an English churchman and poet. Keble attended Corpus Christi College, Oxford and was later a fellow at Oriel College, Oxford. In 1815 he took his holy orders and became a curate. In 1827 his work "The Christian Year" was published and due to this he was appointed Chair of Poetry at Oxford in 1831. The success of this collection of verse was so great that nintey five editions were printed in Keble's lifetime. In 1835 Keble was appointed Vicar of Hursley where he remained for the rest of his life. Keble died in 1866.