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.

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.

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.)

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.

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.

Her Majesty's Stationery Office was the publisher for the Government of the United Kingdom. The corporation published a range of official publications for government departments and other bodies.

The corporation was privatized in 1996.

Brian P. Hendley is a member of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo who served as Dean of the Faculty Arts from July 1, 1991, to June 30, 1999.

Helen Elizabeth Rieder was born to Talmon Henry and Martha Melvina Rieder in 1911, in Berlin. She married Joseph Henderson.

Brita Hazell was born on March 21, 1931. The third child of Norman and Ethel Schneider, she was raised in Kitchener, Ontario alongside brothers Herbert and Howard. Her first marriage was to Robert White, which took place on October 10, 1953. Her second marriage to Roy Graham Hazell (1930-2000) took place March 29, 1969 in San Francisco, California.

Elliott Hayes was born on June 22, 1956 in Stratford, Ontario. Hayes was a playwright from a heavily theatre influenced family with his grandfather and father both being actors. His family played a large role in preserving the old city hall in Stratford as well as the gallery in the city. Hayes worked for many years in Hollywood before returning to Stratford in 1981 where he was the Stratford Festival's literary manager, assistant director, and lyricist. In his short career, Hayes created several short stories, poems, and plays such as "Homeward Bound". He died February 22, 1994.

Jean May Schneider was born on March 18, 1923 to Frederick Henry and Ella Daniels Schneider. She studied at McMaster University, graduating in 1943, and served as a photographer for the Royal Canadian Air Force during the remainder of the Second World War. She married Robert Hawkings on June 16, 1945, with whom she had three sons: Rob, Bruce and Jim. The family lived for a time in Deep River. She was an active member of the Church of the Good Shepherd (Kitchener) and the Deep River Community Church. Later in life she was involved with the Waterloo chapter of the Canadian Federation of University Women. Hawkings died July 30, 2011 in Waterloo, Ontario.

Sir Percival Hartley was born December 2, 1867. He was educated at Marlborough College and St. John's College in Cambridge, England. Hartley later studied medicine at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London, as well as other hospitals in Paris and Vienna. He was a physician at the London General Hospital and St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. Hartley also worked at the Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest in Brompton, London, and Daneswood Sanatorium in Bedfordshire, England. He wrote a number of medical books and articles for journals. In 1900, he was given the honour of Goulsonian Lecturer at the Royal College of Physician. Throughout his career as a physician, Hartley specialized in diseases of the chest, particularly tuberculosis. He died on June 30, 1952.

"Edward Hartley was born 1849 in Wadsworth, OH. The date he left Ohio is undetermined but, according to one obituary, had a photograph studio in Jacksonville, IL, before moving to Chicago in 1875.

It is safe to say that he was active as a photographer in Chicago from 1875 to 1887 and any cabinet cards imprinted with the 309 W Madison address would probably be from that era. However, under the management of his brother Charles Hartley, the photograph studio carried on some years after Edward's death and it would certainly be possible that some photographs from the studio continued with the same imprint."

In 1893, Charles Hartley purchased Brand Studios at 210 & 212 Wabash Street, which he renamed Hartley. He subsequently deeded his share in the business to his wife, Belle Hartley, before "eloping" to Utah in 1894. It is unknown whether the business continued after this point.