Admiral Thomas C. Hart was Commander in Chief, U.S. Asiatic Fleet, the Philippines, during World War II.

Michael Deane Harris (born January 23, 1945) is a retired Canadian politician who served as the 22nd premier of Ontario from 1995 to 2002 and leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (PC Party) from 1990 to 2002. During his time as party leader, he guided the Ontario PC Party toward Blue Toryism, advocating for the "Common Sense Revolution", his government's program of deficit reduction in combination with lower taxes and budget cuts.

E. L. Hardy was a photographer at York Studio in Toronto.

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Henry Hanna was born in 1872 in the Waterloo County area, Ontario.

The firm of Haney, Haney, Kendall & Melville was established in 1860 and has conducted business since then under a number of names. The first firm name recorded in the papers is MacGachen and Colquhoun on a document dated 1865. Of F. Stewart MacGachen nothing has been discovered except that he was appointed solicitor for the Waterloo Mutual Fire Insurance Company, formed in 1863. The partnership of MacGachen and Colquhoun lasted approximately fifteen years, as by 1875 Colquhoun's name alone appears on documents. In 1876 Colquhoun then entered into partnership with Ward Hamilton Bowlby and Edwin Perry Clement, under the name Bowlby, Clement and Colquhoun, but remained for only a short period. After conducting business alone for several years, in 1889 he entered into partnership with Arthur B. McBride under the name Colquhoun & McBride. This partnership lasted until 1897 when Colquhoun accepted the postion of Collector of Customs. McBride practised alone for several years before taking another partner, E.P. Flintoft, and the firm name became McBride and Flintoft, ca. 1906. Flintoft left to become solicitor for the Canadian Pacific Railway, leaving McBride once again alone for several years until taking E.W. MacKenzie as partner with the firm name McBride and MacKenzie, ca. 1916. Still later, McBride took another partner and the firm name changed to McBride & McGibbon.

The earliest document in the collection is an abstract of a will which names James Colquhoun as a beneficiary. James Colquhoun was a Barrister of the Middle Temple, a brilliant lawyer who emigrated to Canada in 1842 with his wife, Mary Bryce Colquhoun. After initially establishing a law practise in Galt and speculating in land near Ayr James Colquhoun moved to Berlin ca. 1852, where he first lived on Frederick St. and then built the home now known as "Woodside", the boyhood home of William Lyon MacKenzie King. John King was a family friend and rented Woodside from Frederick Colquhoun from 1886 to 1893. Shortly after moving to Berlin he was appointed Clerk of the county court, a position he held until his death, as was also made deputy clerk of the crown. A keen interest in education led him to serve at various times as trustee or chairman on both the public and high school boards. He died in 1877.

Frederick Colquhoun, son of James Colquhoun, was born August 31, 1839 in Sterling, Scotland. He was educated in Berlin and studied law. From 1860 until 1897 he had a successful law practise; in 1897 he was appointed Collector of Customs at the port of Berlin, a post which he held until his death in 1906. As well, Colquhoun served as Village Clerk for Waterloo from 1868 to 1876, and for the Town of Waterloo from 1876 to 1897. He was secretary of the North Waterloo Reform Association and Children's Aid Society for a number of years, and an original member of the Board of Directors of the Dominion Life Assurance Co., 1900. At the time of his death he was President of the Berlin and Waterloo Hospital Trust. In approximately 1889 he built a house on a lot on the corner of King and Union Streets, Waterloo, currently 251 Mary St.and known as the "backwards house." The house originally faced King St. but subdivision of the original lot has left the back of the house fronting on Mary St.

Arthur B. McBride was born November 21, 1861, was educated in Toronto, called to the bar in 1884 and practised in Toronto until 1889. In 1889 he moved to Waterloo and went into partnership with Frederick Colquhoun. In 1887 he married Agnes Kumpf, daughter of Christian Kumpf. In Waterloo McBride served as director of the Globe Furniture Company, as well as being active in both the Odd Fellows and Masons.

Virender Kumar (Vir) Handa was a faculty member in civil engineering at the University of Waterloo from 1964 to 1995 with a focus on construction safety and management. Born in Lahore, India, his father was a lawyer and his mother a social activist. Handa obtained a BSc in physics, chemistry and maths at the University of Calcutta in 1949 and a second BSc in engineering at the University of London in 1954. Coming to Canada on a scholarship, he completed an MSc in civil engineering at Queen's University in 1958 and an MSc in applied mathematics at the University of Waterloo in 1962, followed by a PhD in in civil engineering in 1964.

In addition to substantial contributions to the development of the study of construction management, Handa worked with Waterloo colleagues to created several Expo 67 pavilions including Man the Explorer, Planet ad Space, and Man the Producer. He served as Chairman of the Board of the Canadian National Museums of Science and Technology, consulted for the Cree Housing Authority for more than 20 years, and held the position of Riding Association President for the Liberal Party of Canada. Handa was also active in the recruitment of students to Kitchener-Waterloo serving with involvement and chair roles in groups including the Canadian South Asian Chamber and the India Canada Association.

Handa died May 3, 2005 following complications from an accident two years prior, leaving behind wife Silvana and their two children, Dev and Aruna. A celebration of life was held on May 25, 2005 at Waterloo's University Club.

Kathleen Irene Hancock was born February 10, 1900 to Claude Hancock (1872-1955) and Henrietta Maria Wingfield-Digby (1867-1967) of the Wingfield-Digby's of Sherborne Castle. Irene was educated at Headington School for Girls, Oxford (where she was Head Girl) and Portsmouth School for Girls before attending Mrs. Hoster's Typewriting, Shorthand and Translation Office where she took a six month course in secretarial training. She became a member of the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship (NUSEC) and served as the General Secretary until 1928. The same year she also helped to organize and taught at the NUSEC summer school, held at St. Hilda's College, Oxford. The summer school offered classes to women in topics on politics and enacting on your enfranchisement. After this point she traveled to Vienna, Austria where she studied abroad and watched over the education of Ray Strachey's daughter Barbara. Correspondence from this time indicates that she intended to return to England sit the bar, however census records show that in 1932 she was working as a personal assistant to the Hon. S. Baldwin. Irene died in 1989 in Liss, Hampshire.

Ishbel Maria Marjoribanks Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair and known as Lady Aberdeen, was born in 1857, the daughter of the first Baron Tweedmouth. She married the first Marquis of Aberdeen in 1877, who became Lord Aberdeen, Governor-General of Canada, in 1893 and remained in that office for the next five years.

Lady Aberdeen was active in philanthropic and educational work along many paths for nearly sixty years. She was president of the International Council of Women for nearly forty years, from 1893-1899, and then again from 1904-1936. She was also president of the Irish Industries Association, the Women's National Health Association of Ireland, and the Onward and Upward Association, and for a number of years she was the chairperson of the Scottish Council for Women's Trades. In Canada, Lady Aberdeen founded the Victorian Order of Nurses and took a leading role in the formation of the National Council of Women of which she was the first president. She died in Scotland in 1939.

Ruth Johnson was born in 1876 in Warrington, England and immigrated to the United States with her family in the early 1890s. She married Charles C. Hamilton on April 19, 1898 in Chicago, Illinois. Together they had several children, including Ruth Alice. Hamilton was a charter member of the North Shore Church, a one time president of the Wisconsin Synodical Society of the Presbyterian Church, and served as executive secretary of the Wisconsin League of Women Voters and the Women's Suffrage Association. She died April 4, 1954 in Shorewood, Wisconsin.

Ross Hamilton was born August 4, 1879 in Frontenac, Ontario to David Hamilton and Margaret Clyde. On February 23, 1916 he enlisted in the First World War, lying about his age and stating his birthdate as being in 1893. In 1938, he married Elizabeth "Bess" Heist (1910-1975) in Waterloo, Ontario. Hamilton worked for Waterloo Trust & Savings Co. where he met Homer Watson. Watson had been forced to sell his mortgage to the trust and saving company due to financial issues, and Hamilton became Watson's estate agent. After Watson's death in 1936, Hamilton and his wife Bess started the Doon School for the Arts in June 1948. Hamilton died June 10, 1952 and his wife took over the operations of the school until her death in 1975.

Feridun Hamdullahpur is a university administrator and engineer, who served as the University of Waterloo's sixth President and Vice-Chancellor from 2010-2021. His areas of focus as a researcher and supervisor include energy conversion, thermo-fluids and bio-mass gasification and combustion. In 2021 Hamdullahpur was announced as the inaugural Chancellor of the International Business University in Toronto, Ontario.

Born in Turkey, he completed his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Istanbul and completed a Ph.D. in chemical engineering at the Technical University of Nova Scotia in Halifax. Prior to joining Waterloo, Hamdullahpur held various administrative positions at Carleton University in Ottawa, where he served as Provost and Vice President Academic (2006-2009) and Vice President Research and International (2000-2006), and at DalTech, where he served as Associate Dean of Graduate Studies (1993-95) and Dean of Graduate Studies and Research (1995-97). He was appointed Provost and Vice-President, Academic at Waterloo in September 2009.

In 2013, Hamdullahpur was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in acknowledgment of Professor Hamdullahpur’s leadership in education and innovation and in 2018 he was named a Specially Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In recognition of groundbreaking research in mechanical and mechatronics engineering and his visionary leadership in academia, he was appointed as a member of the Order of an Canada on December 29, 2022.

Mary Ham was born to Albert William Augustine and Edna Louise Kaufman in Kitchener, Ontario on January 5, 1931. She was raised in Kitchener, Ontario alongside her three siblings; Albert Jacob Augustine, John Ross Augustine and David William Augustine.

On June 4, 1955 Mary married James Milton Ham and together they had three children; Peter Stace Ham, Mary Martha Ham, and Jane Elizabeth Ham.

James Milton Ham was born in Coboconk, Ontario on September 21, 1920. He studied electrical engineering at the University of Toronto and graduated with a B.A.Sc. degree in 1943. He continued his studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He graduated with his Science Masters in 1947 and his Science Doctorate in 1952.

Around 1954, James returned to the University of Toronto as an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering. He became a full professor in 1959, head of the department in 1964, Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering in 1966, and Dean of the School of Graduate Studies in 1976. James then served as the tenth President of the University of Toronto from 1978-1983.

James M. Ham was given several honorary degrees and public awards in recognition for his contributions to the engineering profession. In 1980, he was made an officer of the Order of Canada.

James Milton Ham married Mary Caroline Augustine on June 4, 1955 and together they had three children; Peter Stace Ham, Mary Martha Ham, and Jane Elizabeth Ham. He died of complications from Parkinson’s disease at the age of 76 on September 16, 1997.

Sarah Anna Anthes was born July 3, 1858 in Wilmot township, Ontario to parents Jacob Anthes and Magdalena Stricker. On June 15, 1887 she married Menno S. Hallman also of Wilmot and they had a daughter, Lizzie Hilda Hallman, born July 12, 1891. Sarah died of consumption [tuberculosis] September 26, 1893 at 35 years old. Her young daughter, Lizzie died a few years later on March 17, 1896. Both are buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener.

Menno S. Hallman was born December 26, 1857 in Wilmot township, Ontario to parents Samuel Hallman and Mary Snyder. On June 15, 1887 he married Sarah Anna Anthes also of Wilmot and together they had Lizzie Hilda Hallman, born July 12, 1891. Sarah died of consumption [tuberculosis] September 26, 1893 at only 35 years old. Her young daughter, Lizzie died a few years later on March 17, 1896. Both are buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener. Menno was remarried to Martha Snyder circa 1902. It does not appear they had any children. Menno died November 9, 1933 and is buried Woodland Cemetery, Kitchener. His widow Martha died August 25, 1964 and is also buried in Woodland.

Lyle S. Hallman was a developer, contractor and philanthropist in the Kitchener-Waterloo area. Born in Preston, now part of Cambridge, Ontario, in 1922, he was the son of a carpenter. In 1945, after war service with the Royal Canadian Air Force, he started his own construction company. Hallman Construction Ltd. became the Hallman Group of Companies, as Lyle Hallman became a major land developer as well as as building, owning and managing apartment buildings.

A noted philanthropist in the Waterloo Region, Lyle Hallman and his wife Wendy donated funds to numerous campaigns, including the Lyle S. Hallman Swimming Pool and funding the first MRI in the Waterloo Region. They supported universities in the community, funding the Lyle S. Hallman Institute for Health Promotion at the University of Waterloo and the Lyle S. Hallman Chair in Child and family Welfare at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Lyle S. Hallman was the recipient of many awards, including the Order of Canada, the Canada 125 medal, the Paul Harris fellowship from the Rotary Club and an honorary doctorate from the University of Waterloo.

William Henry "Harry" Halliwell was born February 4, 1882 in Simcoe, Ontario to parents John James Halliwell and Annie Elizabeth Robinson. He married Maria "Mary" Charlotte Ahrens of Kitchener, Ontario on April 29, 1903. The couple lived in Berlin (later Kitchener) Ontario where William worked variously as a shoemaker, letter carrier and chauffeur and taxi driver. They had children: Charlotte Hazel; John Ahrens; Dorothy Ahrens; Elizabeth Helena; David E. and Ruth. William's death date is unknown.

Maria Charlotte "Mary" Ahrens was born July 26, 1876 in Kitchener, Ontario to parents Charles Andrew Ahrens and Henrietta Charlotte Roth. She married William Henry Halliwell of Baysville, Muskoka District on April 29, 1903 in Kitchener. The couple had six children: Charlotte Hazel; John Ahrens; Dorothy Ahrens; Elizabeth Helena; David E. and Ruth. Her death date is unknown.

Gerry Hall was a journalist and editor who worked for the Toronto Star for 37 years. Hall was in charge of various positions at the Star including the Travel, Sports, and Sunday editor, and managing editor for features. He retired in 1991. Hall died on September 12, 2018.

Nettie E. Hall (nee Jestin) was born August 15, 1891 to Obadiah Jestin (1864-1943) and Margaret Maud Jestin (1866-1950) in Eramosa Township. On June 29, 1910 she married Arthur Thomas Hall, son of Thomas Hall and Jane Doughty, also of Eramosa Township. The couple had children Dorothy (b. 1911), Minnie (b. 1913), Harvey (b. 1916), Margaret (b. 1917) and William (b. 1920). Nettie died in 1986.

Margareta Riehl was born in Muehlhausen Germany. She immigrated to Canada and married Jacob Hailer (1804-1882) with whom she had six children, including Catharine Hailer (1834-1910), who would marry Philip Ludwig Breithaupt.

Jacob Hailer was born in Wilferdingen, Grossherzogthum Baden, Germany and emigrated to North America in 1829. He established himself as a wheelwright in Kitchener in 1833 and was instrumental in establishing the Evangelical Association religion in Canada. He married Margareth Riehl (1807-1885) and together they had 6 children, including Catharine Hailer who married Louis Breithaupt.

The Haida are a nation and ethnic group native to, or otherwise associated with, Haida Gwaii (an archipelago located off the west coast of Canada and immediately south of Alaska) and the Haida language.

Joseph Gerald “Gerry” Hagey (September 28, 1904-October 26, 1988) was born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario by Menno Hagey and Esther Cornell. Hagey’s great-grandfather was Mennonite Bishop Joseph B. Hagey, an early settler to the Waterloo area from Pennsylvania. Hagey attended Waterloo College (later Wilfred Laurier University) completing his high school and University education there. After graduating he took a position as a sales clerk with B.F. Goodrich in Kitchener. After working for B.F. Goodrich for many years, he eventually rose to the position of National Advertising Director by the 1950’s. Throughout this time he was still actively involved with the affairs of Waterloo College, then a small church college affiliated with the University of Western Ontario. After sitting on the board, he was asked to be the president of Waterloo College in 1953.

During his time at B.F. Goodrich, he had become interested in the idea of students working in their respective industries while studying believing that it would provide experience and revenue for the students, revenue for the college, and assistance for the company. Although a controversial idea, in four years Hagey and his supporters had established a co-operative school of engineering. In the summer of 1957 the Waterloo College Associated Faculties opened, with Hagey as the president. In 1959 Hagey decided to resign his position with Waterloo College and devote his time to the Associate Faculties, which separated from Waterloo College and incorporated as the University of Waterloo. Hagey spent the next ten years developing Waterloo from a two portable school with 75 students to a multimillion dollar university with over 9,000 enrollments.

In 1969 Hagey retired from the University of Waterloo due to a battle with cancer that resulted in the removal of his larynx. In his later years he re-taught himself to speak after his surgery, and was awarded numerous awards and honorary degrees including the Order of Canada in 1986. Hagey died of pneumonia on October 26, 1988.

Irmengarde Louisa Hagen was born in Berlin, Ontario (now Kitchener) in 1898 to Charles and Caroline Edith (nee Rehmann) Hagen. She was along time employee of J.M. Schneider Inc. Hagen died in 1999 and was buried in Preston Cemetery.

Alice Egan was born in Halifax in 1872. She attended Mount Saint Vincent Academy and the Victoria School of Art and Design (later the Nova Scotia College of Art), as well as at the Osgood Art School in New York. One of her first commissions came when she was selected to paint twelve plates for the Lady Aberdeen State Dinner Set, presented to Lady Aberdeen by the Canadian Senate at the time of the retirement of her husband as Governor General in 1898. In 1901 Alice Egan married John Hagen, an official of the Halifax and Bermuda Cable Company, and in 1910 transferred with him to Jamaica where she continued to work and teach. Her work was widely exhibited in the Islands and for her contribution to art in Jamaica Mrs. Hagen was awarded the bronze, and later the silver Sir Anthony Musgrave Medals, the first woman to be so honoured. In 1916 the Hagens returned to Halifax, settling finally in 1932 in Mahone Bay, where Alice Hagen began a new career as a potter, teaching, exhibiting and winning awards. Forty-eight pieces of her handpainted china, glass and pottery were presented to the Nova Scotia government and are displayed at the Citadel Museum in Halifax. Alice Mary Hagen died in January, 1972.

D. Mary Hackett was a long-standing employee of the YWCA and later the Y. Born in Wallenstein, Ontario on April 5, 1931 she graduated with honours with a degree in philosophy from McMaster University.

Hackett started working for the YWCA as a camp counselor in 1948, going on to become become Teen Program and Camp Sports Director for the Kitchener-Waterloo YWCA, and was named assistant executive director in 1954. She relocated to Ottawa in 1959, where she took a position as Club and Camp Director at Camp Daven. In 1970 she was named Executive Director following the merger of the YWCA and YMCA of Ottawa.

Hackett received numerous awards for her involvement with the Y including an appointment Companion of the YMCA Fellowship of Honours (1955); the Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee Medal (2002); and a YM-YWCA Woman of Distinction Award (Lifetime Achievement category).

Laura "Lola" Emma Ahrens was born in Berlin (Kitchener) Ontario to parents Charles Andrew Ahrens and Henrietta Charlotte Roth. She married George Henry Hachborn also of Berlin on September 26, 1894. The couple lived in Berlin and had four children: Marguerite Helen (Koenig) ; Laura Isabella Hachborn; Rudolph Albert and Robert Carl Hachborn.

Laura died December 9, 1939 and was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener alongside George who predeceased her on July 1, 1934.