Dr. John Hepburn is the CEO and Scientific Director at Mitacs.

He received his BSc from the University of Waterloo in 1976, and PhD from the University of Toronto in 1980. He completed two years as a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

John Hepburn began his academic career teaching at the University of Waterloo. He was appointed Assistant Professor in Chemistry and Physics in 1982 and Chair of Chemistry in 1998.

In 2001, he accepted a position at the University of British Columbia as Head of Chemistry and Professor of Chemistry with a joint appointment to Physics & Astronomy. He served as the Dean of Science in 2003, and Vice-President, Research in 2005.

From June 2016 until January 2020, he served as Vice-President, Research and Partnerships at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR).

He began his current role as CEO and Scientific Director of Mitacs in February 2020.

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.

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.

Miss Oktoberfest 1976.

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.