Miss Oktoberfest 1974.

Ruth Anna Catharine Breithaupt was born April 12, 1910 in Berlin (later Kitchener) Ontario to Albert Liborius and Lydia Louisa Anthes. Her siblings were: Frederick Albert; Maria Martha Louise; Rudolph Anthes; David John; and Arthur Liborius. Ruth was educated as a registered nurse. She married Roderick Gordon (date unknown) and the couple had three children, Catharine Anne, Janet Elizabeth and R. A. James. Ruth died in 2003 in Toronto, Ontario.

Armistead Churchill Gordon was an American lawyer and writer born December 20, 1855 in Virginia. Gordon attended the University of Virginia, and later studied law, being called to the bar in 1879. Involved in many aspects of higher education in Virginia he was a member of the Board of Visitors of the College of William & Mary and the University of Virginia, as well as being the first chairman of the Virginia State Library Board. Outside of his work in the law, he published multiple books on the history and peoples of Virginia, as well as collections of poetry.

Gordon Ray Good as a Kaufman Rubber employee. Good was born August 13, 1905 to Reverend Cyrus Good and Livy C. Hallman in Aylmer, Ontario. Gordon’s father was a New Mennonite Church minister and he and Livy had three children besides Gordon: Grace (b. 1901), Ira (b. 1903) and Myrtle (b. 1909). The family moved frequently during his childhood and they first came to Kitchener in 1910. In 1913 they moved to Blair (now Cambridge) and in 1917 back to Kitchener where Gordon would settle for his adult life.

Good originally began working for Merchant’s Rubber, a subsidiary of Dominion Rubber, in 1923 as a pay clerk in the factory office. After two years with Dominion Rubber, he decided to move on and applied at Kaufman Rubber. He began working in the factory office in the Costs & Payroll department on September 2, 1925. Upon the death of his supervisor Ed Snyder, Good took over as head of Costs and Payroll. He remained with Kaufman until his retirement in September of 1972. He died May 5, 2000.

Manette Emma Irene (Moser) Anderson Goldsworthy was born in 1916 and died February 6, 2000 in Kitchener Ontario.

John Goldie was born in Ayreshire, Scotland. He married Margaret Smith on June 18, 1815 and they had eight children : William, John, Elizabeth, James, Jane, Margaret, David and Mary. A botanist and plant collector, he travelled to Canada, New York State, the Maritimes and Russia and discovered species unknown at the time. In 1844 Goldie moved his family to Ontario, to a property which became known as Greenfield, near Ayr, where the family founded first a sawmill, and then a flour and oatmeal mill in 1848.

James Goldie (1824-1912) was the third son of John Goldie. He had moved to the United States in 1842, where he was employed as a gardener and was involved in the flour and lumber business. In 1860 he moved to Guelph, where he built the Speedvale Mill. He operated the mill until 1898, at which time it became the James Goldie Company, Ltd.

Alexander Rodgers Goldie was born June 4, 1873 in Galt (now Cambridge), Ontario to to John Goldie and Margaret Rodgers. After graduating as an engineer in 1893, he went to work in the Goldie McCullough Company, partly owned by his father. He became became president of Babcock-Wilcox & Goldie-McCulloch Co. Ltd. in 1932, and was active in local affairs throughout his life. He died November 9, 1951.

Roger E. Gofton was born on January 4,1863 in Wilmot Township to Robert and Rosannah Fonger Gofton. His occupation was in woodworking. He married Elizabeth Schnieder, the sister of J.M. Schneider, October 20, 1886. Together they had a son named Alfred Schneider Gofton. After the unexpected death of Elizabeth in 1894, Gofton married Anna Woelfle with whom he had 8 children. He died April 3, 1949 and was buried at Mount Hope Cemetery.

Elizabeth Gofton Schneider was born on July 26, 1862 to parents Johann Christoph and Anna Schneider. She was married to Roger Fonger Gofton in 1886 with whom she had one child named Alfred. She died unexpectedly, at the age of 35, on October 15, 1894.

Alfred Schneider Gofton was born in Kitchener, Ontario on March 9, 1889 to parents Roger and Elizabeth Schneider Gofton, J.M. Schneider's sister. He lived with the J.M. Schneider family for a time, worked at the plant, and was a friend of J.M.'s son Norman. During World War I Gofton served overseas in the Canadian Army Service Corps in a motor transport unit. He enlisted in 1914 and was not discharged until 1919. He married Charlotte Elizabeth Braun June 6, 1923 with whom he had four children: Eleanor, Marion, Jerene, and Annette. He died November 19, 1985 and was buried at Woodland Cemetery.

Judy Godfrey (1940-) is a researcher and writer from Toronto, Ontario. In the late 1970s, Judy became actively involved in raising awareness of the issue of acid rain, particularly in the Muskoka area of Ontario, and lobbying the governments of Ontario and Canada for action on the issue of acid-rain causing emissions. As a member of the Muskoka Acid Rain Petition Committee, she played a key role in raising support for a petition for action on acid rain. Judy and her husband, lawyer Sheldon Godfrey, have been inovlved in several charitable, environmental, and civic initatives over the years, including the preservation of Ontario's architectural heritage, and have co-authored books and articles about the history of Canadian Jews. (Source: http://archivesfa.library.yorku.ca/fonds/ON00370-f0000435.htm, and content of the fonds.)

Founded in 1971, the Glow Centre for Sexual and Gender Diversity is longest running queer and trans student organization in Canada.

Run entirely by dedicated student volunteers, Glow promotes a healthy attitude towards all sexual orientations and gender identities at the University of Waterloo by providing a wide variety of peer support, social events, advocacy work, and resources.

For a brief period the organization produced, GLOW News, a newsletter which acted as an educational resource on homosexuality as well as a support and social group for the gay community. Edited by GLOW membership the newsletter consisted of ten issues released between December 1982 and September 1983. Copies of GLOW News are held by Special Collections & Archives [call number UWA 0120]. GLOW News is available on the Waterloo Digital Library.

The Glow Centre for Sexual and Gender Diversity was previously known as Gay Liberation of Waterloo (GLOW), Gays and Lesbians of Waterloo and the Glow Queer and Questioning Community Centre.

Arthur Eric Rowton Gill was born February 22, 1882 in Steyning, Sussex, England. He attended the Chichester Technical and Art School and later moved to London to study to become an architect. While there he took courses in stonemasonry and calligraphy with the Westminster Technical Institute and the Central School of Arts and Crafts. In 1903 he left the architectural profession to focus on calligraphy, letter-cutting and monumental masonry.

Gill's first success as a sculptor came in 1912 while he was living at Sopers in Ditchling, Sussex with his wife Ethel Hester Moore (1878-1961). Gill and Moore had married in 1904 and moved to Sopers in 1907. In 1913 Gill moved to Hopkin's Crank at Ditchling Common and later that year Gill was commissioned to sculpt the Stations of the Cross in Westminster Cathedral.

After the First World War, Gill along with Hilary Pepler and Desmond Chute established The Guild of St. Joseph and St. Dominic, an artist's commune at Ditchling. Over the next ten years over forty people would come to live and work on the Common, which was grounded in Roman Catholic beliefs. During this time Gill and Mary had three girls, Petra, Joan and Betty and adopted one son, Gordian.

By 1924 Gill had moved to Capel-y-ffin, Wales where he established a new workshop. It was here that his work in typeface began, and in 1927 he cut Gill Sans, his most famous typeface.

In 1928 Gill wanted to move closer to London to be near his clients and moved to Pigotts at Speen in Buckinghamshire. From here he carved sculptures for the London Electric Railway, Marlborough College, Queen Mary College and the BBC's Broadcasting House.
Gill's other works include designing the first George VI stamp series for the Post Office and producing a bas relief for the League of Nations building in Geneva. He was also made Royal Designer for Industry and was a founding member of the Faculty of Royal Designers for Industry.
Throughout his career Gill also worked in woodblock cuts and created commissions for a number of personal clients as well as for private press editions.

Gill also founded or partnered in a number of presses, including Hague and Gill with his son-in-law Rene Hague and Saint Dominic's Press with others at The Guild of St. Joseph and St. Dominic. He was also heavily involved with Nonesuch Press and Golden Cockerel Press, providing prints for many of their works.

Gill died of lung cancer in November 17, 1940.

Colleen O'Hara Gildner was a translator, homemaker and volunteer born October 18, 1925 in St. Catharines to Minnie and Frederick Maines. She majored in languages at Victoria College in Toronto, graduating in 1947, and worked for several years as a translator for Sunshine Waterloo Company. Together with husband Earl Gildner, she stayed at home to raise their children and volunteered with the Cancer Society and the Heart and Stroke Association. Gildner died November 20, 2023 and was interred at Woodland Cemetery in Kitchener.

Arthur Clark Gilbey was born April 17, 1893 in England. He lived in Fonthill and in the late 1930's was Nursery Sales Manager, Nursery Stock, at E.D. Smith and Sons, Winona, Ontario. He died in 1949.

Gilbert & Bacon was a portrait studio that developed out of the Trask & Bacon partnership in 1870. The studio began under the leadership of William Frank Bacon and found continued success under Frank T. Bacon. William Bacon was the main photographer for the studio. By 1878, the studio gained membership in the Philadelphia Photographic Society. The studio ran out of 830 Arch Street in Philadelphia, while a second gallery was opened in 1886 on 1030 Chestnut Street.

Herbert J. Gifford, proprietor.

Alan George is a computer scientist and university administrator.

George Weston Limited was founded by George Weston in 1882. Although George Weston began the business as a bakery, he acquired multiple food companies, including McCormick's Limited in 1937, and the business expanded rapidly.

Note: McCormick's Limited (previously known as the Canadian Biscuit Company Limited) had acquired the Paulin-Chambers Company Limited in 1926.

In 1972, a number of Weston-owned biscuit companies were amalgamated under the name InterBake Foods. At that time, InterBake operated biscuit plants in London, Ontario (at the former McCormick's factory) and in Winnipeg, Manitoba (at the former Paulin's plant).

In 1989, InterBake was sold to the Montreal firm of Culinar, Inc.

The Paulin's plant in Winnipeg, Manitoba was closed by InterBake in 1991 and production was moved to London, Ontario and to other Culinar-owned plants in Montreal.

Today, George Weston Limited is a major Canadian public company, representing Canada’s largest food and drug retail businesses through its control of Loblaw Companies Limited (“Loblaw”) and Loblaw’s recent acquisition of Shoppers Drug Mart.

George Pattinson was born July 17, 1854 to John Pattinson and Hannah Errington in Haltwhistle, Northumberland, England. Haltwhistle was well known for its wool manufacturing and mills were operating there as early as the 13th century. Both Pattinson’s father and grandfather were involved in the wool manufacturing business. Pattinson himself was educated in the city of Hexham and it was not until he immigrated to Canada in 1870 at the age of 16 that he began to become involved in the wool business. Pattinson first found work at a woollen mill in Plattsville, Ontario. The following year Pattinson moved to Cambridge and began to work for the woollen mill of James Crombie and Company, where he would stay for over 60 years.

The James Crombie and Company mill was originally built as a linen mill during the American Civil War by Elliott, Hunt, and Stephen at a cost of $120,000. John Elliott was associated with the Victoria Woollen Mills in Almonte and George Stephen was a Montreal dry-goods importer with an interest in textile manufacturing. The mill failed after the war years, and in 1870 Crombie converted it into a woollen mill. When Pattinson began in 1871 the mill employed 31 men, 25 women and 11 children and annually produced $120,000 worth of woollens. This output made it the sixth largest mill in Ontario.

Pattinson began to take on a larger role in the operation of the mill in 1876 when it was purchased by the Robinson and Howell Co. of Galt. It is believed that William Robinson took an interest in Pattinson and began to instruct him in the operation of various areas of the mill. It was also during this time, in 1878, that Pattinson met and married Mary Elizabeth Erb (1854-1898). Mary Elizabeth Erb was the daughter of Abraham Albert Erb, descendant of original settlers from Lancaster, Pennsylvania and Margaret Wallace of Scotland.
In 1881 William Robinson died, and his share in the mill was passed down to his daughter, a Mrs. Ferguson of Toronto. In the period following Mr. Robinson’s death the mill was re-organized, and Pattinson and Robinson’s son-in-law the Hon. John Ferguson took over Robinson’s share in the company. Eight years later Howell died and the mill came fully into the possession of Pattinson and Ferguson. It was at this time that Pattinson took over direct management of the company. It was during this period that Pattinson began to become involved in local politics. He joined the Preston town council, and became reeve in 1889. He was also a member of the local school board.

By this time, Pattinson and his wife had had five children: Alice Margaret (July 13, 1879-April 29, 1888), Ellen Errington “Nell” (June 15, 1881-May 27, 1911), John Lynn (October 22, 1883-June 15, 1915), Frank Headly (October 19, 1885-?), and Ruth (August 18, 1887-?). In 1894 they would have their last child, Mabel (June 30, 1894-?). Mary Elizabeth died February 13, 1898 of sepsis at the age of 44. In the same year Pattinson became sole owner of the mill.

In the early 20th century Pattinson began becoming more interested in politics and it was in 1905 he began to serve as the representative for South Waterloo, a position he would carry until 1914. During his tenure as an MPP he was also member of numerous standing committees including Agriculture and Colonization, Municipal Law, Standing Orders, and Public Accounts. During this time he also worked with Sir Adam Beck and the Hydro Electric Commission in bringing hydroelectric power to Preston from the Niagara region. Some of his other interests included his part in the introduction of the Workmen’s Compensation Act, involvement in the Prison Reform Commission and as a director of the Lake Superior Corporation.

The First World War saw changes for Pattinson and for the mill. Records show that during the period 1916-1918 four new buildings were constructed at the mill: a warehouse, an office building, a carbonizer building (for carbonization of vegetable matter in wool), and an addition to the mill itself. A total cost for these four buildings was $58,185.92. Also during this time Pattinson himself became involved in the war effort, as the President of the Patriotic Association, member of the Soldier’s Insurance Commission of Waterloo County, and as the Chairman of the Canadian Wool Commission.

In 1920 the mill was granted incorporation under the title The George Pattinson Co. Ltd. The last few years of Pattinson’s life were marked by illness after a stroke in 1921 and his only surviving son, Frank Headley was taking care of much of the operation of the mill. Pattinson had survived his wife, his eldest daughter, who died as a child, and his eldest son who was killed in First World War. His death records show him as having been retired when he passed on May 10, 1931 due to complications from the earlier stroke.

Frank Pattinson officially took over the mill and by 1933 it was the ninth largest mill in Canada in terms of sales. The mill was producing tweeds, cheviots, overcoatings and mackinaws and sold directly to the public. The mill continued to operate in what is now Cambridge until 1958 when Frank moved the company to Jamaica. When the mill was left it was estimated to be 200,000 square feet in size.

In Cambridge where Hedly St. meets Eagle St., a portion of the mill can still be seen today. It has been repurposed as a commercial rental building.

Milton George Geil was a professor of applied psychology. Geil was born in Drew, Ontario on June 3, 1893 to Henry and Margaret (nee Domm) Geil. He joined the ministry in 1917 serving as the associate minister at Zion Evangelical Church from 1922 to 1925 and as minster of the Calvary Church from 1925 to 1926. Geil completed his university and graduate studies in Illinois, obtaining a bachelor of arts from North Western College and, in 1930, a doctorate in psychology from Northwestern University. He also completed and a bachelor of divinity and doctorate at the Evangelical Theological Seminary. Geil joined Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania in 1937 where he founded the psychological service centre and taught until his retirement in 1962. Between 1950 and 1951 he taught in Korea and the Philippines. Giel was married to Louise Breithaupt who died of tuberculosis on November 10, 1934. Following his death in Reading, his body was returned to Kitchener and buried next to Louise in Mount Hope Cemetery.

Louise Catherine Breithaupt was born September 29, 1894 to John Christian and Caroline "Carrie" Anthes. An active member of the Zion Evangelical Church, she was a member of the choir and taught Sabbath school. She was also a member of the Queen Anne chapter of the I.O.D.E., serving as secretary for five years. Breithaupt married professor and Reverend Milton George Geil on September 6, 1934 and relocated to Evanston, Illinois where Geil taught psychology at Northwestern University. She died of tuberculosis at the Freeport Hospital on November 10, 1934 and was buried at Mount Hope Cemetery.