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Faculty Association of the University of Waterloo

  • Corporate body
  • 1957-

The Faculty Association of the University of Waterloo (FAUW) was founded in 1957 to "represent the interests of faculty members in a wide range of areas that affect them at the University." Work of FAUW has included negotiating a Memorandum of Agreement with the University, advising faculty members, and co-sponsoring the annual Hagey Lectures.

Euler, William Daum

  • Person
  • 1875-1961

William Daum Euler was born in Conestogo, Ontario, in 1875. Euler worked as a businessman, based in Kitchener, and was involved with multiple companies during his career including the Economical Fire Insurance Company, Dominion Life Assurance Company, Waterloo Trust Company, and J.C. Jaimit Company Limited.

He later moved on to a career in politics with his first job as Mayor of Berlin during 1913 to 1914. After that experience, Euler moved to federal politics where he represented the Liberal Party of Canada for the Waterloo North constituency. Between 1917 and 1940, he was a Member of the House of Commons. In the many year he worked in Ottawa, Euler was the Minister of Trade and Commerce, Minister of National Revenue, and Minister of Customs and Excise. Appointed by William Lyon Mackenzie King, Euler had a term as senator from 1940 until 1961. He died on July 15, 1961.

Enslin, Christian

  • Person

Emmanuel Christian Gottlieb Enslin, known as Christian Enslin, was a German immigrant who arrived in British North America ca. 1830, later settling in Berlin about 1833. Enslin established a book bindery, bookstore and printing operation. He also served as editor of the Deutsche Canadier, the only German language newspaper in British North America from 1841-1848 and held numerous public offices.
Christian Enslin died on March 29, 1856. Source : Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online, http://www.biographi.ca.

English, Maurice

  • Person
  • 1909–1983

Maurice English was an American poet, journalist and author.

English, John

  • Person
  • 1945-

John Richard English has had a multi-faceted career which includes activities as an author, educator, and politician. He was born in 1945 in Plattsville, Ontario and attended Waterloo Oxford District High School, then the University of Waterloo (B.A., 1967) and Harvard University (A.M., 1968; Ph.D., 1973). He has been a Professor of History at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario since 1971 and in the course of his academic career has been Director of the Centre on Foreign Policy and Federalism, 1988-1993, Director of International Studies, University of Waterloo, 1988-1991, and Chair of the History Department, University of Waterloo, 1989-1991.

John English's political career began when he ran as a candidate in the 1988 Federal election, although he had long been active in both the Kitchener Provincial and Federal Liberal Associations. In October 1993 he was elected as Member of Parliament for Kitchener, Liberal Party of Canada, served one term to 1997. During that time he filled several roles: Parliamentary Secretary to the President of the Privy Council, Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs and Minister Responsible for Public Service Renewal, 1993-1996; Member of the Special Joint Committee Reviewing Canadian Foreign Policy, 1994; Member of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade, January 1994-1997 and its Vice-Chair 1996-1997; Chair, Sub-committee on Sustainable Human Development, 1996-1997; Vice-president, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe - Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE-PA), 1996-1997.

John English's many honours and awards include a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship (1967), Harvard Graduate Prize Fellow (1968-1971), Senior Killam Fellow (1985-1987), Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, (1991- ), D. Litt (Honoris Causa), Wilfrid Laurier University (1992) as well as several literary and professional awards.

John English's professional activities have been many and varied and include active involvement in organizations, on boards and committees. These include the Canadian Institute of International Affairs (CIIA), of which he was the President from 1990-1992. Prior to that time he was Vice-President and President of the K-W Branch between 1979 and 1986, Chair of the Library Committee 1983-1984, Chair of the Research and Publications Committee 1984-1987. He served as Vice-President of the CIIA from 1988-1990. He also filled several roles in the Canadian Historical Association, including Member of Council 1976-1979, Chairman of the Joint Committee of the Canadian Historical Association-American Historical Association, 1975-1978, Chair of the Canadian Historical Association Committee on the Historical Profession, 1976-1981. Dr. English was Policy Chair and board member of the K-W Branch of the United Nations Association of Canada, 1981-1985, was a member of the Board and of the Publications Committee of the Champlain Society from 1982-1993, and was on the Research Advisory Board of the Canadian Institute for International Peace and Security. In 1981 he was on the Advisory Committee of the Royal Commission on Conditions of Foreign Service. In 1980, and again in 1989-1993 he was on the Advisory Committee of the Department of External Affairs History Project, and from 1984 to 1987 was a Board member of the Canadian Committee on the Second World War. John English has served on the editorial boards of several historical publications, including the International Journal, 1984-1988, 1991-1992; Historical Reflections/Reflexions Historique, 1976-1990 and the Canadian Historical Review, 1983-1989. He served as editor of the Canadian Historical Review from 1986-1989.

In March of 1998 John English was appointed by the Honourable Sheila Copps, Minister of Canadian Heritage, to lead a review of the mandates and future roles of the National Library and of the National Archives.

Community involvement in Kitchener-Waterloo has always played an important role in Dr. English's activities, whether as a speaker to numerous local groups such as Kiwanis, Rotary, Church and Seniors Clubs, or as a member of numerous local organizations including Waterloo Historical Society, Kitchener Rotary, Concordia Club, and the Unity Committee. He has served as a Board Member of the Waterloo Regional Heritage Foundation, 1990-1991 and as a Board Member of the Kitchener Citizens Committee, 1989-1990.

John English is the author of The Decline of Politics, 1977 and 1993; Arthur Meighan, 1977; Robert Borden: His Life and World, 1977; Years of Growth, 1986; Shadow of Heaven: The Biography of Lester Pearson, Vol. 1, 1989 (Macdonald Prize and Canadian Author's Association Non-Fiction Prize); The Worldly Years: The Biography of Lester Pearson, Vol. 2, 1992 (Dafoe Prize); co-author of Canada 1900-1945 with Robert Bothwell and Ian Drummond, 1987; Kitchener: An Illustrated History with Ken McLaughlin, 1984 and 1996; Canada Since 1945 with Robert Bothwell and Ian Drummond, 1981; co-editor with J.O. Stubbs of Mackenzie King: Widening the Debate, 1977; with N. Hillmer of Making a Difference, 1992.

Subsequent to his resignation as a Member of Parliament in 1997, John English returned to his academic position as Professor in the Department of History at the University of Waterloo. At the request of the Government of Canada and various ministries including the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and the Ministry of Canadian Heritage, Dr. English took on a number of appointments of national significance.

These appointments included acting as a Special Envoy to the Minister of Foreign Affairs concerning Canada's election to the UN Security Council and Special Adviser concerning the issue of the international ban on anti-personnel landmines. Dr. English was a key figure in cultivating support global support for a treaty to ban anti-personnel landmines, known as the Ottawa Convention, which was negotiated in Ottawa in December, 1997 and signed by one hundred and twenty-two nations. His involvement in landmines issues led to his later appointment to the Board of Directors of the Canadian Landmine Foundation, a non-profit organization which is Canada's primary mechanism for raising awareness and funds concerning anti-personnel landmines.

In 1999 Dr. English was also able to draw upon his academic and political experience when he assumed the role of Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation, a position held by him until 2003.

Elsley, Annie Christina

  • Person
  • 1832-1915

Annie Christina Cook was born October 28, 1832 in Beverly Township, Ontario, to James and Elizabeth Cook. She married David Elsley (1925-1888) ca. 1851, and after his death married James Sager on June 25, 1890. Anna C. Sager died March 16, 1915 in Waterloo, Ontario.

Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain

  • Person
  • 1926-2022

Elizabeth II was the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, as well as the longest reigning British monarch. Born April 21, 1926, she was the eldest daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Elizabeth II became ascended the British throne on February 6, 1952. She was known for modernizing the role of the monarchy in contemporary times such as accepting divorces of royal family members and using television to share royal domestic life with the public. She died September 8, 2022.

Electrohome

  • Corporate body

Electrohome Limited was an international manufacturer of home electronics, appliances, furniture, and high-tech commercial projection and display systems, and an investor in television broadcasting, based in Kitchener, Ontario.
In April 1933, Arthur B. Pollock formed Dominion Electrohome Industries Limited with the purchase of the combined assets of two of his companies, Pollock-Welker Limited and the Grimes Radio Corporation Limited. His son Carl became general manager. The company, commonly called Electrohome, originally had three manufacturing divisions: radio and communications, appliances and metal products, and furniture and woodworking. It became a publicly traded company in 1946.
Over the next several decades, Electrohome produced a growing diversity of consumer and commercial products, including furniture (using the brand name Deilcraft); fans, humidifiers, and other appliances; electric motors; stereo hi-fi consoles; television receivers; and organs. Carl A. Pollock, who had replaced his father as president in 1951, implemented organizational change to manage the increasingly complex company. The operating divisions became Deilcraft, Electrohome Products, Motors and Metal Products, and Defence and Industrial Contracts; staff divisions were Design, Finance and Accounting, Industrial and Public Relations, and Purchasing and Customs. In the mid-1960s, the management structure was further decentralized, and operating divisions now included Private Trade Label, Product Styling, Motor and Metal Products, Consumer Products Merchandising, Consumer Products Engineering and Manufacturing, Deilcraft, and Distributor Products.
In 1967, the company’s name was officially changed to Electrohome Limited. In 1969, Carl’s son John A. Pollock was made vice-president, electronic products and was elected to the board of directors, and in 1972 became president. When Carl retired in 1974, Donald S. Sykes took over as chairman. The late 1970s and early 1980s saw more management changes: James Holmes joined the company as chairman and CEO from 1976 to 1979, and Stewart Maclellan as president and CEO in from 1979 to 1982, at which time John A. Pollock assumed the role of chairman and CEO. During that time, Electrohome abandoned television manufacturing and the electronics division focused on commercial and industrial products, including specialized video and data display monitors and large-screen projection television. Electrohome also entered new fields, including reverse osmosis/ultrafiltration systems and video-game monitors. It was also briefly involved with ventures in satellite television and videotex hardware. By the end of the 1980s, the company withdrew completely from the manufacturing of consumer products to focus on the two remaining business segments: broadcasting and commercial data and video projection and display systems.
Electrohome’s interest in broadcasting began in 1970 with the formation of Electrohome Communications Inc. to acquire Central Ontario Television Limited (later CAP Communications), the Kitchener broadcasting company formed by Carl A. Pollock, Kitchener-Waterloo Broadcasting Limited, and Famous Players Canadian Corporation Limited in 1953. The company, which operated CKCO-TV, CKKW-AM and CFCA-FM, was expanded in 1988 with the purchase of Sunwapta Broadcasting in Edmonton. In 1997, Electrohome sold these broadcasting operations as well as its interest in CTV to Baton Broadcasting Inc. for cash and shares in Baton.
In 1987 when Electrohome introduced the ECP 1000 single lens colour data and graphics video projector, the first of its kind in the world, the company soon became a leader in the field. The Display Systems business focused on monochrome and colour monitors and high-performance LCD monitors; it became a leading supplier for medical imaging and financial trading rooms. The Projection Systems business produced large screen colour video projection systems for data and graphics with developments in LCD and DLP (digital light processing) technologies. The 1999 acquisition of two smaller high-tech companies allowed Electrohome to also enter the fields of advanced visualization/virtual reality and digitized audio systems.
In 1998, Electrohome was divided into two entities, Electrohome Limited and Electrohome Broadcasting Inc. (EBI). The display and projection businesses were sold in 1997 and 1999 respectively and in 2004 the last manufacturing plant and head office building on Wellington Street in Kitchener was sold. For a time, Electrohome remained a holding company, and then in 2007, it sold its trademarks and in 2008 the corporation’s shares were cancelled and delisted. Electrohome maintains an office in the Wellington Street building and is in the process of dissolving.
Electrohome once employed 4400 people in almost 1.6 million square feet of factories and service areas in Kitchener, Waterloo, and Cambridge, as well as sales offices throughout Canada and the US and in Europe. It also established manufacturing facilities in Tennessee and Malaysia. Over the years, Electrohome formed, acquired, and partnered with many other companies, including: Raytheon Corporation (Waltham, MA), Campbell Electric (Brantford, ON), Hawkesville Lumber Limited (Hawkesville, ON), Fry and Blackhall Limited (furniture manufacturer in Wingham, ON), Flexsteel Industries (Canada) Limited (upholstered furniture manufacturer in Stratford, ON), Lightning Circuits and Planar Circuits (Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON), Brinkley Motor Products Company (Brinkley, AR), Gensat Communications Corporation (Toronto, ON), Display Technologies (Carthage, MO), Robotel Electronique (Laval, QC) and Fakespace Systems (Kitchener), which eventually merged with Mechdyne Corporation (Marshalltown, IA).

Edmonds, Frederick Arthur

  • 1884-1962

Frederick Arthur Edmonds was born in Madras India, where his father was a Bandsman in the British Army. Edmonds was also a musician, and he moved to Guelph, Ont. before the WWI to become a member of Guelph's symphony orchestra. He had been in the 1st Essex Regiment, British Army, and in the Canadian Militia before the war, and enlisted on 23 September 1914 at Valcartier Quebec in the 11th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force. In March 1915, Edmonds sailed to England, and on the 26th of April joined the 4th Battalion (Central Ontario) of the 1st Division, in Boulogne. He was in the front line trenches from April 1915 to April 1917, and was invalided home just before the battle of Vimy Ridge. Sources: taken from information received with fonds, and Hayes, Geoffrey. Waterloo County: an illustrated history. Kitchener, Ont.: Waterloo Historical Society, 1997.

Eby, Glenn Earl

  • Person

Glenn Earl Eby was born February 22, 1898 in Berlin, now Kitchener, Ontario to Menno (1869-1899) and Sarah Ann (1872-1902) Eby. He was a student at the Kitchener Collegiate and Technical Institute between 1913 and 1917, before enlisting with the Canadian Over-seas Expeditionary Forces on April 19, 1918 in London, Ontario. He married Elise Margueritt Bechtel on November 15, 1922 in Wentworth, Ontario and together they had three children. Eby died February 28, 1962 and was buried in the Blair Cemetery.

Eastman, Gerald Ernest

  • Person
  • 1906-1992

Gerald Ernest Eastman was born in Ottawa on May 4, 1906. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel of the Scots Fusiliers in 1947, following the retirement of G.M. Bray.

Eade, Ron

  • Person
  • 1954-2015

Ron Eade (February 1st, 1954 - August 13th, 2015) worked at The Record until 1988. He became a columnist for the Ottawa Citizen newspaper and wrote mainly about his culinary adventures.

Dyer, William E.

  • Person
  • 1878-[19-?]

William E. Dyer was born around 1878 in Ontario. According to a 1921 Census of Canada, Dyer lived in the Toronto North District. He was married to Vestina G. Dyer ([1877?]-[19-?]) and they had a son, Victoria N. Dyer ([1910?-[19-?]). The federal voters list for 1938 indicates that Dyer was a builder and resided on Howland Avenue in the electoral district of Spadina in Toronto.

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Dunke, Edwin B.

  • Person

This fonds contains records relating to Edwin B. Dunke of Kitchener, Ont., the Benton St. Baptist Church, the German Baptist Church of Berlin and the Dunke & Co. grocery store. Other than what is evident from the documents, there is no biographical information available.
E.B. Dunke served as treasurer, ca. 1920, of the German Baptist Church of Berlin, also called the Benton St. Baptist Church, located there since 1852. "In 1890 English-speaking Baptists were invited to conduct their services on alternate Sunday evenings and in March, 1918 the German services were discontinued. Two years later the church separated from the Eastern Conference of German Baptist churches to unite with the Ontario and Quebec conference and in the early 1930's declared itself an independent Baptist church. In 1953 it became part of the Fellowship of Evangelical churches in Canada." (Waterloo Historical Society 52 (1964): 82-83)

Dunham, Mabel

  • Person
  • 1881-1957

Bertha Mabel Dunham was born outside of Harriston, Ontario in 1881 to Martin Dunham and Magdalena Eby. The family relocated to Kitchener when Dunham was six years old, where she was a student at Central School. She was an active member of the community serving as president of the K-W Business and Professional Women's Club, the Kitchener-Waterloo University Women's Club and the Waterloo County Historical Society. Dunham also served as the president of the Ontario Library Association. She retired as Chief Librarian of the Kitchener Public Library in 1944, where she worked for 36 years. Over the course of her career Dunham authored several books, including The Trail of the Conestoga and Grand River.

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