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Forbes, Betty

  • Person
  • 1924-2013

Millicent Elizabeth "Betty" Forbes was born in Hespeler, Ontario on July 10, 1924 alongside her twin sister, Peg, to parents Millicent Lyall and George Alexander Forbes. Betty grew up at the Forbes family estate, Hillhead, in Hespeler and attended Bishop Strachan School in Toronto.

Betty later attended the School for Nurses at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto for between 1943 and 1946. In 1946, Betty graduated as a Registered Nurse from the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto with a scholarship in Child Psychology from the University of Toronto. Betty nursed in Vancouver before returning to Sick Kids to repay the scholarship. Betty was second in command of the country branch at Thistletown and then at K.W. Hospital.

Betty married William "Bill" Douglas Land on May 29, 1954. The couple had three children: Jennifer, Janet, and Thomas.

Betty passed away on June 30, 2013 at the age of 88 and was buried in New Hope Cemetery in Cambridge, Ontario.

Flagler, William Browne

  • Person
  • 1873-1929

Flagler was born April 21, 1873 to Samuel Adee and Melvina Dorthula (nee Browne) Flagler. He married Nell Frances Johnston in December 8, 1897 at her parents home in Kansas City. The couple lived in the Morton Park area of Chicago. He died in April 1929.

Flagler, Samuel Adee

  • Person
  • 1837-1905

Samule Adee Flagler was born June 28, 1937 in New York to William Benton and Cornelia Caroline Flagler. He married Melvina Dorthula Browne on October 24, 1858 in Union, Illinois. He died September 19, 1905 in Illinois and was buried in Forest Home Cemetery in a plot shared with his wife.

Flagler, Melvina Dorthula

  • Person
  • 1842-1921

Melvina Dorthula Flagler was born in Illinois in 1842 to A.B. and Elizabeth Browne. She married Samuel Adee Flagler (1837-1905) on October 24, 1858 in Union, Illinois. She died June 21, 1921 and was buried in Forest Home Cemetery next to her husband.

Fiske, Mary Augusta

  • Person
  • [1850?]-[19-?]

Mary Augustus Fiske was a resident of Massachusetts and the wife of General William O. Fiske. Fiske was the only child of Josiah B. Fielding of Lowell. According to an 1870 United States Federal Consensus, she may have been born around 1850.

Ferris

  • Corporate body

Ferguson, Thomas Alexander

  • Person
  • 1827-[between 1881 and 1891]

Thomas Alexander Ferguson, Wesleyan Methodist minister, was born in 1827 in Scotland. Between 1860 and 1880, he held several charges in Ontario, including Berlin (now Kitchener) from 1868 to 1871. He married Eliza Frances Wilkinson (Dec. 17, 1840- ) daughter of the Rev Henry and Mary Ann Wilkinson in Prescott, Ontario. He died after 1881.

Ferguson

  • Corporate body

Fennell, Grace Esther Bowlby

  • Person
  • 1871-1936

Grace Esther Fennell (née Bowlby) was born May 19, 1871 to David Sovereign Bowlby and Martha Esther Murphy Bowlby in Berlin (Kitchener). An active member of the community, Grace was an officer of the Princess of Wales chapter of I.O.D.E., a member of the parish workers and the Woman’s Auxiliary of St. John’s Anglican Church, as well as a district commissioner of the Girl Guides. In 1902, at the age of 31 she married 32 year old James Philip Fennell, a hardware merchant also from Berlin. The two had one daughter, Patricia Grace Fennell born in 1908 who married Rev. Harold Vaughn. On October 30, 1936 Grace was shopping at Goudie’s Department Store when she had a heart attack and passed away. She was survived by her husband.

Fednews

  • Corporate body

Fawcett, Millicent Garrett, Dame

  • Person
  • 1847-1929

Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett was a British suffragist, writer, activist and political leader. Her elder sister Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was the first female doctor in England and influenced Millicent's views. Millicent, her sister and fellow suffragist Emily Davies along with others formed the Kensington Society - a group devoted to the discussion of women's suffrage. Millicent continued to be involved in the cause later becoming secretary for the London Society for Women's Suffrage. Millicent and her husband, Henry Fawcett, also published works on social and political subjects and were considered radicals in their time. Not only interested in the cause of suffrage, Millicent also campaigned for laws to curb child abuse and against gendered laws that punished sex workers for having sexually transmitted infections. Millicent became the leader of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies in 1890 and held this post until 1919, after women had been granted the right to vote. In her later life she focused on her writing until her death in 1929.

Falstaff Press

  • [ca. 1900]-[ca. 1939]

Falstaff Press was a private United States publisher of erotica. Their first publication was Musk, Hashish and Blood in 1900. On November 26, 1935 Ben and Anne Rebhuhn and their nephew Ben Raeburn were charged with sending obscene matter through the mails. The three were convicted in May 1939.

Fallding, Harold Joseph

  • Person
  • 1923-August 23, 2007

Dr. Harold Fallding was a professor in sociology and a founding chairman of the Department of Sociology at the University of Waterloo from 1965 until his retirement in 1988. Following his retirement, he was appointed Distinguished Professor Emeritus.

Dr. Fallding was born in Australia and received his PhD at the Australian National University. He then taught at the University of New South Wales and Rutgers University before joining the University of Waterloo. In 1980, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.[1]

Faculty Association of the University of Waterloo

  • Campus group
  • 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.

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