Peter Dallas was an alumnus of the University of Waterloo. He studied Kinesiology and received a Bachelor of Science (BSc), Honours Kinesiology in 1972. During his time as a student at the University, he played for the Warriors football team.

Peter Dallas also completed a Bachelor of Education at the University of Toronto.

Anne Innis Dagg is a former a faculty member at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, in Independent Studies. She is a scholar and writer in several areas of interest, from zoology to women's studies. The daughter of Mary Quayle Innis and Harold Adams Innis, Anne was born on January 25, 1933, in Toronto, Ontario.

She became interested in giraffes as a child, and went on to take a BA from the University of Toronto in Honours Biology in 1955 (as gold medalist), and an MA from the University of Toronto in genetics in 1956, where she was also a demonstrator for botany and genetics from 1954-1956. She then traveled alone to South Africa to study the giraffe in 1956-1957.

In 1957 she married Ian Dagg, a physicist. They moved to Waterloo, Ontario, in 1959, where Ian became a professor at the new University of Waterloo.

Anne worked as a part-time lecturer at Waterloo Lutheran University in anatomy and physiology from 1962-1965, and then as an anatomy demonstrator at the University of Waterloo in 1966. In 1967 she earned her PhD, which examined gaits and their development in Infraorder Pecora, from the University of Waterloo. She was also a sessional assistant professor at the University of Guelph, Department of Zoology that year.

Anne Innis Dagg did research at the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia, in 1967-1968, when on Ian’s sabbatical with their family of three children. She was an assistant professor at the University of Guelph, Department of Zoology, from 1968-1972 where she taught mammalogy, wildlife management and general biology. She became a resource person for Integrated Studies at the University of Waterloo from 1978-1985, the Academic Director for Independent Studies (the same program but renamed) from 1986-1989, and finally senior academic advisor for this program from 1989 to the present.

Anne Innis Dagg started Otter Press in 1972 with the publication of Matrix Optics by Ian Dagg and in 1974 Mammals of Waterloo and South Wellington counties by herself. Other books she has written include: Canadian wildlife and man (McClelland and Stewart, 1974); Mammals of Ontario (Otter Press, 1974); The giraffe: its biology, behavior and ecology with J.B. Foster, (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1976; 1982); Wildlife management in Europe (Otter Press, 1977); Running, walking and jumping: the science of locomotion (Wykeham Science Series, 1977); Camel quest: Research on the Saharan camel (York Publishing,1978, 1989); A reference book of urban ecology (Otter Press, 1981); The camel: its ecology, behavior and relationship with man (University of Chicago Press, 1981); Harems and other horrors: sexual bias in behavioral biology (Otter Press, 1983); The fifty per cent solution. Why should woman pay for men’s culture? (Otter Press, 1986); Moreton Island: its history and natural history (Moreton Island Press, 1986); MisEducation: women and Canadian universities (with P.J. Thompson), OISE Press, 1988); User-friendly university: what every student should know (Otter Press, 1994); The feminine gaze: a Canadian compendium of non-fiction women authors and their books, 1836-1945 (Wilfrid University Press, 2001), and five more books since that time.

Anne Dagg died April 1, 2024.

Rienzi Crusz was a poet and retired librarian living in Waterloo, ON. Born in Galle, Sri Lanka, Crusz was educated at the University of Ceylon (B.A. Hons.) and was employed as Chief Research Librarian for the Central Bank of Ceylon. After emigrating to Canada in 1965, he attended the University of Toronto (B.L.S.) and the University of Waterloo (M.A.). He worked at the University of Toronto Library and in 1969 was appointed as a reference and collections development librarian at the University of Waterloo, a position he held until his retirement in 1993.

His creative work first began to appear in periodicals and newspapers in 1968, and in 1974, his first collection of poems was published under the title Flesh and thorn. Since then, numerous other collections have been published. Crusz is an active voice among Canadian immigrant poets, and his work depicts the contrasts between South Asian and Canadian life. In 1994, he won the literature award in the Kitchener-Waterloo Arts Awards.

Dr. James Cross was a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo from 1970 until his retirement in 1995. He continued to serve as an adjunct professor until 2002.

Dr. Cross is one of the founders of the University of Waterloo’s High Voltage Engineering Laboratory. In 1996, he developed the Cross Power Supply, the world’s smallest one million volt, 30 mA, DC power supply. He also developed technology to make pin-holes in plastics.

Dr. Cross’s research interests included the prebreakdown and breakdown phenomena of vacuum insulation, flashover across insulators in vacuum, and the role of electrohydrodynamics (EHD) in liquid breakdown. He also served as a consultant on high-voltage insultation for several companies.[1]

Luella Bruce Creighton was a Canadian author whose works, both fiction and non fiction, were published in the 1950's and 1960's. Born Luella Sanders Bruce on Aug. 25, 1901 in Stouffville, Ontario she taught in a rural school in 1920-1921 prior to attending Victoria College at the University of Toronto. She graduated with a BA in 1926 and married historian and writer Donald Creighton on June 23 of the same year. Her writings include High bright buggy wheels, McClelland & Stewart, 1951; Turn east, turn west, McClelland & Stewart, 1954; Canada, the struggle for empire (non-fiction), Dent, 1960; Canada, trial and triumph (non- fiction), Dent, 1963; Tecumseh, the story of the shawnee chief (juvenile biography), Macmillan, 1965; Miss Multipenny and Miss Crumb, Peal, 1966; The elegant Canadians (non-fiction), McClelland & Stewart, 1967; The hitching post, McClelland & Stewart, 1969. Luella Creighton died in 1996 [?].

Charles Dickens Creighton was born January 1, 1875 to businessman and politician David Creighton (b. 1843) and Jane Elizabeth Krammer (b. 1852). Charles' father David was editor and published of the Owen Sound Times and an MPP for Grey North. In 1887 the family moved to Toronto where David helped established The Empire newspaper with Sir John A. Macdonald and later was appointed assistant Receiver-General. Charles Dickens attended the University of Toronto, graduating in 1897 and later worked as a journalist, and in education. In 1923 Charles married Gwendolyn Lloyd (1887-1976) of Milwaukee and they had a son, John David (1926-1991). Charles died January 20, 1963.

Michael Craton was professor of history at the University of Waterloo known for research on slavery in the Carribean, including revolts, Bahamian history and British imperial history. Born in 1931 in London, England, he was the son of George and Edith (nee Izzard) Craton. After teaching high school in England, he took a teaching position in Nassau where he remained for six years. In 1962 Craton moved to Canada where he was the first to obtain a PhD in History from McMaster University. He joined Waterloo History Department in 1966, becoming an associate professor in 1970 and a full professor in 1975. From 1967 to 1968 Craton served as the Dean of Men at Renison College. He retired in 1997 and was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada the same year. Craton died at St. Mary's Hospital in Kitchener, Ontario on September 21, 2016.

Dr. Henry H. Crapo was a faculty member at the University of Waterloo in the Department of Pure Mathematics. Crapo donated a sizable volume of rare books and materials for the history of dance for Special Collections & Archives at the University of Waterloo. Crapo also helped to organize the Vestris Prize choreography competition with Boston Ballet in 1967.

Mary Scott Breithaupt was born October 25, 1920 in Kitchener, Ontario to parents Louis Orville Breithaupt and Sara Caskey. Her siblings were Louis Paul; Sara (Sally) Caroline and Herbert Caskey. She graduated from University of Toronto and was also attended McMaster University, Hamilton. She was a supervisor of the occupational therapy department at a veteran's hospital and an instructor in occupational therapy at the University of Toronto. She married Robert Henry Cram of Toronto on January 26, 1946.

The couple moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1951 and resided there for the rest of their lives. They had two daughters. Mary was very active in community work throughout her life, serving on various school, hospital, museum, university and library boards. She died in Pennsylvania December 9, 1974.

Cowcaelth was likely born in 1834. He was a Nisga'a leader.

In 1867, at the age of 33, he was baptized by Revered Robert Richard Arthur Doolan as Phillip Latimer. He served as a voluntary and informal missionary among villages. Later, he became Captain of the Church Army in the 1890s at Ging̱olx (also Gingolx or Kincolith) in the Nass River valley in British Columbia, Canada.

Cowcaelth was also a skilled carpenter. He made sacred or ceremonial items as well as school and church furnishings.

Cathie Coward worked as a photojournalist for the Kitchener-Waterloo Record from approximately 1987 until she went to the Hamilton Spectator in January of 1990. She has been repeatedly recognized by both the Ontario Newspaper Awards and the National Newspaper Awards for her news and feature photography.

Donald D. Cowan is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus (1999) and Adjunct Professor in the School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario. He received a BASc in Engineering Physics from the University of Toronto in 1960 and an MSc and PhD from the University of Waterloo in Applied Mathematics in 1961 and 1965 respectively. He joined the Faculty of the University of Waterloo in 1961 and was the first chair of the Dept. of Applied Analysis and Computer Science, now the School of Computer Science (1967 to 1972) and also served as Associate Dean of Graduate Studies in the Faculty of Mathematics (1974 to 1978). Donald D. Cowan is Director of the Computer Systems Group, a computer science research group at the University of Waterloo in which he has been involved since the early 1960's.

Frank Costello was a judge in the Ontario Superior Court. He was born in Alexandria, Ontario to parent Thomas and Annie (nee MacDonald) Costello. After graduating from the University of Ottawa he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1940. He retired from the service in 1945 and practised law in Kitchener, Ontario before being appointed to the bench in 1961. He retired in 1991. Costello died September 19, 2002 at St. Mary's Hospital.