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Bawman, Helen

  • Person
  • 1888-?

Helen M. Bawman (nee Byers) was born in 1888. She married Sam D. Bawman, originally of Washington D.C., in 1918.

Bauman, Melvina Emilia

  • Person
  • 1863-1954

Melvina Emilia Breithaupt was born February 8, 1863 in Berlin (later Kitchener) Ontario to parents Philip Ludwig (Louis) Breithaupt and Catherine Hailer. She married Dr. Amos Frank Baumann (also spelled Bauman) on June 25, 1901 in Berlin. They had one son, Edward Franklin, born June 21, 1904. Amos died November 26, 1918 and was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener. Melvina died April 4, 1954 and was buried with Amos.

Bauer, Frank N.

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Mayor of the City of Waterloo between 1954 and 1955.

Bauer, Bobby

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  • February 16, 1915 – September 16, 1964

Bastedo, Sara (Sally) Caroline

  • Person
  • 1924-2014

Sara (Sally) Caroline Breithaupt was born in Kitchener, Ontario August 8, 1924 to parents Louis Orville and Sara Caskey. Her siblings were Mary Scott; Louis Paul; and Herbert Caskey. Sally grew up in Kitchener and trained as a nurse at Sick Children's Hospital in Toronto, graduating in 1946. She married Donald Lou Alexander Bastedo in 1947 and the couple lived in Kitchener where Donald was a pediatrician. The couple had children Mary, Paul, Frank and Jamie. Sally was was a founding member of the K-W Knitters Guild in 1986 and later a member of the Weavers and Quilters guilds. Sally and Donald were also supporters of the Stratford Festival, since its beginnings in a tent in 1953, and the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. She also enjoyed bridge and golf. Sally died May 8, 2014 in Mount Forest, Ontario. Donald died. September 1, 2006.

Bartlett, W. H. (William Henry)

  • Person
  • 1809-1854

William Henry Bartlett was an artist and author born in Kentish Town, England on March 26, 1809. Throughout his life, Bartlett travelled Europe, America, and the Middle East collecting sketches for his engraving illustrations. Bartlett spent many months visiting Canada in 1838, where he drew sketches of major landmarks such as Niagara Falls, markets in Toronto, landscapes in Montreal, as well as scenes of daily living conditions throughout Western Canada. He died at sea, off the coast of Malta, on September 13, 1854.

Bartlett, Dorothy Spelman

  • Person
  • 1917-2003

Dorothy Spelman was born August 25, 1917 in Cicero, Illinois to Ruth Shantz and Walter Spelman. Spelman married Dudley Scott Trombly June 15, 1939. She was married for a second time, later in life, to Donald Bartlett. Spelmen died June 9, 2003 in Plattsbugh and was buried at the Glenwood Cemetery in Champlain, New York.

Barrie, Ernest George

  • Person
  • 1894-1989

Ernest George Barrie was born October 6, 1894 in Galt (now Cambridge), Ontario, son of George Redpath Barrie and Mary Carrick. He served in the First World War and afterwards managed Barrie Glove and Knitting Company Ltd. from 1921 until 1969. He was associated with the Royal Highland Fusiliers of Canada and was made Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1944. He died October 21, 1989.

Barber, Marjorie

  • Person
  • 1914-2011

Marjorie Barber was a Canadian librarian and photographer. Barber's photographs of the University of Waterloo were featured in Kenneth McLaughlin's 1997 book The Unconventional Founding of an Unconventional University and she established Waterloo's Marjorie Barber Entrance Scholarship to aid female students entering first year studies in the Faculty of Engineering.

Born April 12, 1914 on a farm outside of Syndenham Ontario, to Fred and Florabelle (nee Asselstine) Grant. Barber graduated from Queen's University in 1936 and obtained a degree in library science at the University of Toronto in 1937. She worked at the Toronto Public Library until being forced to quit after her first marriage to Flying Officer Acton F. Daunt, who died in combat in World War II. After taking business courses, Barber worked for Bell Telephone as a guidance counsellor and recruiter, encouraging high school students to work for the company. She met her second husband, widower Bert Barber who was then employed by Union Carbide of Canada, while working for Bell and the couple married in 1947. They moved to Waterloo, Ontario when Bert was hired by the Waterloo College Associate Faculties to co-ordinate the school's engineering co-op program. Drawing on her background in libraries, Barber served on library school boards in Richmond Hill and Waterloo, and championed public school system libraries. Following Bert's death in 1992, Barber relocated to Brockville, Ontario where she died on July 6, 2011.

Banerji, Anupam

  • Person
  • 1938-2015

Anupam "Anu" Banerji was a professor of architecture and artist. Banerji was born in Kolkata, India to Asutosh and Paun Bala Banerji. He spent 10 years studying, teaching and exhibiting art in the United States before joining the School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo in 1970, where he spent the remainder of his career. He was named full professor in 1988. In addition to teaching in the School of Architecture, Banerji taught in the School of planning and courses in environmental design. In 1981 he designed the addition to the Graduate House. Banerji died on August 23, 2015.

Ball, Abram

  • Person
  • January 5, 1829-May 27, 1887

Abram Ball was born to George Ball, a United Empire Loyalist, in Niagara, Ontario. He moved to Galt (Cambridge) where he worked as a lawyer and married Julia Miller (1843-1910). The pair had four children and Abram died in Galt in 1887.

Baker, Florence, Lady

  • Person
  • 1841-1916

Florence Barbara Maria von Sass was a British explorer and abolitionist. Born in Hungary (today Romania), Florence's family was killed during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 leaving her orphaned. When she was fourteen she was sold as a slave in Vidin to Samuel Baker a British explorer and naturalist. Baker was on a hunting trip at the time and allegedly bribed the guards for her after she was intended to be owned by the Pasha of Vidin. Florence and Baker went to Africa where Baker was on an expedition to find the source of the Nile. While traveling in Africa, Florence and Baker came across Murchison Falls and Lake Albert. In 1865 the couple married and Florence became Lady Baker when Samuel Baker was knighted. Due to her parentage and upbringing, although she was a Lady, Florence was not welcome at court. Besides exploration, the Bakers were also abolitionists and in 1869 returned to Africa to help reduce the slave trade in Gondokoro where Florence worked as a medic. Florence and her husband retired to Devon where Florence died in 1916.

AXP

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Augustine, Laurine Catherine

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  • 1894-1954

Laurine Catherine Augustine was born on May 13, 1894 in Racine, Wisconsin to Albert Benjamin Augustine and Caroline Margaret Barbara Augustine (nee Breithaupt). After Albert's death in 1909, the family moved to Berlin (later Kitchener), Ontario. She worked as a teacher at the Kitchener Waterloo Collegiate and Vocational School. Laurine died on September 13, 1954 at the Kitchener-Waterloo Hospital and a funeral service was held at Zion Evangelical Church. She was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener.

Augustine, John Ross

  • Person
  • 1927-2014

John Ross Augustine was a Canadian physician. He was born to Albert William Augustine and Edna Louise Kaufman in Kitchener, Ontario on December 17, 1927 and raised alongside three siblings; Albert Jacob Augustine, David William Augustine, and Mary Caroline Augustine.

John married Annette Helene Gofton (b.October 8, 1929).

John received his MD, with Honours, from the University of Western Ontario in 1952. In 1954, he moved to Thunder Bay, Ontario to establish his own practice as a family physician. From 1956-1959, John received additional training in Toronto, Ontario and subsequently became a certified specialist in internal medicine. Afterwards, he returned to Thunder Bay, Ontario and continued to work as a physician until his retirement in 1994.

John was a leader in the health care sector both as an educator and as an activist. He was involved in many key projects and served in a variety of roles that shaped the Canadian health care system, especially in northern Ontario. For example, John was a founding member of the Thunder Bay branch of the Addiction Research Foundation of Ontario and helped set up the first methadone treatment outreach for addicts in the late 1980s. In addition, John helped developed the Northwestern Ontario Medical Program (NOMP) which brought medical students from McMaster Medical School to northwestern Ontario to work with local doctors and health care providers. In the late 1990s, John also worked to establish the Northern Ontario School of Medicine with campuses in Thunder Bay, Ontario and Sudbury, Ontario. It was hoped that the school would encourage more physicians to train and practice in northern Ontario and ultimately sustain a health care system up north. These are a few examples of the projects John worked on during his career. He was actively involved in many other initiatives as well.

John died on April 13, 2014.

Augustine, Ham, Kaufman family

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Jacob and Mary Kaufman were prominent citizens of Kitchener, Ontario from the late 19th century to WWII. Jacob Kaufman and Mary Ratz married in 1877. Jacob began his career in the lumber industry but switched to rubber, forming the Kaufman Rubber Company in 1908. Jacob and Mary Kaufman were active in civic and community life, supporting causes such as The Children’s Aid Society, the Kitchener-Waterloo Orphanage, the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, the YMCA, the YWCA and the Kitchener-Waterloo Hospital. Together they had four children: Emma Ratz, Alvin Ratz, Milton Ratz, and Edna Louise.

Emma Kaufman dedicated her life to the Young Women’s Christian Association, serving for thirty years in Japan and Canada. The Emperor of Japan presented her with a memorial cup in 1965, the 60th Anniversary of the YWCA in Japan, and in the same year she received an International Cooperation Year medal presented by Cardinal Leger in Montreal.

Alvin (“A.R.”) Kaufman ran the rubber company started by his father and became well known as a local philanthropist, supporting many of the same causes as had his parents. He is primarily remembered for his activities in support of the YMCA, YWCA and of family planning and birth control.

Edna Kaufman married Albert William Augustine (1890-1972) Aug. 22, 1918. They had three children, Albert Jacob (1923-1990), John Ross (1927- ), and Mary Caroline (1931- ).

Mary Caroline Augustine married James Milton Ham (1920-1997), who was President of the University of Toronto from 1978-1983.

Albert Benjamin Augustine, a school teacher from Racine, Wisconsin, marred Caroline Margaret Barbara Breithaupt in Berlin, Ontario on August 3, 1887. Together they lived in Racine and had three children: Albert Augustine, Laurine Catherine and Grace Melvina Louise. Following Albert Benjamin's death in 1909, the family moved to Berlin. Albert became an industrialist, Laurine taught at what would become the Kitchener Vocational Institute and Grace pursued a career in academia after obtaining a PhD at Columbia University.

Augustine, Grace Melvina Louise

  • Person
  • 1895-1981

Grace Melvina Louise Augustine was an academic and instructor born in Racine, Wisconsin on September 12, 1895 to Albert Benjamin Augustine and Caroline Margaret Barbara Augustine (nee Breithaupt) and raised alongside her siblings Albert William Augustine and Laurine Catherine Augustine. After the death of Albert Benjamin in 1909, the family moved to Berlin (later Kitchener) Ontario, their mother's birthplace. Grace returned to the United States to pursue graduate studies at Columbia University, obtaining an B.S., M.A. and, in [1935], a PhD in Household Arts. The same year Some aspects of management of college residence halls for women, which she co-authored with Mary De Garmo Bryan was published.

Following the completion of her PhD, Grace worked for a time at Columbia as an associate in Household Arts, Teacher College before being appointed to Texas State College for Women in Denton, Texas. She taught as an associate professor from 1938 until 1944, serving as head of the institution of management division and house director of residence halls. She went on to joint the Iowa State College as head of the Department of Institutional Management (later the Department of Hotel, Restaurant, and Institution Management) from the time of her appointment in 1944 until 1961. At some point after retiring, Grace returned to Kitchener where she lived in the family home on Margaret Avenue and served for a time a a member of the Parkwood Manor auxiliary executive. She died on April 8, 1981 and was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener.

Augustine, Edna Louise

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  • 1891-1983

Edna Louise Kaufman was born to Jacob Kaufman and Mary Eidt Ratz in Kitchener, Ontario on December 21, 1891. On August 22, 1918 she married Albert William Augustine in Kitchener, Ontario and together they had four children; Albert Jacob Augustine, John Ross Augustine, David William Augustine, and Mary Caroline Augustine.

Edna was actively involved with the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) and the Zion United Church in Kitchener, Ontario throughout her life.

Edna died on June 3, 1983 and as buried in the Kaufman family plot in Mount Hope Cemetery.

Augustine, David William

  • Person
  • 1929-1929

David William Augustine was born to Albert William Augustine and Edna Louise Kaufman in Kitchener, Ontario on July 14, 1929. He had three siblings; Albert Jacob Augustine, John Ross Augustine and Mary Caroline Augustine.

David suffered from a cerebral hemorrhage and died a few days after he was born on July 18, 1929.

Augustine, Caroline Margaret Barbara

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  • 1861-1951

Caroline Margaret Barbara "Barbara" Breithaupt was a homemaker born in Berlin (later Kitchener), Ontario on November 17, 1861 to Philip Louis Breithaupt and Catherine Hailer. She married school teacher Albert Benjamin Augustine of Racine, Wisconsin on August 3, 1887 in Berlin. The couple moved to Racine, Wisconsin and had three children: Albert William; Laurine Catherine; and Grace Melvina Louise. Albert died in Racine April 10, 1909 and was buried with in his family's plot at Mound Cemetery, Racine. Shortly after Albert's death, Caroline and her children moved to Berlin. Caroline died on November 1, 1951 and was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener.

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