May Alexandra Euler

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-186376
• Immigration: 1902, , Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Occupation: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Clerk, Bank
• Residence: 1921, 143 Frederick St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

Other Events:

• Business: Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Euler's Business College
• Name: W. D. Euler
• Residence: 143 Frederick St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-78636P
• Residence: 1891, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Public Service: 1906, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Berlin Public School Board
• Elected Office: 1909, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; mayor - councillor - Kitchener
• Occupation: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Principal, Berlin Business College
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Occupation: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Publisher, Paper
• Residence: 1921, 143 Frederick St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1928, 84 Water St., Waterloo, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Website: 2009; wikipedia
• Hall of Fame - Waterloo Region: Bef 2012, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

When William Euler and W.L. MacKenzie King played together as schoolboys in Berlin, in the 1880s, neither realized the important place they would occupy in Canadian politics. King became Prime Minister and Euler a senator.

Born in Conestogo in 1875, Euler taught school for six years before opening a very successful business college. He was a school trustee, alderman, reeve, county councillor, and mayor in 1913-14. He was elected Federal member for Waterloo North in 1917 and was re-elected in 1921, 1925, 1926, 1930, 1935 and 1940, serving in Ottawa for twenty-three years.

In 1926, Euler was chosen as Revenue Minister to correct scandalous conditions in the Customs Department. Minister of Trade and Commerce, from 1935, he led trade missions to Europe and concluded many agreements beneficial to Canada. A senator from 1940 to 1961, Euler was one of Canada's finest public servants.


Waterloo Region Hall of Fame website, 2008

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Where The Rivers Meet Picturesque Conestoga Pretty Woolwich Village

CONESTOGO CHURCHES SEE PROSPEROUS DEVELOPMENT

Lutherans Made Beginnings In 1850 And Have Finest Country Church In Ontario; Methodists Organized
1865 Erecting Church In 1878; M.B.C. Church Built 1888.


CONESTOGO'S LEADING SON

Of all native-born Conestogians who decided to enter the struggle of life outside the home village and who have been more or less successful in their undertakings, none has achieved a higher position nor become more prominent and respected among his fellow-citizens than the present distinguished representative for North Waterloo in the Dominion Parliament.

William D. Euler, son of Henry Euler. He was born in this village. In the public school he had the reputation of being a very bright scholar under the well known pedagogue the late Geo. A. McIntryre. After working for a number of years he again managed to take up educational studies in the Berlin High School from which he graduated and became a very successful teacher. Later on he held a position in various business colleges and finally became principal. He obtained ownership of the business college in Berlin (now Kitchener) where he entered the municipal field and became in 1913-1914 its Chief Magistrate. He entered the field for federal honors in 1917 as the Independent Liberal standard bearer and was successful. There the Conestogo working boy has worked himself up gradually to his present important position in life.

Conestogo Agent Gathered Facts The Daily Record offers its readers today a comprehensive survey of charming Conestogo, Waterloo country's leading summer resort. This historical review will be found replete with many interesting facts concerning the primitive settlements, the early business venture and the beginnings of churches and schools. Credit for the compilation is due to the efforts of Mr. Noah Stroh, the Daily Record's enterprising representative in the pretty village.


Kitchener Daily Record 20 Jun 1924 typed by Marion Roes in 2011

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Kitchener's William Daum Euler led the charge to legalize butter substitute
Generations ago Canada was having a fierce debate about margarine.

KITCHENER - Psst! Want to buy some margarine? Seventy years ago, that wasn't such a simple question.

As Canadians celebrate the legalization of marijuana this month, they may be forgetting that just a few generations ago this country was having a fierce debate about another controlled substance - that's right, margarine.

Banned in Canada between 1886 and 1948, the oil-based butter substitute was once labelled a serious public health risk. Its opponents vilified it, calling the spread a "compound of the most villainous character, which is often poisonous," according to W.H. Heick, who wrote a book on the subject in 1991.

Many people may remember mixing colour packets into their margarine, since Ontario law used to require margarine only be sold in its natural white state. But they may not know it was a tenacious politician from Waterloo Region who led the campaign to finally legalize it after the Second World War.

Margarine has had a complicated history since it was first created by French chemist Mège-Mouriès in 1869, by churning beef tallow with milk.

Dairy producers, concerned about a cheaper, longer-lasting alternative to butter, lobbied hard to have it banned. For decades, they succeeded, convincing law makers it was unsafe and unhealthy for consumers - and bad for the rural economy.

William D. Euler, a Liberal senator and former mayor of Kitchener now buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, had the support or urban organizations like churches, unions and boards of trade as he went to war for margarine. As part owner of the Kitchener Daily Record, he pushed for editorials supporting the end of the ban.

In 1947, he introduced repeal legislation, and was met with fierce resistance from the dairy lobby. He wrote letters to newspapers across the country, trying to push his position. Polls suggested that half the country was behind him - and he leaned on women, veterans and hospitals for support.

Many Canadians were already using and cooking with margarine, bought on the black market. Often it was smuggled in from the Dominion of Newfoundland, where it was made from whale, seal, and fish oil by the Newfoundland Butter Company.

Newfoundland, which was still a British colony then, was busy churning out bootleg margarine for the Canadian market at about half the price of butter. Euler, who became the first Chancellor of Waterloo Lutheran University, used legalization of margarine as a key bargaining chip in the negotiations with Newfoundland to enter into Confederation.

In November 1947, Euler was helped by an increase in the price of butter, from 53 cents to 66 cents a pound, which only reinforced his campaign for a more affordable alternative.

In newspaper pages, town halls and on Parliament Hill, the debate raged. Senator James Murdoch accused the butter lobby of using "Communist tactics." Euler pressed on.

"The wishes of 150,000 producers of milk had to give way to the desires of 13 million consumers," Heick wrote in his book, "A Propensity to Protect: Butter, Margarine and the Rise of Urban Culture in Canada."

The fight went to the Supreme Court, which struck down the ban, and left the control of margarine to the provinces. By this point, a poll suggested 68 per cent of Canadians supported legalization - a shift in opinion owed in large part of Euler's public relations campaign.

Ontario didn't repeal its Oleomargarine Act until 1995, which made it illegal for companies to make or sell margarine that was coloured yellow. Quebec didn't follow suit until 2008.

Margarine, finally, had equal footing with butter, at least in the eyes of the law. And consumers had a senator from Kitchener to thank for it.

gmercer@therecord.com

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Elected Office:
Years Served: 1909, 1911-12, 1913-14 (Mayor)

Website:
Wikipedia Entry

William — Virginia "Jennie" Howd. Virginia (daughter of Charles Albert Howd and Maggie Yearsley) was born 8 Jul 1873, Troy, Rensselaer, New York, United States; died 13 Jul 1947; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Name: Virginia "Jennie" Euler
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-336170
• Immigration: 1870, , Ontario, Canada
• Immigration: 1886, , Canada
• Naturalization: 1890, , Canada
• Occupation: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Collar Turner
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Residence: 1921, 143 Frederick St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Residence: 1947, 111 Queen St. N., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Other Events:

• Nationality: , Germany
• Name: Henry Euler
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-54150
• Immigration: 1845, , Ontario, Canada
• Immigration: 1845, , Canada
• Immigration: 1847, , Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1851, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1866, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1871, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Cooper
• Residence: 1871, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Naturalization: 1890, , Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1891, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Cooper
• Residence: 1891, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Occupation: 1901, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Cooper
• Occupation: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Cooper
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1921, 14 Dekay St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Retired: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Heinrich married Anna Catharine Daum 21 Oct 1866, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Anna (daughter of Hieronymus Daum and Anna Eva Catherine Schaefer) was born 6 Mar 1843, , Germany; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Nationality: , Germany
• Name: Anna Catharine Euler
• Name: Cathrina Daum
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-54151
• Immigration: 1860, , Canada
• Immigration: 1862, , Ontario, Canada
• Immigration: 1863, , Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1866, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1871, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1891, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1921, 14 Dekay St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

Other Events:

• Name: C. A. Howd
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-336167
• Occupation: 1870, West Troy, Albany New York, USA; boatman
• Residence: 1870, West Troy, Albany New York, USA
• Occupation: 1888, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; laundry man
• Occupation: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Laundryman
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Occupation: 1892, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; superintendent of laundry
• Occupation: 1893, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; laundry foreman
• Occupation: 1910, Troy, Rensselaer, New York, United States; turner in collar shop

Charles — Maggie Yearsley. Maggie was born CA 1845; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Name: Maggie Howd
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-186374

Other Events:

• Name: John Euler
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-71242
• Residence: 1831, Breidenbach, , Hessen, Germany

Johannes — Katharina "Catherine" Eckstein. Katharina was born 13 Apr 1808, , Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany; died 24 Jun 1896, Conestogo, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Saint Matthews Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery, Conestogo, Woolwich, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/241603581
• Name: Catherine Eckstein
• Name: Catherine Euler
• Name: Katharina "Catherine" Euler
• Name: Katharina "Catherine" Herchenratter
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-43011
• Residence: 1831, Breidenbach, , Hessen, Germany
• Residence: 1849, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1861, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1891, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-7228

Hieronymus — Anna Eva Catherine Schaefer. Anna was born Abt 1805, of, Germany; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Name: Anna Eva Catherine Daum
• Name: Catherine Schaefer
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-7229