Senator William Daum Euler, MP

1875 - 1961  (86 years)

• Name	William Daum Euler
  Prefix	Senator
  Suffix	MP
  Born	10 Jul 1875	Conestogo, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Business	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  	Euler's Business College
  		Euler's Business College https://makinghistory.kpl.org/en/list?q=euler+business&p=1&ps=20
  Residence	1891	Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [3]
  	Lutheran
  Public Service	1906	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  	Berlin Public School Board
  		From: Berlin Today 1806-1906
  Elected Office	1909	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  	mayor - councillor - Kitchener
  	Years Served: 1909, 1911-12, 1913-14 (Mayor)
  Occupation	1911	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  	Principal, Berlin Business College
  		Kitchener-BerlinBusinessCollege-001-Calendar1909.jpg
  Residence	1911	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  	Methodist
  Occupation	1921	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [4]
  	Publisher, Paper
  Residence	1921	143 Frederick St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [4]
  Residence	1921	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [4]
  	Lutheran
  Residence	1928	84 Water St., Waterloo, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Died	15 Jul 1961	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1, 5]
  Website	2009
  	wikipedia
  	Wikipedia Entry
  Hall of Fame - Waterloo Region	Bef 2012	, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [6]
  Name	W. D. Euler
  Residence	143 Frederick St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-78636P
  Buried	Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1, 5]
  Person ID	I78636	Generations
  Last Modified	6 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	Heinrich "Henry" Euler,   b. 1 Dec 1842, , Germany ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Anna Catharine Daum,   b. 6 Mar 1843, , Germany ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	21 Oct 1866	, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [7, 8]
  Family ID	F13997	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Virginia "Jennie" Howd,   b. 8 Jul 1873, Troy, Rensselaer, New York, United States ,   d. 13 Jul 1947  (Age 74 years)
  Children	1. William Max "Max" Euler,   b. 28 Aug 1895, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 1976  (Age 80 years)   2. May Alexandra Euler,   b. Jan 1901, , USA ,   d. Yes, date unknown   3. Donald Robert Euler,   b. Mar 1903, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2024
  Family ID	F184628	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Euler,William-formal(DoonHeritage).jpg https://www.region.waterloo.on.ca/web/Region.nsf/0/B5D7AA89B6C49CEF85256B06004AEEF5?OpenDocument
  		W. B. Euler From: Berlin Celebration of Cityhood - Issued by Authority of the City. Berlin Ontario, Issued in Commemoration of its Celebration of Cityhood July 17th 1912
  		William Daum Euler image from Ancestry.com 2014

  
  

• 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 ________________________________ 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 ________________________________ 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 "Kitchener's William Daum Euler Led The Charge To Legalize Butter Substitute". 2018. Therecord.Com. https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/2018/10/21/kitchener-s-william-daum-euler-led-the-charge-to-legalize-butter-substitute.html. _______________

  
  

• Sources

  [S166] Cemetery - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Mount Hope CC#4508 Internet Link . In loving memory of / William Daum Euler / 1875-1961 [S340] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1911, Div. 34 Page 4. [S1821] Census - ON, Waterloo, Woolwich - 1891, Div. 2 Page 13. [S2264] Census - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - 1921, Sub District 29 Page 28. [S3231] Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10126170/william-daum-euler. [S220] Waterloo Region Hall of Fame Waterloo Region Hall of Fame. [S5] Vit - - ON, Waterloo - 1858-1869 Marriage Register. Henry Euler Res: Wilmot Age: 22 Father: John Euler Mother: Catharine Eckstein Born: 1844 Spouse: Catharine Daum Age: 20 born: Germany Res: Woolwich Born: 1846 Father: Hyronimus Daum Mother: Catharine Schafer married 21 Oct 1866 county: Waterloo [S7] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Berliner Journal (1859-1917), 25 Oct 1866. Married 21 Oct 1866 By Rev. Kaessmann, Heinrich Euler of Wilmot Township was married to Anna Catharine Daum of Woolwich Township.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 10 Jul 1875 - Conestogo, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Business - Euler's Business College - - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Lutheran - 1891 - Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Public Service - Berlin Public School Board - 1906 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Elected Office - mayor - councillor - Kitchener - 1909 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Principal, Berlin Business College - 1911 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Methodist - 1911 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Publisher, Paper - 1921 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Lutheran - 1921 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - 1928 - 84 Water St., Waterloo, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - 15 Jul 1961 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Hall of Fame - Waterloo Region - Bef 2012 - , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Buried - - Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth