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Crest Theatre, founded in 1953, came onto the theatre scene a few short years after the release of the Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters and Sciences (Massey-Lévesque Commission) report.

Founded by three siblings Donald and Murray Davis and Barbara Chilcott to provide Torontonians with more options to see professional theatre outside of touring companies from the US and internationally. Their mission was to provide a venue where Canadian actors, directors, playwrights, designers, managers, and technicians could gain professional experience. As such, many well-known names in Canadian theatre graced its stages, including Richard Monette, Jackie Burroughs, and Martha Henry. And with its emphasis on producing at least one Canadian play a season, it contributed to new play development in Canada.

It had several artistic directors over its thirteen years, a list which includes Robert Gill, Douglas Campbell, John Holden, Malcolm Black, Jean Roberts, Barry Morse, Mavor Moore, David Gardner, Leon Major, John Hirsch, Herbert Whittaker, Marigold Charlesworth, Allan Lund, Kurt Reis, George McCowan and Donald and Murray Davis.

Funding issues forced its close in 1966, when it merged with Canadian Players to form the Crest Theatre Foundation, later to be re-named Theatre Toronto.

The Culinary Historians of Ontario was founded in 1994 by Fiona Lucas, Christine Ritsma, and Bridget Wranich to unite chefs, academics, historians, librarians, archivists, historical interpreters, and others passionate about Canadian food. Rebranded as the Culinary Historians of Canada (CHC) in 2010 to reflect their national scope, the CHC’s mandate is to research, interpret, preserve, and celebrate Canada’s vast culinary heritage. In 2014, the CHC began sponsoring the Taste Canada Awards Hall of Fame.

Percy Edward Culverhouse, born in Guelph on August 6, 1892, was the son of Dr. Edward Culverhouse (1854-1942) and Sarah Frances Fraser (1858-1922). He was a student at the University of Toronto, and afterwards attended the Ontario Agricultural College in Guelph, graduating in 1915. After graduation, he was appointed to the staff of the Government Horticultural Experimental Station at Vineland Station. He was the By-Products expert there, managing the science of canning produce. By 1918, he was superintending the production of canned fruits and jams for the Ontario Government. These cans were produced to be shipped overseas for the Canadian wounded in hospitals during the First World War. In 1919, he went into the canning business at Vineland Station in partnership with his brother, Norman Fraser Culverhouse (1883-1951). The company was called the Culverhouse Bros.

Percy died of colitis on June 27, 1926 at the age of 33.

Cunningham is Nēhiyawi/Cree/ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐃ from Amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton, Alberta) and a member of The Michel Band First Nation

Colleen Curran was born in Montreal in 1954 into a family deeply invested in media and the arts. Before becoming a playwright and novelist she wrote and researched for radio at the CBC.

She became playwright-in-residence at Montreal's renowned Centaur Theatre in 1984 and has had her more than 20 plays performed across Canada, the US, and Australia. The Blyth Festival has presented at least five of her plays--Cakewalk (1984, 2019) , Moose County (1985), Miss Balmoral of the Bayview (1987), Local Talent (1990), and Ceili House (1993).

In 1996, Curran published her first comedic novel Something Drastic about Lenore Rutland, a singing waitress in Montreal, followed in 2000 by its sequel Overnight Sensation, and in 2005 the completion of her trilogy about Rutland, Guests of Chance. Curran adapted Something Drastic for stage in 2001/2002 and it opened in Winnipeg at the Prairie Theatre Exchange in April 2002.

Arthur William Cutten (1870-1936) started Cutten Fields as a pay-as-you-play golf course in 1928 on the Macdonald Farm property adjacent to the University of Guelph. The course was designed by Charles "Chick" Evans (1890-1979) and Stanley Thompson (1893-1953) and officially opened on June 10, 1931, as the Cutten Field Golf Club. After Cutten's death, Stanley Thompson and Donald Ross, owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs Baseball Club, purchased the club, then called Cutten Fields, in 1939 and began selling annual memberships. After Thompson’s death in 1953, a group of local industries, including the Biltmore Hat Co. Ltd., Fiberglas Canada Ltd., the Callendar Foundry, International Malleable Iron Co., the T. Eaton Co. Ltd. of Toronto, and Matthew Wells Ltd., purchased the course. A tennis facility was added in 1985. The University of Guelph became the sole shareholder of the Guelph Golf and Recreation Club Ltd, but what is still known as Cutten Fields.

Joseph Dain Sr. (d.1912), a former furniture dealer in Meadville, Missouri, began manufacturing hay-making equipment in the 1880s. The Dain Mower Company was established in 1887, and the Dain Manufacturing Company was incorporated in Caroltown, Missouri in 1890. The company manufactured hay stackers, corn binders, tillers, harrows, and cultivators. In 1895, Dain went into partnership with John Deere and Company, which became the exclusive distributor for some of the Dain Manufacturing Company’s equipment.

In 1900, Dain Manufacturing Company moved their plant to Ottumwa, Iowa. A Canadian subsidiary – Dain Manufacturing Company Ltd – was set up in 1908 along the Welland Canal in what is now Dain City, Ontario (now a suburb of Welland, Ontario). In 1911, Deere and Company purchased the Dain Manufacturing Company.