Gertrude Lang
Inducted In
1986
Lang, the former Gertrude Dietrich, was born in Galt. As a teenager she founded the Silver Star Society in 1891, a Galt philanthropic organization, serving as its treasurer for sixty-three years.
In the Girl Guide association, she was a district commissioner for twenty-four years and a member of the Ontario executive for twenty-one years, being awarded the Medal of Merit and the Bronze Beaver, the highest award in Guiding.
Lang was very active in the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire at the provincial and national levels. She was one of the founders of the Galt Shakespeare Club and later became a patroness of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival.
Lang was active in the Red Cross Society, the hospital auxiliary, the Children’s Aid Society, the Galt Family Service Bureau, the South Waterloo Humane Society and the Canadian Cancer Society.