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German Canadiana in Ontario Bibliography
A.R. Kaufman: the man behind the name
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A brief biography of the Kitchener industrialist by a friend and former employee. The article relates anecdotes about Kaufman's relationships with his workers and his many outside interests, ...Keywords: EntrepreneursBiographiesKaufman A.R. (1885-1979)KitchenerBerlin (Ontario)19th century20th centuryYear of publication: 1983Historical Period: 1885-1979Export options:Kitchener: an illustrated history
Type: BookAbstract: A study of Berlin/Kitchener in which the themes of economic growth, population and ethnicity, the urban landscape, and social and political life are discussed in six broad eras. These are the early ...Keywords: Berlin (Ontario)Year of publication: 1983Historical Period: 1799-1979Export options:Ontario local history
Type: ReportAbstract: Local history and feature stories dealing with 830 Ontario municipalities and clipped from newspapers mainly of the 1950s and 1960s. Waterloo County communities represented in the collection are Ayr ...Keywords: Buildings StoneBusinessesEconomic conditionsFactoriesFinancial institutionsIndustriesOwnership ForeignOwnership LocalNewspapersYear of publication: 1983Historical Period: 1950-1970Export options:Peter Reist of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and some of his descendants
Type: BookAbstract: An account of a Mennonite family, emphasizing its 18th-century Pennsylvania antecedents. It gives brief biographical information on later Waterloo County descendants, including John Reist who came to ...Year of publication: 1933Historical Period: 1826-1933Export options:Peter Shirk
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A biographical sketch of Shirk (1839- 1919), noting his migration from Lancaster County, development of the Bridgeport flour mills, and work for the Berlin-Waterloo Collegiate and Technical Institute.Keywords: IndustriesBiographiesBridgeportShirk PeterBerlin (Ontario)KitchenerWaterlooBlairBadenDundasYear of publication: 1933Historical Period: 1832-1919Export options:Resources for local history and genealogical research
Type: BookAbstract: A list of resource materials located in the Kitchener Public Library, including municipal, county, business, church and family histories as well as primary sources such as census records, directories ...Year of publication: 1983Historical Period: c1800-1983Export options:The Dawn
Type: BookAbstract: Two very rare issues of a newspaper which was published mainly as a platform for the political views of C. Mortimer Bezeau who was elected mayor of Kitchener for 1931 and 1932 after earlier service ...Keywords: NewspapersPoliticiansMayorsYear of publication: 1933Historical Period: 1933-1934Export options:The Weekly Advertiser
Type: BookAbstract: A few (very rare) issues of a newspaper which was published mainly as a platform for the political views of C. Mortimer Bezeau who was elected mayor of Kitchener for 1931 and 1932, after earlier ...Keywords: NewspapersPoliticiansMayorsYear of publication: 1933Historical Period: 1933Export options:Transcription from tombstones in the original part of the Free Church Cemetery, Kitchener (Bridgeport)
Type: ReportAbstract: Typed with handwritten additions, in an unexplained order.Keywords: CemeteriesGenealogyYear of publication: 1983Export options:W.H. Schmalz, citizen: a tribute to a leading citizen of Kitchener by an admiring friend
Type: BookAbstract: A biography of the managing director of the Economical Mutual Fire Insurance Company who was also secretary of St Paul's Lutheran Church for 42 years and Mayor of Berlin in 1912-1913. A brief profile ...Keywords: BiographiesSchmalz William HenrySchmalz W.H.E.PoliticiansArchitectsChurches LutheranBerlin (Ontario)KitchenerLutheransYear of publication: 1933Historical Period: 1862-1933Export options: