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Kitchener-Waterloo Record fonds.
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Kitchener-Waterloo Record fonds.

  • SCA119-GA92
  • Fonds
  • 1878-1988

Fonds consists of material relating to the history and operations of the Kitchener-Waterloo Record, from its beginnings in 1878 to 1988. Also consists of historical materials on the history of Waterloo County and the Region of Waterloo including newspaper articles, slides, photographs, and negatives. Includes legal documents, clippings, ephemera, publications, artifacts, office files, photographic materials, and films.

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Kitchener-Waterloo and Area History: Slides

Series consists of slides showing the history of the Kitchener-Waterloo area. Slides have been sorted into basic subjects of:

  • Automotive Retailers;
  • Churches;
  • Education;
  • Entertainment;
  • Financial/Insurance;
  • Highways/Roads;
  • Housing;
  • Industry;
  • Miscellaneous;
  • Oktoberfest;
  • Public Buildings;
  • Restaurants;
  • Retailers.

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Kitchener Downtown Mall

Film approximately 7:20 minutes in length of Kitchener Mall a pedestrianized stretch of King Street East in downtown Kitchener during the summer months. Pedestrians and cyclists are seen moving along sidewalks and crossing streets, with the occasional trolleybus passing by. Parking spaces are painted in white hash marks with numerous tree-filled planters, flowerbeds, and benches positioned within and along them. Shots of flower beds, sculptures, a water fountain donated by the Big Brothers Association, and people seated on patios and benches appear through out. Buildings and storefronts visible include: Odeon, Eaton's, Kresge, Dutch Boy Food Market, Strand Bowl, Palladium Restaurant, Lyric theatre, Pennsylvania Kitchen, Goudies Department Store, the Walper Hotel, Queen's Restaurant, the Toronto Dominion Bank, Grafton's, Woolworth's, Sally's, Zeller's, Jack Fraser, Herman Lippert Mens Wear, Young's Jewellers, Samer's, and Frank's Mens Wear.

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King St., Waterloo: Snider's Mill, ca. 1920.

Copy print, oversize. The mill was built by Abraham Erb and was demolished in 1927. Appeared in K-W Record Canada's Centennial ed., June 27, 1967, p. 49. Note from JB: "Beside CNR spur line where it crosses King St. at Pier 1 Imports [35 King S.]"

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King and Queen St., Berlin, Ont., decorated for Ancient Order of Foresters convention ca. 1900.

Copy print, showing the intersection of King and Queen St., looking east. Two decorated arches cross over the street; tracks run up the centre, two groups of men stand in front of the first arch. Left to right: W.R. Travers (manager, Merchants Bank); Fred Boehmer (bank manager); [A.B. Miller?]; unidentified, unidentified , [Major Heath?]; H.L. Janzen; Conrad Bitzer; L.J. Breithaupt. The latter three are former mayors.

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John Roat's Commercial Hotel After Fire, Site of the Walper Hotel, ca. 1892.

Copy negatives from an old photograph ang Page 255 of W. V. Uttley's book "A history of Kitchener, Ontario" (1975). Taken by Sebastian Fischer, the photo is of John Roat's Commercial Hotel, at the corner of Queen and King, following a fire. One of the negatives includes a photograph of the first ambulance with nurses. Also included in the file are typed captions about the hotel and the ambulance that read:

"John Roat's Commercial Hotel after fire

site of Walper

destroyed 1892, after the fire, site bought
by Abel Walper of Zurich, Ont

sign says Livery Stable

(see Uttley History of Kit ..page 255)

2) same pic from book

3) same pic /with first ambulance
& nurses..."

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Industry: Unidentified.

Image of the exterior of an industrial building seen at a distance from across a parking lot filled with cars. The building has a smokestack with Sunshine painted vertically down the side.

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