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Two copy negatives of old photographs. One shows elephants walking double file down a dirt road beside [electric railway?] tracks headed by two single elephants with ladies riding on top. The negative is annotated: "Circus Parade. King St. near Water St. 1904." The other, taken from the same position, shows uniform wearing [firemen?] horseback riding a double file down a dirt road while carrying flags that read: "Fighting the Flames".

Kitchener-Waterloo Record

HRH The Duke of Connaught, Governor General of Canada and Princess Patricia in Berlin, May 9, 1914.

SCA119-GA92-9-7
File
May 9, 1914

Part of Kitchener-Waterloo Record fonds.

Copy negative of old mounted photograph of old Kitchener City Hall draped with bunting and crowds of on lookers around the front steps, facing a podium during a visit by HRH The Duke of Connaught, Governor General of Canada and Princess Patricia.

Kitchener-Waterloo Record

Fire Hall, Berlin, Canada, ca. 1910?

SCA119-GA92-9-14
File
[19--]

Part of Kitchener-Waterloo Record fonds.

Copy negative of a postcard of the Berlin Fire Hall with tower.

Kitchener-Waterloo Record

Berlin Firemen's Band Posed on Frederick St. With Instruments and Equipment, Post Office in Background.

SCA119-GA92-9-15
File
[ca 1912]

Part of Kitchener-Waterloo Record fonds.

Reference print of old photograph of band group portrait with the Benton Street post office visible in background. Corresponding caption from caption list in file 9 reads: "Berlin Firemens band posed on Fred st with instruments & equipment p/o in b.g., old times."

Kitchener-Waterloo Record

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

SCA119-GA92-9-33
File
1892-1903

Part of Kitchener-Waterloo Record fonds.

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..."

Kitchener-Waterloo Record

Biplane: Cecil Peoli of New York Landed his Bi-plane on a Grass Strip on Kingsway Drive.

SCA119-GA92-9-63
File
1912

Part of Kitchener-Waterloo Record fonds.

Copy print, appears in 125th Edition, p. 32.

Kitchener-Waterloo Record

Cadet Corp in Waterloo Park, 1917.

SCA119-GA92-9-70
File
1917

Part of Kitchener-Waterloo Record fonds.

Copy print photograph of cadets standing at attention in a field. Typed annotation on verso reads: "Cadet corp in Waterloo park 1917".

Kitchener-Waterloo Record

Fire Destroys Windsor Hotel at King and Young St., Kitchener.

SCA119-GA92-9-79
File
Feburary 29, 1956

Part of Kitchener-Waterloo Record fonds.

Print photograph of fire fighters out front of a smoke engulfed Windsor Hotel as bystanders look on from the street. Signs for IDA, Coca-Cola, Lynn's Restaurant, the Canadian Bowling Club, Hotel Mayfair, and the Lyric are visible in the shot.

Kitchener-Waterloo Record

Schools: Old Central, or Suddaby School.