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Card of thanks.

A press clipping addressed to the Editor News Record from the Bechler family photo album. Clipping consists of a card of thanks from Frederich Bechler to the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., the employers of Russell's Cigar Factory, friends, and family thanking the addressed for support after the death of his daughter, Wilhelmina Henrietta Bechler.

Bechler family

Canoe Race and demonstration, Victoria Lake.

Film of adults standing in canoes racing and demonstrating various stunts as crowds of people watch from the shoreline in Victoria Park. Includes a view of the boathouse.

Film box includes handwritten notes about film that read: "Canoe race + demo Victoria Park Kit".

Schneider family

Canadian Consolidated Rubber Co. Limited Dominion Tire Factory & Rubber Machinery Shops Kitchener, Ont.

File consists of one fire insurance plan from the Plan Department of Associated Mutual Insurance Company, Boston, showing Dominion Tire and Rubber Machinery Shops. Map was surveyed and drawn by F.A. Lougee on October 9, 1923 and traced by W.G. Harlow. The map shows 3D renderings of the buildings on the property along with descriptions of each building.

Dominion Rubber Company

Canadian Consolidated Rubber buildings.

File consists of a leather bound photograph album of buildings owned by the Canadian Consolidated Rubber Company. The photographs are mounted in linen and include images of:

  • Dominion Tire, Berlin [Kitchener];
  • The Kimmel Felt Co. Limited, Berlin [Kitchener];
  • Berlin Felt Boot Co. Limited, Berlin [Kitchener];
  • The Elmira Felt Co. Limited, Elmira;
  • The Canadian Rubber Company of Montreal Limited, Montreal;
  • The Granby Rubber Company Limited, Granby;
  • The Maple Leaf Rubber Company Limited, Port Dalhousie;
  • The Merchant's Rubber Company Limited, Berlin [Kitchener];
  • Dominion Rubber Company Limited. St. Jerome.

Dominion Rubber Company

Cambridge [?] house : rubble work.

One image of a Cambridge house, identified on the verso as "Guelph". Rempel uses it as an example of rubble work disguised by artifically rased bead joints.

Rempel, John I.

Busy Berlin map poster.

File consists of one reprint of the Busy Berlin map of 1912. The map was reprinted in 1989 at 69% of the original size by the Kitchener Public Library.

Kaufman Family

Bullas Brothers, Front of Store.

Two images of the storefront and building of Bullas Brothers Ltd. in Kitchener, Ontario. One image includes a line of cars parked on the street. Both images include the fountain outside the store. The store windows display furniture and appliances.

Belair, Charles

Buildings and signs.

File consists of photographs and snapshots of Electrohome plants, warehouses, offices, and subsidiaries, including exterior, aerial, and interior shots. Some photographs contain identification on verso. File also includes a photograph of the Physics Building at the University of Waterloo during construction.

Electrohome

Building at Corner of King and Water St., ca. 1900.

Photographs of a commercial building at the corner of King and Water taken decades apart. The first, from the 1900s, is a copy of a photo of the building when occuped The Berlin Granite & Marble Works. The second, taken in 1947, should the building occupied by TNT. Surplus Ltd.

Buena Vista : Schneider home.

Snapshots of the Schneider home, called "Buena Vista," at 145 Queen St. S., Kitchener, Ontario. Includes one shot of the exterior of the home and one of the dining room.

Schneider family

Buena Vista : Schneider home.

Pages from a 1982 calendar titled "The heritage homes of Kitchener," featuring paintings of homes including the Schneider home, called "Buena Vista," at 145 Queen St. S., Kitchener, Ont.

Schneider family

Buena Vista : Schneider home.

Clippings from the Kitchener-Waterloo Record regarding the history of the Schneider home, called "Buena Vista," at 145 Queen St. S., Kitchener, Ontario.

  • "Let's reminisce," by Alex O. Potter from the December 12, 1964 edition of the newspaper detailing the history of the home, its purchase from Eph Erb in 1911 and later sale to Irvin Erb. Potter includes other Schneider information discovered in a 1906 album issued to celebrate an old boys' reunion and the 100th anniversary of the settlement of the community.
  • "Reviving a piece of history" by Andy Schoenhofer from page F5 of the November 18, 1989 edition of the newspaper
  • "Heritage home helps give firm a higher profile," from the June 18, 1997 edition of the newspaper

Schneider family

Budd's Dept. Stores Kitchener, Guelph, Simcoe annual picnic.

  • SCA411-GA478
  • Collection
  • August 20, 1947

One photograph of the Budds Department Store annual picnic, held August 20, 1947. The photograph shows 82 people, including men, women, and children. The picnic attendees appear to include the owners and employees of the three Budds Department Store locations, as well as their families. The photograph was taken outside in an undisclosed location and the subjects appear relaxed and informal.

Budds Department Store

Brita May birthday, Herbert and Howard closeup, Mount Forest trout.

Film of Brita Schneider's first birthday party that beings with the view of a sign board that reads: "Britay May / "Sweet Gal" / Age 1 Year Mar. 21 1932". Includes footage of children in party hats seated around a candle lit table drinking from tea cups; Brita in a high chair reacting excitedly and in front of a cake with one candle on top; children seated on a floor with Brita among them. Footage then cuts to a close up Herbert and Howard seated beside each other playing and smiling at the camera. Footage cuts once more to the grounds surrounding a trout pond in Mount Forest, including Alf Gofton, Norman Schneider and an unidentified man showing off fish laid along the length of a piece of wood.

Film box includes handwritten notes about film that read: "Herb + Howie close up. Mount Forest trout pond. Brita birthday party 76 Schneider Ave. Close up Herb + Howie. Trout pond property. Alf Gofton on right + NCS at right."

Schneider family

Bridgeport well.

File consists of photographs of the test wells at Bridgeport (now northeast part of Kitchener).

Pequegnat, Marcel

Bridgeport School construction crew.

  • SCA225-GA213
  • Collection
  • [1924?]

Consists of one group photograph of a construction crew, purportedly for Bridgeport School. They are posed with a sign: "John V. Gray Construction Co. Ltd, General Contractors, head office Toronto ...."

Denton, Ernest

Bridgeport School

Images of the exterior of the a stone school building seen from the front and behind. The front view of the building is obscured by several trees and bicycles are visible parked outside of what appears to be the building entrance.

Kitchener-Waterloo Record

Bridge construction site

Photograph of pile-driver with pile hanging from boom on incomplete span of rail bridge over a large body of water. Construction works are visible on a raft in the water, at the bottom of the pile, as well as on and next to the pile-driver. A sign on the machinery reads: "Industrial Brownhoist".

Schantz Russell Family

Bridge construction site

Photograph of pile-driver with pile hanging from boom on incomplete span of rail bridge over a large body of water. Construction works are visible on a raft in the water, at the bottom of the pile, as well as on and next to the pile-driver. A sign on the machinery reads "Industrial Brownhoist" and another on the rail car reads "Canadian Pacific Pile-Driver".

Schantz Russell Family

Bridge construction site

Unidentified person walking along construction site enclosed by white, crisscrossed wire fence. In the background a pile-driver with boom at a 45 degree angle is visible along a railway.

Schantz Russell Family

Bridge construction site

Photograph of a construction site enclosed by a white, crisscrossed wire fence. A pile-drive with boom vertical is visible along rail tracks on a ridge behind two homes enclosed by fence.

Schantz Russell Family

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