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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.

Kitchener-Waterloo Record

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..."

Kitchener-Waterloo Record

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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