Regional development, industry, and settlement

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  • SCA holds a variety of local history resources related to development, industry, and settlement in what is today the Region of Waterloo. Collections include maps, fire insurance plans, business and city directories, yearbooks from local high schools, government documents outlining local county or village by-laws, and newspapers including restored copies of issues of the _Berliner Journal_ for the years 1859-1889. The department is also home to the Kitchener-Waterloo Record Photographic Negative Collection, which documents local news events, community activities, regional development, and human-interest stories between 1938-2001.

    Many of SCA’s local history collections consist of the institutional archives of local businesses and organizations, such as Dare Foods Limited, Electrohome, Fritsch Pharmacy, the Dominion Rubber Company, Kitchener-Waterloo Record, and the Rotary Club of Kitchener. In addition, the department maintains the papers of the Breithaupt, Bolender Ball, Ratz, Rieder, Schantz, and Schneider families, among many others. These collections complement several printed genealogies, family histories, and monographs also held by the department.

    Combined, topics of note in these collections include cultural and community association development, family planning, mourning and grief as understood through spiritualism, and the lives of early settler families, including those of women and children.

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            Acadian Club documents.
            SCA149-GA122 · Collection · 1916

            This file consists of photocopies made for K.M. McLaughlin by the National Archives of Canada and consists of documents pertaining to the Acadian Club raid and the attempt to gain restitution from the government. The file contains copies of letters by N.A. Zick, President of the Acadian Club, W.G. Weichel, M.P., Sir Sam Hughes, Minister of Militia and Defence, and others, as well as a memorandum of damage done and recommendation of the Court of Inquiry. It also contains 2 photocopied chapters from Ontario and the First World War, 1914-1918: a collection of documents.

            Acadian Club
            SCA303-GA339 · Collection · August 1895

            File consists of three architectural drawings of the building of the Berlin [Kitchener] Y.M.C.A. at 22 Queen Street North. Includes a side elevation, main and upper floor plans, and details of the locker room.

            Kitchener-Waterloo Young Men's Christian Association
            SCA164-GA138 · Accession · [18--]-[199-]
            Part of Augustine, Ham, Kaufman family fonds.

            Material related to the lives and activities of members of the Augustine and Kaufman families of Kitchener, Ontario and of the Ham family of Toronto, Ontario, in particular of the parents, aunt and grandparents of Mary Ham. Includes biographical information, clippings, correspondence, diaries, ephemera and photographs.

            Augustine, Ham, Kaufman family
            Bechler family fonds.
            SCA153-GA126 · Fonds · [18--]-1945

            The Bechler family fonds contains records created and accumulated by the Bechler family documenting life in Berlin (later Kitchener). Records include textual records and graphic material, predominantly photographs from an album. Records also contain confirmation certificates, marriage certificate, press clippings, and cards.

            Bechler family
            SCA187-GA162 · Fonds · 1851-1983

            Material relating to members of the Hoffman, Barnes, Schiedel, Bowlby, Davison and Carlisle families, primarily photographs. Includes correspondence, clippings, ephemera, photographs, including snapshots taken during early construction of the Westmount area of Kitchener, Ontario.

            Bowlby, Davison, Hoffman Family
            SCA168-GA142 · Collection · [191-?]

            One undated photograph showing a Breithaupt Leather Co. truck in front of the Shipping Dept. at the tannery, which was located in Kitchener, Ontario.

            Denton, Ernest
            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
            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
            SCA343-GA392 · Collection · September 2, 1899-May 19 1961

            Collection includes photographs taken by Charles Dickens Creighton of Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, France and England all around the turn of the 20th century. These include primarily landscapes and architectural features. Also included are 11 Kelsh plotter aerials of Kitchener from the 1960's.

            Creighton, Charles Dickens
            SCA398-GA463 · Collection · 1942-[199-], predominant 1950-1953

            Materials created or accumulated by the Reive Family, especially Dr. Wilfred G. Reive and Mabel M. Reive during the moving, purchasing, design, and construction of their family home at 178 Claremont Avenue. Includes invoices and cheques, architectural drawings, and family photographs.

            Reive Family
            Company of Neighbours fonds.
            SCA147-GA120 · Fonds · [189-]-[195-], predominant [189-]-1906.

            Photographs taken in and around Waterloo, Ontario by unknown photographers. Included are images of Waterloo Park and events and businesses along King Street.

            SCA265-GA283 · Collection · July 1939

            File consists of one photograph of the employees of the head office of the Dominion Life Assurance Company in Waterloo, Ontario. The photograph was taken July 1939. The employees are standing in front of the building at 14 Erb Street West.

            Dominion Life Assurance Company
            SCA299-GA335 · Accession · [189-?]-1984
            Part of Dominion Rubber Company fonds.

            Fonds consists of materials created by Dominion Rubber, and later Uniroyal, primarily relating to the activities at the Dominion Tire plant on Strange Street in Kitchener as well as to the planning and implementation of the Uniroyal world junior curling championship.

            Dominion Rubber Company
            SCA448-GA524 · Fonds · 1970-2017

            Materials relating to the creation and operation of Dumont Press Graphix Limited.

            Dumont Press Graphix Limited
            SCA291-GA326 · Collection · [1928?]

            One photograph of students of the First Mennonite Church bible school. Students are shown outside in front of the church building.

            SCA275-GA296 · Collection · 1931-1935

            Fonds consists of ephemera relating to the unionization of furniture makers and woodworkers in the Kitchener, Stratford, and Woodstock area. Includes a mock liberty bond for the defence of workers arrested protesting, a card promoting socialist industrial unionism, a handbill outlining union desires, a letter from Canada Furniture Manufacturers regarding an adjustment to pay rates, a handbill encouraging furniture workers to unionize, and a photocopy of a letter to Herman Kreuger.

            SCA436-GA509 · Collection · ca. 1900

            Collection consists of 21 glass plate negatives showing people and buildings around the former town of Newbridge, Ontario.

            SCA318-GA358 · Fonds · 2001-2015

            Fonds consists of materials created and accumulated by the Glow Centre for Sexual and Gender Diversity. Includes records created by the centre, promotional items, and materials relating to events and activities supported by Glow.

            Glow Centre for Sexual and Gender Diversity
            Gordon Good fonds.
            SCA247-GA250 · Fonds · 1925-1976

            Fonds consists of materials created and accumulated by Gordon Good, primarily during the time he was employed by The Kaufman Rubber Company. Includes materials from Kaufman Rubber, as well as local and national history materials accumulated by Good. Fonds contains time books, ephemera, clippings, catalogues, rubber information and strike materials from Kaufman Rubber as well as materials relating to World War Two, Kitchener history and Canadian politics.

            Good, Gordon
            SCA214-GA193 · Accession · 1884-2009
            Part of Greb Industries Limited fonds.

            Records relating to the history, administration, and operations of Greb Industries Limited and its predecessors, the Greb Shoe Company Limited and the Berlin Shoe Manufacturing Company Limited, as well as its subsidiary companies. Includes letters patent and by-laws, minutes, financial statements, annual reports, correspondence and memorandum, legal documents, press clippings, newsletters, reports, presentations, advertisements, photographs, ephemera, and audio and video recordings.

            Greb Industries Limited
            SCA201-GA178 · Collection · 1923

            One photograph of a section of King Street, Waterloo, Ont. showing recently completed paving work by Standardite Paving. Also visible in the photograph are streetcar tracks, early street lights and automobiles.

            Denton, Ernest
            SCA170-GA145 · Fonds · 1888-1974

            Fonds consists of material relating to the administration and operation of the Lang Tanning Company in Kitchener Ontario, from 1888 to 1974. Contains minutes, agreements, clippings and a photograph album. Also contains a colour photocopy of a site plan from 1938. Includes 24 photographs.

            Lang Tanning Company, Ltd.
            SCA413-GA481 · Collection · 1909

            One photograph mounted on cardboard of the Municipal Council of the town of Berlin, dated 1909. The black and white photograph shows 15 adults dressed in suits and posed seated or standing in front of an ornately painted backdrop.

            • Back row, from left to right is Edwin Whyte Clement, F. W. Sheppard, Joseph Roman Winterhalt, and Frederich “Frederick” Bornhold.
            • Middle row from left to right is Charles Boehmer Dunke, William Daum Euler, William Robert Wilkinson, Alexander Hugh Millar, H. Martin, and John R. Schilling.
            • Front row from left to right is reeve David Gross Jr. (George “David" Gross), third deputy reeve Henry Anthony Dietrich, Mayor Charles Casper Hahn who served from 1909 to 1910, second deputy reeve John F. McKay, and first deputy reeve Nicholas Asmussen.

            Among the subjects are three individuals who would later serve as mayor of Berlin or Kitchener following its 1916 name change: William Daum Euler (1914-1917), David Gross Jr. (1917-1919), and Nicholas Asmussen (1925 -1926). William Daum Euler was also elected to the House of Commons of Canada (1917) and Nicholas Asmussen to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario (1919-1926). Both represented Waterloo North, Ontario in their Federal political office.

            R. Forbes & Co. Ltd. film
            SCA316-GA352 · Fonds · [191-]

            File consists of one film reel showing the exterior and operations of the R. Forbes Co. woollen mill in Hespeler (Cambridge), Ontario. The mill would later become the Dominion Woollen and Worsted Mill.

            R. Forbes & Co. Ltd.
            SCA281-GA306 · Collection · 1904

            Fonds consists of one daybook from The Standard Life Assurance Company, believed to have been kept by Samuel Daniel Buckberrough. Also includes a clipping about the January 21, 1904 snow storm in Kitchener.

            Buckberrough, Samuel Daniel
            Sims Family collection.
            SCA369-GA427 · Collection · 1833-1963

            The Sims family collection encompasses records of the Sims and Cook, Davidson and Garden families retained by members of the two family branches that came together when Harvey James Sims and Florence Katherine Roos married in 1902. Their Sims and Davidson forbears were equally significant in the history of the Waterloo-Wellington area and in the growth and development of agriculture, education, business and government. Harvey James Sims and Florence Katherine Roos were deeply involved in their local community of Berlin, (later Kitchener) Ontario and their own records contain significant additions to our knowledge of local personalities and affairs. Harvey was a childhood and lifelong friend of William Lyon Mackenzie King; they wrote and visited each other regularly. King's sister Bella was also a close friend of Florence from school days on.

            Sims family
            Sunnyside School photograph.
            SCA290-GA325 · Collection · September 29, 1944

            Fonds consists of one photograph of students at Sunnyside School, taken September 29, 1944. Identifications included on verso read:

            • Newman, L.;
            • Wishnewski, Dieter;
            • King, Jack;
            • [?], Shirley;
            • Speers, Kathleen;
            • Holmes, Dorothy;
            • Gingrich, Billy;
            • Krestel, Elsie;
            • Fyfe, Audrey;
            • Wagner, Betty;
            • Killens, Jean;
            • Yerdt, Virginia;
            • Eby, Diane;
            • Cochrane, Shirley;
            • Cressman, Lois;
            • Sherwin, Fred;
            • Flaherty, Noreen;
            • Stahle, [?];
            • Heintzman, [?];
            • Yendt, Marlene;
            • Brubacher, Pauline;
            • Braniff, [?];
            • Boyd, Jerry;
            • Schaus, Donald;
            • Killen, Jackie;
            • Brox, Freddie;
            • Petznick, Ronald;
            • King, Buddy;
            • Wishnewski, Edith;
            • Lantz, Helen;
            • Dickin, Laura;
            • McCaig, Marian;
            • Maguire, Betty;
            • Hoadley, Mildred.
            Sunnyside School
            SCA258-GA270 · Accession · [December 17, 1956?]-[196-]
            Part of Thomas Lacey séance collection.

            Audio reel recordings of séances held under the supervision of medium Thomas Lacey as well as other events, messages, and music. The séances were held primarily in Kitchener and Waterloo, Ontario although some were held in other areas in Ontario and the Unites States of America. Prior to donation, some of the reels were transferred to audio cassettes. The audio cassettes are also included in the collection. Also includes a cue card index to the séances and a notebook listing séances held at 362 Frederick St. in Kitchener, Ontario.

            Lacey, Thomas
            SCA165-GA139 · Accession · 1995-2002
            Part of Walter Bean Community Trails Foundation fonds.

            Fonds consists of material relating to activities and operations of the Walter Bean Community Trails Foundation from 1998-2002. Includes artwork, clippings, correspondence, ephemera, maps, minutes, photographs, publications, speech notes and videocassettes.

            Walter Bean Grand River Community Trails Foundation
            William Dickson collection.
            SCA12-GA7 · Collection · 1818, 1831-1834, 1839

            Collection consists of seven legal documents regarding the sale of land in the Township of Dumfries in Southern Ontario.

            Dickson, William