A History Of Kitchener Ontario

Author : W.V. (Ben) Uttley
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1975-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780889200241

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A History of Kitchener, Ontario by W.V. (Ben) Uttley Pdf

William V. Uttley's outline of Kitchener's growth from the 1840's into 20th century [is] shot through with a reassuring consistency and integration of purpose .... The complex of life as we still know it--social freedom and social restraint, economy and ecology--has its genesis here in the account compiled by William Uttley. His work comes as close to a personal anecdotal history of the city as we can hope to retrieve, a spotted chronicle of a community that can never exist again, and one in which almost every reader will find a point where past confronts present as nostalgia tugs against progress.

Author : William Velores Uttley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Kitchener (Ont.)
ISBN : LCCN:39023558

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A History of Kitchener, Ontario by William Velores Uttley Pdf

Author : William Velores Uttley
Publisher : Kitchener, Ont. : s.n., 1937 (Waterloo, Ont. : The Chronicle Press)
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Kitchener (Ont.)
ISBN : OCLC:634062316

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A History of Kitchener, Ontario by William Velores Uttley Pdf

Author : William Valores Uttley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Kitchener (Ont.)
ISBN : OCLC:634062316

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A History of Kitchener, Ontario by William Valores Uttley Pdf

Author : John English,Kenneth McLaughlin
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1983-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781554586790

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Kitchener by John English,Kenneth McLaughlin Pdf

The history of Kitchener is unique among cities in southern Ontario. Although Kitchener shares so much of the character of the region today, its past was considerably different. Until 1916, Kitchener was Berlin, “Canada’s German capital.” Over two-thirds of the residents were of German origin; many retained strong traces of that past. These became controversial when Canada fought two wars against Germany. By the middle of the First World War, the idea of “a patch of Germany” in the heart of southern Ontario became untenable. Berlin became Kitchener, but not without a battle which split the small city. This is the first scholarly history of Kitchener. Based on wide-ranging research, it illustrates how a community so unlike its neighbours became a part of the broader Canadian community in the twentieth century. Much of the information is new, and many myths are punctured. The romantic mists which have surrounded the story of the early Mennonite settlers are lifted. The full story of the great controversies of the First World War is told for the first time. The impact of the Depression and the extraordinary economic boom which accompanied the Second World War are analyzed. Kitchener’s sometimes-eccentric politicians are seen, not as deviations, but as representatives of a long tradition of civic populism. Over 100 photographs accompany the text. Maps and tables further illuminate Kitchener’s development. Kitchener: An Illustrated History will be of interest, not only to its residents, but also to Canadians generally who are interested in the history of multiculturalism and the transition from rural to urban Canada. This book illustrates the difficulties as well as the rewards of maintaining distinct cultural traditions. The problems it identifies concern many Canadians today.

Author : William Valores Uttley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Kitchener (Ont.)
ISBN : OCLC:634062316

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A History of Kitchener, Ontario by William Valores Uttley Pdf

Author : W.R. Chadwick
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1992-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780889202269

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The Battle for Berlin, Ontario by W.R. Chadwick Pdf

Chronicles the events of 1916--a watershed year in the history of the small Canadian town known today as Kitchener, Ontario. The community, founded by German immigrants, was in turmoil over attempts to raise a battalion to support the British war effort, and that turmoil broke down the established order and culminated in the town's name change. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Rych Mills
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 073851151X

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Kitchener (Berlin), 1880-1960 by Rych Mills Pdf

Kitchener, Ontario, is a community with two histories. As Berlin, it was a rapidly growing and prosperous town reveling in its Germanic heritage. After dramatic civic upheavals from 1915 to 1919, it emerged, somewhat bruised, as Kitchener. From a twenty-first-century viewpoint, there often appears to be a disconnection between the two. Kitchener (Berlin): 1880-1960 challenges this perception and bridges the two histories. Using mostly unpublished photographs, many from the Waterloo Historical Society's collection, the author captures the town that was and the city that is. Kitchener (Berlin): 1880-1960 brings to life many long-gone treasures, such as the classic city hall, the post office, and the sugar factory. William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada's longest-serving prime minister, is seen during his hometown visits. Famous, as well as less familiar, individuals are captured, including Breithaupt and Bailey, Ahrens and Timm, Schmalz and Peoli, and Euler and Izma. This history also welcomes the reader to explore such questions as who was the father of Canadian soccer, who really turned on the first hydropower in 1910, who were "Big Charlie" and "Pop," and what was the Committee-of-One?

Author : Joanna Rickert-Hall
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459742925

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Waterloo You Never Knew by Joanna Rickert-Hall Pdf

The history you don’t know is the most fascinating of all. Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth century, Waterloo, Ontario, could be any small Canadian community. Its familiar histories privilege the “great accomplishments” of those who built the institutions we know today: industry, government, and education. But what of those who were marginalized, weird, and wonderful — real people who lived between the boundaries of mainstream existence? Waterloo You Never Knew reveals forgotten and little known tales of a community in transition and reflects on those lives lived in infamy and obscurity, by choice or design. Meet the rumrunner, the ex-slaves, and the cholera victims, the grave-digging doctor, the séance-loving politician, and the sorcery-practising healer. Come inside. See the Waterloo you never knew, revealed.

Author : Ezra E. Eby,Joseph Buchanan Snyder,Eldon D. Weber
Publisher : Kitchener, Ont. : Eldon D. Weber
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : WISC:89066179201

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A Biographical History of Early Settlers and Their Descendants in Waterloo Township by Ezra E. Eby,Joseph Buchanan Snyder,Eldon D. Weber Pdf

Author : Jon Fear,Chris Masterman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Kitchener (Ont.)
ISBN : 1771962739

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Flash from the Past by Jon Fear,Chris Masterman Pdf

Founded by German Mennonites in the early 19th century, Berlin (now Kitchener) and Waterloo were thriving cities when Peter Moyer published the first edition of the Berlin Daily News on February 19, 1878. Now called the Waterloo Region Record, the newspaper's commitment to top-notch reporting and community involvement is nowhere more evident than in "Flash from the Past," a weekly column devoted to preserving the region's past. In 2006, Record librarian Chris Masterman began inviting readers to share memories sparked by photos she unearthed from the newspaper's archive, a tradition carried on by columnist Jon Fear. Their responses tell the stories that history forgot--the treasured memories and careful details that make a community its own, forging a relationship between the Record and its readers that set a new standard for newsrooms across the country. Marking the 140th anniversary of the Waterloo Region Record's publication, Flash from the Past: 140 Photographs from the Waterloo Region Record showcases the column's best. Lovingly curated by Fear and Masterman, this one-of-a-kind collection celebrates the history of the area and those dedicated to preserving it.

Author : W.R. Chadwick
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781554586554

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The Battle for Berlin, Ontario by W.R. Chadwick Pdf

In August 1914, Berlin, Ontario, settled largely by people of German origin, was a thriving, peaceful city. By the spring of 1915 it was a city torn apart by the tensions of war. By September 1916, Berlin had become Kitchener. It began with the need to raise a battalion of 1,100 men to support the British war effort. Meeting with resistance from a peace-loving community and spurred on by the jingoistic nationalism that demanded troops to fight the hated “Hun,” frustrated soldiers began assaulting citizens in the streets and, on one infamous occasion, a Lutheran clergyman in his parsonage. Out of this turmoil arose a movement to rid the city of its German name, and this campaign, together with the recruiting efforts, made 1916 the most turbulent year in Kitchener’s history. This is the story of the men and women involved in these battles, the soldiers, the civic officials, the business leaders, and the innocent bystanders, and how they behaved in the face of conditions they had never before experienced.

Author : Chuck Howitt
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781459414396

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BlackBerry Town by Chuck Howitt Pdf

The smartphone was an incredibly successful Canadian invention created by a team of engineers and marketers led by Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie. But there was a third key player involved — the community of Kitchener-Waterloo. In this book Chuck Howitt offers a new history of BlackBerry which documents how the resources and the people of Kitchener-Waterloo supported, facilitated, benefited from and celebrated the achievement that BlackBerry represents. After its few short years of explosive growth and pre-eminence, BlackBerry lost its market to digital juggernauts Apple, Samsung and Huawei. No surprises there. Like Nokia and Motorola before it, BlackBerry was eclipsed. Shareholders lost billions. Thousands of employees lost jobs. Bankruptcy was avoided but the company's founding geniuses were gone, leaving an operation that today is only a fragment of what had been. For Kitchener-Waterloo — as Chuck Howitt tells the story — the Blackberry experience is a mixed bag of disappointments and major ongoing benefits. The wealth it generated for its founders produced two very important university research institutes. Many recent digital startups have taken advantage of the city's pool of talented and experienced tech workers and ambitious, well-educated university grads. A strong digital and tech industry thrives today in Kitchener-Waterloo — in a way a legacy of the BlackBerry experience. Across Canada, communities hope for homegrown business successes like BlackBerry. This book underlines how a mid-sized, strong community can help grow a world-beating company, and demonstrates the importance of the attitudes and decisions of local institutions in enabling and sustaining successful innovation. Canada has a lot to learn from BlackBerry Town.

Author : Henry McEvoy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Ontario
ISBN : HARVARD:32044081323123

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The Province of Ontario Gazetteer and Directory by Henry McEvoy Pdf

Author : Linda Brown-Kubisch
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004-02-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781770704367

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The Queen's Bush Settlement by Linda Brown-Kubisch Pdf

The Black pioneers (1839-1865) who cleared the land and established the Queen’s Bush settlement in that section of unsurveyed land where present-day Waterloo and Wellington counties meet, near Hawkesville, are the focus of this extensively researched book. Linda Brown-Kubisch’s attention to detail and commitment to these long-neglected settlers re-establishes their place in Ontario history. Set in the context of the early migration of Blacks into Upper Canada, this work is a must for historians and for genealogists involved in tracing family connections with these pioneer inhabitants of the Queen’s Bush. "In the 19th century one of the most important areas of settlement for fugitive American slaves was the Queen’s Bush, then an isolated region in the backwoods of Ontario. Despite much recent attention to African-Canadian history, the Queen’s Bush remains a remote territory for historical scholarship. Linda Brown-Kubisch offers a pioneering entry into that gap. With a jeweller’s eye for the biological subject, Brown-Kubisch introduces the courageous Black adventurers and the hardships they faced in Canada." - James Walker, Professor of History, University of Waterloo, and author of The Black Loyalists (1976, 1992) and "Race," Rights and the Law (1997).